David Radue

@volts.wtf and @danielpalken.bsky.social's recent interview just got a big shoutout during @cclusa.org's deep dive training call about the Senate permitting bill. It is so well deserved. I am tickled to know that my fellow advocates got a ton out of that podcast episode. Thank you, gents!

We need Broken Windows theory but just for white collar crime.

I played Slay the Spire 2 for the first time last night with a group of friends. I had a blast! It was absolutely a great hang. Was the multiplayer a lesson from the boardgame adaptation, did the STS2 co-op come before the boardgame, or did both ideas come in parallel?

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

it's quite funny that the international pedophile ring got QAnon to put them all in power.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

It’s not so much that Trump & co don’t think slavery was important, they want to remove this history precisely *because* of how important it was. They don’t want people to learn about slavery because then people would understand how it continues to shape the landscape of inequality in America today.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

The New York Times is failing its readers when it minimizes 1) Child porn generated via Grok 2) The humans, not Grok, created it and 3) The "outrage" is not ambient anger but a demand for accountability. youtube.com/shorts/kkuC-...

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social this feels germane to your interests. Not sure if it might help with some od your overcommitments at the moment, but there may be some fruit to pursue.

I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.

I'm an Eagle Scout (once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout). Scouting made me who I am, gave me a variety of skills, and even helped me get an employment for a few summers working at Sea Base. Scouting, at its core, isn't about being a good man. It's about being a good person.

Since January, I have asked elected officials at the state and federal levels to make an affirmative case for gov't spending. What makes transport cheaper to build? Gov't expertise. Cheaper heathcare? Medicare negotiations. Clean tech deployment? Agency staff. Effective diplomacy? Gov't capacity.

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I do the same and largely ignore most other fundraising. There are a small number of exceptions for campaigns that are close to home or novel (@katmabu.bsky.social), but I like to be invested in the long-term bench building rather than leaning too hard toward individuals.

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge. 3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc. Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care. Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

There is a group of people currently in charge of this country who cannot be allowed to rule us under any circumstance, and who must be dealt with in ways that ensure they can never, as a class, return to power. Their enablers need to be similarly punished. Consequences FIRST, reconciliation later.

It would also be great if social media sites had a feature in which they posted something on the top of the site saying, "It looks like you haven't been on social media for a while. There's been a thing. Do you need help understanding it?"

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?

When you strip away humanity

I absolutely lost it where the sixteenth notes kick in (also the internet and humanity was a mistake)

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

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10,000 people signed up to run for office in the two weeks after Mamdani won. Whether the party likes it or not, a new generation of leaders is stepping up.

Every Democratic president post-Nixon has believed their unique charisma and healing ability could reunite an America divided by Republican crimes. Carter and Watergate, Clinton and Iran-Contra, Obama and Iraq/torture, Biden and January 6. They just bought the right more time to fester.