David 🍉
@davidwave4.bsky.social
civil rights lawyer, amateur musician, lapsed gamer, bi black guy, and political junkie. lifelong chiefs/royals fan. 🇹🇬 🇺🇸.
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
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The minute by minute battle between people uploading the video and companies taking it down is a real early internet idealism information wants to be free cyberpunk situation
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The minute by minute battle between people uploading the video and companies taking it down is a real early internet idealism information wants to be free cyberpunk situation
CECOT is literally a concentration camp. The U.S. government is sending innocent people to torture/concentration camps to enforce their racist agenda.
December 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
CECOT is literally a concentration camp. The U.S. government is sending innocent people to torture/concentration camps to enforce their racist agenda.
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It’s sickening but this has indeed been the Republican position since W Bush
imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."
December 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It’s sickening but this has indeed been the Republican position since W Bush
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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No, and when she published an opinion piece posing as one at FP, her response to a thorough debunking calling out numerous plain factual errors was to insist on a podcast debate about it, not a correction or retraction.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
No, and when she published an opinion piece posing as one at FP, her response to a thorough debunking calling out numerous plain factual errors was to insist on a podcast debate about it, not a correction or retraction.
2028 Republican presidential line-up of MTG, Ted Cruz, JD Vance, Mike Pence, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and a Trump son is a literal clown car. I don't want to jinx it, but a used condom could beat any of these idiots.
December 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
2028 Republican presidential line-up of MTG, Ted Cruz, JD Vance, Mike Pence, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and a Trump son is a literal clown car. I don't want to jinx it, but a used condom could beat any of these idiots.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
Wild that Drake is the only Young Money alum not vocally MAGA, and he’s a fucking Epstein acolyte
Rapper Nicki Minaj joined Erica Kirk onstage to reveal her "utmost respect" for President Donald Trump at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest.
Nicki Minaj proclaims 'love' for Trump, Vance at Turning Point event
Rapper Nicki Minaj joined Erica Kirk onstage to reveal her "utmost respect" for President Donald Trump at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest.
bit.ly
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Wild that Drake is the only Young Money alum not vocally MAGA, and he’s a fucking Epstein acolyte
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Y'all @fightforthefuture.org is facing a significant shortfall for next year and we really need your support
We're one of the only tech policy orgs:
-run by queer & trans folk
-mobilizing lots of ppl
-focused on fighting censorship & surveillance
-clear on Palestine
www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
We're one of the only tech policy orgs:
-run by queer & trans folk
-mobilizing lots of ppl
-focused on fighting censorship & surveillance
-clear on Palestine
www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
How we Fight for the Future in 2026
How we Fight for the Future in 2026 Top
www.fightforthefuture.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Y'all @fightforthefuture.org is facing a significant shortfall for next year and we really need your support
We're one of the only tech policy orgs:
-run by queer & trans folk
-mobilizing lots of ppl
-focused on fighting censorship & surveillance
-clear on Palestine
www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
We're one of the only tech policy orgs:
-run by queer & trans folk
-mobilizing lots of ppl
-focused on fighting censorship & surveillance
-clear on Palestine
www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
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What's so frustrating in this moment of explicit government censorship is how many times groups like the ACLU and others told us they _had_ to defend neo nazis because of the principle of free speech. Now that fascists are in power, none of those principles are protecting marginalized groups.
December 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
What's so frustrating in this moment of explicit government censorship is how many times groups like the ACLU and others told us they _had_ to defend neo nazis because of the principle of free speech. Now that fascists are in power, none of those principles are protecting marginalized groups.
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Weiss is bad at this. It’s too big a stage. She’s the Kash Patel of journalism
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Weiss is bad at this. It’s too big a stage. She’s the Kash Patel of journalism
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Censoring a story about the outsourced regime gulag is not consistent with freedom of speech. But it is consistent with the belief that “free speech” is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want.
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Censoring a story about the outsourced regime gulag is not consistent with freedom of speech. But it is consistent with the belief that “free speech” is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want.
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Maine Newsroom up with a story about the deepfake AI ads to support Susan Collins that we've been posting about this week -- ads put out by a group that Collins herself has sponsored to the tune of $400,000+ (not a typo) over the last few years.
Zero coverage in legacy Maine outlets. #MEpolitics
Zero coverage in legacy Maine outlets. #MEpolitics
12/21 U.S. Senate Republicans are already using AI slop to deceive Maine voters #maine #MEpolitics
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Maine Newsroom up with a story about the deepfake AI ads to support Susan Collins that we've been posting about this week -- ads put out by a group that Collins herself has sponsored to the tune of $400,000+ (not a typo) over the last few years.
Zero coverage in legacy Maine outlets. #MEpolitics
Zero coverage in legacy Maine outlets. #MEpolitics
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to
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From 2022: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
From 2022: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️
In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.
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The facts are pretty egregious but I first wanted to highlight this before doing my usual ditty.
December 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The facts are pretty egregious but I first wanted to highlight this before doing my usual ditty.