Brad Friedman
@bradfriedman.bsky.social
Annalee’s Husband | Sports biz veteran | Ash & Beaux’s Dad | Ohio U Alum
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Brad here!
- Husband to Dr. Annalee
- Father to Ash & Bordeaux
- College football sicko
- Sports social media pro with a brief detour in politics this year
- Newfound tattoo aficionado
- Video game admirer
- Light cinephile
Howdy from Bloomington, IN amongst the Hoosiers!
- Husband to Dr. Annalee
- Father to Ash & Bordeaux
- College football sicko
- Sports social media pro with a brief detour in politics this year
- Newfound tattoo aficionado
- Video game admirer
- Light cinephile
Howdy from Bloomington, IN amongst the Hoosiers!
Gus Johnson (1967 - 2025)
Detonated by the Indiana Hoosiers, as the prophecy foretold.
Detonated by the Indiana Hoosiers, as the prophecy foretold.
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Gus Johnson (1967 - 2025)
Detonated by the Indiana Hoosiers, as the prophecy foretold.
Detonated by the Indiana Hoosiers, as the prophecy foretold.
Mike Braun is weak, man.
October 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Mike Braun is weak, man.
Reposted by Brad Friedman
SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
America’s diversity of natural scenery & landscapes is one of its brightest elements.
It’s a travesty to throw them away to score corporations a quick buck.
It’s a travesty to throw them away to score corporations a quick buck.
Trump Opens Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil Drilling
The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.
The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
America’s diversity of natural scenery & landscapes is one of its brightest elements.
It’s a travesty to throw them away to score corporations a quick buck.
It’s a travesty to throw them away to score corporations a quick buck.
Some of y’all continue to forget that billionaires sow division & chaos so that we fight for scraps while they hoard more & more wealth.
Stay focused.
Stay focused.
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Some of y’all continue to forget that billionaires sow division & chaos so that we fight for scraps while they hoard more & more wealth.
Stay focused.
Stay focused.
Or…
reframe climate change & LGBTQ+ talking points to support issues centrists DO care about with compromising progressive values.
reframe climate change & LGBTQ+ talking points to support issues centrists DO care about with compromising progressive values.
September 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Or…
reframe climate change & LGBTQ+ talking points to support issues centrists DO care about with compromising progressive values.
reframe climate change & LGBTQ+ talking points to support issues centrists DO care about with compromising progressive values.
My heart aches for the children, elderly & vulnerable who will pay the price for our collective stubbornness & ignorance.
SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.
Data investigation: Childhood vaccination rates are backsliding across the U.S.
A monthslong NBC News data investigation finds that much of the U.S. doesn't have the protection needed to stop the spread of deadly diseases. St. Louis is a window into the problem communities face nationwide.
nbcnews.to
September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My heart aches for the children, elderly & vulnerable who will pay the price for our collective stubbornness & ignorance.
Dark woke is blue pilling Republicans into thinking intentional government spending on infrastructure is cool.
The administration is putting up signs that say, "President Donald J. Trump" and "Rebuilding America's Infrastructure" at worksites funded by the 2021 bipartisan bill.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
September 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Dark woke is blue pilling Republicans into thinking intentional government spending on infrastructure is cool.
Who among us hasn’t woken up a bit sick after a Saturday night in New Orleans?
The Cardinals have added QB Kyler Murray to the injury report with an illness — but he has no game status and will play.
September 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Who among us hasn’t woken up a bit sick after a Saturday night in New Orleans?
STAND UP AND CHEER!!!!!!
September 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
STAND UP AND CHEER!!!!!!
I feel for her.
She isn’t the first person to let childlike wonder like souvenir collecting manifest into a manic moment.
Losing the ball clearly set something off deep down & rational emotional regulation washed away.
So the Dad became an avatar for her pain.
Just sad stuff.
She isn’t the first person to let childlike wonder like souvenir collecting manifest into a manic moment.
Losing the ball clearly set something off deep down & rational emotional regulation washed away.
So the Dad became an avatar for her pain.
Just sad stuff.
After a Phillies Home Run, a Karen makes a kid give her a home run ball.
Thankfully after the Marlins treated the kid with a goodie bag.
Thankfully after the Marlins treated the kid with a goodie bag.
September 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I feel for her.
She isn’t the first person to let childlike wonder like souvenir collecting manifest into a manic moment.
Losing the ball clearly set something off deep down & rational emotional regulation washed away.
So the Dad became an avatar for her pain.
Just sad stuff.
