Brian F Campbell
@brianfcampbell2.bsky.social
Dad, husband, tech guy, amateur cook. Laughs, politics, business, sports. ICYMI: President Trump is a MONSTER. Same handle on X and Mastodon. 😄✌️(San Diego)
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
“All of this is a choice.”
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We are better than this own-goal dystopia, which disgracefully services POTUS’s and Stephen Miller’s racist, vengeful fever dreams and provides NOTHING kind, moral, or society-building. 🇺🇸
#LAStrong
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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We are better than this own-goal dystopia, which disgracefully services POTUS’s and Stephen Miller’s racist, vengeful fever dreams and provides NOTHING kind, moral, or society-building. 🇺🇸
#LAStrong
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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this is a fundamental principle of self-governance, in the end. the constitution is not in heaven. the constitution is not hidden away in some vault somewhere and tended to by nine priests in black robes. the constitution is in all of us, or it is nowhere.
It's largely lost today because we've allowed constitutional law to become the exclusive preserve of lawyers, but the original idea of written constitutionalism was partly one of public education, publicity, & (proto-)democracy—people should be able to read & come to know the law which binds them
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
this is a fundamental principle of self-governance, in the end. the constitution is not in heaven. the constitution is not hidden away in some vault somewhere and tended to by nine priests in black robes. the constitution is in all of us, or it is nowhere.
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If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
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You are literally in high office or a position of professional trust to do the hard thing. And the hard thing is not to kvetch about how “some aspects of birthright citizenship are 50-50 in this pew research poll”. What was German opinion in the 1930s? What was US opinion on slavery in 1850?
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
You are literally in high office or a position of professional trust to do the hard thing. And the hard thing is not to kvetch about how “some aspects of birthright citizenship are 50-50 in this pew research poll”. What was German opinion in the 1930s? What was US opinion on slavery in 1850?
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I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Welcome to irrelevance.
December 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Welcome to irrelevance.
💯 I’ll take “disingenuous legal scholarship” for $200 Alex. Pathetic.
@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
💯 I’ll take “disingenuous legal scholarship” for $200 Alex. Pathetic.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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Siri, show me a room full of people whose grandchildren and great grandchildren will one day look back on them in disgrace and deny any familial connection.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Siri, show me a room full of people whose grandchildren and great grandchildren will one day look back on them in disgrace and deny any familial connection.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Unsettling heavy-handed behaviors by certain hospitals in Chicago ….
Take time to read this @chicagotribune.com
investigation: Chicago hospitals funnel patients into long-lasting guardianships, angering friends and family. It’s a disturbing and important story. By Emily Hoerner Christy Gutowski and Lisa Schencker
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/23/g...
investigation: Chicago hospitals funnel patients into long-lasting guardianships, angering friends and family. It’s a disturbing and important story. By Emily Hoerner Christy Gutowski and Lisa Schencker
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/23/g...
Chicago hospitals funnel patients into long-lasting guardianships, angering friends and family
Chicago-area hospitals recently initiated hundreds of guardianship petitions in just 18 months, a Chicago Tribune investigation has found.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Unsettling heavy-handed behaviors by certain hospitals in Chicago ….
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
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at the the of the day, you can try to litigate and legislate lying, but you can’t force good faith and no amount of regulating the truth can fix society if its participants aren’t good faith members of the same project
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
at the the of the day, you can try to litigate and legislate lying, but you can’t force good faith and no amount of regulating the truth can fix society if its participants aren’t good faith members of the same project
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Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
Unbelievable. No words ….
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Unbelievable. No words ….
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The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
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I lived life as an autistic person for 41 years, and frankly it's wild to see someone who views your existence as a blight elevated to a position of such consequence. I generally see no reason to discuss being on the spectrum publicly, but I'll make an exception for this vile eugenicist. 1/x
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I lived life as an autistic person for 41 years, and frankly it's wild to see someone who views your existence as a blight elevated to a position of such consequence. I generally see no reason to discuss being on the spectrum publicly, but I'll make an exception for this vile eugenicist. 1/x
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When news media share Homeland Security's version of incidents during immigration enforcement, they need to remind the public that the feds have been caught lying repeatedly about what happened.
