Andy Bader
@andybader.bsky.social
Father, husband, filmmaker, pilot
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just saw 2 firefighters sitting next to eachother on the front bumper of a moving firetruck kicking and swinging their feet
September 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
just saw 2 firefighters sitting next to eachother on the front bumper of a moving firetruck kicking and swinging their feet
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Killing someone with a bayonet probably feels incredible. It’s too bad life is so precious, mostly.
August 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Killing someone with a bayonet probably feels incredible. It’s too bad life is so precious, mostly.
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The big problem with the politics of "just do what polls say is already popular" is that most people don't have strongly-held opinions about most issues. When pollsters ask, they answer. But they're often taking elite cues, not expressing deep passions.
Leaders can lead people to different stances.
Leaders can lead people to different stances.
My sense of things has always been that most people do not have strong, deeply felt opinions on a lot of policy issues, and so their opinions can change fairly quickly depending on what’s in the news.
Why do people's opinions on a single issue change with the direction of the wind?
July 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The big problem with the politics of "just do what polls say is already popular" is that most people don't have strongly-held opinions about most issues. When pollsters ask, they answer. But they're often taking elite cues, not expressing deep passions.
Leaders can lead people to different stances.
Leaders can lead people to different stances.
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why are we doing age verification? we're all 38
July 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
why are we doing age verification? we're all 38
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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
June 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
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Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
June 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
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This is the only meme you need.
June 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is the only meme you need.
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I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
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the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one
do people not realize that the past four decades of US policing legislation PR and practice have made the allegation that someone is a “gang member” entirely subject to the whims of the state
April 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one
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i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one
do people not realize that the past four decades of US policing legislation PR and practice have made the allegation that someone is a “gang member” entirely subject to the whims of the state
April 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
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bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
May 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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"I've been banned from Tinder, Hinge, Bumble....Seeking, uh seeking arrangements"
April 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"I've been banned from Tinder, Hinge, Bumble....Seeking, uh seeking arrangements"
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I caught a lot of criticism when I reported this back in December
Dying Congressman to Lead Watchdog Committee
The gerontocracy wins again
www.kenklippenstein.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I caught a lot of criticism when I reported this back in December
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The great thing about a good (human) friend is that they don't have time for 'endless conversations'. At times, they tell you to shut up, that you're full of shit, to stop complaining, or don't respond at all so you can deduce it. This bot won't do that. Not every wish needs to be a reality.
April 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The great thing about a good (human) friend is that they don't have time for 'endless conversations'. At times, they tell you to shut up, that you're full of shit, to stop complaining, or don't respond at all so you can deduce it. This bot won't do that. Not every wish needs to be a reality.
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Panthers receivers struggled in gotta have it situations last year. Enter Tetairoa McMillan, who had the 2nd most conversions in college football and zero drops on 3rd down.
On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed Carolina’s draft.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
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On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed Carolina’s draft.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/an2Xvp0OPfc?...
April 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Panthers receivers struggled in gotta have it situations last year. Enter Tetairoa McMillan, who had the 2nd most conversions in college football and zero drops on 3rd down.
On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed Carolina’s draft.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/an2Xvp0OPfc?...
On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed Carolina’s draft.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/an2Xvp0OPfc?...
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In the span of 3 hours, 60 Minutes publicly called out Paramount Plus for fucking with their editorial content to appease the Trump admin on air, and then Nathan Fielder called them Nazis for capitulating with israel to "Silence jewish voices"
Imagine working the Paramount Plus PR this AM lol
Imagine working the Paramount Plus PR this AM lol
April 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In the span of 3 hours, 60 Minutes publicly called out Paramount Plus for fucking with their editorial content to appease the Trump admin on air, and then Nathan Fielder called them Nazis for capitulating with israel to "Silence jewish voices"
Imagine working the Paramount Plus PR this AM lol
Imagine working the Paramount Plus PR this AM lol
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Amazing.
Booker wraps up a record breaking speech about fighting back, then feckless Schumer agrees to unanimous consent for Whitaker confirmation speeches.
You can't make this shit up.
Booker wraps up a record breaking speech about fighting back, then feckless Schumer agrees to unanimous consent for Whitaker confirmation speeches.
You can't make this shit up.
April 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Amazing.
Booker wraps up a record breaking speech about fighting back, then feckless Schumer agrees to unanimous consent for Whitaker confirmation speeches.
You can't make this shit up.
Booker wraps up a record breaking speech about fighting back, then feckless Schumer agrees to unanimous consent for Whitaker confirmation speeches.
You can't make this shit up.
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They're calling it the highest-commitment April Fools joke in political history.
No objections to Risch’s unanimous consent motion, not even from @schatz.bsky.social.
April 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
They're calling it the highest-commitment April Fools joke in political history.
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"they're gonna make us look bad"
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
March 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"they're gonna make us look bad"
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.
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democrats i swear to god if you back away from a fight where you have the moral high ground against a political opponent with tanking approval numbers that the entire country is mad at right now, i swear to GOD yall i freaking swear
March 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
democrats i swear to god if you back away from a fight where you have the moral high ground against a political opponent with tanking approval numbers that the entire country is mad at right now, i swear to GOD yall i freaking swear
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Even though his Reagan prank arguably went too far, I still think it’s rude of SNL to not bring back original cast member John Hinckley Jr. for the 50th anniversary
February 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Even though his Reagan prank arguably went too far, I still think it’s rude of SNL to not bring back original cast member John Hinckley Jr. for the 50th anniversary