Hapless Dave
@davejw.bsky.social
Twitter refugee. Promoter of reason over dogma. A Scot, so one of “Jock Tamson’s Bairns”
Reposted by Hapless Dave
Trump says he felt worse about his thugs murdering a woman after he heard that her parents liked him. Which means that if they didn't like him, he wouldn't have felt as bad.
Who made this person such a monster? And why did 77 million people flush away their decency and vote for this?
Who made this person such a monster? And why did 77 million people flush away their decency and vote for this?
Trump on Renee Good: "I know her parents were big Trump fans. Makes me feel bad anyway, but I mean I guess you could say even worse. They were tremendous Trump people."
January 27, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Trump says he felt worse about his thugs murdering a woman after he heard that her parents liked him. Which means that if they didn't like him, he wouldn't have felt as bad.
Who made this person such a monster? And why did 77 million people flush away their decency and vote for this?
Who made this person such a monster? And why did 77 million people flush away their decency and vote for this?
Reposted by Hapless Dave
Chancers, hooligans, vandals, and idiots - who think they're the smartest people in the room.
🎵I think I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending…🎶
The people who broke our country are the same people Nigel Farage is now relying on to fix it.
It couldn’t be clearer: Reform UK are simply the Conservatives with a new logo.
The people who broke our country are the same people Nigel Farage is now relying on to fix it.
It couldn’t be clearer: Reform UK are simply the Conservatives with a new logo.
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Chancers, hooligans, vandals, and idiots - who think they're the smartest people in the room.
Reposted by Hapless Dave
"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...
ICE and America’s flailing autocrat
[FREE TO READ] Easily discredited propaganda is undermining Trump’s assault on the constitution
as.ft.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...
Reposted by Hapless Dave
"...he’s disarmed and lying helpless on the ground before they start spraying bullets into his body. They could have just arrested him, even though he hadn’t done a single illegal thing—but ICE killed him because they felt like it."
Heartbreaking from @lebassett.bsky.social
Heartbreaking from @lebassett.bsky.social
ICE executes ICU nurse in broad daylight
"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted.
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"...he’s disarmed and lying helpless on the ground before they start spraying bullets into his body. They could have just arrested him, even though he hadn’t done a single illegal thing—but ICE killed him because they felt like it."
Heartbreaking from @lebassett.bsky.social
Heartbreaking from @lebassett.bsky.social
Reposted by Hapless Dave
And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:36 PM
And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
Reposted by Hapless Dave
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
Reposted by Hapless Dave
Reposted by Hapless Dave
“The richest man on the planet’s stated policy appears to be that if there isn’t an explicit law against it, then feel free to use Grok to sexualise images of children; a green light for the proliferation of paedophilic content.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Elon Musk’s green light for paedophilia
First Musk embraced the global hard right and now, by failing to limit images of child sexual abuse on X, he has added child abusers to his list of fellow travellers
www.thenewworld.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 11:42 AM
“The richest man on the planet’s stated policy appears to be that if there isn’t an explicit law against it, then feel free to use Grok to sexualise images of children; a green light for the proliferation of paedophilic content.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Reposted by Hapless Dave
Yet more proof that kowtowing to Trump didn’t work, just emboldened him.
Now is the time for other countries to send military personnel to Greenland.
Donald Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Now is the time for other countries to send military personnel to Greenland.
Donald Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Donald Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland – Europe live
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland will face tariffs from 1 February
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Yet more proof that kowtowing to Trump didn’t work, just emboldened him.
Now is the time for other countries to send military personnel to Greenland.
Donald Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Now is the time for other countries to send military personnel to Greenland.
Donald Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland – Europe live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Reposted by Hapless Dave
Trump is trying to seize Greenland by extortion, announcing a tariff on our longtime allies unless they help him steal it. He also calls Greenland a “sacred piece of land.” 77 million Americans elected a madman who threatens world peace.
Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland.
This is mad king shit.
This is mad king shit.
January 17, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Trump is trying to seize Greenland by extortion, announcing a tariff on our longtime allies unless they help him steal it. He also calls Greenland a “sacred piece of land.” 77 million Americans elected a madman who threatens world peace.
Reposted by Hapless Dave
The New York Times thinks that when a criminal tries to steal someone’s stuff and they say no, it’s a “standoff.”
January 17, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The New York Times thinks that when a criminal tries to steal someone’s stuff and they say no, it’s a “standoff.”
Reposted by Hapless Dave
It's weird that the administration is pushing Americans to have more (white) babies at the same time it's putting Stephen Miller on television, when scientists have proven that listening to his whiny shit-weasel voice for more than thirty seconds will make any adult sterile.
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM
It's weird that the administration is pushing Americans to have more (white) babies at the same time it's putting Stephen Miller on television, when scientists have proven that listening to his whiny shit-weasel voice for more than thirty seconds will make any adult sterile.
Reposted by Hapless Dave
As he acquires another Conservative defector, don’t forget what Farage is about and who wants him to win
johnkampfner.substack.com/p/in-farage-...
johnkampfner.substack.com/p/in-farage-...
In Farage, Trump and Putin have a dream
Don't underestimate the work behind the scenes to turn the UK far-right
johnkampfner.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
As he acquires another Conservative defector, don’t forget what Farage is about and who wants him to win
johnkampfner.substack.com/p/in-farage-...
johnkampfner.substack.com/p/in-farage-...
Reposted by Hapless Dave
"The abduction of Maduro was not about naming his crimes, but about ignoring them. The worst thing Maduro did is what Trump is beginning to do: killing civilians and blaming them for their own deaths. After Minneapolis, Maduro’s lies are being repeated: in American English, by American authorities."
The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear.
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
snyder.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:05 PM
"The abduction of Maduro was not about naming his crimes, but about ignoring them. The worst thing Maduro did is what Trump is beginning to do: killing civilians and blaming them for their own deaths. After Minneapolis, Maduro’s lies are being repeated: in American English, by American authorities."
Reposted by Hapless Dave
The middle frame here is critical. It shows the position of the officer's feet when the *first* shot was fired. He appears already out of danger. And then the subsequent shots from the side into the driver's window look like straight up kill shots after the car had turned and was passing him.
I think it's highly likely Trump aides tried to avoid showing him the video that displays the shooting into the window from the side of the car, taken from the back, because it shows the officer was in no sense in life-threatening danger when he fired the shots:
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The middle frame here is critical. It shows the position of the officer's feet when the *first* shot was fired. He appears already out of danger. And then the subsequent shots from the side into the driver's window look like straight up kill shots after the car had turned and was passing him.