David Cantwell
@cantkill.bsky.social
Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.
Never been a big winter Olympics follower, but every four years I do always go, Oh yeah, Franz Klammer!
Franz Klammer 1976 Innsbruck - The Greatest Downhill Run of All Time - FULL UNEDITED!!
YouTube video by Darren Glen
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Never been a big winter Olympics follower, but every four years I do always go, Oh yeah, Franz Klammer!
New music from Risi Palmer and Ruthie Foster, Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence, + reissued sounds from NRBQ, Carolina Chocolate Drops and much more. Turn It Up w/ @charleshughes2.bsky.social and me at No Fences Review
Turn It Up - 2/11/2025
Earworms, obsessions, recommendations
open.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:15 PM
New music from Risi Palmer and Ruthie Foster, Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence, + reissued sounds from NRBQ, Carolina Chocolate Drops and much more. Turn It Up w/ @charleshughes2.bsky.social and me at No Fences Review
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Should you get snatched out of your home on April 21st because you didn’t file your taxes on time? The government is focused on immigrants now but if you set the precedent that people should get kidnapped over paperwork there’s a whole lot of people who can get taken next
February 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Should you get snatched out of your home on April 21st because you didn’t file your taxes on time? The government is focused on immigrants now but if you set the precedent that people should get kidnapped over paperwork there’s a whole lot of people who can get taken next
This is great. (As I like to say and have, Keith Harris is a national treasure)
I saw Eric Church this weekend but I had other things on my mind.
I Watched Eric Church Perform in St. Paul While ICE Thugs Were Kidnapping My Neighbors - Racket
The Nashville outsider rocked for a fiery 2 1/2 hours, but there are some lines even he won't cross.
racketmn.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
This is great. (As I like to say and have, Keith Harris is a national treasure)
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They are building black box prisons that are more prison camp than anything and then refusing to obey court orders to release detainees for weeks, when the detainees can get access to a lawyer.
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
February 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
They are building black box prisons that are more prison camp than anything and then refusing to obey court orders to release detainees for weeks, when the detainees can get access to a lawyer.
The amazingly detailed long-ass thread I needed re Bunny’s half time show!
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The amazingly detailed long-ass thread I needed re Bunny’s half time show!
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Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
February 9, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
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Three thoughts.
1. It’s always been about the white nationalism
2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning
3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
1. It’s always been about the white nationalism
2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning
3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
February 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Three thoughts.
1. It’s always been about the white nationalism
2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning
3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
1. It’s always been about the white nationalism
2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning
3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
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very charmed that in its eulogy to mass market paperbacks the NYT found an 18-year-old who uses the word "reckon" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
February 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
very charmed that in its eulogy to mass market paperbacks the NYT found an 18-year-old who uses the word "reckon" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
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We are NOT NEARLY concerned enough!
Seriously, put this on blast - people need to understand what's going to be unleashed in November.
Seriously, put this on blast - people need to understand what's going to be unleashed in November.
Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now.
It's harrowing stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
It's harrowing stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
We are NOT NEARLY concerned enough!
Seriously, put this on blast - people need to understand what's going to be unleashed in November.
Seriously, put this on blast - people need to understand what's going to be unleashed in November.
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my most right-wing take is loving my spouse, playing with my kids, and letting my favorite sportsball team make me suffer every weekend is a good life bsky.app/profile/nota...
excerpt from the keynote speech at the annual Rape Traffickers Convention
February 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
my most right-wing take is loving my spouse, playing with my kids, and letting my favorite sportsball team make me suffer every weekend is a good life bsky.app/profile/nota...
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It is so funny that ICE keeps lining up truckloads of officers to just get trapped in traffic, roll up to a house, and immediately be surrounded by a dozen people blowing whistles and telling them their moms don't love them. Imagine waking up at 5AM and your boss assigns you to endure The Daily Hate
February 6, 2026 at 5:29 AM
It is so funny that ICE keeps lining up truckloads of officers to just get trapped in traffic, roll up to a house, and immediately be surrounded by a dozen people blowing whistles and telling them their moms don't love them. Imagine waking up at 5AM and your boss assigns you to endure The Daily Hate
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But then Adam Smith would be woke in today’s narcissistic death cult of economic thought that we’ve got going .
February 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM
But then Adam Smith would be woke in today’s narcissistic death cult of economic thought that we’ve got going .
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Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
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The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.
February 5, 2026 at 11:03 AM
The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.
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North Carolina
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
North Carolina
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Anne Applebaum: "There are two purposes to the Georgia Raid. One of them is for Donald Trump to break as many laws as possible and let the courts try to catch up with him afterwards. It's also about creating a narrative, so if they lose the election - they are preparing to say it was stolen."
February 5, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Anne Applebaum: "There are two purposes to the Georgia Raid. One of them is for Donald Trump to break as many laws as possible and let the courts try to catch up with him afterwards. It's also about creating a narrative, so if they lose the election - they are preparing to say it was stolen."
YES!
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
YES!
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Quinnipiac poll | 1/29-2/2 RV
President Trump approval
Disapprove 56% (+2)
Approve 37% (-3)
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 56% (+2)
Approve 37% (-3)
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
February 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Quinnipiac poll | 1/29-2/2 RV
President Trump approval
Disapprove 56% (+2)
Approve 37% (-3)
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 56% (+2)
Approve 37% (-3)
poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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This is about The Washington Post but it is also about the slow death of movie theaters, of book stores—the rapid integration of AI into schools—the Kennedy Center—the way so many people in power are afraid of art (and wow even sports) for the power it has to give people common language and cause.
February 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
This is about The Washington Post but it is also about the slow death of movie theaters, of book stores—the rapid integration of AI into schools—the Kennedy Center—the way so many people in power are afraid of art (and wow even sports) for the power it has to give people common language and cause.
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one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
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This is a good explainer of Google's latest theft of the commons. THE COMMONS: Not private property. Most of the books and documents are public domain. They could have written a few lines of code and just limited to those. They did not. The long game is to own us.
winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...
winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...
Google Disables Search for Book Previews
Google has disabled search functionality for preview books on Google Books, leaving users unable to search through pages that remain visible on the platform.
winbuzzer.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:09 PM
This is a good explainer of Google's latest theft of the commons. THE COMMONS: Not private property. Most of the books and documents are public domain. They could have written a few lines of code and just limited to those. They did not. The long game is to own us.
winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...
winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...
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I guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling
February 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling