David White
@dwhite10701.bsky.social
Things can get much better.
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Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol
If you see this, quote post with your model of positive masculinity
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
If you see this, quote post with your model of positive masculinity
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How come we don’t hear about the profit-loss performance of the FBI?
What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?
Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?
Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.
What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?
Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?
Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
How come we don’t hear about the profit-loss performance of the FBI?
What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?
Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?
Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.
What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?
Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?
Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.
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"I am a POC GOP voter" kind of explains why they have higher rates of insane opinions.
Oh this poll is fascinating
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"I am a POC GOP voter" kind of explains why they have higher rates of insane opinions.
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This also really ought to put the entire “send in the troops” editorial episode in a much clearer context for everyone who decided the important takeaway was an “out of control” newsroom rather than y’know a sitting Senator calling for people to be shot in the street.
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This also really ought to put the entire “send in the troops” editorial episode in a much clearer context for everyone who decided the important takeaway was an “out of control” newsroom rather than y’know a sitting Senator calling for people to be shot in the street.
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You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.
You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.
People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.
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2/2 It is also, as Ryan says, 1 of the best explorations of sexual consent, violence, & power dynamics in modern media. The repeated #Spartacus line of elite enslavers, which frames my book chapter on rape, is “Apologies. I did not know the girl held meaning." It gets at the crux of dehumanization.
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
2/2 It is also, as Ryan says, 1 of the best explorations of sexual consent, violence, & power dynamics in modern media. The repeated #Spartacus line of elite enslavers, which frames my book chapter on rape, is “Apologies. I did not know the girl held meaning." It gets at the crux of dehumanization.
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I keep nodding and saying, "Yes! She gets it!" reading @moryan.bsky.social's piece on the new #Spartacus: House of Ashur. @stevendeknight.bsky.social 's show is still Blood'n'Porn _&_ the best commentary on Roman class/sex/ethnic inequality ever made. 1/2 www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-spart...
Review: 'Spartacus' lives again with 'House of Ashur'
The Starz gladiator drama returns, still hornier — and more thoughtful — than you'd expect
www.whatsalanwatching.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I keep nodding and saying, "Yes! She gets it!" reading @moryan.bsky.social's piece on the new #Spartacus: House of Ashur. @stevendeknight.bsky.social 's show is still Blood'n'Porn _&_ the best commentary on Roman class/sex/ethnic inequality ever made. 1/2 www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-spart...
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Some things singers used to get from the church:
- Learning how to harmonize in a group.
- Real Performances before a live audience at least once a week.
- Learning through experience how to emotionally connect with an audience.
- Connection to Black American music tradition
- Learning how to harmonize in a group.
- Real Performances before a live audience at least once a week.
- Learning through experience how to emotionally connect with an audience.
- Connection to Black American music tradition
Hardly any of the new singers use their diaphragm and it speaks directly to how the lack of influence from the church has caused a decline in musical prowess.
SZA sounds like she sings with her mouth closed. Summer sounds like Fischer Price my first chorus class. Most of the men are nasally/whiny. If their voices are nice the songs are boring or poorly produced.
Occasionally I’ll find things I like but the vast majority is a no thank you.
Occasionally I’ll find things I like but the vast majority is a no thank you.
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Some things singers used to get from the church:
- Learning how to harmonize in a group.
- Real Performances before a live audience at least once a week.
- Learning through experience how to emotionally connect with an audience.
- Connection to Black American music tradition
- Learning how to harmonize in a group.
- Real Performances before a live audience at least once a week.
- Learning through experience how to emotionally connect with an audience.
- Connection to Black American music tradition
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Even if an imminent full collapse is not actually a near-time threat, it seems clear that no one is going to fix the BQE until something unnecessarily tragic happens to the cantilever.
December 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Even if an imminent full collapse is not actually a near-time threat, it seems clear that no one is going to fix the BQE until something unnecessarily tragic happens to the cantilever.
I just read @moryan.bsky.social review of House of Ashur, and I'm so geeked to return to the world of Spartacus!
www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-spart...
www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-spart...
Review: 'Spartacus' lives again with 'House of Ashur'
The Starz gladiator drama returns, still hornier — and more thoughtful — than you'd expect
www.whatsalanwatching.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I just read @moryan.bsky.social review of House of Ashur, and I'm so geeked to return to the world of Spartacus!
www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-spart...
www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-spart...
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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
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Thats exactly the chilling effect this argument results in. "I'm not that disabled, someone needs it more than me, etc" Its projecting scarcity onto a program instead of allowing for abundant need, and it means fewer people get help.
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thats exactly the chilling effect this argument results in. "I'm not that disabled, someone needs it more than me, etc" Its projecting scarcity onto a program instead of allowing for abundant need, and it means fewer people get help.
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The whole concern about disability accommodations is just "people on welfare don't deserve it" but ableist instead of classist.
