David Durant
@ddurant.bsky.social
Librarian, avid reader, background in history, "Never-Trumper human scum." All opinions are entirely my own.
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David Durant
@ddurant.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Image 1 of James Madison to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822.
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I'm reminded of James Madison's famous quote:
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
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"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
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Trump demands total, 100% abasement. Nothing less. Once you sell him your soul, he won't tolerate you trying to reclaim any part of it:
“.. The president railed against South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott .. throughout the weekend ..
“.. Trump had even stronger words for Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, one of the sources recalled, using expletives to denounce her and declaring that she was dead to him.”
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
“.. Trump had even stronger words for Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, one of the sources recalled, using expletives to denounce her and declaring that she was dead to him.”
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
February 14, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Trump demands total, 100% abasement. Nothing less. Once you sell him your soul, he won't tolerate you trying to reclaim any part of it:
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Time to put an end to this too with real privacy protections. This is outrageous.
🚨 Dept of Homeland Security is sending tech companies administrative subpoenas for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize ICE agents
Google, Meta & Reddit complied
🎁 @nytimes.com
Google, Meta & Reddit complied
🎁 @nytimes.com
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Time to put an end to this too with real privacy protections. This is outrageous.
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Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...
ICE raid at apartment complex causes elementary students to run from their bus stop in NJ Thursday
Students were seen running away from their bus stop on Thursday morning as ICE agents conducted an operation at an apartment in Lindenwold, NJ.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:06 PM
America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...
Just wait, they're being delivered by Trump Shuttle, along with a complimentary package of Trump Steaks:
In the past year, Trump has promised...
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
So far, no checks have materialized.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
So far, no checks have materialized.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
Trump’s Magically Disappearing Stimulus Checks
I was promised cheaper groceries and tariff rebates and all I got was this lousy pogrom.
www.thebulwark.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Just wait, they're being delivered by Trump Shuttle, along with a complimentary package of Trump Steaks:
The mad tyrant truly thinks he can rule by decree. I hope he prepares himself for disappointment:
Trump: “The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections. This was not what our Founders desired … There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!“
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 PM
The mad tyrant truly thinks he can rule by decree. I hope he prepares himself for disappointment:
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Petition to make "I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future" the opening paragraph on every legal brief going forward.
“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!”
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Petition to make "I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future" the opening paragraph on every legal brief going forward.
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The default assumption should be that they’re lying
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
The default assumption should be that they’re lying
The mad tyrant is melting down in real time:
In latest batshit screed, Trump calls Democrats “demented and evil.” So much for toning down the rhetoric.
February 13, 2026 at 10:59 PM
The mad tyrant is melting down in real time:
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CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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While this man managed the Labor Department's social media, the QAnon community hailed the department's posts echoing QAnon phrases as vindication for the conspiracy theory.
Wrote one QAnon influencer: "The U.S. Department of Labor’s official account is Q posting. … This is not debatable now."
Wrote one QAnon influencer: "The U.S. Department of Labor’s official account is Q posting. … This is not debatable now."
February 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
While this man managed the Labor Department's social media, the QAnon community hailed the department's posts echoing QAnon phrases as vindication for the conspiracy theory.
Wrote one QAnon influencer: "The U.S. Department of Labor’s official account is Q posting. … This is not debatable now."
Wrote one QAnon influencer: "The U.S. Department of Labor’s official account is Q posting. … This is not debatable now."
A regime active measures campaign designed to export white nationalism:
"...she has met with far-right European politicians, criticized prosecutions under longstanding hate speech laws, and boasted online of sanctions against critics of hate speech and disinformation..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump official allies with Europe’s far right in attacks on migration and hate speech policies
US state department’s Sarah B Rogers has become face of White House’s hostility to European liberal democracies
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:46 AM
A regime active measures campaign designed to export white nationalism:
Like a little boy demanding his toys. Utterly pathetic:
clown shit
February 13, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Like a little boy demanding his toys. Utterly pathetic:
I would think it should be worth at least a 10-minute read:
February 13, 2026 at 5:24 AM
I would think it should be worth at least a 10-minute read:
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February 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Plus, I think Trump simply wants to avoid giving the rest of us the satisfaction of seeing any of his lickspittle toady incompetents fired. He is obsessed with appearances.
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Plus, I think Trump simply wants to avoid giving the rest of us the satisfaction of seeing any of his lickspittle toady incompetents fired. He is obsessed with appearances.
I fully understand the frustration here. The problem is that it's unfair to blame the press in my view, when Trump commits numerous major outrages a day. There's simply no way all, or even most of them can be done justice in terms of coverage:
Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I fully understand the frustration here. The problem is that it's unfair to blame the press in my view, when Trump commits numerous major outrages a day. There's simply no way all, or even most of them can be done justice in terms of coverage:
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Again, this isn't about enforcing immigration laws, it's about exploiting the law as a pretext for ethnic cleansing:
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Again, this isn't about enforcing immigration laws, it's about exploiting the law as a pretext for ethnic cleansing:
Incompetent psychopaths, even by the standards of this regime:
“.. Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Incompetent psychopaths, even by the standards of this regime:
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The same story. Over and over again.
BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 13, 2026 at 2:47 AM
The same story. Over and over again.
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The history books will remember this one
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 11:04 PM
The history books will remember this one
Are these plants in the room with us now?
Trump: "They're building plants all over the United States. And when these plants open in a year, year and a half, you're gonna see numbers like you've never seen before in this country."
February 12, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Are these plants in the room with us now?
This definitely explains a lot:
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
This definitely explains a lot:
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Just a reminder that the Trump admin calls immigrants who’ve fallen into drug addiction “the worst of the worst” criminals, no matter how long ago their addiction problems.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Just a reminder that the Trump admin calls immigrants who’ve fallen into drug addiction “the worst of the worst” criminals, no matter how long ago their addiction problems.