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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 22/09/2026

These are magnificent. We're all aware of Paul Krugman's paper on interstellar trade? www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/in...

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 29/06/2026

Hsieh and Linda Montano, in one or many photographs of "Rope Piece."

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 02/06/2026

Have they tried using Devin to open the Strait of Hormuz?

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 18/05/2026

What does this even mean? Seriously. He appointed judges who overturned Roe. He basically doesn't believe other people exist. He's not "in a bind." He. Does. Not. Care.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 07/05/2026

Brilliant satirical poster in the Barker Center today:

Satirical poster advertising horrifying talks (in favor of war crimes and slavery) to promote campus viewpoint diversity at Harvard.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 28/03/2026

A lot of people live in NYC. And a lot of those people want to fight for our democracy.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 27/03/2026

HBD, Frank O'Hara! At the risk of being basic, this is an absolute banger and you should memorize it.

Text of Frank O'Hara's Poem ["Lana Turner has collapsed!"]

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 21/03/2026

Happy Birthday, Henrik! I bet you were loadsof fun on your birthday! 🥳

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 26/02/2026

Read about Trumpism, anti-literacy, AI, and democracy: open.substack.com/pub/derekmil...

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13/02/2026

They are, you're right! Apparently the counterfeit issue is really important. And the $1 is never planned for redesign.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 03/02/2026

Ooh, that's great. Reminds me of Bruegel:

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 25/01/2026

I saw someone else post some favorite snowy art, so: I loved seeing this Bruegel the Elder painting, Hunters in the Snow, in Vienna.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting Hunters in the Snow.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 18/12/2025

Confirmation in the Post today:

Miller has indicated to colleagues that a strong reaction from Caracas could provide the pretext to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants from the United States, the former official noted.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 27/11/2025

These are, and always have been, just straight up murders. Everyone must be held accountable. No legal blah blah. No "but National Security!" No "just following orders." These are murders.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 23/11/2025

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 22/11/2025

They want the names of everyone who attended a listening session or filled out an online survey?? So much fascism.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 14/11/2025

The credulity from @nytimes.com is absolutely mind-blowing. Of course it was this asshole who called ICE! Who else would have done it? Why that one spot?

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13/11/2025

Not sure if this made it into any of Wolff's books:

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13/11/2025

Epstein advising Michael Wolff on how Woody Allen should respond to 2018 stories accusing Allen of molesting Dylan Farrow.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13/11/2025

Here are Epstein and a NYTimes reporter expressing bafflement that @nytimes.com has not contacted Epstein during the 2016 campaign, nor pursued the many leads Epstein gave to Thomas (in other emails) to pass on.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 12/11/2025

Here he's chatting with Steven Bannon about ... something crypto?

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 12/11/2025

Here's Epstein messaging his (eventual) estate trustee about the financial plight an ex-girlfriend of "Bill" who's the "richest man in the world." (So, presumably, Gates.)

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 12/11/2025

Is it known that Trump was scheduled to be deposed in a Jane Doe lawsuit involving Epstein and Maxwell in August, 2009? @pbump.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 10/11/2025

(From today's Times updates.)

The language of the bill states that “any senator whose Senate data, or the Senate data of whose Senate office, has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed in violation of this section may bring a civil action against the United States if the violation was committed by an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any Federal department or agency.”

Because the provision is retroactive to 2022, it would appear to make eligible the eight lawmakers whose phone records were subpoenaed by investigators for Mr. Smith as he examined efforts by Donald J. Trump to obstruct the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Each violation would be worth at least $500,000 in any legal claim, according to the bill language. The bill would also sharply limit the way the government could resist such a claim, taking away any government claims of qualified or sovereign immunity to fight a lawsuit over the issue.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 10/11/2025

Leo Amery's 1940 speech in the Commons, which basically forced Chamberlain out of office, is worth revisiting:

What I would say, however, is this: Just as our peace-time system is unsuitable for war conditions, so does it tend to breed peace-time statesmen who are not too well fitted for the conduct of war. Facility in debate, ability to state a case, caution in advancing an unpopular view, compromise and procrastination are the natural qualities—I might almost say, virtues—of a political leader in time of peace. They are fatal qualities in war. Vision, daring, swiftness and consistency of 1150decision are the very essence of victory. In our normal politics, it is true, the conflict of party did encourage a certain combative spirit. In the last war we Tories found that the most perniciously aggressive of our opponents, the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, was not only aggressive in words, but was a man of action. In recent years the normal weakness of our political life has been accentuated by a coalition based upon no clear political principles. It was in fact begotten of a false alarm as to the disastrous results of going off the Gold Standard. It is a coalition which has been living ever since in a twilight atmosphere between Protection and Free Trade and between unprepared collective security and unprepared isolation. Surely, for the Government of the last 10 years to have bred a band of warrior statesmen would have been little short of a miracle. We have waited for eight months, and the miracle has not come to pass. Can we afford to wait any longer?