She isn’t the first person to let childlike wonder like souvenir collecting manifest into a manic moment.
Losing the ball clearly set something off deep down & rational emotional regulation washed away.
So the Dad became an avatar for her pain.
Just sad stuff.
“Parents know best” - not always!
Countless medical professionals, backed by decades of immunization research, know best.
Knowing best is recognizing when you’re out of your depth & placing your trust in someone more qualified.
Countless medical professionals, backed by decades of immunization research, know best.
Knowing best is recognizing when you’re out of your depth & placing your trust in someone more qualified.
Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates, the state surgeon general announced today
DeSantis and Ladapo to ‘end all vaccine mandates in Florida law’
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the move in Hillsborough County on Wednesday.
www.miamiherald.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“Parents know best” - not always!
Countless medical professionals, backed by decades of immunization research, know best.
Knowing best is recognizing when you’re out of your depth & placing your trust in someone more qualified.
Countless medical professionals, backed by decades of immunization research, know best.
Knowing best is recognizing when you’re out of your depth & placing your trust in someone more qualified.
Weaponizing fandom is nasty work.
If sports uphold enough of your emotional wellbeing to induce this behavior, your values need a hard reset.
If sports uphold enough of your emotional wellbeing to induce this behavior, your values need a hard reset.
A fan greets Nico Harrison at a restaurant and reminds him that everyone still hates him
August 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Weaponizing fandom is nasty work.
If sports uphold enough of your emotional wellbeing to induce this behavior, your values need a hard reset.
If sports uphold enough of your emotional wellbeing to induce this behavior, your values need a hard reset.
Medical research repression, cloaked as a righteous anti-pharmaceutical holy war, remains the GOP’s most tactically harmful campaign.
Ignoring world-changing findings to stroke the egos of an elite few too lazy to conduct actual research is LUNACY.
Lives will be lost needlessly.
Ignoring world-changing findings to stroke the egos of an elite few too lazy to conduct actual research is LUNACY.
Lives will be lost needlessly.
Ex-CDC chief says you can no longer trust CDC website after RFK Jr. hijacking
Ex-CDC chief says you can NO LONGER trust CDC website after RFK Jr hijacking
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Medical research repression, cloaked as a righteous anti-pharmaceutical holy war, remains the GOP’s most tactically harmful campaign.
Ignoring world-changing findings to stroke the egos of an elite few too lazy to conduct actual research is LUNACY.
Lives will be lost needlessly.
Ignoring world-changing findings to stroke the egos of an elite few too lazy to conduct actual research is LUNACY.
Lives will be lost needlessly.
National Guard deployment makes zero impact on crime prevention.
No job creation, grocery store installation, housing construction, school activity investment - nothing that addresses root causes.
It’s a headline stunt to feed the GOP’s over-militarization obsession.
No job creation, grocery store installation, housing construction, school activity investment - nothing that addresses root causes.
It’s a headline stunt to feed the GOP’s over-militarization obsession.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
National Guard deployment makes zero impact on crime prevention.
No job creation, grocery store installation, housing construction, school activity investment - nothing that addresses root causes.
It’s a headline stunt to feed the GOP’s over-militarization obsession.
No job creation, grocery store installation, housing construction, school activity investment - nothing that addresses root causes.
It’s a headline stunt to feed the GOP’s over-militarization obsession.
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PHOEBE BRIDGERS: it feels like you played a lot more two-high last year
STEVE SPAGNUOLO: that's right, phoebe
STEVE SPAGNUOLO: that's right, phoebe
Jack Antonoff: and I guess that's how we sorta landed on the bedroom pop feel of Midnights
Andy Reid: [wiping blue cheese dressing from his mustache]
Andy Reid: [wiping blue cheese dressing from his mustache]
August 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
PHOEBE BRIDGERS: it feels like you played a lot more two-high last year
STEVE SPAGNUOLO: that's right, phoebe
STEVE SPAGNUOLO: that's right, phoebe
College football AND Bloomington, Indiana Pride today?
Drag shows & drag routes 🏳️🌈🏈
Great day to be alive.
Drag shows & drag routes 🏳️🌈🏈
Great day to be alive.
August 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
College football AND Bloomington, Indiana Pride today?
Drag shows & drag routes 🏳️🌈🏈
Great day to be alive.
Drag shows & drag routes 🏳️🌈🏈
Great day to be alive.
Funny how the GOP supports the electoral college because it supposedly balances rural & urban influence.
But it’ll gladly dismantle geographically-logical districts, forcing reps to blend different community needs unnecessarily.
