David Solimini
@commsdirector.bsky.social
Fear and bravery are contagious. Be brave. Leading @democracycomms.bsky.social. Previously Stimson Center, Truman Project, ICAN, others. Proudly SAIS Hopkins, William & Mary. Opinions are mine, not my employer's. Was @commsdirector at the bad bird place.
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
Extortion, simple as that.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Extortion, simple as that.
The WH's performative bullying, name calling, and expletives requires either some kind of preplanned collective action in the room by reporters (v hard with the sycophant outlets there) or someone has to be willing to give it right back. "Sir, stop acting like a child and answer the question."
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The WH's performative bullying, name calling, and expletives requires either some kind of preplanned collective action in the room by reporters (v hard with the sycophant outlets there) or someone has to be willing to give it right back. "Sir, stop acting like a child and answer the question."
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Cannot stress strongly enough:
Zero of the people talking about it, including talking heads, and major news outlets, have any idea what vetting actually is or how any of it works.
Zero of the people talking about it, including talking heads, and major news outlets, have any idea what vetting actually is or how any of it works.
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Cannot stress strongly enough:
Zero of the people talking about it, including talking heads, and major news outlets, have any idea what vetting actually is or how any of it works.
Zero of the people talking about it, including talking heads, and major news outlets, have any idea what vetting actually is or how any of it works.
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An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now under threat from the state’s Republican leadership.
boltsmag.org
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
Pumpkin pie is the only correct answer.
More TCN Staff Thanksgiving Favorites, Traditions, and Gratitude.
Next we have: Founder and CEO, Chris!
Favorite side: Anything potato based
Favorite pie: Pumpkin Pie
Turkey Trot family: Yes, but only me. My wife threatened to divorce me when I asked her to come on a run
Next we have: Founder and CEO, Chris!
Favorite side: Anything potato based
Favorite pie: Pumpkin Pie
Turkey Trot family: Yes, but only me. My wife threatened to divorce me when I asked her to come on a run
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Pumpkin pie is the only correct answer.
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Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social my family was present at the first Thanksgiving. Was yours? Let’s be honest, we’re all invaders. Let’s grow up and accept that the American story is about renewal. We all are newcomers here.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social my family was present at the first Thanksgiving. Was yours? Let’s be honest, we’re all invaders. Let’s grow up and accept that the American story is about renewal. We all are newcomers here.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
This is fun
In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @katherinepomps.bsky.social create a choose-your-own-adventure game for Lindsey Halligan which reflects all the many, many ways she can lose the James Comey case if reinstated.
The Situation: You Get To Play Lindsey Halligan’s Hand
She made her bed. Now you get to lie in it.
lawfaremedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is fun
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We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
"You will be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"You will be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
Can we just consider that "comments" can not be unlawful?
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Can we just consider that "comments" can not be unlawful?
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NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
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National Design Studio
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
National Design Studio
It seems like a bit of a self-own to go after a veteran, pilot, and astronaut whose congresswoman wife barely escaped assassination.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It seems like a bit of a self-own to go after a veteran, pilot, and astronaut whose congresswoman wife barely escaped assassination.
Hot take: The Windows Phone UI was smart and had legs.
(Though shoehorning it into desktop windows 8, without changing the rest of the UI to fit, was silly.)
(Though shoehorning it into desktop windows 8, without changing the rest of the UI to fit, was silly.)
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hot take: The Windows Phone UI was smart and had legs.
(Though shoehorning it into desktop windows 8, without changing the rest of the UI to fit, was silly.)
(Though shoehorning it into desktop windows 8, without changing the rest of the UI to fit, was silly.)
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In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
It is good to see the pushback on Trump lead to real losses for him. But it's hard to be optimistic when he still wields the enormous power of the presidency. ICE is still rampaging, HHS is harming people, the U.S. may be about to sell out Ukraine, the boat strikes...he's still doing so much damage.
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular.
Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.
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Pretty obvious what happened
Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.
Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.
Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.
Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Pretty obvious what happened
Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.
Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.
Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.
Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Nick getting the goods and the aggressive walk back. Wow.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Nick getting the goods and the aggressive walk back. Wow.
Has that US ever started an entirely optional war with this little reason, public debate, or even any attempt to sell it to the public?
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Has that US ever started an entirely optional war with this little reason, public debate, or even any attempt to sell it to the public?
There are three massive, unstoppable, and widely known facts that our national political culture can not escape: 1. The president's power decreases every day. 2. Most of what he's done is neither popular nor working. 3. Americans are increasingly aware that something deep and important is broken.
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There are three massive, unstoppable, and widely known facts that our national political culture can not escape: 1. The president's power decreases every day. 2. Most of what he's done is neither popular nor working. 3. Americans are increasingly aware that something deep and important is broken.
What strikes me most clearly is that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a coward. A gleeful attacker and unrepentant liar when the mob was at her back - often against vulnerable people. But the moment she has to face any actual discomfort or challenge, she folds, quits, and runs away.
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
What strikes me most clearly is that Marjorie Taylor Greene is a coward. A gleeful attacker and unrepentant liar when the mob was at her back - often against vulnerable people. But the moment she has to face any actual discomfort or challenge, she folds, quits, and runs away.
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Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...