Dave
@davedoindavethings.bsky.social
History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.-Hilary Mantel
Husband, Father, Teacher, Vet
🇺🇸 stand with 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈⚧️❤️
Husband, Father, Teacher, Vet
🇺🇸 stand with 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈⚧️❤️
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Shoot this right into my veins.
January 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Shoot this right into my veins.
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Ms. Cohen is getting to the heart of the matter.
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Ms. Cohen is getting to the heart of the matter.
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this is mlk in 1964 talking about his opposition to barry goldwater, who opposed the civil rights act. but it could be said about every leader in the gop right now and it wouldnt be out of place. youtu.be/xTIZwcjQ9EM
Aug. 15, 1964 | MLK Hits Goldwater
YouTube video by Real Time 1960s
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 9:09 PM
this is mlk in 1964 talking about his opposition to barry goldwater, who opposed the civil rights act. but it could be said about every leader in the gop right now and it wouldnt be out of place. youtu.be/xTIZwcjQ9EM
Hear! Hear!
No more compromising with obvious bad faith actors who want fascism.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
January 15, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Hear! Hear!
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No more compromising with obvious bad faith actors who want fascism.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
January 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
No more compromising with obvious bad faith actors who want fascism.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
No more apologizing for their loftiest goals.
No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.”
Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable.
That’s what the people want.
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If so, is there as much moderate support for Trumpism today as there was white Republican support for white supremacy in the 1890s? Have we gone that far down the road?
Given current public sentiment, I do not think so.
Given current public sentiment, I do not think so.
January 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM
If so, is there as much moderate support for Trumpism today as there was white Republican support for white supremacy in the 1890s? Have we gone that far down the road?
Given current public sentiment, I do not think so.
Given current public sentiment, I do not think so.
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In the same way that the media and elites in 2016 and 2024 acquiesced to Trump's election and re-election, it was white moderates, especially in the Republican Party, who doomed the South to Jim Crow after decades of insurgent violence and conservative legislative disfranchisement
January 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
In the same way that the media and elites in 2016 and 2024 acquiesced to Trump's election and re-election, it was white moderates, especially in the Republican Party, who doomed the South to Jim Crow after decades of insurgent violence and conservative legislative disfranchisement
We’ve known it was coming for years, but seeing this in print leaves a tightness in my chest. Have we arrived?
January 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
We’ve known it was coming for years, but seeing this in print leaves a tightness in my chest. Have we arrived?
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Oh, dear. Long feared, anticipated, and even so as it approaches the dread feels uncanny.
President threatens to deploy the Insurrection Act against Minnesota.
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Oh, dear. Long feared, anticipated, and even so as it approaches the dread feels uncanny.
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The problem: Unaccountable, armed goons are terrorizing an American city, serving as the de facto paramilitary occupation force of a regime that believes itself at war with large swaths of the population.
The reaction from a Democratic lawmaker: "Maybe we could put QR codes on their uniforms?"
The reaction from a Democratic lawmaker: "Maybe we could put QR codes on their uniforms?"
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
January 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
The problem: Unaccountable, armed goons are terrorizing an American city, serving as the de facto paramilitary occupation force of a regime that believes itself at war with large swaths of the population.
The reaction from a Democratic lawmaker: "Maybe we could put QR codes on their uniforms?"
The reaction from a Democratic lawmaker: "Maybe we could put QR codes on their uniforms?"
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.
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“It’s like half of y’all ain’t never seen Star Wars or a Disney movie. How do you not know which side to root on?”
January 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM
“It’s like half of y’all ain’t never seen Star Wars or a Disney movie. How do you not know which side to root on?”
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What could possibly go wrong?
January 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
What could possibly go wrong?
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The money for your healthcare, trillions of dollars, was given to fund the domestic terror organization, ICE.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
The money for your healthcare, trillions of dollars, was given to fund the domestic terror organization, ICE.
UKIP: the new riech
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
UKIP: the new riech
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Every time the national party and leadership get this opening, they instead run for the sideline then punt. Every single time. All of us helping drive the polls, and they would prefer their donor lists.
Early polling post the killing of Nicole Good thankfully shows Trump's approval dropping and the country turning against DHS/ICE. We will need to see more data but this early data is bad for Trump/ICE Barbie and suggests Dems have a big opening here 👇
This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime.
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d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
January 13, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Every time the national party and leadership get this opening, they instead run for the sideline then punt. Every single time. All of us helping drive the polls, and they would prefer their donor lists.
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We are now at this phase of social unrest, where content creators flock to an area to “cover” the protests, but are really making enraging political propaganda while profiting off any image of brutality.
I wrote this article about riot porn back in 2020, still it makes sense.
I wrote this article about riot porn back in 2020, still it makes sense.
How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets
Weak organization forced right-wing agitators to rely on video and social media. Now they have a machine to spread a narrative of lawless rioting.
www.technologyreview.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:26 AM
We are now at this phase of social unrest, where content creators flock to an area to “cover” the protests, but are really making enraging political propaganda while profiting off any image of brutality.
I wrote this article about riot porn back in 2020, still it makes sense.
I wrote this article about riot porn back in 2020, still it makes sense.
That name isn’t doing them any favors at this point.
ICE OUT Target!
ICE OUT Target!
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM
That name isn’t doing them any favors at this point.
ICE OUT Target!
ICE OUT Target!
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From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
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Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel.
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel.
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Why is embedding Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the British army, navy & airforce a national security disaster? Well consider what happens when you ‘buy’ a Tesla.
You’re actually just renting the software. That can be turned off at any time.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
You’re actually just renting the software. That can be turned off at any time.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 12, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Why is embedding Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the British army, navy & airforce a national security disaster? Well consider what happens when you ‘buy’ a Tesla.
You’re actually just renting the software. That can be turned off at any time.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
You’re actually just renting the software. That can be turned off at any time.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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From the Mississippi "goon squad" to New York State prison guards murdering people to Los Angeles Sheriff Department deputy gangs, they are (as a whole) all so so far in the MAGA pocket, folks have no idea.
January 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
From the Mississippi "goon squad" to New York State prison guards murdering people to Los Angeles Sheriff Department deputy gangs, they are (as a whole) all so so far in the MAGA pocket, folks have no idea.
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this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.