Dave Tuffs
@davetuffs.bsky.social
We can reconstruct America
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CA OR RI VA IL OH MI. RSA IDN JPN. Stanford/UIUC. US Navy SWO Veteran
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Out of respect for tradition we MUST let a crazed President, a do-nothing Republican controlled Congress and compromised Supreme Court majority destroy our country. 🇺🇸
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Out of respect for tradition we MUST let a crazed President, a do-nothing Republican controlled Congress and compromised Supreme Court majority destroy our country. 🇺🇸
Trump is unfit and needs to be removed.
The President’s increasingly worrying behavior is bad. Doing absolutely nothing about it, for the welfare and survival of the country, is worse.
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Trump is unfit and needs to be removed.
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Republicans have
- raised prices on everything through their tariffs
- raised utility prices through their cuts to clean energy subsidies
- ensured people will go hungry through huge cuts to SNAP
- and are now in the process of breaking the health care system in the United States. On purpose.
👇
- raised prices on everything through their tariffs
- raised utility prices through their cuts to clean energy subsidies
- ensured people will go hungry through huge cuts to SNAP
- and are now in the process of breaking the health care system in the United States. On purpose.
👇
From Hopium:
- Rs clearly waking up to what a corrupt, malevolent monster Trump is
- Important new Greg Sargent piece on Stephen Miller
- "Intense Determination" - what I saw at the DNC/ASDC meeting
- TX Dem Chair Kendall Scudder shares exciting news
👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-ebb...
- Rs clearly waking up to what a corrupt, malevolent monster Trump is
- Important new Greg Sargent piece on Stephen Miller
- "Intense Determination" - what I saw at the DNC/ASDC meeting
- TX Dem Chair Kendall Scudder shares exciting news
👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-ebb...
A Corrupt And Malevolent Monster, Greg Sargent On Stephen Miller, "Determination" - My Report From Los Angeles
"we will take on whatever billionaire, whatever banker, whatever bootlickin’ bastard we have to in order to make sure the little guy gets his seat at the table"
www.hopiumchronicles.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Republicans have
- raised prices on everything through their tariffs
- raised utility prices through their cuts to clean energy subsidies
- ensured people will go hungry through huge cuts to SNAP
- and are now in the process of breaking the health care system in the United States. On purpose.
👇
- raised prices on everything through their tariffs
- raised utility prices through their cuts to clean energy subsidies
- ensured people will go hungry through huge cuts to SNAP
- and are now in the process of breaking the health care system in the United States. On purpose.
👇
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Since people got fired for quoting Charlie Kirk's exact words, I think we should all start quoting some of Rob Reiner's exact words:
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Since people got fired for quoting Charlie Kirk's exact words, I think we should all start quoting some of Rob Reiner's exact words:
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Once again, everyone involved in DOGE, from Melon on down, should spend the rest of their lives in jail, not only for breaking all the laws & doing an end run around Congress & our entire democratic process, but also for the mass murder they are directly responsible for as a result of it.
NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid.
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Once again, everyone involved in DOGE, from Melon on down, should spend the rest of their lives in jail, not only for breaking all the laws & doing an end run around Congress & our entire democratic process, but also for the mass murder they are directly responsible for as a result of it.
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All Trump supporters must acknowledge this. Their backing of the president means that they support the forced transfer of millions of Ukrainians from a democracy to a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
This is the America you have made. Own it.
This is the America you have made. Own it.
December 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
All Trump supporters must acknowledge this. Their backing of the president means that they support the forced transfer of millions of Ukrainians from a democracy to a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
This is the America you have made. Own it.
This is the America you have made. Own it.
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This lawless abuse needs to stop. That includes Congress demanding the end to masked agents. Every Republican is complicit.
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This lawless abuse needs to stop. That includes Congress demanding the end to masked agents. Every Republican is complicit.
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The difference is not cultural or moral or social. It’s that Australia is a democracy, with electoral, legislative, & judicial that translate the preferences of majorities into policy.
We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
December 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The difference is not cultural or moral or social. It’s that Australia is a democracy, with electoral, legislative, & judicial that translate the preferences of majorities into policy.
We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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This, for the love of all that is holy
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
December 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This, for the love of all that is holy
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
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The next Democratic trifecta needs to do this, right away. Burning all the time & majorities first on The One Big Policy Fix doesn’t work. We have years of evidence on that now.
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
December 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The next Democratic trifecta needs to do this, right away. Burning all the time & majorities first on The One Big Policy Fix doesn’t work. We have years of evidence on that now.
