Reposted by David SpiraRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The GOP Platform: Protect the fetus; starve the child. Honor the soldier; abandon the veteran. Enrich the corporation; fleece the worker. Quote the Bible; ignore the verses. 24075402789
Reposted by David SpiraSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe. 16594011314970
Reposted by David SpiraCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 06/05/2026“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.) 7953721345
Reposted by David SpiraKirk Damato @kirksays.bsky.social · 14/10/2025@dbspira.bsky.social I'm really enjoying this new season of @realityescapepod.bsky.social -- the first two episodes have been fantastic! 131
Reposted by David SpiraMagic Data Science @mtgds.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Has someone in the card-concepting department at WotC been reading my journal? 1253
Reposted by David SpiraNo Proscenium @noproscenium.com · 29/08/2025Part II is the first of three Review Crew Mixtapes that drop this weekend. This one is called “The Gang Saves Chevy’s” Representing the Crew: Brian Resler, @parkersela.bsky.social, Katrina Lat, and Scott Gillies. Plus a bonus segment with @dbspira.bsky.social of @roomescapeartist.bsky.social. 183
Reposted by David SpiraHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian. 100103932060
Reposted by David SpiraRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 09/06/2025the issue is not just ICE. we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now. we cannot do both 11788452488
Reposted by David SpiraChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data. 15916660714559
Reposted by David SpiraRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/05/2025remember this; try if the things some people are trying look useless or stupid to you maybe they are, find something that seems smart. and keep an eye on whether or not the shit other people are trying works. 131197250
Reposted by David SpiraRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/05/2025this is only adjacent to the topic but I really hate the "this person will kick cancer's ass" style of discussion about illness. cancer is a tsunami. you might get lucky and survive it but you don't fight it. you get lucky enough to catch it early, and to have a cancer that we can treat, or not 1194222380
Reposted by David SpiraHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other. 11084301385
Reposted by David SpiraStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial." 605196418904
Reposted by David SpiraChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation. 15664724111075
Reposted by David SpiraSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return. 805812267725541
David Spira @dbspira.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Took a much needed break this evening and watched the latest @dropout.tv standup special: Cameron Esposito: Four Pills I highly recommend this. I also will encourage you to watch it in one sitting without reading anything about it. Also put down the phone and just watch it. 150
Reposted by David SpiraHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives. Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month. 3717526594
Reposted by David SpiraSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/04/2025An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately. 17775039811169
Reposted by David SpiraAlexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...cbsnews.comCDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaksThe steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. 48473393054
Reposted by David SpiraMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory 34426410813660
Reposted by David SpiraJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less. 883262847909
Reposted by David SpiraNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/04/2025How it started. How it’s going. 732660287
Reposted by David SpiraJed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days. 491237816530
Reposted by David SpiraHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero. 10706255212922
Reposted by David SpiraLuigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Man it is really hard to be living in the USA right now and getting news about how South Korea deposed their president for staging a coup and then their Supreme Court just said yup, definitely the right thing to do there. 197156462914
Reposted by David SpiraNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I had to drive my parents 200 miles to a Social Security office, but at least I know that immigrants are getting sent to torture prisons in El Salvador. 194116862369
Reposted by David SpiraGory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Every day I wake up to the news 103242584369
Reposted by David SpiraJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025“The President’s desires cannot be ignored” 464173644559
Reposted by David SpiraGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025one feature of due process is that it is meant to prevent un-fixable judicial mistakes 19720
Reposted by David SpiraRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/03/2025When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth. 177105012650
Reposted by David SpiraCenter for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana. 100128926339
Reposted by David SpiraMike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/03/2025Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...techdirt.comJudge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral PanicsWhen Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably werenR… 11651101453
Reposted by David SpiraRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/02/2025this man is on enough speed to kill a great white shark. the rubbing-his-hand-over-his-face is like one of five dead giveaways 1071732183
David Spira @dbspira.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Cool. Big @magic.wizards.com Commander change is shifting everyone’s deck from a “7” to a “3.” 110
Reposted by David Spira404 Media @404media.co · 05/02/2025You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...404media.coYou Can’t Post Your Way Out of FascismAuthoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes. 11661482605
David Spira @dbspira.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Years back, @roomescapeartist.bsky.social vetted #Shopify for use as our e-commerce platform. Not only was it insufficient, but their customer support was a gaggle of crickets. They could not or would not answer even basic questions. And today, I am so glad that they ruled themselves out. 150
Reposted by David SpiraPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/02/2025During an era of failing traditional media, TechDirt is absolutely killing it covering, explaining, contextualizing what is happening. Not a surprise if you’ve read them for a while. 281635433
David Spira @dbspira.bsky.social · 05/02/2025A couple months ago I launched a new show with @peihgee.bsky.social. I am so very proud of this short format game show that we're now 7 episodes into. This Bat Bomb with @escapethispodcast.bsky.social is my favorite episode so far. roomescapeartist.com/2025/02/04/p...roomescapeartist.comPG's Playhouse 7: The Bat Bomb (ft. Bill Sunderland and Dani Siller) - Room Escape ArtistBill Sunderland and Dani Siller of Escape This Podcast join us to talk about The Bat Bomb and play a thematic puzzle game. 031
Reposted by David SpiraRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Trump and the GOP are trying to repeal a Biden admin rule that requires lead water pipes to be replaced. Tens of millions of people, including children, would continue to have contaminated drinking water if the rules are revoked. So the GOP is the party of lead poisoning now?theguardian.comRepublicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rulesUS government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water 38557632091
Reposted by David SpiraJohn Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening. 477221335833
David Spira @dbspira.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I thought that it would be cooler living through the inciting incident of a really messed up cyberpunk story. 160
Reposted by David SpiraMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing. 46958333811504
Reposted by David SpiraSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025If a plea for kindness and empathy makes you furious, you might be a sociopath. 167142652969