D Lavoie
@djlavoie.bsky.social
Comms and policy. Work for racial justice, social justice, economic justice. Former journo. Current Dad. Personal account, personal views.
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Imagine how bone-deep racist you must be to not pause for even a second to reflect on the statistical impossibility of 80,000 Somalis (including seniors and children!) being responsible for 80% of the crime in a state of nearly 6,000,000.
They're less than 2% of the population!
They're less than 2% of the population!
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Imagine how bone-deep racist you must be to not pause for even a second to reflect on the statistical impossibility of 80,000 Somalis (including seniors and children!) being responsible for 80% of the crime in a state of nearly 6,000,000.
They're less than 2% of the population!
They're less than 2% of the population!
Marry yourself a smarty and all your questions will be answered (sometimes in your own Bluesky replies)
K-shaped economy skews this a bit: Wealthy people are thriving, propping up overall consumer spend, while others pull back. And inflation plays a role -- we're paying the same or more as we were last year and getting less stuff www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/b...
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Marry yourself a smarty and all your questions will be answered (sometimes in your own Bluesky replies)
Something I fundamentally do not understand about our recent economy is how we can be both facing an affordability-and-jobs crisis AND consumer spending continues to surge at a higher rate than before the pandemic.
Shouldn't consumers be slowing down at some point? fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE
Shouldn't consumers be slowing down at some point? fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Something I fundamentally do not understand about our recent economy is how we can be both facing an affordability-and-jobs crisis AND consumer spending continues to surge at a higher rate than before the pandemic.
Shouldn't consumers be slowing down at some point? fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE
Shouldn't consumers be slowing down at some point? fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE
I think the biggest clue to what we'll see in a post-Trump GOP is what's happening with Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens.
They're trying to find non-Trump-related differentiators for their grifts and it's taking their audiences in extremely disturbing directions.
And it's also, sadly, working.
They're trying to find non-Trump-related differentiators for their grifts and it's taking their audiences in extremely disturbing directions.
And it's also, sadly, working.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I think the biggest clue to what we'll see in a post-Trump GOP is what's happening with Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens.
They're trying to find non-Trump-related differentiators for their grifts and it's taking their audiences in extremely disturbing directions.
And it's also, sadly, working.
They're trying to find non-Trump-related differentiators for their grifts and it's taking their audiences in extremely disturbing directions.
And it's also, sadly, working.
I'm personally very pessimistic about the economy next year for the very same reason!
BESSENT: I AM VERY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ECONOMY NEXT YEAR, CAPEX IS UP
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'm personally very pessimistic about the economy next year for the very same reason!
You could write a whole media studies dissertation on why editors called Trump's tirade yesterday "xenophobic" or "anti-immigrant," but not "racist."
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
You could write a whole media studies dissertation on why editors called Trump's tirade yesterday "xenophobic" or "anti-immigrant," but not "racist."
One of the country's biggest problems is that there currently is no ceiling!
The biggest problem with "Strong Floor, No Ceiling," besides being structurally unsound, is the enemy it identifies.
It’s whoever is trying to put “a ceiling” on the top-earning Americans.
That should be the Democratic Party. It's a slogan that runs against its own party base!
It’s whoever is trying to put “a ceiling” on the top-earning Americans.
That should be the Democratic Party. It's a slogan that runs against its own party base!
It’s time to start the 2028 primary and step over this donor-coddling "Strong Floor, No Ceiling" nonsense.
For @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com's @theframelab.bsky.social, I wrote about why DC Dems won't appeal beyond the donor base.
There's another way to put an expiration point on Trumpism.
For @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com's @theframelab.bsky.social, I wrote about why DC Dems won't appeal beyond the donor base.
There's another way to put an expiration point on Trumpism.
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
One of the country's biggest problems is that there currently is no ceiling!
Who wants an FBI Director that talks like a tween nerd on Roblox? This just feels embarrassing for everyone.
Kash Patel: "If Eric Swalwell wants to come online and talk about what jacket size I wear, I'm hearing to send him a women's medium so him and Fang Fang can go out again."
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Who wants an FBI Director that talks like a tween nerd on Roblox? This just feels embarrassing for everyone.
Imagine if Maduro had been not only charged with drug trafficking, but convicted and sentenced to 45 years! That would be really bad!
Marco Rubio on Maduro: "He's into the drug business. By the way, it's not me saying it. I'm not just making this up. This was an indictment that came out of the Southern District of New York back in 2020. An indictment! It was undisputed."
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Imagine if Maduro had been not only charged with drug trafficking, but convicted and sentenced to 45 years! That would be really bad!
New York is officially a Knicks town.
Jalen Brunson got more write-in votes for mayor than Aaron Judge.
Jalen Brunson got more write-in votes for mayor than Aaron Judge.
