Resident of Jonesboro, Arkansas. Progressive Democrat that grew up on dirt roads in the Arkansas Delta. Chairman of the Democratic Party of Craighead County, Arkansas. Opinions are my own. Currently using BlueSky as my place to vent about the world.https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lwcj7lqyns2nAfter the Reichstag Fire in 1933, Hitler demanded and got the enabling act that ultimately ended democracy in Germany and made him a dictator. That is exactly what Trump is going for here with his call for Congress to give him more power. We need to he heeding those really loud alarms.13 Aug 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwcj7lqyns2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lw37silryk2qAuthoritarians like yes men. That’s true for Putin, Xi, Trump, and all the rest. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-war-dmitri-kozak.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMF7QpleHRuA2FlbQExAAEezmA-PmFsLWB8qk74O0o5RJuHSeneyl90CnTzSle8_v6TyQN8ZWxLzZHQI5M_aem_47-t7tN-Svl2dnOs5y2ADA10 Aug 2025 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw37silryk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lw2yalfjmk2zThis is bad. TLDR: climate change killing off the tiny things the whales feed on risks disrupting the entire planetary ecosystem and that will affect us too. God can we please get people-both in power and in general-to stop being so ignorant about this. https://www.ladbible.com/news/science/blue-whales-silent-warning-climate-change-688798-20250807?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMFzOpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkAssXowHrhf1i23cMwMFSpxI2k9KDyPHTgfXqAEQxpsxPBU0R6Zxq9cw85K_aem_G5r1dhoDwf6X3aO7NfdAXw10 Aug 2025 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw2yalfjmk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lvzpqdouw22zThe Pope is right. We either abolish nuclear weapons or one day they will abolish humanity. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pope-leo-criticises-nuclear-deterrence-095938284.html?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6893c2910863a90001e943ab&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4K6OX8EdNsiumN8X_u7E_B48VjeWpVJ1Xtp_qfo44RiTRygdFFDgBExnamuQ_aem_Mf1VNXVQ-BrVHEASsxUqrg10 Aug 2025 07:04 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvzpqdouw22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lvwogk6dtc23Wonder how much the next occupant in the White House will be able to get us back by melting down all that tacky gold crap and selling off the Saudi plane. Enough to pay to restore the rose garden at least?09 Aug 2025 02:03 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvwogk6dtc23https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lvwch56llk2wSo first off, I don’t see this as “clarification”, it looks more like a waffle and a non answer. In fairness, maybe he doesn’t mean it that way. But that’s how it comes across to me. https://www.out.com/news/pete-buttigieg-transgender-athletes-clarification?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6892b022aa58e70001c5c410&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMDVTVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjqT3dp46T0Jn4dvkDjg1Ch7VcyZ0kYEUl0-wp3o4jLMwIZM0b9_Ery1kkcR_aem_oFx7PWKvlqJnHZvuo6ylig08 Aug 2025 22:29 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvwch56llk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lvticlnnbs2iAnother big reason to both limit our dependence on AI and push for Global Zero (the abolishment of nuclear weapons). https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-experts-say-mixing-ai-and-nuclear-weapons-is-inevitable/07 Aug 2025 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvticlnnbs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lvhgtmi7ls2uSeconded. Let’s tear that tacky ballroom down like they did the Berlin Wall. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Aug 2025 00:37 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvhgtmi7ls2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lvh5p6crxs2pRyan Walters-the Republican Ed Superintendent in OK-went on a religious crusade against public schools & books, got caught with porn on a state computer, alleged it was a plot by his fellow GOP Gov, & now there’s evidence that he shared porn with legislators. https://www.fox23.com/news/local/fox23-obtains-email-confirming-state-superintendent-shared-pornographic-images-with-legislators/article_26c40a06-cf37-11ed-a997-9b4909e6b2f0.html?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL7ZIFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhNblkBi990PwdFgSIrIP-ydrlRtq4avcxeDYnTNpS0CE3kgAY7S9Lb0Ldbb_aem_KJHYBO_Vu4GsFW4y_NIg7g02 Aug 2025 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvh5p6crxs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lveyqqa62222You’d think this would just be good sense. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Aug 2025 01:20 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lveyqqa62222https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lveyox7alc22Sat down with a farmer I’m friends with today and he told me the story of someone he knew that was a big Trump fan taking the Trump sticker off their truck over the Epstein stuff. Shared for anyone who needs a little speck of hope in these bad times.02 Aug 2025 01:19 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lveyox7alc22https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lve2iqnd4c22Memo to any Dem running for President in 2028: Healing the nation isn’t going to take a President extending an olive branch and trying to put the abuses of this administration behind us. That’s a recipe for making the future worse. Healing the nation is going to take justice and accountability.01 Aug 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lve2iqnd4c22https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lvcj6t26rk2bI want Dems like Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, and Ruben Gallego to stop picking on trans women to try and get ahead. That the swimmer that made a career bellyaching about trans athletes tied for fifth with one and the four women ahead of them were cis should speak volumes.01 Aug 2025 01:36 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvcj6t26rk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lvbqerykmc2kIs there anything he won’t destroy? https://talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/president-trump-actually-paved-over-the-rose-garden31 