Neighbor Dave
Ex mailman, cat-sitter, bourbon guy
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveMark your calendars! I have the immense honor of speaking with the legendary @philinvestigates.com next month on Wednesday, June 25. This is one you won't want to miss.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveThe Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveSaid it before, and will say it again. Canada Post is a public service and we don’t assess public services by whether they make a profit. Does the military make a profit? Do hospitals? Do public schools? Gig work is not the solution. Also bring back postal banking! #SolidarityWithCUPW 📪📮📦💌
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- Reposted by Neighbor DaveAnd when they've broken everything and made people's lives worse in dozens of different ways, the GOP response is going to be complaining that the government is broken and we need to try New Things instead. No, it was working. They broke it. Don't let them weasel out of responsibility.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveYour regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.
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- Reposted by Neighbor DaveRe birthright citizenship: The potential chaos is the point. If there is ambiguity regarding who is a citizen and who isn’t, there is then more pretext for rounding up people for being here “illegally” and then making it hard or impossible to prove their citizenship
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveThis is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveA visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveNazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveCal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.
- Reposted by Neighbor Davekey point from @pkrugman.bsky.social: it's literally impossible for foreign governments to negotiate with Trump because he and his people can't/won't even articulate a consistent set of demands paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveSo that all can read, I am gifting today’s NYT piece on the lawless presidency of the 45th President of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveNo to the proposed Trump farm bailout. American farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump, they should pay the same tariffs their candidate has imposed on all other Americans, no special handouts. From @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveNo, you really don't "have to ask yourself" this. The right to criticize the government, even for *lawful* policies (let alone what Trump is trying to do), is not just central to the First Amendment's protection of free speech; it is one of the most critically important features of *any* democracy.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveCheck out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
- Reposted by Neighbor Dave"The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers." - Cardinal Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, 2007.
- Reposted by Neighbor Dave🚨Here’s a list of just a few of the major pieces of misinformation Kennedy shared about autism🚨
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveThe modern US Republican Party may be the most openly, brazenly, and shamelessly hypocritical group of people to have ever existed in human history.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com “What the Trump administration is doing is acting as a quasi judiciary. They’re rounding up people and effectively being judge, jury and executioner,” Asha Rangappa tells Ezra Klein.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveInteresting. Two of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence condemned the Crown for denying legal protection, especially imprisonment without cause. “For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury.” “For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.”
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveOn this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveHarvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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- A day in Durham
- Reposted by Neighbor Dave‘Sound’ (loud sound), ‘sound’ (safe and sound), and ‘sound’ (water) are not related. ‘Sound’ (loud) comes from Latin ‘sonus.’ ‘Sound’ (safe and) comes from Old English ‘gesund,’ meaning "healthy." ‘Sound’ (water) comes from Old Norse ‘sund,’ meaning “strait."
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveThe President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveI. Said. What. I. Said. Read the rest here: open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveNo tariff relief for US farmers. They don't deserve it. My latest in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveSen. John Calhoun, who orated for every bad idea from nullification to secession and claimed slavery was not merely a necessary evil but a genuine good, died on today's date in 1850, a decade before the civil war he helped provoke. "It's okay to be this wrong," he assured followers. "I'm white." "
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- Reposted by Neighbor DaveUsing Signal to discuss air strikes in Yemen showed a reckless disregard for our national security and likely violates the law. My thoughts in The Contrarian.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveDetails about a flight of immigrants that landed many days ago? Too secret to reveal. Details about an imminent military strike? Not classified, not a breach of national security and not a big deal. Secrets under Trump depend on who asks and who tells. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveA principle that you’re unwilling to make sacrifices to defend isn’t a principle; it’s a convenience.
- Reposted by Neighbor DaveThis is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.
