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Dave Strock
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Oof, what if we did good things for people instead?

Read a book.
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davestrock.bsky.social
So, you know how we in the imperial core look on in horror at the effect that sanctioning the behavior of leaders has on the people?

It increasingly looks like the US population is going to experience that first hand.
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE."

See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!
Michigan U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar Introduces Bill to Abolish ICE
Detroit area Congressman Shri Thanedar has introduced legislation in Congress that would abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The proposal, called the ‘Abolish ICE Act’, would dismantle t...
themetrodetroitnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
I genuinely don't understand the point of the Democratic Party right now
murshedz.bsky.social Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3d
Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon.

The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
Schumer Remarks and Talkers on Democrats’ Plans to Address the Affordability Crisis as Trump and Republicans Send Costs Skyrocketing and Create Chaos in the Economy Unlike Republicans, Democrats are laser-focused on lowering costs for the American people and will roll out precisely how a Democratic majority will lower costs for everyday Americans, starting today with housing. Today, Leader Schumer rolled out a new housing agenda, Opportunity Starts at Home – Democrats’ new vision to tackle the housing crisis and lower housing costs for every single American. For millions of Americans, owning a home is the most important part of the American dream, it builds equity and a future for Americans. But the median price of a home is up 55% since Covid, and rent is up by one-third. The average American homebuyer is now 40 years old, a record high. Donald Trump’s tariffs have raised construction costs by $17,500 per home. He’s proposed 50-year mortgages, an idea so unserious it was ridiculed by everyone, left, right, and center. Trump is launching a criminal investigation against the Chair of the Federal Reserve, making it more likely interest rates will go up and stay up. The only decent idea Trump has floated on housing he stole from Democrats – calling for an end to institutional investors buying up homes. Every Democrat voted to get it done last year, but Congressional Republicans blocked it. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture offered the administration’s solution to grocery costs, which boils down to “eat less and spend less.” The Trump administration is filled with a bunch of out-of-touch people living in a bubble. And this is what Trump’s so-called Golden Age looks like – get by with less, and stop complaining about affordability. A Democratic majority will tackle the housing affordability crisis by working to reduce rent, boost homeownership, stop predatory corporations, supercharge construction, and provide housing security for all Americans. Democrat…
January 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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nerdjpg.com
Frustrated? Intro to communism reading list with pdfs, online text, and audio books for each

aliciastuff.notion.site/Communist-Be...
July 1, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
He really is doing all of it.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
January 15, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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nobrakes.bsky.social
Since, ICE are clearly proud of being (accurately) called Nazis, I'm going to propose a change in rhetoric: ICE are Redcoats.

Let me explain 🧵
fyahstarr7.bsky.social fyahstarr @fyahstarr7.bsky.social · 7d
this tells you everything that you need to know about the ice recruiting efforts which employ fat @$$ texans now on the ground in Minneapolis.
January 11, 2026 at 7:36 PM
davestrock.bsky.social
Beyond the obvious media illiteracy, these chuds fundamentally misunderstand what science fiction even IS.

It has never been about aspirational science, at its core.

It's about removing the normalcy bias of every day life so it's easier to look at issues that exist IN everyday life today.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d
"We want to make Star Trek real," said Elon Musk.

"We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact."
January 13, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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minnmax.com
What's it like to have thousands of ICE agents in your city? We share stories from Minneapolis in this special public version of Bonus Pod. youtu.be/OY6ZPb2NHO8
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
Well, would you look at this? I spotted a P-8 Poseidon — which is a modified 737 airframe — with no reg # coming out of dark mode in flight data I posted the day of the first boat strike.
Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.... • 4mo Here's a Navy P-8 Poseidon turning its transponder on midair as it heads away from Venezuela back to San Juan at about 520 UTC (1:20 a.m. ET). Screenshot of a FR24 map showing a P8 popping onto the map in midair in the early morning hours of Sept. 2, 2025 A follow up post with a closer view of the Caribbean and the plane’s trajectory. Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.s... • 4mo A closer look. Not saying this was definitely it, but *if* it was an airstrike, well, Poseidons are armed, left and returned to SJU, was airborne for almost six hours and turned its transponder on in the last 30ish minutes — a standard practice for after action. Or there may be another explanation! Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.s... • 4mo Now that Marco Rubio has confirmed the strike on the Venezuelan boat happened in the morning, I think it's likelier this P-8 had something to do with it. Its registration is obscured, even once visible. On ADSBx you can see a Caribbean Coast Guard plane flying around the possible wreckage area. 1/ Text from the quoted NYT story reading: It is not clear what the aircraft was. While multiple officials confirmed that it was not painted in a classic military style, they declined to specify exactly what it looked like. Amateur plane-spotting enthusiasts posted pictures on Reddit in early September of what appeared to be one of the military's modified 737s, painted white with a blue stripe and with no military markings, at the St. Croix airport in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Regardless of the specific aircraft at issue, three people familiar with the matter acknowledged that it was not painted in the usual military gray and lacked military markings. But they said its transponder was transmitting a military tail number, meaning broadcasting or "squawking" its military identity via radio signals.
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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manucleardevice.bsky.social
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
John Booth, a 19-year-old apprentice who joined a Luddite attack on a textile mill in April 1812. He was injured, detained and died after being allegedly tortured to give up the identity of his fellow Luddites. Booth's last words became a legend: "Can you keep a secret?" he whispered to the local priest, who attested that he could. The dying Booth replied, "So can I."
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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mickeykuhns.bsky.social
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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onedayinjune.bsky.social
One of the most contradictory and frustrating aspects of the first Woke Era was that people talked a lot about structural injustices but seemed way more concerned with policing personal behaviour
January 13, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
This looks like an indictment. It is. But I see it as a reason for optimism.

