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Independent media and police accountability. Just call me David.

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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Remember Keith Porter Jr. in LA, too, killed by an off-duty ICE agent who lived in his building. #KeithPorterJr #ICEkilling
Photo of  Keith Porter Jr. from Project Islamic Hope
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Fine, but just admit it and be up front about it. Own that the wealthy real estate and tech interests who fund you are in it for themselves, too. And stop pretending you're out to save the world with deregulation (or, ahem, "legalizing" housing). You're not a benevolent society.
Screenshot of California YIMBY home page.  It laughably says, "Let's make California for everyone."
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I could go on and on, but just remember this whenever you see @clarajeffery.bsky.social express enthusiasm for YIMBYism. It's about gentrification, not altruism. And the real Mother Jones would not be proud.
Twitter tweet from Clara Jeffery in 2016: "Powell BART smells like fried piss and looks like a train station in Calcutta.  IF SF has a homeless plan beside rousting tents be good to know."
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
And what's up with the main image for the article? It doesn't make sense. YIMBYs constantly rail against single-family homes, yet, it looks like a giant Wiener is bringing a single-family home to... where I can't tell. Or is he removing it? And is that construction crane in Alamo Square park?
Colorful illustration with a yellow sky, featuring a giant Scott Wiener, taller than the Transamerica Pyramid building in the background, holding what appears to be a Victorian "painted lady" house, with a tall construction crane in front of him in Alamo Square park.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
YIMBYs grossly oversimplify economics, as if supply and demand were the only factors, just as they do the nature of their crusade itself. It's them versus the NIMBYs, in a strictly bipolar world of good and abundance and prosperity versus evil. Such rhetorical framing suits their evangelism.
More wikipedia text from link in previous post: According to economist John Quiggin, the standard features of economic fundamentalist rhetoric are dogmatic assertions combined with the claim that anyone who holds contrary views is not a real economist.[7]
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
YIMBYs are oblivious, willfully or otherwise, to the simple fact that they relentlessly parrot the same Reaganomics/supply-side economics that exponentially accelerated income inequality over the last 50 years. Sorry, JFK, but a rising tide does not lift all boats. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_...
Wikipedia text: Market fundamentalism, also known as free-market fundamentalism, is an ideology[1] and a term applied to a strong belief in the ability of unregulated laissez-faire or free-market capitalist policies to solve most economic and social problems.[2] It is often used as pejorative by critics of said beliefs.[3]Mother Jones article text: The theory is that more housing brings down costs—but it’s more totalizing than that. Denser housing helps fight climate change and racism, enlarges tax rolls, helps fund public transit, reduces traffic congestion, and adds voters who’ll give Democrats more power in Congress.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
My favorite photo in a while
Ball of flame in the air with lake as background
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Now that the US is directly at war with Iran, I'm reminded of the Millennium Challenge war games... "Red... destroyed sixteen warships: one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of Blue's six amphibious ships... the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenn...
Screenshot of text: Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships: one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of Blue's six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Will the tanks ever leave DC after Trump's jingoistic birthday bash? Maybe, maybe not. He clearly likes the idea of troops in US cities (Los Angeles). He wanted them to shoot George Floyd protesters in the legs during his first term. Plus, never forget the J6 attack on the Capitol.
Stryker armored fighting vehicles, which were parked in Potomac Park Tuesday, are among the armor being brought in to D.C. at a cost of millions. Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Making Christmas Great Again™ www.cnn.com/2017/12/22/p... web.archive.org/web/20171222...
Merry Christmas in the back of a red MAGA hatRed MAGA hat with Christmas lights through text
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Thank God. #BarbaraLee is pulling ahead of #LorenTaylor in the special election for Oakland mayor. She's over 50%, which means RCV doesn't even matter, but she's even further ahead there. alamedacountyca.gov/rovresults/2...
First choice votes show Barbara Lee over 50% at this point in the counting. Barbara Lee is at 52% in ranked choice votes
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Goodbye actual health information. Hello conspiracy theories. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you, measles and other easily preventable contagious diseases. They truly do want to drag us back to the 19th Century. covid.gov
Screenshot of a federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19, now transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.

