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Dave DeFord

@ddeford.bsky.social
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Texsylvanian, current Philadelphian.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the plainly stated thesis of this article is that democratic voters disproportionate want and would benefit from a policy proposed by the party, and therefore they should not pursue that policy. apart from being tautological this is bizarre.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My 9 Games #My9Games my9games.com/en/s/ee523f1...
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The 9 Games That Make Me, Me | My 9 Games
Pick the 9 games you love most and share them. Take a look at the 9 games shared on this page.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CHOP, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is also the one Fetterman wouldn't meet with ... about their worries about ... measles.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So yeah this is blasphemous and yeah it’s culty and yeah it’s deranged but I’d really like to focus on how fucking pathetic it is. Grown men like “yes he is my daddy and my god and my king” like my GOD what the fuck is wrong with your life that you fill it with this?
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Carlos Williams @smartsapper86.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Patriot PAC-3 MSEs cost $5 million each. We burned $300 million in missile interceptors in an hour. An F-15E adjusted for inflation costs $90 million each. We blew through a cool $1 billion in an hour fighting a war that’s not a war; which we have no actual plan on how to fight or exit out of.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026
The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 02/09/2026
A mom of five was convicted last week of delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years.
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Virginia mom gets 6-month suspended jail sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years.
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Dave @chasinbirdeeee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Love it when @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social comes right out of the gate throwing 103mph.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How can an individual be “polarized”? An individual can be “radicalized”. Anyway, most “polarization” literature is about right-wing radicalization. Stop using the term “polarization” for radicalization on one pole!
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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm just making plans to vote in-person at this point and I'm gonna recommend that to others in my life too
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Andrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is literally the difference between Saruman and Gandalf. Tolkien is very clear about the necessity to go out into the world and yap with strangers, preferably while smoking and drinking.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why were there only 3 measles deaths in the last 10 years Robert
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026
if I had presidential aspirations, I would be making clear that anyone who tries to take this sale has another thing coming
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
republicans : flood social media with gleeful racist posts showing Haitians in chains democrats : tearing each other apart over a fucking twitch streamer's bloviating
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
cbsnews.com
Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in history, & then it's Monday.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
again: they mean it
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I don't mean to be paranoid but we know for a fact that far right movements across the world have depended on being bankrolled by ultrawealthy patrons who business creatures & press editors didn't want to antagonize. These people were deemed harmless at worst & they were not.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time
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Nix @nixjeelvy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is Trump Saddam Hussein? > Ruinous war against Iran > Gilded everything > Bullies oil-rich neighbouring states > Genocidal acts against ethnic minorities > Moron sons on a non-stop crime spree > Hides in boxes > Sets the national economy on fire
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
i think one of the hidden keys to politics right now is "how can our side make sure that the 'trump is gonna kill a bunch of beautiful wild horses' story gets in front of the millions of otherwise apolitical consumers of social media horse-related content"
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A good 5% of the country and one entire political party going in on “mRNA vaccines killed 300 million people” literally two weeks before they take another step in curing cancer is truly the story of this era.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hot take: ChatGPT is putting in relief how a lot of senior people actually work: they farm out the tedious parts to junior staff, review things half-assed in traffic, & rake in a big check for their trouble.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026
I'm sure it was a little uncomfortable for Socrates to eat poison. But the bitterness of hemlock is nothing compared to the bitterness from having to admit you might have benefitted from racial privilege
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics … publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back.” — www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The inevitable result of "RELIGIOUS LIBERTY" vaccine exemptions: punishments against religions that support vaccines.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 28/07/2026
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/07/2026
Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And if that didn't work, the backup plan was apparently to just have the US military run basically perfect missile defense over a contested strait with a massive Iranian coastline with no shore support and limited magazine depths. Those are three *impossible* things.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.
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Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate
A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Okay this is overly general. It’s not “administration policies,” generally, it’s THE MASS TERMINATION OF EXISTING WORK PERMITS due to TPS terminations. That’s the imminent labor shock here.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I would like to invite people to not preemptively disempower themselves with the “I can’t imagine how I could solve X”. You’re already telling yourself the next step and the answers are likely more illuminating.
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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
one of my favorite charts
chart showing how almost all americans think we need more factory jobs, but almost no americans actually want to do them
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller made clear there must be no retreat: “One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is its completely pre-textual and disingenuous appeal to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence… When the leftist — who does not believe in freedom, who does not believe in civil rights, who does not believe in any ordinary notion of justice — protests that we are violating his rights, understand the he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
it’s amazing how often the solution to endlessly multiplying pedagogical problems turns out to be restoring an actual pedagogical relationship between instructors and students
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”
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