Hal Davis
@haldavis3.bsky.social
Retired public safety team leader at St. Paul Pioneer Press. Flâneur. Reminded daily I should listen...
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December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Bonta: The Ninth Circuit refused to stay the order. And so, for the first time in six months, we have no National Guard deployed on the streets of California.
Popok: Have they been taken off the streets?
Bonta: They have. It was required as of, I believe, Monday.
Popok: Have they been taken off the streets?
Bonta: They have. It was required as of, I believe, Monday.
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Bonta: The Ninth Circuit refused to stay the order. And so, for the first time in six months, we have no National Guard deployed on the streets of California.
Popok: Have they been taken off the streets?
Bonta: They have. It was required as of, I believe, Monday.
Popok: Have they been taken off the streets?
Bonta: They have. It was required as of, I believe, Monday.
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Fudali: This is what we call in the civil litigation world a document dump, where you hide things in plain sight by throwing out a massive volume of documents with zero context, no order, no rhyme or reason, and then force the people who actually want information to dig through it.
December 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Fudali: This is what we call in the civil litigation world a document dump, where you hide things in plain sight by throwing out a massive volume of documents with zero context, no order, no rhyme or reason, and then force the people who actually want information to dig through it.
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Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…
December 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…
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How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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“Americans are seeing what it looks like when you send masked people out to pick people off the street in vans… and this is not what they had in mind.” trib.al/cbp9rs8
Transcript: Trump Explodes Over Cratering Polls as GOP Losses Worsen
As this week’s brutal GOP election losses show Latinos shifting hard against Trump and the GOP, the author of a piece on Trump’s agenda of ethnic persecution explains why naked bigotry is also backfiring politically.
trib.al
December 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“Americans are seeing what it looks like when you send masked people out to pick people off the street in vans… and this is not what they had in mind.” trib.al/cbp9rs8
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Many people claim AI is “hype,” but the fact is it—along with the algorithms and machine learning they rely on—is potentially more dangerous than nukes to humanity.
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Many people claim AI is “hype,” but the fact is it—along with the algorithms and machine learning they rely on—is potentially more dangerous than nukes to humanity.
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It's definitely not the biggest issue created by ICE, but I had in fact been thinking about how they have routinely dragged people out of their cars and left the cars where they'd get towed by the city.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
Immigrant, BIPOC-run tow companies save the day when ICE arrests leave cars abandoned
Leo’s Tow and Galeana’s Towing & Services are offering free or discounted towing services to immigrants arrested by ICE whose cars are left abandoned.
sahanjournal.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
It's definitely not the biggest issue created by ICE, but I had in fact been thinking about how they have routinely dragged people out of their cars and left the cars where they'd get towed by the city.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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White House Deputy Press Secretary gets community noted
December 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
White House Deputy Press Secretary gets community noted
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I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Trump renaming Washington Moment and mounting a personal identifying touch on top.
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Trump renaming Washington Moment and mounting a personal identifying touch on top.
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“In effect,” writes the NYT’s Peter Baker, “he bronzed some of his cartoonish social media juvenilia and bolted it to the taxpayer-owned building where two Roosevelts, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan once lived.”
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December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“In effect,” writes the NYT’s Peter Baker, “he bronzed some of his cartoonish social media juvenilia and bolted it to the taxpayer-owned building where two Roosevelts, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan once lived.”
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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“the president read off the teleprompter angrily and quickly, speaking with the motormouth intensity of a 20-something banker who just discovered cocaine and now has a really great idea for a new restaurant.”
I’m not the biggest @vox.com fan but this nailed it.
apple.news/AhpkUbo5NR3u...
I’m not the biggest @vox.com fan but this nailed it.
apple.news/AhpkUbo5NR3u...
The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech — Vox
When a president gives a primetime televised speech, it is typically about something of serious import: to make the case for a major new policy or to announce the beginning of a war.
apple.news
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“the president read off the teleprompter angrily and quickly, speaking with the motormouth intensity of a 20-something banker who just discovered cocaine and now has a really great idea for a new restaurant.”
I’m not the biggest @vox.com fan but this nailed it.
apple.news/AhpkUbo5NR3u...
I’m not the biggest @vox.com fan but this nailed it.
apple.news/AhpkUbo5NR3u...
"He's very ugly and barely mammalian."
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"He's very ugly and barely mammalian."
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Jon Collins is really providing top-notch coverage lately. My favorite detail: the ICE dude who got pepper sprayed by the other ICE dude.
Hennepin County dispatch got a panicked call from a Department of Homeland Security supervisor in Minneapolis requesting assistance because “we only have a few officers but we have 60-70 agitators fighting them.” Hennepin deputies didn’t witness any attacks on agents.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents call for backup during Minneapolis traffic stop, bystanders hurl insults and snowballs
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for help from an agent who said 60 to 70 “agitators” were “fighting them.”
www.mprnews.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Jon Collins is really providing top-notch coverage lately. My favorite detail: the ICE dude who got pepper sprayed by the other ICE dude.
This is marvelous...
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This is marvelous...
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Everyone’s criticizing the garish Mar-a-Lago parties, but the food looks like a prison reward for not stabbing anyone all week.
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Everyone’s criticizing the garish Mar-a-Lago parties, but the food looks like a prison reward for not stabbing anyone all week.
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Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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El hombre que desarmó a uno de los atacantes en Sídney es aclamado como un héroe en Australia. Ahmed al Ahmed, un frutero de 43 años y que ha recibido dos disparos
El hombre que desarmó a uno de los atacantes en Sídney es aclamado como un héroe en Australia
Ahmed al Ahmed, un frutero de 43 años, se abalanzó sobre uno de los agresores junto a la playa de Bondi y logró arrebatarle el fusil
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December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
El hombre que desarmó a uno de los atacantes en Sídney es aclamado como un héroe en Australia. Ahmed al Ahmed, un frutero de 43 años y que ha recibido dos disparos
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"in Trump v. United States, [the Roberts court] declared, for the first & only time in 2.5 centuries, that the president was above the law. Short of rejecting democratic governance altogether, it's hard to imagine a greater heresy against the American constitutional order."
Roberts weaponized Fed70
Roberts weaponized Fed70
There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
"in Trump v. United States, [the Roberts court] declared, for the first & only time in 2.5 centuries, that the president was above the law. Short of rejecting democratic governance altogether, it's hard to imagine a greater heresy against the American constitutional order."
Roberts weaponized Fed70
Roberts weaponized Fed70