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Ben Bradley

@benjamin-bradley.bsky.social
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He/him Systems Librarian @ the University of Maryland 🏳️‍🌈Gay 🧑‍🏫Sweater-clad, cat-dad librarian Talk to me about: 🧶crochet, 🎲board games, 🎮video games, 📝 role-playing, housing, and transit

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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Finally, blue states did receive more in COVID-19 relief funds, but red states have disproportionately benefited from Biden’s signature legislation—IRA, CHIPS, IIJA—by as much as fivefold.”
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Since the BRAC Commission first began their reviews in 1988, the proportion of bases located in red-state-dominate regions (i.e., Southeast, Southwest) increased by 6 percentage points compared to a decrease of 7 percentage points in blue-state-dominate regions (i.e., Northeast, Mid-Atlantic)”
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Republicans in power punish blue states. Dems in power invest in red states.
time.com
Blue States Are Bailing Out Red States
An assessment of state-level inflows and outflows of federal funds finds red states are being propped up by blue states.
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
They don't know what the Library of Congress is.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Boire is talking about a person having a right to control the processes of their brain enabling them to think and believe for themselves. It’s the difference between requiring a class and literally brainwashing a worker to believe something.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Which appears to be a reference to: “each person has an inviolable right to think… . It must mean, at a minimum, that each person is free to direct one’s own consciousness; one’s own underlying mental processes, and one’s beliefs, opinions, and worldview. This is self-evident and axiomatic.”
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Antelman:“Boire elaborates the legal protections for freedom of thought by dividing them into three rights: the right to keep your thoughts and opinions private; the right not to have your thoughts and opinions manipulated; and the right not to be penalized for your thoughts and opinions”
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Boire is focused on the right to not be mind controlled, whether by removing a literal piece of your brain, drugging you, or torturing you for your conscious reality (ie you’re queer).
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Antelman seems to fundamentally misunderstand what her sources mean by “cognitive liberty.” She outright conflates it with “freedom of thought” in the first section. For Boire, these were separate things.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The cited article is in his organization’s journal where he frequently published. Sometimes 2,3,4 or more articles in an issue. Doesn’t appear to be peer reviewed or anything.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I randomly checked 1 source, Boire’s On Cognitive Liberty part 1. Boire seems to be a lawyer who opposes the war on drugs and advocates for the “right to self-determine our own brain states” (getting high) starting in the 90’s it looks like.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The penguins were tough, but he somehow got through to them
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Wtaf
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/05/2025
seems like trump mainly uses “low IQ” to describe black people. of a piece with his birtherism and his insistence that there are specific, low-wage “black jobs” that must be protected from immigrants
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Zuck: the average American has three friends.
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of a frog with a scarf around its neck jumping in the air
Alt: a cartoon of three kappas with a scarf around their necks jumping in the air
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Oh wow you learned. This certainly can’t also be a joke.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
KKK getting a man on the inside
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Adam Smith @asmith83.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I love this new free speech regime. popular.info/p/fortune-50...
popular.info
Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
When your bus that runs every 30 minutes is now like hourly because there aren’t enough bus operators. 😓😭
Screen shot that reads:

