davidpham5
@davidpham5.bsky.social
Self taught in many things. Slightly above average software engineer. Work for the local paper. Privacy and data protection is my racket. Studied history. Gen 1 American. 99.99.99hrs+ on FF7 on PS1. My new years' resolution is to eat more homemade carbs.
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davidpham5
@davidpham5.bsky.social
· Sep 25
We dream in the dark. Darkness everywhere we see. Blind to what is to come next. Fear and dread make our bed. Gentle heads slumber in the dead of night.
Do not wake me. I need to sleep deeply. I want to see what could be — dreams of democracy.
Do not wake me. I need to sleep deeply. I want to see what could be — dreams of democracy.
The Frontline is Everywhere
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The Frontline is everywhere
Bloggin is back, baby.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The Frontline is Everywhere
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@profgalloway.com reading your book, Notes on Being a Man. I too was adjacent to cool groups and once and while would be part of their parties, but as a visitor. I too had a close Mormon friend and his family was incredibly kind and generous to me. They will often have me for dinner.
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
@profgalloway.com reading your book, Notes on Being a Man. I too was adjacent to cool groups and once and while would be part of their parties, but as a visitor. I too had a close Mormon friend and his family was incredibly kind and generous to me. They will often have me for dinner.
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trump will pardon or assist any head of state who has been convicted for crimes. acting out of self preservation, basically
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
trump will pardon or assist any head of state who has been convicted for crimes. acting out of self preservation, basically
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The MAHA pitch was supposed to be that Americans don’t really need insurance, vaccines, or other “establishment” medical care — they just need better nutrition and less exposure to environmental toxins.
And yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
And yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
F.D.A. Withdraws Rule to Require Testing Cosmetics Made With Talc for Asbestos
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The MAHA pitch was supposed to be that Americans don’t really need insurance, vaccines, or other “establishment” medical care — they just need better nutrition and less exposure to environmental toxins.
And yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
And yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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When Josh & I were first trying to get our paper in which we argue that just war theorists and associated people should probably consider harm to animals as well as harm to humans, one reviewer questioned our project because "soldiers don't ride on horseback anymore", so no animals were being harmed
ITV‘s Good Morning Britain just concluded with a story about Russia using pigeons with brain implants to spy. Presenters & panelists fell about laughing. Because there’s nothing so hilarious as pictures of birds with holes cut in their skulls & implants glued on. ha ha ha metro.co.uk/2025/11/27/p...
Putin's scientists are creating spy pigeons controlled by brain implants
The researchers say the pigeons can be steered 'at will'.
metro.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
When Josh & I were first trying to get our paper in which we argue that just war theorists and associated people should probably consider harm to animals as well as harm to humans, one reviewer questioned our project because "soldiers don't ride on horseback anymore", so no animals were being harmed
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someone build this!!
There really needs to be a singular platform for gifting indie subscriptions to your friends and fam
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
someone build this!!
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Recommended
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Recommended
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Fantastic discussion of Zohran, NYC, and ethnonationalism here from @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @mattsitman.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social on Know Your Enemy pod. Will make you understand the deeper currents of the Zohran victory in a new way:
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Dissent Magazine
Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
dissentmagazine.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Fantastic discussion of Zohran, NYC, and ethnonationalism here from @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @mattsitman.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social on Know Your Enemy pod. Will make you understand the deeper currents of the Zohran victory in a new way:
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
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If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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Surging ahead ... oh wait
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Surging ahead ... oh wait
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
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You think it won't, couldn't possibly, happen this time, in the face of all *this*, but I promise you: it will. Unless there is an enormous, sustained, absolutely dogged push from below -- starting now, honestly -- that is what will happen. That's how the machine works, that's how it's built.
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
You think it won't, couldn't possibly, happen this time, in the face of all *this*, but I promise you: it will. Unless there is an enormous, sustained, absolutely dogged push from below -- starting now, honestly -- that is what will happen. That's how the machine works, that's how it's built.
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"Move on." That was the cry. Oh, Republicans fucked everything up, got millions of people killed, tanked the economy? Let's not dwell on it. Let's not be consumed with petty vindictiveness. Let's be the bigger people, look forward, pull the country back together. Time for healing. Etc.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Move on." That was the cry. Oh, Republicans fucked everything up, got millions of people killed, tanked the economy? Let's not dwell on it. Let's not be consumed with petty vindictiveness. Let's be the bigger people, look forward, pull the country back together. Time for healing. Etc.
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It's cute, reading all these anguished cries: "when this is all over, these guys need to go to jail!" I remember saying that during Bush I crimes, and during Bush II crimes, and during Trump I crimes.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's cute, reading all these anguished cries: "when this is all over, these guys need to go to jail!" I remember saying that during Bush I crimes, and during Bush II crimes, and during Trump I crimes.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
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Atul Gawande of Harvard’s School of Public Health: The Trump regime’s destruction of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children”. [hsph.harvard.edu]
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard Chan School’s Atul Gawande.
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Atul Gawande of Harvard’s School of Public Health: The Trump regime’s destruction of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children”. [hsph.harvard.edu]
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💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢
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Oracle has taken on so much debt in order to build out its infrastructure to support the anticipated $300B in usage from OpenAI, that Morgan Stanley has now flagged it as a credit risk and a target for short selling.
I guess this is the closest you can get to shorting OpenAI.
I guess this is the closest you can get to shorting OpenAI.
Morgan Stanley thinks you should short Oracle
Single-name CDS are so hot right now
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oracle has taken on so much debt in order to build out its infrastructure to support the anticipated $300B in usage from OpenAI, that Morgan Stanley has now flagged it as a credit risk and a target for short selling.
I guess this is the closest you can get to shorting OpenAI.
I guess this is the closest you can get to shorting OpenAI.
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Passed by a procession for the guardsman who died on 4th street SW.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Alternate take if you are not a Trump toady like Judge Winebox: Performative militarization of a relatively safe city — extremely so around the White House — puts lives unnecessarily at risk. This avoidable tragedy all falls on the administration.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Alternate take if you are not a Trump toady like Judge Winebox: Performative militarization of a relatively safe city — extremely so around the White House — puts lives unnecessarily at risk. This avoidable tragedy all falls on the administration.
I am thankful to be an American, have a richer life than a lot of those billionaire losers, and practice democracy every fucking day.
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I am thankful to be an American, have a richer life than a lot of those billionaire losers, and practice democracy every fucking day.
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Absolutely devastating news. My heart is broken for her family. Let us keep her loved ones in our thoughts and continue to pray for Staff Sgt. Wolfe. apnews.com/article/nati...
Trump says one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by Afghan national has died
President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died.
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Absolutely devastating news. My heart is broken for her family. Let us keep her loved ones in our thoughts and continue to pray for Staff Sgt. Wolfe. apnews.com/article/nati...
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Trump keeps saying wildly inappropriate things to journalists but I’m sure he’s totally fine
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Trump keeps saying wildly inappropriate things to journalists but I’m sure he’s totally fine
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Racist
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Racist
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New — In light of WV guard member Sarah Beckstrom’s death, a call has gone out to all National Guard members in the DC area asking them to come to the Eisenhower Memorial to line the procession from the hospital.
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
New — In light of WV guard member Sarah Beckstrom’s death, a call has gone out to all National Guard members in the DC area asking them to come to the Eisenhower Memorial to line the procession from the hospital.