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Brock

@badgertales.bsky.social
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Higher Ed fundraiser; Proud SUNY Geneseo alum; #BillsMafia; Cat & Dog Dad, human children terrify me. Actively rooting for #Asteroid2032. He/him Views are my own.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 17/09/2026
Donald Trump says we're not at war and that it's all "small potatoes." Someone should make him say that to Gold Star spouse Libby Klinner's face. Trump may think 18 dead service members is nothing, but there's nothing small about it for the families who lose a loved one. @gunnyspeaksout.bsky.social
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Brock @badgertales.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m not sure even @nytpitchbot.bsky.social could’ve done better than this
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
* CARNEY SAYS U.S. TERMS IN TRADE TALKS MEANT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES EITHER WOULD BECOME U.S. SUBSIDIARIES OR BE WOUND DOWN * CANADA SAYS WE CAN START HAVING TRADE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE U.S. WHEN "AMERICANS STOP DOING MEMES, STOP THROWING SHADE, STOP TRYING TO BE TOUGH AND START BEING SERIOUS"
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's so weird how "As Speaker of the House, I have no idea what's going on... Like, in general," is an effective way to deflect scandal rather than being a massive scandal in itself.
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Brock @badgertales.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No one is surprised. Kudos to the person who is shining the light on this from the inside.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s not “an oil deal with Venezuela.” It’s Trump kidnapping an autocrat, refusing to hold elections, then leaving the remainder of the regime in place but only if they allow him to pillage their natural resources, which they are doing to remain in power oppressing the people.
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’ve heard the DeSantis administration have “misspent” “missued” and “misappropriated” $10 million from a Medicaid settlement.  Call it what it is. They stole $10 million. 
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On CNN just now, a former state representative from NY just blurted out this “24,000 aliens voting” stat, and because live fact-checking is beyond the ability of one of the world’s largest, best-financed newsrooms, the claim went completely unchallenged apnews.com/article/fact...
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FACT FOCUS: Census Bureau report does not prove Trump's claim about noncitizen voting in 2020
In his most recent challenge to the results of the 2020 U.S. election, President Donald Trump this week cited a report claiming to show that thousands of noncitizens voted, a practice studies have fou...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Brock @badgertales.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s because he knows he’s nearing the end. His dementia is worse every day; he’s at Walter Reed receiving secret treatments regularly. He makes bizarre statements like using the military against THE BOND MARKET. 🤨 For a malignant narcissist like him, this is obvious behavior at his stage of life.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A competent press corps would be all over him— wtf does that mean? Is the president insane? How do you deploy the military against the bond market? This should be top of the fold, top of every newscast but we are being sanewashed to death
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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tell ’em, Reagan: “We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends — weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire Free World — all while cynically waving the American flag.” Thank you.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Confederates always think it's a war of northern agression
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Upton Sinclair - “In my 1906 novel The Jungle, I wrote about the horrors of the meatpacking industry as a cautionary tale.” REPUBLICANS - “At long last, we have created the horrors of the meatpacking industry from the classic literature novel, The Jungle.”
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Michael McCann @mccannsportslaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Kai Spears defeats the New York Times in his defamation lawsuit and is awarded $9.25 million in damages. Wrote about this case and related issues in a new law review article published by the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“I don’t speak politician,” says the candidate yammering on about her state’s imaginary problem with trans athletes.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It says something about the defects in our media ecosystem when the biggest story in the world is an illegal war and the "deal" that was signed two months ago to "end" it has just expired and was revealed to be a complete fraud...and the media barely notices and no one challenges Trump on it.
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Brock @badgertales.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
bUt Ai Is tHe BeSt ThInG tO hApPeN tO hUmAnS eVeR
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Israeli settlers on the West Bank are so completely out of control, even Mike Huckabee is pissed off. www.npr.org/2026/08/13/g...
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U.S. ambassador calls settler siege of Palestinian homes a 'horrific act of terror'
The U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Kelly Miller @kellylmiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Fewer "Trump official says" stories and more "our investigation found" ones, please.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We keep screaming from the rafters that we are being fired/not hired in numbers that can only be due to discrimination, but no one cares.
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Macster @millhousebooty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
First need a mass campaign to make sure everyone sees this graph
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Perfect message and messenger for the midterms. Can’t fail.
Bessent Declares Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor 'Dead'
Despite data to the contrary, the Treasury Secretary made the case that the K-shaped economy no longer exists.
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Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...
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ApplesHardcoreYo @appleshardcoreyo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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💙Alice🗽📷 @alice676688.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The entire purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority—the individual. It limits the government’s power to harm individuals. The entire Constitution is designed to limit the power of the government
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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
That Trump was willing to imprison an American Olympic Athlete over a disgusting lie should scare the crap out of all Americans. 😡
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Trump family said they were “debanked” for political reasons after Jan. 6—and used that to justify going hard into crypto. Turns out Capital One flagged them for money laundering. And then Blanche wrote the memo shielding the Trump family from IRS audits? Hm.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
X views are a total mirage. Whatever Musk reports is certainly a lie. They won't let anyone study the platform for a reason: It's entirely fake; it's a billion Russian bots pretending to be your girlfriend.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Football federations did more to stand up to Infantino and FIFA in a week than most Senate Republicans have stood up to Donald Trump in almost a decade.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I don't recall CBS being the megaphone for the administration to this extent, say, a year ago. They get a lot of these, um, 'scoops'
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Brock @badgertales.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nailed on the head. Well written and reasoned; it’s a shame the WHCA couldn’t figure this out themselves, and in time to avoid such an embarrassment.
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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
You know what’s sad? Americans deserve the truth about an elected official and not one republican will step out of line to tell the truth about Mitch McConnell. And it’s even sadder that there’s a damn line at all. I’m so tired of this god forsaken era we’re all being forced to live through.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“After months of insisting the dinner was worth reviving in the name of the First Amendment … the organization instead handed Trump a nationally televised platform to demean the very journalists it exists to represent,” @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/the-white-...
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The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace
The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Part of an old Jewish (Hillel) saying goes, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” Last night, the most visible part of our national press corps showed they won’t stand up for each other. And they undermined not just themselves, but every local news reporter who must put up with far worse.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026
Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE killed a random guy today.
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Brock @badgertales.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I fully believe that Mitch being secretly kept alive while brain dead was HIS OWN IDEA, but that he didn’t plan for an eventuality like this, or at least this one specifically. Otherwise, he’d have prepared statements for his aides to release that would serve as the “photo with today’s newspaper.”
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Last spring, over 1000 FBI analysts were told to review and redact the Epstein Files. Sources confided that there were training videos instructing them on how to find, log, and redact Trump’s name. The FBI just sent me their response confirming the videos exist.” open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: FBI Admits it has Epstein Files Training Videos
In a letter sent to me in response to my Freedom of Information Act Request, the FBI admits to having training videos that it failed to release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Todd Blanche fired the DOJ pardon attorney for refusing to restore gun rights to convicted domestic abuser Mel Gibson…as a favor for a friend of Trump Then he sent US Marshals to her home to intimidate her into silence This man cannot be AG Full story @contrariannews.org 👇 -TN
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Over 100 Judges Can’t be Wrong: Why Todd Blanche is Unfit to be Attorney General
Publisher's Roundup 75
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Guy tries to make a Monopoly edition around the 250th birthday, wants to source domestically after tariffs, and realizes that America can't make dice. Dice! www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...
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What a Monopoly importer learned when it tried to make things in the U.S.A.
After getting hit with tariffs for the imported board games he sells, Jonathan Silva decided to see if he could produce a version of his Monopoly game in the United States. This is what he learned.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You really have to admire Antifa’s artistic skill. With nothing but box cutters, they somehow managed to perfectly recreate the intricate look of poorly applied paint peeling off concrete that had concentrated peroxide dumped all over it. Incredible craftsmanship.
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Really American @reallyamerican.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for an investigation into deaths at ICE concentration camps. @theguardian.com and @france24.com covered it. Can anyone find AMERICAN coverage of this development? Our media is complicit in the coverup: news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Deaths in US immigration custody must be investigated: UN rights chief
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday called for stronger independent oversight of the United States immigration detention system and investigations into all deaths in US Immigra...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The same man who will pardon you if you ransack the Capitol and smear your feces on its wall will throw you in jail if you wiggle your fingers in the water of the Reflecting Pool.
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Woj @swojack.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
And literally none of his companies have done anything but decline and fail to generate even 1/50th the revenue to justify their "value." The richest man in history has gotten there basically with endless failed promises that in 2 years he'd harvest the raw wealth of the entire universe.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The trillionaire mark is just a milestone. Musk already had enough money to personally buy a whole company or single-handedly influence a presidential election. But we should consider what it means that one man has amassed so much wealth and power — and the speed at which he is doing so.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.
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