Dave Secrest

Dave Secrest

@davesecrest.bsky.social

Husband, Dad, Grandfather, Friend. American. Californian. Santa Barbarian. Trial attorney. Political Observer. Independent. Support my work on Substack: https://substack.com/@davesecrest?r=1dltx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile&shareImageVariant=light

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We’re in the midst of the “De-Bamboozling of America” Phase of modern American political history. “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

114 large, profitable corporations paid $0 in federal income tax for 2025. Combined U.S. profits: $117.5 billion. Most got money back. All 706 companies ITEP studied paid 10.4% — the lowest rate in 40 years.

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Lincoln, 1838: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Suicide by tax code is slow. It's committed one line at a time. The authors of the 2025 law are on the ballot Nov. 3.

114 large, profitable corporations paid $0 in federal income tax for 2025. Combined U.S. profits: $117.5 billion. Most got money back. All 706 companies ITEP studied paid 10.4% — the lowest rate in 40 years.

Four of the 114 are on the White House ballroom donor list: Booz Allen, Coinbase, HP, Palantir. So are the four biggest recipients of corporate tax subsidies: Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta. No quid pro quo alleged. All of it is filed. All of it is legal. That's the scandal. /2

Workers pay 7.65% of every paycheck in Social Security and Medicare before income tax is even figured. Tesla paid $0 on $5.7 billion in U.S. profit. Its CEO has spent about $366 million this cycle to hold Republican majorities in Congress. /3

Bingo. Bango. Boingo.

Dave Secrest@davesecrest.bsky.social

Prediction: After TNF - Seattle @ Denver - there will be one winning team in the strongest division in the NFL - the NFC West. That team is undefeated. It won’t be the defending NFL Champs, the Seahawks. Or the preseason favorite, the Rams. It will be the oldest, most injured team in NFL. Faithful.

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Prediction: After TNF - Seattle @ Denver - there will be one winning team in the strongest division in the NFL - the NFC West. That team is undefeated. It won’t be the defending NFL Champs, the Seahawks. Or the preseason favorite, the Rams. It will be the oldest, most injured team in NFL. Faithful.

My estimate of percentage of current threat level to humanity caused directly by simple male hubris: 💯 Ex. 1: Biden deciding to ignore his campaign pledge to be a “transitional” POTUS, at 80,w/ known, debilitating health issues, dithering for a year before being forced to withdraw. Exs. 2-99: Trump.

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Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.

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Hegseth has by all professional assessments bungled a war against Iran and likely lost it. He is incapable of articulating the reason for the war or the objectives he is pursuing. Yet he is spending almost every waking hour denigrating soldiers, sailors and airmen and trying to foment divisions and

My Prediction. www.270towin.com/2026-senate-... All that is required to force Trump's resignation is the *credible threat* of 13 GOP Senators to FINALLY abide by their Constitutional Oath to vote to convict upon inevitable and instant impeachment by the Dem House: substack.com/@davesecrest...

270towin.com2026 Senate Election Interactive Map - 270toWinWho will control the Senate? Review and predict the outcome of the 35 Senate races in the 2026 midterm elections.

This is one of the most petty, hypocritical and stupid, small but really STUPID decisions the suits at the NFL have ever made. They'll reverse it, which makes them even more hypocritical and stupid. The NFL talks about "protecting the shield” (the BRAND). While they piss all over it themselves.

News 📰@some-news.bsky.social

“Can’t make this stuff up,” said the bemused player, husband of designer Kristin Juszczyk.

This is one of the most petty, hypocritical and stupid, small but really STUPID decisions the suits at the NFL have ever made. They'll reverse it, which makes them even more hypocritical and stupid. The NFL talks about "protecting the shield” (the BRAND). While they piss all over it themselves.

The Press Democrat@pressdemo.bsky.social

49ers fullback known as ‘Juice’ says ‘I don’t even drink beer’, appeals fine of nearly $15k from the NFL

This is one of the most petty, hypocritical and stupid, small but really STUPID decisions the suits at the NFL have ever made. They'll reverse it, which makes them even more hypocritical and stupid. The NFL talks about "protecting the shield” (the BRAND). While they piss all over it themselves.

San Francisco Chronicle Watcher@sfcwatcher.bsky.social

Now: ‘I don’t even drink beer’: 49ers’ Kyle Juszczyk baffled by NFL fine. George Kittle finds it hilarious

This is one of the most petty, hypocritical and stupid, small but really STUPID decisions the suits at the NFL have ever made. They'll reverse it, which makes them even more hypocritical and stupid. The NFL talks about "protecting the shield” (the BRAND). While they piss all over it themselves.

