David Ash
@davidash.bsky.social
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(He/Him) Father, husband and programmer, sometimes writer. Sentient computer program pretending to be human. Autistic and always collecting data. #cisIsNotaSlur
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davidash.bsky.social
Yea I have a mostly-unused author email and I got like 7 emails claiming to be various authors wanting to "connect and talk about our work". Careful out there ya'll.
davidash.bsky.social
You know what the message of today should be? The message of every day until November 2026?

National work stoppage until the Trump Regime resigns and we hold a new election.

A line has been crossed and it's long past time we demand a new government. One that abides by the constitution.
davidash.bsky.social
At this point the Epstein files are the real distraction. A distraction from the Fall of American Democracy.
davidash.bsky.social
Okay maybe it's just me, but I don't give a flying fuck about the Epstein files anymore. Why are people saying "oh it's a distraction"? Invading American cities is a way bigger scandal than anything that could be in those files. What's happening in Chicago/Portland is way more important and urgent.
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rbreich.bsky.social
Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025 Judge's house on fire
davidash.bsky.social
Your cops are facing the wrong direction, JB. They should be protecting the citizens they swore to serve.
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
davidash.bsky.social
Let's remember this come primary time. Pritzker is all talk and no courage.

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govpritzker.illinois.gov
State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.
davidash.bsky.social
mskellymhayes.bsky.social
@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
The US is deporting a journalist today

Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities

They grabbed him

Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family

The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally

They’re attacking the free press
davidash.bsky.social
Blocking you now. I guess you'd be happier if we just let the brown shirts do their thing and harass brown people without any repercussions. Fuck off.
davidash.bsky.social
It's called "law enforcement". I'm talking about making arrests, preventing them from taking people illegally, pressuring them to leave the state, following them around wherever they deploy to prevent them from doing what they're doing.
davidash.bsky.social
Any governor who's talking a big game but refuses to deploy state/local police or the national guard against ICE should be primaried. ICE is blatantly violating the constitution at every turn and no one at any level of government seems willing to defend it.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
your state troopers are attacking protesters and journalists at broadview!!! stop posting and do something!!
davidash.bsky.social
He has, by far, the most skilled media team in politics. Every single video I've seen is like watching an SNL Digital short or something.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live.

Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
davidash.bsky.social
As an atheist, I'm wholeheartedly cheering for the rapture to be real. Fuck off and leave the rest of us alone to clean up your mess.
davidash.bsky.social
I can't wait! Glad to see so many returning faces.
davidash.bsky.social
They really have no defense either, because the "go out and bother people who don't believe the way you do" is literally part of the bible thanks to the Catholic church who assembled it. That's why I can't take any of them at their word. Cognitive dissonance is built into the religion.
davidash.bsky.social
As someone who was raised Christian, 100%. The sheer number of my (now cut off) family who claim to be Christian but support Trump is mind boggling.
davidash.bsky.social
This is the one that really frustrates me right now. The constant "protests" are so irritating because they accomplish nothing. You can't shame a fascist regime. We should be organizing for disruptive action. The fact that there hasn't been a real push for a nationwide strike is wild.
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adambonin.bsky.social
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.