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 06/11/2025

I don't want to beat up on social sciences. I think they're really important! But as a humanist, reading that key ideas in psychology are outright fabrications makes me super mad that "the humanities are dying." We lost our students to this bullshit? At least the fiction we read is well-written.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 24/10/2025

Not sure it's clear from reporting, but it's basically impossible to see the East Wing destruction from the street. Security barriers and trees block viewpoints almost entirely.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 17/10/2025

Dhuhr prayer time. Eleanor watches thoughtfully.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 17/10/2025

Please attend a No Kings rally tomorrow. I will wear an inflatable hippo. Just bring yourself. And everyone else you know who values living in a democracy. A slightly modified Baldwin prophecy:

Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we—and now I mean the relatively conscious [whatever their other beliefs], who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others—do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the [fascist] nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not now dare everything the fulfillment of that prophecy recreated from the Bible in a song by a slave is upon us. God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 17/10/2025

Oh, and I grabbed some pretty good bagels down the block.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 17/10/2025

It's the Islamic Cultural Center of New York. One of the main prayer sites for taxi drivers working in Manhattan. And I've no doubt Eleanor Roosevelt would LOVE that view for what it says about humans' ability to live together across differences.

Entrance and awning to The Islamic Cultural Center of New York, which is across Riverside Drive from the statue.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 17/10/2025

Today in "My country is NYC" (@cjsprigman.bsky.social's coinage): You can contemplate what Eleanor Roosevelt lived through. How she fought against evil and for a country that valued everyone for their humanity. And you wonder what she's looking at. (1/3)

Statue of Eleanor Roosevelt at 72nd St and Riverside Drive, NYC. She is looking off to the right of the image.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 16/10/2025

This Wired story on cybertruck owners is on point.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 16/10/2025

Serious props to the Times for the last three paragraphs.

The covert finding is in some ways a natural evolution of those antidrug efforts. But the C.I.A.’s history of covert action in Latin America and the Caribbean is mixed at best.

In 1954, the agency orchestrated a coup that overthrew President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala, ushering in decades of instability. The C.I.A.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 ended in disaster, and the agency repeatedly tried to assassinate Fidel Castro. That same year, however, the C.I.A. supplied weapons to dissidents who assassinated Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, the authoritarian leader of the Dominican Republic.

The agency also had its hands in a 1964 coup in Brazil, the death of Che Guevara and other machinations in Bolivia, a 1973 coup in Chile, and the contra fight against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 14/10/2025

Here's a thread, from oldest to most recent, of the key @nytimes.com reporting on an imminent deal between Harvard and the regime.

A Charlie Brown comic strip panel showing Lucy and her football. Lucy (labelled "Trump") says, "Harvard cut a deal with us! We're gonna sign it today!" Charlie Brown (The New York Times), says "We'll print it in the paper!" The football is labelled with Harvard's seal.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 10/10/2025

Spotted at the uptown 1 stop at 79th St (the Zabar's stop).

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 24/09/2025

From a JustSecurity essay about servicemembers' criminal liability for the murders in the Caribbean. These paragraphs summarize the gross illegality of these acts.

this post assumes that LOAC does not regulate this strike (because LOAC is lex specialis, applying only in an actual armed conflict). Further, it assumes Trump’s jus ad bellum self-defense argument is without merit. Finally, it assumes the attacks violate International Human Rights Law’s rights to life and fair trial and its prohibition on extrajudicial killings.

But even if these attacks can be considered part of an ongoing lawful military operation in a non-international armed conflict (NIAC) akin to the campaign against al Qaeda and its associated forces or an international armed conflict (IAC) with the Maduro regime, the killings would still be crimes under LOAC’s prohibition on making “civilians the object of attack.”

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 24/09/2025

This flew under my radar: Chris Rufo threatened troops on campuses in a podcast interview at @chronicle.com Two key passages:

Rufo So of course, previous presidents and administrations have worked with think tanks, scholars, civic leaders on policy, they continue to do so. And if anything — and maybe we can kind of leave with this provocative point — if anything, I think they should take stronger and even more decisive action against these institutions. And for me, the frame of reference is the campaign to desegregate universities in the 1960s, the early 1960s. And your listeners may recall that in fact, the President of the United States, President Kennedy, actually sent in armed … sent in the 101st Airborne troops to forcibly desegregate universities. I think he established an important precedent and I think the president to this day still retains all remedies up to and including parachuting in the 101st Airborne if these universities continue to discriminate on the basis of race, scapegoat students on the basis of race, and segregate students on basis of race.

Rufo The president under Article II of the Constitution retains the power to enforce the law, to make sure that universities are adhering with the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act. And I’m not saying that the president should send in the 101st Airborne. I’m merely saying that he retains the right to do so under the Constitution and longstanding precedent.
Stripling Well, if he does, I’m going to give you a call.
Rufo I expect that you would. I don’t think it’s happening, I don’t think it necessary at the current time.
Stripling Well, you’ve put the idea out there Chris and we know how these things work.
Rufo But I think that yeah the ideas should be floating out there. I think it’s one that is worth the consideration.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 23/09/2025

I remember this essay very well, actually! Those passages had not stood out to me years ago, though they certainly resonate now. These sentences affected me profoundly, then and now. Thank you for the recommendation!!

Quotation from Hannah Arendt's "Personal Responsibility and Judgement." Included the argument that Germans who avoided participating in Nazism "refused to murder, not so much because they still held fast to the command 'Thou shalt not kill,' but because they were unwilling to live together with a murderer—themselves."

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 22/09/2025

The John Wilson drawings/mural The Young Americans at The Met now is outstanding. In the hallway outside his exhibit. (Unfortunately, one panel is not included.)

Image of 5 of the 6 panels of John Wilson's The Young Americans, depicting his son and friends. Mid-1970s. Charcoal and colored crayon on paper.

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