Dave Tuffs
@davetuffs.bsky.social
We can reconstruct America
CA OR RI VA IL OH MI. RSA IDN JPN. Stanford/UIUC. US Navy SWO Veteran
CA OR RI VA IL OH MI. RSA IDN JPN. Stanford/UIUC. US Navy SWO Veteran
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“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Oathbreakers, all.
Oathbreakers, all.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Oathbreakers, all.
Oathbreakers, all.
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"We don't want people to go hungry or miss another paycheck. But we *are* okay with them dying a little more slowly, without healthcare."
This is so bleak.
This is so bleak.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"We don't want people to go hungry or miss another paycheck. But we *are* okay with them dying a little more slowly, without healthcare."
This is so bleak.
This is so bleak.
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Senate Democrats going to grant legitimacy to the fascist government disappearing our neighbors and walk away with literally nothing in exchange.
They are the worst at this on the merits and the politics.
They are the worst at this on the merits and the politics.
Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.
The Case for the Forever Shutdown
Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Senate Democrats going to grant legitimacy to the fascist government disappearing our neighbors and walk away with literally nothing in exchange.
They are the worst at this on the merits and the politics.
They are the worst at this on the merits and the politics.
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"my non consensual pornography machine that runs on theft, drives kids to suicide, and requires everyone to involuntarily subsidize its monstrous energy demands--what's not to like?!"
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"my non consensual pornography machine that runs on theft, drives kids to suicide, and requires everyone to involuntarily subsidize its monstrous energy demands--what's not to like?!"
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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This was done to combat Wokeness
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This was done to combat Wokeness
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The billionaires are much worse than cowards. They're not afraid.
The billionaires are eagerly complicit with Trump because, like him, they are greed-monsters and traitors to humanity.
The billionaires are eagerly complicit with Trump because, like him, they are greed-monsters and traitors to humanity.
The good news is that Trump is very unpopular and his actions are wildly unpopular but the bad news is that a lot of craven people were willing to go along with a lot of really bad stuff that will and has hurt a lot of people. Also a lot of billionaires proved themselves to be huge cowards.
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The billionaires are much worse than cowards. They're not afraid.
The billionaires are eagerly complicit with Trump because, like him, they are greed-monsters and traitors to humanity.
The billionaires are eagerly complicit with Trump because, like him, they are greed-monsters and traitors to humanity.
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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Friends, Trump is gone. Listen to this. It's incredible that there is no national discourse about whether he can continue to do the job.
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Friends, Trump is gone. Listen to this. It's incredible that there is no national discourse about whether he can continue to do the job.
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I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.
This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.
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Rs got trounced last night because:
- the tariffs were a mistake
- gutting ACA/Medicaid was a mistake
- raising electricity prices was a mistake
- unleashing ICE on Americans is a mistake
- demolishing the East Wing was a mistake
- electing Trump was a HUGE mistake
bsky.app/profile/did:...
- the tariffs were a mistake
- gutting ACA/Medicaid was a mistake
- raising electricity prices was a mistake
- unleashing ICE on Americans is a mistake
- demolishing the East Wing was a mistake
- electing Trump was a HUGE mistake
bsky.app/profile/did:...
People are pissed, and we need to keep fighting.
My initial thoughts on the blue wave that swept across the country last night 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-a-blue-...
My initial thoughts on the blue wave that swept across the country last night 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-a-blue-...
In A Blue Wave Election Americans Deliver A Powerful Rebuke Of Trump And Republicans Across The Country
People are pissed and we need to keep fighting
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Rs got trounced last night because:
- the tariffs were a mistake
- gutting ACA/Medicaid was a mistake
- raising electricity prices was a mistake
- unleashing ICE on Americans is a mistake
- demolishing the East Wing was a mistake
- electing Trump was a HUGE mistake
bsky.app/profile/did:...
- the tariffs were a mistake
- gutting ACA/Medicaid was a mistake
- raising electricity prices was a mistake
- unleashing ICE on Americans is a mistake
- demolishing the East Wing was a mistake
- electing Trump was a HUGE mistake
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Adding that the preferred "police state" focuses on "street crime" and not corporate, financial, or state violence crimes .... hmmmm
I sincerely do not think people like living in a police state, once they see for themselves what it looks like.
I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.”
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Adding that the preferred "police state" focuses on "street crime" and not corporate, financial, or state violence crimes .... hmmmm
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New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
Who's Threatening Who?
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
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Today’s politics may be confusing, but it’s clear that the Republican Party supports these 2 things:
1. Masked, armed men snatching people off the street because of the color of their skin.
2. The hiding of records to cover up for powerful people who rape children.
1. Masked, armed men snatching people off the street because of the color of their skin.
2. The hiding of records to cover up for powerful people who rape children.
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Today’s politics may be confusing, but it’s clear that the Republican Party supports these 2 things:
1. Masked, armed men snatching people off the street because of the color of their skin.
2. The hiding of records to cover up for powerful people who rape children.
1. Masked, armed men snatching people off the street because of the color of their skin.
2. The hiding of records to cover up for powerful people who rape children.
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Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?
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Either of the only two possible reasons for him giving this answer requires his immediate removal from office
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Either of the only two possible reasons for him giving this answer requires his immediate removal from office
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"If the Democrats lose the next election, it will not be because their Republican opponents seemed like the more <centrist> option"
Repeat this. Over and over again.
Repeat this. Over and over again.
November 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A party that controls every institution of government, including majorities in both chambers of the parliament, should be able to keep the lights on & the airports running. Malevolent incompetence.
80% of air traffic controllers absent at New York facilities.
The system is at breaking point.
The system is at breaking point.
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A party that controls every institution of government, including majorities in both chambers of the parliament, should be able to keep the lights on & the airports running. Malevolent incompetence.
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He murders people in intl waters w/o due process or evidence. He demolishes our East Wing because he feels like it w/o consultation. He fuels an abusive police state to grab people off the street w/o due process. Meanwhile, billionaires & corporations keep handing him millions. They are complicit.
October 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
He murders people in intl waters w/o due process or evidence. He demolishes our East Wing because he feels like it w/o consultation. He fuels an abusive police state to grab people off the street w/o due process. Meanwhile, billionaires & corporations keep handing him millions. They are complicit.
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As important as it is to resist Trump, it's equally important for us to impose consequences on those who capitulate to his regime.
i hope that a governor spanberger and a democratic general assembly uses its authority to discipline the university for its capitulation and to remove these BOV members who have decided that they work for donald trump and not the people of the commonwealth
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
As important as it is to resist Trump, it's equally important for us to impose consequences on those who capitulate to his regime.
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i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.
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This. The president can't extort corporations to pay essentially taxes to him personally so that he can use that money at his personal discretion to do government work.
It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.
October 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This. The president can't extort corporations to pay essentially taxes to him personally so that he can use that money at his personal discretion to do government work.
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Trump is doing extraordinary harm to our economy, our health care system, the fiscal integrity of the country, to our energy independence, to our alliances, to our national security, and to our Constitutional order.
Trump is making America less prosperous, less healthy, less safe, and less free.
Trump is making America less prosperous, less healthy, less safe, and less free.
Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A
October 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trump is doing extraordinary harm to our economy, our health care system, the fiscal integrity of the country, to our energy independence, to our alliances, to our national security, and to our Constitutional order.
Trump is making America less prosperous, less healthy, less safe, and less free.
Trump is making America less prosperous, less healthy, less safe, and less free.
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In any other presidency, from Truman to Biden, the family monetization of the office & the use of immediate family members as a substitute for senior diplomats would have immediately ended it all. But here we are, with this One Special Boy, & we just stopped being a serious country. It’s maddening.
Why the f**k is Jared Kushner talking on behalf of the US government? And/or is involved in the this file?
In what capacity?
In what capacity?
Tonight, the U.S. State Department issued a media note that Hamas appeared to be planning an attack “against Palestinian civilians,” warning that such an attack would “constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement...”
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
In any other presidency, from Truman to Biden, the family monetization of the office & the use of immediate family members as a substitute for senior diplomats would have immediately ended it all. But here we are, with this One Special Boy, & we just stopped being a serious country. It’s maddening.