Just Dave
@freakedoutmaniac.bsky.social
Leftwing Twitter refugee, deep behind enemy lines in the dark heart of rural Texas. I tried voting for 52 years and it didn't work--what else you got?
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This holiday season, give the gift of online privacy. Protect your loved ones from online tracking by helping them install Privacy Badger--a free browser extension from EFF. privacybadger.org/
Privacy Badger
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December 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This holiday season, give the gift of online privacy. Protect your loved ones from online tracking by helping them install Privacy Badger--a free browser extension from EFF. privacybadger.org/
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Farmers have long relied on third-party contractors to source and manage farmworkers.
But all that outsourcing makes it hard for growers to know how workers are being treated — and makes it easy to ignore when they’re treated badly.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
But all that outsourcing makes it hard for growers to know how workers are being treated — and makes it easy to ignore when they’re treated badly.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse.
Experts say the Fair Food Program has helped improve conditions for farmworkers. But farms and produce buyers across the country have resisted joining.
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Farmers have long relied on third-party contractors to source and manage farmworkers.
But all that outsourcing makes it hard for growers to know how workers are being treated — and makes it easy to ignore when they’re treated badly.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
But all that outsourcing makes it hard for growers to know how workers are being treated — and makes it easy to ignore when they’re treated badly.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
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Good news, someone ripped my video and put it on the Internet Archive. If you're having trouble downloading from Filemail, here it is:
archive.org/details/60mi...
archive.org/details/60mi...
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Good news, someone ripped my video and put it on the Internet Archive. If you're having trouble downloading from Filemail, here it is:
archive.org/details/60mi...
archive.org/details/60mi...
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
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Strong preference for doing nothing wins every time
WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps?
KAINE: I think that's premature
KAINE: I think that's premature
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Strong preference for doing nothing wins every time
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Every donation counts in EFF's Year-End Challenge. Just like everyone counts in the pursuit of digital freedom! eff.org/YEC
Stand Together to Protect Democracy
Donate in 2025 and you’ll help EFF receive bonus grants. Support digital privacy and free speech!
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December 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Every donation counts in EFF's Year-End Challenge. Just like everyone counts in the pursuit of digital freedom! eff.org/YEC
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📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
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Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse. www.propublica.org/article/fair...
Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse.
Experts say the Fair Food Program has helped improve conditions for farmworkers. But farms and produce buyers across the country have resisted joining.
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse. www.propublica.org/article/fair...
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Commentary: Can You Guys Come Pick Me Up? I Accidentally Returned To Mars https://theonion.com/can-you-guys-come-pick-me-up-i-accidentally-returned-to-mars/
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Commentary: Can You Guys Come Pick Me Up? I Accidentally Returned To Mars https://theonion.com/can-you-guys-come-pick-me-up-i-accidentally-returned-to-mars/
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Republican #1: "I know she's a former Democrat, but that Tulsi Gabbard is hot."
Republican #2: "She is, but she's got nothing on Ivanka; beautiful face, gorgeous body, great tits. I'd do her, wouldn't you?"
Republican #1: "Mr. President, I'm not going to answer that."
Republican #2: "She is, but she's got nothing on Ivanka; beautiful face, gorgeous body, great tits. I'd do her, wouldn't you?"
Republican #1: "Mr. President, I'm not going to answer that."
December 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Republican #1: "I know she's a former Democrat, but that Tulsi Gabbard is hot."
Republican #2: "She is, but she's got nothing on Ivanka; beautiful face, gorgeous body, great tits. I'd do her, wouldn't you?"
Republican #1: "Mr. President, I'm not going to answer that."
Republican #2: "She is, but she's got nothing on Ivanka; beautiful face, gorgeous body, great tits. I'd do her, wouldn't you?"
Republican #1: "Mr. President, I'm not going to answer that."
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Meanwhile, a new report by Reporters Without Borders finds Israel has killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country — for the third year running. The report found Israel’s military liable for the deaths of 29 Palestinian journalists, among 67 journalists killed around the world this year.
