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David 🍉

@davidwave4.bsky.social
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civil rights lawyer, leftist, amateur musician, gamer, bi black guy. lifelong chiefs/royals fan. 🇹🇬 🇺🇸.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
I’ve been asked to weigh in on the debate over whether to bring an iced coffee to an interview. It doesn't matter. Iced coffee is NOT why it's hard to land a job right now, and it's NOT why Gen Z can't get ahead. Our economy is rigged. We need to change that.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm gonna need more folks to boosting Tinashe's new album Popstar on this platform. It's a genuinely excellent record from a seriously underrated artist.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 30/09/2026
Pitchfork gives ‘Popstar’ by Tinashe a score of 9.0.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 23/09/2026
your favorite bar can't be a safe environment for revolutionary praxis if it goes out of business
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’re already seeing Black women at the vanguard of left politics. Everyone from Darializa Avila Chevalier to Melat Kiros to Angie Nixon. Not surprising that the most energetic and potent force in Democratic politics rn is led in part by Black women.
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think it looks fine on queer men because the skeeve is part of the aesthetic, but for anyone else it’s a bit much. The beardstache is the good alternative.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Chiefs looking really good so far.
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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 15/09/2026
The various Chiefs running backs had one *game* with 60 or more rushing yards all season in 2025. Kenneth Walker just racked up 60 on one *play*.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026
that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/09/2026
Breaking News: Gloria Steinem, the feminist crusader who galvanized the modern women’s movement, challenged sexist assumptions and fought for gender equality, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4cVollO
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themes and such @bernkastl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
taps the sign like very aggressively
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 31/08/2026
The Lovers is a sapphic romance that will restore your faith in the power of indie animation aftermath.site/the-lovers-stu...
The Lovers
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026
I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No greater tribute to Dolly than depicting her as she always preferred to be: stacked and snatched
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
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Excerpted paragraph from KBJ's dissent from Supreme Court's latest bullshit order, reading as follows:

In the end, though, what makes today's ruling so off-base is the Court's lack of situational awareness regarding this equitable judgment. It treats the Government's stay application as if the whole point is merely to demonstrate that the Plaintiff States' claims are not justiciable. Taking its eye off the ball, the majority misses the Government's actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections.
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My cat, a black and white tuxedo cat.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 19/08/2026
NEWS: Angie Nixon has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida!
A photo of Angie Nixon, with text that reads: "Midterm news: Angie Nixon wins Florida Democratic primary for U.S. Senate."
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/08/2026
"Democrats in any race are going to be smeared as tranny-loving commies regardless of how many times you call trans women 'men'." Please subscribe! www.burnsnotice.com/democratic-c...
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Democratic Candidates Must Beware of Betraying Queer Voters
New data from the Human Rights Campaign shows how much power LGBTQ voters have at the ballot box
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Mangione getting to cop to the murder and escaping jail for it would solidify him as a folk hero. Top tier lawyering if they can make it stick
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I find the discourse around "wokeness" to be dishonest and tedious, but this is what I wrote about it a couple of years ago and I think it remains correct: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I could go on, but I think you get the point. These things are real; they happened. To believe that the disadvantages of race, class, and gender imposed lawfully over centuries never occurred or entirely disappeared in just a few decades is genuinely “radical” in a negative way; to believe that creating those disadvantages was wrong and that they should be rectified is not. The idea that no one ever succeeds based on advantages unrelated to their personal abilities is likewise radical, and also ludicrous. But you can, perhaps, understand why one of the richest men in the world would consider the opposing idea—that where many people end up in life is the result of unearned advantages—to be a “woke mind virus” that should be eradicated. That kind of thinking leads to higher marginal tax rates for people with private planes.

