David Wallace
@gamechange.bsky.social
Recovering business reporter, Cubs fan yet occasional optimist and follower of people, not brands. Bats R/Throws R - Opinions, and most teeth, are my own.
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This is John Roberts' America.
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
December 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.
December 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.
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DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
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Read this.
If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them?
Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Read this.
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I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Thursday for unfettered access to the states’ voter registration records. The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C.
This is a developing story...
This is a developing story...
DOJ Sues Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and DC, Expanding Campaign of Voter Data Lawsuits to 22
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.
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wielding one of the most powerful tools of the office without being able to justify its use and claiming no knowledge of the target should trigger impeachment proceedings.
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
wielding one of the most powerful tools of the office without being able to justify its use and claiming no knowledge of the target should trigger impeachment proceedings.
Give your loved ones facts this holiday season! They're inexpensive, low-calorie, easy to wrap and portable.
🎯 They and a large swathe of the media need to economy to be terrible & for it still to be Biden/Democrats’ fault. The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed.
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Give your loved ones facts this holiday season! They're inexpensive, low-calorie, easy to wrap and portable.
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
Crucial memory will soon be a memory itself as Micron abandons consumers in favor of AI data centers
The RAM crisis is just getting started.
www.pcgamer.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
Thanks for coming back to the grind, all you Pluggers.(tm)
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thanks for coming back to the grind, all you Pluggers.(tm)
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Those judges have ruled against the administration more than 700 times since ICE implemented its draconian new policy on July 8.
Only 8 judges have side with ICE’s position. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Only 8 judges have side with ICE’s position. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Those judges have ruled against the administration more than 700 times since ICE implemented its draconian new policy on July 8.
Only 8 judges have side with ICE’s position. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Only 8 judges have side with ICE’s position. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:
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Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.
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YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
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That’s $500 million lost per day
Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
That’s $500 million lost per day
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The Trump administration is adamant that people not take or share photos of the White House destruction, so please keep this photo amongst us.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The Trump administration is adamant that people not take or share photos of the White House destruction, so please keep this photo amongst us.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
Thank you BD, another editor supposedly from NY of whom I also have never heard. Or is it hoid?
HT to @bcdreyer.social
HT to @bcdreyer.social
INTERVIEWER: You were born January 30, 1972 in Shreveport, Louisiana, correct?
JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that, it's the first I'm hearing of it
JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that, it's the first I'm hearing of it
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thank you BD, another editor supposedly from NY of whom I also have never heard. Or is it hoid?
HT to @bcdreyer.social
HT to @bcdreyer.social
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Former presidents can go to jail if they are guilty of criminal offenses without causing democracy to collapse
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sarkozy enters jail over campaign financing - France's first ex-president behind bars
Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.
www.bbc.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Former presidents can go to jail if they are guilty of criminal offenses without causing democracy to collapse
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
3/x These kinds of swings (labor/conservative in UK) have finally come to the U.S. and Red/Bluedemocracy isn't prepared. Two party with decades of cooperation and narrow differences is too complacent and brittle to handle radical change.
October 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
3/x These kinds of swings (labor/conservative in UK) have finally come to the U.S. and Red/Bluedemocracy isn't prepared. Two party with decades of cooperation and narrow differences is too complacent and brittle to handle radical change.
2/x At the local, county, state or federal level *everything* and anything can be connected to politics and graft(if the powers that be say so). Definitions of even legal and illegal change on a whim. Standards that existed for generations are shifting, after "it can't happen here" delusions.
October 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
2/x At the local, county, state or federal level *everything* and anything can be connected to politics and graft(if the powers that be say so). Definitions of even legal and illegal change on a whim. Standards that existed for generations are shifting, after "it can't happen here" delusions.