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Dave Spector

@dhmspector.bsky.social
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Software Engineer & Writer in DevPubs @  • A NewYorker in SF • ex-Wall St’er • Foodie • Coffee roaster • Maker • Photographer • W2DHM • Opinions are mine, not my employer’s • Born at 318.43 ppm * Wannabe flâneur

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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tonights #sunset in the #sunsetdistrict in #SF
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
How do you say “Cambodia” in Spanish? “Venezuela,” apparently…
David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social • 2m
So it's a secret war? That's been considered an impeachable offense in the past.

2 minutes ago
Iyler Pager
The White House declined to comment on the reports of explosions in Caracas.

2 minutes ago
Eric Schmitt Reporting from
Washington
A Pentagon spokesman referred all questions about the explosions to the White House.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This has been true since Trump’s firing of many career DOJ officials, but is now is terminally true: ANYONE who stays on in their jobs at DOJ after this is not just complicit, but a co-conspirator in Trump’s lawlessness. Everyone needs to resign. Today.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
#Mornjng in the #Sunset A photo looking west at the Pacific Ocean over the sunset, out toward ocean beach. The sky is transitioning from salmons and pinks as the dawn yields to the day in San Francisco.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If the #democrats had any brains (TL;DR: they don't), they'd track down every single one of the people who were buying up CALL options while the market was in fact cratering hours before Trump pulled this stunt and caused this bounce and out them for the felonious insider traders they are.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The technical term is "dead cat bounce"….
CNBC
Dow futures bounce 1,100 points after 3 days of turmoil from Trump's tariffs
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Seems dumb. He's been having "private meetings" with all his fave MAGA grrls, like Laura Loomer — Who is going to treat his STIs now? www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sex…
Top Stories
STAT
CDC's top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Secretary of #Gaslighting, er, #Treasury #Bessent says the #TrumpCrash that's destroyed $6.4T in investments in 2days is just a "Magnificent 7" (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, META, NVDA, TSLA) problem. ORLY? Then explain the bloodbath in the other 493 #SP500 stocks. finance.yahoo.com/news/tr
Heat map of the S&P500 showing the bloodbath caused by Trumps idiotic tariffs.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/pr…
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE SHREDS TRUMP'S "IDIOTIC" TARIFF WAR:
"Trump's mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc.
He has lost his grip on reality, and committed the most profound,
The
Economist
RUINATION
DAY
Howto limit the global damage
How MAGA could help China
Penalising Le Pen
Refugee-camp economics
George Foreman: boxer, preacher and griller
harmful and unnecessary
economic error in the modern era.
Almost everything he said
yesterday-on history, economics and the technicalities of trade-was utterly deluded.
Trump's reading of history is upside down.
He has long glorified the high-tariff era of the late-19th century.
In fact, the best scholarship shows that tariffs IMPEDED the economy back then.
Tariffs made the Depression MUCH worse, just as they will harm ALL economies today.
It was the painstaking rounds of trade talks in the subsequent 80 years that lowered tariffs and helped increase prosperity.
Trump's assertions are flat-out NONSENSE, and his grasp of technicalities is PATHETIC!"
- THE ECONOMIST, April 3, 2023
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🫠
Donald J. Trump 0
@realDonaldTrump

If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!
12:01 PM - 6 Nov 2012Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Stock Market(s) are literally crashing.
There was no reason for this, all self inflicted!
14k ReTruths 39.8k Likes Jun 13, 2022 at 7:12 AM
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is the grossest violations of his oath of office — knowingly and with malice of forthought conspiring to inflict economic harm to the country. #economicsabotage #RemoveTrumpNow
An image from a stocks tracking app showing trillions of dollars of the country’s wealth destroyed by Trump in an act of economic sabotage.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Democrats need to put this on blast 24x7 in every media they can find ….
CN Business
Americans will pay $6 trillion for Trump's tariffs - the largest tax hike in US history
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Was this via signal or via seance?
Adam S. Hersh, Ph.D.
@ahecon.bsky.social

