David R. Evans, Ph.D.

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

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The Somali guy hopping on the school bus to save the children even as Stephen Miller wants to denaturalize and deport him is a metaphor for our time.

“.. Rarely has an individual donor been effectively tied to such a large commitment for a single candidate.” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

ICYMI, great statement by former VP Mike Pence about Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. Scandal there's no one else left in Republican Party able to say it out loud.

Yet both parties keep funding the military to the tune of billions of dollars per year. Stop funding the military until Hegseth allows representatives to have access to military bases anywhere and everywhere. Why shouldn't the American know what is happening on those bases? We're paying for them.

Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.

Abstention isn’t a neutral third option: it shrinks the electorate, giving the most disciplined and organized blocs more say over who wins—and who gets ignored afterward.

Smith’s accusations against the GOP for not indicting Trump for the Jan 6 constitutional crisis and subsequent participants’ pardons are damning and should never be forgotten.

Bonus fuckery: Sen. Eric Schmitt has openly been a white nationalist for about 13 months now. (I'm so old, I remember when then-US-Rep. Steve King [Iowa-4th D] lost his cmte assignments & GOP funding after advocating white nationalism on the House floor. He quit politics to run a neo-Nazi website.)

📺 HAPPENING NOW: The Senate will vote on Republicans' latest attempt to sneak a voter ID requirement through the chamber by attaching it to a congressional stock-trading ban. The last-ditch effort comes just as the Senate packs up for the campaign trail. Stream below👇

Kelly Loeffler's campaign took Leon Black's money two months after the Times exposed his Epstein payments. She now runs Trump's Small Business Administration. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-billiona...

Senator Dirtbag Schmitt-head, even Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post is mocking his “perjury gotcha” moment. This is the only thing he’ll ever be remembered for. nypost.com/2026/09/29/u...

Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.

Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."

They kicked people off healthcare to pay for the war. https://bit.ly/4AjGDr0

What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.

This is what corruption looks like. A Russian oligarch close to Putin spends hundreds of thousands of dollars bankrolling celebrations for the president’s son. And we’re supposed to believe it was just a generous wedding gift with no strings attached? #StopTrumpCorruption

Lots of folks are comparing McConnell’s vote today to Feinstein’s finals days in the senate. The main difference is that Feinstein was co-sponsoring legislation to expand voting rights, while McConnell voted to cut SNAP and end environmental protections.

His wife called the Russian oligarch "our dear friend." His father said he'd never heard of him. House Oversight wants the records by September 28. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/congress-j...

Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.

Back then, Bush and Giuliani were right when they affirmed that American Muslims are simply fellow Americans—and today’s Trump-radicalized GOP is wrong. It’s as simple as that.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

The president doesn’t have some mysterious ability to do whatever he wants Republicans at every level choose not to stop him, even though they could Senate, House, appointees, local officials, candidates — all lined up, smiling for the camera, fully complicit

Disappointing to wake up and find our economy and foreign policy is still in shambles despite the DC car race.

Korean missiles hitting Kyiv as Trump calls Kim Jong-Un his friend

This is what happens when you purge your military of people who know what they’re doing

Just a gobsmackingly bad answer that will propel this story deeper into scandal. And the central thesis is this: Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are incompetent and don’t give a flying f*** about our troops.

The U.S. economy is strongest when industrial policy is consistent, rules‑based, and predictable rather than when a tyrant assigns who wins, loses based on what benefits him most

Clueless, corrupt, and contemptible to the core.

Phang: Each and every day after December 19th, 2025 has been a violation of the Epstein files transparency act. Now, to compound the problem for Blanche and the DOJ, you have violations of court orders.

I absolutely understand the need for presidential security, but this maneuver seems profoundly unethical.

Hundreds of billions spent, Americans killed and grievously injured, vital weapon stockpiles nearly gone, no change in Iranian nuclear threat, Iran likely to reap hundreds of billions in fees to use for its terrorist puppets. Great work, Hegseth and Trump!

It's notable to me that amid all the coverage of Dems' past tweets and relative degree of association with Hasan Piker, there has been comparatively little coverage of the fact that Republicans are seemingly about to run Mike Lindell — Mike Lindell — for governor of Minnesota?

Justice for Cricket. 🐕

EXCLUSIVE: New Mexico’s entire congressional delegation is demanding answers from Pete Hegseth after Pentagon GPS jamming was linked to a deadly medical plane crash that killed four people.

Listen to Senator Durbin. “It will be a shameful history for those who are empowering this man, Todd Blanche, to take his personal representation of this president to the highest possible level, if he becomes the next Attorney General.” Grow some spines you feckless Repubs!

“The Reflecting Pool mess is different from other Trump obsessions because it reveals just how immune to evidence and logic his beliefs have become, even when a trusted lieutenant wheels an entire box of supporting evidence into the Oval Office.”

Reflecting Pool case was doomed to fail from the start. DOJ’s willingness to scapegoat an innocent man to indulge Trump’s lies of vandalism is shameful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

The two worst people on the planet working together would make a great horror movie, but also a greatly horrible reality.