David Hession
@hession.bsky.social
Does public defender things
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
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state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws
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The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
![Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.
At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25
Then beneath it
TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5hrotody26iqi24hcusufxu/bafkreib7wnor7hl45ryvmifde4sov74rrnexa3iecbyu7zxjx6brrslsiy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
So it’s just betting on political/social/market events? So the person who had more sway over these events is going to run a betting app for them? Perfect
"Truth Social users will be able to trade prediction contracts related to major events and milestones, such as political elections, interest and inflation rate changes, commodity prices on gold and crude oil, events across all major sports leagues"
What the bloody hell?
crypto.com/us/company-n...
What the bloody hell?
crypto.com/us/company-n...
Truth Social to Become World’s First Social Media Platform Offering Prediction Markets via Exclusive Partnership with Crypto.com
Trump Media Expansion Now Includes Strategic Push into Prediction Markets
crypto.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
So it’s just betting on political/social/market events? So the person who had more sway over these events is going to run a betting app for them? Perfect
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One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.
#NoKings #Manhattan
#NoKings #Manhattan
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.
#NoKings #Manhattan
#NoKings #Manhattan
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I was at the the No Kings march in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Many elderly or disabled folks who couldn’t make it to Manhattan, but also young families and people of all ages. I stood in the same spot for more than an hour and the stream of protesters was constant. Amazing turnout.
October 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I was at the the No Kings march in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Many elderly or disabled folks who couldn’t make it to Manhattan, but also young families and people of all ages. I stood in the same spot for more than an hour and the stream of protesters was constant. Amazing turnout.
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Totem Inschrift, by Carl Heidenreich, 1963, 📸 by @GoslingPhoto
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Totem Inschrift, by Carl Heidenreich, 1963, 📸 by @GoslingPhoto
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they believe “criminal” is a kind of person you are, not a status contingent upon actions you take. J6 rioters going to jail was not an outrage because there are no laws they could break that would make them criminals, whilst innocence or guilt have no bearing on if others are criminals or not
October 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
they believe “criminal” is a kind of person you are, not a status contingent upon actions you take. J6 rioters going to jail was not an outrage because there are no laws they could break that would make them criminals, whilst innocence or guilt have no bearing on if others are criminals or not
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If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
October 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...
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a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
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I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
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With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11.
And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
September 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11.
And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
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as far as i can tell, people are having substantive conversations about ezra’s interview with ta-nehisi, but then i’m not thomas chatterton williams, professional dilettante and, apparently, liar
September 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
as far as i can tell, people are having substantive conversations about ezra’s interview with ta-nehisi, but then i’m not thomas chatterton williams, professional dilettante and, apparently, liar
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Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
I think it’s a combination of COVID hangover leading to incumbents of all stripes losing around the world the last few years, social media distorting everything with a strong negativity bias, right wing media dominance, and Biden was not an energetic salesman for what he’d accomplished
A challenge to politics-understanders: why was Biden so unpopular given the very good policy he delivered on wages, climate, & antitrust, among others? This is not an invitation to relitigate 2024, but rather explore what his political failure reveals about the underlying mechanisms of politics.
Ah, I see. I suppose I want deliverism to work, but fear Biden proves it doesn't, so I want someone to explain convincingly why some future attempt would be different. Perhaps that's not clear
September 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I think it’s a combination of COVID hangover leading to incumbents of all stripes losing around the world the last few years, social media distorting everything with a strong negativity bias, right wing media dominance, and Biden was not an energetic salesman for what he’d accomplished
The fuck?
BREAKING: After four seasons with the Liberty—including winning a title in 2024—Sandy Brondello is out as head coach.
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The fuck?
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Hmm, "We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor" is a little like calling people Nazis. It it's free speech when Kirk says it, it's free speech for everyone.
@saletan.bsky.social on the right's free-speech double standard:
@saletan.bsky.social on the right's free-speech double standard:
Charlie Kirk’s Rules of Free Speech
Republicans want to prosecute the left for incendiary words that could lead to violence. They should read Kirk’s own incendiary words first.
www.thebulwark.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hmm, "We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor" is a little like calling people Nazis. It it's free speech when Kirk says it, it's free speech for everyone.
@saletan.bsky.social on the right's free-speech double standard:
@saletan.bsky.social on the right's free-speech double standard:
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September 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.
they just decide what they think we’re like and proceed as though
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.
What in the dystopian hell
Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What in the dystopian hell
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If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.
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it's reasonable that driving requires identification. driving on public roads is a privilege that the state extends to those who can do so responsibly. "being latino in public" is not a restricted activity to which the state can reasonably extend a burden of licensure.
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
it's reasonable that driving requires identification. driving on public roads is a privilege that the state extends to those who can do so responsibly. "being latino in public" is not a restricted activity to which the state can reasonably extend a burden of licensure.