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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2h

Nice!

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qannani.bsky.social @qannani.bsky.social · 2h

“Minnesota has the highest percentage of trans adults in the country, and we are in danger. We do not have time for you to tone it down on our right to live.”

Opinion | Trans people are blamed and in danger. They deserve neither.

"Tell our truths: that we are less likely to commit violence, that we are more likely to be victims of it, and that we have a substantially higher mortality rate than our non-trans counterparts," writ...

www.startribune.com

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 13h

Shirley and Inspector Waffles update

Two tabby cats are lying next to each other on a bed, not quite cuddling but close.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 11h

So I've been told. Repeatedly.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 12h

Further update

Two tabby cats have their heads snuggled against each other as they nap on a bed

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 13h

Shirley and Inspector Waffles update

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 16h

“Look, forget the myths the media's created about the White House-- the truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 16h

BESSENT: THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE HERE THAT CURRENT ERA FOR U.S. GROWTH IS LIKE THE LATE 1800S OR THE 1990S

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 20h

4) What’s happening now is an attempt to render those sentiments acceptable in polite company & to make people feel guilty for having negative judgments about people who express their racism and anti-semitism.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 1d

Go for it

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 1d

I’m only thinking about this article in the content of SCOTUS rehearing the Voting Rights Act case. This is what Republicans say in private. Republicans who are elected. Republicans who serve within their party apparatus. Republicans who work for the Trump administration & work in state government.

Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 1d

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 1d

Fellow authors: on a scale of 1-10, how vain is it to click round to various big-city libraries to see if they’ve stocked your book?

(Brooklyn Library has 6!)

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani so clearly and genuinely likes people, likes to hang with them, talk with them, share space with them.

It's rare to see it. Compare it to this actual ad that @dicknixon.bsky.social's 1972 opponent CHOSE to run, showing him lecturing hardhats like he thought they were children.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, as a GenXer I remember many of us had as a dream job something like movie critic or radio DJ. In many ways "influencer" is just a 2025 version of those things. It still sounds unusual to me but it really isn't that different.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost like billionaires and strong vibrant institutions of civil society can’t coexist

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Coyote Mae (he/they) @coyotethewitch.bsky.social · 2d

I'm excited to read this!

Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

My book is officially on sale tomorrow. I am so grateful for the support of amazing union leaders like @flyingwithsara.bsky.social.

Plus, if you buy one and see me, you can an illegible autograph just like she got!

Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 2d

An optimistic book in a grueling time. @dskamper.bsky.social gives us hope with stories of strategic fights led with the awakening of worker power. Solidarity is essential and so is reading this book. I was honored to write the foreword of Who✊s Got the Power?

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

Someone told me once, and it’s stuck with me, that it’s easy to be entertaining but hard to be funny.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

The hardest thing for any writer to do is to write a genuinely funny book.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah it’s racist, but also shows how stupid ICE & DHS officers are and how piss poor their training is

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

Inspector Waffles update. Keeping an eye on Jeff the neighborhood opposum as he eats the food we left out for Gus.

A tabby cat looks out a glass patio door at an opposum eating from a bowl of cat food on the porch.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

I have Italian ancestry but I can’t pull off the word “strunz”.

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Sigh. Guess it's that one day a year we have to utter that assholes name.

For Immediate Release
Italian-American Trade Unionists of America Condemn Columbus on Columbus Day

The ltalian-American Trade Unionists of America (IATUOA) has once again reaffirmed its condemnation of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day.
"We only mention the son of a bitch's name once a year and it's when we announce that he's a son of a bitch on his name day," the IATUOA Executive Committee announced from a dark, smoke-filled room in the Italian-American Club of Shamokin, PA.

The IATUOA, founded on the principles of cultural solidarity through bargaining, mutual aid, shared dining experiences, and anti-imperialism, believes Columbus represents the antithesis of these core values. Based on his writing and contemporary accounts, Columbus was a greedy, self-indulgent strunz, a jerk-off that gleefully engaged in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous people for personal gain and fame.

Further, this fucking guy, supposedly Genoese, rarely spoke or wrote in Ligurian or any Italic language. What kind of "Italian" does that?

Italian-Americans deserve recognition and a holiday in the United States, but also deserve a figure worthy of their name. "If you're gonna name the fuckin' day Columbus Day, you might as well go-all in and make the fucking holiday Columbus/Mussolini Day to piss on a few more graves,"' the IATOUA Executive Committee further scoffed

As of this time,the IATUOA DaVinci Genealogy Caucus still questions the authenticity of Columbus' Italian ancestry. Based on this, and the organization's position that Columbus is "a piece of shit" the organization maintains its position that Italian-Americans (as well as indigenous people) deserve a holiday that truly recognizes our heritage and not one that celebrates a jackass.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Sigh. Guess it's that one day a year we have to utter that assholes name.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

My book is officially on sale tomorrow. I am so grateful for the support of amazing union leaders like @flyingwithsara.bsky.social.

Plus, if you buy one and see me, you can an illegible autograph just like she got!

Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 2d

An optimistic book in a grueling time. @dskamper.bsky.social gives us hope with stories of strategic fights led with the awakening of worker power. Solidarity is essential and so is reading this book. I was honored to write the foreword of Who✊s Got the Power?

Cover of Dave Kamper’s book, “Who’s Got the Power? The Resurgence of American Unions”

Title page with a very kind note from Dave to Sara. Kind note covered by humbled Sara, but Solidarity with Dave’s signature is plain to see.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

Nice!

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 2d

My book is officially on sale tomorrow. I am so grateful for the support of amazing union leaders like @flyingwithsara.bsky.social.

Plus, if you buy one and see me, you can an illegible autograph just like she got!

Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 2d

An optimistic book in a grueling time. @dskamper.bsky.social gives us hope with stories of strategic fights led with the awakening of worker power. Solidarity is essential and so is reading this book. I was honored to write the foreword of Who✊s Got the Power?

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