Derek Brett

If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou... #opt-out #optout #ai #gmail @huffpost.com #huffpost

Trump's dramatic U-turn 'accidentally revealed' secret plan to block Epstein files: report President Donald Trump called on House Republicans Sunday to vote in favor of releasing files on Jeffrey Epstein, but according to journalist Adam Cochran, he may have also “accidentally revealed” a p...

This .... www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst... @rawstory.com #epstein #releasethefiles #kakistocracy

crooksandliars.com/2025/11/fox-... Trumpcare? I revert back to the explanation provided 16-years ago by then-Congressman Grayson (D-FL) regarding the GOP health care plan:
@crooksandliars.bsky.social #healthcare #gopplan #kakistocracy

"I think when we take the past and understand it, then it gives us a guide to the present," filmmaker Ken Burns tells John Avlon. "What is it that we share in common? Where are the places where we can come together? One of the places that we share is this history."

Tech billionaire flips with big bet on Trump — and the pay off is alarming For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial syst...

Tech billionaire flips with big bet on Trump — and the pay off is alarming www.rawstory.com/tech-billion... #paytoplay #plutocracy #kleptocracy #kakistocracy @rawstory #gildedage #robberbarrons

Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA’s post-Trump future Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... #kleptocracy #plutocracy #kakistocracy

Super Rich? In Prison? Lobbyists Want to Help Score You a Trump Pardon. NOTUS has identified a new crop of wealthy lawbreakers who are paying K Street professionals top dollar to woo the president.

Rank corruption: www.notus.org/money/donald... #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #pardons #bribery

John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history

www.salon.com/2025/10/31/j... #johnroberts #supremecourt #scotus #cjroberts @salon.com #lisagraves Lisa Graves nails it -- Chief Justice Roberts' leadership has undermined the foundations of the Court and those of U.S. democracy.

Trump conspiracy theory blown to pieces by his own data-sharing deal This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was supposed to validate the Trump administration’s push to harness...

Trump conspiracy theory blown to pieces by his own data-sharing deal

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How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

Interesting story about Miquelon... a beautiful spot threatened by a changing climate: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage: epic grifter

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacentre owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

Another reason to boycott Amazon merchandising and services (as if we needed even more): www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #boycottamazon #guardian #theguardian @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com

If it walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist and jokes like a fascist, it's likely a… For the last few weeks, Republican Party leadership has been carrying out a campaign to, essentially, classify the word “fascist” as hate speech against right-wingers. But while some Republicans shy a...

If it walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist and jokes like a fascist, it's likely a…

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The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

white house has joined bluesky
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When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest." (2/2) #resist #nokings #monmothma #andor #resistanceisnotfutile

And who can forget Mon Mothma's speech from "Andor"? "The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. (1/2) #resist

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the #Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an "astonishing rate", scientists find, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated.

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This morning's GFS shows the Northern Hemisphere more than 1.64°C over the 1981-2010 baseline on October 23, which is more than 2.2°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.

The Climate 8-ball is smoking.

www.karstenhaustein.com/climate

No Kings, No Kings, No Kings

YouTube video by Plain Simple Dav Legate Damar's resistance speech

Great resistance speech in the final season of DS9: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVF3... #resist #nokings #resistanceisnotfutile #ds9 #deepspacenine #deepspace9

#nokings #fightforfuture #resist #protest #resistanceisnotfutile

Trump's henchmen revealed: mapping the powerful network that really rules America A formal organization chart of the Trump regime would show Trump on top, his Cabinet officers arrayed underneath him, the White House staff below them, and an assortment of lower-level appointees at t...

Trump's henchmen revealed: mapping the powerful network that really rules America

www.rawstory.com/2674208301/ @rbreich.bsky.social #robertreich #oligarchy #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #resist #nokings #resistanceisnotfutile

Why countries struggle to quit fossil fuels, despite higher costs and 30 years of climate talks and treaties The International Energy Agency expects global renewable energy capacity to double by 2030, even with lower growth in the US, but fossil fuels still dominate.

It’s not easy to give up fossil fuels, even in places where there is political leadership pushing for it.

A look at how politics, economics and energy security concerns have kept the world hooked on coal, oil and gas, despite 30 years of climate talks and treaties (thread) ⬇️

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‘Les Misérables’ at 40: The Unlikely Story of a Hit

‘Les Misérables’ at 40: The Unlikely Story of a Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/t... #lesmiserables #valjean #onedaymore #hearthepeoplesing

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“That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."

— Rabbi Hillel

Feeling a tad implicated, I looked up the Jewish religious organization involved:

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storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Yet another instance of a conscientious jurist to maintain the rule of law in the United States, issuing a 161-page opinion striking down the actions of the current Administration in seizing and attempting deportation of Palestinian students. #ruleoflaw