BLDavid NYC

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Compare and contrast.

This Day in Labor History: October 24, 1975. Women in Iceland went on a one-day strike to protest both the unequal pay conditions they faced in the country and men’s refusal to recognize the reproductive labor they did at home. This is the largest protest in Iceland's history! Let's talk about it!

Just 10 days. Don't count your chickens!

Tomorrow, this video, of Hillary Clinton calling King Donald the Mad "Putin’s puppet", will be exactly 10 years old. It’s aged like fine wine.

Note that many healthcare entities in the USA use Palantir tech. Mine does and it pisses me off enough to consider abandoning my otherwise very good doctors.

And on another note . . . It’s autumn garden clean up time but saved some hydrangeas. #VOTE cause your life depends on it!

Ugh - shame on @nbcnews.com and Llamas. Spends lots of time trashing and challenging @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and barely pushed Rogers. I could have done a better job.

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Six weeks before the elections and I'm incredibly tired of the political advertising. Congressional and gubernatorial candidate are just short of lying in their TV adverts. #GOP in particular is airing ads with incredibly misleading statements. Can we have truth in political advertising! Please!

Already Trump’s children are frantically stuffing their pockets with cash as if this bonanza could end tomorrow. trib.al/fDbRMIq

G.O.P. Representative Breaks With Trump in Ad: Hispanic Voters ‘Feel Betrayed’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...

This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

60 years ago #StarTrek The Original Series Premiered on NBC

Republican leaders like to falsely claim California's crime is out of control... so lets look at the data:

Conservative Gay Rights Group Ends Support for Trans Causes www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u... Log Cabin is an irrelevant organization looking for credibility with the idiot GOP MAGA(t)s. Never gonna happen and as implied at end of article, they are going the route of Chamberlain and appeasement.

Today is national flag day for #Ukraine Slava Ukrainii! They will win

He didn’t change. They did.

This video of Lady Gaga saying the Midterms are America's opportunity to vote against Trump” has been removed from many of the other Social Media outlets.

Democrats are uniting around primary winners. That's the reality. Don't let the oligarch-owned corporate media tell you there's some kind of "war" between the left and the center. They are dividing their opposition. The reality is unity. Ignore the rich people trying to convince you otherwise.

The OMB Proposal will change American science from a globally collaborative, evidence-based enterprise into one based on political control and isolation. We need MoCs to permanently Revoke the Rule. Contact yours at the link: zurl.co/RWrqE #StandUpForScience #Vought #Science #SaveScience#Trump

The 14th Amendment, ratified July 9, 1868: “All persons born or naturalized in the U.S., and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the U.S. and of the State wherein they reside.” This includes U.S.-born children of immigrants, as reaffirmed in 1898 by SCOTUS. Remember this.

This is the thing that so many Americans don’t seem to grasp: private companies are in it to make a profit, and nothing else. There are so many important, necessary discoveries that industry will never look into simply because they can’t make enough money on it.

The Iran deal was going to be signed today in Geneva, then Israel bombed Beirut. We knew they would, didn't we? Axios reports King Donald the Mad Trump exploding at Netanyahu: "Why the fuck did you do this?" How many times has Dementia Donnie announced "the war is over"? Now it isn't ... again

Ouch.

I wouldn't even bother to write all this if much of this website wasn't predicated on the idea that Democrats and Republicans are "equally bad". An objectively false notion that people seem to want to believe. A notion that has bad effects on voting behavior.

Judge Asks Justice Department: Will You Oppose Trump? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

This is very compelling! Pete Buttigieg just gets it. The sheer humanity in this clip is why I like this man so much, everyone should watch it!!

Trump said we “can’t take care of daycare” because “we’re fighting wars.” Hello? The $200B he wants for his war could provide every child in the country with a free school lunch for a year & have $170 billion to spare. Trump can help people here at home — he’s just choosing not to.

#TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility @whitehouse-47.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️

Ugh! @verizonofficial.bsky.social what is up with you folks! Repeated, daily intermittent Fios internet outages and just as I’m finishing an online chat with one of your technical support people, boom, internet goes down again (for at least the 3rd time today!). Is it time to #dumpVerizon ?

Watching @nbcnews.com tonight and they are presenting the TSA issue in an incredibly irresponsible way - they are not reporting that Dems have a solution. They make it sound like it’s Dems blocking a settlement. So wrong and shame on @nbcnews.com

Watching morning talk shows, listening to #GOP politicians wrap themselves in pretzels to justify a war is incredible. #EpsteinFiles be damned. They keep saying “imminent threat” . . . someone get them a dictionary.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Donald Trump's first 100 days have been characterized by the most flagrant corruption imaginable. Today, I want to talk about 10 of the absolute worst examples. (Thread 🧵)

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b... “Trump’s tariffs have so far not done much to solve the emergency he said they were directed at in the first place. “tariffs did not succeed in revitalizing U.S. manufacturing,” Setser said. “. . . did not succeed in meaningfully changing the overall trade deficit.”“

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Palantir software is used by many healthcare systems. Are they gathering your data? They’ll say no, privacy rules prevent but . . .

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

Immigrants, very much including undocumented immigrants, have been a massive NET PLUS to the quality of life in America. That is simply a fact. Every single one of us has benefited. There's no point denying it. It's just a fact of life in america.

Can we call it what it was? MURDER. @whitehouse-47.bsky.social and it might as well have been Trump, Noem, and Miller pulling the trigger. #LockThemUp Minneapolis Live Updates: Minnesota Authorities Investigate Fatal Shooting as Federal Officials Blame Victim www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

In honour of MLK Jr Day I Have a Dream - 2026 I have a dream that a nation that taught the world the language of liberty, will once again remember what the words mean, that freedom is not a brand, democracy not a costume, and justice not a slogan to be worn & discarded depending on the season 1/9