davidkc.bsky.social
@davidkc.bsky.social
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Just a regular retired guy committed to equity, justice and fairness for all - and committed to my husband of 30+ years. Longtime community contributor @DailyKos.
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These "agents" are domestic terrorists.
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Federal agents raided Family Night at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho. A community racetrack packed with families, food, and music. They came under the guise of “illegal betting.” What they unleashed was terror: children zip-tied, parents separated, and chaos erupting across a crowd of 1,000.
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As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active.

Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.
MAGA ain't gonna like this.
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$WMT
*WALMART PAUSES JOB OFFERS TO CANDIDATES REQUIRING H-1B VISAS
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This is in the Washington *Times*!
That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡

@jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...
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If you see your senator here, please call them and ask them why they're voting for Trump's judges when Trump's speaker of the house is refusing to swear in Grijalva.

Find your reps here: reps.fyi
Dems/Ind Senators voting in favor: Coons, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Heinrich, Kaine, Kelly, King (I), Klobuchar, Reed, Schiff, Shaheen, Welch, & Whitehouse.

Senators not voting: Duckworth & Tillis
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why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?
By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.
Come on Blueskyers, we can do better than 100,000!
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"The White House account has drawn only around 12,000 followers. More than 100,000 users have the account blocked."
NEW: Inside the Trump Administration's Bluesky Invasion

Spoke with some administration officials who said the move was about "reaching new audiences." It's amounted to trench warfare.
www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Prior White House renovations were done by practical people with good taste. They made the building more functional without sacrificing its architectural and decorative refinements.

The current renovations are being done by a shockingly vulgar man and will tackily undermine the building's beauty.
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MAGA now stands for Make Argentina Great Again.
Aceco, a Silver Springs, MD company involved in demolishing the White House, has gone into hiding. Yesterday its website was active and you could click on the Contact Us page to send a message to them. I guess too many people shared with the company what they thought of their actions.
The company contracted to demolish the East Wing of the White House says their website is UNDER CONSTRUCTION- WTF?!?! acecoworld.com
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"Trump’s exposed vulnerability must be leveraged to attack the pillars of his nascent autocracy, including the militarized police he has assembled to fight his war on America."

As @davidrlurie.bsky.social says over at @atrupar.com's place, Trump is politically weak and we should say so:
"If Democrats continue to center their opposition to Trump around actions that a broad swath of Americans decisively oppose, they have a substantial chance of landing direct hits on the foundations of his nascent dictatorship." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social
A rickety dictatorship
Trump's hand of cards is weaker than it appears.
www.publicnotice.co
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It wasn't enough to run our Constitution through a shredder & weaponize our military against citizens. Without approval, Trump is now tearing down the walls of the White House - the PEOPLE's House!

His hatred and lack of respect for this nation have no bounds.

www.npr.org/2025/10/20/g...
The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, ...
www.npr.org
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Ben Meiselas doesn't hold back after Meriwether Farms gushes over Trump but begs him not to "betray" them by propping up Argentina: What are you doing? Like, you realize he’s destroying you. He hates you. He absolutely hates you and thinks you’re dumb and stupid.
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“Normal people in the pro-democracy space seem to understand what time it is. Most elected Democrats do not.

And these elected Democrats also do not seem to understand that weakness is a provocation.”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
No Kings and the Laws of Power
Understanding the Republican will to power and what Democrats must do to counter it.
open.substack.com
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
So what are you going to do about it Senator?
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Chicago is less safe under President Trump’s unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful abuse of power.
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Monthly health care premiums doubling—or more—may not be "gut-wrenching" to Senators like Ron Johnson. But to most Americans, payments that used to be $772/month becoming $2,400/month is a BIG DEAL.
Ron Johnson: "I don't think this is going to be any kind of gut-wrenching problem if these enhanced subsidies just go away. We'll probably have the weather the lies told by the Democrats. Democrats say all sorts of things that are untrue."