"Homeland Security, whose accounts of past incidents have often been proven untrue, said today ..."
"Homeland Security, whose accounts of past incidents have often been proven untrue, said today ..."
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
When news media share Homeland Security's version of incidents during immigration enforcement, they need to remind the public that the feds have been caught lying repeatedly about what happened.
"Homeland Security, whose accounts of past incidents have often been proven untrue, said today ..."
"Homeland Security, whose accounts of past incidents have often been proven untrue, said today ..."
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#Ukraine
Screenshot is from Yoroslav Trofimov — Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
#Ukraine
Screenshot is from Yoroslav Trofimov — Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
The US now has the Thiel-Vance foreign policy, the Steve Witkoff foreign policy, the Jared Kushner foreign policy, the Marco Rubio foreign policy, and once in a blue moon the Donald Trump foreign policy... and Putin and Netanyahu plus Saudi, UAE & Qatar drive most of it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#Ukraine
Screenshot is from Yoroslav Trofimov — Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
#Ukraine
Screenshot is from Yoroslav Trofimov — Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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WAPO: “.. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times ..”
@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
WAPO: “.. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times ..”
@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Pathetic human beings. This is the online trolling and thuggery administration. They are devoid of any policy substance or semblance of human decency.
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#resist
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#resist
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Pathetic human beings. This is the online trolling and thuggery administration. They are devoid of any policy substance or semblance of human decency.
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#resist
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#resist
It’s all bribes and extortion and corruption for $$. Say it loudly. Don’t let them gaslight us.
"defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon."
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It’s all bribes and extortion and corruption for $$. Say it loudly. Don’t let them gaslight us.
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I want this complete release because it will show that the calls for baseless investigations of me are nothing more than political persecution and slander.
I was never a client of Epstein’s and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT.
I was never a client of Epstein’s and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I want this complete release because it will show that the calls for baseless investigations of me are nothing more than political persecution and slander.
I was never a client of Epstein’s and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT.
I was never a client of Epstein’s and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT.
The “jig is up” with the GOP. It’s zero governing and 7x24 campaigning, and blue state “hit jobs” on the Sunday shows. There’s nothing there, and the deplorable end result has been Congress allowing Trump to “control the purse” and conduct rampant extrajudicial terror. GOP: Someone lead!
The problem is they can't replace Obamacare with a more "republican" plan that isn't a disaster, because the ACA IS the Republican option: It was Romneycare with the serial numbers filed off!
NEW: As health insurance bills rise, Republicans are still seeking an Obamacare alternative
There is no legislative product yet.
No consensus in the party about a plan.
But top GOP lawmakers and policy figures on Capitol Hill have begun discussing concepts.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
There is no legislative product yet.
No consensus in the party about a plan.
But top GOP lawmakers and policy figures on Capitol Hill have begun discussing concepts.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The “jig is up” with the GOP. It’s zero governing and 7x24 campaigning, and blue state “hit jobs” on the Sunday shows. There’s nothing there, and the deplorable end result has been Congress allowing Trump to “control the purse” and conduct rampant extrajudicial terror. GOP: Someone lead!
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
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Been sayin'. "They'll vote yes to get out ahead of what's coming." (David Shuster last week). Over 1000 FBI and DOJ analysts had their eyes on the unsecure files during the review this past March. That's a lot of potential leaks. www.politico.com/live-updates...
House Dems predict major GOP support on bill to release Epstein files
Confidence is growing after the release of new damning emails for Trump.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Been sayin'. "They'll vote yes to get out ahead of what's coming." (David Shuster last week). Over 1000 FBI and DOJ analysts had their eyes on the unsecure files during the review this past March. That's a lot of potential leaks. www.politico.com/live-updates...