David Solimini
@commsdirector.bsky.social
Fear and bravery are contagious. Be brave. Leading @democracycomms.bsky.social. Previously Stimson Center, Truman Project, ICAN, others. Proudly SAIS Hopkins, William & Mary. Opinions are mine, not my employer's. Was @commsdirector at the bad bird place.
Could congress make the president's medical records public information by law?
December 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Could congress make the president's medical records public information by law?
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You can be mad about the US government seizing Iranian oil from a ship flying under a false flag but you should probably acknowledge that the US government did the same thing multiple times during the Biden administration if you choose to go that route.
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You can be mad about the US government seizing Iranian oil from a ship flying under a false flag but you should probably acknowledge that the US government did the same thing multiple times during the Biden administration if you choose to go that route.
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This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
IF you're going to force people to use a serif font, at least have the self respect to go with something legible and elegant like Freight. fonts.adobe.com/fonts/freigh...
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
IF you're going to force people to use a serif font, at least have the self respect to go with something legible and elegant like Freight. fonts.adobe.com/fonts/freigh...
ASP + SQL on MS IIS.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Testing circuit boards and chips.
Testing circuit boards and chips.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
ASP + SQL on MS IIS.
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They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...
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If Democrats are ever in power again what’s going to happen is the idea of holding this administration accountable for breaking the law every single day is immediately going to be made out as the greater breach of the rules.
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If Democrats are ever in power again what’s going to happen is the idea of holding this administration accountable for breaking the law every single day is immediately going to be made out as the greater breach of the rules.
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This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Is this ... just going to happen?
Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety reut.rs/4a4K6PN
Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.
reut.rs
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Is this ... just going to happen?
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
Extortion, simple as that.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Extortion, simple as that.
The WH's performative bullying, name calling, and expletives requires either some kind of preplanned collective action in the room by reporters (v hard with the sycophant outlets there) or someone has to be willing to give it right back. "Sir, stop acting like a child and answer the question."
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The WH's performative bullying, name calling, and expletives requires either some kind of preplanned collective action in the room by reporters (v hard with the sycophant outlets there) or someone has to be willing to give it right back. "Sir, stop acting like a child and answer the question."
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An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now under threat from the state’s Republican leadership.
boltsmag.org
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
Pumpkin pie is the only correct answer.
More TCN Staff Thanksgiving Favorites, Traditions, and Gratitude.
Next we have: Founder and CEO, Chris!
Favorite side: Anything potato based
Favorite pie: Pumpkin Pie
Turkey Trot family: Yes, but only me. My wife threatened to divorce me when I asked her to come on a run
Next we have: Founder and CEO, Chris!
Favorite side: Anything potato based
Favorite pie: Pumpkin Pie
Turkey Trot family: Yes, but only me. My wife threatened to divorce me when I asked her to come on a run
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Pumpkin pie is the only correct answer.
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Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social my family was present at the first Thanksgiving. Was yours? Let’s be honest, we’re all invaders. Let’s grow up and accept that the American story is about renewal. We all are newcomers here.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social my family was present at the first Thanksgiving. Was yours? Let’s be honest, we’re all invaders. Let’s grow up and accept that the American story is about renewal. We all are newcomers here.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
This is fun
In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @katherinepomps.bsky.social create a choose-your-own-adventure game for Lindsey Halligan which reflects all the many, many ways she can lose the James Comey case if reinstated.
The Situation: You Get To Play Lindsey Halligan’s Hand
She made her bed. Now you get to lie in it.
lawfaremedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is fun
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We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We're hiring ASAP for a new team dedicated to ensuring that communities can continue to speak out & engage politically despite the increasing use of levers of federal power to quash protests, quell dissent, and intimidate political opponents. Priority deadline: 12/7
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
https://protectdemocracy.org/jobs
"You will be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"You will be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
Can we just consider that "comments" can not be unlawful?
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Can we just consider that "comments" can not be unlawful?
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NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
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National Design Studio
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
National Design Studio
It seems like a bit of a self-own to go after a veteran, pilot, and astronaut whose congresswoman wife barely escaped assassination.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It seems like a bit of a self-own to go after a veteran, pilot, and astronaut whose congresswoman wife barely escaped assassination.