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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli

@banditelli.org

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Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment. Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29d

Our enemies are cowards and we're going to defeat them.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29d

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 25m

probably just trolling to feel something

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26m

oh ya! The guy who is in the race primarily using his role as Katie Porter's chief of staff

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Aug 27

"In a roundabout way, many of the fundraising consultants will genuinely get money out of politics, siphoning political contributions from small donors, but never spending it on campaigns."
Good God what a mess. This scam PAC cancer inside the party has been known about for a decade.

Maine Democratic Senate Candidate Sits at Nexus of Spam PAC Network

Jordan Wood and Jake Lipsett have spent their careers in the Mothership vortex

www.dropsitenews.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30m

I guess it's good they're faking actively

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 37m

Like Jesus the entire grift email sphere is in on the Maine senate primary. How will there be any money left to grift for all the incumbents who will be primaried for bowing to Trump?? 😭 😭

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 39m

This is so funny because he's also running against the husband of a founder (VP? I forget) of Mothership, who is actually somehow worse than the DSCC

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 42m

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in the newspaper with Julia Roberts.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

In 2018, the Democratic strategist Aaron Huertas coined the term “reactionary centrism” to describe a style of politics that prides itself on even-handedness while being disproportionately obsessed with left-wing overreach. Always deployed as an epithet, “reactionary centrism” is overused by progressives to inoculate themselves from criticism. But it describes a real ethos — a loathing of wokeness so intense it led some elite former Democrats to support Donald Trump. “After the Hunt” brings reactionary centrism to prestige cinema.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

When was the last time Chris Coons built a patio? Dudes not even trying anymore.

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Katelyn Oldham *Do not obey in advance.* @katelynstarrpdx.bsky.social · 1h

again, where are the criminal charges for endangering civilian lives by unprovoked attacks on civilians? where is the state prosecutor? federal gov't officials may be immune from (most) civil suits, but that does not make them immune from criminal prosecution if flagrantly violating state law.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

90% chance this guy gets hired into the White House during the shut down, which will certainly be A Message

‘I love Hitler,’ Staten Island Republican fires chief of staff over alleged ‘troubling’ comments

Other alleged texts obtained by Politico include racist, homophobic and misogynistic statements made on a chat among young Republicans.

www.silive.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

I can't get over how proud this mama mallard looks. I'm so glad I was able to capture the moment.

This duck pond (official by the City of Long Beach!) has been under construction for years and just returned this year.

Really wish I could send this video to everyone who worked on the project.

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Jun 21

I went down to the lake I've been obsessing over mallard ducklings at hoping to get swallow shots.

No luck, but the mallards gave the people what they wanted!

Less than 30 feet from me! Stills in next post. 🪶 🐣

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Jun 29

You go to war with the ducklings you have, not the ducklings you want. 🪶 🗺️ 🐣

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

Ya these were taken in November/December so it checks out

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

sorry, science has already been declared.

Adam Winer @awiner.bsky.social · 19h

Def. Sanderlings. Easy way to tell is Sanderlings are 73% cuter than Western Sandpipers. (Science!)

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

hilarious using your campaign slogan as something the local folk come up with on a whim

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

the group chat is gonna love this

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2h

Best argument I've seen yet

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 2h

The action is in the reaction. A shortcoming of the mass rally/march as a tactic is that it often fails to raise significant tension, allowing the enemy to just ignore it, which can be demoralizing. Luckily Stephen Miller, a zealous but incompetent authoritarian, has solved this problem for No Kings

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2h

DOES ATHENA???

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3h

Would you believe me if I said there's new farm-animals-on-the-loose news from the Nutmeg State? #nutmegsky www.ctinsider.com/shoreline/ar...

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3h

WHAT IS HAPPENING

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3h

yo i feel that gonz!!!

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3h

the day after punchbowl news came out against mike johnson! a real shift for us terminally online politically people

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3h

I don't know if Osse is going to primary Jeffries, but I do know that it's obvious someone told his team the way to my heart is amplifying my repackaged social media posts. And for that, I always have loyalty.

Send Cuomo to Florida @notandrewcuomo.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, he's going to take on Jeffries and win.

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 21h

This is the message ahead of #NoKings day, and if your local politicians aren't preaching it, well... they better start. Or maybe they'll end up like Cuomo.

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3h

Remember when Obama's ICE guy said we can't blame the agents. This morning.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3h

ICE agents chasing folks in a Walgreens on the East Side. www.facebook.com/share/r/17Gh...

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