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BadJohnBrown

@badjohnbrown.bsky.social
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I believe in your freedom and mine. Trying to figure things out and be a good person. Lives with wife and kids in CA. Get your goddamn laws off my trans brothers and sisters you fucking bigots.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A sentence like this appears in every one of these articles: "Sure I object to everything Trump has ever done, but on the other hand I also disagree with some things about Democrats I made up."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An ICE official desposed for this case was so evasive during a deposition that the judge declared her not credible. At one point, when asked to give a rough estimate of how many people were being held at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC in June 2025, she responded with "there's no such thing as an average."
Despite these facts, ICE officials – particularly Zanello – at other points in this case have attempted to downplay the level of overcrowding that existed during the summer of 2025. As the day-to-day supervisor of the tenth-floor hold rooms who was present on the tenth floor on at least most days from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., she was quite evasive about how many people generally were held there at a time. [see Footnote 114 in next image] 

She would not provide even an estimate. In addition to her unbelievable claims that she could not recall approximately how many people were being held at any given time and that there is no such thing as an average number of people who were being heldFootnote 114: (“Q. Over the summer of 2025 while you were there . . . there were often 100 people held on the [tenth-]floor hold rooms at a time. Right? A. I would have to look at the day. Q. What is your best recollection as you sit here of the average number of people who [were] being held in the [tenth-]floor hold rooms in July 2025? A. There is no average that you can provide . . . . [T]he best I could do was a high and a low. Q. Okay. What’s the high and the low? A. I don’t know. Q. . . . [L]et’s take one time period each day. Let’s take noon . . . . What is your best recollection of how many people were being held there at noon in July? A. . . . . I would have to look at a specific date and time to give you that number . . . . Q. Okay. I’m asking you how many people do you recollect being held? A. It depends on the day. I would have to look at the day. Q. But you have no recollection of what the numbers were like as you sit here today under oath? A. It could have been zero. It could have been max. I don’t know. I would have to look at the day. Q. Okay. Give me a rough estimate of one of the most crowded days you can remember? A. I would have to look at the day. I’m not going to guess on a number. Q. Fair to say that at times there were more than a hundred people at a time? A. I would have to look at the day . . . . Q. But sitting here today you cannot even give a rough estimate of how many people were there? . . . . [A.]Footnote 14 continued.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/09/2026
Good morning: youtu.be/uh7s2jr0b48?...
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We Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026
Now do Amy Acton. I want to also say, Equality Ohio and other progressive dem orgs weakness on holding Amy Acton’s feet to the fire is what lead to Marcy Kaptur feeling emboldened to proceed with her own anti-trans ad.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 23/09/2026
Thanks again for caving @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026
Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's Newsom and Bonta.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If they win or if they lose it will be impossible to say if it was because of ads like this, but at their heart, these tactics are simply immoral and the illusion of triangulating your way to victory is corrupting to the soul.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Nobody posting on fucking Bluesky is affecting the votes of people not on Bluesky. I didn't accept that framing when it was Twitter. I sure as shit don't accept that framing now. "Criticizing Democrats is voter suppression." Shut the fuck up.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Shaq has always been a cop in spirit. And the worst kind of cop. See: reason.com/2010/09/17/s...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2026
Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared. What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.
blockclubchicago.org
ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters
ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 18/09/2026
UPDATE: after a judge ordered the FDA to reconsider abortion pill regulations for being *too* restrictive, the clinic group that sued asks court to retain jurisdiction "given the very real possibility of political interference" in the FDA's ongoing review storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Schiff voted to confirm Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and one of the first things she did was cut $1 billion for a program that paid local farmers to deliver to food banks and schools.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
404media.co
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When everyone is a priority, no one is a priority. That means that Mullin and ICE are going to treat a murderer who just got here with the same level of priority as a guy who’s been here for 25 years raising a family and living like a saint. That’s bad for so many reasons.
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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
EVEN IF THAT WERE A VALID ARGUMENT THERE ISNT EVEN A CONSTITUENCY FOR THIS MESSAGE! IT ISNT A PRIORITY ISSUE FOR *ANYBODY* jfc this drives me absolutely insane, it’s the wrong stance and it isn’t even politically helpful
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/09/2026
They're not going to drop this line of attack just because Talarico uses weasel words. It's only going to increase with Musk's ad spend.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The candidate who understands this could be President someday.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kash Patel posted an AI slop video yesterday about how much the FBI is benefiting from AI. The FBI seal in the video says "Bureal" instead of Bureau.
gizmodo.com
Federal 'Bureal' of Investigation: Kash Patel Posts Embarrassing Slop Video About How Much the FBI Loves AI
Is anybody checking this stuff for accuracy over there?
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BadJohnBrown @badjohnbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump ran over and over on the lie that Biden decimated the military and left it depleted. The exact thing he and Hegseth have done. Like maybe somebody could call out his bullshit.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Aaaaand he’s been fired (presumably for putting all of this in an email to the victim’s lawyers). www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
cbsnews.com
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/09/2026
What a moron. There is no amount of anti-trans you can embrace that will get them to stop running anti-trans ads against you. They run them against each other as Republicans. A new GOP anti-trans ad targeting Dem candidate Sarah Trone Garriott, who herself has adopted an anti-trans sports policy.
youtube.com
IA-03: Kooky
YouTube video by CLFSuperPAC
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In July, a new ICE agent with a history of domestic violence and mental illness killed a man in Maine who even ICE admits posed no threat to him. Now we know that internal whistleblowers at ICE were sounding the alarm about the agency utterly disregarding normal hiring rules.
In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a dire warning.

