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BigDaveH

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Dumped Twitter/X way back in 2020. Homegrown democracy warrior. Waiting to punch Nazis in the face, but in the meantime I’m here to do it virtually

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NPR @npr.org · 31/08/2025
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
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How 3 Hawaiian teen princes brought surfing to the mainland
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
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BigDaveH @bigdave-h.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Hey Molly, for the Epsteinth time! We won’t stop can’t stop asking about the Epstein Files
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2025
Trump declares war on cities “We must expand efforts to detain & deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as LA, Chicago, & NY, where Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, & other Cities, are core of the Dem Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base”
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Justin Satzman @jsatz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Right now there are more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are to Syria and Iraq combined.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/06/2025
If you haven’t heard of Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove… you have now. When she stepped out from the back without missing a beat, I knew it was on🔥 @kamlager-dove.house.gov
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мɑгκ @drumrollplease.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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several bottles of ketchup are lined up on a table
ALT: several bottles of ketchup are lined up on a table
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 10/06/2025
I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”
Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: “The President's federal deployment of the National Guard over the official wishes of a governor is bad for all Americans concerned about freedom of speech and states rights. The governor has the authority and ability to respond to the civil disturbances with law enforcement capabilities within his state, augmented as necessary by requesting law enforcement assistance from other governors. There are over a million badged and trained members of law enforcement in this country for the governor to ask for help if he needs it. While this is presently a legal order, it tramples the governor’s rights and obligations to protect his people. This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Reporter: There’s a pretty good chance Trump might be watching Newsom: I hope so, he might learn something— rescind this order— it’s illegal. You’re creating the conditions you claim you’re solving and you’re not
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
These are one sentence apart. Words, what do they mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...
The self-enrichment of the second Trump administration is different from old-fashioned corruption. [underline] There is no evidence that Mr. Trump has received direct bribes, [/underline] nor is it clear that he has agreed to specific policy changes in exchange for cash. Nonetheless, he is presiding over a culture of corruption. [underline] He and his family have created several ways for people to enrich them — and government policy then changes in ways that benefit those who have helped the Trumps profit. [/underline] Often Mr. Trump does not even try to hide the situation.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/06/2025
dustin on Twitter: “look at the resources they're willing to commit to terrorize people but not feed or house people”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Would probably be a good idea if California @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov did a quick video statement describing the legality/illegality of what is happening and the legal basis for the position the Gov. intends to take. Better than letting confusion build and folks hashing it out on social media.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/06/2025
ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans
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Daily Beans Fundraiser - Whistleblower Aid
Daily Beans Listeners Fundraiser for Whistleblower Aid The American rule of law has survived many challenges, but now faces one of the most serious threats in our history. Checks and balances within o...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This ⬇️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Best news lead of the week, courtesy of @michellelprice.bsky.social "Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up." apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump and Musk's relationship flames out just as intensely and publicly as it started
President Donald Trump is threatening to cut Elon Musk’s government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"California Republican Reps. David Valadao and Young Kim's districts are among the highest Medicaid enrollment rates in the state. In an April 14 letter, both said they were against the bill if it included Medicaid cuts — but then they voted for the bill anyway..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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9 Calif. Republicans in hot seat after consequential health care vote
California's nine House Republicans voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes cuts to key programs such as Medicaid.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Relatedly: OTD 2024 A Jury CONVICTED Trump of 34 Felonies abcnews.go.com/US/anniversa...
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On the anniversary of his hush money conviction, Trump continues to fight criminal case
One year after Donald Trump's hush money conviction made him the first president to be convicted of a crime, Trump continues his fight to erase that legacy.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 28/05/2025
Via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: The Trump administration is arguing that a Maryland federal court lacks the authority to require the return of wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia — even though the U.S. Supreme Court has directed administration officials to “facilitate” his return.
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Trump administration contends U.S. courts can’t rule on Kilmar Abrego Garcia | Alabama Reflector
The judge in the case has denied the Department of Justice’s request for another 30 days to extend its time to submit briefs. Abrego Garcia has remained in prison since March.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/05/2025
Class Trump Friday: Destabilize the markets. Run away to golf.
