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Pittsburgh Dave

@davetarrant.bsky.social
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Writer. Former newspaper reporter. Currently narrative nonfiction. Pittsburgh guy in Texas, hiking Hill Country. Irish & US citizen. #Steelers, #HereWeGo, #Sober, ENFJ.

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Terri Langford @tlangford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ok, that's hilarious.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"My sense is that, more and more, people aren’t showing up in some generic self-congratulatory way, but with the understanding that we need one another, that we are reliant on each other, and that policies of cruelty and exclusion will only lead the country into a cul de sac of fascism."
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Interesting story that explores a surprising twist to the new school vouchers in Texas: Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...
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How Texas School Vouchers Could Make Child Care More Affordable
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is a remarkable essay by a medical doctor, an immunologist, who grew up unvaccinated. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...
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Opinion | I’m an Immunologist. I Grew Up Unvaccinated.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Time to take a break from this place. Peace out.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Now I really believe he’s trying to kill it off.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I’ll admit I overreacted. But it genuinely bothers me when someone with a large platform exploits a horrific tragedy for… what, likes? Cheap Texas snark? Millions here are actively trying to change the state from within. Make fun of Texans all you want—but don’t use a tragedy to do it.
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Hope Himars 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🇻🇪 @hopehimars.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
hahahahaahhaaaaa The squares were so clueless in the '70s !
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Nickel Boys, By Colson Whitehead
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Color of Water By James McBride
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Laissez Les bontemps roulez.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Breaking: Democrat Chasity Martinez just won a Louisiana district in a massive landslide victory. Trump won this district by 13 points.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I’m not a math guy, but doesn’t that come to only 1/3 of a pond per American?
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Catch and Kill operation, as many have said.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this. Please pass it on.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A reminder that chemical warfare, including teargas, is against the Geneva convention. I know, I know… but it shows you what a rogue administration this is.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Another astonishing story on ICE surge in Minneapolis.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
‼️‼️‼️‼️ With nearly all precincts in, Taylor Rehmet's lead has jumped to 57%. Absolutely stunning upset in a +17 Trump district.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 27/01/2026
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Hahahaahahah
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents about Alex Pretti's death and every single one of them blame the Border Patrol agent www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
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ICE Unloads
Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
Ace of Spades card that says:

ICE Denver Field Office
3130 N. Oakland St.
Aurora, CO 80012
303-361-6612
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Pagan in Arizona @apaganinarizona.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"The President should pause these operations, de-escalate the situation, and reset the federal government’s focus on truly criminal illegal immigrants. In the absence of Presidential action, Congress and the Courts must step up to restore constitutionality." -Phil Scott, Republican governor Vermont
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Norm @chingerhook.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
fuck ai, spend trillions of dollars on making eye glasses that never need to be cleaned
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The whole world is watching.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They owe her, and all of us, an apology.
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Faithslayer202.bsky.social @faithslayer202.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The working class needs a Workers Party, not the Democratic Party.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Jesus.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This is an SNL skit right?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/12/2025
That was some weird shit
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
In the mid-1990s, I interviewed Pat Summerall about his battles with alcohol and the intervention by his family and closest friends that led to his recovery and sobriety. 1/2
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Welcome your thoughts, opinions, suggestions. As you say, what Trmp does affects the entire world.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
White women aren’t all the same. Some are conservative, some liberal, some religious, some anarcho-nihilists, some are moms and CEOs, some are drug addicts. This argument over why women won’t vote for women because they’re women is reductive and sexist. Women are individuals.
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Pittsburgh Dave @davetarrant.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Pulling up Blueskie and seeing the gang-up on Jimmy Fallon and not sure why, other than it’s Tuesday and his turn in the barrel?
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a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy yard
Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson fading backwards into a bush.
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