David Walker
@davidwalk2024.bsky.social
Former English professor and editor of FIELD. Theater, books, art, nature, democracy. Still living in Oberlin and getting to Europe as often as I can.
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This perfectly describes both the Trump presidency and the Republican Congress. The only true thing he said today.
August 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This perfectly describes both the Trump presidency and the Republican Congress. The only true thing he said today.
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Good people: we should address supply and build more housing to lower housing costs
Evil people: we should reduce demand and kick out immigrants to lower housing costs
stupid people: we already have enough housing the problem is vacant units
Evil people: we should reduce demand and kick out immigrants to lower housing costs
stupid people: we already have enough housing the problem is vacant units
JD Vance: "As we've kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off."
August 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Good people: we should address supply and build more housing to lower housing costs
Evil people: we should reduce demand and kick out immigrants to lower housing costs
stupid people: we already have enough housing the problem is vacant units
Evil people: we should reduce demand and kick out immigrants to lower housing costs
stupid people: we already have enough housing the problem is vacant units
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Don’t let this fade away.
Has Trump answered for this? Has @MarshaBlackburn ?
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Has Trump answered for this? Has @MarshaBlackburn ?
apnews.com/article/wome...
August 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Don’t let this fade away.
Has Trump answered for this? Has @MarshaBlackburn ?
apnews.com/article/wome...
Has Trump answered for this? Has @MarshaBlackburn ?
apnews.com/article/wome...
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On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
[Painting of a family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreifufhjor4i5ijjyh2cuswhmtmoybnr7rzjg3pdi6ow3udhtbuxhnu@jpeg)
![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
[Painting of a German family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreidjr6b3w65abp2xtc5qax7rxhupvocfkvdvh23gfwlrnr7f555nmu@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
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I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.
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Glad to hear he is safe and back with his family. But if they can disappear a U.S. citizen and terrorize his family this way, imagine what they are doing with immigrants in ICE facilities.
July 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Glad to hear he is safe and back with his family. But if they can disappear a U.S. citizen and terrorize his family this way, imagine what they are doing with immigrants in ICE facilities.
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And GOP senators and representatives are okay with it
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
And GOP senators and representatives are okay with it
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Hey, are you a university president? Or scholarly society?
The number of your colleagues joining this "solidarity" letter, via @aacu.org and AAAS, goes up by the hour. (Around 180 this morning. Around 240 now.)
Keep it going. It's not too late to sign on.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
The number of your colleagues joining this "solidarity" letter, via @aacu.org and AAAS, goes up by the hour. (Around 180 this morning. Around 240 now.)
Keep it going. It's not too late to sign on.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hey, are you a university president? Or scholarly society?
The number of your colleagues joining this "solidarity" letter, via @aacu.org and AAAS, goes up by the hour. (Around 180 this morning. Around 240 now.)
Keep it going. It's not too late to sign on.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
The number of your colleagues joining this "solidarity" letter, via @aacu.org and AAAS, goes up by the hour. (Around 180 this morning. Around 240 now.)
Keep it going. It's not too late to sign on.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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Key Democrats sent scathing letters to 5 top law firms demanding details on the lucrative deals they cut with Trump to avoid being punished by him.
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Democrats Demand Answers From Top Law Firms That Caved To Trump's Wishes
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law," they fumed to five prominent firms that paid off Trump to avoid his attacks.
www.huffpost.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Key Democrats sent scathing letters to 5 top law firms demanding details on the lucrative deals they cut with Trump to avoid being punished by him.
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
“Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law." www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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NYT: “.. end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours ..
“.. bring peace to the Middle East ..
“.. usher in dozens of trade deals ..
“.. Mr. Trump’s inability .. to deliver .. has exposed the gulf between his rhetoric and his accomplishments.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
“.. bring peace to the Middle East ..
“.. usher in dozens of trade deals ..
“.. Mr. Trump’s inability .. to deliver .. has exposed the gulf between his rhetoric and his accomplishments.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
April 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
NYT: “.. end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours ..
“.. bring peace to the Middle East ..
“.. usher in dozens of trade deals ..
“.. Mr. Trump’s inability .. to deliver .. has exposed the gulf between his rhetoric and his accomplishments.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
“.. bring peace to the Middle East ..
“.. usher in dozens of trade deals ..
“.. Mr. Trump’s inability .. to deliver .. has exposed the gulf between his rhetoric and his accomplishments.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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My expert analysis of this order:
Judge Xinis big mad
Judge Xinis big mad
NEW: Judge Xinis largely overrules the government’s objections to Abrego Garcia’s interrogatories and document production requests.
