Brad Carpenter (he/him)
@brad-carpenter.bsky.social
Interests include politics, sports, and painting Warhammer 40k models. Oh, and it'd be great if we could do something about income inequality and the impending fascism. Yeah...
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
All of their money would be better spent by literally any random person on the planet.
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
All of their money would be better spent by literally any random person on the planet.
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They're scapegoating the most vulnerable so they can rip us all off
It is the most accurate and salient explanation of the last ten years, and yet you rarely hear any politician of any stature say that.
It is the most accurate and salient explanation of the last ten years, and yet you rarely hear any politician of any stature say that.
Possibly because I was growing up Jewish only ~30 years after the Holocaust, but the evil of “scapegoating” was hammered into me repeatedly. I rarely see the term used, but it’s exactly what Trump, Miller, Noem and the right wing at large do, explicitly, and it should be forcefully condemned.
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
They're scapegoating the most vulnerable so they can rip us all off
It is the most accurate and salient explanation of the last ten years, and yet you rarely hear any politician of any stature say that.
It is the most accurate and salient explanation of the last ten years, and yet you rarely hear any politician of any stature say that.
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"Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing."
But the Trump administration cut the money (granted to pursue the research), claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
But the Trump administration cut the money (granted to pursue the research), claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing."
But the Trump administration cut the money (granted to pursue the research), claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
But the Trump administration cut the money (granted to pursue the research), claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
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READ: Zionism wasn’t just a political movement; it was the most successful marketing campaign of the 20th century.
Here's how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
Here's how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
How Zionism was sold to the world
Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, “Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara,” reveals how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian…
mondoweiss.net
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
READ: Zionism wasn’t just a political movement; it was the most successful marketing campaign of the 20th century.
Here's how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
Here's how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."
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A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
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It shouldn’t take a slur that impacts you personally, or losing your healthcare or SNAP, or being forced to sell your farm, or having to watch a loved one get unjustly detained and deported...to walk away from a madman.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It shouldn’t take a slur that impacts you personally, or losing your healthcare or SNAP, or being forced to sell your farm, or having to watch a loved one get unjustly detained and deported...to walk away from a madman.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
Give the money to almost anyone but tech-bro investors.
Tesla scales back Robotaxi fleet goal in Austin
The Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Austin has only about 30 Model Ys in use. When we compare 60 vehicles to the 500 cars promised just weeks ago, the difference is huge. Tesla will miss its year-end goal by almost 90%.
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The Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Austin has only about 30 Model Ys in use. When we compare 60 vehicles to the 500 cars promised just weeks ago, the difference is huge. Tesla will miss its year-end goal by almost 90%.
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Tesla scales back Robotaxi fleet goal in Austin
The announced doubling of the Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Austin only brings the total number of supervised EVs to about 60, a massive shortfall from the 500 vehicles the company promised just weeks ago.
www.arenaev.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Give the money to almost anyone but tech-bro investors.
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It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." 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 11:53 PM
It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
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When someone is wrong.. then gets corrected.. then says they don’t care…
You cared enough to be wrong… but you don’t care enough to be right?…
Willful ignorance is a hell of a thing
You cared enough to be wrong… but you don’t care enough to be right?…
Willful ignorance is a hell of a thing
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
When someone is wrong.. then gets corrected.. then says they don’t care…
You cared enough to be wrong… but you don’t care enough to be right?…
Willful ignorance is a hell of a thing
You cared enough to be wrong… but you don’t care enough to be right?…
Willful ignorance is a hell of a thing
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Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
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They're going after green card holders. They will come after citizens next. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...
Trump administration to re-examine green card holders from 19 countries 'of concern'
The announcement comes a day after an attack on National Guard troops near the White House. Authorities have identified the suspect as an Afghan national.
www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They're going after green card holders. They will come after citizens next. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
Regarding the UK budget, this is the commentary I've been waiting for.
If the billionaire owned media is pissed, there's a chance it's good for normal folks. America, we could learn from this.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDtt...
If the billionaire owned media is pissed, there's a chance it's good for normal folks. America, we could learn from this.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDtt...
'You are not serious people': James O'Brien on the state of Britain
YouTube video by LBC
m.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Regarding the UK budget, this is the commentary I've been waiting for.
If the billionaire owned media is pissed, there's a chance it's good for normal folks. America, we could learn from this.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDtt...
If the billionaire owned media is pissed, there's a chance it's good for normal folks. America, we could learn from this.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDtt...
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"Left on the economy, right on the culture," is just fascism in the end. Also it will never take you left on the economy in the long run, because a machine built for eating people will keep eating people.
"Left on the economy, right on culture" is also, as needs repeating a hundred thousand time, the central lie of fascism.
OF COURSE it appeals to the in-group who thinks their well-being AND their prejudices will be pandered to.
OF COURSE it appeals to the in-group who thinks their well-being AND their prejudices will be pandered to.
The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Left on the economy, right on the culture," is just fascism in the end. Also it will never take you left on the economy in the long run, because a machine built for eating people will keep eating people.
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I was trying to remember a particularly egregious Trump ambassador pick and I started scrolling through all of them and yikes. It really hits you how nuts this administration and its era is.
List of ambassadors appointed in the second Trump presidency - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I was trying to remember a particularly egregious Trump ambassador pick and I started scrolling through all of them and yikes. It really hits you how nuts this administration and its era is.
I've been listening to some coverage of the new UK budget, and it's just everyone being angry, saying things that don't make sense, and analyzing the politics rather than explaining the details of the changes (so...what you'd expect).
This, however, was decent @owenjones.bsky.social
This, however, was decent @owenjones.bsky.social
Labour Budget FAILURE Exposed - And Why They’re In PANIC w/ James Meadway
YouTube video by Owen Jones
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I've been listening to some coverage of the new UK budget, and it's just everyone being angry, saying things that don't make sense, and analyzing the politics rather than explaining the details of the changes (so...what you'd expect).
This, however, was decent @owenjones.bsky.social
This, however, was decent @owenjones.bsky.social
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.