David Lerner
David Lerner
@dml70.bsky.social
Retired Comms Pro
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The panic isn’t subtle anymore.

Read more here: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
December 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Trump: “I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike.”
Trump beginning the process of throwing Hegseth under the bus.
November 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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$50 million in an offshore account is the only explanation here
"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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🔥🔥🔥 A 3 alarm fire for House Republicans following Marjorie Taylor Greene’s announced resignation, courtesy of @punchbowlnews.bsky.social:
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.

Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:
ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...
October 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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October 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Reminder to African Americans, apropos of the moment: The white press has a long history of venerating racism, racists and white supremacy. My NYTimes essay from a few years back. www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/o...
Opinion | How the White Press Wrote Off Black America (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I doubt that any of today's knee bending Rs are capable of any epiphany. Isn't it strange how it's immigrants who truly seem to treasure your constitution and know it so much better than your average naturally born American.
A very good read.
New in PN: Lessons from a Red Scare

"As Emma Goldman hoped, and Louis Post later demonstrated, the American people are capable of turning the tide against repression — even if that effort feels hopeless in the moment."
Lessons from a Red Scare
The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression.
www.publicnotice.co
October 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown
October 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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As @dandrezner.bsky.social notes, we must highlight where Trump's authoritarianism is failing, too.

"Civil resistance works. Combined with the inevitable economic downturn, it is what will bring his regime crashing down to Earth."

(cites my piece on this)
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-weakne...
The Weakness and Incompetence of American Authoritarianism
And why it needs to be continually highlighted.
danieldrezner.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Republicans passed a massive tax cut for America's 900 billionaires. Now, everyone else is paying for it. #Trumpflation
September 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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some personal news: in a few weeks, I, along with my Rolling Stone comrade and editor @andrewperez.bsky.social, will be up and running at the expanding political reporting team at @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s outlet @zeteo.com

www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left
The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.
www.semafor.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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New high of Americans saying immigration is good for the US
September 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Patriots.
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
August 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
August 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM