Ed Darrell

The Senate Just Voted To Break Public Lands Every permit written on public lands since 1996 may have be rendered invalid

The Senate just voted to invalidate every permit written on public land since 1996. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-senate...

Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.

"The Pentagon has investigated nearly 300 Defense Department employees, including service members, civilian workers and contractors, for comments appearing online after last month’s shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post."

Aren't we all?

Mexia, Texas,

“San Jacinto,” anywhere in Texas.

Hurricane, Utah.

Bogota, Texas.

Versailles, France, or Versailles, Kentucky.

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Trump bragging about burning the First Amendment.

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko Democrat Hakeem Jeffries DESTROYS Republican Mike Lawler

Democrat Hakeem Jeffries DESTROYS Republican Mike Lawler

Here's what gold crossing $4,000 is telling us about the U.S. economy — CBS News A range of factors has driven gold prices to record highs this year — a surge some Wall Street analysts think is likely to continue.

Not that Trump has crashed the economy already, but that he is crashing the economy now.

Here's what gold crossing $4,000 is telling us about the U.S. economy - CBS News

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I have seen antivaxxers claim that polio didn’t exist and it was all DDT poisoning. I think the sentence for a single antivaxx post on Facebook should be a minimum of 10 years in prison with no access to the internet.

RFK Jr. says polio ended because of the DDT ban. Wrong.
📉 Cases crashed after the 1955 Salk vaccine.
💊 Sabin oral vaccine in 1961 finished the job.
🚫 DDT ban came in 1972—long after polio was gone.

Vaccines beat polio.
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
#SciSky 🧪 #NurseSky #IDSky #EMSky #PedsSky #ObSky

A graph showing reported polio cases in the US from 1900 to 2022 By 1961 over 85% of children aged under 10 had been vaccinated and cases had plummeted. By 1972 when DDT was banned by the FDA polio cases were near zero. By the end of 1979 wild polio has been entirely eliminated.

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RFK Jr. insanely claims the DDT ban was responsible for eradicating Polio

DDT was banned in 1972, Polio cases were near zero by then
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#RFK #Vaccines

'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech President Donald Trump hasn't made a public appearance since his rambling and authoritarian speech to top military leaders, and people are noticing.The president told high-ranking military leaders to ...

"Donald Trump is in the presidential witness protection program," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "No one can find him." www.rawstory.com/where-s-dona...

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you

That is not, in fact, what ICE does

He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine

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At the risk of hyperbole these really may be the most horrible people to ever live.

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

"How to Confront and Defeat an Authoritarian"

As the Trump Administration marches towards authoritarian control, historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social turns to American history after the Civil War for strategies on how the masses can rise up & rally.

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We could if we still had the Fairness Doctrine Tom.

Let me see if I can just make this simple for everyone and draw this one to a close quickly. Mamdani cannot arrest Netanyahu. No one is going to arrest him in NYC. No one is going to drag him out of the UN and hand them to a third party.
Please live on this planet.

It took 20 years to go from Dan Rather to Bari Weiss.

Trump - Hey farmers, I'm going to bail you out of the mess I created BUT you're crops won't sell again to China, I've tripled your health insurance, and your closest hospitals are closing soon. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The Blinding of American Grand Strategy One by one, the Trump administration is eliminating agencies devoted to long-term thinking.

I’m done atoning for my sins and am busy chronicling those of the Trump administration. To wit: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-blindi...

Americans already see what’s up. They know Democrats are on the right side of this shutdown because we know it’s really a healthcare fight.

Our dear friend Susan would like a word with Russell Vought. 🔥

The Blinding of American Grand Strategy One by one, the Trump administration is eliminating agencies devoted to long-term thinking.

Why worry about the future if you’re planning to live in an imaginary past?
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ICE can’t tell the difference between Opium brand perfume and opium.

This should disqualify all ICE involved from carrying guns.

Traffic stop in Benton leads to ICE detention, deportation risk What began as a routine traffic stop in Benton ended with a man jailed, detained by immigration authorities for a month, and now living under the threat of deportation —

Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days.

He has now been stripped of his immigration status.

The Supreme Court Will Do Four Things This Term That Tell You Everything You Need to Know In the week before the October 2025 Supreme Court term opens, the impulse among court watchers will again be to do what we always do.

Next Monday's "One First" was going to be about how we should stop covering new #SCOTUS terms through the "big" cases the Court will hear; and instead focus on how the Court is behaving.

Fortunately for me (and you), @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social did it first—and *way* better:

Flatly untrue:
*No legal requirement to cut programs/employees under shutdowns. Never happened before.
*In Feb, Vought told agencies to prioritize firing employees deemed non-essential during shutdown to enable DOGE mass firings that occurred before the shutdown.
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