Oh some kid got extra test time? Who gives a shit. Who are you to say they dont need it.
Oh some kid got extra test time? Who gives a shit. Who are you to say they dont need it.
December 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The whole concern about disability accommodations is just "people on welfare don't deserve it" but ableist instead of classist.
Oh some kid got extra test time? Who gives a shit. Who are you to say they dont need it.
Oh some kid got extra test time? Who gives a shit. Who are you to say they dont need it.
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I think part of this is there is a vast discrepancy in what different people see as a "disability," and that's before getting into how many people have, in fact, invisible disabilities, which contributes to a culture of thinking way more people are "abusing" the system than they are.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I think part of this is there is a vast discrepancy in what different people see as a "disability," and that's before getting into how many people have, in fact, invisible disabilities, which contributes to a culture of thinking way more people are "abusing" the system than they are.
My uncles taught me how to play Bid Whist a few years ago, and had me begging to go back to playing Spades.
At this weekend's pop-up fest, the West Side native will teach a master class, host a Bid Whist tournament and screen movies that inspired him, including ‘The Spook Who Sat by the Door.’
Actor Robert Townsend returns home to Chicago with ‘The Bear,’ ‘The Chi’ and a pop-up film festival
chicago.suntimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My uncles taught me how to play Bid Whist a few years ago, and had me begging to go back to playing Spades.
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Drug trafficking is not an act of war. This whole idea that these boats can kill millions of Americans is fantasy land. It's based on a fake statistic about fentanyl. And they're not going to the US and they're not carrying fentanyl.
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Drug trafficking is not an act of war. This whole idea that these boats can kill millions of Americans is fantasy land. It's based on a fake statistic about fentanyl. And they're not going to the US and they're not carrying fentanyl.
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Even normie wine moms are howling for ICE blood and show trials for the Trump administration and the Dems have made it extremely clear they do not intend to make that happen. Maybe there is a lot of evidence that Democratic leadership is determined to do what their voters want but I don't see it
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Even normie wine moms are howling for ICE blood and show trials for the Trump administration and the Dems have made it extremely clear they do not intend to make that happen. Maybe there is a lot of evidence that Democratic leadership is determined to do what their voters want but I don't see it
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The Democrats are always saying they can't even pick up a pencil without 75 Senate seats and a House supermajority while the GOP can be at historical lows and say "Starting tomorrow we throw people on SNAP out of helicopters, this is the law now"
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The Democrats are always saying they can't even pick up a pencil without 75 Senate seats and a House supermajority while the GOP can be at historical lows and say "Starting tomorrow we throw people on SNAP out of helicopters, this is the law now"
Marvin Gaye made a single rap song in his illustrious career, and I've gotta say, he knocked out out of the park.
youtu.be/5bFrE_OJ9TA?...
youtu.be/5bFrE_OJ9TA?...
Ego Tripping Out
YouTube video by Marvin Gaye - Topic
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December 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Marvin Gaye made a single rap song in his illustrious career, and I've gotta say, he knocked out out of the park.
youtu.be/5bFrE_OJ9TA?...
youtu.be/5bFrE_OJ9TA?...
Today's SL trend reminds me of one of my favorite lines from a Heltah Skeltah song:
"I'm renaming both of my hands Laxative and Colonic/
They'll smack the shit out any n*gga who want it"
"I'm renaming both of my hands Laxative and Colonic/
They'll smack the shit out any n*gga who want it"
I named my fists Magic and Missile because they're always gonna connect with your skull with no chance of missing
I named my fists Monty and Python because I'm about to tappa-tap-tap your coconut in a manner simulating the sound of a horse's trot.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today's SL trend reminds me of one of my favorite lines from a Heltah Skeltah song:
"I'm renaming both of my hands Laxative and Colonic/
They'll smack the shit out any n*gga who want it"
"I'm renaming both of my hands Laxative and Colonic/
They'll smack the shit out any n*gga who want it"
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We knew what woke meant just fine before y'all stole it. It had an established, agreed upon definition in common usage.
In the wholesale mass cultural appropriation of the AAVE term "woke," removing it from its Black context & never caring to ask Black folks what it means, it's made so white people on the left & right alike constantly try to define it. No one's supposed to know what it means, its meaning is hollow.
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We knew what woke meant just fine before y'all stole it. It had an established, agreed upon definition in common usage.
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Yes, please and thank you. It's beyond exhausting and you've run it into the ground and deviated so far from the original context because you don't want to listen to Black people 🤷🏿♂️
Demanding all white people stop talking about Woke immediately
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yes, please and thank you. It's beyond exhausting and you've run it into the ground and deviated so far from the original context because you don't want to listen to Black people 🤷🏿♂️
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People will come out of their necks and don’t know the first thing about what the hell they’re talking about.
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
People will come out of their necks and don’t know the first thing about what the hell they’re talking about.