David Weingart
@dbw.bsky.social
Not literal hot dogs, but hot dog equivalents.
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i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Faint but noticeable to the naked eye, but pretty dramatic when photographed.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Faint but noticeable to the naked eye, but pretty dramatic when photographed.
I’m appreciating some of the more measured takes on the Senate capitulation but I think that some are missing the “last straw” nature of the reaction.
The Senate Democratic caucus has a long history of disastrous capitulation.
Look at Schumer’s Yes vote on the Iraq War and now he’s the leader.
The Senate Democratic caucus has a long history of disastrous capitulation.
Look at Schumer’s Yes vote on the Iraq War and now he’s the leader.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m appreciating some of the more measured takes on the Senate capitulation but I think that some are missing the “last straw” nature of the reaction.
The Senate Democratic caucus has a long history of disastrous capitulation.
Look at Schumer’s Yes vote on the Iraq War and now he’s the leader.
The Senate Democratic caucus has a long history of disastrous capitulation.
Look at Schumer’s Yes vote on the Iraq War and now he’s the leader.
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Is it called blockchain because they deny all the claims
okay, but hear me out: What if we put health insurance *on the blockchain?*
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Is it called blockchain because they deny all the claims
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In its limited, cabined, semi-nuked-and-therefore-always-potentially-further-nukable contemporary state, the filibuster has become the Senate's dark matter, at once powering and obscuring behavior on both sides.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
In its limited, cabined, semi-nuked-and-therefore-always-potentially-further-nukable contemporary state, the filibuster has become the Senate's dark matter, at once powering and obscuring behavior on both sides.
Looks like it might be an awkward Thanksgiving at the Shaheens.
I’ll note this statement does not name any of the Democrats involved in the deal she is criticizing.
I’ll note this statement does not name any of the Democrats involved in the deal she is criticizing.
Improving health care has been the cause of my life. It’s why I am running for congress. So I cannot support this deal when Speaker Johnson refuses to even allow a vote to extend health care tax credits. My statement:
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Looks like it might be an awkward Thanksgiving at the Shaheens.
I’ll note this statement does not name any of the Democrats involved in the deal she is criticizing.
I’ll note this statement does not name any of the Democrats involved in the deal she is criticizing.
I think a lot of Senate Democrats love the filibuster, and were deathly afraid that the Republicans were going to kill it, because it gives them an easy excuse for doing nothing when they control the chamber.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I think a lot of Senate Democrats love the filibuster, and were deathly afraid that the Republicans were going to kill it, because it gives them an easy excuse for doing nothing when they control the chamber.
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Caving for nothing means that Democrats are the ones responsible for the shutdown because they could have taken this shit deal weeks ago.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Caving for nothing means that Democrats are the ones responsible for the shutdown because they could have taken this shit deal weeks ago.
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
We’re all agreed that Stefany Shaheen will not be the Democratic nominee in NH1, right?
And that Maggie Hassan will be spending a lot more time with her family at the end of her current term?
And that Maggie Hassan will be spending a lot more time with her family at the end of her current term?
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
We’re all agreed that Stefany Shaheen will not be the Democratic nominee in NH1, right?
And that Maggie Hassan will be spending a lot more time with her family at the end of her current term?
And that Maggie Hassan will be spending a lot more time with her family at the end of her current term?
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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@shaheen.senate.gov is about to flush her daughter's political career down the drain. Granite Staters will never forget your selling out to Republicans.
#NHPolitics
#NHPolitics
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
@shaheen.senate.gov is about to flush her daughter's political career down the drain. Granite Staters will never forget your selling out to Republicans.
#NHPolitics
#NHPolitics
Look, here’s the deal. 1 (one) Empire of Dirt. Take it or leave it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Look, here’s the deal. 1 (one) Empire of Dirt. Take it or leave it.
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The New York State government should not provide funding to a university that has signed a contract agreeing to actively violate NYS law, on behalf of the Trump regime – and it's very difficult to see how Cornell going Jim Crow (again) would not so violate those equal rights provisions.
"Cornell, however, did agree to provide anonymized admissions data to the federal government through 2028, details the Trump administration has also required from other schools as it scrutinizes whether race is used as a factor in selective college admissions."
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The New York State government should not provide funding to a university that has signed a contract agreeing to actively violate NYS law, on behalf of the Trump regime – and it's very difficult to see how Cornell going Jim Crow (again) would not so violate those equal rights provisions.
Seems like a political layup for Governor Hochul to open an investigation into this agreement, especially given this week's election results.
Also, I think by now it's starting to dawn on some folks that many University administrators would love nothing more than to stop caring about diversity.
Also, I think by now it's starting to dawn on some folks that many University administrators would love nothing more than to stop caring about diversity.
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Seems like a political layup for Governor Hochul to open an investigation into this agreement, especially given this week's election results.
Also, I think by now it's starting to dawn on some folks that many University administrators would love nothing more than to stop caring about diversity.
Also, I think by now it's starting to dawn on some folks that many University administrators would love nothing more than to stop caring about diversity.
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THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
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The crash outs happening on Twitter over Zohran Mamdani are the latest reminder that I will not take any journalist or pundit seriously if they spend time hanging around that cesspool and engaging with the absolute weirdos over there. It's a one-way ticket to Brainrotville.
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The crash outs happening on Twitter over Zohran Mamdani are the latest reminder that I will not take any journalist or pundit seriously if they spend time hanging around that cesspool and engaging with the absolute weirdos over there. It's a one-way ticket to Brainrotville.
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Looking at some of the close mayoral and special election races that did not go Ds' way in NH last night after what appears to be a huge blue wave nationally, I am once again renewing my call for Someone Else —Anyone Else, really—, to lead the NH Democratic Party.
#nhpolitics
#nhpolitics
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Looking at some of the close mayoral and special election races that did not go Ds' way in NH last night after what appears to be a huge blue wave nationally, I am once again renewing my call for Someone Else —Anyone Else, really—, to lead the NH Democratic Party.
#nhpolitics
#nhpolitics