David Caldwell
@factsmustwin.bsky.social
Dad. Coder. Campaign Manager. Los Angeles LGBT Center alum. America's Test Kitchen superfan. Celtics watcher, with my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Against lies and debunked beliefs. Avid door-knocker, probably have talked with more voters than you have
Just shocking ignorance. Or lying to the rubes. I'm going with the first.
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country”
The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care
The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Just shocking ignorance. Or lying to the rubes. I'm going with the first.
Fevers don't always break, but @andreapitzer.bsky.social does a great job reviewing the various ways they do. I don't know the history like she does, but I have also noticed the cracks in the dam.
This may be the last time
I don't know exactly what will end Trump. And neither does anyone else.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Fevers don't always break, but @andreapitzer.bsky.social does a great job reviewing the various ways they do. I don't know the history like she does, but I have also noticed the cracks in the dam.
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Steve has a point....
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Steve has a point....
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And now the lineup with Minott *and* Walsh (and Hauser!) getting the job done. Is Minott the 5? Walsh? (Other two are White and Brown.) #Celtics
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
And now the lineup with Minott *and* Walsh (and Hauser!) getting the job done. Is Minott the 5? Walsh? (Other two are White and Brown.) #Celtics
This is a really great read from @slate.com.
He Was a Lifelong Criminal. He Just Died at 94. Before He Went, He Gave Me a Jaw-Dropping Revelation About One of America’s Most Notorious Murders.
Just before he died, a 94-year-old career criminal had one last confession.
slate.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This is a really great read from @slate.com.
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Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Pete Hegseth on Sept 3 talking about the strike on boats where 2 survivors were later killed in a second strike: “I watched it live.”
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There is really an unsustainable level of bigoted gutter trash in the United States.
Cammack: "Look no further than Minnesota and the disaster there where the Somalian community has been really the root of all of the waste, fraud, and abuse that we've seen in the last several years."
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There is really an unsustainable level of bigoted gutter trash in the United States.
this guy
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
this guy
On top of the ethical arguments, yes, there's a critical utilitarian one as well.
Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
On top of the ethical arguments, yes, there's a critical utilitarian one as well.
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Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
Inspired me to haul my copy out of storage.
Remember when a cover blurb from Newsweek meant something?
Remember when a cover blurb from Newsweek meant something?
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Inspired me to haul my copy out of storage.
Remember when a cover blurb from Newsweek meant something?
Remember when a cover blurb from Newsweek meant something?
Time for my least favorite time of year -- the "you've heard of Elf on the Shelf, but what about ...." season.
Last year powered by terrible Photoshop skills; this year, presumably there will be a lot of AI slop.
Last year powered by terrible Photoshop skills; this year, presumably there will be a lot of AI slop.
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Time for my least favorite time of year -- the "you've heard of Elf on the Shelf, but what about ...." season.
Last year powered by terrible Photoshop skills; this year, presumably there will be a lot of AI slop.
Last year powered by terrible Photoshop skills; this year, presumably there will be a lot of AI slop.
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They are blowing up boats for drug trafficking.
Then he is pardoning a drug trafficker.
Illogical.
Then he is pardoning a drug trafficker.
Illogical.
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
They are blowing up boats for drug trafficking.
Then he is pardoning a drug trafficker.
Illogical.
Then he is pardoning a drug trafficker.
Illogical.
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
So many members of various identities share this characteristic - they seemingly have no cultural memory of being "other," even when it was just a few generations ago. It always stuns me when Italians, Irish, Poles, etc. punch down without remembering getting hit from above.
The fucking irony of this Jew to cape Third Reich white supremacist talking points BECAUSE his grandparents could assimilate into US culture when whiteness expanded just enough for them.
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
So many members of various identities share this characteristic - they seemingly have no cultural memory of being "other," even when it was just a few generations ago. It always stuns me when Italians, Irish, Poles, etc. punch down without remembering getting hit from above.
Searing.
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Searing.
Wtf
RFK Jr says he will end the "war" on saturated fats, contradicting decades of evidence-based dietary recommendations.
"We’re ending the war on saturated fats in this country. So, we’re going to publish dietary guidelines that are going to stress the importance of protein and saturated fats."
"We’re ending the war on saturated fats in this country. So, we’re going to publish dietary guidelines that are going to stress the importance of protein and saturated fats."
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Wtf
This is truly astonishing, and I thought I knew a lot about how bad the Internet is for women.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is truly astonishing, and I thought I knew a lot about how bad the Internet is for women.
Enjoying MTG's rehabilitation from dangerous conspiracy theorist to whackadoodle.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Enjoying MTG's rehabilitation from dangerous conspiracy theorist to whackadoodle.
I'm about that age and I think the sequence went:
1. Jocks get the girls
2. Nerds start getting the girls, they're nicer and gonna be rich
3. Nerds don't realize "nicer" was part of it and stop being nice
4. Nerds stop getting girls
5. Nerds blame girls and woke for not getting girls anymore
1. Jocks get the girls
2. Nerds start getting the girls, they're nicer and gonna be rich
3. Nerds don't realize "nicer" was part of it and stop being nice
4. Nerds stop getting girls
5. Nerds blame girls and woke for not getting girls anymore
You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
I’m sorry, but a goofy looking guy who grew up a privileged son of a pediatrician and has a phd in social theory from the university of Goethe and started in tech by investing an inheritance left to him by his grandfather talking about being a “dude” is very, very funny to me.
November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm about that age and I think the sequence went:
1. Jocks get the girls
2. Nerds start getting the girls, they're nicer and gonna be rich
3. Nerds don't realize "nicer" was part of it and stop being nice
4. Nerds stop getting girls
5. Nerds blame girls and woke for not getting girls anymore
1. Jocks get the girls
2. Nerds start getting the girls, they're nicer and gonna be rich
3. Nerds don't realize "nicer" was part of it and stop being nice
4. Nerds stop getting girls
5. Nerds blame girls and woke for not getting girls anymore
Will the alternate reality they live in lead them into a trap?
Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Will the alternate reality they live in lead them into a trap?