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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1m

one little thing in there i just can’t get past is a positive ref to people tossing cs cannisters back and i’m old enough the first time i was warned not to do that was during the buildup to invading iraq

brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 6m

there’s a truly bitter irony to people trying to police how other people protest

brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 6m

so, ummm, tj in their rant about how inflatables aren’t praxis approvingly mentioned shadowy figures throwing cs cans back and……..
i am not a protest veteran or anything i do remember it being widely shared at my grad school during the buildup to invading iraq not to pick up chemical munitions

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 2h

i think dante said that was the 4th level

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 4h

it’s really sad that mr potatohead went fasc

Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 4h

"young boys" - JD Vance

brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 4h

that tail ain't gonna wag itself

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump says he's now "looking at land" strikes on Venezuela

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 4h

"i buried all those dead animals very carefully"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 4h

the idea that they need mass protest email lists to know who to target and the basic political views of more or less *everyone* is especially silly when coming from people who love dancing on the line of fedposting

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

They don’t want to take risks, complains the person who thinks signing up for an email list is too high risk

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 5h

never get high on your own supply

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 6h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 10h

and for absolute failure in her professional ethical obligations yet failing upwards

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 23h

plz note, feds, not any kind of threat to anyone anywhere and you should ask yourself why she divorced you instead of just being angry

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 23h

"how do you get fragged in an office?"

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

"it also stripped the paint off my car"

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

“abolish prisons, bring back re education centers”

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

“why would anything that has ever happened or is currently happening make me think authoritarian if not totalitarian governance would be bad if my faction got it”

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

about goddamn time

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

they fired everyone who speaks spanish so it’s not shocking they got it wrong

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

they got it backwards, the cartels want to give $50k bonuses to ice for making smuggling so much easier

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

why do these people even use words when they don't care what they mean

"that naked man is threatening me"

"how"

"by making me ask myself where i fall on the kinsey scale"

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

the other thing about this is no one who has interacted with young republicans in the last 30-40 years should, or can, pretend this is *new*
this is only very, very slightly worse than what i heard in my boarding school in the 90s and that's mostly just a reduced capacity for shame

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

the problem is it's mostly for the cameras so far
but she does seem to know how to lull trump into leaving nyc comparatively alone, court houses unfortunately aside

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

the weirdly.... positive thing about hochul is when she lets herself act human she's not entirely bad at it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

look, next you'll tell me someone can be funny without using racial slurs or insulting people on the rainbow and i'm just not falling for it. that's witchcraft you're talking about

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 1d

i really do hope he goes mid speech like that old fasc in pre-war ukraine did

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 1d

Trump spent most of the ceremony rambling about himself, and at one point said Kirk "looked a little bit older for his age, but that's OK."

Trump Awards Charlie Kirk A Posthumous Presidential Medal Of Freedom

Trump spent most of the ceremony rambling about himself, and at one point said Kirk "looked a little bit older for his age, but that's OK."

www.huffpost.com

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