The covid.gov website shows a photo of President Donald Trump walking between the words “lab” and “leak” under a White House heading.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
DOGE has installed Musk Starlink terminals at government buildings, for God knows what. To siphon data? To use AI to enable their schemes? To avoid scrutiny as they coordinate the destruction of agencies and the firesale of public properties? All of the above? apnews.com/article/doge...
Wires are seen leading from a top floor corner window to the roof of the headquarters of the General Services Administration (GSA) Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The fuck?
Screenshot of new doge.gov which claims it is an official government webpage and not much else.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Jeff Bezos and/or his sycophants at the @washingtonpost.com don't want us to see criticisms such as this. Editorial cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social resigned rather than submit. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Editorial cartoon depicting media oligarchs groveling and offering cash at Trump's feet, including Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Have you seen The Invitation? I feel like, as a society, we are living through a similar scenario. Everyone is being polite, afraid of offending anyone or breaking decorum, despite clear signs that we're in the presence of a dangerous cult about to run amok.
Poster art for The Invitation (2015 film) showing a hand raising a wine glass filled with red wine outdoors at night, and a character from the movie is seen through the glass
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Downtown San Francisco in 1971
Screenshot from the original Dirty Harry movie with a police helicopter flying over downtown SF.  The ferry building can be seen toward the bay bridge on the left.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
President Biden's approval rating among Dems has plummeted a staggering 11% this month due to his exuberant support for Israel's genocide in Gaza www.axios.com/2023/10/26/b...
Screenshot from linked article: "Joe Biden has single-handedly alienated almost every Arab American and Muslim American voter in Michigan," Democratic state Rep. Alabas Farhat told NBC News last week.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded Biden apologize Wednesday for suggesting that he does not have confidence in the death toll cited by Gaza's health ministry: "I'm sure innocents have been killed and it is the price of waging war," Biden said.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Israeli collective punishment against the residents of Gaza, half of whom are children, by denying water is a war crime. www.bbc.com/news/live/wo...
Chart comparing current Gazan water availability with normal guidelines found at link
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
I didn't know you could line up several cities to compare their demographics with each other in the Census Bureau's Quick Facts page, until now. I've always just looked at them individually, or in different browser tabs. www.census.gov/quickfacts/f...
Screenshot of census data shown at link provided
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
23 million Americans believe violence is justified to return Trump to the White House. Maybe they all aren't willing to go down themselves on behalf of Dear Leader, but many millions of them just might be, and they've been stockpiling crazy amounts of weaponry. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/u...
Screenshot from linked article: In April, before federal prosecutors indicted Mr. Trump, one survey showed that 4.5 percent of American adults agreed with the idea that the use of force was “justified to restore Donald Trump to the presidency.” Just two months later, after the first federal indictment of Mr. Trump, that figure surged to 7 percent.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Hot damn. I can breathe again
Screenshot of AQI mostly below 20 in Oakland
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
General Mark Milley: It's a war crime to slit a prisoner's throat and you shouldn't pardon Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher Trump: What's the big deal? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Screenshot from linked article: 

“Mr. President,” Milley said, “you have to understand that the SEALs are a tribe within a larger tribe, the Navy. And it’s up to them to figure out what to do with Gallagher. You don’t want to intervene. This is up to the tribe. They have their own rules that they follow.”

Trump called Gallagher a hero and said he didn’t understand why he was being punished.

“Because he slit the throat of a wounded prisoner,” Milley said.

“The guy was going to die anyway,” Trump said.

Milley answered, “Mr. President, we have military ethics and laws about what happens in battle. We can’t do that kind of thing. It’s a war crime.” Trump answered that he didn’t understand “the big deal.” He went on, “You guys”—meaning combat soldiers—“are all just killers. What’s the difference?”
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Yuck
Air quality indexes over 150 in Oakland.   Screenshot from purpleair.com
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
First, it is definable by law. See screenshot. Second, no one is "choosing who gets free speech rights." The law requires social media companies that make over $100M/yr to report their own Terms of Service and metrics on their ToS enforcement. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...
Screenshot of AB 587 definition of a social media platform:

(e) “Social media platform” means a public or semipublic internet-based service or application that has users in California and that meets both of the following criteria:
(1) (A) A substantial function of the service or application is to connect users in order to allow users to interact socially with each other within the service or application.
(B) A service or application that provides email or direct messaging services shall not be considered to meet this criterion on the basis of that function alone.
(2) The service or application allows users to do all of the following:
(A) Construct a public or semipublic profile for purposes of signing into and using the service or application.
(B) Populate a list of other users with whom an individual shares a social connection within the system.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
Btw, the tank in tankie is state power squashing dissent. It's definitively anti-change.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Joe Biggs swears that Trump will pardon them all. He'll keep clicking his heels together three times and waiting, and waiting and waiting. One day he'll sprout those magical wings and feel the warm embrace of Trump. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Screenshot of The Independent headline: Convicted Proud Boys leader boasts that ‘Trump will pardon him’ in phone call to Alex Jones

Joe Biggs made jailhouse phone call to complain about prison food and ask for donations to support his family
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
700 years Trump's followers will serve, or close to it. I still can't see Trump ever being sentenced to serious time, like years. If history is any guide, he'll get a plea deal like Spiro Agnew and disappear into the night. Maybe he'll abscond to the UAE. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Screenshot of WaPo headline: Trump’s 2020 crusade has led to 700 years in prison sentences
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Sure, their lawyers argued they were scapegoats for Trump and one cried in court during sentencing, but that was just for show, to fool the court. They still believe in Trump, even tho he doesn't give a shit about them and could have pardoned them before leaving office. www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1...
Screenshot of NPR headline: A Proud Boy pleaded for leniency from a judge, then yelled 'Trump won' on his way out
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
The Florida red wave in 2022 was DeSantis and former-Republican Crist suppressing Democratic turnout in Florida by nearly a million votes, in a state that hasn't elected a Democratic governor since 1994.
Screenshot of Florida 2018 results from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_gubernatorial_electionScreenshot of Florida 2022 results from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Florida_gubernatorial_election
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Apparently, this is a thing he regularly does, blame racism and racist violence on those struggling for equal rights and justice, even calling rep Ayanna Pressley and author Ibram Kendi the "modern grand wizards of the modern KKK." No, fuckwad, the modern KKK is the just grandkids of the old KKK.
Screenshot of headline: Vivek Ramaswamy calls Rep. Ayanna Pressley, author Ibram Kendi part of 'modern KKK'

The Republican presidential candidate compared them to Ku Klux Klan members while criticizing the way they have talked about race.

from: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/vivek-ramaswamy-calls-rep-ayanna-pressley-author-ibram-kendi-part-mode-rcna101873Screenshot of Ramaswamy post on Linkedin: The “anti-racist” movement actually creates more racism. We should be able to debate ideas openly no matter our skin color. I’ll keep speaking hard truths without apology.

