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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no amnesty

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

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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?

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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He’s waving at the demons and hell beasts who have come to carry his putrid soul to eternal torment and agony. At least I hope so.

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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.

Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social

Dammit, this Louise Lucas indictment is not good storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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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

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

"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.

theguardian.comIn reliably blue Minnesota, could Democrats do the unthinkable and lose a Senate seat?Frustration with a sprawling fraud scandal has cut Peggy Flanagan’s poll lead – could ex-NFL reporter Michele Tafoya win a first statewide election for Republicans in 20 years?

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I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

I appreciate that language evolves but I’m firmly in the Old Man Yells at Cloud (literally) camp on this one.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

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.

Heckuva job, Donnie

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump's head of FEMA just told states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. The Trump admin's disaster chief told state officials they must increase their financial reserves and emergency capabilities to handle most disasters on their own — without federal help.

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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...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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!)

It’s a mystery of national significance why some people are going no-contact with their parents. Not me, though—I just talked to my mom (who still lives in Youngstown) last night.

The Rooster@rooster.info

Dr. Amy Acton's campaign is out with a statement:

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Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social

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.

Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social

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...

Imagine if Dems went after Musk the way Republicans go after Soros.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

Democrats need to run hard against Elon Musk. They need to warn the public that the world's richest man is spending $276 million to attempt a hostile takeover of our government.

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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...