@dmermin.bsky.social
(he/him) Pollster based in Berkeley, California. Empiricist, urbanist, egalitarian, cartophile. Fan of democracy, habitable planets, public transit, association football.
Breaking MS NOW:
Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.
Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.
NEW: President Trump’s first year of his second term was reportedly “the most lucrative year of his life.”
His profiteering during his first term already made him the most corrupt president in history—but last year it got even worse. 🧵
The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far
24.02.2026 02:38 — 👍 1479 🔁 584 💬 37 📌 13
The federal occupation of the Twin Cities, and residents' valiant response, shows that a determined opposition to Trump can change minds, rally an anti-MAGA majority, and clarify the stark conflicts our nation faces. New from me at @flux.community: 1/
plus.flux.community/p/after-twin...
This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech
22.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 1902 🔁 806 💬 48 📌 15People will not blame Democrats for this.
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Greenland has universal health care and far higher standards of healthcare than are found in Louisiana and most of the US. In the meantime, Trump has blocked funding of the ACA, meaning that tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare coverage.
22.02.2026 01:25 — 👍 1759 🔁 580 💬 151 📌 70
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Taking notes, America? This will be on the exam.
Republicans are trying to stop everyday Americans from accessing the ballot box to give their billionaire backers even more influence in Washington and across the country.
17.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 2
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
15.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 2645 🔁 540 💬 324 📌 492It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust.
Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI
This sounds bonkers & it's simply a basic statement of fact. Between Covid neglect, ending USAID, & now the vaccine nonsense, it will soon be more than Jefferson Davis.
13.02.2026 04:53 — 👍 231 🔁 74 💬 4 📌 1
Remember when DHS said these guys attacked an ICE agent with a shovel and then it turned out the agent was just shooting blindly through a fucking door?
Well, the government wants to drop the charges now but doesn't explain why.
The GOP has completely invented this fear. It has never happened to an ICE officer. Working as an ICE officer for Trump is safer than being an elementary school student or retail worker: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
12.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 137 🔁 57 💬 8 📌 3
Republicans trying to sell new SAVE America Act as voter ID bill. It’s much worse. Requires proof of citizenship such as passport or birth certificate to register to vote which could disenfranchise millions & forces states to hand over voter rolls to Kristi Noem www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
11.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 35 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 1
House set to pass new version of SAVE Act today, making terrible bill even worse. Could disenfranchise:
-21 million Americans without access to citizenship papers
-69 million married women who took partner’s name
-21 million without current drivers license
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The GOP's SAVE America Act would require documents like a passport, birth certificate, or military service papers in order to register to vote.
According to the @brennancenter.org, more than 21 million Americans lack immediate access to the documents needed to prove citizenship.
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...
Not the “worst of the worst.” Gardeners and line cooks and grandmas. Including many US citizens.
US measles total grows by 145 as South Carolina outbreak hits 920 cases
Among US #measles patients, 95% are unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccine status, compared with 4% who are fully vaccinated
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
Social media quote graphic with a red and black image of surveillance cameras in the background. "From using facial recognition technology and social media monitoring to target citizens expressing their first amendment rights to launching investigations into American businesses that disagree with Trump and Miller, this administration is actively dismantling our constitutional rights under the guise of immigration enforcement.” Vanessa Cárdenas Executive Director of America’s Voice
The Surveillance State is Here: Using Mass Deportation Crusade to Violate Your Privacy
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🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls.
The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
The GOP took away health care and food assistance for millions of Americans to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
They know how unpopular their pro-billionaire agenda is, so now they're trying to dodge accountability at the ballot box with a voter suppression bill: the SAVE Act.
Remarkable number of parallels to Donbas 2014. Alarming!
06.02.2026 01:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
On Tuesday in Minnesota, a lawyer made headlines — including at Law Dork — for her shocking statement in court representing that government that the “system sucks.” On Wednesday, the transcript made clear that it wasn’t just Julie Le — an inexperienced litigator who was on a detail from her job at the Department of Homeland Security to help with the increased caseload resulting from Operation Metro Surge — who said a lot that matters on Tuesday. It is an unfathomable exercise to read lawyers and a federal judge discussing at length the ways in which the rule of law is slipping through our nation’s fingers, but it is an absolutely necessary document to read for anyone who wants to protect the rule of law — and America.
I don't know when I last read something like the transcript out of Minnesota, so I spent the evening putting this together.
www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnes...
"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative."
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 242
Scammers gonna scam
05.02.2026 00:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reporting on the attack on our government by the owner's patron's volunteer army? Gotta go
04.02.2026 18:54 — 👍 44 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0Donald Trump has been telling us that if he doesn't like the outcome of the elections he will seize ballots. He wants Republicans to take control of voting. He wants to take over elections in Democratic states.
People should be concerned and we all need to be ready.
“Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.”
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