David Durham

Opinion | You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.

You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Best news: the #Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a:
Latina
Woman
fighting against authoritarian regimes

Thank you, Mr. President, for your role in the #ceasefire, and for abandoning your ludicrous idea of developing the Riviera of the Middle East.

This rabbi poses an excellent and important question.

E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

Just a part of the Great Leap Backward: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

Listen to Mister Rogers’ defense of public media funding in 1969 | CNN Politics The Senate recently passed a bill that would decimate public media, clawing back roughly $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund NPR and PBS. The bill, which contai...

Fred Rogers defending public television:
www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/p...

Bold move, following #Macron’s lead. Let’s see if the threat has any teeth.

I remember back when #Netanyahu was questioned about the far right members of his cabinet and the radical influence they could have. His reply: “They work for me.”
Yeah. Right.

Another episode in the Great Leap Backward.

Merci, Monsieur le Président, pour votre courage en reconnaissant l’état palestinien malgré l’opposition de certains pays.
Thank you, Mr. President, for your courage in recognizing the Palestinian state in spite of the opposition of certain countries. #palestine #gaza

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

Just another part of the Great Leap Backward:
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.

YouTube video by Bloomberg News Macron Tells US Scientists Sick of Trump to Come to EU

This is painful. And he’s right on.

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Against a Liberal Project 2025 — D. Michael Durham There’s no such thing as a leftist billionaire.

www.dmichaeldurham.com/writing/no-l...

Sea level rise will create "...a little more waterfront property." -- your president 😒

Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings The footage was reportedly filmed by a Palestinian paramedic killed by Israeli forces along with 14 others in March.

Enough. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The real problem with the Signal chat leak is it shows systemic dishonesty High-ranking officials can spill military secrets with apparent near-total immunity and no accountability

Brian Finucane, a former state dep attorney focused on military operations, including advising past military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, says "in my experience, this kind of pre-operational detail would have been classified". w/
@hugolowell.bsky.social

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Opinion | The Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Group Chat Debacle And why the careless secretary of defense should resign.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

Hands Off! Nashville Fights Back · Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** Nashville is fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—...

Nashvillians, this is (hopefully) what I've been waiting to hear: a nationwide protest that includes Nashville. mobilize.us/s/7WDMrL

Worth noting that when the war started Zelensky’s English was very shaky and he’s clearly spent a ton of time improving it for exactly this purpose.

As Trump’s attacks on Zelensky turn personal, there’s only one winner: Russia | CNN The existential dilemma now for Ukraine is whether it even has the luxury of choice between its wartime president and its main military backer.

I just can’t.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/e...

YouTube video by The Express Tribune Heusgen’s Emotional MSC Closing Address | Europe’s Response to Vance’s MSC Speech

Heartbreaking. To at least some of us. #munichsecurityconference
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Putin and Xi are over the moon. #appeasement

That’s so big of you, Nr. President, to let #ukraine be part of their own #peacetalks. 😐

Another Republican rubber stamp. Rarely seen such a slate of unqualified nominees.

DT at the #NationalPrayerBreakfast: To quote @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social: “Of all the unbelievable things about Donald Trump, religious people believing he is also a religious person might be the toughest one to understand." Right there with you, Jimmy.

Gaza should belong to the Palestinians. The 2-state solution is still the best solution. To say Trump’s idea of a Middle East Riviera is offensive is the understatement of the day. #gaza #gazawar

Welcome to the Golden Age.