Reverend Dave
@reverenddave.bsky.social
A reverend named Dave.
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Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
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From mid November fyi zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
From mid November fyi zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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“confidential drafting process for Donald Trump’s…National Security Strategy…has stunned some in government who’ve seen the pages so far. A federal staffer tells Zeteo that one version…they saw reminded them of “fascist internet trolls getting worked up…on Twitter.””
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In the end this is a posters document made by posters for posters
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“confidential drafting process for Donald Trump’s…National Security Strategy…has stunned some in government who’ve seen the pages so far. A federal staffer tells Zeteo that one version…they saw reminded them of “fascist internet trolls getting worked up…on Twitter.””
zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...
zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...
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"The AfD sure is great and right about everything" is not a national security strategy but nonsense
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"The AfD sure is great and right about everything" is not a national security strategy but nonsense
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I don’t want “retire to play golf while people say rude things about you on the internet” I want - at minimum - serious jail time
none of them should ever have peace again
none of them should ever have peace again
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I don’t want “retire to play golf while people say rude things about you on the internet” I want - at minimum - serious jail time
none of them should ever have peace again
none of them should ever have peace again
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"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
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It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.
there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreifzzrhpyftoam4b4eqcpdcegf2hksn4ula6rwbtv6fqwviqfgikte@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.
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I think this was always true but is especially true as the era of films premiering on closed platforms subsumes the relatively (and certainly imperfectly) open era of theatrical distribution and cable tv
All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I think this was always true but is especially true as the era of films premiering on closed platforms subsumes the relatively (and certainly imperfectly) open era of theatrical distribution and cable tv
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Living in Maryland and having a portrait of Pinochet in your house is weird as hell. Complete freak behavior.
Let’s take one example. Jack Posobiec has access to the Oval Office and yesterday posted a message of approval for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
I don’t just want Posobiec to go back into the shadows and use coded messages for his bigotry. I want him to feel the full weight of consequences.
I don’t just want Posobiec to go back into the shadows and use coded messages for his bigotry. I want him to feel the full weight of consequences.
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Living in Maryland and having a portrait of Pinochet in your house is weird as hell. Complete freak behavior.
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Tom Cotton’s endorsement today of the military shooting unarmed airstrike victims floating at sea may shed some light on the debate over what it meant when he called for troops to pacify disorder in U.S. cities in 2020
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Tom Cotton’s endorsement today of the military shooting unarmed airstrike victims floating at sea may shed some light on the debate over what it meant when he called for troops to pacify disorder in U.S. cities in 2020
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DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
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Reason #1783 why I have no time at all for Democrats who are out talking about fighting for our democracy but aren’t willing to commit to federal court reform.
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reason #1783 why I have no time at all for Democrats who are out talking about fighting for our democracy but aren’t willing to commit to federal court reform.
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I am more than a third of the way into the book. She has not described her upbringing, her career, her education, her previous romantic relationships or how she met RFK Jr. She has, however, held forth on Britney Spears, black holes and manta rays.
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I am more than a third of the way into the book. She has not described her upbringing, her career, her education, her previous romantic relationships or how she met RFK Jr. She has, however, held forth on Britney Spears, black holes and manta rays.
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Trump may have accidentally pardoned the pipe bomb guy?
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Trump may have accidentally pardoned the pipe bomb guy?
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worth noting the literal impossibility of civil liability for the prosecutors for all this willfully malicious conduct
“[T]he Justice Department is determined to try again.”
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
worth noting the literal impossibility of civil liability for the prosecutors for all this willfully malicious conduct
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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution is actually just one big paper bag test
The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting.
Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case
Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case
BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Texas Republicans in fight over congressional map. The new gerrymandered map will be used in the 2026 midterms. The vote is 6–3, with the Republican appointees siding with Texas.
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution is actually just one big paper bag test
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Supreme Court just blessed the partisan Republican redistricting in Texas.
One year away from the 2026 election is now the "eve of an election."
One year away from the 2026 election is now the "eve of an election."
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Supreme Court just blessed the partisan Republican redistricting in Texas.
One year away from the 2026 election is now the "eve of an election."
One year away from the 2026 election is now the "eve of an election."
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Kagan: "That is why we are supposed to use a clear-error standard of review—why we are supposed to uphold the District Court’s decision that race-based line-drawing occurred (even if we would have ruled differently) so long as it is plausible."
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Kagan: "That is why we are supposed to use a clear-error standard of review—why we are supposed to uphold the District Court’s decision that race-based line-drawing occurred (even if we would have ruled differently) so long as it is plausible."
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Justice Kagan in her dissent:
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
BREAKING
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Justice Kagan in her dissent:
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
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District Court: The Court has considered an entire record of evidence and renders a conclusion based on that rigorous examination of facts.
Supreme Court: But you didn’t theoretically presume good faith!
Supreme Court: But you didn’t theoretically presume good faith!
a woman is standing in front of a wall and says that 's the rules that ... i 've just made up .
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a wall and says that 's the rules that ... i 've just made up .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
District Court: The Court has considered an entire record of evidence and renders a conclusion based on that rigorous examination of facts.
Supreme Court: But you didn’t theoretically presume good faith!
Supreme Court: But you didn’t theoretically presume good faith!
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One of the reasons I think it’s also essential to not call the boat strikes “war crimes” but “crimes against humanity,” is that it emphasizes that Trump and Hegseth are acting extra-constitutionally and are not entitled to any shield from the courts. This systematic murder of civilians is illegal.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
One of the reasons I think it’s also essential to not call the boat strikes “war crimes” but “crimes against humanity,” is that it emphasizes that Trump and Hegseth are acting extra-constitutionally and are not entitled to any shield from the courts. This systematic murder of civilians is illegal.
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Christopher Rufo is just a white supremacist, and I think it’s silly that we’re still doing news stories where he’s called a conservative activist or some other harmless sounding term.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Christopher Rufo is just a white supremacist, and I think it’s silly that we’re still doing news stories where he’s called a conservative activist or some other harmless sounding term.