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David Marshall

@dpmars.bsky.social

New book: IRON BOY. Book lover, former book publisher, bestselling author fostering family communication, software veteran, Inter’l Relations & German Lit majors, Harvard MBA, progressive Christian, devoted husband of 40+ years, proud papa of 2 kids

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I'm heading to the Senate floor in a few moments to lay out the detailed story of ICE abuse - teargassing schools, murdering American citizens with impunity, disappearing legal immigrants. And why we should not fund ICE until they stop terrorizing our communities.

25.02.2026 22:11 — 👍 7651    🔁 2058    💬 405    📌 72
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I don’t agree with the Trump administration on much but Dr. Means, his nominee for Surgeon General, is right when she says we should ban TV ads for junk food.

Obesity is a national crisis and the corporate food industry is largely responsible.

27.02.2026 00:07 — 👍 915    🔁 113    💬 596    📌 389

Americans are quite literally paying the price for Donald Trump's corruption.

Using tariffs to get a golf course deal in Vietnam while we pay more at checkout. Running crypto scams while lying about opponents committing fraud.

He is selling out the American people in real time.

27.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 1593    🔁 473    💬 103    📌 18
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Measles hit decades-high levels last year, and this dangerous, highly contagious virus is surging again Measles is back and highly contagious. Learn about the 2025–26 spikes, the danger for young children and how vaccines prevent severe illness.

This is what happens when the Secretary of HHS rejects science and adopts conspiracy theories.

And, unless we stop it, epidemics could become much worse.

www.uchealth.org/today/is-mea...

26.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 976    🔁 289    💬 31    📌 11
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Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

27.02.2026 00:02 — 👍 9382    🔁 3673    💬 305    📌 133

Yertle is desperate.

22.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Th erosion of civics education makes this lesson necessary. That’s why Trump says he loves “the poorly educated.”

21.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 758    🔁 231    💬 29    📌 6

Another reason for Talarico to replace Cornyn.

22.02.2026 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’ Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE...

“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees.

“I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

22.02.2026 02:24 — 👍 6760    🔁 2229    💬 198    📌 136
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Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger

Collective action works. We the people decide how law enforcement can operate.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

14.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 597    🔁 143    💬 32    📌 3

Where is the video that showed the truth that the Venezuelans were innocent and the ICE officers were lying? Consumer activists keep filming.

14.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So telling! Yahoo News Poll: Who better represents America? Bad Bunny or Donald. Trump? Answer: Bad Bunny. Dethroning mad king.

14.02.2026 02:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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David Marshall (@davidmarshall571181) Epstein, Trump share an unsavory trait “There’s a common trait in Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. Both solicit, then abuse and eventually humiliate their associates. One uses young girls, the other...

Well said! substack.com/@davidmarsha...

11.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
RESIST AND REIMAGINE: LESSONS FROM MINNESOTA

FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS
REP. ILHAN OMAR (MN-05)
REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL (WA-07)

Bishop Dwayne Royster, Faith in Action
Elianne Farhat, TakeAction MN
Minister JaNaé Imari (Bates), Faith in Minnesota
Bernie Burnham, MN AFL-CIO
Sara Steffens, We Build Progress

bit.ly/resistreimagineMN
Feb. 12 @ 7 PM ET

(logos for Faith in Minnesota, MN AFL-CIO, Faith in Action, Indivisible, TakeAction Minnesota, People’s Action, We Build Progress, and Women’s March)

RESIST AND REIMAGINE: LESSONS FROM MINNESOTA FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS REP. ILHAN OMAR (MN-05) REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL (WA-07) Bishop Dwayne Royster, Faith in Action Elianne Farhat, TakeAction MN Minister JaNaé Imari (Bates), Faith in Minnesota Bernie Burnham, MN AFL-CIO Sara Steffens, We Build Progress bit.ly/resistreimagineMN Feb. 12 @ 7 PM ET (logos for Faith in Minnesota, MN AFL-CIO, Faith in Action, Indivisible, TakeAction Minnesota, People’s Action, We Build Progress, and Women’s March)

Organizers in Minnesota have transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. On Thursday, those organizers and MN leaders will share what they’ve learned so we can all be better prepared to organize and protect our neighbors from ICE and CBP deployments: www.crowdcast.io/c/reimagine/...

11.02.2026 00:06 — 👍 1029    🔁 483    💬 28    📌 21

The numbers speak for themselves

11.02.2026 00:36 — 👍 2885    🔁 1168    💬 87    📌 33

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

08.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 38100    🔁 14367    💬 1385    📌 747
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My Third Act: Turning 70 Taking Life & Freedom to the Next Level

open.substack.com/pub/marshall...

05.02.2026 22:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Is Doubling Down on All the Wrong Things Republicans are worried about the midterm election, but the president doesn’t seem to be.

If there’s a method to this madness, I don’t understand it, except to go down in history as the most disruptive U.S. president ever.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

03.02.2026 22:47 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I joined many Minnesota doctors, nurses, and caregivers at Orchestra Hall for a vigil organized by WeCare to honor the life of Alex Pretti. He will be remembered for his deep compassion for veterans and their families as a VA ICU nurse.

02.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 727    🔁 174    💬 18    📌 8
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SEN BERNIE SANDERS: We need to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, Trump is right Senator Bernie Sanders calls Wall Street credit card practices "usury" as major banks profit from 24% average rates while borrowing at 4% from Fed.

When big banks charge 24% or 30% interest on credit cards, they are not engaged in the business of "making credit available." They are involved in extortion and loan sharking.

Yes, we need to cap credit card interest rates at 10% and stop Wall Street from ripping off Americans.

02.02.2026 21:36 — 👍 1507    🔁 291    💬 73    📌 23

Funny when Trump is losing the American people, he starts agreeing with you and Elizabeth Warren.

02.02.2026 22:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

02.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 12710    🔁 4454    💬 650    📌 452

Thank you, Thomas Jeffferson. Honoring our 250th year anniversary of our birth as a democracy in 2026, we are once again in revolution against a mad king, with success or failure determined on November 3rd.

02.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, Shaboozey, and Olivia Dean all took home #Grammys, and all took a moment during their speeches to speak out on behalf of immigrants or call out ICE as the Trump admin’s brutal and deadly immigration crackdown continues.

✊ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

02.02.2026 04:34 — 👍 1284    🔁 324    💬 14    📌 12
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ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..."

apnews.com/article/immi...

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IRON BOY: Searching for Freedom Inside a Family Religious Order IRON BOY: Searching for Freedom Inside a Family Religious Order - Kindle edition by Marshall, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading IRON BOY: Searching for Freedom Inside a Family Religious Order.

My recent book IRON BOY on sale for 60% off at $3.99 until Wednesday 2/4/26 in ebook format (also available in paperback at $19.95).

www.amazon.com/IRON-BOY-Sea...

31.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Solidarity MN! Thank you, Bruce 🙏

30.01.2026 20:24 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bruce Springsteen performs ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ for the first time in Minnesota at First Avenue 🎶

🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

30.01.2026 20:08 — 👍 1097    🔁 400    💬 27    📌 24
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Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.

29.01.2026 00:27 — 👍 15200    🔁 4115    💬 653    📌 249
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Minneapolis Live Updates: Judge Says ICE Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders

The chief judge in Minnesota condemn ICE for violating more than 100 court orders in January alone. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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