Dave OBrien
dave-obrien.bsky.social
Dave OBrien
@dave-obrien.bsky.social
Bye.
What a joke. #BoycottTarget

Pride is not about hiding 🤦

Target had one job, be better than Walmart, and they failed, without that they have no reason to exist.

Do they understand that?
Target's bold "Pride" collection this year features a colorless hoodie with the words "Out Loud & Proud" written teeny tiny only the string.
May 31, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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A lot of folks forget, but Disabled people’s organized protests saved the ACA in 2017. And as far as cop brutality to Disabled people goes—it’s extremely normal, more so for Disabled BIPOC.
May 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services
Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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This 👇 all of this 👇!!
April 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I left X long ago, but I noticed that one can only see the last 24 hours of posts without signing in. Seems like I don’t know, the White House official posts - or any official government posts - ought to be public, particularly when the Social Security admin is moving official comms there.
April 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Truth, right here…👇

Everyone. Grab. Their. Bible. ✨
April 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.
April 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Caught on a hot mic suggesting five more prisons in El Salvador for “homegrowns” after flagrantly and illegally ignoring multiple court orders to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. What the actual fuck is going on?
x.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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#BREAKING: Over 36,000 people rallied in Los Angeles today in support of @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social’s OLIGARCHY TOUR — setting a record as their largest stop on this tour.
April 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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70% of all people in jails are legally innocent. Many of them are held behind bars simply because they cannot afford bail.

Money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time.
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I’m beginning to think the only thing that will get their attention is if all of us show up to the White House en masse.
April 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Sign of the day…Chicago
April 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Just a reminder that four weeks have passed since @gavinnewsom.bsky.social three trans kids under the bus.

Not only has he NOT apologized, he doubled-down.

We think of him as a champion for LGBTQ equality - but maybe it was just for political gain…?
April 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Much of what the Trump regime wants to carry out (eg terrorizing people into silence) is first being enacted against non-citizens.

Solidarity across the citizenship divide is crucial for stopping fascism.
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.

The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
March 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“That this sociopathic posting style is coming out of this administration—that it has been so thoroughly mainstreamed by the right—suggests that the cultural architecture of the internet has changed. There is still a fever swamp, but now the White House sits on top of it.”
The worst norms of the extremely online took over the halls of power.

Instead of authority figures acting as a bulwark against reprehensible behavior, they recognized that this stuff captures attention and enthusiastically adopted it as a way to galvanize the base.
I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
March 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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🤔👇🏽
March 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.”
time.com/7269604/el-s...
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The good people of Nebraska don’t fuck around when they’re pushed up against a wall.
No, not Democrats being “bused in”—just regular Nebraskans waking up to the fact that their Social Security is on the chopping block to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

Great piece by PBS.
March 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.

At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/
March 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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If white hat hackers really existed how come no one has erased student loan and medical debt or released the Epstein files?

I call bullshit
March 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM