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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 4h

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

brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 17h

"how do you get fragged in an office?"

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 18h

"it also stripped the paint off my car"

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 19h

“abolish prisons, bring back re education centers”

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 19h

“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 · 19h

about goddamn time

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 19h

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

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 19h

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

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 21h

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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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 21h

tbf, many of them were raised evangelical

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 21h

have you considered that responding to "here's young republicans saying they are all nazis who want to bring back slavery" with "fuck i hate nancy pelosi" might be a tad incoherent

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 21h

love it when i casually mention what occupy turned into almost instantly and there's always some random guy who replies with an aggro entitled "prove that"

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 21h

i really fucking hate how cops have made "bad apples" into an excuse when the saying is "a few bad apples ruin the bunch"

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 22h

"he's dead and i'm not, you know"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 22h

"the reason we have nazis is because dem women remind me of my mom"

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 23h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 22h

look, the proper way to fight nazis is clearly to blame them on women, stop defending them

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 22h

"republicans are nazis so punch a dem woman" seems like it might almost not make sense

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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 22h

i'm starting to suspect people who say that like having the goalposts moved into sewers when being judged themselves

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 22h

Before you get mad just know that this account is fake.

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