David Curley

There's been a lot of justifiable attention on NYT subpoenas, but virtually none on how the Cities Church prosecution team, led by Harmeet Dhillon, have been using Customs summonses to investigate defendants, including journalists, months AFTER indicting the case. emptywheel.net/2026/07/22/h...

Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys. This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

Pro tips 1) Make sure the catch container is in place before you turn on the coffee grinder and step away to do something else. 2) If you need to unplug the grinder to finish cleaning up a pile of ground coffee while what you saved is brewing, don't unplug the coffee-maker instead.

The 2024 "music evolution" playlist Spotify generated for me has the 71-minute organ piece Schlingen-Blangen by Charlemagne Palestine as the second song. It's a fascinating piece, but I'm thinking I might skip it more often than not. youtu.be/TPsuNXO7m0Q

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

Each Trump pick is worse than all the others, and nothing we find out about any of them makes them better. How Kennedy Has Worked Abroad to Weaken Global Public Health Policy www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/w...

San Francisco's theme song after several days of rain: youtu.be/QHoAywidJGs

No, Kamala Harris did not lose because of her supposed embrace of “identity politics.” Just the reverse is true: Donald Trump won because of his very real embrace of identity politics. White identity politics. Thread, Part 1. 1/15

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94. His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

Reupping my and @andykroll.bsky.social story on Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, on the news he is joining the next Trump administration. We got private videos of Vought's plans for "traumatically" razing the civil service, siccing military on protestors… 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/vide...

I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night. We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is. It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump. 🧵

Deus vult’ began as a rallying cry for the Crusades. More recently, it’s been adopted by the far right. And we’re not even supposed to wonder/ask why it’s tattooed on the arm of the next defense secretary?

RFK Jr.'s involvement in this tragedy needs to be more widely known. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/measles...

English needs a word for things that are surprising but also not surprising.

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

In 2017, Matt Gaetz stood as the sole dissenting vote against an anti-human trafficking bill.

🚨The Intellectualist examines reports of Trump selecting Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, a pick stirring debate due to her foreign policy views, meeting with Assad, and criticism of U.S. sanctions on Russia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=agsK...

Trump campaign staff "verbally abused and pushed" an Arlington National Cemetery official who tried to stop them from filming there