Dave Gottfried
@davegottfried.bsky.social
Stand alone market trader and Artist.. Berkeley,CA
"It's too late for Do Not Obey in Advance"
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"It's too late for Do Not Obey in Advance"
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February 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Believe all these guys when they act like they’re in a war against America. They think they are.
Kash Patel refers to FBI agents who raided the Fulton County elections office as "my troops on the ground"
February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Believe all these guys when they act like they’re in a war against America. They think they are.
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I have thought of this quote a lot and shared it with lots of people. Helped me point out how car brained we have been guided to be: we have assumed it is a right to have a car wherever we want and gov should help us store it? Wrong. City spaces are meant for people not cars :)
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
February 4, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I have thought of this quote a lot and shared it with lots of people. Helped me point out how car brained we have been guided to be: we have assumed it is a right to have a car wherever we want and gov should help us store it? Wrong. City spaces are meant for people not cars :)
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This in Fahrenheit.
Imagine living here without electricity or without heat—or both—and with your notifications looking like this.
Imagine living here without electricity or without heat—or both—and with your notifications looking like this.
February 4, 2026 at 5:59 AM
This in Fahrenheit.
Imagine living here without electricity or without heat—or both—and with your notifications looking like this.
Imagine living here without electricity or without heat—or both—and with your notifications looking like this.
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Yes, by all means, yell at the Democrats. But everyone seems to find excuses why they must be the <only> people getting yelled at, & it’s exhausting. It makes everyone look deeply unserious about actually getting anything done.
Free passes. Every day. Since January 2021. Schumer, Jeffries, & company deserve all the criticism. But they are not the ones who are deciding whether democracy will survive or not. And they haven't been, for years now. This is a truly exhausting feature of the endless National Conversation™️
Mike Johnson. John Thune. Susan Collins. Lisa Murkowski. Total free passes. The GOP, as a political party, & the leaders in charge of Congress, amidst unprecedented corruption & fascist lawbreaking, don't even exist to the people on the NYT op-ed page. They literally are not actors in 🇺🇸 politics.
February 4, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Yes, by all means, yell at the Democrats. But everyone seems to find excuses why they must be the <only> people getting yelled at, & it’s exhausting. It makes everyone look deeply unserious about actually getting anything done.
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Most of the windows are not accessible by foot but the ones that are have been mostly covered. I found a section without covers — the inside is still empty but you can see the roll-up garage door leading to the next section of the facility. The back of each section also has huge roll-up doors.
February 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Most of the windows are not accessible by foot but the ones that are have been mostly covered. I found a section without covers — the inside is still empty but you can see the roll-up garage door leading to the next section of the facility. The back of each section also has huge roll-up doors.
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Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But:
Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.
Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But:
Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.
Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.
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In the Bay Area, local prosecutors have charged student protesters who participated in pro-Palestine demonstrations with felony-level charges that critics are warning are setting a dangerous template for law enforcement responses.
@psfrench.bsky.social reports on what's going on in this new piece:
@psfrench.bsky.social reports on what's going on in this new piece:
In Bay Area, Felony Charges Against Student Protesters Prompt Free Speech Concerns - Bolts
German Gonzalez grew up about an hour south of Stanford University, in a dusty California farming town where the apples for Martinelli’s sparkling cider are juiced and packaged. In high... Read More
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February 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
In the Bay Area, local prosecutors have charged student protesters who participated in pro-Palestine demonstrations with felony-level charges that critics are warning are setting a dangerous template for law enforcement responses.
@psfrench.bsky.social reports on what's going on in this new piece:
@psfrench.bsky.social reports on what's going on in this new piece:
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yeah we should totally let this dude into our group. just a word of warning though if you ever have a disagreement he'll spend weeks belittling the you and the organization online to his hundred thousand simpering followers
February 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
yeah we should totally let this dude into our group. just a word of warning though if you ever have a disagreement he'll spend weeks belittling the you and the organization online to his hundred thousand simpering followers
We can talk about the rule of the law but for some reason corps always get what they want
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Airlines win challenge to appeals court ruling on consumer fees
A federal appeals court on Tuesday agreed to set aside its ruling last year that the U.S. Transportation Department had authority to require airlines to fully disclose fees upfront when passengers boo...
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:10 PM
We can talk about the rule of the law but for some reason corps always get what they want
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Mayor Mamdani: "Stanley Richards as Commissioner of the NYC Department of Corrections. Decades after he served time in our city’s jails, Commissioner Richards will now be the first formerly incarcerated person to lead them." www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/01/s...