We don’t need to be exceptional to transform Americans' lives. We need to become average. The solutions exist. We see them working. We have to choose them. And that means fixing our democracy so that it delivers.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Institutions and justice: 51 million more Americans voting. Elections would cost $14.9 billion less per cycle. Our elected leaders would be 12 years younger. 60 more women in Congress. 1.4 million fewer Americans would be behind bars. Per capita carbon emissions would be cut nearly in half.
Screenshot of a data visualization section titled “Institutions & Justice,” showing how outcomes would change if the United States matched the OECD average. Eight cards compare U.S. figures to peer democracies. They show: 51 million more Americans participating in elections (U.S. voting-age participation about 51% vs OECD 70%); $14.9 billion less spent per election cycle, with U.S. elections costing far more per vote than peers; public trust in government increasing by 15 percentage points; 60 more women serving in Congress, making it more representative of the population; the average age of elected leaders falling by 12 years (U.S. average about 59 vs OECD 47); 1.4 million fewer Americans behind bars; $300 billion less in annual litigation costs; and per capita carbon emissions reduced by 47%, nearly cut in half. Each card lists the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
davestrock.bsky.social
Unsure if these numbers have just gotten so much worse since I last looked at them hopefully, or if I've just become so jaded.

We are unbelievably far behind.

This would be #AmericaFirst
adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 6d
Family and work: Parents would get 25 weeks of paid parental leave. Workers would get 27 days of guaranteed paid time off per year. We'd work 231 fewer hours per year—nearly six fewer weeks. Net childcare costs would fall by 60%.
Screenshot of a data visualization section titled “Family & Livelihood,” showing what would change if the United States matched the OECD average. Eight cards compare U.S. outcomes to OECD norms. They show: +25 weeks of guaranteed paid parental leave (U.S. 0 vs OECD ~25); +27 days of guaranteed paid time off (U.S. 0 vs OECD 27); 231 fewer annual hours worked per worker (U.S. 1811 vs OECD 1580); childcare costs 60% lower as a share of wages (U.S. 32% vs OECD 13%); 5 million fewer children living in poverty; 15 million fewer workers in poverty-wage jobs; 180,000 fewer unsheltered homeless people; and 500,000 fewer medical bankruptcies per year (common in the U.S., effectively zero in peer countries). Each card lists the U.S. figure alongside the OECD average.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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passwordismiket.bsky.social
Important to understand social roles. “Quiet Piggy” is an acceptable thing to say to a journalist, but not a gang member.
January 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
mfs posting "general strike now!" we can't even get you to stop supporting Amazon and Starbucks
January 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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meo.bsky.social
no u guys dont understand. we just need one more reform. one more reform and we're gonna get this whole thing under control. one more reform u guys. i swear the fuck to god. moderates can exert meaningful pressure. inshallah
January 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
davestrock.bsky.social
Even though I'm not usually a fan and thus avoid them, over my winter break I watched 2 horror movies from 2025.

Sinners was great, but The Apprentice literally made me sick to my stomach.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d
The Roy Cohn Life Philosophy governs the United States from the grave.
January 12, 2026 at 7:13 PM
davestrock.bsky.social
My favorite part is the libs patting themselves on the back for saying in 2016 what leftists were pointing out for generations.

None of this was new.

The problem with the wine moms wasn't gender, it was lack of historical placement, insisting this a new thing rather than a predictable end.
jnatc.im Jordan Kay @jnatc.im · 6d
Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
January 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
davestrock.bsky.social
So many things get easier to understand when you stop imbuing objects with essential qualities and realize most of them are interpretive qualities.

Things do not "have" colors, you interpret the wavelengths as colors.

Things are not "boring", you interpret your response to them as "boredom".

Etc
drnereide.bsky.social Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 6d
Thread 🧵

An object's appearance starts with which wavelengths it reflects/absorbs under the incoming light.

But the key insight from author's piece (and vision science in general) is that color isn't 'in' the object or even 'in' the light spectrum itself.

1/5
January 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Cartoon by @badiucao.bsky.social.
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Texas A&M decides that Plato is too woke (and too gay) to be read in College Station, because of risk that the Texas GOP would be offended.
tamu-aaup.bsky.social AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 12d
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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profmarkovic.bsky.social
Republicans made welfare fraud in Minnesota the most important story in the country. Schumer turned a war for oil into a question about national security briefings.
January 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM