Dave Nash
@davenash.bsky.social
I deal in the written word and spoken word by trade. Always looking for greater understanding and better ways of doing things. “Make expertise great again.”
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Dave Nash
@davenash.bsky.social
· Dec 19
Imagine paying $44bn for something worth $5.7bn, then running it into the ground to where it was only worth $673m…
…then being considered a good hire to determine how to make the federal government “efficient.”
We should all get to fail so far upward.
…then being considered a good hire to determine how to make the federal government “efficient.”
We should all get to fail so far upward.
What are some of these baseball awards even for if they aren’t judged on objective criteria?
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What are some of these baseball awards even for if they aren’t judged on objective criteria?
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interesting idea -- states set up escrow systems for collecting taxes instead of giving it to the White House Clown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... With the courts shut down, Trump wouldn't be able to do anything
How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart
By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
interesting idea -- states set up escrow systems for collecting taxes instead of giving it to the White House Clown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... With the courts shut down, Trump wouldn't be able to do anything
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Do people realize that Trump and Miller are creating so many valid civil causes of action that taxpayers will be paying billions of dollars—if not tens of billions—to their innocent victims and their families over the next 25 years?
America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.
America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Do people realize that Trump and Miller are creating so many valid civil causes of action that taxpayers will be paying billions of dollars—if not tens of billions—to their innocent victims and their families over the next 25 years?
America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.
America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.
In highly unequal economies, people compare themselves to those at the top, notice the gap and then report how they think things are “bad” economically. Disney park visits are a perfect illustration of the “Decline of America’s Middle Class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
In highly unequal economies, people compare themselves to those at the top, notice the gap and then report how they think things are “bad” economically. Disney park visits are a perfect illustration of the “Decline of America’s Middle Class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
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Arizona does not vet new voucher schools. Not even if the school or the online school “provider” has already failed, or was founded yesterday, or is operating out of a strip mall, or offers just a half hour of instruction per morning.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
Arizona Regulators Closed a Failing Charter School. It Reopened as a Private Religious School Funded by Taxpayers.
Arizona’s acclaimed voucher program provides zero transparency into private schools’ history, academic performance or financial sustainability to help parents make informed school choices.
www.propublica.org
August 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Arizona does not vet new voucher schools. Not even if the school or the online school “provider” has already failed, or was founded yesterday, or is operating out of a strip mall, or offers just a half hour of instruction per morning.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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If trump did nothing “concerning” while spending time with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein - as Ghislaine Maxwell says - then there shouldn’t be a problem releasing the Epstein files in their entirety (with survivors’ names and PII redacted.)
August 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If trump did nothing “concerning” while spending time with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein - as Ghislaine Maxwell says - then there shouldn’t be a problem releasing the Epstein files in their entirety (with survivors’ names and PII redacted.)
Happy Live Aid anniversary day. Sad to hear its founder say it couldn’t happen today.
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof
www.nytimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Happy Live Aid anniversary day. Sad to hear its founder say it couldn’t happen today.
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
From today’s Daily Stoic ⬇️
July 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
From today’s Daily Stoic ⬇️
“We have one of the top six stadiums in baseball … so let’s scrap it and move to someplace in town we can’t yet name after a few years and get taxpayers to pitch in.”
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
Kauffman Stadium just missed top 5 in new MLB ballpark rating. The bummer is why
One key piece kept Kauffman Stadium from breaking into the top five, according to these 2025 rankings.
www.kansascity.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“We have one of the top six stadiums in baseball … so let’s scrap it and move to someplace in town we can’t yet name after a few years and get taxpayers to pitch in.”
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
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We're in uncharted territory with this SCOTUS. They're making decisions--without regard to precedent, without regard to norms, without regard to justice, without regard to the impact on the rule of law in the U.S., without regard to consequences, and very often with a complete lack of transparency.
SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law
June 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We're in uncharted territory with this SCOTUS. They're making decisions--without regard to precedent, without regard to norms, without regard to justice, without regard to the impact on the rule of law in the U.S., without regard to consequences, and very often with a complete lack of transparency.
