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Brett Lorenzen

@brettlorenzen.bsky.social

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JD, LLM. Jack-of-all-trades. My posts are my own. "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” – Edward Abbey

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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 7h

The O.J. Strategy

Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 21h

“We don’t pay our taxes so we need the Feds to provide the services we don’t pay for”

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 2d

This picture is from 1979, just before he was assimilated by the Borg.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 6d

September climate warming stripes. It's as if something has changed. 🤔

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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe she can perform at the UFC fight at the White House.

Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 8d

I would totally have done that. If I wasn’t already doing it with three jobs to pay the tuition bill.

Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 8d

Been there, seen that.

Downing Street memo - Wikipedia

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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 8d

“Could” raise?

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8d

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8d

Almost every one of these civilians will sue. And almost every one will win—as no thought was put behind the abuse of them by this government. The litigation will stretch from coast to coast and extend decades. Folks do not realize the mountain of lawsuits coming. It could paralyze our legal system.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8d

Do people realize that Trump and Miller are creating so many valid civil causes of action that taxpayers will be paying billions of dollars—if not tens of billions—to their innocent victims and their families over the next 25 years?

America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.

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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 8d

No one is taking more jobs, housing and resources from the black community than this administration

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.