Dave Mason

Dave Mason

@fatsodoctor.bsky.social

Tired. So tired. https://iamunhyphen.wixsite.com/iamun

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Slavija Square in Belgrade, Serbia. Summer, 2018. Well done, Student List. You give all of us some hope. #democracy #vote #nokings #impeachandremove

That's an agent of the Diplomatic Security Service. Nope, there's no diplomatic crisis or embassy to protect, across the street from my house. Just a pretextual traffic stop and a gov't goblin who supervises Memphis police. #abolishICE #freethe901 #Vecindarios901 #impeachandremove

As you go to vote, remember that our executive branch runs its own secret police force that can kidnap and disappear people in the dead of night bc the DOJ is wholly corrupt. Your vote can make it possible to prosecute these goblins. #abolishICE #freethe901 #Vecindarios901 #impeachandremove

Here's Memphis, after Memphians spend five hours telling the Memphis City Council to vote for a data center moratorium, and 6 council-members vote "no" and then vote "yes" on a counter-measure that sponsors drop in the same meeting and no one has been able to read. #freethe901 #nodatacenters

As someone with a PhD, I sometimes joke that I'm the kind of doctor who doesn't do anyone any good. I'm just joking, of course. And we all know that some MD's don't do anyone any good. #freethe901 #memphiscitycouncil

Memphians of all sorts—hundreds of them—spent five hours last night telling the Memphis City Council to pause data center development. Good people of the USA, I present to you the Memphis City Council. #freethe901 #nodatacenters #memphiscitycouncil

Memphis City Council will try again, later today, to do something that doesn't injure and outrage the city's citizens. But before it can approach that challenge, it'll have to deal with illegitimately banning people from the chamber. #freethe901 #datacentermoratorium #abolishICE #impeachandremove

Headline: "Mu$k Pledges One Child for Each Share." The world's wealthiest man pledged today that every share of his publicly traded company will include one child. #abolishdatacenters #abolishbillionaires #freethe901 #impeachandremove

I'm not against the relatively benign No Kings gatherings. A lot of folks can't go further and any show of common identity matters. But on their own, benign gatherings aren't enough. We're indebted to the folks who dare to stop things up. #abolishICE #freethe901 #nokings #impeachandremove

Wilson Air in Memphis, TN, provides space and support services for ICE deportation flights. The bus you see is filled with shackled people driven down from the concentration camp in Mason, TN. Wilson Air helps the gov't disappear these people. #abolishICE #freethe901 #V901 #impeachandremove

Midterm voting has begun in Tennessee. Your vote can help make someone be all that they can be. #abolishICE #nokings #releasethefiles #impeachandremove

Imagine how much better our world would be if, years ago, folks had been willing to say "&%$¢ that," like Zelensky did, yesterday. #abolishICE #nokings #releasethefiles #impeachandremove

As I approached, yesterday, I heard one of these Unsafe Task Farce goons say "camera," and the whole clutch of goons, who'd been terrorizing local businesses, immediately got in their cars and drove away. And I had thought that they were incapable of shame. #abolishICE #freethe901 #nokings #V901

Maybe $19 million _per month_. That's the Memphis Unsafe Task Farce bill. TN's governor couldn't even _think_ of putting that kind of money into Memphis's schools, infrastructure, social services, etc. No hesitation for cosplay stasi. #freethe901 #endtheoccupation #nokings #impeachandremove

Some Memphis city council folks—contrary to the rules—banned Keshaun Pearson, Justin Pearson, and others who stood up, literally and figuratively, to the council's disregard for Memphians. Potentates always treat _speaking_ of the abuse as the problem. #freethe901 #nodatacenters #endtheoccupation

And potentates love to operate outside of the rules that are meant to govern _everyone_. ‘Cause doing so shouts at “everyone” that they have no hope.

This sign is not about Congress, obviously. Most everyone let go of their confidence in their elected representatives, long ago. Nevertheless, a message for whichever Congresspersons still cling to the idea that they are leaders... (cont.) #abolishICE #nokings #impeachandremove

In December 2024, 190 members of South Korea's parliament fought their way through military and police lines, scaled walls, and pushed themselves through windows in the dark of night to reject their president's declaration of martial law.