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Weekend reading:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
My new piece:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
My new piece:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist
steady.page
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Weekend reading:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
My new piece:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
My new piece:
Very much worth reading.
“.. We have shattered the halo that has existed around the United States for much of the world across the eight decades since World War II .. closing our doors to the world’s brightest .. by embracing corruption in government ..”
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...
December 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Very much worth reading.
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
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Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.
Trump says the Gold Card proceeds will go "an account where we can do things positive for the country. Many billions of dollars"
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.
Our "leader" is unhinged and unfit.
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Our "leader" is unhinged and unfit.
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"Trump is an outright racist and he appeals to 10s of millions of US citizens who are also outright racists" is both fundamentally, obviously true ... and something that mainstream journalism has decided is impermissible to say.
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Trump is an outright racist and he appeals to 10s of millions of US citizens who are also outright racists" is both fundamentally, obviously true ... and something that mainstream journalism has decided is impermissible to say.
Trump is unfit and needs to be removed from office.
I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Trump is unfit and needs to be removed from office.
Trump is insane and unfit.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Trump is insane and unfit.
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"The grandma who starts smoking or drinking again; the grandpa who starts trying to feel up women in public. It’s terrifying even when they’re powerless, knowing that a familiar mind is gone, replaced by an ungoverned one, driven by an adolescent array of misfiring impulses."
@mobute.bsky.social
@mobute.bsky.social
The Sheriff of Sundown City - Truthdig
As the final regulators burn out of the machine, Trump's mental retrogression has no limit but his expiration date.
www.truthdig.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"The grandma who starts smoking or drinking again; the grandpa who starts trying to feel up women in public. It’s terrifying even when they’re powerless, knowing that a familiar mind is gone, replaced by an ungoverned one, driven by an adolescent array of misfiring impulses."
@mobute.bsky.social
@mobute.bsky.social
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The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
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I know, I know. No one wants the military involved domestically and "the military won't save us." However, the military officer oath explicitly says, "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
So a few thoughts about that.
So a few thoughts about that.
Make no mistake, if the 14th Amendment should fall - I am not saying it will, there are plenty of obstacles, I am speaking hypothetically - but if it should fall, no one is safe. It is challenging for most families to prove legal citizenship beyond a generation or two.
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I know, I know. No one wants the military involved domestically and "the military won't save us." However, the military officer oath explicitly says, "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
So a few thoughts about that.
So a few thoughts about that.
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Hi All, free weekend update is out. This was the best week for Ukraine/Europe since November 5, 2024. The new US Security Strategy confirms without a doubt that Trump is out to attack Europe (and cripple Ukraine). After months of a con, the truth is undeniable. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #162: The Best Week Since November 5, 2024
The Tomahawk Con: A Case Study: Pokrovsk And The Ranged War
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Hi All, free weekend update is out. This was the best week for Ukraine/Europe since November 5, 2024. The new US Security Strategy confirms without a doubt that Trump is out to attack Europe (and cripple Ukraine). After months of a con, the truth is undeniable. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Here’s what I think the modern Dem platform should be:
-Prosecute this administration
-Expand and pack SCOTUS
-Outlaw private equity
-Limit corporate consolidation
-Ban fossil fuels
-Ban AI
-Heavily regulate gambling
-Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education
-Permanent DST
For starters.
-Prosecute this administration
-Expand and pack SCOTUS
-Outlaw private equity
-Limit corporate consolidation
-Ban fossil fuels
-Ban AI
-Heavily regulate gambling
-Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education
-Permanent DST
For starters.
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Here’s what I think the modern Dem platform should be:
-Prosecute this administration
-Expand and pack SCOTUS
-Outlaw private equity
-Limit corporate consolidation
-Ban fossil fuels
-Ban AI
-Heavily regulate gambling
-Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education
-Permanent DST
For starters.
-Prosecute this administration
-Expand and pack SCOTUS
-Outlaw private equity
-Limit corporate consolidation
-Ban fossil fuels
-Ban AI
-Heavily regulate gambling
-Free healthcare/free pre-K thru college education
-Permanent DST
For starters.
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Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
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Dems are completely AWOL on moral language. AOC employs it at her very best. Others talk about affordability amidst crimes against humanity. People understand exactly what’s in their wallet. They need that reality informed by discussion of the moral degeneracy, corruption and crimes of a mafia govt.
The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.
December 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Dems are completely AWOL on moral language. AOC employs it at her very best. Others talk about affordability amidst crimes against humanity. People understand exactly what’s in their wallet. They need that reality informed by discussion of the moral degeneracy, corruption and crimes of a mafia govt.