Davia Downey

Did I write words today for this new book project? Yes!

Do I like any of those words? No!

Don’t let the door hit ya where the lord split ya, Larry.

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

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I’m getting a little sick of saying this, but I think it’s worth repeating, that this speech sounds no different than your average white nationalist website.

Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State Abstract. This article develops the concept of racialized burdens as a means of examining the role of race in administrative practice. Racialized burdens a

racialized administrative burden, Reconstruction edition (h/t @victorerikray.bsky.social, @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social ) academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

It flabbergasted me frankly, but then she opened her mouth to complain about the waitress serving her crab cake and fruit “wrong”, how the room was too cold, and how she was pissed that they didn’t have the right liquor for her cocktail. I was like, “ohhh, ok.”

She ate with a sneer. It tracks.

A few weeks ago I sat across from a Jewish woman at a party who was proudly wearing a Mar-a-Lago sweatshirt along with a Am Yisrael Chai necklace. Some people will never see the light.

Cueing Kylo Ren energy.

Giving the entire cast and crew of Sinners their flowers instead of focusing on the outbursts from the audience is exactly what we need to do today.

I’m not sure if the WSJ denigrating my generation for buying lattes (a sweet treat and energy boost) and this generation for buying chicken with their extra cash (a protein that can sustain life) is better or worse.

Yes! When I lived in Canada I was always fascinated by the curlers who practiced at the rink I used to ice skate at. One time they let me throw the rock and it was so heavy!

Curling is my favorite winter Olympic sport! It makes people think there’s no technique while watching, but until you actually have to try and stay upright while furiously shaking broom to stop a forty four pound granite rock from hitting your own stones, you don’t understand how hard it is.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Guess what people? You absolutely DO NOT have to repost Trump’s “Truths” here, particularly when he actively disparages a living president of color during Black History Month. We already know Trump is a racist fuckstick who should have never been elected.

oh btw if you need the CIA World Factbook because they took it down with no warning because we can't have nice things, here's where you can get the PDF for the 2024-2025 edition: annas-archive.li/md5/92d7b783...

This is a must read.

The responsible party model is dead. I remember reading these theories in graduate school and thinking—statesmanship has taken a decided turn for the worse. They think they’re “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”- type people, but they are not. They want the prestige and access—not to actually govern.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

I’ll play. Loved my little Midwestern SLAC.

1. Religion and the Arts
2. Intro to Eastern Religion
3. America in Crisis
4. Developmental Psychology
5. Small Group and Organizational Communication

this handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget

And almost immediately frowned! Great job IU!

To quote Biggie, “If you don’t know, now you know.”

So today was not a day for checking the news apperently.

a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette . ALT: a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .

Yes, I’m calling for Congress. Has anyone seen Congress??

a man in a purple suit is dancing on a stage and says so what 'd i miss . ALT: a man in a purple suit is dancing on a stage and says so what 'd i miss .

I, uh, heard there was some news???

Just got off the phone with @SecRubio He informed me that Nicolás Maduro has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States, and that the kinetic action we saw tonight was deployed to protect and defend those executing the arrest warrant This action likely falls within the president’s inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack Thank you, @SecRubio, for keeping me apprised

As we all said, international law, such as it was, no longer exists. The United States, following Israel’s precedent, considers itself to have the explicit authority to blatantly violate sovereignty anywhere in the world and abduct even leaders of other states.

There are no guardrails whatsoever.

And guess what? There’s no money for repairs since they’ve basically gutted FEMA’s BRIC Grant program. There is not enough money in the HMPG pot to retrofit every flood mitigation project on the west coast.

I also enjoyed this, and it made my teenager sit and watch it with me, so that’s saying something.

Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved. More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.

More than 800 storm victims around Helene-battered western North Carolina have applied for FEMA’s voluntary program that would enable the government to buy out their properties.

So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.