Dave

Dave

@policywank.com

Photography at @flowstateneworleans and this is for other things. Former Latin American historian. Opinionated. Hates Nazis and not just the Illinois ones. #nolasky

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Okay #NOLAsky, I get that we’re trying to raise revenue through parking enforcement, but having the meter off across Duncan Plaza from City Hall, where everybody has to go, and ticketing down the row is a messsssss

Things I achieved on my first unpaid furlough day as a contractor to the city of New Orleans: 1. Lovely croissant and cold brew at Levee Baking Co. 2. Annual vet check up and rabies shot for my senior dachshund. 3. Some car maintenance. It's safe to say this day was a big financial loss. 😀 #nolasky

David Attenborough voice: as Mardi Gras season comes to an end and a hot springtime takes shape, watch the majestic herds of pedicabs as they migrate out of Uptown and back to their traditional hunting grounds in the French Quarter. #nolasky

May every #billionaire be struck with a new, alarming, autoimmune disease for which there is no treatment.

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Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

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THIS.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I should have placed my first Kalshi bet on how many racists stroked out in the first 30 seconds of the #superbowlhalftimeshow. lol.

If you ever felt like you needed to wonder if the person in wrap around Oakleys was a complete douche, Meta has taken care of that for you.

"Weight loss solutions I have a financial interest in. GLP-1s from RO." would be a more accurate commercial.

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The New Republic@newrepublic.com

After demanding ICE and other federal agents be banned from wearing face coverings, Schumer and Jeffries added caveats: "no masks, except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances.” trib.al/0fN3kmP

Even the "good" shit is weird these days. Just ponder this sentence. "Rob Morvan of Milli Vanilli was beaten out for a Grammy by The Dalai Lama." What is 2026?

1/5? I bought Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis" as an MP3 from Amazon (where I haven't had a prime membership for over a year). I downloaded the track. I then decided to check to see if there's other music I've bought on MP3 over the years from Amazon that I don't currently have downloaded.

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4/5 I have vinyl and CD box sets that I've purchased from them over the years. And while it's cool that when you buy those things, you also often get the MP3s for free, they make it really fucking difficult to get that music unless you just want to stream it through their app.

5/5 If you're a prime customer, is it this difficult for you? downloaded one box set this morning and it was such an awful experience, I'll probably wait to download the next one. Some of these box sets have 50-200 tracks.

1/5? I bought Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis" as an MP3 from Amazon (where I haven't had a prime membership for over a year). I downloaded the track. I then decided to check to see if there's other music I've bought on MP3 over the years from Amazon that I don't currently have downloaded.

2/5 There is. Maybe this is different if you have Prime, but as a non-Prime customer they make trying to download your music incredibly annoying. You can't download whole albums. You can download track by track. If you download more than two or three tracks (consecutively, not even at once)...

3/5 the page will crash, tell you there was an error, and then still download the last track you were trying to, but you have to reload the page to see your music again. Trying to download even two tracks simultaneously often seems to crash the page.

The City of New Orleans has ended all work from unless you were hired to work remotely from someplace else, have a medical/family/property emergency, etc. #nolasky

The end of US economic dominance in one bar chart.

Barchart@barchart.com

Gold has overtaken the U.S. Dollar as the largest Global Reserve Asset 🚨🚨🚨

Any #senator could grind the senate to halt by doing three things: Refuse unanimous consent on anything. Ask that all bills be read in their entirety. Ask that all votes are roll call votes. None of them are doing any of that. They may get a superficial win on #ICE funding, but they'll cave later.

1/x Re: the ice beat down and shooting in Minneapolis. You want to know why you don't put your cops behind masks? I've always considered myself a pacifist. It is almost exactly 35 years since I've fired a gun and that was in a shooting range. If I were an armed citizen of Minnesota right now...

2/x I'd have a hard time not thinking that every masked ICE agent is a valid target. I'm not saying, even in that hypothetical, that I would do that or anyone else should, but there just might be people out there who do. That's a risk that #ICE brought on itself. #FuckIce

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"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

Speaking as a fat guy, you can go ahead and fat shame these Nazi ICE motherfuckers for being unable to fit into their uniforms. Do so without guilt. #fuckice

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Minneapolis - 1/15/2026 A woman is pulling out of her driveway when multiple vehicles swarm around her A masked agent opens her door and tears her phone from her hand claiming, "You almost hit me" then appears to take her into custody as the vido ends