Reposted by Derrick RoweChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 35mPeople always ask “where are you going to get the money to pay for stuff like housing and healthcare and public transit” and the answer is the same as it’s always been Make the rich pay their fair share 1627258
Reposted by Derrick Roweellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2hThe other thing Urquhart and other folks who think that there was some rhetorical strategy that failed and caused the anti-trans backlash miss is that Dobbs is why all the anti-trans laws targeting medical care can happen now. Before 2022 they were mostly clearly unconstitutional 2439
Reposted by Derrick RoweDr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 2hA Diver Volunteered to Clean Up Trash From a Wisconsin Lake. He Discovered a 1,000-Year-Old Dugout Canoe at the Bottom Instead share.google/wBaE10XbQaXt...share.googleA Diver Volunteered to Clean Up Trash From a Wisconsin Lake. He Discovered a 1,000-Year-Old Dugout Canoe at the Bottom InsteadIndigenous communities near present-day Milwaukee likely hand-carved the white-oak vessel before shaping it with fire between roughly 992 and 1049 C.E. 0104
Reposted by Derrick RoweKirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 4hThis is an all-timer for “Private equity is anything I don’t like” type glonzoism. 1441140
Reposted by Derrick RoweLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21hThese are very funny because one of these buttons makes you rich and the other one makes you go out like Ghadafi 4334119
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 5hBut you see some people just deserve to be ruled by others! /s 030
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 5hTo quote a Mexican leader: “ Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States” 020
Reposted by Derrick RoweGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 6hIt shocks the conscience that anyone could disagree with this 1213
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 5hWhat I hate most about social media is it has shown me that a disturbingly large number of people are completely fine with mass murder and genocide if the people they like are doing it to the people they hate. 020
Reposted by Derrick RoweM @ltbucket.bsky.social · 11hAlso as far as I can tell the civilization-State stuff is an attempt to naturalize spheres of influence and exemption from liberal univeralism, largely contingent on the continued performance of these "civilization-States" (Chinese growth pretty much) rather than any veritable timeless criteria. 052
Reposted by Derrick RoweSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 7htbh i think this is telling in that most of the separatists tend to be on the extreme Protestants, not Catholics 5616
Reposted by Derrick RoweBrendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It would be political malpractice and bad planning to allow some 28% minority government that will be gone in a few seasons derail planning and preparation for a national project that, moreover, undermines that minority faction’s whole raison d’être 2425
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 7hWe are really speed running the reasons the people of the 1800s were so keen on doing temperance movements and other reforms. 010
Reposted by Derrick RoweBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17hlegalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear. 131079154
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 7hWhat the absolute fuck. These people really just love to lick boot. 000
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 7hSuch pethetic losers www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...insidehighered.comAlabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts CollegesRepublican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too. 000
Reposted by Derrick Rowemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17himagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's 312125549
Reposted by Derrick RoweMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 21hI would prefer if the anti-climate change movement just advocated against climate change rather than doing antisemitism about a vaguely related topic 939427
Reposted by Derrick RoweWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17hI would absolutely give up my entire career and lose my job before I’d let the moron president publicly lobotomize me like this. These dumb DOJ hacks are drone people, barely recognizable as thinking humans 625521
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 17hI really really hate how pre Second World War antisemitism is making a big comeback. 052
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 17hIt really is once of the few episodes so earth shattering it’s literally impossible to imagine what the world would look like today without it. 040
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 17hBy all rights we should have lost the War of Independence, bigly but we didn’t! The fact we won, against long odds, is one of the single most significant events in world history. It’s hard to overstate the importance and impact of the American Revolution on world events. 160
Reposted by Derrick RoweTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 19hPower means nothing if you won't use it when the people of Maine need it. Maine deserves better. Maine deserves change. We have the chance to build a government that serves the people, not the ultra-wealthy. Let’s go win this thing. 30953259
Reposted by Derrick RoweLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 17hIf we're going to have the death penalty, a failed execution should commute your sentence 2045143
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 18hThe sentence should be commuted and frankly, she should likely be freed. 010
Reposted by Derrick Rowethe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18hcommute her fucking sentence jesus christ 420522
Reposted by Derrick RoweThe Loar Axe @theloaraxe.bsky.social · 19hFinally, with the conservatives ditching Great Books (and literacy) we are free to talk openly about how overwhelmingly gay the Western classical tradition is. No more fusty professors interrupting to pretend that Achilles and Patroclus were just good pals. 35211
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 18hThat’s it really. They are trying to do a counterrevolution! 020
Reposted by Derrick Roweghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20hi've never been a cultural relativist so this is easy for me: the culture of the American Right fucking sucks. they worship malice and mediocrity. they venerate nothing of value. 1263887
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 18hI think it would be easier to list what we *aren’t* getting in the national divorce than what we are at this point. 060
Reposted by Derrick RoweThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 19hWell I mean. That’s why we should fire all of them and hire Obama-era officials who hate Trump to lead the new Humane Immigration Assistance Force. (This is also what we should do with the cops). 44210
Reposted by Derrick RoweThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 19hAbolish the police; reconstruct public safety. Abolish ICE; reconstruct the border. Make it a project, make clear enemies, make people who were in the old system but want to get out of the enemy camp work hard to prove they’re friends like… we know how to do this I think. 1184
Reposted by Derrick RoweThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 19hUltimately the solution to rotten institutional culture is to dead the institution and build a new institution that isn’t rotten. That’s kinda the only option. That’s also how actual rot often works. 1209
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 18hSadly there are people, who for their own good and the good of society need to be forcibly institutionalized and given the medical care they require, because they won’t do it voluntarily. 020
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 18hIronically it’s one of the things I actually agree with him on 010
Reposted by Derrick Rowe"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19hI am struck that the political theory of MAGA in Trump 2.0 is the GOP can win without sound or moral government if everyone throws red meat to the cameras as the occasional bribe. You see it with Trump, Patel, Hegseth, all of them. Anyway, Trump's approval is at, like, -23, so...no luck on that. 349556
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 20hI like how he’s trying to be Patton and failing miserably 000
Reposted by Derrick RoweThomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🚨NEW🚨 A man abused access to a BMW app to mess with his ex-wife's car, turning the engine on and off, opening and closing windows to let rain in, and track her location. She says BMW dealership told her there was no way to remove his access, so go buy a new car. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...forbes.comHow A Man Used A BMW App To Terrorize His Ex-WifeA domestic abuse survivor’s ex-husband used his access to her BMW’s connected smartphone app to open car doors and windows, start the engine and track her location. She claims BMW didn’t help. 119660
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yah exactly. He knows everyone is going to hate the ending so he’s just not going to write it. 010
Reposted by Derrick RowePhil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 06/10/2026Hate in a Hallmark Town, Part 8: ‘I Refuse to Live in Fear, I Refuse to Be Quiet’ www.confrontthehate.com/p/hate-in-a-...confrontthehate.comHate in a Hallmark Town, Part 8: ‘I Refuse to Live in Fear, I Refuse to Be Quiet’Franklin Pastor Kevin Riggs details his personal experiences confronting hate in his Middle Tennessee community—and makes the case for choosing love over hate. 17220
Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think he knows the ending isn’t actually good, so he’s just not going to finish it. 230
Reposted by Derrick RoweMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026he already wrote himself into a corner by botching the time skip and now he has to redeem that ending by providing better setup for it? he’s old and rich and has a million side projects he enjoys more, he’s never finishing the books and we all know it 1851516