David Castor
@k7el.bsky.social
Retired electrical power engineer living on the Olympic Peninsula. Sailing, woodworking, dogs.
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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Call your senators and fight like hell, but also, if you don’t have already have a passport, try to get one ASAP.
I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/
February 14, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Call your senators and fight like hell, but also, if you don’t have already have a passport, try to get one ASAP.
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Resist narratives of inevitability.
February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Resist narratives of inevitability.
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Congrats again, everyone, on our National Conversation™️ about how Joe Biden held a Trump Rally at Independence Hall & overly politicized the military when he warned about grave threats to democracy with a soldier standing in view.
Yes, we actually did that:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Yes, we actually did that:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
February 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Congrats again, everyone, on our National Conversation™️ about how Joe Biden held a Trump Rally at Independence Hall & overly politicized the military when he warned about grave threats to democracy with a soldier standing in view.
Yes, we actually did that:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Yes, we actually did that:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Without missing a beat? Only several of VOA's 48 language services are barely operational. Kari Lake has left nearly all staff on paid admin leave for the past 11 months despite a federal judge ordering her to bring them back. See: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202...
February 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Without missing a beat? Only several of VOA's 48 language services are barely operational. Kari Lake has left nearly all staff on paid admin leave for the past 11 months despite a federal judge ordering her to bring them back. See: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202...
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I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
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"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
![The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6435lftcmpvxasbkrtsw22i7/bafkreicpbthbsbsmlfm3fjysre3sbt3gyu2gjxmacrnofhibatrts2xwga@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 1:12 PM
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Watch this.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Watch this.
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Vinay Prasad has blood on his hands.
Moderna is at least the ninth company to have received a surprise rejection from Vinay Prasad and his team.
Trump official overruled FDA scientists to reject Moderna's flu shot
FDA's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, is known for overruling scientists.
arstechnica.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Vinay Prasad has blood on his hands.
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If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 AM
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
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the scuttlebutt about noem and lewandowski’s relationship is fun, but don’t miss that they used OBBA money to lease/buy an expensive private plane that said was for deportations but are instead using to jet around the country
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 13, 2026 at 4:16 AM
the scuttlebutt about noem and lewandowski’s relationship is fun, but don’t miss that they used OBBA money to lease/buy an expensive private plane that said was for deportations but are instead using to jet around the country
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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It is hard to watch NSF bow so easily to their destroyers.
Vannevar Bush formed the NSF out of the US response to the fascists in WWII.
Vannevar Bush formed the NSF out of the US response to the fascists in WWII.
NSF is following through with their plans to transfer the lifeblood of NCAR's work (the supercomputing center) to a "third party": www.nsf.gov/news/transit...
Not sure what that'll mean for our access to it, but it shows they are serious about following through with their dismantling plans.
Not sure what that'll mean for our access to it, but it shows they are serious about following through with their dismantling plans.
Transitioning NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center operations
The U.S. National Science Foundation has informed the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) that management and operations of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center are expected to…
www.nsf.gov
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 AM
It is hard to watch NSF bow so easily to their destroyers.
Vannevar Bush formed the NSF out of the US response to the fascists in WWII.
Vannevar Bush formed the NSF out of the US response to the fascists in WWII.
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NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️
Agent investigated in Chicago woman’s shooting, her lawyer says
The attorney for Marimar Martinez says prosecutors told him the agent who shot her five times is facing a criminal probe.
www.ms.now
February 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM
NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️
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This sounds bonkers & it's simply a basic statement of fact. Between Covid neglect, ending USAID, & now the vaccine nonsense, it will soon be more than Jefferson Davis.
Trump is already responsible for the deaths of more Americans than anyone in history not named Jefferson Davis, and it's clear he's not content with second place.
February 13, 2026 at 4:53 AM
This sounds bonkers & it's simply a basic statement of fact. Between Covid neglect, ending USAID, & now the vaccine nonsense, it will soon be more than Jefferson Davis.
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A golden age.
February 12, 2026 at 3:31 PM
A golden age.
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SB 6045, a bill to allow farmworker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on. This bill is critical for WA farmworkers like Windmill mushroom workers who've been fighting to get a contract since 2022.
If you live in WA tell your state Senator to support SB 6045.
If you live in WA tell your state Senator to support SB 6045.
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
SB 6045, a bill to allow farmworker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on. This bill is critical for WA farmworkers like Windmill mushroom workers who've been fighting to get a contract since 2022.
If you live in WA tell your state Senator to support SB 6045.
If you live in WA tell your state Senator to support SB 6045.
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Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump's second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.
February 11, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump's second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.
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Do you want to invite an investigation from three letter agencies and potential terrorism charges? Pictures are things to laugh about on the internet, real world replicas can cause a world of problems
February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Do you want to invite an investigation from three letter agencies and potential terrorism charges? Pictures are things to laugh about on the internet, real world replicas can cause a world of problems
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Seizure of Fulton County voting records was based on tinfoil and beanie-copter theories long since refuted. The courts have every right to protect themselves against being used this way.
Debunked claims from election deniers influenced FBI raid in Georgia, affidavit reveals
The 28 January raid of the Fulton county election office also came after a referral from a White House lawyer
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Seizure of Fulton County voting records was based on tinfoil and beanie-copter theories long since refuted. The courts have every right to protect themselves against being used this way.
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Almost every economic indicator we see ends with “the worst since 2009,” and that’s terrifying for the average American.
The economy is really bad right now.
The economy is really bad right now.
February 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Almost every economic indicator we see ends with “the worst since 2009,” and that’s terrifying for the average American.
The economy is really bad right now.
The economy is really bad right now.
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During these 37 years here's the average job growth per year under the two parties:
Democrats - 2,500,000
Republicans - 90,000 2/
Democrats - 2,500,000
Republicans - 90,000 2/
February 11, 2026 at 3:15 PM
During these 37 years here's the average job growth per year under the two parties:
Democrats - 2,500,000
Republicans - 90,000 2/
Democrats - 2,500,000
Republicans - 90,000 2/
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
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My Op Ed in Today's Washington Post: "The long-lasting effects of viruses — and the anti-vaccine movement. For some people, a viral infection can have devastating long-term effects."
wapo.st/4qjFtWk
wapo.st/4qjFtWk
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
My Op Ed in Today's Washington Post: "The long-lasting effects of viruses — and the anti-vaccine movement. For some people, a viral infection can have devastating long-term effects."
wapo.st/4qjFtWk
wapo.st/4qjFtWk