Alex Brandenburg
@alexbrandenburg.bsky.social
This Is Your Country Don't Let The Big Men Take It Away From You
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DJ Palantir at Army-Navy 🤖🎛️
December 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
DJ Palantir at Army-Navy 🤖🎛️
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A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
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the house next week is scheduled to vote on separate bills to ban medicaid coverage for trans health care and ban the disposition of care to trans minors outright
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
the house next week is scheduled to vote on separate bills to ban medicaid coverage for trans health care and ban the disposition of care to trans minors outright
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Look at this dipshit
Yes its a real photo from today. He looks like a fucking idiot. Nobody will dare make fun of him though in the MSM.
Yet…Mike Dukakis was humiliated in 1988 for wearing a helmet in a tank, despite the fact he served in the U.S. Army (in Korea), unlike Cadet Bone Spurs. Amazing.
Yet…Mike Dukakis was humiliated in 1988 for wearing a helmet in a tank, despite the fact he served in the U.S. Army (in Korea), unlike Cadet Bone Spurs. Amazing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Look at this dipshit
Call your reps
This is the vice chair of the Democrat caucus straight up saying that even if Dems win the midterms, they might not impeach Trump.
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Call your reps
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Seeing some discussion of the value of reading, which is an excuse to advance my belief:
Reading is worth doing because it is deeply pleasurable. We think this isn't a good enough reason because of our puritan streak, and because we think we do things for pleasure constantly but we really don't!
Reading is worth doing because it is deeply pleasurable. We think this isn't a good enough reason because of our puritan streak, and because we think we do things for pleasure constantly but we really don't!
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Seeing some discussion of the value of reading, which is an excuse to advance my belief:
Reading is worth doing because it is deeply pleasurable. We think this isn't a good enough reason because of our puritan streak, and because we think we do things for pleasure constantly but we really don't!
Reading is worth doing because it is deeply pleasurable. We think this isn't a good enough reason because of our puritan streak, and because we think we do things for pleasure constantly but we really don't!
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This is quite a thread:
This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather).
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
ICE operation shows the difficulty of immigration arrests amid pushback in frigid Minnesota
NBC News was granted exclusive access to accompany Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as they tried to arrest targets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
www.nbcnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This is quite a thread:
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove that you are a citizen.
And just like that you’ve disappeared.
And just like that you’ve disappeared.
December 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove that you are a citizen.
And just like that you’ve disappeared.
And just like that you’ve disappeared.
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For Trump and Miller, the Abrego Garcia case was a crucial gauge of how far they could get in disappearing undesirables and placing them beyond the law entirely.
Judge Xinis' ruling is important in that context. It calls out Trump's lawless conduct throughout. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Judge Xinis' ruling is important in that context. It calls out Trump's lawless conduct throughout. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For Trump and Miller, the Abrego Garcia case was a crucial gauge of how far they could get in disappearing undesirables and placing them beyond the law entirely.
Judge Xinis' ruling is important in that context. It calls out Trump's lawless conduct throughout. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Judge Xinis' ruling is important in that context. It calls out Trump's lawless conduct throughout. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
This article….
Goldman Sachs won the argument, so now trump is dead set to make sure diseases have their right to exist and kill as many as possible
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This article….
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The GOP stole a seat on the SCOTUS thanks to pancreatic cancer now they need to repay a favor
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The GOP stole a seat on the SCOTUS thanks to pancreatic cancer now they need to repay a favor
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If your rep voted to table impeachment or voted 'present' yesterday, why not send them the link to this excellent piece by Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social?
Seems like they all need to read it.
Seems like they all need to read it.
If you read just one thing today, make it this:
"By not impeaching, or even starting the process of getting there, Congress sends the message that Trump is America, and that it has acquiesced to the Constitution being replaced by Trump’s brand of corrupt evil."
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/o...
"By not impeaching, or even starting the process of getting there, Congress sends the message that Trump is America, and that it has acquiesced to the Constitution being replaced by Trump’s brand of corrupt evil."
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/o...
Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own
Until very recently the only member of Congress excused from not having moved to impeach Trump was Rep. Grijalva, because until someone swore her in there was nothing she could officially do. But f…
www.techdirt.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If your rep voted to table impeachment or voted 'present' yesterday, why not send them the link to this excellent piece by Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social?
Seems like they all need to read it.
Seems like they all need to read it.
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Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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I read an article about the making of that box cover and it's pretty funny. The woman's dress was much too large for her, and it's held on with a bunch of binder clips at the back. And the man's lap is full of cat pee from an aborted attempt to do a Blofeld homage.
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I read an article about the making of that box cover and it's pretty funny. The woman's dress was much too large for her, and it's held on with a bunch of binder clips at the back. And the man's lap is full of cat pee from an aborted attempt to do a Blofeld homage.
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
love this
Another handbag for justice. Another purse against fascism. The famous clobber-a-Nazi image from Sweden 40 years ago.
The image that won’t go away
A photo taken in 1985 has resurfaced this week. Kelly Grovier looks at the power of a figure pushed to breaking point.
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
love this
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Ranking Member @repmaxinewaters.bsky.social' statement following reports that the Trump Administration has temporarily withdrawn its dangerous plan to slash funding for the Continuum of Care Program (CoC), administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | tinyurl.com/4rc7kkw6
December 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Ranking Member @repmaxinewaters.bsky.social' statement following reports that the Trump Administration has temporarily withdrawn its dangerous plan to slash funding for the Continuum of Care Program (CoC), administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | tinyurl.com/4rc7kkw6
The most surprising part is that this dude reads books. I like how @motherjones.com handled it though.
Books about “Asian wife sharing” that included detailed descriptions of orgies and scenes involving “ladyboys.”
That’s what our reporter discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official. What came next was even wilder.
That’s what our reporter discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official. What came next was even wilder.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The most surprising part is that this dude reads books. I like how @motherjones.com handled it though.
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if you put ten conservatives in a room for one hour they all come out more conservative
and this continues until they start turning on each other
and then liberals have the fun job of fixing up their ducked up messes
and this continues until they start turning on each other
and then liberals have the fun job of fixing up their ducked up messes
December 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
if you put ten conservatives in a room for one hour they all come out more conservative
and this continues until they start turning on each other
and then liberals have the fun job of fixing up their ducked up messes
and this continues until they start turning on each other
and then liberals have the fun job of fixing up their ducked up messes
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the hammer and sickle on my white hood demonstrates class consciousness
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
the hammer and sickle on my white hood demonstrates class consciousness
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Shockingly, I couldn't find any other articles by this guy about improving worker protections...just this one. Huh.
December 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Shockingly, I couldn't find any other articles by this guy about improving worker protections...just this one. Huh.
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So tall and yet so small
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So tall and yet so small