David
@twothreemany.bsky.social
Tech worker. Bay area native. Jew-ish. Recovering sectarian. U+03C2 Greek Small Letter Final Sigma male.
When I was young I thought Schumer type establishment figures were ruthless defenders of the status quo. It turns out they're mostly just feckless climbers who're totally incapable of even understanding what holds up their world bsky.app/profile/jame...
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 AM
When I was young I thought Schumer type establishment figures were ruthless defenders of the status quo. It turns out they're mostly just feckless climbers who're totally incapable of even understanding what holds up their world bsky.app/profile/jame...
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2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.
January 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.
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“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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US seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, this one not already on the sanctions list for Russian oligarchs and Iran.
Panamanian flagged and belongs to a legal, China-based oil trader.
Unclear what US will do with the cargo, but this looks like at least a partial blockade, an act of war.
Panamanian flagged and belongs to a legal, China-based oil trader.
Unclear what US will do with the cargo, but this looks like at least a partial blockade, an act of war.
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
US seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, this one not already on the sanctions list for Russian oligarchs and Iran.
Panamanian flagged and belongs to a legal, China-based oil trader.
Unclear what US will do with the cargo, but this looks like at least a partial blockade, an act of war.
Panamanian flagged and belongs to a legal, China-based oil trader.
Unclear what US will do with the cargo, but this looks like at least a partial blockade, an act of war.
People on this site complaining about someone for getting suspended for... calling for the president to be shot. I mean, come on.
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
People on this site complaining about someone for getting suspended for... calling for the president to be shot. I mean, come on.
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
I think this kind of pointing and laughing is unfortunately going to look pretty silly in a year bsky.app/profile/greg...
pointing, laughing
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I think this kind of pointing and laughing is unfortunately going to look pretty silly in a year bsky.app/profile/greg...
A smart Democratic presidential contender would have a very clear stance on gerrymandering, favors/hassles for companies on naughty/nice lists, and anything like this: it's bad and here's a bill to ban it, but until that bill passes, we're going to do it as hard as possible
August 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A smart Democratic presidential contender would have a very clear stance on gerrymandering, favors/hassles for companies on naughty/nice lists, and anything like this: it's bad and here's a bill to ban it, but until that bill passes, we're going to do it as hard as possible
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Every word of this is depraved beyond belief.
ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.
I don’t know what to say.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...
ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.
I don’t know what to say.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Every word of this is depraved beyond belief.
ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.
I don’t know what to say.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...
ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment.
I don’t know what to say.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...
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IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.
Governor Waltz has now confirmed that Hortman and her husband were killed in the attack.
June 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.
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wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests
June 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests
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If you want more American flags at protests, you are welcome to go to the protests and fly one. No one will stop you. You yourself can create that picture of tolerance and pluralism.
But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.
But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.
June 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If you want more American flags at protests, you are welcome to go to the protests and fly one. No one will stop you. You yourself can create that picture of tolerance and pluralism.
But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.
But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.
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This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
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“Fund the police” was a whole applause line for the people best situated to prevent this.
LAPD is now joining the fray. They are firing rounds of less lethals
June 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“Fund the police” was a whole applause line for the people best situated to prevent this.
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Dan Davies is the Dorothy Parker of economics writing. A few people (not many) might offer comparable insight. But nobody does it as quotably. open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
June 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dan Davies is the Dorothy Parker of economics writing. A few people (not many) might offer comparable insight. But nobody does it as quotably. open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
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In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”
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First they came for the Palestinians, and I said "this is fine and surely this will be the full extent of it," the end.
March 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
First they came for the Palestinians, and I said "this is fine and surely this will be the full extent of it," the end.
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NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Man on a philosophical level I don't believe in retributive justice, and on a political level I support a permission structure for regretful Trump voters to switch sides, but on an emotional level I can't wish anything but ill on people who voted for leopards to eat my kids' faces
March 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Man on a philosophical level I don't believe in retributive justice, and on a political level I support a permission structure for regretful Trump voters to switch sides, but on an emotional level I can't wish anything but ill on people who voted for leopards to eat my kids' faces
Sorry Gavin but you still have work to do if you want California to out-shitty-Democrat New York. Try preemptively cancelling high speed rail or renaming the Sierras the Snowy Mountains on maps or something
March 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sorry Gavin but you still have work to do if you want California to out-shitty-Democrat New York. Try preemptively cancelling high speed rail or renaming the Sierras the Snowy Mountains on maps or something
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shit like this, erroneously confirming bull shit right wing caricatures about democrats, does immeasurably more to hurt the partys electoral chances than anything the left does
This is so profoundly strange from @slotkin.senate.gov. The Harris campaign ran one of the most aggressive outreach efforts to moderates, independents, and soft Republicans in recent memory!
March 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
shit like this, erroneously confirming bull shit right wing caricatures about democrats, does immeasurably more to hurt the partys electoral chances than anything the left does
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centrism can never fail, it can only be failed
This is so profoundly strange from @slotkin.senate.gov. The Harris campaign ran one of the most aggressive outreach efforts to moderates, independents, and soft Republicans in recent memory!
March 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
centrism can never fail, it can only be failed