one of the Daves you know

Dave’s not here. Maybe Lou. Bass. Dad to 2. Build, learn, grow.

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

As others have said, Republicans are scuttling any earnest attempt at a fact-finding commission about Jan 6 insurrection bc they want to keep the facts concealed. Investigate themselves? Complicity runs deep into the GOP. @sarahkendzior shows how deep in Hiding In Plain Sight.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Unbelievably dangerous — and suspicious — dereliction of duty.

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

$ git stash && “perfect timing”

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

I'm all for a reasonable bipartisan DHS funding deal to end the shutdown and the TSA chaos. But that deal MUST also reinforce legal protections and strengthen existing guardrails against executive overreach and abuse.

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

ICE at airports and ICE in cities normalize federal agents in civilian spaces. That is why “security” deployments near polling places no longer sound unthinkable.

https://t.co/7DOxu4yR0n

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

For decades the right was carrying "Don't Tread on Me" flags and arming themselves for defense against overreaching feds from "the Gumnint."

Now its like: "well, if you didn't perfectly follow the confusing demands from the masked agent, you deserved to be shot in the face."

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

$ git stash
IYKYK

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

No nation has benefited more than the US from the global order of security, free trade, and democracy it helped build. This nationalist, isolationist cant is based on grabbing power and exploiting MAGA grievance and vindictiveness. Add total economic ignorance to that.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Green: I think that on some questions of conscience, you have to be willing to suffer the consequences. And I have said I will. I will suffer whatever the consequences are because I don't believe in the richest country in the world people should be without good health care. I stood up for my constituents then. I'm standing up for them now. I would do it again.

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

@unclebobmartin @PiuTchakabum Context matters

(also smart play, algorithm)

https://t.co/TZn0y6VKVx

[Chris Kavanagh @C_Kavanagh]

Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

Ideologically honest, and a good judge of character.

“One client whom Mr. Olson refused to take on was President Trump, when he was asked to join the White House legal team. “I think everybody would agree this is turmoil, it’s chaos, it’s confusion””
https://t.co/gCkGkzINhd

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

F….

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

Really is a tough call.

On one hand - every Nobel prize winning economist is adamantly stating that Harris has a significantly better economic plan

But on the other hand - the dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with say Trump is a good businessman

Quite the dilemma

[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

It might be a bad idea to give nuclear weapons and the world's most powerful armed forces to a man who is publicly disintegrating into a puddle of disinhibition and incoherence.

[. @GregTSargent]

People keep saying Trump's rally was originally intended as his closing argument, but devolved into a hate rally instead.

But the rally we all saw IS his closing argument. He is running explicitly on much of what we witnessed on that stage.

New piece:
https://t.co/M6QBRVDuWv

[tré easton @treeaston]

my god. just…my god.

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

the one software engineer at your company who actually understands the legacy code

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

@housecor This is also a great approach when refactoring - Phase 1 is basically “pinning tests” i.e. rough tests that lock down the behavior of untested legacy code, just enough to let us refactor confidently. Then as you refactor a feature, write a more explicit test - i.e. Phase 2.

[one of the Daves you know @luispunchy]

Let him cook (himself)

[Sally Yates @SallyQYates]

President Biden’s unprecedented act of selfless patriotism demands that we, as Americans, honor his example and elect a president who calls on the best in each of us.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all, he spent 1932 campaigning, negotiating, doing interviews—being a mostly normal politician. But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it, and it was only after he was given power that Germany saw his movement’s full face.

Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”

We unreservedly choose the latter course. And so we have assembled herein some of our leading intellectual historians of fascism; a member of the fourth estate who learned firsthand what the Trump lash feels like; a leading expert on civil-military relations; a great Guatemalan American novelist with a deep understanding of immigrants’ lives; one of our most incisive cultural critics; and a man with all-too-real experience in living under a notorious authoritarian regime. The scenarios they describe are certainly grim. We dare you to say, after reading these pieces, that they are impossible.