David Davis

Me surfing a wave in the Rockaways.

Sitting on a surfboard in the ocean with an instructor.

I have been taking surfing lessons. Still in the beginner kook trenches, but celebrating my last time on a foam board 😎

Graduating to a hard top next session.

It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽‍♀️

This is what made me a dog person ❤️

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YouTube video by Donnell Alexander OC candidate Chris Kluwe is a real man

Would you like to see me do a backflip through a flaming hula hoop?

Well, too bad, here’s a thoughtful political podcast interview instead.

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Just got my receipt from @defector.com. Best $119 I spend.

The Sunday Long Read: Katherine Laidlaw, Bird Heist, Dr DeepSeek The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.

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The pigeon heist: How racing birds became the target of organized crime Pigeon races in Chinese cities became opulent symbols of China’s economic boom, with purses over $100 million — exceeding most of the world’s major sports.

"Platters stacked with cash, thieves making off with priceless pigeons in the night, wronged fanciers and devoted detectives. This crime caper has everything I could ask for in a story." -Guest editor Katherine Laidlaw's pick by Kevin Sieff @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

After 50 Years Of Shooting Hockey, Bruce Bennett Finds An Even Tougher Challenge: Birds | Defector If you’re curious about what hockey photographers do during the offseason, there’s no one better to ask than Bruce Bennett. He is the world’s most prolific hockey photographer and the head of Getty…

After 50 years of shooting hockey, Bruce Bennett finds an even tougher challenge: birds

The Sunday Long Read: Football Tragedy, Crabs, Mercy Man The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.

Football tragedy, crabs, mercy man & more in this week's SLR. mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

The Unforgotten: Two QBs and the game that tied them together forever Two boys played football 50 years apart. The game tied them together forever.

Two quarterbacks played a half century apart. With his trademark lyrical prose, @tomjunod.bsky.social unspools the tragic stories of Jay Kutner and Caden Tellier, bound together by the game, forever. @dvnjr.bsky.social's favorite this week www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Odyssey of the crab: Inside the 1,000-mile network feeding Maryland’s frenzy Within a generation, the Maryland crab business shifted from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the interstate.

The best food journalism doubles as economics reporting, or cultural snapshot, or revealing profile. Tim Prudente serves up all of that and more in @jacobfeldman.bsky.social's pick this week www.thebanner.com/economy/mary...

An Interview With My Grandmother, Who Knows Everyone In Bluegrass Music | Defector Winfield is a sun-bleached spot of a city in the middle of southeastern Kansas’s farmlands. It’s unremarkable except that it is the home of the Walnut Valley Festival, a long-running bluegrass…

An interview with my grandmother, who knows everyone in bluegrass music: defector.com/an-interview...

officialjackwhite "Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear" that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults. How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being.

officialjackwhite He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and "ample time on at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot. No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves. And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

this is my favorite defector piece ever. @ddavisla.bsky.social goes deep on a person whose hockey photography career i have followed for almost 50 years. fascinating, wonderful profile of a very talented man

After 50 Years Of Shooting Hockey, Bruce Bennett Finds An Even Tougher Challenge: Birds | Defector If you’re curious about what hockey photographers do during the offseason, there’s no one better to ask than Bruce Bennett. He is the world’s most prolific hockey photographer and the head of Getty Im...

Four of my favorite nouns in one blog: Hockey, Bruce Bennett, birds, and of course @ddavisla.bsky.social. defector.com/after-50-yea...

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The Sunday Long Read: Worm Hunters, Missing Journalist, Doodlemania The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.

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Ha!! I’ve been staring at that matchbox….

On the Hunt for Nightcrawlers in the Worm-Picking Capital of the World | The Local Nearly all bait worms sold in North America are hand-plucked from farmland in this part of Canada. But with labour shortages and climate change, some worry we’re witnessing the final wiggles of a once...

In @jacobfeldman.bsky.social's top pick this week, @royinori.bsky.social gets her hands dirty (literally) to explore the world of worm hunting. thelocal.to/ontario-nigh...

Just Released! This 60th anniversary set showcases lost recordings, archival photos & memory- unlocking ephemera with liner notes from the set’s producer, Alec Palao and me on the history of the old 5-4 and the revue’s whirlwind showcase here in LA just days before Watts lit up.

Ahh...Youth! by Mike Kelley, 1991 📸 by @JonSooHooPics

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Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

The topics covered in this story couldn’t be more, well, heady. But @rachelaviv.bsky.social wisely grounds all of the mind-frying discussion in a miraculous, painful journey of one mother and her two kids' hunt for answers. Top pick this week. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

@donnellone.bsky.social — Dock sighting. RIP Chuck M.

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Willie Stargell!!

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Apollo!!!

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@chanceofrain.bsky.social — fyi….

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