David Davison
@notdrdave.bsky.social
Hoarder of unread books—failed UMich PhD '24—AuDHD phenom—he/him enby—PASC
Was: global anglophone literatures+modernities, 1840s–2020s
Am: comparative political economies/philosophies/psychotherapies
Always: ethics, power, identity, theory of mind
Was: global anglophone literatures+modernities, 1840s–2020s
Am: comparative political economies/philosophies/psychotherapies
Always: ethics, power, identity, theory of mind
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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This is a nonsense take. There's this perception that schools are filled with people smirking their way into accommodations. But as someone who needed learning accommodations since I was a teen I can tell you, people aren't doing that.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is a nonsense take. There's this perception that schools are filled with people smirking their way into accommodations. But as someone who needed learning accommodations since I was a teen I can tell you, people aren't doing that.
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I do not know how much clearer it can be that they want to completely remove disabled people from society.
They want to return to the time where we wasted away at home or in institutions.
I know, you don’t see it in “accommodations have gone too far”, but that’s where this goes.
They want to return to the time where we wasted away at home or in institutions.
I know, you don’t see it in “accommodations have gone too far”, but that’s where this goes.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I do not know how much clearer it can be that they want to completely remove disabled people from society.
They want to return to the time where we wasted away at home or in institutions.
I know, you don’t see it in “accommodations have gone too far”, but that’s where this goes.
They want to return to the time where we wasted away at home or in institutions.
I know, you don’t see it in “accommodations have gone too far”, but that’s where this goes.
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
One thing I think both Trump supporters and Trump vilifiers may have underestimated is just how difficult it is to truly end democracy in America. Don't get me wrong, they're giving it their best effort, and institutions that should have held didn't, but federalism and the rule of law are powerful.
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
One thing I think both Trump supporters and Trump vilifiers may have underestimated is just how difficult it is to truly end democracy in America. Don't get me wrong, they're giving it their best effort, and institutions that should have held didn't, but federalism and the rule of law are powerful.
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The thing that's pissing me off the most is that "getting back SNAP" or backpay doesn't constitute a deal because those things were illegal. Making a "deal" about when and for whom laws exist is not it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The thing that's pissing me off the most is that "getting back SNAP" or backpay doesn't constitute a deal because those things were illegal. Making a "deal" about when and for whom laws exist is not it.
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The reason why I'm so angry has a lot to do with the lives that will be lost — people are absolutely going to die as a direct result of Senate Democrats folding on health care. It also has a lot to do with the suffering that was endured — people were struggling to get by without food assistance. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The reason why I'm so angry has a lot to do with the lives that will be lost — people are absolutely going to die as a direct result of Senate Democrats folding on health care. It also has a lot to do with the suffering that was endured — people were struggling to get by without food assistance. 🧵
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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I bet these fucks were mildly inconvenienced at an airport and are now like, welp, time to kill a bunch of people via healthcare withholding so I can hop back on my charter!
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I bet these fucks were mildly inconvenienced at an airport and are now like, welp, time to kill a bunch of people via healthcare withholding so I can hop back on my charter!
Energy getting wasted by our own side is a real danger, too. Your moralizing is ass-backwards.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Energy getting wasted by our own side is a real danger, too. Your moralizing is ass-backwards.
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this is genuinely the most infuriating part of this. we had people willing to sacrifice, people who didn't have much to begin with, but that didn't matter to the centrist squishes, millionaires all
I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
this is genuinely the most infuriating part of this. we had people willing to sacrifice, people who didn't have much to begin with, but that didn't matter to the centrist squishes, millionaires all
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
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LESS. THAN. A. WEEK.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
LESS. THAN. A. WEEK.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
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I think we need to be really clear that this is yet another Democratic betrayal of the Long Covid community.
This is what makes people vulnerable to MAHA.
This is what makes people vulnerable to MAHA.
Kaine, who has experienced Long Covid, is abandoning those with Long Covid who have to work as contractors who are too sick to work full-time.
Rosen makes 7 Dem Caucus yes votes, joining ->
Cortez Masto
Shaheen
Hassan
Durbin
Kaine
King
If Fetterman is here and full GOP attendance minus Rand, gets to 60
Cortez Masto
Shaheen
Hassan
Durbin
Kaine
King
If Fetterman is here and full GOP attendance minus Rand, gets to 60
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I think we need to be really clear that this is yet another Democratic betrayal of the Long Covid community.
This is what makes people vulnerable to MAHA.
This is what makes people vulnerable to MAHA.
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Guess these folks really don’t understand that we’re fighting a fascist regime.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Guess these folks really don’t understand that we’re fighting a fascist regime.
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the message is clear that Republicans are in charge permanently, can kill any D legislation with the filibuster, never need to govern at all, and when pressed, they can threaten the lives of millions any time they want and they will be given whatever it is they demand in exchange for their mercy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
the message is clear that Republicans are in charge permanently, can kill any D legislation with the filibuster, never need to govern at all, and when pressed, they can threaten the lives of millions any time they want and they will be given whatever it is they demand in exchange for their mercy.
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you can’t be the prodemocracy party and then fib to prevent the public from knowing what position your members of Congress actually took in order to shield them from accountability to voters.
Doesn’t matter that Schumer voted “no”. He got the Dem caucus on board with caving. THEN the caucus figured out who should vote yes to provide cover for D Sens up for reelection in 2026, who might have been in serious danger of being primaried. 2/
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
you can’t be the prodemocracy party and then fib to prevent the public from knowing what position your members of Congress actually took in order to shield them from accountability to voters.
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This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
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I can’t tell you how many texts and emails I have gotten from her campaign that use her son Ben and medical care for disabled people to fundraise. The Republicans aren’t the only ones that should be feeling shame.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I can’t tell you how many texts and emails I have gotten from her campaign that use her son Ben and medical care for disabled people to fundraise. The Republicans aren’t the only ones that should be feeling shame.
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So a bunch of folks are going to try to do numbers by trying to convince you that this isn't over. It is over. The next vote in the Senate needs only a simple majority.
The House GOP will move to pass this thing because it's what Trump wants.
The House GOP will move to pass this thing because it's what Trump wants.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
So a bunch of folks are going to try to do numbers by trying to convince you that this isn't over. It is over. The next vote in the Senate needs only a simple majority.
The House GOP will move to pass this thing because it's what Trump wants.
The House GOP will move to pass this thing because it's what Trump wants.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
I just can't believe it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I just can't believe it.