Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
@kebrightbill.bsky.social
Sometimes writer, focusing on the religious right & homeschool movement history | UF Law & Covenant College alum | Manatee Dems
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Because of the price of eggs, I give you the classic Great Depression-era recipe for Crazy Cake, both in the original chocolate and vanilla versions. No eggs, no milk, all deliciousness.
Next president needs to avoid the mistakes of past presidents and prosecute everyone involved. Or join the ICC and send them all to the Hague.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Next president needs to avoid the mistakes of past presidents and prosecute everyone involved. Or join the ICC and send them all to the Hague.
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Had a friend who DJ’d in college tell me he had a set list of songs to play when he got tired and wanted to end the party be having people fight.
“Knuck if You Buck” is the literal LAST song you need to hear if you’re tryna de-escalate 😭
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Had a friend who DJ’d in college tell me he had a set list of songs to play when he got tired and wanted to end the party be having people fight.
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Reminder that literally the one time Trump and co. went out in D.C. it turned into one of the most serious security lapses I've ever seen. (Pres/Vice Pres/Several principals in an unsecured restaurant with protestors.)
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reminder that literally the one time Trump and co. went out in D.C. it turned into one of the most serious security lapses I've ever seen. (Pres/Vice Pres/Several principals in an unsecured restaurant with protestors.)
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It is underrated how much of the fact that the Trump administration is constantly online and posting at all hours is because they have 0 ability to have recreation in Washington D.C. The city rightfully treats them like occupiers.
Stephen Miller is, and has always been a "Massive Whiny Little Bitch". He will be the first to bail out of here come January 21st 2029 or sooner (If impeachment happens), exhibit A: He moved his family to a military base, dude is the biggest coward to ever exists.
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It is underrated how much of the fact that the Trump administration is constantly online and posting at all hours is because they have 0 ability to have recreation in Washington D.C. The city rightfully treats them like occupiers.
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I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
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Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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This is similar to the logic that the Nazis used to justify mass deportation and murder of Jews, Romani, and other people.
They’re not Nazis, though!
They’re not Nazis, though!
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is similar to the logic that the Nazis used to justify mass deportation and murder of Jews, Romani, and other people.
They’re not Nazis, though!
They’re not Nazis, though!
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Historical precedent of note...
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Historical precedent of note...
I had to strain the pumpkin pie filling yesterday because the homemade evaporated milk had clumps of milk I didn't notice until I'd mixed up the custard, and I'm never making pumpkin pie without putting the filling through a strainer first. It was by far the smoothest pumpkin custard I've ever made.
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I had to strain the pumpkin pie filling yesterday because the homemade evaporated milk had clumps of milk I didn't notice until I'd mixed up the custard, and I'm never making pumpkin pie without putting the filling through a strainer first. It was by far the smoothest pumpkin custard I've ever made.
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OK, who narced?
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
OK, who narced?
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I used this link recently to track down a distant theater showing Wake Up Dead Man. Worth the trek! It's a fucking great Benoit Blanc movie. Go see it on the big screen if you can. It's so good as an immersive experience.
For those in the US - this is the best way to find if there's a theater near you playing our movie when it opens 11/26. Sadly no AMC on this run, but Landmark, Alamo and other wonderful chains can keep it running as long as they want, even past the 12/12 Netflix drop. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Official Website | November 27 2025
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November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I used this link recently to track down a distant theater showing Wake Up Dead Man. Worth the trek! It's a fucking great Benoit Blanc movie. Go see it on the big screen if you can. It's so good as an immersive experience.
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We literally executed Germans after the war for doing what Bradley and everyone else involved did, and the Germans had a better justification (u-boat plausibly being targeted based on info provided by survivors vs.......whatever the hell pete was worried about here)
Given the justification was in part because they might communicate with someone, pete could ask Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and his XO what the law of armed conflict says about that, except oops, the allies shot them dead in 1945 after a trial
WaPo with reporting that Pete gave an explicit order to JSOC during the first strike post impact to immediately follow up in order to, and I quote, "kill them all"
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We literally executed Germans after the war for doing what Bradley and everyone else involved did, and the Germans had a better justification (u-boat plausibly being targeted based on info provided by survivors vs.......whatever the hell pete was worried about here)
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clarifying to point out that, *were we at war*, what the Secretary of Defense and every single culpable human person in the chain of command beneath him did would have been, straightforwardly, a war crime; having not been at war it is *murder*
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
clarifying to point out that, *were we at war*, what the Secretary of Defense and every single culpable human person in the chain of command beneath him did would have been, straightforwardly, a war crime; having not been at war it is *murder*
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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While it is likely that Stephen Miller wrote the post for Trump, as many of y’all have noted, that matters less than the fact is went out under the digital imprimatur of the President of the United States.
