@davenash.bsky.social
I deal in the written word and spoken word by trade. Always looking for greater understanding and better ways of doing things. “Make expertise great again.”
interesting idea -- states set up escrow systems for collecting taxes instead of giving it to the White House Clown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... With the courts shut down, Trump wouldn't be able to do anything
20.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 92 🔁 33 💬 6 📌 7Do people realize that Trump and Miller are creating so many valid civil causes of action that taxpayers will be paying billions of dollars—if not tens of billions—to their innocent victims and their families over the next 25 years?
America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.
In highly unequal economies, people compare themselves to those at the top, notice the gap and then report how they think things are “bad” economically. Disney park visits are a perfect illustration of the “Decline of America’s Middle Class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Arizona does not vet new voucher schools. Not even if the school or the online school “provider” has already failed, or was founded yesterday, or is operating out of a strip mall, or offers just a half hour of instruction per morning.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Another idea would be to allow ratepayers to earn equity in their local power company, especially if the public takes over financing those grid upgrades. In addition to addressing affordability, it could provide another retirement asset.
10.08.2025 23:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If trump did nothing “concerning” while spending time with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein - as Ghislaine Maxwell says - then there shouldn’t be a problem releasing the Epstein files in their entirety (with survivors’ names and PII redacted.)
07.08.2025 03:59 — 👍 4903 🔁 1263 💬 194 📌 52
Happy Live Aid anniversary day. Sad to hear its founder say it couldn’t happen today.
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
From today’s Daily Stoic ⬇️
04.07.2025 22:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“We have one of the top six stadiums in baseball … so let’s scrap it and move to someplace in town we can’t yet name after a few years and get taxpayers to pitch in.”
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
We're in uncharted territory with this SCOTUS. They're making decisions--without regard to precedent, without regard to norms, without regard to justice, without regard to the impact on the rule of law in the U.S., without regard to consequences, and very often with a complete lack of transparency.
23.06.2025 21:28 — 👍 1490 🔁 549 💬 87 📌 50
But will this have “sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads”?
@stephaniemiller.bsky.social @radioguychris.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
In the era that some politicians and their flock want to take us “back” “again,” housing was just over twice an average annual income. Now it’s more than 10 times that. Fixing this should be a top priority to reduce homelessness. From @hartmannreport.com
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
Republicans have insisted for years that any increase in America’s so-called debt limit be paired with spending reductions. Now the party is poised to discard that philosophy and press ahead with legislation that combines nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts with a $5 trillion increase to the debt limit.
19.06.2025 17:40 — 👍 198 🔁 75 💬 69 📌 23There is just so much evil coming at us in rapid fire that things that would be months-long scandals in previous years get insufficient attention now. This appears to be one of those.
17.06.2025 05:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The parade today by contrast moves west to east, outside to in. It starts at the Pentagon not Arlington National Cemetary. It follows the symbolic route of troops entering to quell or occupy the city, not leaving with love and thanks. 8/
14.06.2025 12:53 — 👍 2644 🔁 669 💬 18 📌 45
“A regime that has to deploy force at the first sign of dissent is a regime that does not actually believe it can wield power short of coercion and open threats of violence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
It’s effectively way more than 15 million, because removing ACA subsidies will make the insurance premiums too expensive for many if not most people.
06.06.2025 04:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hearing @johnfugelsang.bsky.social describe JD Vance as someone who “cosplays as Appalachian Batman” was easily the funniest thing I’ve heard this week.
And given today’s middle school Twitter fight, that’s saying something.
8. That’s impacting some 24 million Americans, most of them, Charles reminds me, residing in red districts.
The following is a long interview, but vital to anyone with a stake.
www.editorialboard.com/if-youre-on-...
My theory is that some of the most dangerous people in America are smart, introverted techies who never understood why anyone majored in the liberal arts in college, graduated college and began reading and misunderstanding texts liberal arts majors were taught to read properly, and became fascists.
02.06.2025 20:55 — 👍 900 🔁 202 💬 68 📌 117/
This is why I keep talking about Atlas.
Because what we’re seeing isn’t chaos.
It’s strategy.
They’re building an interconnected web of authoritarians who will do what corporations can’t do at the ballot box:
Exploit nations from the inside. bsky.app/profile/digi...
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I started researching how right-wing billionaires fund chaos, think tanks, propaganda, disinfo ops. Then I asked: Who’s funding truth, justice & democracy on our side? Turns out, we have a network too but just not for lying. Let’s meet them. 🧵
#DemsUnited #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
Four figures showing dramatic increases in the Use of vitamin D supplements from 1999-2012.
I wonder how RFK Jr. would feel if people starting saying that vitamin D supplements are the cause of autism*.
As you can see, the prevalence of vitamin D supplement use has skyrocketed.
*There is zero evidence that vitamin D supplements cause autism, which is the same evidence as for vaccines.
House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
Perhaps the current CBS network heads need to be reminded of their network’s own history in standing up to political bullying. It’s too bad something like “Good Night and Good Luck” isn’t playing down the street from them … oh wait.
19.05.2025 15:12 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16.
Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity.
202-224-3121.
Unbelievable. All they had to do was handle it the way Biden did and “take credit” for it and their base never would have known the difference.
15.05.2025 05:34 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The American people should make their disgust known: There is no room for this kind of flagrant disregard of the Constitution.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
You could say, “this is just three people.” But they are among foremost experts on failing democracies. This is about as stern a warning as any of us could expect. (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
