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Brian Drury

@bdgarp.bsky.social
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OFCS, Rotten Tomatoes, Author of Dreams of Perfection Music is Everything More and more young Americans, already fed up with fascism, resorting to poetry.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/09/2026
"internal financial documents show that ticket sales steeply declined after Mr. Trump’s takeover of the institution, and plunged even further after his name was added to the building" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/a...
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say (Gift Article)
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Kim @kmbrly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Border terrorist Tom Homan, after a 58th person has died in ICE custody: “We're not gonna apologize. You can hate us all you want, we're not going anywhere. ICE will continue”.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The president barred US reporters, while welcoming Chinese reporters who answer to the communist dictatorship in Beijing. This would be the same president who's running government-paid TV advertising vowing to stop the United States from becoming communist..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
nytimes.com
In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.
The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I simply do not want to see innocent children being detained. Prisons are not a place for innocent children...” “We need to go to these board meetings... to all our other meetings, our city council. We need to be in all these spaces and insist upon being heard.” veritenews.org/2026/09/22/o...
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Opponents of Alexandria ICE detention facility hold community forum - Verite News New Orleans
The England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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V Pace @vpace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The profession most likely to domestically abuse has been given tools to make that even easier. Good job everyone.
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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imagine if anyone with any power stopped being a coward.
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Brian Drury @bdgarp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The timing of Trump banning the free press while hosting a state dinner for China was no coincidence. The last 24 hours has taken an ominous turn.
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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s weird the communists are calling everyone else communists.
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nickforbrains 🏳️‍🌈 @nickforbrains.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The reason Mike Johnson is so servile is because he is some kind of sex offender. Has to be.
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Kim @kmbrly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My dad’s in the hospital. The ICU told my mom they were moving him to a hospital on the opposite end of the city due to space constraints. It just so happens I’ve been looking for a fight and know they can’t without consent unless there were to be an extreme emergency event. I won.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026
Read Mikhal Zygar on Umar Kremlev, the oligarch who helped pay for Don Jr's wedding zygaro.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The family of a 37-year-old woman who died while pregnant filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, alleging state law prevented her from getting a potentially life-saving abortion.
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Family of Texas woman who died after being denied an abortion sues Paxton, medical providers
“The basic principle here is you cannot take away someone’s life, as a state, and not be held liable for doing so,” a lawyer for the family said.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The United States Post Office is only receives, processes, carries, and delivers the mail. It has ZERO role in deciding what mail does or does not get delivered.
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Brian Drury @bdgarp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When was the last time the Republicans didn't trash the economy?
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ceej @ceej.online · 16/09/2026
good pants used to be $50. bad pants used to be $15. now good pants are $150 and bad pants are $75, which means good pants are more attainable than ever before
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"I vote no. I mean, I vote yes. I mean... pudding."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mitch McConnell nearly voted “no” with Democrats until Republicans stepped in and reminded him which way they wanted him to vote.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Exceptional journalism from @newyorker.com on Jared Kushner's catastrophic diplomacy, conflicts of interest, arrogance. He represents "a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In defence of @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu’s grim argument that we are living in a new and corrupt world order. (You only have to look at Farage and Trump to know she’s right.) Plus, for subscribers, an appreciation of her work
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The corrupt world order
Anne Applebaum and an “empire of grift”
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 50s had their, "Have you no sense of decency?" We have, "Why would you even get into bestiality?"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny
Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Only dictators need to advertise themselves with triumphal arches when they don’t have any triumphs to celebrate www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Plans Announced to Break Ground on Trump’s Triumphal Arch Before Final Approval (Gift Article)
Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, announced plans to start work on the site of the 250-foot-tall triumphal arch. Final approval of the project is still pending.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2026
According to the @wsj.com, the deal in Venezuela will "give the US a "stake in a private company that would be granted centurylong rights to some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves" and also tie the U.S. to the "unelected government that is granting those rights." www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Exclusive | Inside Trump’s Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches
The deal capped months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/09/2026
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The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored
The conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled this afternoon that the state's new Republican-drawn congressional map can't be used in the November midterms. Given that I'm from Missouri...this makes me especially happy.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BEST. CAPTION. EVER. 🤣🤣🤣
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
say a prayer for all the linkedin warriors staring blankly at their screens because they forgot how to do anything without AI assistants
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All the Major AI Chatbots Are Experiencing Outages Right Now
We just hope it's not the start of the robot uprising.
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Brian Drury @bdgarp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Who needs 9/11 when Trump is your president?
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Kim Sherrell @web.kim · 03/09/2026
Ted Cruz never appears in the Epstein files mainly because he was careful to leave no evidence (aside from a rumored trail of bodies & cryptic ciphers).
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Brian Drury @bdgarp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't think robbing the treasury, desecrating our monuments and destroying our natural resources is what the founding fathers had in mind for the presidency.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is called imperialism. We are profiting from the use of force in another country. American are not imperialists. We fought against empire to obtain our independence.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our outrage is simmering. It needs to be at a boil. joycevance.substack.com/p/about-liam...
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About Liam Ramos
Everyone remembers Liam Ramos.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.
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Brian Drury @bdgarp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pretty soon the only place you'll be able to find authentic content is on the black market, like pantyhose during WWII.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/08/2026
This is what the fake "free speech" advocates have built: an administration that harasses critics. Produce research showing the expensive National Guard deployments didn't lower crime? Get sued by Trump's lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026
Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/08/2026
Happy 35th anniversary to Ukraine, a country I first visited when it was still part of the Soviet Union. In a single generation Ukraine has transformed itself into a symbol of bravery, resilience and independence. Ukrainians should be proud.
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Brian Drury @bdgarp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries has unified the dems in that they're all wondering what the fuck he's doing negotiating with Jared Kushner.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My heart is breaking. In addition to her musical talents, she was an exemplary human being. R I P Dolly Parton www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
IDK, you guys ... losing Dolly, Hayden, and my best friend's father all in under two weeks just feels like too much for me. I'm trying to do normal things, but I just want to go back to bed and cry. Dolly probably wouldn't want that, though, would she? She was always so positive and inspiring.
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Brian Drury @bdgarp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If there was one thing the Trump base was adamant about, it was a war with Canada.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The more we bully other countries to get our way, the more we push them toward China. That's not putting America first.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Abolish ICE apnews.com/article/bord...
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ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July. That marks the highest single-month total during the second Trump administration.
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Brian Drury @bdgarp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I miss edible food.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 25/08/2026
Maxwell’s petition for a new trial was “meritless” and often “frivolous,” the judge wrote, and the evidence she provided only “incriminates her” further.
forbes.com
Judge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s Request To Overturn Conviction
Maxwell’s petition for a new trial was “meritless” and often “frivolous,” the judge wrote, and the evidence she provided only “incriminates her” further.
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