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David S. Pumpkins 🎃
David S. Pumpkins 🎃
@davehageman.bsky.social
Former historian; Ohioan in VA; napping enthusiast; soccer (Columbus Crew, Arsenal) and other assorted nonsense; no sucka MCs or mark ass bustas #Abide
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Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?
I’m curious how @ajc.com would cover the story of a 72-year-old green card holder facing the possibility of dying in prison for registering to vote compared to how it covered an old white guy almost killing someone with his SUV.
It’s come to my attention that you motherfuckers haven’t been sending your kids at college (or even yourselves) enough care packages. If you don’t rectify this most ricky-tick and support my wife’s business, I’m gonna have to get another job that pays more or some sort of side hustle. Fuck that.
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The indictment looks bad as a matter of appearances but these aren't crimes, SCOTUS said so. Official acts on an "as-needed" basis? Nope, McDonnell, 579 US 550. Undisclosed self-dealing? Nope, Skilling, 561 US 358. Problem here isn't just the timing, the legal substance itself is dubious.
Dammit, this Louise Lucas indictment is not good storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Browns, Bengals, Guardians, Reds, Blue Jackets, Cavaliers, Crew, and FC Cincinnati. The owners of every single pro sports team in Ohio have all donated to Vivek Ramaswamy. And not a single one has spoken up about his recent ad. www.foiaball.com/p/ohio-sport...
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Pretty nearly the whole actual point of getting white college students to go to Mississsippi for Freedom Summer was to draw national media attention
"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
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Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.
I learned from this article that Peggy Flanagan has a wild rice hotdish recipe. Michell Tafoya, on the other hand, is a bigoted dipshit. Does anyone have the recipe, though? @normcharlatan.bsky.social? @wesburdine.bsky.social? I’d donate to get it but don’t see if that’s still on offer on her site.
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I appreciate that language evolves but I’m firmly in the Old Man Yells at Cloud (literally) camp on this one.
I feel like no one told me and definitely no one asked my permission when "compute" became a noun. Like I'm a friend to all nerds. But this was a little out of hand. And shld have been reined in.
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I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...
Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)
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Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps
A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.
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Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?
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I know of a mother who was snatched up by ICE as she was boarding a plane to go to her son’s graduation from a military academy. She was not undocumented, had no criminal record, and had been here for decades. She was expelled to a country in Africa she’d never been to before.
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...