Some people so deeply resent the implication that they possess any unearned advantage that, in Republican-run states all over the country, the same folks who were recently shrieking about free speech and oversensitive snowflakes are busy using the power of the state to ban discussions about factual matters that might hurt their feelings, such as descriptions of racial segregation in the story of Rosa Parks. The irony here is that by framing everything they don’t like as a symptom of pervasive oppression against white people or Christians that must be rectified by the state, they have themselves adopted the inverse of the logic they decry as “wokeness.” They believe that America’s demographic majorities are the targets of broad institutional discrimination, which is unjust not because such discrimination is morally abhorrent but because it is targeted at the wrong people.
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New Tinashe album is gonna be wild.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
begging y'all to check out my book about this goofyass ideology, how it has taken over the law, and what we should do about it bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives ...
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨 Kansas voters once again reject GOP efforts to trick them into losing abortion rights. The no vote prevails on an amendment that wouldve replaced the indy commission with direct (partisan) elections for Supreme Court justices — which the AG promised would "slowly & quietly" let GOP stock the court
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Missouri SoS dragged out his office's examination of the veto referendum (of the GOP gerrymander) for most of 2026 to ensure he can run out the clock; and finally declared today, on the deadline by which he had to act, that he thinks the veto referendum is entirely unconstitutional.
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I cannot wait to have Abdul El-Sayed, Troy Jackson, and Sherrod Brown in the Senate. The populist left faction of the Senate Dem caucus is growing!
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Posting my music in the dead of night to satisfy the “amateur musician” part of my bio: on.soundcloud.com/Qd8jtoqpl1zM...
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november
new music now. new album out now.
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
She’s literally fucking the Republican nominee for governor, ofc she’s regurgitating RNC talking points
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Huge mistake to think this can't work.
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Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Proof?
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Guess we see why Sherrod Brown is consistently leading and Acton isn’t. She’s kinda shitty!
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026
I Hate Adobe: aftermath.site/i-hate-adobe/
The adobe logo with devil horns
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Troy Jackson is Platner without both the charisma and the baggage. Let’s hope the message is enough to get him elected.
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
President Newsom, Harris, or Ocasio-Cortez: take notes.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/07/2026
dont let the magic of 2022 make you forget argentina are world footballs worst shitbags, and i hope spain chokes them to death for a boring, if satisfying, 1-0 win
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David 🍉 @davidwave4.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I desperately want President Whoever in 2029 to say Trump’s presidency was illegitimate after Jan 6 and everything he did after is invalid. If we’re at that point, go whole hog.
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🕷️Spectre of Communism🕷️, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hi, as someone who grew up in a rural area and realistically can never return, I am fine with conditioning farm aid/highway and infra money/Medicare and Medicaid/etc on rural deNazification efforts.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll got paid. www.lawdork.com/p/despite-tr...
[Update, 12:20 p.m. July 14: Law Dork confirmed that funds totaling more than $5.62
million were transferred to E. Jean Carroll on
Tuesday.
"Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll. Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict," Roberta Kaplan, Carroll's lawyer, said in a statement.]
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026
ICE agents shouldn’t be executing people on the street even if they ARE the target of the warrant
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"If you are my enemy just go ahead and try to defeat me. Don’t tell me how to be more like you. You suck!"
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Don't Take Advice From Your Enemies
The most useless genre on earth.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"we're using AI to turn PDFs into podcasts" is gonna be one of those phrases that gets mocked in about 20 years as the absolute height of the 2020s AI bubble of creating useless features dreamt up by Linkedin-climbing MBA lunatics for an audience of no one
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Attention, Chicago: the Finance Committee of City Council meets today, at 10 am, to discuss allowing the ownership of the parking meters to be transferred to a company that works extensively with ICE, today. Further information in the video & thread below. Call your alders.
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Andrew Sanford @andrewsanford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Guys, you can’t spend all day celebrating Lindsey Graham’s death. Save some jabs to throw at Conor McGregor who had an embarrassing return to MMA last night!
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Whether this story is apocryphal or not, how we shit on Lindsay Graham today matters. Other Quislings who are still alive and enabling Trump need to know how they will be remembered if they don’t turn on him immediately. This is the legacy that awaits them all.
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