Davina

Davina

@davkat43.bsky.social

Pro-democracy, interested in Shakespeare, the human condition, liveable climate goals, and anti fascism & grievance culture that scapegoats minority demographics.

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So Trump and the White House lied about which plane Trump was on flying out of Turkey, setting up journalists who thought they were on the same plane as the president to possibly be the target of an Iranian attack while he secretly departed on a different one. Words fail.

wapo.stContradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threatThe White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

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They refused to probe a murder. The people with consciences walked out. 🚨 NEW: At least four leaders of the DOJ Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

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Federal agents killing people, getting institutional support from POTUS, VP, other politicians, and media, while facing no consequences is not the same as some random guy killing someone, getting vocal support from a handful of posters, and facing murder charges. Those don’t cancel each other out.

Matt Steinglass@mattsteinglass.bsky.social

It’s useful to condemn the discourse of excusing murder. We are all discourse professionals. But it is also fair for commenters to demand clarity that excusing murder by ICE is part of the systematic advance of an authoritarian far-right state. While say defending Luigi is immoral but irrelevant.

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This is similar to how Republicans insist that “selling health insurance across state lines” is the solution to high healthcare costs, but the ACA *already* allows this yet not a single insurance carrier is interested because it doesn’t make any sense from either their *or* the enrollees POV.

Just Kevin@kevinleecaster.bsky.social

Republicans forced the Bureau of Land Management to put over 20,000 acres of public land in Colorado up for auction at the discount price of $10/acre with reduced royalty rates for oil and gas drilling. No one bid for it because demand for oil is crashing though. 🔌💡 www.cpr.org/2026/01/09/b...

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Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

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Replying to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

Here is a second video, from a more clear angle (for viewing warning purposes, you see the shooting more clearly but do not see the person being hit):

BNO News@bnonews.com

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

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Headlines are wild. "President Trump says the earth is flat, reviving a once-popular idea. We investigate his latest unorthodox claim."

NPR@npr.org

With his attack on Venezuela, President Trump says the Monroe Doctrine is back, reviving a more than 200-year-old foreign policy idea. In Cuba, residents brace for what that could mean for them. n.pr/4q4KjY2

Trump is creating ‘Griftopia’ for himself A place where he can use billions of American tax payer dollars to ring any blitzkrieg-type bell he wants for his ‘patriotic-Pavlovian’ adherents to slaver over/whilst ducking & weaving from the drip of disclosed Epstein details (& other corrupt activities)

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

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Replying to @ariellaelm.com

I think “we the people” should start focusing on Republicans, in their him states, at their offices. We have had some big wins, the Epstein Files law, which are pummeling Republicans, the votes to extend the ACA subsidies, which will be in the spotlight again Tuesday when they come back from break,

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Replying to @jamesrball.com

Worth noting the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has been encouraging Trump to do exactly this ever since she won the prize. Another one to add to the dismal record of that prize committee, too. bsky.app/profile/elio...

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social

A very embarrassing moment for the FIFA Peace Prize committee

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Support independent media.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

NEW from me: Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham. Take that, elites! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

wsj.comInside the New Fast Track to a Presidential PardonEven some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.

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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

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The federal workers’ charity drive, the largest of its kind in the country, is facing a steep decline in donations and other challenges just months after the Trump administration weighed canceling it altogether.

washingtonpost.comFederal government’s charity drive doing far worse under TrumpDonations are down by more than 40 percent after a year when federal workers faced major agency downsizing and a lengthy government shutdown.

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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

projects.propublica.orgSupreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublicaSearch Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.

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Replying to @muellershewrote.com

President🇺🇸 Clinton’s office is demanding the DOJ release all photos of him from the Epstein files along with any documents that mention him. 👇👇

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Bill Clinton just called on Trump to release the full Epstein Files, including all documents mentioning both Trump and Clinton. “Refusal to do so will confirm the widespread suspicion the DOJ’s actions to date are not about transparency, but about insinuation.”

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I'm telling you. There's good reason to believe Bannon has some serious dirt on Trump regarding Epstein.

thefarce.orgWhere are Bannon's 15 hours of Epstein videos?Antisemitism is tearing the GOP apart. But Bannon is still protecting his most famous 'bad for the Jews' pal.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

Among the newly released files, investigators probing Steve Bannon's role in the "We Build the Wall" scheme found a photo of Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell on Bannon's phone in June 2021. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

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Nearly the entire legal and economic policy staff of the Heritage Foundation (think Project 2025) is departing the conservative think tank. The departures follow resignations by 3 Heritage Foundation trustees, and the withdrawing of millions of dollars in funding.

reason.comHeritage Foundation undergoes mass staff exodus as cracks open on the New RightThe divisions are no longer just between pro-Trump and anti-Trump conservatives.