Trump says he talked to Lee lacocca about his tariff plan. Lee lacocca has been deceased since 2019. #LiberationDay
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Trump on the tariff-based inflation he's causing, which is raising prices for every single American car buyer: www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tru…
Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if automakers raise prices due to tariffs.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A little irony to make the point even more.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Spot on. Just missed one thing — he needed to be flipping the bird.
An image portraying Trump as “Saint Stupid” in full bishops regalia.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The #TrumpSlump continues to accelerate. Another half trillion in your money disappearing… all because of this maniac's economic incompetence. How long until someone #5150's this loon?
The Trump created economic train wreck continues in this screenshot from a stock tracking app showing the markets wiping out hundreds of billions of shareholder value.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Not content to merely erase women, LGBTQIA, non-whites, and poor people from the public sphere and government, Trump is now actively trying to murder them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/climate/…
Breaking  News
The Trump administration intends to eliminate E.P.A. offices responsible for addressing pollution in poor communities, an internal memo said.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Hurtling toward disaster. #TrumpSlump #EconomicIlliteracy #ImpeachThisImbecile
The Trump slump accelerates with more tariffs.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had." — Professor of marketing William T. Kelley, Wharton School of Business and Finance The #TrumpSlump continues…
A screenshot from a stock tracking app showing further market declines thanks to Trump’s economic illiteracy.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A boycott is the ability to vote with your wallet and the very definition of a free market. Only communists create command economies, Donald. #Capitalism101
MARKETS
Trump calls Tesla boycott 'illegal' and says he's buying one to support Elon
Musk
PUBLISHED TUE, MAR 11 2025•7:14 AM EDT | UPDATED 21 MIN AGO
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The #TrumpSlump accelerates into a full blown #MarketPanic. 5 weeks of non-stop losses with 7-8 trillion in lost market value: Time for his #WallSt #masters to grow a pair and tell him to either knock it off, #resign, or be #impeached
The TrumpSlump accelerates into a full blown panic.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is the definition of "free fall"…
A screenshot of Tesla stock in free fall — down down over 35% in less than a month
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Let's put this in perspective — TSLA has lost ONE THIRD of its value in a MONTH. All of the damage is self inflicted. And it's accelerating. Any sane board would eject him out the airlock & invoke whatever moral hazard/moral turpitude clauses in his contract to claw back every share he owns.
A stock chart of TSLA showing it losing one third of its value in one month.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The only "good news" in the #TrumpSlump is that whistling sound you hear is #Musk's net worth hurtling towards the ground. He's highly leveraged and if this continues banks will start to call his loans and sell off his stock.
A screenshot showing TSLA stock crashing thanks to Musk’s inability not to be a literal Nazi.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The #TrumpSlump continues — this is a manufactured crash; really shocking that major companies haven't filed suit against Trump or called for his immediate impeachment for blatant market manipulation and criminal interference in trade.
An image from a stock tracking app showing more damage Trump is doing it the markets with his reckless tariffs and economic interference, dropping the DJIA over 400pts and the NASDAQ almost 400pts
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
You wanna stop this crazy-ass BS? Start running ads with the names, faces, and addresses of these dirty old men with the caption: "This GOP pervert demands the right to inspect your daughter's vagina."
@joshuaahouston 
A republican bill that would have required girls have their genitalia inspected to play sports has failed in the senate.

But holy sh*t 51 republicans voted for girls to have their genitalia ispected.
And only girls, not boys.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Financial crimes on a scale that the Gilded Age robber barons couldn't even dream of… newrepublic.com/article/192008/trum…
Thomas Nast cartoon of Boss Tweed as a humans money bag from the late-1880s
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Kind of ironic #blusky’s character limit doesn’t fit the text of the first amendment. ↑ @jay.bsky.team you need to fix this. #ArrestBlackburnNow she’s demanding prison for people who protest the actions of their government. www.wbir.com/article/news...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Given what we know about fascists and history, that "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization" is not literally wiping out fascists whenever they rear their heads.
"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy."
- Elon Musk

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
- Hannah Arendt
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Like yesterday's adventures in the #TrumpSlump that knocked another trillion plus off of shareholder value? Here, have some more free fall…
An image from a stock tracking app showing more Trump Slump damage to the markets.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The #TrumpSlump continues — The actions of an economically illiterate imbecile tanks the DJIA 3,000 pts in this week alone, wiping out trillions in value.
A screenshot of a stock tracking app showing Trump’s economic carnage during the week of March 3, destroying trillions in value.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Emily Litella: What's all this FUSS I keep hearing… about endangered feces? Now, that's outrageous!! Why — why are FECES endangered?! […Emily rambles on…] Jane Curtin: Species. Emily Litella: What's that? Jane Curtin: Species! The list of endangered species! Not feces — species!
The White House (.gov)
https://www.whitehouse.gov
Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiment

 Last night, President Donald J.
Trump highlighted many of the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse funded by American...


