Ed Darrell

Hegseth Barred Trans Troops. Military Boards Are Rejecting Those Orders. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Trump administration orders gutting of key military positions. Military quietly ignoring those orders because they damage readiness. “Hegseth Barred Trans Troops. Military Boards Are Rejecting Those Orders.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Given the replies, it may have been too much to hope that folks would *read* the post before responding to it, but here’s a pass-through link just in case: www.stevevladeck.com/p/73acf087-4...

Calls for expanding #SCOTUS are entirely (and increasingly) understandable. But as today's "One First" explains, there are at least four difficult questions that those who support expansion should have to answer—especially as compared to other possible reforms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-257-...

On this night in 1985 the Replacements began a five-night homestand at the 7th Street Entry, marking the release of their first major-label album, “Tim.” Reputedly, a real-life bat-signal flashed in the skies over Minneapolis to announce the event. @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them. I needed a diagram.

Trump did WHAT to the economy? x.com/democraticwi...

This is diabolical. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...

Those people aren't right in the head.

there was an interview with a guy who was a diplomat and he would come home from events to find things moved around in their house and poo in their toilets. It was on Morning Joe last week - can't remember but that detail stood out to me.

"When the shit hits the Finns...."

Only MAGA allowed

Senile Satan: “I ended another 16 wars today while napping in the Oval Office. If that doesn’t get me a Nobel Peace Prize, it’s rigged and stollen.”

My Latest: He hates that I won’t be intimidated. He hates that I speak out without fear. Most of all, he hates that I win. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Florida's oldest historically Black university will build its first dormitory in four decades because of financing secured through the Rice Financial Products Co.

Michele Tafoya is the Senate GOP nominee in... Minnesota. 😂

She’s Been to Gaza. She Met With the Iranians. Now She Has a Warning. Is the world in a new World War? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/m...

Legal experts say Christa Pike is the first person in the United States to survive one dose — let alone two — of lethal injection drugs. “There is nothing in the execution process that states are incapable of getting wrong,” said one death penalty expert.

GOP operative shatters MAGA hopes with warning there's 'nothing that Trump can do': report #RawStory

Thank you, America! Money from diesel will help me kill even more Ukrainian children.

This is a really important point

Sometimes qpq are hard to prove and sometimes you have the texts. 🤔

Trump’s Voters Are Being Arrested For Illegal Voting #Politicus

US man shoots off-duty ICE agent who allegedly attacked him and daughter #TheGuardian

It's Banned Books Week and I'm restacking my shelves. A book people try to ban is a book people should read. What's the banned book that changed you? I'll start: Fahrenheit 451 still hits.

Carrie casually checking out the books they don’t want you to read, including @stephenking.bsky.social ’s Carrie itself. @mikeflanaganfilm.com knew exactly what he was doing. Happy Banned Books Week! 📚🔥

Banned books week, where we display wildly popular YA that got banned in like one school district in tennessee

Read Banned Books is done! Let me know which one is your favorite? #crossstitch #bannedbookweek

I was so busy Doing the Thing (hauling books) that I missed Banned Books Week! But books that've been banned & challenged don't just go away when you aren't looking. Neither does the hateful motivation for most challenges Anyway here are the b&c books in our catalog: tinyurl.com/3cr5r7an

Happy Freedom Read Day! Make sure to pick up your favourite banned book and support your local bookstores 📚

Hate will never erase our stories, visibility, or Pride. 🌈📚 Celebrate #BannedBooksWeek by adding LGBTQ+ books to your reading list: hrc.im/book

LET BOOKS BE ACCESSIBLE! Attempts to limit access for the intended audience are acts of censorship. Let's take a look at the harmful myths and misinformation censors use to justify their actions. And find ways to push back! #BannedBooksWeek #LetBooksBe

Quack, quack if you hate Obama wng.org/articles/qua...

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falls Apart www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

Open your day with important information about tariffs, and a good laugh (if you’re not Trump). ifloz.substack.com/p/remind-me-...

When the Democratic presidential primaries start, there will be a lane for this and, if the winner decides to embrace it -- as they absolutely should -- then it will become a real issue. But barring a change in direction from congressional Democrats, not a second before then.

If Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer were out there denouncing the GOP and directly characterizing the Trump administration as "fascist," with no modification or equivocation, the media might start talking about it too. But they're not going to go there on their own.

I just Googled both their names with the word fascist and in both cases the hits are from left-wingers calling *them* enablers of fascism

I would too, but this elides a central problem with Democrats and the media -- unlike the Republican Party, which is *very* happy to carpet bomb the media with a message that then directs their coverage, most prominent Democrats are reluctant to do anything like that.

Wasn't today the day the former Fetterman staffers were going to drop their dirt?

For the first time in their lives the Trumps actually have decent positive cash flow. And yet they're still on the Moscow dole. 🤔🤔 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...

They tried to tear down voting rights, courts, public schools, and every guardrail that keeps power from running wild. The answer is not despair. The answer is a packed polling place in 2026, lines around the block, and a country that refuses to kneel🔥 #BlueWaveIn50Days #USDemocracy

Today, alongside a nationwide coalition of cities, counties and the Public Rights Project, we are filing a lawsuit challenging the federal government's new public charge rule.

Close friends where not invited, but a large group of unknown Russians was present. In 2009 Kremlev was nobody. 13 years later, he sits with Putin. Nothing fishy here. Everything is normal. Not.

If you respond "paywall" to someone posting an article link, I'm going to block you in a heartbeat.