David Welker
@davidskywelker.bsky.social
DC based Masshole; husband, father, union man; ex UFCW, IBT, Food & Allied Services Trades Dept. also ex
US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Thinking of Jon Kest and Fran Streich and daughter Jessie today as Mayor Mamdani steps into city hall
www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/remembering-...
www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/remembering-...
Remembering Jon Kest and Jessie Streich-Kest - Coalition For The Homeless
Our thoughts go out to the family of Jon Kest, community organizer extraordinaire and longtime Coalition ally, and his daughter Jessie Streich-Kest, a teacher and activist who died during Hurricane Sa...
www.coalitionforthehomeless.org
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Thinking of Jon Kest and Fran Streich and daughter Jessie today as Mayor Mamdani steps into city hall
www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/remembering-...
www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/remembering-...
Not going back you’re god damn right
“Renee Hardman, CEO of nonprofit Lutheran Services of Iowa and a member of the West Des Moines City Council, becomes the first Black woman elected to the Senate.”
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“Renee Hardman, CEO of nonprofit Lutheran Services of Iowa and a member of the West Des Moines City Council, becomes the first Black woman elected to the Senate.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Democrat Renee Hardman wins Iowa state Senate special election, defeating Lucas Loftin
Hardman faced Republican Lucas Loftin in a race to represent parts of the Des Moines suburbs.
www.nbcnews.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Not going back you’re god damn right
“Renee Hardman, CEO of nonprofit Lutheran Services of Iowa and a member of the West Des Moines City Council, becomes the first Black woman elected to the Senate.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
“Renee Hardman, CEO of nonprofit Lutheran Services of Iowa and a member of the West Des Moines City Council, becomes the first Black woman elected to the Senate.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Not going back you’re god damn right
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Not going back you’re god damn right
Not going back you’re god damn right
Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Not going back you’re god damn right
Epstein suspicious death, Bornstein suspicious death, Mary Anne suspicious death, Ivana suspicious death
Let’s manifest the end to the whole nightmare #MassiveBrainBleedin26
Let’s manifest the end to the whole nightmare #MassiveBrainBleedin26
Our latest guidelines in #Geriatrics are to completely stop even baby 81 mg aspirin for “primary prevention” in someone who has not had a heart attack or stroke (or other indication)
The 325 mg #aspirin dose Trump is taking against his doctors orders massively increases risk of brain bleed
The 325 mg #aspirin dose Trump is taking against his doctors orders massively increases risk of brain bleed
Aspirin Significantly Increases Intracranial Bleeding in Older Individuals
There is a significant increase in risk for intracranial bleeding in healthy older patients taking daily low-dose aspirin.
www.thecardiologyadvisor.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Epstein suspicious death, Bornstein suspicious death, Mary Anne suspicious death, Ivana suspicious death
Let’s manifest the end to the whole nightmare #MassiveBrainBleedin26
Let’s manifest the end to the whole nightmare #MassiveBrainBleedin26
Kids are awake..all my 2025 honey-do resolutions still unresolved but there’s still a chance…read all the news & added my point of views. See you next year to try it all again with more hope & feeling.
Walking out of 2025 like one of those clapping along with Curtis
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCp...
Walking out of 2025 like one of those clapping along with Curtis
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCp...
[Don't Worry] If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go [Live at The Bitter End, NYC]
YouTube video by Curtis Mayfield - Topic
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December 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Kids are awake..all my 2025 honey-do resolutions still unresolved but there’s still a chance…read all the news & added my point of views. See you next year to try it all again with more hope & feeling.
Walking out of 2025 like one of those clapping along with Curtis
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCp...
Walking out of 2025 like one of those clapping along with Curtis
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCp...
David Steiner is the exFedEx board member and CEO of Waste Management now serving as Trumps Postmaster General…thus the post mark date anger should be directed at him and his “miracle” mansion by any CA friends:
nypost.com/2025/01/10/u...
nypost.com/2025/01/10/u...
