Derrell Durrett
Ex physics. Software. Life-long observer of the public morality. Devoté of Poe's Law.
Potentially voluble.
- It does seem like completely abandoning your denomination's raison d'être would raise more attention...
- "The Long Southern Strategy" by @angiemaxwell.bsky.social l & Todd Shields traces the GOP’s strategic identity-based attacks, starting with race, but going further with gender & religion. In the last case, Southern Baptist identity was turned inside-out, it was the antithesis of traditional: 10/25
- Reposted by Derrell DurrettOne of the many reforms of post-presidencies we need is to make it illegal to establish fundraising entities for presidential libraries before a president leaves office. (More fundamentally, or also, we don’t need presidential libraries. Give the papers to the LoC / National Archives.)
- Reposted by Derrell DurrettNo Republicans in Congress will call out this shameful authoritarian overreach, yet so many Congressional Democrats will still blather on and on about bipartisanship. www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-sp...
- Reposted by Derrell DurrettElectronic sweeping of such a plane will be expensive & there's no guarantee of a clean plane. Which is why we don't retrofit a previously owned aircraft into one a President may ride in.
- Again: The #EmolumentsClause is a dead letter until Congress decides to make it an issue again. Congress won't until voters do.
- Reposted by Derrell Durretthe did this before with the hotel, but someone in Trump world has realized that the expense of renovating a hotel was entirely unnecessary to get away with the crime bsky.app/profile/mich...
- Reposted by Derrell Durrett“Officers reportedly ordered performers and all 133 patrons to wait outside while they conducted what they called a ‘compliance check.’ “ Everything old is new again. History repeats itself. Etc.
- Reposted by Derrell DurrettLast time, we stopped them from cutting Medicaid. It'll be harder this time—no lingering John McCains. But we must at least minimize the harm to the hardest-working Americans to benefit the richest goons ever to walk the earth.
- Reposted by Derrell Durrett"VOA is not to be the voice of left America nor the voice of right America," said Steve Herman, chief national correspondent for VOA. "USAGM cannot dictate [that] VOA run OAN content. It would be a violation of our fire wall and our charter, which are laws." https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/medi
- Reposted by Derrell Durrett"We now have a president ditching essential scientific data at a fast clip...and overseeing a frightening consolidation of all the data he needs to be the president who dispenses favors to his friends and retribution to his foes." Worthwhile look at Trump's posture on all aspects of data:
- Federal data is an invaluable national asset and economy driver. But for Trump & Co., it's "woke" and must disappear, or it's personal, private, and perfect for weaponization against people and groups they don't like. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
