Dave Waite
@chicagowaite.bsky.social
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Too True - Things that make you go hmmm...
DAMN!
Way back in the day Ross Perot referred to the "giant sucking sound" of jobs moving south out of the US.
Now FIFA's given it a whole new meaning. Well done, guys.
Now, off your knees, wipe your mouths, and play ball!
Now FIFA's given it a whole new meaning. Well done, guys.
Now, off your knees, wipe your mouths, and play ball!
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Too True - Things that make you go hmmm...
Things that make you go hmmmm....
(fire the guys who won't sign off on unlawful orders...)
(fire the guys who won't sign off on unlawful orders...)
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Things that make you go hmmmm....
(fire the guys who won't sign off on unlawful orders...)
(fire the guys who won't sign off on unlawful orders...)
Isn't too DEI for this Administration? I suspect we will hear about funds being withheld until this DEI dummy is removed from the shelves. (Irony meter off).
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast. n.pr/48r84mJ
The female crash test dummy has been a long time coming — but she isn't here yet
After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Isn't too DEI for this Administration? I suspect we will hear about funds being withheld until this DEI dummy is removed from the shelves. (Irony meter off).
Is the Brokered deal on the ropes because it won't pass muster in Congress?
potential for comedy rising
Thune now shuttling between the three hardliners and a group of approps cardinals who don’t look happy
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Is the Brokered deal on the ropes because it won't pass muster in Congress?
Echo to my IL Senators!
We need you on this to save America!
DO NOT CAVE.
We need you on this to save America!
DO NOT CAVE.
Echoing this for my Senator, @bennet.senate.gov. DO NOT CAVE ON THIS.
Dear My Senator, if you end this shutdown without ironclad protections for the American people I will dedicate all of my energy to ensuring this is your last term as my representative. You will not be elected dog catcher if I am still on this good earth.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Echo to my IL Senators!
We need you on this to save America!
DO NOT CAVE.
We need you on this to save America!
DO NOT CAVE.
90% of air traffic is from General Aviation - Let's start by grounding the private jets. Surely they are at least 10% of General aviation.. Taking 10% from the 10% (of commercial aircraft) sounds like something we should propose (from the 10% Richest) to fund SNAP!
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
90% of air traffic is from General Aviation - Let's start by grounding the private jets. Surely they are at least 10% of General aviation.. Taking 10% from the 10% (of commercial aircraft) sounds like something we should propose (from the 10% Richest) to fund SNAP!
This is what Democracy looks like! Thank you Kat - May the 4 winds blow you into the IL 09 since Jan Schakowsky decided not to run again. You will represent everyone!
Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
November 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is what Democracy looks like! Thank you Kat - May the 4 winds blow you into the IL 09 since Jan Schakowsky decided not to run again. You will represent everyone!
Update:
By 10:22 a.m., an officer told a dispatcher that a “crime scene” still hadn’t been located for the shooting. “We’re still looking,” the officer said over police radio.
By 10:22 a.m., an officer told a dispatcher that a “crime scene” still hadn’t been located for the shooting. “We’re still looking,” the officer said over police radio.
At least two people were arrested by Chicago police and shots were allegedly fired at Border Patrol agents conducting immigration enforcement operations as tensions flared in Little Village Saturday morning.
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Update:
By 10:22 a.m., an officer told a dispatcher that a “crime scene” still hadn’t been located for the shooting. “We’re still looking,” the officer said over police radio.
By 10:22 a.m., an officer told a dispatcher that a “crime scene” still hadn’t been located for the shooting. “We’re still looking,” the officer said over police radio.
Updated:
By 10:22 a.m., an officer told a dispatcher that a “crime scene” still hadn’t been located for the shooting. “We’re still looking,” the officer said over police radio.
By 10:22 a.m., an officer told a dispatcher that a “crime scene” still hadn’t been located for the shooting. “We’re still looking,” the officer said over police radio.
At least two people were arrested by Chicago police and shots were allegedly fired at Border Patrol agents conducting immigration enforcement operations as tensions flared in Little Village Saturday morning.
Report of shots fired at federal agents during immigration enforcement in Little Village under investigation
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Updated:
By 10:22 a.m., an officer told a dispatcher that a “crime scene” still hadn’t been located for the shooting. “We’re still looking,” the officer said over police radio.
By 10:22 a.m., an officer told a dispatcher that a “crime scene” still hadn’t been located for the shooting. “We’re still looking,” the officer said over police radio.
Hands off CHICAGO!
c.org/Fk5fxVJnWk
c.org/Fk5fxVJnWk
Have you seen this petition yet?
Demand The Release of Chicago Teacher Illegally Detained By Ice
c.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Hands off CHICAGO!
c.org/Fk5fxVJnWk
c.org/Fk5fxVJnWk
I have a cousin - whose daughter still calls me Uncle. Screw the @nypost.com
Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
lmao
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I have a cousin - whose daughter still calls me Uncle. Screw the @nypost.com
Trumps America?
POLITICAL OFFICERS TO MONITOR?
- The university is required to provide (and pay for)an external
political officer to monitor compliance, and give them full
access to all employees and all data except anything protected by attorney-client privilege.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
POLITICAL OFFICERS TO MONITOR?
- The university is required to provide (and pay for)an external
political officer to monitor compliance, and give them full
access to all employees and all data except anything protected by attorney-client privilege.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
UCLA Ordered To Make Feds’ Settlement Demand Public
The California Supreme Court ordered the U. of California to make public the administration’s $1.2 billion settlement demand for UCLA. Here's a summary of what's in it.
www.forbes.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Trumps America?
POLITICAL OFFICERS TO MONITOR?
- The university is required to provide (and pay for)an external
political officer to monitor compliance, and give them full
access to all employees and all data except anything protected by attorney-client privilege.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
POLITICAL OFFICERS TO MONITOR?
- The university is required to provide (and pay for)an external
political officer to monitor compliance, and give them full
access to all employees and all data except anything protected by attorney-client privilege.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
If you didn't know this before the 'widespread taking of the undocumented and documented' you didn't know where your food comes from or how it gets to the market.
Trump's mass deportations aren't just pointlessly cruel.
His own Labor Department is now warning they are "threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices" for Americans.
We should be offering the people who feed us a path out of the shadows — not demonizing them.
His own Labor Department is now warning they are "threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices" for Americans.
We should be offering the people who feed us a path out of the shadows — not demonizing them.
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
If you didn't know this before the 'widespread taking of the undocumented and documented' you didn't know where your food comes from or how it gets to the market.
Not only gassed themselves, but a nearby school who had to hold recess indoors because these 'THUGS" can do anything without fear of repercussion, including shooting people.
Is this what make the United States of America great again?
Is this what make the United States of America great again?
CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.
October 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Not only gassed themselves, but a nearby school who had to hold recess indoors because these 'THUGS" can do anything without fear of repercussion, including shooting people.
Is this what make the United States of America great again?
Is this what make the United States of America great again?
Things that make you go hmmm...
When an uninsured American Citizen goes into an Emergency Room- who pays? The American Taxpayer.
When an uninsured American Citizen goes into an Emergency Room- who pays? The American Taxpayer.
Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."
October 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Things that make you go hmmm...
When an uninsured American Citizen goes into an Emergency Room- who pays? The American Taxpayer.
When an uninsured American Citizen goes into an Emergency Room- who pays? The American Taxpayer.
Things that make you go hmmm...
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Things that make you go hmmm...
I concur - Child abuse comes in all forms and this is one that is easily prevented.
Unless there's a medical reason not to vaccinate, parents who refuse to vaccinate their child who subsequently gets sick should be prosecuted. Not kidding, not exaggerating. This is life-threatening child abuse. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
More kids are severely ill or dying from the flu, CDC reports
As fewer children get their flu shots, cases of a rare, severe complication are rising. Last season, the U.S. experienced the highest number of pediatric flu deaths in 15 years.
www.nbcnews.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I concur - Child abuse comes in all forms and this is one that is easily prevented.
I suspect Loyalty Oaths, Lie Detectors and even an appearance from the Zoltar Fortune Telling Machine. Those that don't pass will get DOGEd (pronounced dodged).
TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth has called an urgent meeting of senior military leaders from around the world, the Pentagon has confirmed.
Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I suspect Loyalty Oaths, Lie Detectors and even an appearance from the Zoltar Fortune Telling Machine. Those that don't pass will get DOGEd (pronounced dodged).
The best way to complain with the biggest impact. See if you have a local Sinclair or Nexstar station. Watch the newscast. Note the companies that bought tv adverts. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company."
www.alternet.org/tv-weatherma...
www.alternet.org/tv-weatherma...
Longtime TV weatherman reveals 'effective tool' Americans have to stop Trump's censorship
President Donald Trump is now hinting at using the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to intimidate broadcasters into silence. But a retired TV news weather forecaster with more than four decades...
www.alternet.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The best way to complain with the biggest impact. See if you have a local Sinclair or Nexstar station. Watch the newscast. Note the companies that bought tv adverts. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company."
www.alternet.org/tv-weatherma...
www.alternet.org/tv-weatherma...
Things that make you go hmmm.....
Charlie Kirk marks the first school shooting republicans have ever cared about.
Charlie Kirk marks the first school shooting republicans have ever cared about.
September 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Things that make you go hmmm.....
Charlie Kirk marks the first school shooting republicans have ever cared about.
Charlie Kirk marks the first school shooting republicans have ever cared about.
Reposted by Dave Waite
Purely theoretical: if you felt the US were a failed experiment - that it's beyond repair - would you:
1.) keep it to yourself, period;
2.) speak of it only to a trusted private few;
3.) speak freely and publicly of it?
Share this, please. I'd like to see as many answers as possible.
1.) keep it to yourself, period;
2.) speak of it only to a trusted private few;
3.) speak freely and publicly of it?
Share this, please. I'd like to see as many answers as possible.
September 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Purely theoretical: if you felt the US were a failed experiment - that it's beyond repair - would you:
1.) keep it to yourself, period;
2.) speak of it only to a trusted private few;
3.) speak freely and publicly of it?
Share this, please. I'd like to see as many answers as possible.
1.) keep it to yourself, period;
2.) speak of it only to a trusted private few;
3.) speak freely and publicly of it?
Share this, please. I'd like to see as many answers as possible.
Reposted by Dave Waite
Reposted by Dave Waite
Maybe he’ll do some more pull-ups for the cameras next.
September 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Maybe he’ll do some more pull-ups for the cameras next.
Reposted by Dave Waite
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
I'd say Trump is more playing the role of Colonel Kurt. A crazy, off balance man who has followers that care little about the rule of law, order, or the American way! But, that denigrates the rogue character played by Marlin Brando too far.
I’m rooting for Chicago in this one.
A war against Chicago? An absolute disgrace from a traitor to America.
September 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'd say Trump is more playing the role of Colonel Kurt. A crazy, off balance man who has followers that care little about the rule of law, order, or the American way! But, that denigrates the rogue character played by Marlin Brando too far.