Bill Davis
@thebilldavis.bsky.social
Be good. Have fun. Affinity groups with mobile tactics. Patience and fortitude. Sui generus.
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
Triggered by the pearl clutching lovefest and “martyrdom,” people comment for perspective and get fired. No first amendment protection against private conduct. Labor unions sidelined. Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else - www.reuters.com/world/us/cha...
Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else
After the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. Republicans have a warning for Americans: Mourn him respectfully or suffer the consequences.
www.reuters.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Triggered by the pearl clutching lovefest and “martyrdom,” people comment for perspective and get fired. No first amendment protection against private conduct. Labor unions sidelined. Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else - www.reuters.com/world/us/cha...
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Reposted by Bill Davis
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
But where in the mainstream is the available background information on the shooter? The white nationalist anarcho-libertarian right vs the sycophantic fascist right? The big media must report or debunk! #nyt #charlekirk #reuters #npr #ap
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
But where in the mainstream is the available background information on the shooter? The white nationalist anarcho-libertarian right vs the sycophantic fascist right? The big media must report or debunk! #nyt #charlekirk #reuters #npr #ap
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Israeli minister Smotrich ordered to “besiege” Gaza City, saying anyone who doesn’t flee “can die of hunger or surrender”, as Israeli forces push deeper into the city amid stated plan to occupy the area and forcibly displace around one million people.
Anyone in Gaza City Who Doesn’t Flee ‘Can Die of Hunger or Surrender’: Smotrich - Quds News Network
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has reportedly ordered military chief Eyal Zamir to "besiege" Gaza City, saying anyone who doesn’t flee "can die of hunger or surrender." This come...
qudsnen.co
August 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Israeli minister Smotrich ordered to “besiege” Gaza City, saying anyone who doesn’t flee “can die of hunger or surrender”, as Israeli forces push deeper into the city amid stated plan to occupy the area and forcibly displace around one million people.
This is phenomenally good writing by Pulitzer Prize winning author and former NYT Mideast bureau chief. It is timeless and I hope and ask y’all to read it for the sake of history and humanity’s collective memory if nothing else. open.substack.com/pub/normalis... #stopgenocide #stopisrael
As IDF achieves 83% civilian casualty rate, Netanyahu unveils plan to censor whole internet
The IDF could not resist boasting that at least 83% of the people it has killed in Gaza are civilians - a murder rate that has surpassed Itamir Ben Gvir's wettest dreams.
open.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is phenomenally good writing by Pulitzer Prize winning author and former NYT Mideast bureau chief. It is timeless and I hope and ask y’all to read it for the sake of history and humanity’s collective memory if nothing else. open.substack.com/pub/normalis... #stopgenocide #stopisrael
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This is exactly what Obama did on climate change and gay marriage. Dems have been compromising with morally indefensible positions for decades.
The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework
"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.
He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.
August 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is exactly what Obama did on climate change and gay marriage. Dems have been compromising with morally indefensible positions for decades.
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We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
August 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
There is no moral "right to defend" a state with a polity that would allow this to be perpetrated by the Institution. Zionism is a powerfully indoctrinated and zealously defended ideology that has led to unmitigated evil in it's execution. Shame beyond shame. #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
In Pictures: Starvation in Gaza | CNN
Food markets are empty. Human waste is piling up. Illness is spreading. And people in Gaza are “collapsing on the streets from hunger and dehydration,” humanitarian organizations warn.
www.cnn.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
There is no moral "right to defend" a state with a polity that would allow this to be perpetrated by the Institution. Zionism is a powerfully indoctrinated and zealously defended ideology that has led to unmitigated evil in it's execution. Shame beyond shame. #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
The New York Times is so weak, morally (see Gaza) and journalistically (see below):
May 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The New York Times is so weak, morally (see Gaza) and journalistically (see below):
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Three Sounds by Vasily Kandinsky, 1926 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137300
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137300
May 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Three Sounds by Vasily Kandinsky, 1926 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137300
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137300
There is a certain kind of news that every US citizen should know. When that news is readily available, then you have a duty to know. This item is deeper than the headline by far, yet it is concise. If you know the truth your heart and soul and mind may cry, “Free Palestine!” #FeePalestine
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
There is a certain kind of news that every US citizen should know. When that news is readily available, then you have a duty to know. This item is deeper than the headline by far, yet it is concise. If you know the truth your heart and soul and mind may cry, “Free Palestine!” #FeePalestine
Rest in peace, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on this anniversary of your death. Thank you for your love and compassion and courage. May we all come to understand the revolutionary power of your words as we seek to determine what is to be done. #MLK
April 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Rest in peace, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on this anniversary of your death. Thank you for your love and compassion and courage. May we all come to understand the revolutionary power of your words as we seek to determine what is to be done. #MLK
"This is the how authoritarian regimes always operate, seeking to demonize their critics and neutralize their opposition by lies, exaggerations and the blunt force of state power." #FreePalestine #FascistUSA
Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy | Moustafa Bayoumi
The Columbia University graduate’s arrest is an attempt to destroy free thinking while murdering due process
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"This is the how authoritarian regimes always operate, seeking to demonize their critics and neutralize their opposition by lies, exaggerations and the blunt force of state power." #FreePalestine #FascistUSA
Fascist nations engage in genocide. "Israel this week introduced what it said was a new U.S. ceasefire plan — different from the one it agreed to in January — and is trying to force Hamas to accept it by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip." #FreePalestine #stopgenocide
With the Gaza ceasefire in limbo, Israel tries to impose an alternative plan on Hamas
Israel has introduced what it said was a new U.S. ceasefire plan and is trying to force Hamas to accept it by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip.
apnews.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Fascist nations engage in genocide. "Israel this week introduced what it said was a new U.S. ceasefire plan — different from the one it agreed to in January — and is trying to force Hamas to accept it by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip." #FreePalestine #stopgenocide
Here's one pithy insight: "Not to put too fine a point on it, but today marked the full flowering of a Nazi-like foreign policy, backed up by the bulk of the GOP machine: one where allies are to be humiliated and reduced to supplicant vassals..." #Ukraine, #USForeignPolicy, #Trump, #OvalOffice
The Most Disgraceful Foreign Policy Spectacle in US History
Donald Trump and JD Vance tried to humiliate Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday with the whole world watching.
www.thenation.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Here's one pithy insight: "Not to put too fine a point on it, but today marked the full flowering of a Nazi-like foreign policy, backed up by the bulk of the GOP machine: one where allies are to be humiliated and reduced to supplicant vassals..." #Ukraine, #USForeignPolicy, #Trump, #OvalOffice
I love this! Let’s eat!!
February 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I love this! Let’s eat!!
Two minutes to balance one’s view, to see how the world situation can be concisely recited unlike we ever hear outside serious work.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs -- Reality of Ukraine War in 2 Minutes -- Brilliant!
YouTube video by jeffsyrop
youtu.be
February 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Two minutes to balance one’s view, to see how the world situation can be concisely recited unlike we ever hear outside serious work.
This is excellent reporting and it is infuriating! Racism and fascism grow from the same seed of moral weakness and greed. @endracism @resist @stopDesantis
'Is it because I'm brown?' ICE, police target Florida Panhandle towns with traffic stops
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
'Is it because I'm brown?' ICE, police target Florida Panhandle towns with traffic stops
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
'Is it because I'm brown?' ICE, police target Florida Panhandle towns with traffic stops
This week, Florida has ramped up its efforts to track down immigrants who have entered the country illegally, a part of Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
www.tallahassee.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is excellent reporting and it is infuriating! Racism and fascism grow from the same seed of moral weakness and greed. @endracism @resist @stopDesantis
'Is it because I'm brown?' ICE, police target Florida Panhandle towns with traffic stops
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
'Is it because I'm brown?' ICE, police target Florida Panhandle towns with traffic stops
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
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Harvard's differential treatment of pro-Palestine students continues to draw attention. This recent IHRA adoption is just one example. In recent weeks, three faculty members have resigned in protest of student repression. @shraddhajoshi.bsky.social reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
Harvard’s Adoption of IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Draws Criticism, Threatens Palestine Activism
Palestine Square
www.palestine-studies.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Harvard's differential treatment of pro-Palestine students continues to draw attention. This recent IHRA adoption is just one example. In recent weeks, three faculty members have resigned in protest of student repression. @shraddhajoshi.bsky.social reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
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The Chiefs can still win if Mike Pence has enough courage
February 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The Chiefs can still win if Mike Pence has enough courage
It’s great to see @harryshearer.bsky.social on board Bluesky! I’ve been following his podcast since time runneth not to the contrary, and it remains essential to keeping up with what we need to know. And it is often hysterically funny! Check out this week’s edition of Le Show!
February 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It’s great to see @harryshearer.bsky.social on board Bluesky! I’ve been following his podcast since time runneth not to the contrary, and it remains essential to keeping up with what we need to know. And it is often hysterically funny! Check out this week’s edition of Le Show!