David
@davidmackenzie.bsky.social
Woke piece of shit posting into the void
I know this is not the point, but it’s a fundamental misunderstanding on how reporters operate. They, in fact, ask experts as part of their reporting so they can understand and report accurately.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I know this is not the point, but it’s a fundamental misunderstanding on how reporters operate. They, in fact, ask experts as part of their reporting so they can understand and report accurately.
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
If there’s an international terrorist incident, the administration will blame the “radical left,” even though they’re the ones withholding money.
Trump sent the National Guard to fight what he called "violent radical left terrorism" in Portland.
At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats.
Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."
At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats.
Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."
Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE
A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum.
www.propublica.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If there’s an international terrorist incident, the administration will blame the “radical left,” even though they’re the ones withholding money.
You can’t be thrown under the bus if you refuse unlawful orders.
NYT:
Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike
Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago):
“This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,”
and
“It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”
Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike
Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago):
“This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,”
and
“It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You can’t be thrown under the bus if you refuse unlawful orders.
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NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
I do appreciate Senator Bohacek speaking out, but this is hardly the first time Trump has denigrated people with disabilities, much less attempted to “isolate a population.” To support this administration is to support the strong against the weak.
Indiana GOP Sen. Bohacek on Trump's use of r-word: "When it seems quite clear we're isolating a population by use of a slur, at some point you have to speak out... it's a word used to denigrate the intellectually disabled community... you can't validate slurs like that... it's a matter of character"
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I do appreciate Senator Bohacek speaking out, but this is hardly the first time Trump has denigrated people with disabilities, much less attempted to “isolate a population.” To support this administration is to support the strong against the weak.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the average American simply had no idea this was going on.
Van Orden: "You gotta understand that average Americans do not care about these narcoterrorists at all. They care about the fact that their brothers & sisters and mothers and husbands have died of fentanyl overdoses. That's what we really truly care about. We care about our fellow American citizens"
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I wouldn’t be surprised if the average American simply had no idea this was going on.
I’m okay belonging to the “not fun party” if it means trans people are treated with respect and dignity. I guess that means I’m “not fun.”
4. Now, newly leaked texts—published by a conservative source but confirmed as accurate from Gallego himself—suggest Gallego’s shift may not be a mere political calculation but a reflection of deeper, toxic beliefs that have become far too common in American politics.
You can see the texts here:
You can see the texts here:
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’m okay belonging to the “not fun party” if it means trans people are treated with respect and dignity. I guess that means I’m “not fun.”
Amazon could be part of the solution here—it certainly has enough money—but instead chooses to minimize liability. Per usual.
Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages
Amazon data centers might be adding to a public health crisis in Morrow County, Oregon.
www.theverge.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Amazon could be part of the solution here—it certainly has enough money—but instead chooses to minimize liability. Per usual.
So embarrassing to wear a raid jacket belonging to a female agent. Imagine the cooties!
This feels like maga on maga leaking. You don’t leak to Miranda Devine at the ny post unless you consider her to be a legit journalist, If you consider her to be legit then…..
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
So embarrassing to wear a raid jacket belonging to a female agent. Imagine the cooties!
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community."
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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You know it's the holiday season in Portland when the nose is lit on the White Stag sign.
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
You know it's the holiday season in Portland when the nose is lit on the White Stag sign.
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Cool, so can we refer to everyone this way? Like the president is a biological male who identifies as a man? Assuming that’s even accurate — has anyone asked him?
1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Cool, so can we refer to everyone this way? Like the president is a biological male who identifies as a man? Assuming that’s even accurate — has anyone asked him?
Sounds like anticompetitive behavior to me!
ChatGPT and Copilot are being booted out of WhatsApp
ChatGPT and Copilot are being booted out of WhatsApp
Meta is kicking out the competition.
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Sounds like anticompetitive behavior to me!
He’s missing the obvious Tublican
He’s an idiot. A dangerous idiot at the head of a dangerous movement—but nonetheless an idiot.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
He’s missing the obvious Tublican
I grew up on generic. Kraft-brand macaroni and cheese was a treat we only got when it went on sale. So, yeah, it does suck that Walmart made the dinner cheaper by switching to generics.
Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I grew up on generic. Kraft-brand macaroni and cheese was a treat we only got when it went on sale. So, yeah, it does suck that Walmart made the dinner cheaper by switching to generics.
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and district attorneys of the state’s three-largest counties say they will start investigating and prosecuting federal immigration enforcement agents if they don’t stop using excessive force on Oregonians.
Oregon attorney general, district attorneys warn feds to stop using excessive force • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon's attorney general and three district attorneys said they'll investigate and prosecute federal agents if they use excessive force.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and district attorneys of the state’s three-largest counties say they will start investigating and prosecuting federal immigration enforcement agents if they don’t stop using excessive force on Oregonians.
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The way Bluesky works is that everyone is from the country they say they are but all the accounts are operated by versatile actor Jeffrey Combs
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The way Bluesky works is that everyone is from the country they say they are but all the accounts are operated by versatile actor Jeffrey Combs
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"The importer, Rad Power Bikes Inc., of Seattle, Washington has refused to agree to an acceptable recall. Given its financial situation, Rad Power Bikes has indicated to CPSC that it is unable to offer replacement batteries or refunds to all consumers."
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"The importer, Rad Power Bikes Inc., of Seattle, Washington has refused to agree to an acceptable recall. Given its financial situation, Rad Power Bikes has indicated to CPSC that it is unable to offer replacement batteries or refunds to all consumers."
I feel personally attacked
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I feel personally attacked
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point: