David Rothschild

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · Feb 2

Trump/Musk is flooding the zone, here is how you keep up: Trump taking cash bribes from oligarchs in exchange for power, Oligarchs steal from US gutting safety & opportunity for working families, Trump/Oligarchs doing horrible things to innocent people to distract US from their crimes against US.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 11m

NYT knows that these paramilitary are not going to investigate corruption, but to terrorize the good people of Minneapolis. Yet they promote & normalize & legitmize this fascist lie. They are collaborators.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 36m

The Trump administration will send “hundreds more” federal agents to Minneapolis to support the work of ICE agents, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said on Sunday, days after a federal agent shot and killed a woman there.

‘Hundreds More’ Federal Agents to be Deployed to Minneapolis After ICE Shooting

The announcement by the homeland security secretary came days after an immigration officer shot and killed a woman, Renee Good, in the city.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 36m

‘Hundreds More’ Federal Agents to be Deployed to Minneapolis After ICE Shooting

The announcement by the homeland security secretary came days after an immigration officer shot and killed a woman, Renee Good, in the city.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 38m

Advocating for ethnic cleansing is uncivil, turns up the temperature, condemning people for advocating for ethnic cleansing is a measured response to hatred & violence.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 42m

We view people & institutions that took the middle ground between Nazis & democrats, who tried to turn the temperature down and find common ground, as either useful idiots or collaborators.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 53m

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 2h

Debate should be about how to end death squads, not if the death squads went too far in this particular case.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 2h

AG Sulzberger mocked false equivalency as liberal attempt to demand NYT cheerlead for Democrats, when all we wanted was for NYT to not normalize death squads in Democratic cities. When NYT has robust debate if death squad should have killed a particular person, they are normalizing death squads.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 2h

False Equivalency has been a critical tool for our Media & Political Elite to normalize fascism.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 2h

Dare a Sunday host to ask a Regime official: why do you exclusively target Democratic areas for both mass police actions and funding cuts, when data points to many Republican areas that have high crime rates, undocumented immigrants, and history of fraud & abuse. Is the goal to terrorize Democrats?

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craiger @craigerflights.bsky.social · 2h

There’s a famous line from Apocalypse Now: “We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write ‘fuck’ on their airplanes because it’s obscene.”

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 2h

Media & Political Elite smugly imply that Republican Elite have different ideas of how to govern, but want all US citizens to live in peace & prosperity with federal government that works for all of US: they know that this is a lie but refuse to even confront it because of the terrible implications.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 2h

Republican Elite want Democrats & minorities to suffer and to be in terror of the federal government (but still confer legitimacy on it, to fund it).

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3h

There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 5h

... Miller, Homan, who else did I forget?

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 5h

... Noem, Vought, but also, Musk, Roberts, Johnson. Corporate Media needs to be delegitimized for its collaboration. Media & Political Elite will demand that no Elites face any accountability for their actions due to "unity", but without accountability they are just going to keep doing this to US.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 5h

There about 25-30 leaders of the Republicans Elite that need face serious accountability if/when this ends, both as punishment for the severity of their crimes AND to dissuade people from doing this to US again: Trump, Jared, Jr. Eric, Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Bondi, Bessent, Lutnick, RFK, Duffy, ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 5h

Problem is Trump's paramilitary shooting innocent people in the face, not calling out Trump's paramilitary for shooting innocent people in the face.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 6h

There is no debate about details here: victim was murdered by ICE while trying to get away.

Key question to debate how/why Trump commands 10,000's of heavily-armed masked men are terrorizing Democrats & minorities. @jaketapper.bsky.social is implicitly legitimizing & normalizing their existence.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 6h

Corporate Media (here @jaketapper.bsky.social) delude themselves into believing they are not collaborating, because of the gentle pushback they give to absurd & terrifying lies that Trump Regime spews on their shows, but entire premise of the debate is fascist propaganda, regardless of details.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

TAPPER: You called Renee Good a "domestic terrorist." Why did you not wait for an investigation?

NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency.

T: What you said is not what happened

N: It absolutely is what happened

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 6h

"Truckin', got my chips cashed in
Keep truckin', like the doo-dah man ...
Lately it occurs to me
What a long, strange trip it's been
Truckin', I'm a goin' home
Whoa baby back where I belong
Back home, sit down and patch my bones
Get back truckin' on"
-Bob Weir, RIP

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Grateful Dead - Truckin' (New York, NY 10/30/80) (Official Live Video)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

Will never stop amazing me that Media & Political Elite publicly condemned us for leaving their deepfake porn & fascism platform, ironically accusing us of living in an echo-chamber over here in non-X, as they destroyed their brains in hellish misogyny & fascism.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Elite hang out in right-wing echo-chamber full of misogynist fascists, and are constantly validated by collaborating Corporate Media: it is entirely possible they really think this policy of shooting middle-aged white ladies in the face is sane & popular. They are wrong on both accounts.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

What VP Vance is saying is that Trump paramilitary can/should shoot middle-aged white ladies in the face if they as much at look at one of Trump's heavily armed masked men the "wrong" way: this position is both insane and extremely unpopular.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump were a Democrat, @jaketapper.bsky.social & @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & rest of Corporate Media Elite would have forced him out of office, but instead they normalize & obfuscate & ignore & lie to sanewash this man they love to protect.

Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is clearly not well.

At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

The first question is the one Media & Political Elite want US to have because assumes that institutions are holding, that the masked paramilitary is legit

The second question challenges the Elites who are actively collaborating against US

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

Real question: not if this particular thug should have shot that particular innocent victim at that particular point in time (no, of course not)

Real question: how/why Trump commands 10k's of masked paramilitary whose only goal is to terrorize Democrats & minorities, crushing life, economy, joy, US

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

Dude can wake up tomorrow, pull our Caribbean fleet, invade Greenland, and let regime recapture whatever Us oil companies invest: would be extremely negligent to invest on Trump’s confused & distracted & corrupt word. Same reason no one invests on the tariffs that he messes with on his whim.

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