Bobby V
@broccolirobert.bsky.social
Economic Development and Real Estate
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
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"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
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This shouldn't be that difficult.
"Advocating for norms doesn't mean we have to let them be used against us. Wanting a functional democracy doesn't mean unilateral disarmament."
"Advocating for norms doesn't mean we have to let them be used against us. Wanting a functional democracy doesn't mean unilateral disarmament."
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This shouldn't be that difficult.
"Advocating for norms doesn't mean we have to let them be used against us. Wanting a functional democracy doesn't mean unilateral disarmament."
"Advocating for norms doesn't mean we have to let them be used against us. Wanting a functional democracy doesn't mean unilateral disarmament."
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But for Dems who want to harness No Kings energy, without falling into (what they see as) the trap of uncut anti-Trumpism, there are many things they can promise to do with power in 2027-2028, then in 2029 and beyond. Some even overlap with kitchen-table issues! www.offmessage.net/p/a-no-kings...
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
But for Dems who want to harness No Kings energy, without falling into (what they see as) the trap of uncut anti-Trumpism, there are many things they can promise to do with power in 2027-2028, then in 2029 and beyond. Some even overlap with kitchen-table issues! www.offmessage.net/p/a-no-kings...
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Since I'm about to head out to DC's No Kings protest, here's a quick look at America's ORIGINAL No Kings movement, and a review of how many of George III's crimes outlined in the Declaration have been repeated by Trump. juliansanchez.substack.com/p/trump-vs-g...
Trump vs. George III: A No Kings Comparison
Our own mad king is repeating many of his predecessors' greatest hits
juliansanchez.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Since I'm about to head out to DC's No Kings protest, here's a quick look at America's ORIGINAL No Kings movement, and a review of how many of George III's crimes outlined in the Declaration have been repeated by Trump. juliansanchez.substack.com/p/trump-vs-g...
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A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days
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October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
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Customer: MY NAME IS BOBBY AND THIS IS MY NICK NAME.
DMV: BOOBY, SEXUAL
Verdict: DENIED
DMV: BOOBY, SEXUAL
Verdict: DENIED
September 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Customer: MY NAME IS BOBBY AND THIS IS MY NICK NAME.
DMV: BOOBY, SEXUAL
Verdict: DENIED
DMV: BOOBY, SEXUAL
Verdict: DENIED
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It is OK to call fascists fascists.
September 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It is OK to call fascists fascists.
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Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.
September 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.
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“The bishop advised Catholics considering joining ICE that ‘you can never attempt to turn off your conscience.’”
A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...
Catholic bishops call immigration crackdown a 'category 4 storm'
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Before the Georgetown roundtable, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz told RNS he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE.
religionnews.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“The bishop advised Catholics considering joining ICE that ‘you can never attempt to turn off your conscience.’”
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He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.
August 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
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There is something strangely fascinating about the fact that right-wing mental model of major US cities has not changed in a half century despite the fact that those cities have basically the opposite set of problems from those they had back then.
August 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
There is something strangely fascinating about the fact that right-wing mental model of major US cities has not changed in a half century despite the fact that those cities have basically the opposite set of problems from those they had back then.
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dudes rock
lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner
August 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
dudes rock
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frankly the only way i think one can continue to stare at the abyss and not want to jump in is finding joyful things that make fighting against the abyss feel that much more urgent and worthy of the energy. forcing you to only abyss-gaze is, in some ways, a pro-abyss stance
June 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
frankly the only way i think one can continue to stare at the abyss and not want to jump in is finding joyful things that make fighting against the abyss feel that much more urgent and worthy of the energy. forcing you to only abyss-gaze is, in some ways, a pro-abyss stance
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It strikes me that if we had swarms of masked men with weapons of war roaming Wall Street chasing down tax cheats and white collar criminals, many Americans would respond differently than they are to swarms of masked men with weapons of war roaming the streets of LA chasing down brown people.
June 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It strikes me that if we had swarms of masked men with weapons of war roaming Wall Street chasing down tax cheats and white collar criminals, many Americans would respond differently than they are to swarms of masked men with weapons of war roaming the streets of LA chasing down brown people.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Had some more to say on the "riots" and "invasion" in LA.
If it’s a "riot," it’s the police who are rioting. If there’s an “invasion” of LA, it’s the US military that is invading.
If it’s a "riot," it’s the police who are rioting. If there’s an “invasion” of LA, it’s the US military that is invading.
Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors
I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which…
I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which…
Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors
I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which were focused on provoking protestors into violence, which would then be used to justify an even more violent crackdown. Given that, it’s crucial to get actual reports from what’s actually happening on the street, rather than relying on questionable media framing by those not actually there.
www.techdirt.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Had some more to say on the "riots" and "invasion" in LA.
If it’s a "riot," it’s the police who are rioting. If there’s an “invasion” of LA, it’s the US military that is invading.
If it’s a "riot," it’s the police who are rioting. If there’s an “invasion” of LA, it’s the US military that is invading.
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
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The centrist, moderate, safe, poll-tested position here for elected officials and pundits is to blast the Trump admin using every argument they can.
Anyone who isn't doing that should be asked why they're trying normalize the deployments and enable Trump's fascism.
Anyone who isn't doing that should be asked why they're trying normalize the deployments and enable Trump's fascism.
Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines.
This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive.
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive.
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
June 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The centrist, moderate, safe, poll-tested position here for elected officials and pundits is to blast the Trump admin using every argument they can.
Anyone who isn't doing that should be asked why they're trying normalize the deployments and enable Trump's fascism.
Anyone who isn't doing that should be asked why they're trying normalize the deployments and enable Trump's fascism.
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what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
Wow. New CBS poll finds majority (55%) supports the *general goal* of deportations, but a bigger majority (56%) dislikes how Trump is carrying them out. And 63% want due process.
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.
June 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.