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Brandon @roostmke.com · Mar 17

Hello Bluesky Millions:
I'm a Milwaukee-based photographer living in East Tosa!

I 📸 weddings, couples, portraits, & architecture.

I post about biking, running, books (fantasy mostly), music, vinyl records, religion, politics critical theory, vegetarian cooking, & life.

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I'm a #Milwaukee #photographer living in East Tosa! #blueskyintro

I 📸 #weddings, couples, portraits, & architecture.

I post about #biking, #running, #books #fantasybooks #music, #vinyl records, #religion, #politics #criticaltheory, #vegetarian cooking, & life.

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Brandon @roostmke.com · 13d

Billionaires are a malignant tumor in a democratic body

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creamcityjw 🏀 2-1 #FEARTHEDEER #FUCKICE @creamcityjw.bsky.social · 24d

they should ALL be tried and i've been saying this whole time if we ever get another administration after this, america needs to be put under the jurisdiction of the ICC.

no more safe haven for war criminals: foreign or domestic.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 24d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 24d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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Brandon @roostmke.com · 25d

Taylor’s Life of a Showgirl is 5 for 5 so far.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 18

In a world of Ezra Kleins and Jake Tappers - try to be a Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 19

I agree with that. I think a lot of the frustration is seeing what’s happening and what’s coming & feeling like there must be someone who can fix it. The problem is - what we are seeing is the culmination of decades of right wing propaganda & for halfish of the country the see all this as winning

Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 18

My dad was a huge NRA-for life gun-lover. A few years ago he was dividing up his collection and I let my brothers take them all - claimed his stereo instead.

It’s all part of the liberal radicalization of my children to “love your neighbor as yourself”

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · Sep 18

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

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Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 18

American people: I have big feels - let’s see what happens if we give the insurrectionist party another go.

Insurrectionists: thanks, let’s deport foreign-looking people, demonize lgbtq people, declare the 50% of US terrorists, excuse rape + pedo, and ruin the economy so we can collect bribes

Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 18

Honest question - what should we do? The American people gave MAGA both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidency - an the mainstream media is too afraid of trump to be honest an ignores what democratic leaders say? I don’t see a lot of levers to pull.

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Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 18

In a world of Ezra Kleins and Jake Tappers - try to be a Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 16

The problem with most American Christian’s is that they actually hate Jesus’ life and teachings… but have never realized this fact because they don’t know much about Jesus’ life and teachings.

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Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 16

Me: this CK quote is terrible.

Them: “you leftist assholes keep taking it out of context”

Me: (reads context)… you’re right, it’s way worse than I initially thought.

Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 15

Dear politicians and political groups - if you text me , you get blocked and reported as spam. I don’t care what party you are from - find a different way.

Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 14

One of the first things I was taught about planning funerals is that it’s unethical to “preach someone into heaven” or “make paint then as a saint”

I thought this was weird advice at the time - but turns out many people try.

Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 11

Violence has many forms - while some are obvious and loud, most violence is polite and respectable. All violence hurts and kills. As a society, collectively we have proven unwilling to address either type - and so violence remains deeply present in all facets of American life.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’

Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

www.thetimes.com

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Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 5

Vendor Team:
📸: ✨ME✨
💒: @storyhillfirehouse
🚎: Story Hill Firehouse
🚘Driver: @janellemeyerbrown
👩‍⚖️ @brit_grosenick
🎂 @greigemke
🧀 @flourgirlandflame
🥂@happyjoy_candyco
🍽️ @adorneventcompany
💐 @uofloristry
🎧 @soundbydesign
📽️Video @filmsbydesign
Sponsors: @nacemilwaukee & @marriedinmke

Brandon @roostmke.com · Sep 5

On the blog: Nikki & Amanda’s Story Hill Firehouse vow renewal!

🌈✨link-> www.roostmke.com/blog/married... ✨🌈

🌈 Nikki + Amanda’s Story Hill Firehouse Vow Renewal — Roost - Milwaukee Wedding Photographer

Nikki & Amanda renewed their vows at Story Hill Firehouse in Milwaukee! A colorful LGBTQ+ vow renewal full of joy, champagne, cake, and trolley fun.

www.roostmke.com

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · Sep 3

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Sep 2

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

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