MAGAS are raging at Biden's wasteful spending on transgender - mice, except it's TRANSGENIC mice!
Those are mice with genes modified to be like humans' for more accurate research into cancer treatments.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Whole lot o'stars over #SF tonight #iphone16promax #nightmode
Orion and friends watching over San Francisco as seen from Bernal Heights
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
But, of course… Related - hey @williamgibson — volume three of the Jackpot trilogy pls? We need to know how this turns out…
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#Trumpflation == markets in free fall
An image of the stock market in free fall thanks to Trump’s inflationary tariffs and DOGE chaos hitting needed programs, Main Street and American farmers.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Too soon, #PeopleOnAMission, way, way too soon. (Strong #THX1138 vibe tho… but #yikes) #admit #disclose #reveal #confess
Dystopian surveillance posters from People on a mission 

#admit #disclose #reveal #confessDystopian surveillance posters from People on a mission 

#admit #disclose #reveal #confess
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
As opposed to the tools OpenAI and Musk are building for Trump to do the same? It's what China does and has for decades, this is just self-servicing agitprop from OpenAI. And, to add to the irony: This news alert literally popped up while I was typing this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/tec
WIRED
DOGE sparks fear of surveillance. Government workers worry about how their data could be abused amid recent employee purges now
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Trump & Musk to 9/11 survivors, firefighters, police, and first responders: "You money grubbing losers are no longer of any use to us: DROP DEAD!"
Tristan Snell • @TristanSnell
BREAKING: Trump and Musk just CUT funding for 9/11 survivors -- and firefighters, police, and first responders
The World Trade Center Health Program was just cut by 20% and forced to lay off staff --and slash critical care
So much for NEVER FORGET.
9:40 PM • 18 Feb 25 • 22.4K Views
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
You misspelled "trailer park"… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/polit…
Seeking a Mar-a-Lago Vibe
President Trump has suggested paving over the grass in the White House Rose Garden for a patio like one at his Florida club.
now
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
You misspelled "ass". #FixedYourHeadline
The Bulwark
NYC Mayor Adams Case Dismissed After
Kissing Trump's Ring
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So Elon is trying to effect a coup d'etat… or in this case a "coup d'brat"?
The teenagers, some not even US Citizens, Elon Musk is using to illegally access classified systems and data at USAID and the OPM.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Too bad we can't sue Trump for illegal market manipulation. Might be interesting to see who in the admin and related groups bought puts and sue them for insider trading.
An image showing world market averages plummeting in response to trumps idiotic tariffs.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I am so sure these two stories are inextricably linked Makes as much sense as anything does lately. Also, when did popular mechanics become the tech heavy supermarket tabloid?
Popular mechanics article blurb that reads “POPULAR MECHANICS
Al Designed Computer Chips That The Human Mind Can't Understand.”Popular mechanics article blurb that reads “POPULAR MECHANICS
Aliens From a Parallel Universe May Be All Around Us-And We Don't Even Know It, Study suggests”
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Wanna know what these people stand for? This is it:
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"Unless you're the lead dog, the view never changes…"
A view on 280N while stopped in a typical evening traffic jam.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Shot meets chaser.
Donald J. Trump C @realDonald Trump
The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are
OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!
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Jan 27, 2025, 8:12 PMCA - DWR
@CA_DWR •34m
The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days.
State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Quite the haircut… 18%
Stock ticker showing nvidia down over $23/share or over 18%.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"Don't try to catch a falling knife." — Wall Street adage.
A screenshot of a quote of Nvidia stock showing 12+% drop on the news that the AI buildout may have been overdone.
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Dave Spector @dhmspector.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
On a lighter note (well, darker, if we're being literal) — it's an amazingly clear night in the Bay Area. Go outside and look up! (5sec exposure on an iPhone 16 Pro Max)
Orion and friends in the night sky over San Francisco.
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