Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As always, if he starts a number, it’s just something he made up. 010
Reposted by Adam BrooksKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket. 401415284
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As late as yesterday, their party leader was talking about how terrible the country is. If you hate things you have to leave? OK. 000
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I know politics has always attracted thin-skinned egotists. But it used to be that you hid it. 000
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government. 8359105
Reposted by Adam BrooksRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. 612253868
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hey, Sen. Durbin... are you saying this is some sort of high crime? Perhaps a misdemeanor? 021
Reposted by Adam BrooksDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S. 24605219
Reposted by Adam Brooksunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds. 9319192
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They stopped shooting citizens in the streets and bragging about it. (Or at least stopped the spectacle around it). But the horrors continue. We will need to prosecute so many people, especially the architechts of this evil. 000
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is an incredible symbol of what Trumpism has gotten us. 010
Reposted by Adam BrooksNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026X is owned by the GOP's largest donor and the platform's algorithm forces everyone on the site to see all of his Tweets. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem. 11868146
Reposted by Adam BrooksThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026In the past week Trump has banned free press, launched state-run media, attacked the international criminal court, and literally rolled out the red carpet for a communist. Trump is the communist. 431164386
Reposted by Adam BrooksMolly Olmstead @mollyolmstead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It’s a long read, but I'd really appreciate it if you checked out my medbed story for Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol... It was a wild ride.slate.comTrump Posted About Magic Beds That Cure Cancer. Millions of Americans Believe They’re Real. I Found the Guy Who Started It All.An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect. 1022074
Reposted by Adam BrooksAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness. 70257771837
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just a government hiding the people it is holding in concentration camps 010
Reposted by Adam BrooksCongressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ICE wants to deport Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a DoorDash driver who they just shot in Austin yesterday. The federal government can't shoot someone and then try to make them disappear to escape scrutiny. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez needs a doctor right now, not a deportation. 321221381
Reposted by Adam BrooksRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Trump’s ICE thugs shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez through his car window as he was delivering food yesterday in Austin, Texas. His wife and lawyer were reportedly denied access to see him in the hospital, and ICE is now trying to deport him. This violence must end. Abolish ICE. 12339361333
Reposted by Adam BrooksNews for 38 Year Olds @newsfor38yearolds.com · 19/09/2026‘I’m Banning The Free Press!’ Shouts Trump, Because That’s The Kind Of Sh*t He Says Out Loud Wonkette www.wonkette.com/p/im-banning-the-f…wonkette.com‘I’m Banning The Free Press!’ Shouts Trump, Because That’s The Kind Of Sh*t He Says Out LoudWonkette 031
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It can be bad to be an enemy of the president, just ask universities. Maybe it’s worse to be a supporter. Ask farmers, working people, members of the military… If you back him, he knows you’re a mark he can bleed dry. 000
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The best thing other outlets could do would be to boycott the White House. It's the obvious move, but it would be especially painful to this administration. Because the whole game is he says he hates the press, and attention is the main thing he craves. If media ever left, he would total melt down 100
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's really hard to describe how much this administration hates the military 001
Reposted by Adam BrooksAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026I closed my trade imbalance with the grocery store, now I just eat the money I would have spent there. 1163179539
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Famously, the president is very particular and data-driven. So when he suggests a rate to the Fed, you know it's the result of rigorous study and modeling. 000
Reposted by Adam BrooksGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026One of the incredible ironies of this era is that the journalists with the least resources to fight malicious prosecution by the gov't are the ones telling the most truth about the camps. And the ones with the most resources and teams of lawyers on staff...are not. 41119270
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Our country is running a system of concentration camps 000
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Absolutely -- fight back, and point out how craven these attacks are. 000
Reposted by Adam Brooks🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026As a matter of solidarity, you stand up for any of the most persecuted groups because you know the attacks against them are fuckery designed to loot our souls. As a matter of strategy, this is what the GOP loves most. An attempt to pander to their base, doomed to do nothing but depress ours. 29722
Reposted by Adam BrooksKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy" 964240848
Reposted by Adam Brooksvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections 555442945
Reposted by Adam BrooksJK @miniver.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I will say again: transphobia performs the some function for contemporary fascism which antisemitism performed for the Nazis 221174
Reposted by Adam BrooksKatie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 302667907
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I actually hate this cartoon, because it buys into the myth that he's a giant of any sort. 000
Reposted by Adam BrooksRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Republicans’ midterm convention last night featured Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for creating a digital drug market. He’s one of the many white collar criminals pardoned by Trump, oftentimes in exchange for hefty donations. Here’s what you need to know.youtube.comTrump’s Pay-to-Pardon SchemeCorporate executives who defraud nursing homes? Pardoned.Reality TV stars who evade millions in taxes? Pardoned.Thousand 371194553
Reposted by Adam BrooksLuigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The entire Republican Party is pro wrestling gimmicks seizing state power 142
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026National political headlines: “Trump encourages voter turnout” 000
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026They are holding this event to set the messaging for the midterm campaign. And what they’re landed on is 100%, mask-off racism. 000
Reposted by Adam BrooksRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Trump has promised multiple stimulus checks (have you received one?) He promised his tariffs would revive U.S. manufacturing (we've lost manufacturing jobs). He promised lower gas prices (they're higher now). He promised to keep us out of new wars (he started one with Iran). Noticing a pattern? 48886255
Reposted by Adam Brooksemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026And FWIW, one reason this is critically important to get right is bc DOJ has used the large numbers of assaults THEY FABRICATED to justify further "conspiracy" investigations into protestors. You can't understand Stephen's crimes w/o understanding that it's virtually ALL made up. 14556178
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A lot of Americans believe at some point we "solved" racism and sexism. They find it hard to believe that we have a presidential administration animated by those principles. (Well, that and greed) 010
Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It’s a huge problem that the national political media treats everything as “welp, there are two sides and we must treat them as equally honest” 000
