Reposted by David DeanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2hTime for this classic again. 152500769
Reposted by David DeanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10hGobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 235110301860
Reposted by David Deanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12hHow is any of this slandering of a totally innocent public servant different from what Joseph McCarthy did? You know, the thing that the DC journos still beat themselves off to as an example of the news media standing up and stopping something evil? bsky.app/profile/awk7... 522731
Reposted by David DeanMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13hI was skeptical of this take but making up some bullshit to accuse someone of a crime in defense of Trump only for it to completely fall apart, then acting outraged and refusing to apologize for any of it really does sound like Vance VP material. 31903188
Reposted by David DeanAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13hOne thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 292695608
Reposted by David DeanErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15hA thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters. 121211382
Reposted by David DeanSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13hThis is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths. 4894232
Reposted by David DeanBlack.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026This bill is anti labor. The college athletes need to form a union immediately and stop playing in these games that generate millions in revenue. Also, fuck Deion Sanders. He waited til his sons profited off of NILs and left college to support this. He's a snake just like the rest of these 🦝s 26535
Reposted by David DeanJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Manipulated dog.” So these aren’t even pretextual stops. These are just “No Constitutional Whatsoever” stops. If we can’t stop you, we’ll make up a reason to. If we can’t berate you into a search, we will nakedly fabricate one. Every drug conviction in Bexar should be challenged. Like in MA: 28014
Reposted by David DeanRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme... 1133535562
Reposted by David Deansamuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking 33895539
Reposted by David DeanJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Actual headline in today's WaPo. 1691421219
Reposted by David DeanChristopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not all men. Jesus Christ, don't you think women *know* that? Use your heads instead of getting defensive. Most of you would be terrified of swimming among sharks, even though sharks are stastically far less dangerous to you than men are to women. 8500121
Reposted by David Deanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds 946975
Reposted by David DeanArienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership. 193124797
Reposted by David DeanMike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special 281184168
Reposted by David DeanSubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026EAST BOUND AND DOWN, LOADED UP AND TRUCKIN 1015811
Reposted by David DeanEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sincerely, thank you, Heather Cherone. 🙏🏼 Cherone says below, "This is the 8th major profile of Emanuel since December 2024 that failed to mention Laquan McDonald." 0236
Reposted by David DeanMichael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Remember this shit next time some billionaire or billionaire's lickspittle warns about class war. There's never not been one, and they wage it openly against us. 310640
Reposted by David DeanAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026raise their goddam taxes holy shit 331626277
Reposted by David DeanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026Class solidarity.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 642160612
David Dean @davedean77.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'd say the NYT is the only party still baffled by this 041
Reposted by David DeanKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026If you're not from Western Mass, you will completely miss the dynamic that the Greater Boston area has been exploiting the western part of the state since literally the founding of the country. The Globe writes these stories about WM and the Pioneer Valley on a regular basis. 1229464
Reposted by David DeanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?" 8189082552
Reposted by David DeanT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Few things say "billionaires are so cloistered they are incapable of behaving like normal humans" quite like "I couldn't pump my own gas because I don't know my own ZIP code" 1928261
Reposted by David DeanScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.scientificamerican.comHow apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruitAnd how they might have helped save the future of American apples 391121385
Reposted by David Deandr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved 12971031681
Reposted by David Deanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not? 171321296
Reposted by David DeanSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jon Husted just voted to continue the Iran war for the 14th time. While Ohioans are paying record high costs at the gas pump and the grocery store, Jon Husted is voting for more war – and costing you more money – every chance he gets. 251288429
Reposted by David DeanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188013840
Reposted by David DeanKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 23/09/2026This is the worst idea I've ever heard of. You'd be better off snorting asbestos like cocaine. 14733139
Reposted by David Deanshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026these people are either the dumbest people on the planet or they’re pretending to be and are *still* too dumb to even be embarrassed by it 1182381330
Reposted by David DeanRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades 554903876
Reposted by David DeanWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026becoming a vulgar rawlsian. the veil of ignorance isn't perfect, but 'is this how you would design things if *you* thought you might end up here?' is a test that way too many people fail. on everything from criminal justice to public transit, across the ideological spectrum. 1051457
Reposted by David DeanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"We're uprooting fraud by getting rid of these freeloaders who keep paying into the system without taking anything back out" Genius. 1642597559
David Dean @davedean77.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So weird that he "is confronted" by all of these things. Imagine the luck. 010
Reposted by David DeanAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Law-enforcement agencies from around the country queried #Flock data from the #Holyoke PD for immigration-related purposes more than 1,500 times, and the police chief said he didn't even know they were sharing the data. Astounding incompetence that should get him fired immediately. #Massachusettsmasslive.com'I was surprised': Holyoke police chief didn't know ICE-related queries were tapping city's plate reader dataFrom January through August of this year, more than 1,500 searches of Holyoke’s data from outside police departments, ranging from Texas to Indiana, had justification that included the word “immigrati... 114061
Reposted by David DeanEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I don't like having to do this, but I have to. This is not what happened. What happened was that a handful of scholars tried to legitimate an ahistorical argument and were criticized because of it. They then spent a year engaging in abject sophistry and caricaturing their critics. They still lost. 6896156
Reposted by David DeanEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This abused trans child is being used by Fox News as an opportunity to expand abuse of trans children. Like so many abusive parents of trans kids, these parents are exploiting the Republican culture war to further their abuse. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09... 8627144
Reposted by David Deanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter. 39867241668
Reposted by David DeanTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026People who call the polio vaccine a "fraud" are not "skeptics" toward vaccines, they are people with fixed views toward vaccines! (The name for that fixed view is "denial.") 437946
Reposted by David DeanKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethicsgizmodo.com'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed WaysThe stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents. 20616170
Reposted by David DeanI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026It really is worth remembering just last year the conventional wisdom on immigration was that people supported mass deportation to such a degree people should be cautious in opposing the Trump administration snatching people and sending them to CECOT. 312039433
Reposted by David DeanDrew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh ffs tip your hotel staff 1571689
Reposted by David DeanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Again, bigots will never choose bigotry-lite over the real thing. You're not going to win them but you're going to drive away people who otherwise would have voted for you. And this year -- when voters most of all want "a fighter" in Congress -- running ads about how you will not fight is idiotic. 17968202
Reposted by David DeanG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement 904654840
