Sign in

David

@dkuofu.bsky.social
736 followers 187 following 2K posts

Architect, urbanism, foraging, good food, democracy, and human rights

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by David
🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 1h
Hard to think of a president that has stood against the ideals of our nation more than Trump
25412
Reposted by David
A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Suburbs turn people into antisocial petty tyrants I stg
2262
Reposted by David
Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 21h
always and forever amen.
I saw a kid/teen -
(insert complaint about kids/teens existing in the public realm doing basically anything kids do
Then say: Kids just don't go outside now, when we were young we were outside all day and got up to all sorts of hilarious trouble.
912418
Reposted by David
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h
The power of the purse is Congress’s strongest check on the president. If a president can both spend money Congress refused to give him and refuse to spend money Congress ordered him to spend, Congress no longer has the spending power.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Why You Must Care About the Ballroom
Trump is defying Congress and robbing the American people to build it.
15360103
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 13h
Maybe they should be less worried about the 5G and more worried about the media they are consuming over 5G?
000
Reposted by David
The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 21h
“It would be too bad if other tax hikes led Salt Lake County voters to reject parks and recreation bond,” The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board writes.
sltrib.com
Tribune Editorial: Support our parks for 10 years? It’ll cost you the price of a movie ticket.
“It would be too bad if other tax hikes led Salt Lake County voters to reject parks and recreation bond,” The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board writes.
0178
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 15h
He's certainly aiming to be the "straight shooter" candidate, which is actually refreshing
010
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 15h
Incredible! Another piece in the "Puzzle of Polynesia." The history of the Pacific Islands is extraordinarily complex and fascinating. I highly recommend also reading Sea People by Christina Thompson!
000
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 15h
"They'll regulate themselves"
010
Reposted by David
🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 18h
Nuremberg 'em all
1233
Reposted by David
The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 18h
With significant rainfall expected beginning tomorrow, take a few minutes to make sure you’re prepared.
sltrib.com
Utah flooding resource guide: What to do before, during and after a flood
It can flood anywhere in Utah. These tips can help guide you through what you should do before, during and after a flood to protect yourself, your home or business, your family and pets, and your belongings. SLT: (SLT)
1115
Reposted by David
Nick Norris @nicknslc.bsky.social · 18h
Vote against it.
081
Reposted by David
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h
I'd be curious to see what happens immediately before that video; I wish the NYPD had made that public as well. But I have to say... on initial view, that looks indistinguishable from a carjacking, and if I'd been the driver I would also probably have floored it.
322543262
Reposted by David
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?
9936961019
Reposted by David
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That Kelvin wave I was concerned about has arrived in southern California
1620760
Reposted by David
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If Donald Trump, with his record of corruption and law-breaking, is not impeached, we might as well strike impeachment provisions from the Constitution. He is the reason they exist and must be implemented.
701101325
Reposted by David
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE shot a man in New York City today while he was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child. Abolish ICE.
nytimes.com
ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)
The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...
38829328
Reposted by David
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman
581075425
Reposted by David
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is fucked up
741757195
Reposted by David
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
1423219852
Reposted by David
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
19501297
Reposted by David
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Unbelievably stupid. Lisa Su was a small child when she came to Queens from Taiwan, her father was a statistician who worked for City government in NYC …probably one of the accountants described here by Vance as being debarred
917142
Reposted by David
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He was also the one who sent the 'there's "free pussy" upstairs' text. So tell me again about how better consent "training" will fix this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...
nytimes.com
Man Accused in Cornell Sex Assault Was Designated as a Party Monitor
The fraternity filed paperwork identifying Jonathan Newell as a “trained event monitor” at a party where a woman said she was assaulted. He was accused of taking part.
11671179
Reposted by David
Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is even more insane than I remembered.
Did Biden call Trump supporters 'garbage? It comes down to an apostrophe.
Republicans have long strained for a new Hillary Clinton-"deplorables" moment, but Biden's defense is entirely plausible.
October 30, 2024
• Footage of Biden's disputed
'garbage' comment
President Joe Biden was on a call with Latino voters on Oct. 29 when he brought up a Trump rally speaker's recent insult of Puerto Rico.
October 28, 2024
• Harris responds to question about Biden's 'garbage' remark
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to reporters before boarding a flight on Oct. 30 about President Joe Biden's remark that some intrepreted as calling former president Donald Trump's supporters
"garbage." The White House said Biden was referring
"to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square
Garden rally as garbage."
October 29, 2024Harris seeks to distance herself from Biden's 'garbage' remark
Vice President Kamala Harris tells reporters she rejects criticism based on how someone votes. The White House says President Joe Biden was referring to racist rhetoric, not to Trump voters.
October 31, 2024
Biden visits Philly amid lingering furor over 'garbage' remark
The White House stenographer's office complained about how press office officials handled the transcript of Biden's comments.
November 5, 2024
or Trump and Rubio react to Biden's 'garbage' comments
At former president Donald Trump's rally on Oct. 29, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said he hoped President Joe Biden would apologize for his "garbage" comments.
October 28, 2024Opinion
Take all this garbage out to the curb
Two comments have created a dumpster fire of partisan outrage this week.
October 30, 2024
White House, Trump campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters garbage'
The disputed remark came in response to racist remarks about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally in New York City.
October 30, 2024
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Kamala Harris's Joe Biden problem
Kamala Harris stood on the Ellipse and delivered a clear and unifying message to a thundering crowd.
Moments earlier, in the White House illuminated behind her, Joe Biden had sat alone at a computer.
October 30, 2024
Opinion
The 10 worst things Biden did in 2024
Among the president's lows: pardoning Hunter Biden and calling Trump supporters "garbage."
January
371143226
Reposted by David
Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dang! I knew the 9th & 9th Whale was powerful, but they just *barely* unveiled the new paint job and already Hurricane Rachel is aimed straight for SLC!
Chart map showing the predicted path of Hurricane Rachel cutting across Baja California, San Diego, Las Vegas, and terminating in Salt Lake City.
2223
Reposted by David
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
·
7m
“Vandalize the demographics of America” is either a chilling phrase suggesting that Mullin is a white nationalist or an absurdly meaningless bit of pablum  which ignores 250 years of the constantly shifting demographics of a nation of immigrants.

Underneath is a picture of Mullin with a quote "How do you turn a country from democracy to socialism? You have to change the demographics."
951232365
Reposted by David
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/10/2026
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
663424609
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Seinfeld: Kramer - You're an Anti-DENTITE
Alt: Seinfeld: Kramer - You're an Anti-DENTITE
030
Reposted by David
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
17342751625
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And then of course there is the classic "I'm not a Witch" ad set against a JC Penney backdrop youtu.be/uxJyPsmEask?...
000
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Diving down this rabbit hole also led me to this gem—a 2010 political ad with a man crawling around in a sheep suit with demon eyes 😂 youtu.be/Wo_Ejfc5hW8?...
youtu.be
Demon Sheep Ad! FCINO: Fiscal Conservative In Name Only.
YouTube video by GrahamAndFriends
100
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The fu—?...
110
Reposted by David
KUTV2News @kutv2news.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For years, the Jordan River corridor was a place many people avoided. Now, families walk and bike along trails, children player near the water and kayakers make their way down river. bit.ly/472i98v
bit.ly
From neglected to treasured: Riverton residents transform Jordan River corridor
For years, the Jordan River corridor in Riverton was a place many people avoided.“The word was out, don’t go down to the trail by the river,” Riverton Mayor Tis
071
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(missing alt text) CNN political analysis piece by Aaron Blake Headline: Trump's comment about nuking Los Angeles and San Diego was incoherent, not malicious
000
David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, stuff off 🙄 @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
110
Reposted by David
Ed Overbeek @edoverbeek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If the legalization of same-sex marriages somehow limited Alito’s freedom to believe homosexuality is a sin, you’d think he’d have shut up about it by now
0312
Reposted by David
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congrats to UW Madison on the Nobel in Physics! He is an immigrant to the US. Immigrants make up 40% of US wins in science chemistry, medicine, and physics in this century.
341773
Reposted by David
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research
171047208
Reposted by David
Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To address the loss of independence that comes with not being able to driving, the solution isn’t self driving cars, which are currently not fully legal by the way. It’s designing communities that give good alternatives to driving
2313
Reposted by David
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
182574294
Reposted by David
🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 06/10/2026
OpenAI is a scourge and should be burned to the ground. They have completely disregarded any sense of an obligation to constrain themselves on behalf of our society
2336
Reposted by David
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
8536901440
Reposted by David
escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Funniest possible cause of action for a data privacy violation lawsuit that deals a body blow to these companies is definitely "it scraped all our employer ID numbers to turn into de facto Groupons" both bc its so mundane sounding but also has huge financial implications
329214
Reposted by David
Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
projects.propublica.org
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
271588941
Reposted by David
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
1335751332
Reposted by David
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
34470491009
Reposted by David
Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
In 2024, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws—a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him as he tries to get people to buy his own book.
motherjones.com
Book-banning GOP governor wants you to buy his book
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is promoting himself as a "peacemaker."
613052
Reposted by David
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
44159233761
Reposted by David
John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
10994692975