Doug Walter (he/his)
@dougwalter5.bsky.social
Among my activities is serving on Boards of Directors. Currently [for ID only], I'm part of the boards for Davis Community Network, Coventry Carolers of California, and in the past have been with Cooperative Grocers Network and Davis Food Co-op.
"German investments in the US as a whole fell 45% year-on-year in 2025 as Trump’s duties took hold, Reuters reported."
January 28, 2026 at 6:57 AM
"German investments in the US as a whole fell 45% year-on-year in 2025 as Trump’s duties took hold, Reuters reported."
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“To you this is murder?”
“Yes. I know it is. — People are feeling like there’s nobody here to help us. What can we do? The constitution doesn’t seem to matter.”
She witnessed the killing of Alex Pretti, now she is bravely coming forward.
Stella is the best of us. 🇺🇸
“Yes. I know it is. — People are feeling like there’s nobody here to help us. What can we do? The constitution doesn’t seem to matter.”
She witnessed the killing of Alex Pretti, now she is bravely coming forward.
Stella is the best of us. 🇺🇸
January 28, 2026 at 5:41 AM
“To you this is murder?”
“Yes. I know it is. — People are feeling like there’s nobody here to help us. What can we do? The constitution doesn’t seem to matter.”
She witnessed the killing of Alex Pretti, now she is bravely coming forward.
Stella is the best of us. 🇺🇸
“Yes. I know it is. — People are feeling like there’s nobody here to help us. What can we do? The constitution doesn’t seem to matter.”
She witnessed the killing of Alex Pretti, now she is bravely coming forward.
Stella is the best of us. 🇺🇸
"There is something destabilizing about having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down in the street."
"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend."
Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
January 28, 2026 at 6:49 AM
"There is something destabilizing about having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down in the street."
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Corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way, Dodger Stadium.
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way, Dodger Stadium.
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“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
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🔥 Tennessee’s own sheryl crow bringing it
January 25, 2026 at 5:23 AM
🔥 Tennessee’s own sheryl crow bringing it
Stark, the scale is not yet similar, and yet...
January 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Stark, the scale is not yet similar, and yet...
I didn't expect this from Schumer:
www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Leader Schumer Statement Announcing Senate Democrats Will Not Advance Appropriations Bill If DHS Funding Is Included | Senate Democratic Leadership
New York, N.Y. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement on the appropriations bill following the shooting in...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I didn't expect this from Schumer:
www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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The one GOP governor who has repeatedly taken public stands against the regime's lawlessness.
January 25, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The one GOP governor who has repeatedly taken public stands against the regime's lawlessness.
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NYT video review confirms this. Pretti had a 2nd Am right to carry a firearm. But even if he didn’t he wasn’t pointing it at anyone or threatening agents. There is no legal justification for the execution-style shooting & no basis for DHS’s claim he was there to massacre them. He was a helper.
Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.
Important context, this is the victim’s behavior BEFORE being tackled
He’s not threatening, he’s not brandishing, he’s filming
He’s not threatening, he’s not brandishing, he’s filming
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 PM
NYT video review confirms this. Pretti had a 2nd Am right to carry a firearm. But even if he didn’t he wasn’t pointing it at anyone or threatening agents. There is no legal justification for the execution-style shooting & no basis for DHS’s claim he was there to massacre them. He was a helper.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 AM
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Where is that in the 2nd Amendment?
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Where is that in the 2nd Amendment?
A reminder of what war on a civilian population will do. #WarCriminals
Russian strikes left much of Kyiv without heat, water and power during freezing temperature, even as Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. held talks on ending the nearly four-year war.
Russian strikes knock out heat in freezing Kyiv as peace talks continue
Russian strikes left much of Kyiv without heat, water and power during freezing temperature, even as Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. held talks on ending the nearly four-year war.
n.pr
January 25, 2026 at 5:27 PM
A reminder of what war on a civilian population will do. #WarCriminals
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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'Hommage à Mondrian' created in 1965 by Alexander Calder pays tribute to the Dutch pioneer of geometric abstraction, Piet Mondrian
January 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM
'Hommage à Mondrian' created in 1965 by Alexander Calder pays tribute to the Dutch pioneer of geometric abstraction, Piet Mondrian
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From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
"After years of increasing investment in factories to make batteries, electric vehicles, solar panels, and more — a surge prompted by the Inflation Reduction Act — the trend reversed under the Trump administration last year."
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Remember that guy who promised us an unprecedented American manufacturing renaissance? Well ...
Every week, Dan McCarthy at Canary Media provides us with a new chart. This week it’s about our Outlaw Prez’s promises of huge gains in manufacturing, which he asserted would be advanced by his big be...
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January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"After years of increasing investment in factories to make batteries, electric vehicles, solar panels, and more — a surge prompted by the Inflation Reduction Act — the trend reversed under the Trump administration last year."
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Video evidence isn't always definitive, and prosecutors will need some more to convict, if they ever get a chance. That written, your lyin' eyes give you a pretty good impression of what happened, esp. when reviewed and slowed/frozen at key points. Thanks to Van Hollen for saying it!
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Video evidence isn't always definitive, and prosecutors will need some more to convict, if they ever get a chance. That written, your lyin' eyes give you a pretty good impression of what happened, esp. when reviewed and slowed/frozen at key points. Thanks to Van Hollen for saying it!
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A good headline leading the NYT right now: Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting
January 24, 2026 at 10:17 PM
A good headline leading the NYT right now: Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting
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1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it.
2) Doesn’t match the video anyway.
3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before.
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2) Doesn’t match the video anyway.
3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it.
2) Doesn’t match the video anyway.
3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before.
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2) Doesn’t match the video anyway.
3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before.
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