from: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vivekgramaswamy_the-anti-racist-movement-actually-creates-activity-7057710689225711617-nTMA
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Fuck Vivek Ramaswamy and his exceptionally foul and dangerous anti-Black racism. Never heard of him until last week, but he and his fake-ass phosphorescent teeth can fuck off. In the wake of the racist killings in Jacksonville, Florida, he blames anti-racists. www.dailykos.com/stories/2023...
screenshot of Vivek Ramaswamy quote from Meet the Press: "And I am genuinely worried that we are seeing a new wave of anti-Black and anti-Hispanic racism as the consequence of the so-called anti-racism movement.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
State bar associations need to get their shit together and stop coddling these bad faith and dangerous cretins.
Screenshot from linked article: State bar associations need to review how existing rules failed to stop so many lawyers from saying and doing so many things to undermine our democracy. Rules need to make clear that undermining democracy, inside or outside of the courtroom, is prohibited. The federal rules of procedure must be revised to provide for swift, mandatory sanctions against lawyers who bring frivolous election-related claims.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Sadly, school children two hundred years from now will have to look at this.
Trump's Fulton County mug shot
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Reaganism/supply-side economics/market fundamentalism is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche, so normalized, that YIMBYs believe it's the natural order of things, and are unable to recognize their "supply and demand" mantra for what it is or to imagine any serious alternatives.
Wikipedia: Reaganomics (/reɪɡəˈnɒmɪks/; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey),[1] or Reaganism, were the neoliberal[2][3][4] economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are characterized as supply-side economics, trickle-down economics, or "voodoo economics" by opponents,[5] while Reagan and his advocates preferred to call it free-market economics.Wikipedia: Supply-side economics is a macroeconomic theory that postulates economic growth can be most effectively fostered by lowering taxes, decreasing regulation, and allowing free trade.[1][2] According to supply-side economics, consumers will benefit from greater supplies of goods and services at lower prices, and employment will increase.Wikipedia: Market fundamentalism, also known as free-market fundamentalism, is a term applied to a strong belief in the ability of unregulated laissez-faire or free-market capitalist policies to solve most economic and social problems.[1] It is often used as pejorative by critics of said beliefs.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Hey, I was able to screenshot at least half of the deleted post, because someone quoted it and it still shows there. The second paragraph expressed surprise that otherwise intelligent people still believe in Reaganomics. This is the post that prompted Jamelle Bouie to tell me to fuck off.
Screenshot of first paragraph of deleted post: Market fundamentalism isn't going to save us.  Developers aren't going to build housing that isn't profitable, even if every last regulation is eliminated.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
He clearly knows the power of his influence, with 40k followers here and 400k on twitter, so he should really chill out on jumping to "fuck you" as his immediate response to a reply he didn't like.
Post at https://bsky.app/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3k5purjtljr25 about one of his followers contacting the employer of someone he disagreed with online.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Today I learned that if someone blocks you on Bluesky, your first reply to them is disappeared, never to be seen by anyone ever again. Kinda messed up, but, on the other hand, it stopped the YIMBY swarm from further attacking me. bsky.app/profile/jbouie.bsky.social…
Screenshot that says "deleted post" for my initial reply to the @jbouie.bsky.social post at https://bsky.app/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3k5pg4mlauz2j   The second reply remains up on my account only, but has zero context as to what it was in response to.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Must be nice to get dozens of likes for replies like this, when you're well aware that I'm being swarmed by the YIMBY hoard.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Hmm
From Wikipedia: Market fundamentalism, also known as free-market fundamentalism, is a term applied to a strong belief in the ability of unregulated laissez-faire or free-market capitalist policies to solve most economic and social problems.  It is often used as pejorative by critics of said beliefs
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
MAGA morons want to take us back to the 18th century, and they don't care how many people they have to kill to do it.
Screenshot from linked article: According to the complaint, Shry admitted to Department of Homeland Security investigators she left the voicemail, which began, “Hey you stupid slave" followed by a racial epithet and then proceeded to threaten to kill anyone who went after Trump. That list included Chutkan, Lee, “all Democrats in Washington D.C. and all people in the LGBTQ community,” investigators wrote.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Zero tears for the guy who kicked off his political career in 1992 by inciting a racist cop riot, exploiting their anger over a plan to civilianize police oversight by New York City's first Black mayor. In short, fuck Rudy Giuliani.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
Good. Jeffrey Clark is charged, too.
Indictment page 1, from NYT webpage linked aboveIndictment page 2Indictment page 3Indictment page 4
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
Always the slippery snake, just today, Trump openly went after a Fulton County GJ witness. Who's going to hold him to account for that? It's outside of the jurisdiction of Chutkan. Is it an obstruction of justice window of opportunity before he's indicted in Georgia by Fani Willis this week?
screenshot of Trump Truth Social post from August 14 going after grand jury witness Jeff Duncan, former Georgia lt. goveror.  the post is at https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110888087440060991
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
Of course, Trump carries on attacking the judge, prosecutors, and others, pushing the envelope further than anyone else would be allowed to. He's taunting her to make him a bigger martyr in the eyes of the MAGA faithful. As much as she want to keep politics out of the courtroom, it's still there.
screenshot of Trump Truth Social post from Aug 13 that is a screenshot of a tweet from Mike Davis with a photo of Chutkan that says she admitted to running election interference.  the post is at https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110884204392623803screenshot of another Aug 13 Trump Truth social post attacking judge Chutkin. the post is at https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110886261211345227
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
"Your client’s defense is supposed to happen in this courtroom, not on the internet." Within hours of the hearing, Chutkan issued a protective order limited to "sensitive" materials, for which Trump's lawyers are supposed to babysit him when he's viewing them.
screenshot from linked article: “I intend to ensure that your client is afforded all the rights he’s entitled to. The existence of a political campaign is not going to have any bearing on my decision," she said, later adding: "I intend to keep politics out of this."screenshot from linked article: “Your client’s defense is supposed to happen in this courtroom, not on the internet. And to the extent your client wants to make statements on the internet, they always have to yield to witness security and witness safety,” Chutkan told Lauro.screenshot from linked article: She said the protective order will require defense attorneys to review any notes Trump takes while looking at sensitive materials to make sure they don’t contain any witness’s personal identifying information. Trump will also be forbidden from having a phone, copy machine or anything else that could create a copy of the sensitive materials while reviewing them.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
Not playing, Part 2: The Judge On Friday, federal judge Tanya Chutkan reminded Trump's attorneys that he's a defendant in the case, not a political candidate, and warned against any attempt to intimidate witnesses or prejudice potential jurors. "I see the possibility for a lot of problems here."
screenshot from linked article: “I do want to issue a general word of caution — I intend to ensure the orderly administration of justice in this case as I would in any other case, and even arguably ambiguous statements by the parties or their counsel,” she said, could be considered an attempt to “intimidate witnesses or prejudice potential jurors,” triggering the court to take action.screenshot from linked article: “I caution you and your client to take special care in your public statements in this case,” she added. “I will take whatever measures are necessary to protect the integrity of these proceedings.”screenshot from linked article: “He is a criminal defendant,” Judge Chutkan said. “He is going to have restrictions like every other criminal defendant” — adding that she was not going to “allow him any greater or lesser latitude than any defendant in a criminal case.”screenshot from linked article: Witnesses, she said, “may not have the type of protections that he has.” She added, “I see the possibility for a lot of problems here.”
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
Karol Chwiesiuk may have been on paid medical leave from Chicago PD when he stormed the Capitol Building on J6, and he very wisely wore CPD gear.
Screenshot of another selfie sent by text message, with Karol Chwiesiuk posing with an apparently African American Trump supporter, along with an image highlighting the CPD logo on his sweatshirt at the time.
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
There's a link to the relevant affidavit in the article. Ryan, respectfully, didn't want to spell out the actual slur.
Screenshot of relevant text conversation from affidavitScreenshot #2 of relevant text conversation from affidavitScreenshot of selfish sent during relevant text conversation from affidavitScreenshot #3 of relevant text conversation from affidavit
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Dave Id @daveid.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
Go Ohio!! No on Issue 1 www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08…
Graphic from linked article showing the No vote on Ohio's Issue 1 with 58% of the vote, with 51% of votes counted in today's single-issue election.
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