But will this have “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads”?
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @radioguychris.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @radioguychris.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
Florida to Build ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center for Migrants in Everglades
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
But will this have “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads”?
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @radioguychris.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @radioguychris.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
In the era that some politicians and their flock want to take us “back” “again,” housing was just over twice an average annual income. Now it’s more than 10 times that. Fixing this should be a top priority to reduce homelessness. From @hartmannreport.com
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
Chapter 9: Housing should not be a commodity
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of the American Dream"
open.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In the era that some politicians and their flock want to take us “back” “again,” housing was just over twice an average annual income. Now it’s more than 10 times that. Fixing this should be a top priority to reduce homelessness. From @hartmannreport.com
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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Republicans have insisted for years that any increase in America’s so-called debt limit be paired with spending reductions. Now the party is poised to discard that philosophy and press ahead with legislation that combines nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts with a $5 trillion increase to the debt limit.
Record Debt Limit Increase Would Break Republican Precedent
A proposed $5 trillion debt limit increase could make it hard for Republicans to maintain their fiscal hawk credibility.
trib.al
June 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Republicans have insisted for years that any increase in America’s so-called debt limit be paired with spending reductions. Now the party is poised to discard that philosophy and press ahead with legislation that combines nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts with a $5 trillion increase to the debt limit.
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The parade today by contrast moves west to east, outside to in. It starts at the Pentagon not Arlington National Cemetary. It follows the symbolic route of troops entering to quell or occupy the city, not leaving with love and thanks. 8/
June 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The parade today by contrast moves west to east, outside to in. It starts at the Pentagon not Arlington National Cemetary. It follows the symbolic route of troops entering to quell or occupy the city, not leaving with love and thanks. 8/
“A regime that has to deploy force at the first sign of dissent is a regime that does not actually believe it can wield power short of coercion and open threats of violence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“A regime that has to deploy force at the first sign of dissent is a regime that does not actually believe it can wield power short of coercion and open threats of violence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
Hearing @johnfugelsang.bsky.social describe JD Vance as someone who “cosplays as Appalachian Batman” was easily the funniest thing I’ve heard this week.
And given today’s middle school Twitter fight, that’s saying something.
And given today’s middle school Twitter fight, that’s saying something.
June 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hearing @johnfugelsang.bsky.social describe JD Vance as someone who “cosplays as Appalachian Batman” was easily the funniest thing I’ve heard this week.
And given today’s middle school Twitter fight, that’s saying something.
And given today’s middle school Twitter fight, that’s saying something.
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8. That’s impacting some 24 million Americans, most of them, Charles reminds me, residing in red districts.
The following is a long interview, but vital to anyone with a stake.
www.editorialboard.com/if-youre-on-...
The following is a long interview, but vital to anyone with a stake.
www.editorialboard.com/if-youre-on-...
If you’re on Medicaid or Obamacare, read this now
Charles Gaba explains the GOP’s “gaslighting bullshit.”
www.editorialboard.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
8. That’s impacting some 24 million Americans, most of them, Charles reminds me, residing in red districts.
The following is a long interview, but vital to anyone with a stake.
www.editorialboard.com/if-youre-on-...
The following is a long interview, but vital to anyone with a stake.
www.editorialboard.com/if-youre-on-...
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My theory is that some of the most dangerous people in America are smart, introverted techies who never understood why anyone majored in the liberal arts in college, graduated college and began reading and misunderstanding texts liberal arts majors were taught to read properly, and became fascists.
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My theory is that some of the most dangerous people in America are smart, introverted techies who never understood why anyone majored in the liberal arts in college, graduated college and began reading and misunderstanding texts liberal arts majors were taught to read properly, and became fascists.
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7/
This is why I keep talking about Atlas.
Because what we’re seeing isn’t chaos.
It’s strategy.
They’re building an interconnected web of authoritarians who will do what corporations can’t do at the ballot box:
Exploit nations from the inside. bsky.app/profile/digi...
This is why I keep talking about Atlas.
Because what we’re seeing isn’t chaos.
It’s strategy.
They’re building an interconnected web of authoritarians who will do what corporations can’t do at the ballot box:
Exploit nations from the inside. bsky.app/profile/digi...
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Something major is happening in France—and it’s not just about “wokeism.” A campus crackdown is being used to spread a global narrative driven by Atlas Network think tanks. This isn’t isolated. It’s international.🧵
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue newrepublic.com/article/1946...
Something major is happening in France—and it’s not just about “wokeism.” A campus crackdown is being used to spread a global narrative driven by Atlas Network think tanks. This isn’t isolated. It’s international.🧵
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue newrepublic.com/article/1946...
Inside a Campus Crackdown Over Wokeism in France
At a small university in the city of Grenoble, an accusation of Islamophobia set off a wild kerfuffle and a media frenzy. Sound familiar?
newrepublic.com
June 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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This is why I keep talking about Atlas.
Because what we’re seeing isn’t chaos.
It’s strategy.
They’re building an interconnected web of authoritarians who will do what corporations can’t do at the ballot box:
Exploit nations from the inside. bsky.app/profile/digi...
This is why I keep talking about Atlas.
Because what we’re seeing isn’t chaos.
It’s strategy.
They’re building an interconnected web of authoritarians who will do what corporations can’t do at the ballot box:
Exploit nations from the inside. bsky.app/profile/digi...
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I started researching how right-wing billionaires fund chaos, think tanks, propaganda, disinfo ops. Then I asked: Who’s funding truth, justice & democracy on our side? Turns out, we have a network too but just not for lying. Let’s meet them. 🧵
#DemsUnited #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
I started researching how right-wing billionaires fund chaos, think tanks, propaganda, disinfo ops. Then I asked: Who’s funding truth, justice & democracy on our side? Turns out, we have a network too but just not for lying. Let’s meet them. 🧵
#DemsUnited #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
May 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I started researching how right-wing billionaires fund chaos, think tanks, propaganda, disinfo ops. Then I asked: Who’s funding truth, justice & democracy on our side? Turns out, we have a network too but just not for lying. Let’s meet them. 🧵
#DemsUnited #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
I started researching how right-wing billionaires fund chaos, think tanks, propaganda, disinfo ops. Then I asked: Who’s funding truth, justice & democracy on our side? Turns out, we have a network too but just not for lying. Let’s meet them. 🧵
#DemsUnited #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
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I wonder how RFK Jr. would feel if people starting saying that vitamin D supplements are the cause of autism*.
As you can see, the prevalence of vitamin D supplement use has skyrocketed.
*There is zero evidence that vitamin D supplements cause autism, which is the same evidence as for vaccines.
As you can see, the prevalence of vitamin D supplement use has skyrocketed.
*There is zero evidence that vitamin D supplements cause autism, which is the same evidence as for vaccines.
May 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I wonder how RFK Jr. would feel if people starting saying that vitamin D supplements are the cause of autism*.
As you can see, the prevalence of vitamin D supplement use has skyrocketed.
*There is zero evidence that vitamin D supplements cause autism, which is the same evidence as for vaccines.
As you can see, the prevalence of vitamin D supplement use has skyrocketed.
*There is zero evidence that vitamin D supplements cause autism, which is the same evidence as for vaccines.
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House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House Reconciliation Bill (Preliminary)
budgetlab.yale.edu
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
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The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
May 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
“The American people should make their disgust known: There is no room for this kind of flagrant disregard of the Constitution.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | A Plane From Qatar? C’mon, Man.
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
“The American people should make their disgust known: There is no room for this kind of flagrant disregard of the Constitution.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
You could say, “this is just three people.” But they are among foremost experts on failing democracies. This is about as stern a warning as any of us could expect. (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
You could say, “this is just three people.” But they are among foremost experts on failing democracies. This is about as stern a warning as any of us could expect. (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...