Reverend Dave
@reverenddave.bsky.social
A reverend named Dave.
My "I’m not licking the boot" rant is raising a lot of questions answered by my "I’m not licking the boot" rant.
Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…”
This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:16 PM
My "I’m not licking the boot" rant is raising a lot of questions answered by my "I’m not licking the boot" rant.
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How tf is "student barred from the local cos people them annoying" a paper of record national news story level event. It is wild how the Gender Critical lot in the UK are just playing on easy mode with the press, all the time, and yet persistently claim to be oppressed.
Again: the job of most the British press is to recruit useful wingnut cranks and use them to promote the crackpot causes both the papers and the cranks hold dear.
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 PM
How tf is "student barred from the local cos people them annoying" a paper of record national news story level event. It is wild how the Gender Critical lot in the UK are just playing on easy mode with the press, all the time, and yet persistently claim to be oppressed.
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NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge says ICE has been violating court orders repeatedly — detaining noncitizens or rushing them to Texas despite judges' commands.
He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 27, 2026 at 12:28 PM
NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge says ICE has been violating court orders repeatedly — detaining noncitizens or rushing them to Texas despite judges' commands.
He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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The thing about Schumer and Jeffries (and really the whole caucus) is that they are extraordinarily risk averse at a time when we need bold leadership.
On top of that, their sense of risk is skewed by an outdated conventional wisdom of what is and isn't risky.
On top of that, their sense of risk is skewed by an outdated conventional wisdom of what is and isn't risky.
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 AM
The thing about Schumer and Jeffries (and really the whole caucus) is that they are extraordinarily risk averse at a time when we need bold leadership.
On top of that, their sense of risk is skewed by an outdated conventional wisdom of what is and isn't risky.
On top of that, their sense of risk is skewed by an outdated conventional wisdom of what is and isn't risky.
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The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
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This report is stunning but not surprising.
30 ICE agents were found to have been charged with a litany of crimes, inc:
Gunpoint sexual assault, child sex trafficking, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, torture, kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor, and production of child sexual abuse materials.
30 ICE agents were found to have been charged with a litany of crimes, inc:
Gunpoint sexual assault, child sex trafficking, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, torture, kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor, and production of child sexual abuse materials.
ICE is riddled with sex criminals.
A January 2026 report by the Pacific Antifascist Research Collective identified 30 ICE and CBP agents with documented convictions and arrests, some for serious violent and sexual crimes.
At least 20 committed offenses with underage victims.
A January 2026 report by the Pacific Antifascist Research Collective identified 30 ICE and CBP agents with documented convictions and arrests, some for serious violent and sexual crimes.
At least 20 committed offenses with underage victims.
Here’s How Many ICE and CBP Agents Allegedly Preyed on Children
Apparently the institutions are riddled with accused sex criminals.
www.yahoo.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:13 AM
This report is stunning but not surprising.
30 ICE agents were found to have been charged with a litany of crimes, inc:
Gunpoint sexual assault, child sex trafficking, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, torture, kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor, and production of child sexual abuse materials.
30 ICE agents were found to have been charged with a litany of crimes, inc:
Gunpoint sexual assault, child sex trafficking, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, torture, kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor, and production of child sexual abuse materials.
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Exactly right.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Exactly right.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
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For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
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The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
He's got to go.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:48 AM
The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
He's got to go.
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The internal polling that conservatives are seeing on this has to be insane
we are witnessing historic backpedaling here
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 AM
The internal polling that conservatives are seeing on this has to be insane
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add in there that the last time a Republican Senate majority confirmed a Democratic Supreme Court appointee was 1895
The fact that a Democrat has never been head of the FBI in its entire history rivals the fact that liberals have not had a SCOTUS majority in 56 years as the most bonkers statistic in 🇺🇸 politics
I swear to god if we never get to have a woman or a Democrat lead the FBI he should at least wear a fucking suit all the time.
January 27, 2026 at 3:48 AM
add in there that the last time a Republican Senate majority confirmed a Democratic Supreme Court appointee was 1895
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A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
January 27, 2026 at 2:12 AM
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
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Fundamentally the Democratic party views itself as partially responsible to make sure Trump can have a functioning government, which is a genuinely insane position
Chuck Schumer views his job as funding Donald Trump's federal government if certain conditions are met. That is why he sucks as an opposition leader.
January 27, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Fundamentally the Democratic party views itself as partially responsible to make sure Trump can have a functioning government, which is a genuinely insane position
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I know this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but these guys are paid with your tax money and have no real job. ICE isn't necessary. They don't get rid of criminals. They just terrorize communities. And THAT'S why they should be abolished. No need for reins. It's not a job!
January 27, 2026 at 5:05 AM
I know this is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things but these guys are paid with your tax money and have no real job. ICE isn't necessary. They don't get rid of criminals. They just terrorize communities. And THAT'S why they should be abolished. No need for reins. It's not a job!
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It's hilarious that they're pretending Tom Homan is some kind of voice of calm and reason. He looks and sounds like someone who would be hitting Dick Tracy's knees with a hammer
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 AM
It's hilarious that they're pretending Tom Homan is some kind of voice of calm and reason. He looks and sounds like someone who would be hitting Dick Tracy's knees with a hammer
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You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
January 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
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Byline like a horror movie jump scare
January 26, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Byline like a horror movie jump scare
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Never ceases to amaze me
Three times this morning, Trump's favorite TV show pitched a solution to his growing political problem in Minnesota. "What I would do is just bring Tom Homan in," Brian Kilmeade said on air. And then Trump did just that: www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/m...
January 26, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Never ceases to amaze me
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I wonder if it has occurred to anyone at the Atlantic in this moment, that perhaps spending the past decade creating false equivalency between the avowed fascist movement on the right, and the college kids protesting fascists on college campuses was a mistake?
January 26, 2026 at 3:19 PM
I wonder if it has occurred to anyone at the Atlantic in this moment, that perhaps spending the past decade creating false equivalency between the avowed fascist movement on the right, and the college kids protesting fascists on college campuses was a mistake?
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remember when the U.S. colluded in an internal coup in Venezuela and abducted the president while killing a few dozen people in airstrikes? I think it was a couple of years ago now.
January 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
remember when the U.S. colluded in an internal coup in Venezuela and abducted the president while killing a few dozen people in airstrikes? I think it was a couple of years ago now.
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CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 PM
CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.
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“The government has also argued that I must accept this as true because they said it, and they are the government…I respectfully suggest that the petition is frivolous.”
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
“The government has also argued that I must accept this as true because they said it, and they are the government…I respectfully suggest that the petition is frivolous.”
I know lots of the rings is long but if you’re only ever gonna read one book, I dunno, try to not fundamentally misunderstand it?
![Herman Yau, the Sunnyvale-based CEO of a facial-recognition smart door-lock startup, has taken the opposite approach. His company Durin (opens in new tab) (named for the riddle on the Doors of Durin in — you guessed it — Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”), hopes to make smart doors affordable for non-mansion-havers, too. “We [want] to enable a new entry price point for security markets,” he said. Durin’s “door manager” costs $129 and is designed to retrofit to existing locks. “It’s much less friction to upgrade a lock than a door,” he said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/bafkreicbysfygenmray5tx5kajfqjfdoufc5mr2acah5ib5732vor67wuy@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I know lots of the rings is long but if you’re only ever gonna read one book, I dunno, try to not fundamentally misunderstand it?
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Me, in October 2024: presswatchers.org/2024/10/the-...
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Me, in October 2024: presswatchers.org/2024/10/the-...
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Is there any reason that Walz couldn’t also make a surprise announcement that he too is reversing course and will run for reelection after all? Is he really too tainted by the Somali fraudster scandal? Do Minnesottans think Klobuchar would be better?
pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
January 26, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Is there any reason that Walz couldn’t also make a surprise announcement that he too is reversing course and will run for reelection after all? Is he really too tainted by the Somali fraudster scandal? Do Minnesottans think Klobuchar would be better?