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Bradly Mason

@alsoacarpenter.bsky.social
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Husband, Father, Catholic Parishioner. Also a Carpenter. Anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist (but I repeat myself). Email: brad@alsoacarpenter.com

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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Perfect!
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When you hear the phrase, "state sponsored terrorism," what comes to mind first? ICE or IDF?
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a very conservative Christian (now Catholic), it has become the most disturbing thing in my life to realize that conservative Christians are literally the most destructive and evil force I've ever seen in American politics. It's so disturbing, TBH.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stunned at the number of "Christians" who think they have to support the modern state of Israel, and its fascist leadership, as they systematically murder thousands, just because their theology is embarrassing 20th century trash.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Doug Eddings is toast, hahaha! Dude was WAY too committed to the bit!
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm curious what the 4D chess is, that Trump is supposedly playing, praising Russia, China, and North Korea while viciously attacking Canada and other close allies. Just seems like dictatorship-envy to me.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Well, that's pretty interesting!
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Again, Christian Nationalism is just another ethno-nationalism, wherein the ethnos is "Christian" (of course, as defined by those seeking to gain political power). Anytime you declare a specific identity or ideology as definitive of the "real" members of a nation or society, you're doing a Hitler.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If it wasn't for decades of economic gaslighting, "poor Republican" would be considered an oxymoron.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Why does no one wonder why Rand Paul plays libertarian lite all day every day, but his state is like the third in the nation for taking more federal money than they contribute? Where are the hearings on that bullshit canard? He's a fraud through and through.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What many are learning is there's no such thing as political democracy without economic democracy.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Maybe if we could get evangelicals and Republicans to think of every human being as a zygote, they could actually become pro-life. So sick of seeing them celebrate death all day every day, ugh.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Jordan Peterson is a complete joke, ugh
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We do not take JP seriously. He's a joke.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I swear many evangelicals are more passionate about the existence of hell than they are of heaven. So long as the "bad guys" suffer for all eternity, after like 12 minutes on earth, they are happy with God. It's their favorite.
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Ryan Egli @ryanegli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@kkdumez.bsky.social putting into eloquent words what I've been sensing the last couple issues of Christianity Today.
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Which way, Christianity Today?
Catching up on changes over at evangelicalism's flagship magazine
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So, have Republicans completely abandoned States' Rights at this point? If so, they are getting closer to being the party of Lincoln, hahahaha
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Christian Nationalism" is just linguistic cover for Mammon Nationalism, America's true god.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
YIKES
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I swear, if they make this guy into some kinda hero I'm gonna lose it, ugh
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sorry, but one of the most important sentences in history, true or false: "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness."
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Republicans used to oppose totalitarianism (at least in words), and they bowed to Trump. Hypocrites, all of them.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So, we tried the anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-woman, anti-brown military, and your Fox News host got a draw, at best. Can we get past MAGA's identity politics now??
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Gave my (other) old man a haircut (maybe even a manscape), and he's looking PRETTY
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Why every election I gotta deal with numbnuts showing me empty red land after an election? Yeah, we know, those heavily populated Blue areas also pay for those twelve hillbillies in the giant Red areas! STFU
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The inattention to Catholic philosophers may prove fatal.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
As a Californian, fuck Trump. This is so evil. We need to kick the Feds out of this state and quit paying all the nation's bills, especially the bills of all you poor, backward MAGA states dependent on OUR tax dollars. Ugh. apnews.com/article/cali...
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US attorney opens investigations into California's elections, sends prosecutor to LA vote center
The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says it has opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's not so much that Trump is too far right, too conservative, wastes our money, is an asshole, etc. We can debate and vote on that stuff. It's that he's an authoritarian with no regard for our law, our democracy, or our system of government. We should all hate totalitarianism.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
If we all just decided to vote against pedo protectors, the Republican Party would be dead.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Trump is not only the most corrupt U.S. president; he is more corrupt than all other corrupt presidents, including Richard Nixon, by orders of magnitude." www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-editor...
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A Presidential Smash and Grab
Trump is not only the most corrupt president in American history—he is more corrupt than all other corrupt presidents by orders of magnitude.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." (Matt 6:24) This is political.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I don't want to have anything to do with the "god" of our Founders, to be honest, yikes.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
As seen at church today:
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Same, brother!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026
yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?
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Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’
In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Even when Republicans talk about "affordability," they still just mean, "racist brown people are taking my money."
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
All these "evangelicals" went absolutely crazy over "CRITICAL RACE THEORY!!!" and guess what, assholes, everything CRT said would happen ABSOLUTELY IS happening! So over y'all fake Christians.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I wrote this some years ago, seems quite relevant given recent (absolutely abhorrent) SCOTUS decision: alsoacarpenter.com/2021/06/23/a...
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“Systemic Racism,” in the Key of CRT
“Systemic racism” can be a difficult concept to grasp, largely because “racism” is commonly understood as an exclusively individual and intentional affair. Thus, most Americans begin with an idea o…
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Apparently the "Jesus" MAGA follows loves earthly empire, war, racism, misogyny, bigotry, hatred of the poor, lying, adultery, rape, social darwinism, terrorizing the sojourner, etc. Some of us prefer to call that one "The Devil."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🚨BREAKING: According to exclusive research by Democracy Docket, the Supreme Court’s ruling will likely derail at least 28 pro-voting lawsuits that aim to stop state legislatures from drawing electoral maps that dilute the voting power of racial minorities. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court ruling derails 28 lawsuits defending minority voting rights, Democracy Docket research finds
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A Supreme Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places the Court at odds with democracy itself. This is the legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts. I opposed his nomination back in 2005, and I stand by that.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hey, I've been 86'd multiple times, yet somehow I'm still alive, hahaha! These people are dopes.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'd say the Voting Rights Act is officially dead after this completely idiotic SCOTUS ruling, ugh.
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Looks like the gun worshipers are sad about guns again.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
(getting dressed up in a tuxedo to go see an 80-year old racist insult comic who is also a serial sex offender and also responsible for the deaths of innocents across the globe) I'm a journamalist!
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Buying a new house that supposedly has the largest or second largest Oak in Stockton, CA!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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