Topher Brennan (he/they)
@topherbrennan.bsky.social
Protect trans rights!
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“we failed a veteran” is the ultimate story here and if I were a soldier currently being asked to do war crimes on Trump’s behalf I would consider this instructive
Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with 'dark isolation' as community raised concerns
Emails obtained by the Associated Press show that the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House had been unraveling for years.
www.latimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“we failed a veteran” is the ultimate story here and if I were a soldier currently being asked to do war crimes on Trump’s behalf I would consider this instructive
I saw a thread here the other day arguing that Trump is secretly working to help the Sinaloa Cartel.
I'm not sure I buy Trump being all-in on one cartel (as opposed to selling pardons to whoever can pay).
But wouldn't it be funny if the Trump admin were ACTUALLY doing a Sicario?
I'm not sure I buy Trump being all-in on one cartel (as opposed to selling pardons to whoever can pay).
But wouldn't it be funny if the Trump admin were ACTUALLY doing a Sicario?
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I saw a thread here the other day arguing that Trump is secretly working to help the Sinaloa Cartel.
I'm not sure I buy Trump being all-in on one cartel (as opposed to selling pardons to whoever can pay).
But wouldn't it be funny if the Trump admin were ACTUALLY doing a Sicario?
I'm not sure I buy Trump being all-in on one cartel (as opposed to selling pardons to whoever can pay).
But wouldn't it be funny if the Trump admin were ACTUALLY doing a Sicario?
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Invoking "color revolutions" as a boogeyman like this really goes to show how much these guys have cooked their brains on Russian propaganda specifically.
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Invoking "color revolutions" as a boogeyman like this really goes to show how much these guys have cooked their brains on Russian propaganda specifically.
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I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this
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fuck it, for the people in the back:
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
not to be conspiratorial but the outlet that successfully pushed this line and made it the primary complaint was wapo
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
fuck it, for the people in the back:
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
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there's a direct A to B for dead kids out of this @by-cjewett.bsky.social so congrats for that. i hope you woke up in the morning and thought "let's kill some kids." at least then you'll have some modicum of success in your life.
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
there's a direct A to B for dead kids out of this @by-cjewett.bsky.social so congrats for that. i hope you woke up in the morning and thought "let's kill some kids." at least then you'll have some modicum of success in your life.
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it's like calling someone a "n-word love", or saying they're "woke". The fact that it's so normalized is pretty much entirely the fault of the lost cause narrative taught for decades in US textbooks.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
it's like calling someone a "n-word love", or saying they're "woke". The fact that it's so normalized is pretty much entirely the fault of the lost cause narrative taught for decades in US textbooks.
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just want to add that "carpetbagger" is a white supremacist slur; it was directed first at northerners who left home to try to help build a multi-racial south. 1
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November 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
just want to add that "carpetbagger" is a white supremacist slur; it was directed first at northerners who left home to try to help build a multi-racial south. 1
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Hey Dean, I know you don't really think this but it sounds like you're comparing people moving to your city to an invasion, and well certain other people talk about immigration in those terms, I am sure you don't want to be in their company.
November 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Hey Dean, I know you don't really think this but it sounds like you're comparing people moving to your city to an invasion, and well certain other people talk about immigration in those terms, I am sure you don't want to be in their company.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.
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Look, every single “deal” reached by a university with the Trump administration is a moral stain that will be seen with deep embarrassment once we’re through this. But for Northwestern to do this now, when the administration is visibly weakened, is even more shameful and inexcusable.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Look, every single “deal” reached by a university with the Trump administration is a moral stain that will be seen with deep embarrassment once we’re through this. But for Northwestern to do this now, when the administration is visibly weakened, is even more shameful and inexcusable.
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I'd like more Ds to be making this point a lot more forcefully. bribing trump could lead to legal liability in the not very distant future!
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I'd like more Ds to be making this point a lot more forcefully. bribing trump could lead to legal liability in the not very distant future!
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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Neither is particularly likely compared to "this guy was cracked by trauma and then told he or some of his friends were going to be deported, and he broke"
What's more logical?
That the CIA directed one of its assets to perform the perfect false flag?
Or
That a jihadist played the long game by working with the CIA in Afghanistan to gain legal access to the country and then travel 3,000 miles to enact his plan of attacking National Guard soldiers?
That the CIA directed one of its assets to perform the perfect false flag?
Or
That a jihadist played the long game by working with the CIA in Afghanistan to gain legal access to the country and then travel 3,000 miles to enact his plan of attacking National Guard soldiers?
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Neither is particularly likely compared to "this guy was cracked by trauma and then told he or some of his friends were going to be deported, and he broke"
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I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
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Haven’t tweeted in like a year and still doing the numbers
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Haven’t tweeted in like a year and still doing the numbers
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Socialist Party of America's platform in 1912 called for abolition of pardon power altogether.
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Socialist Party of America's platform in 1912 called for abolition of pardon power altogether.
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Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.
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Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
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Declaring “no quarter” is a war crime.
Even assuming an armed conflict exists.
Even assuming an armed conflict exists.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Declaring “no quarter” is a war crime.
Even assuming an armed conflict exists.
Even assuming an armed conflict exists.
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Strong message from Congressman Moulton:
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Strong message from Congressman Moulton:
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
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If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.