Dave Scott

Past Sierra Club President, 15-year board member. Attorney. Dog rescuer. Writer. Student of memoir, literary fiction. davesc on bluesky

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” – Studs Terkel

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Clips like this remind me of just how good the Beatles were.❤️

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

The Oldest Debt, by @magixarc https://t.co/NYIfSbmHQ0
Long, but important. I have also argued that we need a moral and legal framework that recognizes the rights of other species and of generations to come, that what we are doing to the planet is a form of looting from all who share this planet and all will follow.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Of all things that keep me up at night, this is especially troubling. 2d term Trump has removed everyone
who would block crazy orders, or try to tell him no. Now imagine him growing increasingly unhinged with dementia, ordering even more insane things. With no one trying to stop him

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

@RockNRoLL_85 I did. It was fun.

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

@davidubben Note that he said that just before losing to OSU 38-15. And got smarter about public boasts.

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

@NormOrnstein Before Dewine, even Kasich was part of the "slashing taxes for the richest will bring Ohio jobs" bandwagon. It didn't. And state-mandated vouchers for private schools are decimating public education.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

If we are going to return to a decent society, respecting the views of adversaries, debating policy differences vigorously, but also restoring some sense of shame for outrageous and unacceptable actions and words, some boundaries for what is acceptable, we have to draw lines. 3

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

@CFBReport @OhioStateFB Sure put Dabo in his place

[. @GregTSargent]

Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

It’s about the grift. It’s always about the grift.

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

@NormOrnstein I'm sorry. A tragedy for you, your family and your son.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

So, in 2026, the United States can hold a foreign president responsible for breaking US law but not an American president. Interesting.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

This argument means that any time a president wants to invade a country "legally," he just has to get his DOJ to indict the country's leader. It makes Congress' power to declare war totally meaningless.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Several contradictory things are simultaneously true:
1. Maduro was an oppressive, unpopular and illegitimate ruler, disastrous for his country and the region.
2. Using the US to remove him may have been equally illegitimate.
3. Venezuela would be better off with a new government under the opposition's Edmundo Gonzalez (who probably won the presidential election but is now exiled).
4. It's not clear that Maduro will be replaced by Gonzalez. Maduro's VP is still apparently in power, as are other regime figures and the Cubans who back them.
5. As we've seen in Iraq and Libya, it can be easier to topple a leader than to establish a new government; sometimes you get a worse leader, or Somalia-style chaos.

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

@MichaelRStrain I'll check it out. Love his songwriting. I literally saw Springsteen as the warm-up act for Sha Na Na -- just before he found himself as an artist and performer.

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

@MichaelRStrain Sublime

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

I had somehow missed this festivity. The Biden "sexual harassment" accuser bestowed Russian citizenship. Clearly nothing to see here.

[Dave Scott @DaveScottSC]

@NormOrnstein Congrats!