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
While it is likely that Stephen Miller wrote the post for Trump, as many of y’all have noted, that matters less than the fact is went out under the digital imprimatur of the President of the United States.
This is clever and all, but the actual reason people got sick and died all of the time was because penicillin hadn't been discovered yet. Or antidepressants.
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is clever and all, but the actual reason people got sick and died all of the time was because penicillin hadn't been discovered yet. Or antidepressants.
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Today I want to tell you about farmworkers.
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid, and Toiling in Toxic Fields - The American Prospect
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
prospect.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today I want to tell you about farmworkers.
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
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Again, one very easy way for our most prominent pundits & media outlets to avoid all the supposedly unfair criticism from those of us who simply don’t understand Journalism These Days would be to start covering the far right authoritarian party by the same standards <always> applied to the Democrats
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Again, one very easy way for our most prominent pundits & media outlets to avoid all the supposedly unfair criticism from those of us who simply don’t understand Journalism These Days would be to start covering the far right authoritarian party by the same standards <always> applied to the Democrats
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Where are the NYT masthead editorials about how the Republican Party is denying reality & is distracted from crucial issues & isn’t offering moderate, unifying solutions? 🤔🧐🤷♂️
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Where are the NYT masthead editorials about how the Republican Party is denying reality & is distracted from crucial issues & isn’t offering moderate, unifying solutions? 🤔🧐🤷♂️
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Where are all the Ezra Douthglesias columns, podcasts, Substacks, & TV interviews calling for the GOP to stop behaving like this & start adopting popular, moderate policies that don’t alienate regular Americans?
Oh, right, maybe if those guys hang out with 👇 crowd at conferences & the Nazi Bar… 🧐🤔
Oh, right, maybe if those guys hang out with 👇 crowd at conferences & the Nazi Bar… 🧐🤔
Just to recap. Abundance, apparently, is:
- Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen's money
- Chris Rufo's boss saying we should get rid of birthright citizenship
- Oren Cass & tariffs
- "Deportation abundance" 😬
- Garrett Jones & "Deep Roots" theory
- An incredible list of white men
- Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen's money
- Chris Rufo's boss saying we should get rid of birthright citizenship
- Oren Cass & tariffs
- "Deportation abundance" 😬
- Garrett Jones & "Deep Roots" theory
- An incredible list of white men
Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of 🇺🇸 Politics (& Punditry)
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Where are all the Ezra Douthglesias columns, podcasts, Substacks, & TV interviews calling for the GOP to stop behaving like this & start adopting popular, moderate policies that don’t alienate regular Americans?
Oh, right, maybe if those guys hang out with 👇 crowd at conferences & the Nazi Bar… 🧐🤔
Oh, right, maybe if those guys hang out with 👇 crowd at conferences & the Nazi Bar… 🧐🤔
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We have entire National Conversations™️ about how The Democrats are Alienating Real Folkz with Funny Words like “oligarchy,” & so they Must Do An Abundance of Popularism & Stop Talking like they’re in The Faculty Lounge. Trump does this <all the time>, no one in the media or GOP blinks, & 🤷♂️🤡.
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We have entire National Conversations™️ about how The Democrats are Alienating Real Folkz with Funny Words like “oligarchy,” & so they Must Do An Abundance of Popularism & Stop Talking like they’re in The Faculty Lounge. Trump does this <all the time>, no one in the media or GOP blinks, & 🤷♂️🤡.
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Update: "just go into a trade!" "Everything you could possibly learn in college is online now!" "So and so made millions by building a website as a teenager and you can too!"
Now happening on Threads:
"If you can't survive on your current income, just move to a cheaper area/conjure up a better paying job/live 5 to a room/stop buying coffee and all your problems will magically be solved"
"If you can't survive on your current income, just move to a cheaper area/conjure up a better paying job/live 5 to a room/stop buying coffee and all your problems will magically be solved"
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Update: "just go into a trade!" "Everything you could possibly learn in college is online now!" "So and so made millions by building a website as a teenager and you can too!"
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.