willdarrell.bsky.social

happy bday writer Sylvia Plath, b.1932, Boston, died too young by suicide age 30. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Imagine having the power to trigger a person without mentioning his name. Obama did not mention Trump's once in his two rallies but the audiences know who Obama was talking about. Trump responded like the weak-ass man that he is. nypost.com/2026/10/26/u...

stateline.org/2026/10/22/a...

theconversation.com/why-ultra-or...

It’s peak Trumpism when Republicans blow up a school full of Iranian Muslim girls and then call an American politician a terrorist because he’s Muslim.

on this day in 1892 Ida B. Wells first publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

Did the New York Times’ regular headline writers call in sick? I‘d love to see more headlines as direct as this one.

I so appreciate Barack Obama going to Michigan and Ohio. Sherrod Brown is among my favorite people, not just politicians. But Mr. President, can you please get to Wisconsin for David Crowley? I think he needs you.

happy bday English writer Maria Jane Jewsbury, b.1800. "Short sojourn make we, yet how sweet The change, the unaccustomed air Of all we see, and hear, and meet— Ceylon, thy wooded shores are fair! I love the land left far behind, Its glorious oaks, and streamlets clear,...

🫶🏽

Todd Blanche wants us to shove the Jan. 6 insurrection into a vault as ancient history alongside the Tilden-Hayes Compromise of 1877. But it was only 5 years ago that Trump tried to steal an election!

starts today at 10am eastern, 9am central, 8am mountain, 7am pacific. 10 days. Ten minutes. Every morning at 10 AM ET. @matthewjdowd.bsky.social Oct. 25–Nov. 3 as he breaks down the polls and races that will decide who controls Congress. Only on Substack: lincolnproject.substack.com

Sam Alito: Nothing overtly racial about these statements!

He still got it: Obama. All Fired Up!

“.. Video footage, Sheriff Greene said, clearly showed a woman being punched in the face. ‘I know what people saw, and if I saw that video, too, I’d be like, ‘My God, why didn’t the police do anything?’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

VP Kamala Harris: For the last year and a half, we have been pissed. We've been depressed, angry, frustrated, feeling alone, hopeless, powerless. That phase where we felt hopeless and powerless is over.

“What you can depend on racists to do is to always overshoot.” LaTosha Brown on CNN: attempts to dilute Black political power are backfiring, and the South is in play.

Join me and Vice President @kamalaharris.com for a virtual fundraiser in support of our campaign for the U.S. Senate! Every bit of support helps us reach more voters and finish strong. 📅 Tuesday, Oct. 27 ⏰ 6:00 PM ET RSVP at Angie4Us.com/KHVF #AngieForFlorida

Praying for all the workers, the first responders on scene, and everyone nearby at the Quaker Oats factory in Cedar Rapids right now. https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/smoke-near-quaker-oats-in-downtown-cedar-rapids-fire-smoke-interstate-traffic

happy bday writer Brenda Ueland, b.1891, Minneapolis. “...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.” “...writing is not a performance but a generosity.”

As Obama said, Cleveland was ROCKING for Amy Acton today! 🔥 #VivaHer #VoteBlue

Dan Sullivan voted for the Iran war more than 10 times. Dan Sullivan voted to jack up gas prices more than 10 times.

Amy Acton and Abdul El-Sayed winning would send a LOUD message that MAGA's bigotry and cruelty no longer works!

RIP the iconic Rosa Parks, died this day 2005 in Detroit. “I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.”

I wish the New York Times‘ news side read the New York Times’ editorials.

on election day around the country especially in ohio and texas we will know a large segments of the country's values.

Voted with my friend Congresswoman Ilhan Omar today. You should get out and vote early too.

Vivek's despicable ad against Amy Acton is not only going to hurt the GOP in Ohio up and down the ballot, the GOP is going to suffer collateral damage from this ad in states around the country. It shows once again how cruel, deplorable and immoral the GOP has become.

Donald Trump has sent his DOJ cronies to file a bullshit lawsuit to try to steal a Senate election in Alaska. They will fail. When we fight, we win.🗳️⚖️💪

my latest column: lincolnproject.substack.com/p/the-home-s...

happy bday British writer Doris Lessing, b.1919. “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”

Dear media: Why are you not asking Trump backed Mike Rogers if he denounces Trump's Jan 6 terrorist attack? Does he denounce Trump's pardon of J6 terrorists? Does he denounce Trump's plan to pay the J6 terrorists our tax dollars?! Time to ask the one candidate with ties to terrorism tough questions!

In their first interview since being fired, OpenAI safety researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak take us inside the Hugging Face hack probe and explain why OpenAI’s story doesn't add up.

A couple of things: First, officer-involved domestic violence is widely believed to be significantly underreported. Second, the suicide rate among first responders is around 17 to 18 per 100,000 people. The rate for the general public is around 13 per 100,000. apple.news/AKyfQAv2ORHa...

www.cnn.com/2026/10/22/p... Unfortunately, but not surprising that Trump sides with the stepfather who sexually abused Amy Acton when she was a child. Trump is a vile, disgusting, depraved psychopath.

republicans’ closing message could not be clearer: they are the party of pedophile rapists

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

Here's Vivek Ramaswamy with his "rape victims should quit whining" campaign theme.

happy bday English writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge, b.1772. “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” “Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.”

That Vivek Ramaswamy ad drives home the point that Republican politicians think rape – even the rape of children – is no big deal. That disgusting ad is fully consistent with Republicans covering up the Epstein files.

According to security officials, pro-Russian and far-right social media accounts linked to previous disinformation campaigns have spread violent videos in an attempt to sow more chaos. ft.trib.al/OACrJ2W

"The young look at climate change, social inequality, impossible housing prices and AI potentially threatening their place in the job market." --> www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Over the next week, I will hit the trail in Nevada, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Georgia to campaign for some of those incredible leaders. I'll see you out there.

The cost of everything from groceries and gas to housing and childcare is going up because of choices made by Donald Trump's administration. Those choices have consequences. So do elections. The midterms are our chance to elect leaders who will fight for the people.

In the three months he had been detained at an immigration detention center in Louisiana, Julian Curo Churata had called or messaged every morning to reassure Ramirez and their three children in Maryland that he was okay. She soon learned her beloved husband had died in ICE custody wapo.st/4BimUIQ

Gift link: "More than a third of Idaho’s OB-GYNs have stopped practicing obstetrics, left the state, closed their practices or retired since the ban took effect in August 2022." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/m...

Yes...he is dying to do so.