Exclusive | Owner of ‘miracle’ Malibu mansion reveals why he thinks house survived raging fire
The owner of a nearly $9 million Malibu mansion miraculously spared being leveled by the raging Los Angeles wildfires told The Post on Friday he was stunned to learn that when the smoke cleared, it…
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December 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
David Steiner is the exFedEx board member and CEO of Waste Management now serving as Trumps Postmaster General…thus the post mark date anger should be directed at him and his “miracle” mansion by any CA friends:
nypost.com/2025/01/10/u...
nypost.com/2025/01/10/u...
Enshittification from the FedEx/trash man…make sure to notify your kind and kin
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Enshittification from the FedEx/trash man…make sure to notify your kind and kin
Connery and Harris #MatineeonAMC a bit of everything coal mines & Ancient Order of Hibernians & worker organizing & settling scores - The Molly Maguires.
Too bad the love interest plot line robs screen time with Harris and Connery.
None of that Hollywood stuff here:
archive.org/details/labo...
Too bad the love interest plot line robs screen time with Harris and Connery.
None of that Hollywood stuff here:
archive.org/details/labo...
The labor wars: from the Molly Maguires to the sitdowns : Lens, Sidney : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xiii, 366 pages 25 cm
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December 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Connery and Harris #MatineeonAMC a bit of everything coal mines & Ancient Order of Hibernians & worker organizing & settling scores - The Molly Maguires.
Too bad the love interest plot line robs screen time with Harris and Connery.
None of that Hollywood stuff here:
archive.org/details/labo...
Too bad the love interest plot line robs screen time with Harris and Connery.
None of that Hollywood stuff here:
archive.org/details/labo...
For long form think tankery and hopefully preview of how to right the ship after ‘26 - read more Roosevelt Inst. I always learn something
From tariffs to green industrial policy, we helped advance the national conversation on state capacity and economic democracy.
Our convenings & analysis in outlets like @npr.org brought clarity to the debates shaping the future of our economy. #RI2025
Our convenings & analysis in outlets like @npr.org brought clarity to the debates shaping the future of our economy. #RI2025
A look at the 'golden share' agreement in the U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel partnership
NPR speaks with Todd Tucker, director of industrial policy and trade at the Roosevelt Institute, about the Trump administration's role in the U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel partnership.
www.npr.org
December 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For long form think tankery and hopefully preview of how to right the ship after ‘26 - read more Roosevelt Inst. I always learn something
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This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Any ‘26 prediction that doesn’t note this wide ranging unpopularity as starting point is lie by omission.
Yes to @jenmercieca.bsky.social
Persistent violent threats targeting individual political opponents & institutions surrendering in advance are the ONLY THINGS that Trumperbashi has left.
Yes to @jenmercieca.bsky.social
Persistent violent threats targeting individual political opponents & institutions surrendering in advance are the ONLY THINGS that Trumperbashi has left.
Donald Trump is not popular.
Donald Trump was the least popular person to run for president in US history.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote, twice.
Donald Trump is not more popular when he rules by Executive Order, runs a terror campaign & wrecked the economy
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Donald Trump was the least popular person to run for president in US history.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote, twice.
Donald Trump is not more popular when he rules by Executive Order, runs a terror campaign & wrecked the economy
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
What voters in every state think about Trump and prices
Using MRP on our 2025 polling, Trump’s overall approval is underwater in 39 states— and his inflation numbers are negative in 49
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Any ‘26 prediction that doesn’t note this wide ranging unpopularity as starting point is lie by omission.
Yes to @jenmercieca.bsky.social
Persistent violent threats targeting individual political opponents & institutions surrendering in advance are the ONLY THINGS that Trumperbashi has left.
Yes to @jenmercieca.bsky.social
Persistent violent threats targeting individual political opponents & institutions surrendering in advance are the ONLY THINGS that Trumperbashi has left.
Astute concise devastating…but how to head off the modern-day sharecropper class from fighting on behalf of the 1%ers? IMHO got to be #TaxtheRich and ban Congresscritter stock trading and full investigations of Trumpcoin family corruption.
