Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Defector @defector.com · 07/04/2026I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...defector.comI Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | DefectorThere is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then... 13178382141
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you 103143333328
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 09/03/2026My information consumption is now 1/4 my cat, 1/4 my dog, 1/4 my other cat, and 1/4 things I read two weeks ago and am misremembering. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily. 030
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile. 15764953271
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026blogged it defector.com/how-hard-is-...defector.comHow Hard Is It To Oppose Murder? | DefectorBy now you’ve almost certainly seen the video for yourself, or read about it: an ICE agent shooting a Minneapolis woman, Renee Nicole Good, in the head from point-blank range, killing her as she attem... 1242597
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11/12/2025For those people who don't want to hear the verse and only like the chorus, here's the trick and celebration with his kids and none of the fat. Congrats buddy, you showing out for the old heads. Also Joslin is ripped up, man 923345
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Learned today that around 1990, Mercedes-Benz briefly offered a "mobile office" package for the W126 S-Class that included a fully functioning printer, scanner, and fax machine built into an armrest. 1451591
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Things I don't need AI to do: •Incorrect facts •Art •Therapy •Recipes •Jobs •Summarizing documents •Copyright infringement Things I would like the AI people to work on: •Make the volume the same for tv shows and commericals •Make the volume the same for conversations and action scenes in movies 130
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 24/10/2025there’s something distasteful in the way people describe the poor as having only their economic plight guide their values. it feels almost condescending, as though they can’t walk and chew gum and think that disrespecting an historic office is bad. 1504605572
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩SFGATE @sfgate.com · 17/10/2025Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of Kiss, has died. He was 74.bit.lyAce Frehley, Kiss' original lead guitarist and founding member, dies at 74Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss who captivated audiences with his elaborate makeup and smoke-filled guitar, has died. He was 74. Frehley's agent... 23810
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2025Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her 6202914713795
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely. 21255182747
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 10/07/2025gofund.me/2d4a18f9gofund.meDonate to Skokie Community: Rally for Family Support, organized by Katie HollenbergOne of our Skokie neighbors, a beloved father and grandfather, has been ta… Katie Hollenberg needs your support for Skokie Community: Rally for Family Support 020
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Evanston IL” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...mobilize.usNO KINGS Evanston IL · No Kings**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie... 000
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Idea: at the end of the NBA season, the three players with the most fouls get to ref a game played by the referees 020
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Love seeing the US transitioning to 1600s Europe economic policy. Really sticking it to Adam Smith and David Ricardo. 020
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Jake Trowbridge @jaketrowbridge.bsky.social · 09/03/2025DK Metcalf and George Pickens reporting to Steelers training camp 324429
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Defector @defector.com · 28/02/2025There are other people in the world: defector.com/there-are-ot...defector.comThere Are Other People In The World | DefectorPay attention to the things around you! Be aware of the space you take up, and the space other people take up, and when those two things might come into conflict! 518938
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Democrats protesting Trump's address to congress: 020
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"We can all hope that this rift between European democratic states and the US is temporary and certainly try to minimise it if possible. But we should not delude ourselves" Ex-AG Dominic Grieve writes for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...prospectmagazine.co.ukFor now, the transatlantic alliance is overTrump seems more interested in a deal with Putin than in Ukraine. Europe must rise to this challenge to avoid wider war on our continent 412738
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3" 90125932288
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/02/2025We cannot trust RFK Jr. to make health care decisions that will affect millions of families. 1855426759
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩onion person @junlper.beer · 10/01/2025we had a great 8 years of it being acceptable to be publicly queer but the right tapped into their hysteria and are trying to push us back decades. this is why the left warned of relying on rainbow capitalism because their support was about profit above all else. the solution is for us to not hide 112135164416
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Winter break is over. Back to the grind. *Joining Teams calls and immediately tuning them out* 010
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩melomys @melomys.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now. 8335601115
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Today’s the day. It’s the 2024 Hater’s Guide to the Williams Sonoma catalog! defector.com/the-2024-hat...defector.comThe 2024 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector[walks out to greet you as you pull into my circular driveway] There you are! Oh my goodness, look at you! You look so festive! Why don’t you leave your bags in the breezeway for now and come on in? A... 1191872373
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Allen @guyforget.online · 14/12/2024nuggets g league team in grand rapids really got these dudes playing as elf 772271237
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Playing Red Dead Redemption (going around camp and petting all the horses) 020
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 15/11/2024blogged it defector.com/what-the-fuc...defector.comWhat The Fuck Is A "Vaccine Skeptic"? | DefectorAt darker moments, contesting this kind of stuff in the wake of the 2024 election—and all the shameless, shameful, unforgivable work the American media did to produce that election’s outcome—feels as ... 531435376
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Hey! 👋🏽 I’m back. Is anyone still here or seeing this? 6162839573561
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Defector @defector.com · 06/11/2024This place is all fucked up: defector.com/this-place-i...defector.comThis Place Is All Fucked Up | DefectorIt doesn’t appear to have been close. Georgia flipped for Trump. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, too. The Blue Wall crumbled like Jericho’s. Just about everywhere voted redder than in 2020. Young people w... 7656215
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · 01/11/2024Republican talking points in the final week of the campaign: 9927223
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 30/10/2024My column this morning is meant for you to send to your insufficiently-alarmed friends. prospect.org/politics/202... 623997
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 01/10/2024With each new investigation, we add another sign 2898893
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 01/10/2024The NFL needs to put the Commander on prime time for the rest of the season. 010
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 27/09/2024I did not see that second paragraph coming and indeed cannot imagine any weighting of my own parameters under which I COULD have seen it coming 0291
Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩 @b180.bsky.social · 19/09/2024They said it couldn’t be done, but I defied all odds. 010
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/08/2024I wrote about the increasingly ineffective politics of Constantly Losing Your Shit About Everything. defector.com/men-on-the-v...defector.comMen On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown | Defector“Tim Walz is not trans,” the reactionary influencer Christopher Rufo tweeted on Tuesday. “But he knows about cross-sex hormones. He’s familiar with breast binders. He has a soft spot for tucking.” Ruf... 481179301
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Defector @defector.com · 19/07/2024You motherfuckers forgot about Dayton: defector.com/you-motherfu...defector.comYou Motherfuckers Forgot About Dayton | DefectorYou thought you could get away with it, didn’t you? You self-satisfied buffoons actually thought that you could have a whole Wings Week, and laugh amongst yourselves, and have blogs about cities like ... 1223
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 05/07/2024The fact that only the president enjoys complete immunity, and that he also has the power of pardon is part of what is so terrifying about the ruling. It means that those beneath him are entirely at his good graces and arbitrary will. It's a power machine, not a check on his power. 410030
Reposted by Brendan Karl Michael 💦🥩Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2024New, from me: The Future is Terror donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-future...donmoynihan.substack.comThe Future is TerrorTrumpism ushered in an era of threats, intimidation and retribution. It is getting worse. 313049