Calls DOJ’s “false premise” objections reflects “a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations”
Calls DOJ’s “false premise” objections reflects “a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations”
April 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My expert analysis of this order:
Judge Xinis big mad
Judge Xinis big mad
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I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.
April 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.
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Senate Democrats attempt to build a firewall -- and stop confirmation of Trump choice for lead prosecutor in Wash. D.C.
The nominee is a former "Stop the Steal" figure who called 2020 election "rigged" and was outside Capitol on Jan 6
Just filed ===>
www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-mart...
The nominee is a former "Stop the Steal" figure who called 2020 election "rigged" and was outside Capitol on Jan 6
Just filed ===>
www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-mart...
Senate Democrats seeking to block confirmation of prosecutor who championed Jan. 6 defendants
Ed Martin is a longtime Trump loyalist, a figure in the 2020 Stop the Steal movement, served as a defense attorney in U.S. Capitol riot cases and acknowledges he was near the Capitol amid the crowd on...
www.cbsnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Senate Democrats attempt to build a firewall -- and stop confirmation of Trump choice for lead prosecutor in Wash. D.C.
The nominee is a former "Stop the Steal" figure who called 2020 election "rigged" and was outside Capitol on Jan 6
Just filed ===>
www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-mart...
The nominee is a former "Stop the Steal" figure who called 2020 election "rigged" and was outside Capitol on Jan 6
Just filed ===>
www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-mart...
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This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity *ever* for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.
After 14 tornadoes in 2 days Arkansas is asking for federal assistance — but Trump is saying no. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
April 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity *ever* for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.
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April 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Crucial context here: @adamisacson.com suggests that there may be as many as 31 people imprisoned in CECOT whose names have never been made public.
Their families have literally no public acknowledgment or way of knowing where their loved one is being held.
That is a classic disappearance.
Their families have literally no public acknowledgment or way of knowing where their loved one is being held.
That is a classic disappearance.
288 people have been rendered to El Salvador’s mega-prison. We only know 257 of their names—and not because the US or Salvadoran governments shared them.
It shouldn't be up to civil society to compile things like this table. Of course, none of this should be happening at all.
See admis.me/b/2un
It shouldn't be up to civil society to compile things like this table. Of course, none of this should be happening at all.
See admis.me/b/2un
April 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Crucial context here: @adamisacson.com suggests that there may be as many as 31 people imprisoned in CECOT whose names have never been made public.
Their families have literally no public acknowledgment or way of knowing where their loved one is being held.
That is a classic disappearance.
Their families have literally no public acknowledgment or way of knowing where their loved one is being held.
That is a classic disappearance.
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Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.
April 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."
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Many things have contributed to this terrible moment but perhaps chief among them is the historic cowardice of Thune, Johnson, and other Congressional Rs who have the power to stop the madness and refuse to use it on behalf of the American people. It is a Great Betrayal.
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Here's today's Easter message of 'hope' from what's his name:
April 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Many things have contributed to this terrible moment but perhaps chief among them is the historic cowardice of Thune, Johnson, and other Congressional Rs who have the power to stop the madness and refuse to use it on behalf of the American people. It is a Great Betrayal.
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Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.”
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
April 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.”
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
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I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?
Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
April 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?
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"Dismissed."
This commander murdered more people in cold blood than Charles Manson — nearly as many as Jeffrey Dahmer — and they're still debating whether to charge him criminally.
His current punishment is *losing his job.* That's not justice.
This commander murdered more people in cold blood than Charles Manson — nearly as many as Jeffrey Dahmer — and they're still debating whether to charge him criminally.
His current punishment is *losing his job.* That's not justice.
The Israeli military said Sunday it has dismissed the field commander of a special forces unit that shot and killed 15 emergency workers in southern Gaza last month and attributed the killings to an “operational misunderstanding,” following a weeks-long investigation.
IDF says ‘misunderstanding’ led to killings of Gaza emergency workers
The IDF inquiry could lead to criminal charges from a military prosecutor, but it left key questions about the Gaza killings unanswered.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Dismissed."
This commander murdered more people in cold blood than Charles Manson — nearly as many as Jeffrey Dahmer — and they're still debating whether to charge him criminally.
His current punishment is *losing his job.* That's not justice.
This commander murdered more people in cold blood than Charles Manson — nearly as many as Jeffrey Dahmer — and they're still debating whether to charge him criminally.
His current punishment is *losing his job.* That's not justice.
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All this because they didn’t have a hotel pre-booked when they arrived. Insane.
April 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
All this because they didn’t have a hotel pre-booked when they arrived. Insane.