Aipropx@aipropx.bsky.social

🚨HILARIOUS🚨 #49ers star Kyle Juszczyk and his wife Kristin posted this hilarious TikTok after the NFL fined Kyle $15,000 for his celebration today. They wasted absolutely no time trolling the league over it. This is an ELITE response to getting fined. #aipropx

The Wages of Sin unfolding before our eyes, in the reflection of millions of hungry American children. You can stop this cruelty and senseless destruction. If you vote for any GOP candidate, or even by not voting at all, you enable this sinful, unpatriotic cruelty. Vote. Vote AGAINST the GOP.

cbpp.orgSNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is ImplementedSNAP participation nationwide fell by over 5 million people (nearly 13 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and June 2026, based on the latest month of data.

The Wages of Sin unfolding before our eyes, in the reflection of millions of hungry American children. You can stop this cruelty and senseless destruction. If you vote for any GOP candidate, or even by not voting at all, you enable this sinful, unpatriotic cruelty. Vote. Vote AGAINST the GOP.

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social

🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

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This sums it up. MAGA, are you still proud to oppose American values? We are a nation of immigrants. You scream that YOUR ancestors came here "legally", but in reality, most of you have no idea how they got here. You presume. Find out. And be ashamed. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Persia (Iran) was one of the most impressive civilizations in world history for several millenia. Persia fought Rome and Byzantium to a standstill for roughly seven centuries. Trump is a reality TV actor & failed real estate speculator. This catastrophe was foreseen by all. Especially Xi and Putin.

All Trump did is obliterate our offensive and defensive missile capability, completely drain our oil reserves, and hand the entire Middle East over to Iran, now a regional superpower, having exposed the USA’s lies and weakness under Trump/Hegseth. No one trusts us. No one is on our side anymore.

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Not BREAKING NEWS because the Trump admin has been deleting and altering federal datasets for over a year. You can argue about policy. But when the government starts eliminating the data we use to determine whether those policies are actually working, that deserves a hell of a lot more attention.

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The post below went up a month ago. Updated numbers: Total cost, $100 billion (up more than $20 billion since last month) Cost per household, $765 (up more than $160) iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

This must have been when she turned down his offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom… twice. It’s hard to get through the day when you know the guy with more power than any human in history is certifiably insane. But we must.

Disgraced U.S. Senator Cassidy, licensed pediatrician, voted to confirm lunatic drug addict / entitled nepobaby RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary, knowing well he’d harm Americans with his crackpot incompetence. Why? Money. He’s going to make millions lobbying for corrupt corporations. This is the problem.

Disgraced U.S. Senator Cassidy, licensed pediatrician, voted to confirm lunatic drug addict / entitled nepobaby RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary, knowing well he’d harm Americans with his crackpot incompetence. Why? Money. He’s going to make millions lobbying for corrupt corporations. This is the problem.

In a contest between former high level Nepo Drug Addicts, Hunter Biden literally kicks the snot out of Bobby Kennedy Junior. Probably because Bobby is a current addict and a totally unrepentant and disassociated asshole. Also the head of HHS. Sadly.

Michael J. Stern@michaeljstern.bsky.social

The performative, sadistic cruelty that is at the heart of MAGA manifests itself every day, in every way. This will not change until the entire GOP is crushed by the voters. Here’s the latest obscene, bizarre example. A GOP congressman witholding a blue bunny from his abused two-year-old daughter.

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social

“Max, Can REDACTED please have her bunny back? She’s had it since birth… Please don’t punish REDACTED if you’re upset with me,” Emily Moreno wrote to Rep. Max Miller in a March 2025 email. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Entrenched, corrupt, cruel and incompetent GOP leadership in Missouri flat out declares war on their own citizens and Constitution, in order to further entrench their corruption, cruelty and incompetence. They want to return to the Confederacy, when the right people ran things gooder.

The Redistrict Network (mirror 🤖)@redistrictnet.bluesky.bot

On Aug 4, Missouri voters will decide whether future citizen-led constitutional amendments must pass in all eight congressional districts, not just statewide. Amendments referred by the legislature would still need only a simple majority. boltsmag.org/missouri-…

This, alone, setting aside the daily litany of illegality and insanity, is plain and clear grounds for impeachment, conviction, and forceable removal from office. The GOP must be crushed for the next several election cycles or, as a moron recently proclaimed, “we don’t have a country anymore.”

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Voters hand messes to Dems, who fix them, then infinite loop: Nixon/Ford-Carter-Reagan/Bush-Clinton-W-Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump2.0. Democrats inherit the downturn, repair employment, and absorb the cost on their own ledger. Voters judge the cost, not the cure, because it lands after they’ve voted.

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We all know this is true. The SC knew it too, which is why they gave him immunity. But if the immunity was supposed to just be for official acts, why are they using it to cover everything, including insurrection and treason?