The Trump administration, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the law and fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency — and its law enforcement operations — to “grave national security risks.”

Citing an “unprecedented lowering of standards,” the career ICE official said that “systemic breakdowns” had allowed applicants to receive job offers before they had passed basic fingerprint, identity or credit checks in a preliminary vetting process. Political appointees had unjustly skirted background investigations and received national security eligibility.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Transparently bullshit political talking points have real-world consequences www.the-express.com/news/us-news...
the-express.com
Widow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:



Auchincloss (MA)	Frankel, Lois (FL)	Mannion (NY)	Scholten (MI)	Titus (NV)
Castor (FL)	Gillen (NY)	Moskowitz (FL)	Schrier (WA)	Torres (NY)
Cisneros (CA)	Golden (ME)	Norcross (NJ)	Sherman (CA)	Vargas (CA)
Costa (CA)	Gonzalez, V. (TX)	Panetta (CA)	Soto (FL)	Vindman (VA)
Courtney (CT)	Landsman (OH)	Perez (WA)	Stevens (MI)	Wasserman Schultz (FL)
Cuellar (TX)	Latimer (NY)	Riley (NY)	Suozzi (NY)	
Davis (NC)	Lee (NV)	Schneider (IL)	Thanedar (MI)
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the attention to Flock has exploded in recent weeks in April, bolts published an article on the length that a Wisconsin town went through to get Flock to take down its cameras — including covering them in trash bags. what the mayor told us:
"“The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product,” Diaz said. “They were never really selling to us in the first place. What they are doing is selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.”"
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BadJohnBrown @badjohnbrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I just had a new good idea ... ... reminiscent of when I came up with the Bernie Light ... and the Fuck Trump light. (I stopped making both during 2020 covid, so 🤷‍♂️) not sure I will make a new one, but idea is fucking great.
A photo of a small projection light, says "Bernie" projects Bernie's face on shit.A photo  of my wall with Bernie Sander's face projected on it, one of my kids in front, arms out, showing how big the projection can get.A photo showing Bernie's face projected on a gate 12' away using the Bernie Light.A photo of a mini light that projects "FUCK TRUMP" on shit.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey mainstream media: here's some interesting fodder for you (in case you have any room at all between your back-to-back-to-back segments on Hasan Piker and Democrats Are Too Woke)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/08/2026
I will never vote for a Democrat that abandons transgender people. It's a cancer and I'll take the pain of a Republican over losing Democrats as a party and therefore losing our rights for an entire generation with nobody left to fight for us. We cannot reward this at all.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
in john roberts’ constitution, congress does not exist and the power of the purse belongs to the president, who is an elected dictator embodying the authentic Will of the People
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wait, he gets to go immediately but a family with a 7 year old and a pregnant mom who was trying to self deport is held for a month?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/08/2026
It was not that long ago Republicans flipped out and began an investigation into whether or not Obama illegally tampered with the "independence" of the FCC for basically saying "net neutrality is good." Now Trump commands the FCC "punish anyone saying anything I dislike"
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BadJohnBrown @badjohnbrown.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Saturday songs Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQp...
youtube.com
Another Saturday Night
YouTube video by Sam Cooke - Topic
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
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BadJohnBrown @badjohnbrown.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is some evergreen shit. Centrist democrats lay the ground work for fascist Republicans. Time and time again.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026
I can’t believe the biggest political scandal that Democrats can’t stop doggedly harping on is that a guy knows a guy but neither guy is the number one or number two guy one would think I would be talking about in this scenario.
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