David Michael Pierce
@dweeze.bsky.social
And I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
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David Michael Pierce
@dweeze.bsky.social
· Dec 14
If you’re following over 2k people and you’re not someone I already know or someone I’m already following I’m going to assume you’re not adding me to your following list because of my insightful comments and, since this apparently needs saying, I am going to immediately block you.
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watching the media bend over backwards to glaze the war crimes as Audacious Results Of Months Of Planning is competing with the Bsky episteme “the democrats did this personally” in terms of what’s making me feel grossest and most insane right now
January 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM
watching the media bend over backwards to glaze the war crimes as Audacious Results Of Months Of Planning is competing with the Bsky episteme “the democrats did this personally” in terms of what’s making me feel grossest and most insane right now
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Typically when the US embarks on an illegal or dubiously legal regime change we use noble words about democracy, rule of law, spreading freedom, etc. to justify our actions. Trump has not done that. He offers few noble words as eulogistic covering. It's a crass power & oil grab, according to Trump.
January 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Typically when the US embarks on an illegal or dubiously legal regime change we use noble words about democracy, rule of law, spreading freedom, etc. to justify our actions. Trump has not done that. He offers few noble words as eulogistic covering. It's a crass power & oil grab, according to Trump.
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Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics).
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
Opinion | How the internet fractured the information ago — and drove down regard for actual facts and education
Philip Bump: We have reverted from acting on what we know to acting on what we think.
www.ms.now
January 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics).
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
"The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
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Thinking of the old lawyer adage: If the law is on your side, pound the law. If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If you have neither law nor facts on your side, pound the table.
Lots of table pounding here.
Lots of table pounding here.
Marco Rubio on comparisons between Venezuela and Iraq: "People need to stop describing the apples of the Middle East to the oranges of the Western Hemisphere
January 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Thinking of the old lawyer adage: If the law is on your side, pound the law. If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If you have neither law nor facts on your side, pound the table.
Lots of table pounding here.
Lots of table pounding here.
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"What I am running is the direction this is going to move moving forward," I yell as the cops chase me out of the Wendy's and into the street
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Is the United States running Venezuela right now?
RUBIO: What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward.
Absolute soup
RUBIO: What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward.
Absolute soup
January 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
"What I am running is the direction this is going to move moving forward," I yell as the cops chase me out of the Wendy's and into the street
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"I always retain optionality on anything and on all of these matters!" I shout while overturning chairs in a Wendy's because they won't make me a Big Mac
BRENNAN: To be clear, there is no plan for US occupation of this country of nearly 30 million people?
MARCO RUBIO: The president always retains optionality on anything and on all of these matters
MARCO RUBIO: The president always retains optionality on anything and on all of these matters
January 4, 2026 at 4:28 PM
"I always retain optionality on anything and on all of these matters!" I shout while overturning chairs in a Wendy's because they won't make me a Big Mac
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January 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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I'd just like to note that Tony Dokoupil's wife, Katy Tur, is a terrible journalist, too.
January 4, 2026 at 4:53 AM
I'd just like to note that Tony Dokoupil's wife, Katy Tur, is a terrible journalist, too.
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You know something I’m sort of idly realizing, this is going to convince everybody that they gotta get nukes. Do you want to prevent your leadership from getting kidnapped by delta force? Build nuclear weapons
January 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM
You know something I’m sort of idly realizing, this is going to convince everybody that they gotta get nukes. Do you want to prevent your leadership from getting kidnapped by delta force? Build nuclear weapons
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When you come into the mentions of others trying to actively participate in their democracy, who are trying to encourage others to do the same, and tell them their efforts are worthless, you're a saboteur.
Pure and simple. Ask yourself why you want to do this, if you really oppose Trump.
Pure and simple. Ask yourself why you want to do this, if you really oppose Trump.
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
When you come into the mentions of others trying to actively participate in their democracy, who are trying to encourage others to do the same, and tell them their efforts are worthless, you're a saboteur.
Pure and simple. Ask yourself why you want to do this, if you really oppose Trump.
Pure and simple. Ask yourself why you want to do this, if you really oppose Trump.
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everyone is waiting for some responsible authority to pull the lever and make this end. they do not wish to believe that such a lever does not exist. you give one totally deranged party control of the entire government, this is what happens
January 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
everyone is waiting for some responsible authority to pull the lever and make this end. they do not wish to believe that such a lever does not exist. you give one totally deranged party control of the entire government, this is what happens
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COMIC: What Artists Do
January 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
COMIC: What Artists Do
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We’re all all of it, at once. Oskar Schindler was a womanizer and a war profiteer, and then he became Oskar Schindler. What came after doesn’t make the former less bad, but the former doesn’t make the latter less good.
January 4, 2026 at 4:14 AM
We’re all all of it, at once. Oskar Schindler was a womanizer and a war profiteer, and then he became Oskar Schindler. What came after doesn’t make the former less bad, but the former doesn’t make the latter less good.
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I’ve started getting this ad on my phone browser and a bunch like it, and can’t figure out if the drawing is the person I am going to marry or the artist who is offering to do the drawing.
January 4, 2026 at 4:05 AM
I’ve started getting this ad on my phone browser and a bunch like it, and can’t figure out if the drawing is the person I am going to marry or the artist who is offering to do the drawing.
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That Seahawks team is amazing and I know that they’re going to have the most hard fought 16-13 playoff loss that hinges on kicking a field goal when they should’ve gone for it on fourth and short
January 4, 2026 at 3:49 AM
That Seahawks team is amazing and I know that they’re going to have the most hard fought 16-13 playoff loss that hinges on kicking a field goal when they should’ve gone for it on fourth and short
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Colombian President Petro commenting on the US;
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
January 4, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Colombian President Petro commenting on the US;
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
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BTW every Dem data dude who has been telling Dems to not focus on Trump's authoritarianism or escalating threats to democracy can fuck all the way off today.....
L'Etat, c'est moi. That's where we are now. Trump acting like MBS, Putin, a monarch, where he and his family are enriching themselves by acquire/occupy/seize/rule/exploit Gaza, Venezuela, Greenland and what the f-ck Witkoff and Kushner are negotiating with Putin.
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
BTW every Dem data dude who has been telling Dems to not focus on Trump's authoritarianism or escalating threats to democracy can fuck all the way off today.....
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Also most people in the opinionated political writing business, & esp. the prominent accounts in and adjacent to "Election Twitter," are addicted to social media. This leads quickly to developing poster brain, which makes them overconfident, over-reliant on priors, and generally anti-normative
January 4, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Also most people in the opinionated political writing business, & esp. the prominent accounts in and adjacent to "Election Twitter," are addicted to social media. This leads quickly to developing poster brain, which makes them overconfident, over-reliant on priors, and generally anti-normative
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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 1:52 AM
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."
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I think we’re not talking enough about Uday, Qusay, & Jared. It’s them who are meaningfully accumulating wealth & they probably have more influence over their dad than does staff (including Miller)
January 4, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I think we’re not talking enough about Uday, Qusay, & Jared. It’s them who are meaningfully accumulating wealth & they probably have more influence over their dad than does staff (including Miller)
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Everybody on here is putting more thought into this than a single person in the administration or pentagon has.
January 4, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Everybody on here is putting more thought into this than a single person in the administration or pentagon has.
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Who did this 😂
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Who did this 😂
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Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela
The White House has told companies they must rebuild Venezuela's crude-pumping infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas.
www.politico.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...