dave
@dbernat.bsky.social
he/him - immune to taunt - retire hanlon’s razor - pack the court - outstanding online acquaintance
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Imagine your slogan being “Democracy Dies in Darkness” then choosing not to publish a story that potentially could have saved Venezuelan civilian lives.
NYT and WaPo Knew About Trump’s Venezuela Raid in Advance — Here’s Why They Didn’t Report It Right Away
NYT and WaPo Knew About Trump’s Venezuela Raid in Advance — Here’s Why They Didn’t Report It Right Away
The New York Times and the Washington Post learned of the Trump administration’s bold operation to strike Venezuela shortly before it happened, but refrained from reporting it right away.
The post NYT and WaPo Knew About Trump’s Venezuela Raid in Advance — Here’s Why They Didn’t Report It Right Away first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Imagine your slogan being “Democracy Dies in Darkness” then choosing not to publish a story that potentially could have saved Venezuelan civilian lives.
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So here’s the thing - in Normal Times, yeah, being the unnamed source is useful and can help head off problems.
We’re not in Normal Times.
Either sign your name to your resistance against the fascist regime, or back it up with sabotage receipts, otherwise you’re just clout chasing.
We’re not in Normal Times.
Either sign your name to your resistance against the fascist regime, or back it up with sabotage receipts, otherwise you’re just clout chasing.
A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview:
"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
January 4, 2026 at 4:51 AM
So here’s the thing - in Normal Times, yeah, being the unnamed source is useful and can help head off problems.
We’re not in Normal Times.
Either sign your name to your resistance against the fascist regime, or back it up with sabotage receipts, otherwise you’re just clout chasing.
We’re not in Normal Times.
Either sign your name to your resistance against the fascist regime, or back it up with sabotage receipts, otherwise you’re just clout chasing.
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the reality of what we’re really facing is starting to sink it. jesus fucking crisis.
January 4, 2026 at 12:27 AM
the reality of what we’re really facing is starting to sink it. jesus fucking crisis.
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Since impeachment is one of the strongest checks and balances in the Constitution and also is a fairy tale, the resulting conclusion must be that the checks and balances system of government is nothing more than a theory.
January 3, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Since impeachment is one of the strongest checks and balances in the Constitution and also is a fairy tale, the resulting conclusion must be that the checks and balances system of government is nothing more than a theory.
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Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state
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one thing about congress that's become very blatant in my life is that they actually kinda enjoy the executive bypassing them all the time to do military shit. this way, their fingerprints don't have to be on any of it. preferring a lack of responsibilities and accountability to their own power.
January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
one thing about congress that's become very blatant in my life is that they actually kinda enjoy the executive bypassing them all the time to do military shit. this way, their fingerprints don't have to be on any of it. preferring a lack of responsibilities and accountability to their own power.
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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story
January 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM
guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story
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there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here
January 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here
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AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.
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The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.
Ruin two bands by combining them
Led Zeppelimp Bizkit
Led Zeppelimp Bizkit
NIN'Sync
December 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Ruin two bands by combining them
Led Zeppelimp Bizkit
Led Zeppelimp Bizkit
John Mellencamper Van Beethoven
David Boweezer
Frank Oceanéad O’Connor
David Boweezer
Frank Oceanéad O’Connor
Opening for Tool and the Gang?
Frankie Beverly and Muse.
Frankie Beverly and Muse.
Frankie Goes to Hall & Oates
Right Saidfred Mann
Tool & the Gang
Right Saidfred Mann
Tool & the Gang
December 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
John Mellencamper Van Beethoven
David Boweezer
Frank Oceanéad O’Connor
David Boweezer
Frank Oceanéad O’Connor
Frankie Goes to Hall & Oates
Right Saidfred Mann
Tool & the Gang
Right Saidfred Mann
Tool & the Gang
Ruin two bands by combining them:
ZZ Toto
...hm... but... maybe?
ZZ Toto
...hm... but... maybe?
ruin two bands by combining them:
kornplay
kornplay
December 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Frankie Goes to Hall & Oates
Right Saidfred Mann
Tool & the Gang
Right Saidfred Mann
Tool & the Gang
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Oh. 👀
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Oh. 👀
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that video of "ICE cops" being pelted with snowballs in NYC is not actually in NYC and it is not ICE and it is from years ago...
December 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
that video of "ICE cops" being pelted with snowballs in NYC is not actually in NYC and it is not ICE and it is from years ago...
Or at least the right to change your name too, like he could have headlined as Chuck Trump Is A Pedophile Redd.
Just as a general rule I think I if a venue changes its name between booking and performance, you should have the right to cancel
Thinking of everyone who treated Trump as a serious person over the past few years and how we probably could have ended his career ages ago.
“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert”
apnews.com/article/kenn...
“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert”
apnews.com/article/kenn...
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Or at least the right to change your name too, like he could have headlined as Chuck Trump Is A Pedophile Redd.
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“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
December 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
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This article itself is evidence white men are getting their fantasy pieces published
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This article itself is evidence white men are getting their fantasy pieces published
One time my manager told me to close/delete all deferred bug reports so we could say we “shipped with zero bugs”
In fairness to ry, "slop that works" has been the state of code for every major tech company for as long as I can remember
bsky.app/profile/burt...
bsky.app/profile/burt...
””Slop” that works,” well, alright then.
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One time my manager told me to close/delete all deferred bug reports so we could say we “shipped with zero bugs”
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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The math of DOGE was never remotely feasible and I personally think it's embarrassing we let musk pretend to be an engineer
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The math of DOGE was never remotely feasible and I personally think it's embarrassing we let musk pretend to be an engineer
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Prison guards:
- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.
- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.
- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.
All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.
- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.
- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.
All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Prison guards:
- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.
- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.
- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.
All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.
- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.
- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.
All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.