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David Robert Newman

@davidnewman.bsky.social
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Avid picture maker, reluctant scribe, recovering engineer, accidental politician. Personal account, personal opinions.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
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False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It is journalistic malpractice that major news outlets are not producing 5-alarm-fire reports to warn the public that the president of the United States is out of his mind.
Trump posts a map of New Mexico with the word "Mexico" crossed out and "America" added in its place.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026
I get the idea but racism isn’t about appealing to reality it’s about enforcing the idea that people’s very existence delegitimizes them by default We lived through this with Obama. There is no amount of credentials or credibility that quieted those foreignizing him. In fact a guy got elected on it
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Somewhere, a Huawei salesman is chortling.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“Anti-science sentiments are part of a pervasive and more troublesome problem in our society: the tacit acceptance and normalization of untruths. “I implore you, push back. Do so not with hostility but with civility, but also with all the wisdom and strength you can muster.”
Photo of Dr. Anthony Fauci addressing a Yale Medical School graduation ceremony, 20 May 2023
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Glass House raid was a year ago today. ICE’s horrible tactics continue.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/07/2026
Trump is using the government’s power to take ownership in private companies. It’s what Putin did. Trump is the closest we’ve ever come to communism.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Pablo Casals performs at the White House, 1961. Others who performed for the Kennedys include Leonard Bernstein, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, the American Ballet Theater, the American Shakespeare Festival, and a 7-year-old cellist named Yo-Yo Ma.
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."
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D @dustnk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Virginia legislature can call an emergency session and pass a law to overturn the statute this decision was passed on. All the Red states are basically doing that.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Last week SCOTUS eviscerated the Voting Rights Act. Yesterday the Sergeant at Arms blocked Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson from entering the committee room as Republicans voted to eliminate the state’s only Black-majority district. 📷: Nicole Hester, The Tennesseean
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Alito flew multiple flags tied to Jan 6 insurrectionists. Thomas just gave a speech on how "progressivism" is destroying the country — plus his wife was involved in the Jan 6 plot. And Roberts has pushed "shadow docket" cases where justices make decisions without explaining themselves. Please.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
From Justice Kagan’s dissent.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
If your goal was to drive up inflation, boost revenues to petrostates and drive US allies away from us you would be hard pressed to improve on Trump's economic and foreign policy. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Iran War Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Blockade’ Strait of Hormuz After Peace Talks Fail
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🎵Voy a cantar estos versos aunque yo no soy de aquí Yo soy un gran pendejo de condado de Queens Estafando y estafando he llegado a la Mar-A-Lago El único trato que hice fue con el Diablo. 🎶 (Disculpas a Santiago Jiménez Sr., Louis Ortega, Flaco Jiménez, Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers y Doug Sahm)
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Farewell to James Gadson, prolific R&B drummer and a master at doing a lot with a little. RIP.
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Bill Withers - Use Me (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972)
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito: If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons. Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
No Kings protest, Thousand Oaks, CA, 28 March 2026
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Say their names: Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas. We would not know about this, and Dolores Huerta would not have stepped forward, without their bravery. It’s not “Dolores Huerta … and the others.” It is Ana and Debra and Dolores.
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Cancer knows no political boundaries. I wish Ms. Wiles a full and speedy recovery. I also wish a full and speedy restoration of funding to the NIH and other institutions doing essential work in cancer research.
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Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Has Breast Cancer
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I cannot prove he is Putin’s puppet. What I can observe is that for a man of so few fixed principles, acting in ways that benefit Russia is always one of them. Always.
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Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Today is the birthday of legendary cartoonist Al Jaffee (March 13, 1921-April 10, 2023). His career began in 1942 & ended in 2020, which holds the Guinness World Record as the longest for a cartoonist. But he is most remembered for the 65 of those years he spent as a contributor to #MadMagazine.
A color photo of Jaffee smiling and working at his drawing table.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
For the first time since the 1960s, the pay disparity between US men and women widened over a two-year period. And International Womens Day has 23 hours this year. I’m not a fan of pay inequality, or time changes.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
US gasoline prices jumped 14% this past week as a result of Trump’s elective war in Iran, according to @npr.org. The flat-Earthers who used to post Joe Biden stickers on gas pumps have been mighty quiet for some reason.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The atrocities will continue until he fires Stephen Miller.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“A war without focus is a war with no tangible goals. And a war with no goals ends up a Forever War. “Trump said these kinds of Forever Wars would never happen under his presidency. He lied. Just like saying he’d lower prices and bring back jobs, he lied.” (h/t @micfarris.com)
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War! Act II — Mic Farris
Trump launches an unconstitutional 3 am attack on Iran. From the Decisions Newsletter
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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Best (only?) example of regime change by air strike: Libya 2011. Here's why it's more of a cautionary tale: ♦️It was such a personalized regime that succession proved impossible. That's not #Iran. ♦️US didn't actually kill Qaddafi: A mob did. ♦️Post-2011 Libya is chaotic mess: Is that what we want?
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 24/02/2026
The Mississippi Free Press is seeking a full-time Capital Bureau Reporter. Read more at mfp.ms/jobs. buff.ly/kbxgOA1
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...
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ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him
The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Reposting, in case this wasn’t already abundantly clear before today.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP fast tracks monster voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship at polls
In the past few weeks, passing the legislation has been a unifying rally cry for Republicans, a welcome distraction from the party’s cratering public opinion polls.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Different president, different ape. But this isn’t a post about today’s distraction from the Epstein files. (1/5)
Still from Bedtime for Bonzo, featuring a chimpanzee and Ronald Reagan, actor and smiling pitchman for some truly terrible ideas.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Measles vaccination levels among kindergartners nationwide are currently below herd immunity, according to the CDC. Trump voters did this.
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A decade later, measles returns to Disneyland
Vaccination levels among kindergartners are currently below herd immunity.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
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Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do. #BlackHistoryMonth
A historic photo of the Greensboro 4.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old whom ICE used as bait to draw his father Adrian Arias out of his house, is now back in Minneapolis. ICE imprisoned father and son under harsh conditions in Texas, even though the family came here legally and followed the legal process to apply for citizenship. (1/2)
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/01/2026
'If we're going to honor the fight in Minnesota & reject Trump’s authoritarianism, it’s not enough to require ICE wear body cameras when they’re shooting us. We must reimagine the systems that got us here' get their asses Council Member @mollycoleman.bsky.social ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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“The People of Minnesota Are Stronger Than the Federal Government That Seeks to Break Us”
The legal system empowered Trump’s ICE rampage. It is people who have the power to stop it.
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David Robert Newman @davidnewman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Firing Miller/Noem/Bovino is necessary, but not sufficient. We need trials. We need accountability. And we need to address the real problem: The people who put this malignant narcissist in office. (1/2)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.
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