Derrick Rowe
@derrickrowe.bsky.social
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Eagle Scout, Lutheran, Past Commander SUV Camp 19, Adjunct at Alvernia, furry. MLitt (Research) from the University of Glasgow in @UofGwarstudies.
Eagle Scout, Lutheran, Past Commander SUV Camp 19, Adjunct at Alvernia, furry. MLitt (Research) from the University of Glasgow in @UofGwarstudies.
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Here is the system map of my railroad. Do enjoy exploring it. As a note this is a *working* map. I have not done much editing yet, so please don’t get on here and complain about that. If you habe any questions just ask and I will answer! www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
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An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.
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The flipside of that flipside is that US soldiers aren't going to obey orders to shoot Congress and millions of angry voters in the streets, so this is a great way to abbreviate Trump's time in power.
Once soldiers disobey an order like that, the only question is how your removal is legitimated.
Once soldiers disobey an order like that, the only question is how your removal is legitimated.
The flipside risk though of a mid-terms outcome that enables Congress to constrain Trump's chaotic overreach and Vance's despotic ambitions is the strong likelihood that a MAGA White House talks itself into claiming that US legislatures are illegitimate bodies that must be put down by force
December 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The flipside of that flipside is that US soldiers aren't going to obey orders to shoot Congress and millions of angry voters in the streets, so this is a great way to abbreviate Trump's time in power.
Once soldiers disobey an order like that, the only question is how your removal is legitimated.
Once soldiers disobey an order like that, the only question is how your removal is legitimated.
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. @crampell.bsky.social takes an interesting look back at Norman Rockwell, and defends his work against its shameless misappropriation by the Trump administration.
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The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
. @crampell.bsky.social takes an interesting look back at Norman Rockwell, and defends his work against its shameless misappropriation by the Trump administration.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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First, the Heat Killed Maine’s Kelp. Then an Invasive Algae Sealed Its Fate. – Mother Jones share.google/zzdO9GsgMJ3k...
First the heat killed Maine’s kelp. Then an invasive algae sealed its fate
Researchers have found a chemical feedback loop that permanently reshapes Maine’s underwater ecosystems.
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December 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
First, the Heat Killed Maine’s Kelp. Then an Invasive Algae Sealed Its Fate. – Mother Jones share.google/zzdO9GsgMJ3k...
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It's a little annoying how many people have taken to defining down "war crime" to mean anything that violates some kind of weird code duello
I believe this is something I addressed a few months ago in regards to drone fighting in Ukraine. It's hard to enjoy the protections of surrender when you're surrounded by comrades who haven't surrendered. The Bismarck was still fighting even if its sailors didn't want to
December 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
It's a little annoying how many people have taken to defining down "war crime" to mean anything that violates some kind of weird code duello
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there have been multiple stories of middle school girls getting harassed with generated CP of themselves over the past few years and somehow the only AI fear that seems to stick is the fucking water
if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop
if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop
It’s the most powerful online sexual harassment tool ever invented and it’s driving people insane with parasocial relationships but the most prominent critics lie about water use.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
there have been multiple stories of middle school girls getting harassed with generated CP of themselves over the past few years and somehow the only AI fear that seems to stick is the fucking water
if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop
if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop
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Daily bunny no.3183 doing some off-roading
December 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Daily bunny no.3183 doing some off-roading
Idk why people keep taking on the men’s wear guy.
December 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Idk why people keep taking on the men’s wear guy.
Fëanor really would be a techbro
I mean if we're not going all in on the corruption of Arda with our tech-bro vaporware what are we even doing?
December 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Fëanor really would be a techbro
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“I made a KillerMurder bot from the book ‘Why You Should Never Make A KillerMurder Bot’”
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“I made a KillerMurder bot from the book ‘Why You Should Never Make A KillerMurder Bot’”
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This is not Trump being stupid, tho Trump is a very stupid person. This is not Trump being played, tho Trump is one of the most easily manipulated people who’s ever lived. No, the truth is scarier. This is Trump working for & siding with Putin. This is Trump, the Russian asset.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This is not Trump being stupid, tho Trump is a very stupid person. This is not Trump being played, tho Trump is one of the most easily manipulated people who’s ever lived. No, the truth is scarier. This is Trump working for & siding with Putin. This is Trump, the Russian asset.
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Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...
December 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...
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"It was an unthinkable tragedy".
It was pretty thinkable.
"There was no way to avoid it."
I can think of one way to avoid it.
"Just pray it won't happen to your child."
It won't because they're vaccinated.
It was pretty thinkable.
"There was no way to avoid it."
I can think of one way to avoid it.
"Just pray it won't happen to your child."
It won't because they're vaccinated.
“The vaccination has stuff we don’t trust,” said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died of measles. In March, Tom Bartlett wrote about his visit with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy.
Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/yADSKik3?lin...
Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/yADSKik3?lin...
December 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"It was an unthinkable tragedy".
It was pretty thinkable.
"There was no way to avoid it."
I can think of one way to avoid it.
"Just pray it won't happen to your child."
It won't because they're vaccinated.
It was pretty thinkable.
"There was no way to avoid it."
I can think of one way to avoid it.
"Just pray it won't happen to your child."
It won't because they're vaccinated.
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The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
Trump looked pretty rough today -- note that both of his hands are discolored
(Joe Raedle/Getty)
(Joe Raedle/Getty)
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
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I will never forgive anyone who didn't vote for Clinton or Harris and brought us Trump. Moreso, the people in 2024 who saw what a fucking disaster Trump was and willingly gave him power. Trumpsters, third party voters and non voters, fuck you all to hell. You did this. You are to blame.
December 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I will never forgive anyone who didn't vote for Clinton or Harris and brought us Trump. Moreso, the people in 2024 who saw what a fucking disaster Trump was and willingly gave him power. Trumpsters, third party voters and non voters, fuck you all to hell. You did this. You are to blame.
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The leadership of the @nytimes.com broadly agrees with Chris Rufo that the existence of "woke" students, professors, and institutions is an affront to society which needs to be dismantled by state coercion.
This is, ironically, very obvious, but also politically incorrect to talk about in public.
This is, ironically, very obvious, but also politically incorrect to talk about in public.
The article accepts the idea that New College was a liberal enclave, and what is happening now is a rebalancing. I think this view is fundamentally wrong, embracing the assumptions of those who see their job as to save campuses from liberalism by any means necessary.
December 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The leadership of the @nytimes.com broadly agrees with Chris Rufo that the existence of "woke" students, professors, and institutions is an affront to society which needs to be dismantled by state coercion.
This is, ironically, very obvious, but also politically incorrect to talk about in public.
This is, ironically, very obvious, but also politically incorrect to talk about in public.
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of the new media organizations that are absolutely worthy of your support, i think the unpopulist should be on your list
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December 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
of the new media organizations that are absolutely worthy of your support, i think the unpopulist should be on your list
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This is precisely why turning elections into vote-buying contests would pose an unacceptable risk
Elon Musk gives out a million dollars and a progressive woman gives out tampons. Goodness.
surely you can understand both the problems and risks with turning elections into a contest to see who can afford to give out the most turkeys at thanksgiving, though
December 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is precisely why turning elections into vote-buying contests would pose an unacceptable risk
I like my one Christmas gift this year, a nice O scale brass PRR B1
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I like my one Christmas gift this year, a nice O scale brass PRR B1
This makes me think of the time after “The Jungle” was published, and despite being shut down for a week to clean the meat packing plants, when the inspectors arrived they still found them so disgustingly dirty they were appalled and the government created the FDA to force cleanliness
The Man is good, and he has done a lot for me. Good safety regulations, safety standards, clean air and water, a stable system, law enforcement, defense, currency, infrastructure, and many many more. The Man is good.
So much if pop leftism being about being counter cultural and hating The Man is honestly bad when we need to be doing propaganda for welfare and higher taxes.
December 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This makes me think of the time after “The Jungle” was published, and despite being shut down for a week to clean the meat packing plants, when the inspectors arrived they still found them so disgustingly dirty they were appalled and the government created the FDA to force cleanliness
“It should be illegal for you to not like me,” and “how dare the presents yell at me for my stupid ideas,” is the driving force behind everything that is happening right now.
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“It should be illegal for you to not like me,” and “how dare the presents yell at me for my stupid ideas,” is the driving force behind everything that is happening right now.
It’s insane because it really is. Of course they couldn’t sell it that way when it was set up. But it’s welfare.
"Conditioned to think of SS as an earned savings scheme..." oh boy have they! A *60* year old woman and mine own grandmother, *80*, were telling me on Facebook that SS "wasn't welfare", with the 60 yo even saying it was "like a bank".
Going to pick on this because Stephen is a mutual and phrased it compactly: this is actually hard! Raising taxes on the upper middle class and richer without increasing benefits when they've been conditioned to think of SS as an earned savings scheme is hard!
December 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It’s insane because it really is. Of course they couldn’t sell it that way when it was set up. But it’s welfare.
The Man is good, and he has done a lot for me. Good safety regulations, safety standards, clean air and water, a stable system, law enforcement, defense, currency, infrastructure, and many many more. The Man is good.
So much if pop leftism being about being counter cultural and hating The Man is honestly bad when we need to be doing propaganda for welfare and higher taxes.
December 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Man is good, and he has done a lot for me. Good safety regulations, safety standards, clean air and water, a stable system, law enforcement, defense, currency, infrastructure, and many many more. The Man is good.