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Trump Ditches Work Early for Another Golf Weekend
As states reel from devastating storms and wait for FEMA relief, Trump will check out early for his New Jersey golf club
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
During his incendiary Oval Office meeting with South Africa's president, Trump played a video that he said showed "burial sites" for "over a thousand of white farmers." Except it didn't. @rileymellen.bsky.social and Aric Toler fact check. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/05/2025
Detained Columbia student protester must be allowed to meet with wife, judge rules reut.rs/4jcRHMY
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Detained Columbia student protester must be allowed to meet with wife, judge rules
Detained Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil must be allowed to meet with his wife, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The charges brought against me are an act of political intimidation from the Trump administration. It won’t work.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/05/2025
NEW: Two days before Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Sold Stocks Two Days Before Trump Announced a Plan for Reciprocal Tariffs
Duffy is the second member of Trump’s cabinet who sold securities shortly before the president’s tariff announcements sent markets plunging. A spokesperson for Duffy said an account manager made the t...
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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 20/05/2025
NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin, Jayapal, Crockett, Scanlon, Nadler, Johnson, and McBath release a joint statement on the Department of Justice’s unfounded targeting of Rep. LaMonica.
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 14/05/2025
Many were shocked when Shiloh Hendrix raised tons of money for calling a Black boy the n-word. But, as @kaliholloway.bsky.social writes, racists have always rushed to fund those whose sole claim to fame is hurting Black people.
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The Right Is Trying to Make the N-Word OK Again
Conservatives don’t just want white dominance. They want to be able to abuse Black people in the worst ways possible—and get rewarded for it.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.' The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
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Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN Politics
The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat...
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/05/2025
“It's appalling and it's just an extension of the culture of cruelty that the administration is trying to perpetrate,” says Sarah Mehta, deputy director of government affairs for the ACLU’s Equality Division.
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US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
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BigDaveH @bigdave-h.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
And….we’re on ChimneyWatch..👀
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/05/2025
The F-18 Super Hornet failed to catch the arresting wire upon landing, marking the second time a jet went over the side and into the Red Sea in eight days.
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Second fighter jet crashes into the sea after landing failure on USS Harry S. Truman
The F-18 Super Hornet failed to catch the arresting wire upon landing, marking the second time a jet went over the side and into the Red Sea in eight days.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/05/2025
If state election officials refuse to comply with Trump’s unlawful edict to share their voter rolls with Elon Musk, the attorney general could withhold law enforcement grants. “He’s going after the voter rolls in big cities, in blue states.”
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Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms
With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 30/04/2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters Tuesday that he would not allow a vote on whether there should be a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's mounting Signal scandals.
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'Don't like it': Republican 'concerned' as GOP blocks probe into embattled Trump official
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters Tuesday that he would not allow a vote on whether there should be a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's mounting Signal scandals. In a vote that same day, Republicans approved a rule that would block Democrats calling for a probe into Hegseth,...
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No Tacos For Tyrants @notacosfortyrants.com · 29/04/2025
This is the order turning allied law enforcement into extra-legal Brown Shirts.
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Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose and
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
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Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
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Congressman Shri Thanedar @shrithanedar.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🚨 I have just introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump. Donald Trump is not above the law, and when he ignores the constitution, he should be held accountable.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Interesting fact of the day: Trump has mentioned former President Joe Biden an average of four times every single day of his presidency 453 times in total since taking office. Biden lives rent-free in Trump’s mind.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Here comes the arrests of journalists now.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Gasparino's been right a lot and wrong a lot, but if he's right, he's unwittingly saying that the White House leaks information to friendly investors who can front-run the markets
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 22/04/2025
“We would like to understand what steps you are taking to review and address your agents’ conduct, including determining why they said they received permission to speak with children from their families when that was not the case.”
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ICE agents lied to school staffers in effort to talk to immigrant kids: lawmakers
Federal agents lied to school staffers at two Los Angeles elementary schools about having permission from students' families to speak with them, according to a pair of Democratic lawmakers.Two U.S. se...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The Trump administration has just filed the response brief the Supreme Court ordered late last night: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24... I expect the ACLU will file a reply, at which point the ball will be back in the Supreme Court's ... court.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
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144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
OMG. “After DOGE gained access to NLRB’s systems, there was an increase in attempted logins from locations outside the US, including a user with a Russian IP address. The person with the Russian IP address appeared to have a correct username and password, created minutes earlier by DOGE engineers.”
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Federal employee alleges DOGE activity resulted in data breach at labor board
In a sworn declaration sent to Congress, the employee said he witnessed several anomalies in DOGE’s handling of security.
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