Jul 2025 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbqerykmc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3ls26i5k66s2tThe Democratic Party doesn’t need to abandon anyone to win again nor should we. Growing our tent does not mean shrinking it in certain quarters, it means communicating better and delivering real results across the board.20 Jun 2025 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls26i5k66s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lrmdmtcgr22yBest moment from today’s protest: Trump supporter stops his truck to curse at some college age protestors. The kids immediately stand up and start saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Dude got quiet and sat in his truck clearly not knowing what to do then drove off.15 Jun 2025 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrmdmtcgr22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lrm2xqzw4k26No Kings; Jonesboro, Arkansas.14 Jun 2025 23:07 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrm2xqzw4k26https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lr7gnc5sy22kThis is just one example of the kind of big, ambitious things I dream of seeing Americans do again. https://youtu.be/jPbCjH45uwI?feature=shared09 Jun 2025 22:32 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr7gnc5sy22khttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lr5hba46ic2eThe times we’re living in seems like a good time to reflect on the precedent set at Nuremberg-just following orders is not a defense.09 Jun 2025 03:37 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr5hba46ic2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3llsape5ooc2tSomehow if feels like someone finally cut through the miasma we’ve been living under. Like @booker.senate.gov may have snapped us out of the daze we’ve been in since November & brought us back to reality. Maybe that’s overly optimistic, but I choose to hope this is a beginning & act accordingly.02 Apr 2025 01:35 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3llsape5ooc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lj3tiwey3k2uThe anti-vax movement did this. https://www.kait8.com/2025/02/26/first-measles-death-is-reported-west-texas-outbreak-thats-infected-more-than-120-people/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3g0YMx5W91QyCGhr8liuv8N97Doo81q4yuGOgJpQaQfJ4wOHm8r37h5XM_aem_vxiMA5v6QkyX_9AEkh2EnA26 Feb 2025 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3tiwey3k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lifqfgfsjs2mWe will absolutely get through this moment in our history and make better days come after. It will be hard and painful; it will get worse before it gets better; but this country will get through it and come out stronger and better so long as we persist.17 Feb 2025 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lifqfgfsjs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3li5iq5e3ss2dThis pains me to see. We fought so hard to protect this wonderful right our state constitution guarantees us in 2020. Now Republicans in this state are stripping that right away to protect their power. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Feb 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3li5iq5e3ss2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lhu2bpcjxs2nThis is also part of why conservation-even for the creatures we find unpleasant-is important. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Feb 2025 21:04 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhu2bpcjxs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lgtxqnul222dTonight it was my great honor to be elected chairman of the Democratic Party of Craighead County. We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us, and we are facing dire, unprecedented times in America, but make no mistake-we will get through this and we will turn things around for the better.29 Jan 2025 02:54 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgtxqnul222dhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lgt5v5cals2fDonald Trump’s policies are already hurting our community here in Jonesboro. https://www.kait8.com/2025/01/28/a-state-addresses-presidential-pause-federal-grants-loans/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3eur7N9XqDm4Pt-KNYfntbYS76_37JruvJGSx01qj_NUEDLZZm3sRt7p8_aem_WxwXHRJ97J59eaLPxkHrOg28 Jan 2025 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgt5v5cals2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lgrhw66muc2wThe Buffalo River is one of our greatest treasures in Arkansas. Republicans in the legislature want to prevent the state from protecting it & let big hog farms flood it with pig crap. You can use this link to email the state senators on the committee: https://buffaloriveralliance.org/SB84?fbclid=IwY2xjawIEngZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbaEIPc--CkWDUg-oo5OnjkC9WlvQIS3VfQ_QVlnfKbP2icq5tAjzGJz-Q_aem_7FnOaEpPmTUZ_sFwNHcg_Q&emci=4dad93a8-dedc-ef11-88f8-0022482a9579&emdi=ee4178dc-eedc-ef11-88f8-0022482a9579&ceid=1663015928 Jan 2025 03:05 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgrhw66muc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lgiobmts5s25I hope that this law is upheld. Victims of child abuse who can’t stand up to their abusers as children, who may take years of working through the pain inflicted on them before they can face what was done, deserve this chance to hold those that hurt them accountable. https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/01/23/state-law-allowing-child-sexual-abuse-victims-to-retroactively-sue-gets-its-day-in-court24 Jan 2025 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgiobmts5s25https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lgcquvnyrk2uWhat he said. Keep fighting. Keep working. Rest as need be then get back in there. Win whatever we can because it matters. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jan 2025 06:36 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgcquvnyrk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidmcavoy.bsky.social/post/3lgbv52udnc27Police officers have every reason to be angry. Trump pardoning people that assaulted cops is a spit in the face. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/politics/jan-6-pardons-police.html21 Jan 2025 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:5drmod5yath63ixtfcujt77b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbv52udnc27