David Fedman
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- Tired: witness protection programs Wired:
- Reposted by David FedmanThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
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- TIL about the legend of the "surrender tree" at Appomattox
- Reposted by David FedmanJust casually spending an entire annual National Endowment for the Humanities budget every month to turn warehouses into concentration camps
- I've been looking forward to Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource ever since reading Sam in Places journal, and my lord does it deliver. A must read for anyone interested in city planning/politics or urban environmental history www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672379...
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- Reposted by David FedmanA retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
- Gonna go out on a limb here and say that this book is required reading www.umasspress.com/978162534832...
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- There's only one way for WaPo and the LA Times to settle their race to the bottom: dispatch a journalist each to square off in the MMA cage match being staged in front of the White House for America's 250th
- Reposted by David FedmanUpdate: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
- Reposted by David Fedmanyou're deporting and killing people who are on the inside and who have lived most of their lives here. Johnson doesn't realize it and wouldn't agree with it, but his love/hate line is an argument for amnesty.
- Reposted by David Fedmanthis is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
- Reposted by David FedmanFucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
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- Reposted by David FedmanThe Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
- Reposted by David Fedmanice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees
- By a vote of 54-40, the #Senate confirmed the nomination of David Clay Fowlkes to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas. Dems voting in favor: Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, Shaheen, and Whitehouse.
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- Reposted by David FedmanHaving a hard time distinguishing this from actual 1930s German propaganda now
- Reposted by David FedmanToday at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.
- Reposted by David FedmanQuote from Trump just minutes ago: "The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.... The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting." In modern history, there's never been a bigger threat to our Constitution and our way of life than and his enablers.
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- Reposted by David FedmanUnfinished. #LiamRamos
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- Reposted by David FedmanTrump says he’s closing the Kennedy Center for two years for renovations, as if everyone can’t see he’s trying to hide yet another abject failure resulting from him seizing control.
- Reposted by David FedmanNothing has changed and these masked, armed federal paramilitaries are just as aggressive and lawless as ever.
- Reposted by David FedmanThe thing about this Epstein shit is that you have no idea where the bottom is. I feel like I'm learning that space aliens are real. It's far bigger than I could have imagined. This is something that is going to affect how future generations of American view their country.
- Reposted by David FedmanThey’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
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- Reposted by David FedmanThey aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- Reposted by David FedmanLooking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
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- Reposted by David FedmanA federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying." "You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
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- Reposted by David Fedmanreminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today
- Reposted by David Fedmanevery epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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- Reposted by David FedmanI understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.
- Shelters takes on new meaning in early postwar. The man entering the shelter is wearing a shirt labeled “capitalist” and holding bags marked “tax evasion.” Shidehara at the top screams “This is an alert for property tax and profits tax” From Kato Etsurō, Okurareta kakumei (1946)
- Reposted by David FedmanThe book will be written about geographies of authoritarianism and how this regime zeroed in on cities w/ large Black populations, African immigrant populations, Black leadership and histories of Black protest. That book has already been written many times over about US history, but history repeats
- Reposted by David FedmanBIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- Reposted by David FedmanThese are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
- feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember www.jlundyforsd65.com
- Reposted by David FedmanThe violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
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- Reposted by David Fedman🧵This is what our tax dollars are going towards. Not education, health care, or public transport. Cages for people. DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ. The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland. A third in El Paso.
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