Davia Downey
@downeydavia.bsky.social
I study federalism, local politics & policy in cities post-disaster. I also helped end gerrymandering in MI. I do a lot of yoga. 1st gen Ph.D. RT≠ endorsements. Read my work (gratuitous plug): https://tinyurl.com/ms7b9r6a. Send ur best memes. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼
And almost immediately frowned! Great job IU!
Aw Cignetti smiled 🥹🫶🏾
January 20, 2026 at 4:29 AM
And almost immediately frowned! Great job IU!
To quote Biggie, “If you don’t know, now you know.”
One of the many reasons "Abolish ICE" has been a popular refrain on the left — besides the fact that borders and border security means violence — is that ICE and CBP were always going to be the agencies that would become the SS.
January 8, 2026 at 1:21 AM
To quote Biggie, “If you don’t know, now you know.”
So today was not a day for checking the news apperently.
January 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
So today was not a day for checking the news apperently.
Yes, I’m calling for Congress. Has anyone seen Congress??
a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .
ALT: a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Yes, I’m calling for Congress. Has anyone seen Congress??
I, uh, heard there was some news???
a man in a purple suit is dancing on a stage and says so what 'd i miss .
ALT: a man in a purple suit is dancing on a stage and says so what 'd i miss .
media.tenor.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I, uh, heard there was some news???
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As we all said, international law, such as it was, no longer exists. The United States, following Israel’s precedent, considers itself to have the explicit authority to blatantly violate sovereignty anywhere in the world and abduct even leaders of other states.
There are no guardrails whatsoever.
There are no guardrails whatsoever.
January 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
As we all said, international law, such as it was, no longer exists. The United States, following Israel’s precedent, considers itself to have the explicit authority to blatantly violate sovereignty anywhere in the world and abduct even leaders of other states.
There are no guardrails whatsoever.
There are no guardrails whatsoever.
And guess what? There’s no money for repairs since they’ve basically gutted FEMA’s BRIC Grant program. There is not enough money in the HMPG pot to retrofit every flood mitigation project on the west coast.
West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses
West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses
Levees protect more than 7 million buildings in the US today, yet they got a D-plus grade in 2025. A new study found 487 cases where rising water overtopped levees in the past 15 years.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And guess what? There’s no money for repairs since they’ve basically gutted FEMA’s BRIC Grant program. There is not enough money in the HMPG pot to retrofit every flood mitigation project on the west coast.
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More than 800 storm victims around Helene-battered western North Carolina have applied for FEMA’s voluntary program that would enable the government to buy out their properties.
So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.
So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.
More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
More than 800 storm victims around Helene-battered western North Carolina have applied for FEMA’s voluntary program that would enable the government to buy out their properties.
So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.
So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.
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Bombing Nigeria (on Christmas of all days) is such grotesque behavior
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Bombing Nigeria (on Christmas of all days) is such grotesque behavior
I continue to be amazedthat our tax dollars are being spent on this slop.
The people around him must be like how you treat a toddler, "Should he be playing with that? No, but as long as he doesn't burn the place down, it keeps him quiet for a few hours"
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I continue to be amazedthat our tax dollars are being spent on this slop.
No One Made Them Monsters
Trump gave them a mic, not a makeover.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
December 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
You guys, we already did this. It was called the Gilded Age for a reason. Remember what happened next?
I get the dangerous ramifications of unchecked executive power, but it shouldn't fall through the cracks in your story that this is really about U.S. corporations leveraging this country's grotesque levels of corruption to completely destroy what little accountability we had left
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You guys, we already did this. It was called the Gilded Age for a reason. Remember what happened next?
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Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I was looking for this data. Interesting.
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I was looking for this data. Interesting.
This is the only day of the year I root for OSU.
It is sad that the Wolverines scored at all. But you can’t have everything.
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is the only day of the year I root for OSU.
Watching Stranger Things Season 5 Part 1 again. Can’t believe we have to wait another month for part 2!
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Watching Stranger Things Season 5 Part 1 again. Can’t believe we have to wait another month for part 2!
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Offering the survivors of a missile strike no quarter and then ordering a second strike to finish them off puts Hegseth in deep, deep water. He gave an illegal order. This is either murder or a war crime. It doesn't matter what your title is, Secretary of Defense, or Fox Talk Show Host. It's murder.
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Offering the survivors of a missile strike no quarter and then ordering a second strike to finish them off puts Hegseth in deep, deep water. He gave an illegal order. This is either murder or a war crime. It doesn't matter what your title is, Secretary of Defense, or Fox Talk Show Host. It's murder.
Ok. My jaw actually dropped. These people are absolute ghouls. My word.
Model family. Trad, even…
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"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Ok. My jaw actually dropped. These people are absolute ghouls. My word.
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Oh hey look, Alton Brown literally released something _today_. (It's really good. It's Alton, after all.)
youtu.be/hdUXDhIBxis?...
youtu.be/hdUXDhIBxis?...
Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 1: The Big Bird
YouTube video by Alton Brown
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November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Oh hey look, Alton Brown literally released something _today_. (It's really good. It's Alton, after all.)
youtu.be/hdUXDhIBxis?...
youtu.be/hdUXDhIBxis?...
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
Whenever I see the words “American Values” I always correct to “White American Values” let’s just call these appeals what they actually are, m’kay?
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Whenever I see the words “American Values” I always correct to “White American Values” let’s just call these appeals what they actually are, m’kay?
This guy is such a piece of work. We had so many chances to put this guy behind bars, but here he is, walking free as a bird.
BLOOMBERG REPORTER: “If there’s nothing incriminating in the Epstein files why not…?”
TRUMP: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” 😕
TRUMP: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” 😕
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This guy is such a piece of work. We had so many chances to put this guy behind bars, but here he is, walking free as a bird.
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So I say this as a proud academic labor union member who believes deeply in the importance of tenure to the academic mission:
FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
So I say this as a proud academic labor union member who believes deeply in the importance of tenure to the academic mission:
FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
FIRE
LARRY
SUMMERS
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After the Supreme Court announced it would consider a case that could eliminate mail-in ballot grace periods, key Republican players immediately jumped at the chance to lay the groundwork for their next target: early, in-person voting.
The GOP Attack on Mail-Ballot Grace Periods Is Also an Attack on Early Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
After the Supreme Court announced it would consider a case that could eliminate mail-in ballot grace periods, key Republican players immediately jumped at the chance to lay the groundwork for their next target: early, in-person voting.