David Dark
@daviddark.bsky.social
believes radiohead / tenured talker /author of Everyday Apocalypse: Art, Empire, & the End of the World, We Become What We Normalize, & Explain All These Controls: U2 & the Inner America (forthcoming)
The USCIS withheld records about their involvement in President Trump’s attempts to identify and purge people from the voter rolls. So we sued.
Lawsuit seeks evidence of federal immigration agency’s role in Trump’s voter purge plans
Democracy Forward went to court after USCIS failed to disclose the public records, despite multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about the agency’s involvement in Trump’s unprecedented a...
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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Congratulations to @donavanmckinney.bsky.social on a huge win for working families in MI-13! In addition to overcoming millions in outside spending, Donavan defeated a multimillionaire incumbent who enriched himself in office and voted to enrich Trump. This is how we build a better Democratic Party!
BREAKING: Donavan McKinney has defeated incumbent Shri Thanedar in the MI-13 Democratic Primary! McKinney is an unapologetic progressive while Thanedar is a pro AIPAC pro genocide corporate puppet. A huge win for working people in MI!
“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
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Apparently we're paying $25K bribes to AUSAs to convince the to risk their law license working for a shitshow DOJ. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
CBS confirms that Jeanine Pirro's big white box has all the evidence that the reflecting pool was Trump's contractor's fault. Which will be of interest for @normeisen.bsky.social, just so he can make sure he gets it all. 🤣 www.cbsnews.com/news/pirro-b...
Pirro brought box of evidence to show Trump what caused Reflecting Pool damage
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro was seen with a large box as she left the White House Monday after her meeting with President Trump.
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"Were any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize?" @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/03/d...
Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized? - emptywheel
Were any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize?
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"Were any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize?" @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/03/d...
Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized? - emptywheel
Were any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize?
emptywheel.net
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
"Just days after learning that their liege has recently been laundering money, the Senate GOP is rushing to sanction DOJ’s illegal decision to pardon Trump for those crimes." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/03/s...
Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief's Tax Crimes - emptywheel
Just days after learning that Donald Trump, his companies, and his spawn have, as recently as 2021, been laundering money, the Senate GOP is rushing to sanction DOJ's illegal decision to pardon those ...
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I despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
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It will be amusing if Trump should die before giving more pardons away. Burgum is betting his own life on that pardon.
"Burgum is not going to take the fall for Pirro’s stupid decisions....Now, it’s no longer Norm Eisen’s word against Pirro’s...Now Eisen has a dispute among Trump’s top aides. Eisen has a cabinet member’s claims." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/02/d...
Doug Burgum Accuses Jeanine Pirro of Lying - emptywheel
I've been saying for weeks that Trump would have to be fucking stupid to dick around with a criminal case on which Norm Eisen is a defense attorney. And yet, Trump just dicked around on a criminal cas...
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In case you're wondering, Maggie and Swan provide none of the background on Kirill Dmitriev which was a core part of the Russian investigation. The same schtick, too, intros from UAE and the Saudis.
Michigan’s primary is tomorrow, and Indivisible-endorsed candidate @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is taking the lead. NYT: “...several recent public surveys showed Dr. El-Sayed leading, and he is increasingly seen by Democrats as the favorite as voters prepare to make their picks.”
Michigan’s Tense Democratic Senate Race Poses a Big Test for a Divided Party
Progressives hope momentum by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will give them a signature victory. Centrists warn that picking him will backfire in November. Acrimony is everywhere.
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this is all in the context of Miller still having court mandated access to the 2 year old child he probably abused. and yes, courts often help perpetuate abuse, and seem to be doing so in this case.
New in PN: The right-wing bubble seals in the GOP with Max Miller "When you become the party of Fox News, you become a party whose candidates have no idea how to exist outside of Fox. That's why the GOP's fascist propaganda may, for once, be not a life raft but an anchor when the blue wave hits."
The right-wing bubble seals in the GOP with Max Miller
Live by the Fox hit, die by the Fox hit.
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Abby was the one that broke open the Max Miller story (and shame on NYT for not acknowledging that). Here is her original story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
He needs to Sue for Slander!!!
David Dark@daviddark.bsky.social · 4d ago"Prosecutors weren’t helpless to know their case was shit before getting the DOI records. They already had photographic proof that Hearn didn’t do the damage to the pool. But they charged him anyway." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/01/t...
She's going back in! REPEAT: She is Going. Back. In.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d agoI cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
"Prosecutors weren’t helpless to know their case was shit before getting the DOI records. They already had photographic proof that Hearn didn’t do the damage to the pool. But they charged him anyway." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/01/t...
The Flapping Holes in Jeanine Pirro's Davey Hearn Juicebox Jam - emptywheel
In Jeanine Pirro's motion to dismiss the case against Davey Hearn, she included photographic proof that they should never haved charged him.
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