Dave Ledwith
@ledwithdave.bsky.social
Dublin Ireland. Football, music, politics - not necessarily always in that order.
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Little ask for any of you interested in football, history or Dublin 8 and surrounds.
@historystpats.bsky.social was a big success on Twitter but we left because it is the worst place in the world. Very few have followed us here. It would be great to get a few more follows and some amplification! 🔴⚪️
@historystpats.bsky.social was a big success on Twitter but we left because it is the worst place in the world. Very few have followed us here. It would be great to get a few more follows and some amplification! 🔴⚪️
February 6, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Little ask for any of you interested in football, history or Dublin 8 and surrounds.
@historystpats.bsky.social was a big success on Twitter but we left because it is the worst place in the world. Very few have followed us here. It would be great to get a few more follows and some amplification! 🔴⚪️
@historystpats.bsky.social was a big success on Twitter but we left because it is the worst place in the world. Very few have followed us here. It would be great to get a few more follows and some amplification! 🔴⚪️
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🌍Our 2026 International Memberships are now live on the Bohs Store: www.shop-bohemianfc.com/collections/...
February 5, 2026 at 7:05 PM
🌍Our 2026 International Memberships are now live on the Bohs Store: www.shop-bohemianfc.com/collections/...
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Selling pardons to wealthy fraudsters and drug traffickers is a full time job in the Trump admin.
February 3, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Selling pardons to wealthy fraudsters and drug traffickers is a full time job in the Trump admin.
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I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 AM
I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest."
from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:48 AM
"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest."
from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse."
Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 5:15 PM
"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse."
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New research suggests that Donald Trump’s base is composed of four distinct groups—and the president’s political success depends on his ability to play a different role for each group, Daniel Yudkin and Stephen Hawkins write.
The Four Types of Trump Supporter
The president’s political power depends on his ability to play different roles for different parts of his coalition.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 2:45 PM
New research suggests that Donald Trump’s base is composed of four distinct groups—and the president’s political success depends on his ability to play a different role for each group, Daniel Yudkin and Stephen Hawkins write.
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After Donald Trump disparaged Denmark’s contributions to NATO, one Danish soldier who served in Afghanistan told Isaac Stanley-Becker, “We were on the front lines, the same as the Americans. That was our job.”
Trump Casually Denigrates the Danish War Dead
The president has revised history when it comes to the sacrifices of America’s allies.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
After Donald Trump disparaged Denmark’s contributions to NATO, one Danish soldier who served in Afghanistan told Isaac Stanley-Becker, “We were on the front lines, the same as the Americans. That was our job.”
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The true purpose of the masked men terrorizing Minnesota, writes @polgreen.bsky.social, is "to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance against Trump’s dark vision of America."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:58 AM
The true purpose of the masked men terrorizing Minnesota, writes @polgreen.bsky.social, is "to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance against Trump’s dark vision of America."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Ignore the political pundits. They’ve failed us. The media is failing us. Listen to the historians. This is Conservative historian Robert Kagan on what is happening in Minneapolis & what it means for the US…& the world
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January 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Ignore the political pundits. They’ve failed us. The media is failing us. Listen to the historians. This is Conservative historian Robert Kagan on what is happening in Minneapolis & what it means for the US…& the world
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"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan—and about MAGA Voters
To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.
newrepublic.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
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None of this will matter
December 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
None of this will matter
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They just don't want anyone traveling to the US for any reason at all
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
They just don't want anyone traveling to the US for any reason at all
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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With @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on today’s Prof G Conversations.
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
With @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on today’s Prof G Conversations.
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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There is never any daylight between the positions of Russia and JD Vance.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
There is never any daylight between the positions of Russia and JD Vance.
