Tom DeVries
@tommydv.bsky.social
formerly useful journalist, parent
Could be bad. Trump probably needs a war.
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Trump says US is moving fleet of ships toward Iran
President Donald Trump said he is moving a fleet of ships towards Iran, “just in case” it wants to take action against the country over its crackdown on protesters.
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January 29, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Could be bad. Trump probably needs a war.
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Don't just defund ICE, dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. It's a knee-jerk bureaucratic monster created in panic after 9-11. It includes 22 agencies in a non-functional family, and has a creepy name. It's existence tempts those with bad instincts and intentions. Do away with it.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans that could dramatically shrink the FEMA, according to court filings. In documents submitted late Tuesday, groups warned that the Department of Homeland Security (which oversees FEMA) may cut more than 10,000 agency jobs which is 50% of staff.
thehill.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Don't just defund ICE, dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. It's a knee-jerk bureaucratic monster created in panic after 9-11. It includes 22 agencies in a non-functional family, and has a creepy name. It's existence tempts those with bad instincts and intentions. Do away with it.
They don't seem even to have the energy to bullshit any more. (must add, the Bondi demand is so naked I'd not believe the story but that Sen. Murphy is generally sober and honest.)
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 26, 2026 at 1:05 AM
They don't seem even to have the energy to bullshit any more. (must add, the Bondi demand is so naked I'd not believe the story but that Sen. Murphy is generally sober and honest.)
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
This video seems to show at least two undercover provocateurs among protestors in MSP.
(#1 is they big guy on the ground greeted by uniforms with "you alright?". #2 is the guy shouting "he's one of us.")
(#1 is they big guy on the ground greeted by uniforms with "you alright?". #2 is the guy shouting "he's one of us.")
Have you seen this, Christopher?
Proof they are planting agents in Mpls.
www.threads.com/@amay.a100/p...
Proof they are planting agents in Mpls.
www.threads.com/@amay.a100/p...
Chidinma Anyanwu (@amay.a100) on Threads
Need proof the ICE is planting agents in the streets of minneapolis to instigate a confrontation? Here you go. Please watch!!
www.threads.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:17 AM
This video seems to show at least two undercover provocateurs among protestors in MSP.
(#1 is they big guy on the ground greeted by uniforms with "you alright?". #2 is the guy shouting "he's one of us.")
(#1 is they big guy on the ground greeted by uniforms with "you alright?". #2 is the guy shouting "he's one of us.")
Another TV guy saying amen to this. Trump is, as we say, 'talent', or sometimes 'a piece of talent', and occasionally, 'meat puppet.' Sometimes performers know who they are, and sometimes they believe the thing on the screen is real. Trump seems the latter.
January 20, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Another TV guy saying amen to this. Trump is, as we say, 'talent', or sometimes 'a piece of talent', and occasionally, 'meat puppet.' Sometimes performers know who they are, and sometimes they believe the thing on the screen is real. Trump seems the latter.
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The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering
Other people are real and the United States should not murder them
12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
January 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM
The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering
What regime change are we up to now? Anybody got the status report handy?
January 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
What regime change are we up to now? Anybody got the status report handy?
So glad that you have doctors, cause lottsa folks in American don't and more are about to lose theirs.
Given how often he posts about this, it seems less like reassurance for others and more like he’s trying to convince himself that he passed the cognitive exam.
January 2, 2026 at 3:11 PM
So glad that you have doctors, cause lottsa folks in American don't and more are about to lose theirs.
Me too. All this.
January 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Me too. All this.
What he said.
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
December 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
What he said.
good grief
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
good grief
another hero tries to read the awful book so we don't have to. (stop. there's no chance I'm gonna. save yourself.)
“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”
Sentences From American Canto That Sent Me To The Hospital
I reviewed Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto for Slate. There's far less RFK Jr. in it than you'd expect.
substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
another hero tries to read the awful book so we don't have to. (stop. there's no chance I'm gonna. save yourself.)
Snapp Shots: Christmas donations sought for kids in Oakland's Chinatown www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
Snapp Shots: Christmas donations sought for kids in Oakland’s Chinatown
A woman keeps alive the tradition started by a beloved late former police officer in the district.
www.eastbaytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Snapp Shots: Christmas donations sought for kids in Oakland's Chinatown www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...
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The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
You're late, but welcome anyway
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 AM
You're late, but welcome anyway
NY paper's Deal Book, shouting into the void:
The Fed is signaling it will scale back its oversight of financial risk and the nation’s lenders. The shift comes as some on Wall Street have sounded warnings about the debt market.
The Fed is signaling it will scale back its oversight of financial risk and the nation’s lenders. The shift comes as some on Wall Street have sounded warnings about the debt market.
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
NY paper's Deal Book, shouting into the void:
The Fed is signaling it will scale back its oversight of financial risk and the nation’s lenders. The shift comes as some on Wall Street have sounded warnings about the debt market.
The Fed is signaling it will scale back its oversight of financial risk and the nation’s lenders. The shift comes as some on Wall Street have sounded warnings about the debt market.
this seemed so wrong I checked. it's true.
I just can’t…
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
this seemed so wrong I checked. it's true.
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These local jobs were great opportunities for young journalists to learn their craft.
First newspaper I worked at in the '00s covered a ~100,000 town w/ 6 reporters, 4 photographers, news ed, & editor, plus 8 subs covering that and the other six papers in the group. Now? Two reporters & 1 ed based in a different town.
Similar at second paper, now reduced to two reporters and one ed.
Similar at second paper, now reduced to two reporters and one ed.
Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
These local jobs were great opportunities for young journalists to learn their craft.
Sea otter commandeers surfer’s board in Santa Cruz, echoing older incidents www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sea otter commandeers surfer’s board in Santa Cruz, echoing older incidents
A rambunctious sea otter commandeered a surfer’s board in Santa Cruz, raising concerns that a disturbing trend of marine mammals hassling surfers.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sea otter commandeers surfer’s board in Santa Cruz, echoing older incidents www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
October 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.
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I stand with PBS.
I stand with NPR.
I stand with Stephen Colbert.
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.
I stand with the First Amendment.
PERIOD.*
*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
I stand with NPR.
I stand with Stephen Colbert.
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.
I stand with the First Amendment.
PERIOD.*
*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
September 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I stand with PBS.
I stand with NPR.
I stand with Stephen Colbert.
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.
I stand with the First Amendment.
PERIOD.*
*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
I stand with NPR.
I stand with Stephen Colbert.
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.
I stand with the First Amendment.
PERIOD.*
*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
[quote from Trump suit vs. NYTimes writers]
“Each feels actual malice towards President Trump in the colloquial sense…”
Sign me up.
“Each feels actual malice towards President Trump in the colloquial sense…”
Sign me up.
September 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
[quote from Trump suit vs. NYTimes writers]
“Each feels actual malice towards President Trump in the colloquial sense…”
Sign me up.
“Each feels actual malice towards President Trump in the colloquial sense…”
Sign me up.
Oysterman Graham Platner is running for Senate in Maine. Asked AI if there had been a commercial fisherman in the Senate.
[in part] "...The Constitution also bars individuals with a history of certain professions from serving, specifically commercial fishing, to prevent conflicts of interest...."
[in part] "...The Constitution also bars individuals with a history of certain professions from serving, specifically commercial fishing, to prevent conflicts of interest...."
September 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Oysterman Graham Platner is running for Senate in Maine. Asked AI if there had been a commercial fisherman in the Senate.
[in part] "...The Constitution also bars individuals with a history of certain professions from serving, specifically commercial fishing, to prevent conflicts of interest...."
[in part] "...The Constitution also bars individuals with a history of certain professions from serving, specifically commercial fishing, to prevent conflicts of interest...."