Brad Lander got the most write-in votes
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
New York is officially a Knicks town.
Jalen Brunson got more write-in votes for mayor than Aaron Judge.
Jalen Brunson got more write-in votes for mayor than Aaron Judge.
Sadly, we'll never know because Beltway Media has decided that Trump gets to scream into his Hate Megaphone and then that's the end of the story.
can only imagine what this feels like for a Somali-American teen or grade schooler.
President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants on Tuesday during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting, calling them “garbage” he does not want in the U.S. as he sought to refocus public attention on his anti-immigration rhetoric.
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Sadly, we'll never know because Beltway Media has decided that Trump gets to scream into his Hate Megaphone and then that's the end of the story.
Ed Markey will be 80 years old on Election Day.
This is just appallingly selfish stuff.
This is just appallingly selfish stuff.
NEWS:
Ayanna Pressley won’t challenge Ed Markey, will run for re-election
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/02/n...
Ayanna Pressley won’t challenge Ed Markey, will run for re-election
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/02/n...
Pressley won’t challenge Markey, will run for re-election - The Boston Globe
Nationally known and well-liked among progressives, Representative Pressley was seen as a strong contender for the Senate seat, but told The Globe it wasn't the right time.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ed Markey will be 80 years old on Election Day.
This is just appallingly selfish stuff.
This is just appallingly selfish stuff.
But I thought we couldn't know what's in his heart?
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
But I thought we couldn't know what's in his heart?
The sheer volume of Marc Rich stories I had to read in 2000....
feel like I'm going to snap one of these days, tear off my shirt, and run down the street screaming TRUMP PARDONED A 400 TON COKE TRAFFICKER
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon reut.rs/3Y3ziKg
December 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The sheer volume of Marc Rich stories I had to read in 2000....
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yes! this is really very good. we reinvented gender and women are peers and competitors now and it is good for the soul, as a competitor, to get rinsed from time to time
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
yes! this is really very good. we reinvented gender and women are peers and competitors now and it is good for the soul, as a competitor, to get rinsed from time to time
I really hate how untrustworthy The Intercept is.
They mix some very important and solid reporting with sensationalistic, misleading headlines.
The only "sources" saying this in the story are former JAGs and retired experts -- ie. No one with any actual power to make this happen.
They mix some very important and solid reporting with sensationalistic, misleading headlines.
The only "sources" saying this in the story are former JAGs and retired experts -- ie. No one with any actual power to make this happen.
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I really hate how untrustworthy The Intercept is.
They mix some very important and solid reporting with sensationalistic, misleading headlines.
The only "sources" saying this in the story are former JAGs and retired experts -- ie. No one with any actual power to make this happen.
They mix some very important and solid reporting with sensationalistic, misleading headlines.
The only "sources" saying this in the story are former JAGs and retired experts -- ie. No one with any actual power to make this happen.
I've been thinking a lot about how curdled this form of everyone-gets-anonymity journalism is.
It forces readers to rely on the whispered words of likely liars with zero context to empower a reader's own analysis.
"Five US officials" could be virtually anyone. It tells me nothing.
It forces readers to rely on the whispered words of likely liars with zero context to empower a reader's own analysis.
"Five US officials" could be virtually anyone. It tells me nothing.
There are a lot of issues with this story, but most important you can't source everything to a vague set of "five US officials"
Are they political appointees? Uniformed military? Active participants?
Anonymous sources can be fine, but readers need some context to evaluate sources' trustworthiness
Are they political appointees? Uniformed military? Active participants?
Anonymous sources can be fine, but readers need some context to evaluate sources' trustworthiness
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I've been thinking a lot about how curdled this form of everyone-gets-anonymity journalism is.
It forces readers to rely on the whispered words of likely liars with zero context to empower a reader's own analysis.
"Five US officials" could be virtually anyone. It tells me nothing.
It forces readers to rely on the whispered words of likely liars with zero context to empower a reader's own analysis.
"Five US officials" could be virtually anyone. It tells me nothing.
There are a lot of issues with this story, but most important you can't source everything to a vague set of "five US officials"
Are they political appointees? Uniformed military? Active participants?
Anonymous sources can be fine, but readers need some context to evaluate sources' trustworthiness
Are they political appointees? Uniformed military? Active participants?
Anonymous sources can be fine, but readers need some context to evaluate sources' trustworthiness
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
There are a lot of issues with this story, but most important you can't source everything to a vague set of "five US officials"
Are they political appointees? Uniformed military? Active participants?
Anonymous sources can be fine, but readers need some context to evaluate sources' trustworthiness
Are they political appointees? Uniformed military? Active participants?
Anonymous sources can be fine, but readers need some context to evaluate sources' trustworthiness