Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialOwen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 7hIn 2025, ICE attorneys started refusing to identify themselves in immigration hearings, but doing this in actual federal court seems like a new step 713147
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 7hSo a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts 711980671
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS. 14899123
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026hey remember when we just, like, funded public schools for everyone that was good 2509
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They're still all over Eastern TN and in Walmart there... 010
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The reckoning is here… 340144392360
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It was a metaphor. An analogy. Calling it twitter is to use a name and identity it has rejected, inplicity imply you wish it weree the old thing. You can say it is a metaphor in poor taste, or inapt, but the literalism in this internet spat is just so tedious. 110
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'd settle for them accidentally just making it more NY or CT. 110
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.social Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 06/10/2026I swear, if the Democrats won't campaign on "The president says major American cities getting nuked is a small price to pay" 717123
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day. 3730265
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120463123
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026plus the lawyers would've said it might be construed as an admission that something bad actually happened, or even of some kind of guilt and wouldn't want that, would we? 010
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Basically an assistant too. To take care of things that modern capitalist enshitification continues to make more and more onerous 070
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026JFC you've invented Jim Crow but for the left. 110
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If this is a sincere take it's literally horseshoe Theory in action. Pro-choice? Too evil to vote! Failed some kind of Jim Crow era voting test? Too stupid to vote! 010
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026agreed, but got shut down. Now candidates are obviously cutting ads those consultants would have 'vetoed'. changing of the guard all around, is my fervent hope. 010
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These ads are also abviously a sign that some candidates are not working with the same old tired cautious advisors and consultants. And when they win, more Democratic candidates and office-holders will start taking the gloves off and joining the 21st century. 1101
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialE.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 29/09/2026Dems need to win PA by around 9 points to flip its Senate (~D+11 nationally). In that situation, they likely also take the state legislatures of WI, MI, AZ and NV Gov. Dems would have the votes to push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over the line and eliminate the Electoral College. 1323739
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So, " reopen talks" in time for market open Monday, or is this week's sell-off and then rebuy pushed to Tuesday and Wednesday? 000
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls 33477259
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Per Texas media, it’s looking like +100K registrations were affected. Secretary of State is saying that it shouldn’t affect voting. 38786420
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026CNN pulled a clip of Michele Tafoya recently saying "I've never said I was embarrassed to be from Minnesota" and then displays an unearthed and deleted tweet of her saying "I am embarrassed to be from Minnesota" 🥴 40896112820
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I was really impressed by OP's takeaway from that Amartya Sen article. Since the main conclusion is that the one of the reasons the famine was so bad was the lack of open and adversarial press. So they didnt even know how bad it was or where. 000
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialMisty Sparkle The Underhamster @mialynneb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026All these new accounts, or suddenly activated accounts that haven't posted in months pretending to be from marginalized communities to suppress the vote for midterms is fun! Not our first rodeo, goofies.static.klipy.comPeter Griffin Blocks the Push ButtonALT: Peter Griffin Blocks the Push Button 25110
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I love when I see something like this and I'vr already blocked whoever it is 020
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026No female airmen then? Just an all male airforce? 110
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026are you fucking serious newsom and bonta should be raked over the fucking coals for settling 271835437
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool. 2114152901
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026this sounds like the opening line of a @themountaingoats.bsky.social song 000
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yeah it's not even sneaky. It's just allowing people to see what government is actually for and to understand in their own lives that it can make their lives better. Republicans all thing for decades has been government doesn't work let's cut the size of government 110
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Like school lunches and universal child-care, which are slow-roll out promises with inevitably imperfect /incremental implementation. 080
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yeah but potholes, and snow shoveling, and park fountains, and bus times... starts to really add up and it is *fast* and *visible* and opens the door to ppl supporting you on things that are slower and less visible. 3140
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialAlex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Rules for Left(ish) Mayors: Find comrades in the bureaucracy. You'll be judged by how well the city functions under your direct control. Smart & creative lower-level staff are bottled up by managers who got their positions by supporting the status quo. Find your people & elevate them when you win. 1307
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language 5951571223
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As a Jewish person, growing up "white" in the Midwest in the 80's, it would have been inconceivable that my condition was as fragile & conditional as it turned out to be. That kind of antisemitism was in the past. My parents showed me the orig deed to our house w/ a no Blacks or Jews clause. 120
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel 1835844372
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialChurch of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The retconning of the Biden presidency as some milquetoast centrist exhibitionism is crazy. He did what ever progressive wanted with the Covid recovery, vaccinations, unions and climate. The stuff we also needed: more states, court reform, new VRA, impeachment—required us to have more senators. 21451102
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Rate hike make things more expensive. Bad for Trump, good for Dems politically. Also, good reality-based policy in defiance of Trump preferences. Good. Banker class defecting? Good? 010
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026They've been doing this for *decades*. Like, I remember being called a self-hating Jew like 20 years ago for criticizing Israel. 150
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialtomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 12/09/2026Read it slow: he told a crowd he doesn't care if they're registered, just go cheat like the other side does. That's not a gaffe, it's an instruction, on camera, with his own name attached. Every Republican in that arena who cheered instead of walking out owns this too. Fuck you. 541887435
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 335119605001
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Oh man. This is gonna be the last straw for The RFK Jr roid and T bros! 280
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I tried to take this vid of my dog while driving once and ended up in the ditch. All safe, but truly the most unsafe idea of my adult life. 030
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem 10385241964
dlavin.bsky.social @dlavin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Katie was never in the same league. We have some seriously Bush league politics in Seattle, and even then she is incredibly amateurish. *especially* when it comes to communications. Where all of the current crop of excellent young liberal politicians excel. 020
Reposted by @dlavin.bsky.socialNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases! 1027181795681