Service Advisory:
F6 Service Alert: Expect delays in both directions on Route F6 because of operator availability.
Check your bus location by visiting https://buseta.wmata.com/#F6
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Ginny Bixby @ginnybixbywrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Strathmore in North Bethesda will host a World Pride concert that was removed from the Kennedy Center's lineup following Trump's takeover: bethesdamagazine.com/2025/04/28/s...
bethesdamagazine.com
Strathmore to host World Pride event dropped by Kennedy Center
The International Pride Orchestra will perform a concert at the North Bethesda performing arts venue at 7:30 p.m on June 5.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So. He assigned a textbook that didn’t have the readings in it because he didn’t check. He could have just outright assigned an older edition. Schools have libraries and he could have just emailed his subject librarian without the need to “scramble” for a pdf. 🙄
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It is some weird vibes thing. The US has tons of manufacturing jobs that aren’t being filled. What would the benefit be to having more manufacturing jobs? People feel that more manufacturing jobs would be good, but most of those people don’t want to work in manufacturing themselves.
cato.org
Americans Think Increased Manufacturing Employment Would Be Good for the Country but Not for Themselves
A recent Cato Institute–commissioned poll found that while a large majority think more Americans should be employed in manufacturing, most respondents have little personal interest in such jobs.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I can’t get over the idea that robotaxis will somehow fund welfare in a way that existing industries apparently don’t.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This has to be a joke
In sum, the best way for Democrats to demonstrate they are the party of the working people is not just by promising to protect people's entitlements for another generation, but also by nurturing new industries, like robotaxis, that will fund them for another generation.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Well when they don’t collect mortality data, Americans will be immortal! Can’t argue with those results
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Nooooooooooooo. Activision/Blizzard corpo? Microtransactions? There’s going to be a cooldown on messages but you’ll be able to buy a cooldown boost item
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
nytimes.com
U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Oh hey it’s something Schumer and Lindsey Graham proposed: www.cnet.com/tech/tech-in...
cnet.com
Senators push Obama for biometric national ID card
In a meeting with the president, Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham say that a federally issued ID card with biometric information such as a handprint is necessary to curb illegal immigration.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Awww did baby make a boom boom?
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
As Press Secretary she defended Trump doing this to other states.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/04/2025
Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid
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Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Leadership @stonemaiergames.com takes action. They'll join @pacificlegal.bsky.social's suit against the Trump Administration over the sweeping new tariffs on China.
polygon.com
Wingspan developer Stonemaier Games intends to sue Trump over tariffs
‘I try to lead with compassion and empathy, so legal action is very low on my list of ways to handle difficult situations’
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Using medical records to build a federal "database of people with autism" is, among many other things, going to encourage (more) people to lie to their doctor. To hide information from their nurse. To compromise their health out of, justified, fear.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When it was at this level under Biden, the dollar was increasing in value after it’s dropped with Covid/Trump.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025
there's a county in Alabama where Black people are literally getting sick because the government doesn't provide a working sewer system, and Trump's Justice Department is trying to keep it that way apparently Black people with indoor plumbing is "illegal DEI" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org
Trump DOJ: Providing Basic Sewer Services to Black People Is Actually “Illegal DEI”
The Trump administration has nixed a 2023 settlement that was building modern sanitation infrastructure in Lowndes County, a predominantly Black county in Alabama.
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Agree, with a hint (or a ton) of derision
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2025
NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.
propublica.org
Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 19/04/2025
ErinReed [Apr 19] -- in a legislative frenzy akin to what disability scholars call "eugenics policymaking" in which states seek to legislate some lives out of civil existence, Reps introduced 867 anti-trans bills for 2025. Top issues are care (122) & bathrooms (77). @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
erininthemorning.com
Over 850 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Filed In 2025; Most In History
2025 has been a difficult year for transgender people. Over 850 bills targeting the community have been filed, the most in United States history.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 18/04/2025
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen did what Trump refuses to do: help at least one American family. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
dailykos.com
Senator's El Salvador trip exposes lies behind wrongful deportation
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland secured a meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on Thursday, fulfilling the promise he made to the Maryland man’s family after he was abducted…
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
He wants to institutionalize people on the autistic spectrum in much the same way he wants to put everyone on antidepressants, ADHD medication, or illegal drugs to rural work camps indefinitely.
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Seth Grimes @sethgrimes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
200 strong is downtown Silver Spring, in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and appreciation of @vanhollen.senate.gov's efforts to win his return to the US.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The American people built a way to file taxes for free and now they're burning it down to enrich the predatory tax-prep industry who helped Trump get elected. Hail to the thief.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Ben Bradley @benjamin-bradley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Will republicans need to think of a new vegetable for school lunches?
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Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
bringing manufacturing back to the US
It's the Star Wars Droid Factory by Kenner sitting in front of its box.  It has lots of parts to make your own droid robots.  I got one of these when I was five, and wish I still had it.
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