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Meanwhile, a new report by Reporters Without Borders finds Israel has killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country — for the third year running. The report found Israel’s military liable for the deaths of 29 Palestinian journalists, among 67 journalists killed around the world this year.
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The way the mainstream media cleans up Trump’s racist tirades has long passed the “they’re just making mistakes” phase. This is actively aiding and abetting a racist, tyrannical regime. The ‘mainstream media is the enemy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The way the mainstream media cleans up Trump’s racist tirades has long passed the “they’re just making mistakes” phase. This is actively aiding and abetting a racist, tyrannical regime. The ‘mainstream media is the enemy.
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Every available method of age verification systematically excludes or harms marginalized people. The real question isn’t whether these systems discriminate, but how extensively. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various
www.eff.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Every available method of age verification systematically excludes or harms marginalized people. The real question isn’t whether these systems discriminate, but how extensively. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Trans people need to be careful about talking about DIY. Yes talk about it in the general sense, quote the facts and figures but be careful. Don't give away sources to cis folks. Don't talk to journalists about the details. They're coming for it.
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Trans people need to be careful about talking about DIY. Yes talk about it in the general sense, quote the facts and figures but be careful. Don't give away sources to cis folks. Don't talk to journalists about the details. They're coming for it.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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One piece of this story that's often buried is that having prior authorization on Medicare AT ALL is new. That's in addition to AI being used for it.
A new Medicare pilot program is about to launch that will let private companies use AI to review requests for certain medical care — and reward companies when they deny claims.
stateline.org/2025/12/04/m...
stateline.org/2025/12/04/m...
Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers • Stateline
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
stateline.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One piece of this story that's often buried is that having prior authorization on Medicare AT ALL is new. That's in addition to AI being used for it.
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i still cringe at how democrats ran away from obamacare in the 2010 cycle. and they still lost! imagine a universe where they ran on "we just made your lives better and the gop wants to bring back preexisting conditions. lets rumble"
There’s an alternate universe where Obamacare was popular almost immediately instead of being treated like a sword to fall on if Dems weren’t obsessed with apologizing for making government work better.
obamacare still winning, nearly 16 years on
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
i still cringe at how democrats ran away from obamacare in the 2010 cycle. and they still lost! imagine a universe where they ran on "we just made your lives better and the gop wants to bring back preexisting conditions. lets rumble"
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This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
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The right likes the birth rate panic because it helps them do more misogyny. But they also like it because it tricks democrats into re-framing good progressive social policies as solutions to a problem they probably won't solve. (Partially because it doesn't exist.) newrepublic.com/article/2040...
What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The right likes the birth rate panic because it helps them do more misogyny. But they also like it because it tricks democrats into re-framing good progressive social policies as solutions to a problem they probably won't solve. (Partially because it doesn't exist.) newrepublic.com/article/2040...
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chuck schumer quoting bill maher saying "palestinians should just accept that they lost the war, the way the serbs accepted that they lost kosovo" is a sentence custom-designed to turn me into the joker
My apologies I forgot he was actually just positively quoting Bill Maher, who says that the Serbs and Muslims got over it
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
chuck schumer quoting bill maher saying "palestinians should just accept that they lost the war, the way the serbs accepted that they lost kosovo" is a sentence custom-designed to turn me into the joker
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After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Congrats again to the coastal Democratic elites who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary simply because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties
BESSENT: When you come to this country, you gotta learn which side to drive on, you've gotta learn to stop at stop signs, and you gotta learn not to defraud the American people
BRENNAN: Well, there is plenty of criminal behavior from communities well beyond the immigrant community
BRENNAN: Well, there is plenty of criminal behavior from communities well beyond the immigrant community
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Congrats again to the coastal Democratic elites who told us this guy was a credible Treasury Secretary simply because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties
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I'm not quite sure where to start
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I'm not quite sure where to start
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If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench