David Allen Batchelor

A bunch of the spin you’re hearing right now from Dem senate offices including ones who voted No is that well Dems are still in a good position politically cuz between now and midterms they still get to trash republicans on their weakest big boy issue (healthcare) constantly

I can’t tell u how…

I've long been a fan of @repbonnie.bsky.social, but it didn't hurt that one election she was canvassing our neighborhood with a few young staffers and one asked me "wait, are you the Kevin Kruse who wrote White Flight?" Talk about constituent service.

The Reality of Life in the West Bank with Jasper Nathaniel Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 11/04/2025 · 54m

An absolutely bone chilling first-person account of a settler ambush in the West Bank from @infinitejaz.bsky.social on this week’s #WITHPod.

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Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words 10 quotes from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture.

"Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words"

10 quotes from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture – by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.

READ:
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Take this for what it is; an acknowledgment by the White House that they are not focusing on people with criminal records.

CNN poll: Registered voters

Extremely motivated to vote in 2026:

Dem-aligned voters: 67%
GOP-aligned voters: 46%

Holiday air travel is bound to be wonderful what with TSA and air traffic controller working without pay and threatened if they don’t show up. No paychecks means you essentially have slave labor in charge of your safety.

Until now they also have not taken food from people who need it. They are just beginning. Same with healthcare. Hunger is a completely different animal.

In 1789, the women of Paris walked the 30km or so to Versailles to demand bread from the king Louis XVI.
Hunger is a very destabilizing factor for governments. The GOP is asking for trouble.

As shown, AI is the garbage out in "GIGO"

The AI relationship revolution is already here Chatbots are rapidly changing how we connect to each other—and ourselves. We’re never going back.

You can check out the original piece here too: www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/13/1... 🧵3/3

The first part features an interview with Amir Mizroch, a father I spoke to who used Google NotebookLM to bring a long-dormant project to life (www.wbur.org/endlessthrea...), while I speak to host Amory Sivertson about what I discovered in the second part (www.wbur.org/endlessthrea...) 🧵 2/3

Earlier this year, I wrote an article for our print magazine about how AI is changing our relationships with others and ourselves. Now, the brilliant team at WBUR have released a two-part Endless Thread podcast based on my reporting! 🧵1/3

I'm so excited that my daily newsletter The Download won Best Technology Newsletter 2025 at this year's Publisher Newsletter Awards! it's truly an honour to be recognised among such a crowded field of amazing writers

Susan Wiles, Trump's Chief of Staff, must be driving the crime spree going on. @MSNBC should do an investigation, since Wiles is very under the radar.

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict.

They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning"

When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up.

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

First, they take away your right to free speech . . .

We're are now living in a dictatorship. Trump and his allies are the only ones who have freedom of speech! He wants everyone else silenced. 😡 Shame on CBS and ABC.

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BREAKING: ABC pauses 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after Charlie Kirk comments.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

I'll say again: not a democracy.

Robinson was raised by MAGAs and steeped in MAGA culture. He then entered the sinister alt-right digital ecosystem. He happens to be gay, but the presumption that that means he's a leftist is virulently homophobic.

Kimmel gets this, and was suspended for saying it.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

After the Colbert thing Trump said that Kimmel was next. This has been in the works for a while.

Very fascist-y.

Gutfeld dismisses the political assassination of Melissa Hortman. This is offensive, ugly, nuts, and completely wrong. But it exemplifies what's wrong with MAGA and its hate-filled bubble.

These people are very dangerous.

I seem to recall something that happened on January 6, 2021, that should weigh heavily in this supposed to debate

NEW: From my OUR LAND newsletter: Trump, Vance & MAGA claim a "radical left" is responsible for political violence in the US, but there's only one political party that's led by people who have called for or endorsed political violence—and it's theirs.

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They are going all-out.