And all to appease a wannabe autocrat.
But it’ll gladly dismantle geographically-logical districts, forcing reps to blend different community needs unnecessarily.
And all to appease a wannabe autocrat.
August 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Funny how the GOP supports the electoral college because it supposedly balances rural & urban influence.
But it’ll gladly dismantle geographically-logical districts, forcing reps to blend different community needs unnecessarily.
And all to appease a wannabe autocrat.
But it’ll gladly dismantle geographically-logical districts, forcing reps to blend different community needs unnecessarily.
And all to appease a wannabe autocrat.
A reminder to check @opensecrets.org & see who your representatives are truly fighting for.
My Congresswoman Erin Houchin, for instance, received donations from 554 different PACs last cycle.
58% of her funds stem from corporate interests, NOT her constituents!
My Congresswoman Erin Houchin, for instance, received donations from 554 different PACs last cycle.
58% of her funds stem from corporate interests, NOT her constituents!
August 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A reminder to check @opensecrets.org & see who your representatives are truly fighting for.
My Congresswoman Erin Houchin, for instance, received donations from 554 different PACs last cycle.
58% of her funds stem from corporate interests, NOT her constituents!
My Congresswoman Erin Houchin, for instance, received donations from 554 different PACs last cycle.
58% of her funds stem from corporate interests, NOT her constituents!
Of all of modern right wing political stances…
Willingly distancing people from vaccines is one of the most tangibly dangerous.
Dismissing decades of life-saving scientific progress will cost lives. Period.
Willingly distancing people from vaccines is one of the most tangibly dangerous.
Dismissing decades of life-saving scientific progress will cost lives. Period.
RFK Jr. is targeting mRNA technology, a major scientific advancement that allowed for the rapid development of coronavirus vaccines. wapo.st/4lhtvKe
August 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Of all of modern right wing political stances…
Willingly distancing people from vaccines is one of the most tangibly dangerous.
Dismissing decades of life-saving scientific progress will cost lives. Period.
Willingly distancing people from vaccines is one of the most tangibly dangerous.
Dismissing decades of life-saving scientific progress will cost lives. Period.
That dastardly David Blaine strikes again
August 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
That dastardly David Blaine strikes again
Our insistence on discarding the best & brightest is astonishingly self-destructive.
How lucky are we to have institutions in our backyards to recruit & retain community-altering talent.
Mike Braun & governors everywhere should be at the forefront of keeping elite minds on our campuses.
How lucky are we to have institutions in our backyards to recruit & retain community-altering talent.
Mike Braun & governors everywhere should be at the forefront of keeping elite minds on our campuses.
BREAKING: Yeonsoo Go, Perdue University student and daughter of NYC Episcopal priest, has been released from ICE custody this evening.
August 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Our insistence on discarding the best & brightest is astonishingly self-destructive.
How lucky are we to have institutions in our backyards to recruit & retain community-altering talent.
Mike Braun & governors everywhere should be at the forefront of keeping elite minds on our campuses.
How lucky are we to have institutions in our backyards to recruit & retain community-altering talent.
Mike Braun & governors everywhere should be at the forefront of keeping elite minds on our campuses.
Corporate greed has blazed an irreparably-damaged trail on our planet.
But we’ll, collectively, opt to sacrifice existential preservation for short-term convenience.
And stick our heads in the sand hoping we’ll never have to reap what we sow.
But we’ll, collectively, opt to sacrifice existential preservation for short-term convenience.
And stick our heads in the sand hoping we’ll never have to reap what we sow.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said this morning he is seeking to overturn the agency's formal scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health — a move designed to eliminate its authority to fight climate change, Axios' Ben Geman writes.
www.axios.com/2025/07/29/e...
www.axios.com/2025/07/29/e...
EPA looks to overturn the scientific reason for climate regulations
The move is guaranteed to spark litigation.
www.axios.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Corporate greed has blazed an irreparably-damaged trail on our planet.
But we’ll, collectively, opt to sacrifice existential preservation for short-term convenience.
And stick our heads in the sand hoping we’ll never have to reap what we sow.
But we’ll, collectively, opt to sacrifice existential preservation for short-term convenience.
And stick our heads in the sand hoping we’ll never have to reap what we sow.
Oil lobbyists and mega-donors are cancerous behind comprehension.
EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs - AP News apnews.com/article/epa-...
EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
apnews.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Oil lobbyists and mega-donors are cancerous behind comprehension.
Reposted by Brad Friedman
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)