We the people will reject and resist fascism, as we've been doing these long two years. We'll resist even more. But the month ahead is our last, best opportunity to end the end of our democracy. Y'all in Congress had better ready yourselves to do what the moment demands of you.

Memphis city council is gonna meet again today at 4pm. I hear that they're gonna give their attention to a motion concerning the ICE pestilence that afflicts Memphis. And I hear they might try again to to say or do something about data centers that isn't criminal or insane. #abolishICE #freethe901

A slim majority of the Memphis City Council abrogated their moral duty to vote in a moratorium on data center development. One council creep yammered on about "tax revenue," apparently unconcerned with who dies. Memphians showed the city council whose city this is. #freethe901 #nodatacenters

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Dude, the principal argument _against_ data centers is that they consume and poison water. Why in the name of St. Peter and St. John would you think that repeating the term "a.i. desert," over and over, would convince people that data centers are _not_ an immediate and present threat to them?

A slim majority of the Memphis City Council abrogated their moral duty to vote in a moratorium on data center development. One council creep yammered on about "tax revenue," apparently unconcerned with who dies. Memphians showed the city council whose city this is. #freethe901 #nodatacenters

The PDF murder-clown will wreck us all. The cult devotees along with everyone else. #abolishICE #freethe901 #releasethefiles #impeachandremove

Quick reminder—or note, for those who are unaware. The town of Mason, TN, allows Core Covic to operate a concentrate camp in its jurisdiction, forty-some miles outside of Memphis. #abolishICE #freethe901 #endtheoccupation #impeachandremove

Oh, look. It's ICE, helping MPD out with pretextual traffic stops. Credit to this driver, who cussed them both out, royally. #abolishICE #endtheoccupation #freethe901 #impeachandremove

ICE agents put flashlight beams down my camera lens... which violates the Constitution. This guy stepped in to block the beams and I didn't see what he was saying to ICE, himself, until I got home. Shout it, Kid. #abolishICE #freethe901 #endtheoccupation #impeachandremove

The Commercial Appeal reports that a judge suspects Memphis Police did violate a standing consent decree when they attacked peaceful activists back in March. Judge, count how many times MPD has violated that consent decree. I've got some pics, right, officer Mitchell? #endtheoccupation #freethe901

One year into this stupid task force and everyone knows still what they knew in the first place: it exists only to show everyone that our racist government can wreak whatever cruelty it likes. #abolishICE #freethe901 #endtheoccupation #impeachandremove

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A bus full of kidnapped immigrants sits in the parking lot of Wilson Air, the Memphis FBO that supports ICE flights. Later, the bus would drive onto the ramp and its human cargo would be loaded onto Air Wisconsin’s N465AW for a transfer flight to Louisiana. Cruelty, sponsored by #WilsonAir

The Memphis Unsafe Task Farce was rotten the day it started, one year ago. It's even rotten-er, today. #abolishICE #endtheoccupation #freethe901 #impeachandremove

This wave is coming in the first week of November. Because voters can't wait to bury a fully corrupted GOP, a declaration of "martial law" is almost certainly coming, too. Watch for it at a USA near you. #abolishICE #nokings #releasethefiles #impeachandremove

Brief press conference by outstanding ACLU lawyers and upstanding plaintiffs. Some folks who won't let a fascist, racist gov't and its Memphis Un-safe Task Force drag us all into a civic cess-pit. #abolishICE #freethe901 #V901 #ACLU

Mayor Young cleared everything up. When you see MPD driving ICE agents around, it's not collaboration. MPD is strapped, because of the many police brutality lawsuits. So, says Young, when there aren't any calls, MPD officers are driving for Uber to bring in cash. #abolishICE #freethe901 #nokings

You're reading right. An _IRS_ agent, swaggering around a traffic stop that disappeared 3 men in an unmarked van. Must be quite seductive when a racist gov't comes to your cubicle and says, "Put down that marginal tax rate, for now, here's a _gun_." #abolishICE #freethe901 #nokings #impeachandremove