From Detainee to Commissioner: Stanley Richards to Lead City Jails
Richards, who was in and out of Rikers as a youth before going on to lead a nonprofit dedicated to prisoner reentry, takes over the Correction Department as it faces multiple crises.
www.thecity.nyc
February 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Mayor Mamdani: "Stanley Richards as Commissioner of the NYC Department of Corrections. Decades after he served time in our city’s jails, Commissioner Richards will now be the first formerly incarcerated person to lead them." www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/01/s...
There are unsigned jazz artists in their 20s booking giant shows, who are selling lots of merch, who have loyal fan bases and are just absolutely killing it,”
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The founder of Minaret Records talks about LA's "jazz renaissance"
Plus: El Condor is closing, a Frieze art event to RSVP to, and where to see jazz in LA.
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February 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
There are unsigned jazz artists in their 20s booking giant shows, who are selling lots of merch, who have loyal fan bases and are just absolutely killing it,”
open.substack.com/pub/nobadday...
open.substack.com/pub/nobadday...
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Impunity of the police is a fundamental distinguishing feature of a totalitarian state. Ask Gary Kasparov, he's lived through it.
January 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Impunity of the police is a fundamental distinguishing feature of a totalitarian state. Ask Gary Kasparov, he's lived through it.
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Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
February 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
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The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-...
The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”
Photo by Al Aumuller, via Wikimedia Commons
Like another famous Okie from Muskogee, Woody Guthrie came from a part of Oklahoma that the U.S. government sold during the 1889 land rush away from the Qua...
www.openculture.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-...
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They pointed ACTUAL LOADED GUNS at observers for the crime of... following them?
Ordered them out at gunpoint, ID'd and put them in their "terrorist" database so they can terrorize their entire family if they need to.
How long before another thug gets an itchy trigger finger?
Ordered them out at gunpoint, ID'd and put them in their "terrorist" database so they can terrorize their entire family if they need to.
How long before another thug gets an itchy trigger finger?
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
They pointed ACTUAL LOADED GUNS at observers for the crime of... following them?
Ordered them out at gunpoint, ID'd and put them in their "terrorist" database so they can terrorize their entire family if they need to.
How long before another thug gets an itchy trigger finger?
Ordered them out at gunpoint, ID'd and put them in their "terrorist" database so they can terrorize their entire family if they need to.
How long before another thug gets an itchy trigger finger?
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Two Rice University students created a digital map documenting U.S. #ICE activity.
Oh, look, most immigrants seem to be in... blue states.
Nothng to see in Florida or Texas for example.
bit.ly/4riALZO
Oh, look, most immigrants seem to be in... blue states.
Nothng to see in Florida or Texas for example.
bit.ly/4riALZO
February 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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For many in the US, free speech is no longer a reality. In interviews with foreign-born academics, I repeatedly encountered fear that even mild criticism of the government (DJT) could cause problems, and that green cards and even citizenship wouldn't matter.
www.theredoubt.net/for-some-fre...
www.theredoubt.net/for-some-fre...
For some, freedom of speech is already gone
Foreign-born academics are afraid to speak their mind in Donald Trump's America.
www.theredoubt.net
February 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
For many in the US, free speech is no longer a reality. In interviews with foreign-born academics, I repeatedly encountered fear that even mild criticism of the government (DJT) could cause problems, and that green cards and even citizenship wouldn't matter.
www.theredoubt.net/for-some-fre...
www.theredoubt.net/for-some-fre...
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He thinks we are all morons
$500 million from the UAE 4 days before his inauguration — then they got previously restricted AI chips
But “no involvement” lol ok buddy
$500 million from the UAE 4 days before his inauguration — then they got previously restricted AI chips
But “no involvement” lol ok buddy
February 2, 2026 at 5:03 AM
He thinks we are all morons
$500 million from the UAE 4 days before his inauguration — then they got previously restricted AI chips
But “no involvement” lol ok buddy
$500 million from the UAE 4 days before his inauguration — then they got previously restricted AI chips
But “no involvement” lol ok buddy
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"As a result, the center remains vulnerable—not through outright defunding, but through fragmentation." article sees impacts on air travel, food and national security, military readiness, advanced weather & disaster prediction and other science goals. 🧪🌎 eos.org/opinions/wha...
What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
eos.org
January 31, 2026 at 5:25 PM
"As a result, the center remains vulnerable—not through outright defunding, but through fragmentation." article sees impacts on air travel, food and national security, military readiness, advanced weather & disaster prediction and other science goals. 🧪🌎 eos.org/opinions/wha...
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Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
February 2, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
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Portland City Council member
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Portland City Council member