Dave
@davemn80.bsky.social
Minneapolitan anti-fascist working in local government to solve problems, waiting for the great leap forwards. Occasional posts about baseball and soccer (YNWA). I bike and I know things.
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
Collecting statements by Minnesotan politicians in this thread.
YouTube's algorithm is about as unsubtle of a pro-Fascism influence op as one could conceive
Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · yesterdayHarris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
Again, none of its true. People are looking at graphs they don't understand and inventing stuff. Note the grifter language, "if confirmed" "its reported" No meta data! These graphs do not show russian propaganda bot disappearance, only normal internet information tool collapse.
Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · yesterdayWe’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
lithub.com
driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 3d ago"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
What many have not fully grasped is the sheer damage to the wider game done by pouring enormous sums in. Not just City - see Chelsea (twice), PSG - but it goes far beyond doing others out of trophies We hear endlessly of the PL's 'riches' but look at the absolute state of this
"Safety is a shared responsibility", they say.
Chicago 🏳️⚧️🌱@chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · yesterdayYeah, sure, this is a thing that's legal on our streets. Ok.
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
NEW: State of the Twins' payroll for 2027 - Guaranteed contracts - Arbitration projections - Non-tender candidates - Dead money (Correa) - Impending free agents - Qualifying offer (Jeffers) - Recent spending history - Tom Pohlad comments Full breakdown: www.aarongleeman.com/state-of-the...
State of the Twins' payroll: 2027 salaries on the books, toughest decisions, and flexibility
Breaking down Tom Pohlad's statements about payroll and the Twins' guaranteed contracts, dead money, departing free agents, and projected arbitration figures.
aarongleeman.com
Obviously isn't going to happen before unified Dem government, but the time to push for it is now and soon - Dems should be making DC statehood (and PR if they want it) a key plank in the democracy agenda and a litmus test for presidential candidates.
geoffrey 💀 (scary now)@parsnip.bsky.social · 3d agodc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
npr.org
So I guess this is now a thing. He'll get people used to hearing it by repeating it over and over until it's perfectly normal to contemplate the mass destruction of American cities he despises. And MAGA is delirious with joy every time he says it. Just don't say it's deplorable.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"
here's who is funding safe and justice hennepin, the PAC to elect anders folk. look how it's mostly coming from california! i don't think you should throw stones about taking out of state money when your PAC is also funded by out of state money taylordahlin.com/f/who-is-fun...
Who is funding Safe and Just Hennepin PAC to elect Anders Folk?
A new PAC has been registered called Safe and Just Hennepin to elect Anders Folk for Hennepin County Attorney. Due to the timing, having registered on July 31, there are only large pre-election contri...
taylordahlin.com
Cata is always must-read, but this is especially stellar work – not only on what makes Cavan Sullivan special, but dissecting the many factors which make it increasingly tricky to manage expectations around a top American soccer prospect. The definitive piece on the topic. An instant Cata classic.
cata@catabush.com · last wk.The story of Cavan Sullivan is a story about American soccer idols, and by extension, a story about American soccer itself, both the good and the bad. 20 years after Freddy Adu, American soccer has its prodigy. For @scoutedftbl.com, the tales we weave about Cavan and all that came before (🎁 link):
Trump calls Natalie on stage, checks out her legs, calls her "perfect," then floats creating a reality show w/ her -- & other lowlights from his rally tonight in Nebraska (Including Trump saying of Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is very small price to pay")
WATCH: Lisa Demuth says she still hasn't changed her mind after she praised Trump's ICE surge and Kristi Noem's "steady leadership."
I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · last wk.In the aftermath of the Cornell rape case, @espiers.bsky.social reflects on her own experiences with sexual assault, and how our current models of consent-based sex education may not be enough.
The story of Cavan Sullivan is a story about American soccer idols, and by extension, a story about American soccer itself, both the good and the bad. 20 years after Freddy Adu, American soccer has its prodigy. For @scoutedftbl.com, the tales we weave about Cavan and all that came before (🎁 link):
Cavan Sullivan, American mythmaker
Two decades after Freddy Adu, the United States finally has a new soccer icon. Now the nation must learn how to cope with the superstar it's craved.
scoutedftbl.com
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · last wk.In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
NYT/Siena Senate Polls (9/21-9/30) Texas: 🔵 Talarico 51% – 🔴 Paxton 45% Alaska: 🔵 Peltola 50% – 🔴 Sullivan 43% Ohio: 🔵 Brown 49% – 🔴 Husted 46% Kansas: 🔵 Hamiliton 45% – 🔴 Marshall 45% Iowa: 🔴 Hinson 48% – 🔵 Turek 47% www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This wonderful quote reminded me I need to donate to Brad Tabke: “I don’t necessarily believe in the center as a term or as a place or anything like that,” Tabke said. “I think that’s kind of where politicians go to hide and not actually do things.” www.startribune.com/tabke-paul-s...
Minnesota House control runs through a fiercely contested suburban rematch
DFL Rep. Brad Tabke of Shakopee is again facing Republican Aaron Paul in a bellwether matchup. Immigration, affordability, fraud and taxes are all in the mix.
startribune.com
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
