David
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off."
'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'
We hope neither carries you off today.
'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'
We hope neither carries you off today.
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off."
'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'
We hope neither carries you off today.
'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'
We hope neither carries you off today.
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WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.”
ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.
Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.
Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
June 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.”
ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.
Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.
Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
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"Back in the early 1950s, Germans who lived through the Nazi era warned Chicago journalist Milton Mayer that they had “become used to being governed by surprise” and told him how each step toward Hitler’s eventual tyranny was incremental." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
June 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Back in the early 1950s, Germans who lived through the Nazi era warned Chicago journalist Milton Mayer that they had “become used to being governed by surprise” and told him how each step toward Hitler’s eventual tyranny was incremental." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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“American leadership isn’t inevitable,” Jeff Flake writes. “It’s a choice—one we must make again and again, not just for the sake of our standing in the world, but for the practical, everyday interests of American citizens.”
As America Steps Back, Others Step In
Our global leadership is at stake, and it’s not too late to act.
bit.ly
June 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“American leadership isn’t inevitable,” Jeff Flake writes. “It’s a choice—one we must make again and again, not just for the sake of our standing in the world, but for the practical, everyday interests of American citizens.”
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We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions
June 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions
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Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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Food inspection is precisely the kind of thing that only the federal government can do properly at the scale needed to keep people safe.
Quite literally people will die if this plan is executed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
Quite literally people will die if this plan is executed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
www.cbsnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Food inspection is precisely the kind of thing that only the federal government can do properly at the scale needed to keep people safe.
Quite literally people will die if this plan is executed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
Quite literally people will die if this plan is executed.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
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They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
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People make jokes about this but to the extent Trump has an actual philosophy it's "The Power of Positive Thinking" (the author officiated his first wedding). It sounds like benign self-help but is more like an instruction book for sociopaths. Ignoring failures and their consequences are a key tenet
[Paraphrasing Jay-Z]”It’s not real to me, therefore it doesn’t exist/ So poof, vamoose sonuvabitch”
*TRUMP ON STOCK MARKET DROP: I HAVEN'T SEEN IT
April 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
People make jokes about this but to the extent Trump has an actual philosophy it's "The Power of Positive Thinking" (the author officiated his first wedding). It sounds like benign self-help but is more like an instruction book for sociopaths. Ignoring failures and their consequences are a key tenet
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The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
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Just a note
He paused nothing
10% tariffs remain on all countries
He RAISED the rate on China
He still intends to drive up the costs of your prescriptions with a pharmaceutical tariff
It's another scam upon scam
Insiders could've profited
And: TRUMP LOST THE WAR
He paused nothing
10% tariffs remain on all countries
He RAISED the rate on China
He still intends to drive up the costs of your prescriptions with a pharmaceutical tariff
It's another scam upon scam
Insiders could've profited
And: TRUMP LOST THE WAR
April 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Just a note
He paused nothing
10% tariffs remain on all countries
He RAISED the rate on China
He still intends to drive up the costs of your prescriptions with a pharmaceutical tariff
It's another scam upon scam
Insiders could've profited
And: TRUMP LOST THE WAR
He paused nothing
10% tariffs remain on all countries
He RAISED the rate on China
He still intends to drive up the costs of your prescriptions with a pharmaceutical tariff
It's another scam upon scam
Insiders could've profited
And: TRUMP LOST THE WAR
Merry Trumpmas
TRUMP TAKE CHRISTMAS
"Chinese producers of plastic Christmas trees and other festive decorations say orders from U.S. clients, which are crucial for their business, should have started to come in by now. But because of surging import tariffs, they haven't." www.reuters.com/world/has-tr...
"Chinese producers of plastic Christmas trees and other festive decorations say orders from U.S. clients, which are crucial for their business, should have started to come in by now. But because of surging import tariffs, they haven't." www.reuters.com/world/has-tr...
Has Trump cancelled Christmas? China's decorations makers report no US orders
Chinese producers of plastic Christmas trees and other festive decorations say orders from U.S. clients, which are crucial for their business, should have started to come in by now. But because of surging import tariffs, they haven't.
www.reuters.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Merry Trumpmas
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If you're like me, you think of a stock market crash as sudden. But after Black Monday, 28 October 1929, it took two and a half years for the stock market to hit bottom.
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1HWnn
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1HWnn
April 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If you're like me, you think of a stock market crash as sudden. But after Black Monday, 28 October 1929, it took two and a half years for the stock market to hit bottom.
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1HWnn
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1HWnn
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Even as trade, tariffs, borders divide, and other tensions rise between nations, our shared humanity unites us — we are one people, one heart, one earth, one global family standing together in hope and solidarity.
Through this video from the Yukon (Canada), I share joy and hope with the world.
Through this video from the Yukon (Canada), I share joy and hope with the world.
April 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Even as trade, tariffs, borders divide, and other tensions rise between nations, our shared humanity unites us — we are one people, one heart, one earth, one global family standing together in hope and solidarity.
Through this video from the Yukon (Canada), I share joy and hope with the world.
Through this video from the Yukon (Canada), I share joy and hope with the world.
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Colleges in Massachusetts aren't being told when students have visas revoked. The government is creating a situation where they can kidnap and disappear students in order to stoke fear.
Full story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/06/m...
Full story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/06/m...
April 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Colleges in Massachusetts aren't being told when students have visas revoked. The government is creating a situation where they can kidnap and disappear students in order to stoke fear.
Full story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/06/m...
Full story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/06/m...
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Virtually every destructive thing Trump has done has been an abuse of power, illegal or both. He could be stopped. But he is enabled by his own party and those who have the power to stop him but don’t. They are all complicit.
April 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Virtually every destructive thing Trump has done has been an abuse of power, illegal or both. He could be stopped. But he is enabled by his own party and those who have the power to stop him but don’t. They are all complicit.
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Excellent by @faisalislam.bsky.social, eg:
“The US economy did very well [from free trade]. The problem …was that it was not evenly distributed among sectors. And what the US lacked was levels of redistribution and adaptation to spread that wealth across the country.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“The US economy did very well [from free trade]. The problem …was that it was not evenly distributed among sectors. And what the US lacked was levels of redistribution and adaptation to spread that wealth across the country.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might
What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?
www.bbc.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Excellent by @faisalislam.bsky.social, eg:
“The US economy did very well [from free trade]. The problem …was that it was not evenly distributed among sectors. And what the US lacked was levels of redistribution and adaptation to spread that wealth across the country.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“The US economy did very well [from free trade]. The problem …was that it was not evenly distributed among sectors. And what the US lacked was levels of redistribution and adaptation to spread that wealth across the country.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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they are the first Chinese-born MP and the first Arab woman in the House of Commons, btw. they are part of a delegation. almost like Israel is specifically targeting minority women.
Israel has refused entry and detained two UK MPs who were visiting as part of a parliamentary delegation. Yuan Yang MP was a journalist before being elected in 2024, and Abtisam Mohamed a human rights lawyer.
www.reuters.com/world/two-br...
www.reuters.com/world/two-br...
Two British MPs detained by Israel, British foreign minister says
Israel has detained two British members of parliament and refused entry to the officials who were visiting as part of a parliamentary delegation, British Foreign Minister David Lammy said in a statement late on Saturday.
www.reuters.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
they are the first Chinese-born MP and the first Arab woman in the House of Commons, btw. they are part of a delegation. almost like Israel is specifically targeting minority women.
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1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
April 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.