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Astute concise devastating…but how to head off the modern-day sharecropper class from fighting on behalf of the 1%ers? IMHO got to be #TaxtheRich and ban Congresscritter stock trading and full investigations of Trumpcoin family corruption.
The Dim-Wit Plan should be the new Kavanagh Stop
Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff contrived to produce the US "peace" plan, better known as the "Dim-Wit Plan".
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce an American billionaire, real estate developer, and wannabe diplomat, Steve Witkoff. He’s best known for trying to sell Ukraine to Putin and for helping Trump sell this treason and encouragement of genocidal war as “peace”.
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December 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Dim-Wit Plan should be the new Kavanagh Stop
Describe your bluesky account in a single image
December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Describe your bluesky account in a single image
The simplicity of Medicare for All requires scorched earth counterprogramming from the 1%ers. Added urgency by 1%ers now if the too-slow-but-also-real changes brought by ACA become brutally suddenly undeniably front page news, gofundme appeals and viral obituaries in 2026.
Bezos' WaPo editorial page goes full clown show in effort to trash Medicare for All substack.com/home/post/p-...
Washington Post’s Trumpian Ideology Boils Over
It comes out strongly against healthcare and for global warming
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December 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The simplicity of Medicare for All requires scorched earth counterprogramming from the 1%ers. Added urgency by 1%ers now if the too-slow-but-also-real changes brought by ACA become brutally suddenly undeniably front page news, gofundme appeals and viral obituaries in 2026.
Pour it on em and don’t let them up
At the start of 2025, some people questioned whether the resistance was dead. They doubted that Trump’s authoritarian agenda would be met with defiance and backlash.
You proved them wrong: indivisible.org/groups
You proved them wrong: indivisible.org/groups
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Pour it on em and don’t let them up
Thankfully I annually practice full non-family social distancing during the holidays - as my dear old ma used to say “the pros stay home when it’s amateur night”
“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thankfully I annually practice full non-family social distancing during the holidays - as my dear old ma used to say “the pros stay home when it’s amateur night”
Oh no not this #30for30 showing the 1986 Mets Episode 4…riots across #RedSoxNation are my most vivid high school memories. Thankfully the following 30 years of Red Sox fandom have made 1986 just another chapter on redemption.
December 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Oh no not this #30for30 showing the 1986 Mets Episode 4…riots across #RedSoxNation are my most vivid high school memories. Thankfully the following 30 years of Red Sox fandom have made 1986 just another chapter on redemption.
Last year was inductees Grateful Dead this is will be grateful when he’s dead year
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JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.
December 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Last year was inductees Grateful Dead this is will be grateful when he’s dead year
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'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's funeral
YouTube video by RTÉ News
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December 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Somehow the reporter here attempts to make rancher class agri-welfare magats into sympathetic characters in a cruel market. Bah humbug! Besides buying electric vehicles, the next largest single choice an American can make to save the planet is EAT LESS BEEF.
www.reuters.com/world/us/not...
www.reuters.com/world/us/not...
‘Not a happy Trump supporter’: Cattle ranchers hit by push for lower beef prices
Gary Vetter was 10 years old when he started feeding cattle at his family's farm. Fifty-five years later, the Westside, Iowa, farmer faces an unexpected risk from the man he backed for U.S. president.
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Somehow the reporter here attempts to make rancher class agri-welfare magats into sympathetic characters in a cruel market. Bah humbug! Besides buying electric vehicles, the next largest single choice an American can make to save the planet is EAT LESS BEEF.
www.reuters.com/world/us/not...
www.reuters.com/world/us/not...
Innumerate illiterate and gullible is no way to go thru life, son
Ironically, there is a measure of Gross Domestic Income that was also released yesterday. It rose just 2.4% www.bea.gov/news/2025/gr... And most of this went to Lutnick and his rich friends
December 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Innumerate illiterate and gullible is no way to go thru life, son
Hope can beat experience
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hope can beat experience