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Dave DeFord

@ddeford.bsky.social
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Texsylvanian, current Philadelphian.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Republicans don’t like markets anymore than they like meritocracy. What they like is very specific kinds of inequality that can be achieved through markets and meritocracy. But if they aren’t then those things aren’t worth it.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This congress hasn’t exactly been a well oiled machine, seems like an unnecessary gamble on their part.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That time of year again.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is it just me or are teams defending our under center run game in ways that also seem to overload protection for under center PA?
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a lot of sympathy for the human shields of space hitler.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Meanwhile: “But after a long make-nice campaign, Mr. Musk is back in Washington with a seat at the table of the Pentagon, as a co-director of a group advising an agency that is a source of his vast personal wealth.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
With Elon Musk’s Return to Washington, Possible Conflicts of Interest Resurface
The founder of SpaceX, with billions of dollars in military contracts, joins several other defense industry executives on a Pentagon advisory board.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The audience in a Steve Jobs conference all grown up.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
History nerds usually remember to check themselves before saying “…and as we ALL remember studying!”
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine if we simply left murders by students on college campuses to be punished by colleges, using only the internal punishments they are able to inflict. We would find it insane and intolerable. Rape isn't that far off in terms of severity. Why are we putting utterly unsuited orgs in charge?
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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 · 29/09/2026
I think any industry can manage drastic improvements with a trillion dollars of investment over 10 years.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The people in charge of AI consent and ethics have some opinions on it they’d love to share with you at the “consent doesn’t matter convention”.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My 9 Games #My9Games my9games.com/en/s/ee523f1...
my9games.com
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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just don’t have a very sophisticated political mindset for dealing with community change over time. I see this as a shade of the same mentality that infects zoning/land use controversies generally.
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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...
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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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Politics as redemptive religion. Half measures to salvation only illustrates how corrupt the political system is, and how soiled the compromisers must be.
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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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That’s going in the book!
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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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just talked to my manager and it looks like we can get you friends and family pricing!
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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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A Fetterman margin ❤️
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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
Obligatory
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Koch brothers political project of unwinding history from Wilson forward
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This was my read of the situation, Iran has had the capability to win this fight for a little while but no single government was composed of guys who wanted to die to see it happen.
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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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This seems to slot very well into existing issues with 24hour tv news.
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Meant for the quoted poster but your right it’s pretty dumb
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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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Making your feelings of inadequacy and superiority someone else’s problem.
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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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Steve Carell: It's About Connection!
ALT: Steve Carell: It's About Connection!
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hammancheez but spooky @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...
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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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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @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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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If thy right hand offends thee…
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Dave DeFord @ddeford.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It’s why they like Thay so much. It’s just the one bad guy at the top with other dead people as collaborators.
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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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