David Pourshoushtari
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David Pourshoushtari
@davidkpoursh.bsky.social
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Me when someone tells me they want to start collecting retro games.
July 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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And it's still just June...
June 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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merch coming soon...
May 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
May 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Every single senate Democrat voted to confirm Marco Rubio. Every single one.
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO, an embarrassing setback to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s efforts to restrict their participation.”

👨‍🍳 💋 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Pentagon to resume medical care for transgender troops
The move is another setback for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has made culture war issues a major part of his role.
www.politico.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Resistance is NOT futile
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Smart, no-nonsense political analysis: If 200 times more people had voted for my candidate of choice, and then had done so again in the following election, my candidate would have won two elections
April 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Perfect. No notes.
Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."
April 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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It’s important to note this is not and was never about citizenship. It’s about removing diversity and dissent to authoritarian power.

Every man denied due process deserves basic rights because they are human. But remember that they are just the first and no one is safe:
www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here.

www.kqed.org/news/1203596...
April 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation and "treated like a criminal."
April 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Christians are not persecuted in the United States
April 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled in a massive fundraising haul amid progressive calls for her to launch a 2028 primary challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer
Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million in three months, smashing her own record
It’s a massive haul for the progressive lawmaker who has been barnstorming the country with Bernie Sanders.
www.politico.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
And right as I was about to hit submit, I couldn’t help but wonder. Was I completely correct to observe that dogmatic accounts of disparate impact à la Kendi are dangerous and bad?

Yes. Yes I was. - Yglesias probably
April 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Classic Yglesias to say he's "not sure" why there's so many NBA players from the Balkans, and so just running away with a weird racist thought train and assuming the answer is what he wants it to be.

Look it up, dude!
The Balkans Boom
How did such a small region in Europe produce so many NBA players—including two-time MVP Nikola Jokic and potential future MVP Luka Doncic? One reporter went there to peel back the layers to the rise ...
www.theringer.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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someone tell matt that they are very much doing wilson-style politics
this yglesias post is insane, the whole thing is him trying to square the fact that he quite obviously believes in hanania-style scientific racism and thinks trump isn't racist-racist with the need to not agree with nazis
April 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Nazi shit. This is literally Nazi shit.
April 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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people are all "he should have apologized to the people he called alarmists" and he kinda did? he did a bit in the segment about blooski where he said the people on blooski DID warn him about it. "repeatedly. in all caps."
“I gotta tell you, I did not think [Trump] would get this authoritarian this fast,” Jon Stewart admitted.
Donald Trump’s Latest ‘Authoritarian’ Move Blindsided Jon Stewart
“Who could’ve known?” Stewart asked.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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April 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“The Trump admin says a reshoring boom is coming, but most companies that responded to the survey tell CNBC that bringing back supply chains could as much as double their costs and that instead a search for low-tariff regimes around the world will commence.”

Cooked. 💀 www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/t...
Trump tariffs won't lead supply chains back to U.S., companies will go low-tariff globe-hopping: CNBC survey
A U.S. manufacturing boom is an unlikely result of Trump's tariffs, with costs too high and a global hunt for low-tariff regimes coming, CNBC survey found.
www.cnbc.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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April 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM