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David Whitehouse, Ph.D

@davidw38.bsky.social
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Ph.D physicist retired from the tech industry where I worked on the early internet, cloud adoption and most recently data and AI. Now focused on the energy transition and trying to save democracy in the US.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
My last request of the day: Help Democracy Docket grow by becoming a subscriber today. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Worth watching!
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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The 'conservative' majority on the Supreme Court isn't originalist, they're outcomists. You can accurately predict every ruling by looking at who will benefit from their decision. Time to pack the court and eliminate lifetime appointments.
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Detroit Breakdown @detroitbreakdown.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.
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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What the hell is wrong with the @nytimes.com? They're determined to make Trump seem normal.
NY Times headline saying "Trump Says He Never Promised No New Wards and Defends Compensation Fund" with no mention of Trump walking off the set, calling Welker corrupt or Stupid.
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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Sadly, CNN wasn't hacked. This is the world we live in.
Screen shot of a CNN headline saying "Hantavirus briefing led by penile implant specialist who pushed election conspiracy theories:
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I feel like we are living in the “Thiel and Andreessen Show”, and too many people have no idea. 1/
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Good morning 🌞 Does anyone else do this?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
👇🎯 This. A 9-member life-tenure SCOTUS has <always> been democratically illegitimate. There are rationales for non-elected institutions within a democracy (e.g., independent central banks). The problem is the Court also ignores law, the Constitution, data, evidence, precedent, & empirical reality.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/04/2026
the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner
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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I won't attend for the same reason that I would not attend a conference about the Holocaust where Holocaust deniers were invited speakers.
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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hey @postopinions.bsky.social, are you OK with this?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups
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Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · 13/04/2026
I was thinking this morning how both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would have been delighted to see a Westward-looking, centre-right party defeat a pro-Russian autocrat in a former Eastern Bloc country.
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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I avoided optimism for a long time. I didn’t want to believe in false hope about the election. But last night something broke — and I almost cried. Sixteen years of weight lifted at once. It feels like a celebration. And knowing that young voters made the difference? That means there is hope. 3/1
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Could we do a Truman Show situation where we build a fake Oval Office where he watches AI created fake news about himself and let him believe he's still president and tweet the hours away and meanwhile we can impeach him and move on...I'm not sure he'd know the difference
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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
@fieldsmeyer.com on why it's important to follow the global democracy movement as closely as you follow your favorite sports team. An inspiring thread.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🧵 I’m starting a thread of news stories re: the response of other nations to the oil/gas shocks created by our war with Iran. Please add more! 1) France: No gas boilers in new buildings after 2027; 2 of 3 cars ‌to be EV by 2030; doubling funds for electrification. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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France doubles electrification aid to cut fossil fuel dependency
France will double state support to 10 billion euros ($12 billion) a year through to 2030 to help its switch to electricity from oil and gas and their derivative ​fuels, its Prime Minister Sebastien L...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"It could be that he has made a career of transparent insincerity. It could be that he is a protege of evil oligarch Peter Thiel. It could be his beard. It could be the feeling he communicates every time he opens his mouth. It could be the most punchable nose in the long history of punchable noses."
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Having Jay on this panel is like having a panel on truth and evidence in investigative reporting, and then inviting Alex Jones as a speaker. I'm all for dialogue, but some people have shown, repeatedly, that they are not interested in truth and are in it for political vengeance...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Vance’s actual position on the war is clear: Whatever helps me become president is what I believe in.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 08/04/2026
Legacy media continues to ignore Trump’s obvious mental and physical decline, and label his mental unwellness, as part of his “personality.”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Eight decades ago, America dedicated itself to defeating fascism in a world war. Now the Trump version of America dedicates itself to promoting fascism worldwide.
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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
F*ck every GOP Senator and Congressman.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"I think there's too little discussion in the United States that Trump may conduct war crimes in the war against Iran. Targeting civilian infrastructure to torture the civilian population into unrest is a war crime.  Whatever the objective of the war, we will all live with the stain of that for decades to come."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/04/2026
Black text on white background 
“Happy Easter, New York! 

Today, millions of New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the victory of hope over despair and faith over fear. 
As the air warms and cherry blossoms begin to bloom, this holy day is a sacred time to pause and reflect on a season of rebirth.
Whether you spend this day singing in pews, parading on Fifth Avenue, joining a processional guided by the bamboo trumpets of Haitian Rara music, or hunting for painted eggs amidst the spring grass, I wish every New Yorker celebrating a joyous day. 

Let us all embrace this holiday's spirit of hope and renewal as we build the City — and the world — that we deserve.”
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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hegseth just fired the Army Chief Gen Randy George. Immediately. Gen George the most competent and experienced combat leaders I have ever encountered. Courage. Integrity. Takes care of soldiers. A government of gangsters.
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Makes sense. A former talk show host would definitely know more than a general about managing a war. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth forces out Army’s top general
Gen. Randy George’s ouster is the latest in a series of clashes between the Pentagon chief and the service’s senior leadership, and comes amid the ongoing war in Iran.
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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Going after family members of new Marines is so on brand for Trump/Miller and the GOP. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I mean there it is.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2026
if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 27/03/2026
Given the drama around retail investors trying to exit private credit funds, it might be wise to rethink the use of retirement funds to buy even more private assets
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Private Credit’s Angry Retail Clients Are Showing Its Limits
Private credit managers are feeling sheepish. Some of their investors can’t get their money out as quickly as they’d like — and some may be quite angry about that. Cue the tentative non-apologies for any misunderstandings people had about getting their cash back. “Between us, and the advisers who sell our products, I don’t think we made it clear enough,” Doug Ostrover, co-chief executive officer at Blue Owl Capital Inc., told a conference in Australia on Thursday.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/03/2026
To be clear, ICE agents are still being paid. TSA agents are not. A gut punch for these folks who have to work under this reality. 📌 Senate Dems tried 7 times to pass standalone funding bills specifically for TSA pay and operations during the partial DHS shutdown. Republicans blocked each attempt.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
ICE agents at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) manhandling a woman are getting called what they are: “Assholes.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m...
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
New GOP logo just dropped.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/03/2026
Republicans say one of these individuals is the "most divisive president in history"
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
One of the most disgusting things I've ever read
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 21/03/2026
Republicans spent weeks preaching “decency” after Charlie Kirk died. Now Trump is literally celebrating Robert Mueller’s death. Where’s that same energy, you hypocrites? I’ll wait.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I can’t anymore
TOP DISASTER
RESPONSE OFFICIAL
CLAIMS HE
TELEPORTED TO A WAFFLE HOUSE
FEMA's Gregg Phillips says he has experienced multiple "scary" episodes of sudden teleportation
By NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ
MARCH 20, 2026
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Next masterful gambit: U.S. gives Iran a nuclear weapon to stop it from building one of its own.
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U.S. Encourages Flow of Iranian Oil While It Battles Iran
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 15/03/2026
The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
:)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
There is absolutely no bottom. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...
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