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David Gans
@dgans.bsky.social
Musician, author, radio host living in Oakland CA

https://perfectible.net

I play a live set online at 4pm PT almost every day, at
https://facebook.com/dgansmusic
https://youtube.com/user/dgans
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New in PN: CBS obeys in advance

"A routine TV hit which would have been quickly forgotten became a national story about government censorship and a Democratic candidate being silenced by Trump’s henchmen. In a tough primary, you couldn’t buy better exposure. Nice work, FCC Chair Brendan Carr."
CBS obeys in advance
And turns a Texas Democrat into a First Amendment martyr.
www.publicnotice.co
February 18, 2026 at 12:55 PM
My daily live performance: 4-5pm Pacific, 7-8pm Eastern
February 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Special for my friends in the media!

Before you use numbers from a new DHS “economic impact analysis” in reporting on a new Trump prison camp, please consider that these reports appear to be (to use a technical term) horseshit.

Helpful explanation here:

projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/federal-ec...
Federal Economic Analysis for Detention Site Riddled With Errors on Taxes, Jobs, Geography
Document incorrectly references Oklahoma economy and inflates job numbers with theoretical positions
projectsaltbox.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Proven voter fraud cases are far less than 1/1000 of 1% of votes cast. (Right-wing Heritage Foundation numbers). The SAVE Act has nothing to do with election integrity and everything to do with voter suppression. P.S., in the majority of cases it's a Republican.
February 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.
February 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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@kpfa.org

KPFA 40th annual Grateful Dead Marathon is THIS Saturday, 02/21/2026 - 9am – midnight PDT.

KPFA/KPFB/KFCF will carry & livestreams on kpfa.org, @gdradio.net , @nugs.net

Join @dgans.bsky.social Tim Lynch & others for unreleased GD music, interviews, performances, etc.

#gratefuldead
February 17, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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"Noem verbally instructed the Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Kevin Lunday, to pull the plane off the search-and-rescue mission so it would not miss the migrant flight as part of the DHS’s so-called Alien Expulsion Operations"
www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
Kristi Noem pulls plane off search for overboard Coast Guardsman to deport migrants
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got off to an immediately rocky start with the U.S. Coast Guard, according to new in-depth reporting.President Donald Trump's pick to lead DHS angered senior Co...
www.rawstory.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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I've transcribed dozens of interviews. With rare exceptions, everyone speaks with those um/uh tics, little restarts, hesitations, and most of us speak in sentence fragments with emphases, tones, pauses that create coherence not replicable in print. Spoken and written are distinct. Translate fairly.
February 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Read and share all over..he nails it
February 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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ZERO lies detected. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇
February 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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The geology of the Colorado Plateau is just incredible -- the colors, the formations. What a delight to explore!

#coloradoplateau #geology
February 15, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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King of Louisiana Blues and Zydeco
by Clifton Chenier
(Arhoolie/Folkways 2026)

4 CD/6 LP retrospective box set assembled in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chenier’s birth

I'm not a huge Blues fan, but this set is smoking hot! 🔥🪗🔥

cliftonchenier.bandcamp.com/album/king-o...
February 16, 2026 at 2:16 AM
My daily live performance: 4-5pm Pacific, 7-8pm Eastern
February 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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This is wild.

41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober.

He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases.

Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers.
1/2
February 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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here's today's post: "Kristi Noem wants her fucking blanket NOW" — she doesn’t care how.
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
Kristi Noem wants her fucking blanket NOW
she doesn’t care how
bit.ly
February 15, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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It seems like anyone that wants to commit crimes without accountability is applying for jobs with ICE and they’re being hired. ICE is full of dangerous people that want to hurt people. I don’t want to pay for that.
February 15, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1952
Week of February 16, 2026

Part 1 26:42
Grateful Dead 11/2/79 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale NY
LOST SAILOR->
SAINT OF CIRCUMSTANCE
February 15, 2026 at 4:21 PM
My daily live performance: 4-5pm Pacific, 7-8pm Eastern
February 14, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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We need more people like this guy.

(Sorry if any of those words are misspelled, but I find that it's difficult to type with tears in your eyes.)
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day!
#hiking
#scapes
#Arizona
February 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM