Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 05/08/2025The Government talked a good game on sewage but their targets have failed to wash with the public. We must give the new regulator the powers it needs to hold these water companies accountable for the damage they are doing. 186
Reposted by Brian Dossandy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 05/08/202575th @clpvirginia.org episode! @biodoss.bsky.social @frashure.bsky.social & I explore liberalism as the bulwark against abuse ➕ Virginia's upcoming elections, Maine's Secretary of State resists the DOJ & Chris shares who he'd fire first: Jerry Jones or Donald Trump? open.spotify.com/episode/3j8a...open.spotify.comLiberalism: The Bulwark against abusive government. Plus, Maine stiff arms the DOJCommonwealth Classical Liberal Podcast · Episode 002
Reposted by Brian Dossandy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 26/06/2025“Principles Matter.” Iran Strikes & the Virginia & NYC Primaries. @biodoss.bsky.social @frashure.bsky.social & I discuss recent 🇺🇸 military action against Iran & then shared some thoughts on #Virginia & New York City's primaries, as I shared some things to celebrate. open.spotify.com/episode/2fzJ...open.spotify.com“Principles Matter.” Iran Strikes and the Virginia and NYC PrimariesCommonwealth Classical Liberal Podcast · Episode 002
Reposted by Brian DossMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 26/06/2025"Almost all the gay men, trans people and lesbians who have confided in me that they don’t agree with this have said so sotto voce lest anyone overhear. That’s the intolerant and illiberal atmosphere that now exists in the gay, lesbian and transgender space." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way 354
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 03/06/2025"Thames Water piled up nearly £20 billion in debt while pumping sewage into our rivers and lakes. The price of this failure must not be paid by the customers." @timfarron.bsky.social 011741
Reposted by Brian Dossandy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 06/05/2025New @clpvirginia.org pod as @biodoss.bsky.social @frashure.bsky.social & I discuss the Virginia Lieutenant Governor's race & ranked choice voting coming to Charlottesville. We look at John Reid (R), Marlow Jones (I) & a crowded Democratic field. open.spotify.com/episode/2J63... #Virginia #politicsopen.spotify.comVirginia’s Lt. Governor’s race: A MAGA, an independent, and six Democrats walk into an election…Commonwealth Classical Liberal Podcast · Episode 123
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 28/03/2025Yesterday saw the biggest cuts to carer's allowance for decades. Half a billion pounds will be taken away from those who care. It is a double whammy to the most vulnerable, hitting disabled people who cannot work while slashing support for the loved ones who care for them. - Steve Darling MP 15718
Reposted by Brian DossKevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025The Liberal Party of Pennsylvania is looking for a candidate for Commonwealth Court Judge. If you're a lawyer in Pennsylvania, you are qualified to run. If you agree with our platform, we will help you get on the ballot. Message me for more information! www.liberalpartyusa.org/platformliberalpartyusa.orgPlatform - Liberal Party USA 22110
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 04/03/2025We are on the verge of a historic betrayal of Ukraine by the United States. The Government must seize the tens of billions of pounds worth of Russian assets in our country and use them to support Ukraine. 617755
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 04/03/2025JD Vance’s comments are deeply disrespectful to all those who have bravely served in the British Armed Forces, including those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and sadly did not return home. 213634
Reposted by Brian DossMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/02/2025RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware 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. 18795037717613
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 27/01/2025"To do this, we must be vigilant in our opposition to hatred, discrimination and oppression, and vigilant in defence of peace, human rights and compassion." www.libdems.org.uk/news/article/ed-… libdems.org.ukEd Davey marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2025Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. 1266
Reposted by Brian DossThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/01/2025A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — in computer models and found no evidence of long-term weakening over the past 60 years.washingtonpost.comIs a key ocean current system slowing down? A new study adds to the debateA team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — in computer models and found no evidence of long-term weakening ... 2115129
Reposted by Brian DossHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 27/01/2025This is Musk's new pinned tweet. - It's Latin meaning "no one provokes me and gets away with it." - He attributes it to Sulla, the Roman general who marched on Rome, named himself dictator and launched a notorious reign of terror, executing much of the city's elite. - It's never linked to Sulla. 2962856660
Reposted by Brian Doss"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Yeah, I cannot stress enough - anyone coming in unironically declaring that Sulla is cool is either an idiot who doesn't know very much about Sulla, a narcissistic monster who should be yeeted out of polite society, or both. 30855155
Reposted by Brian Dossandy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 27/01/2025#liberalism: '...protecting & enhancing the freedom of the individual (is) the central problem of politics. #Liberals ...believe... gov. is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others, but...also recognize... gov. itself can pose a threat...” andyjabbour.substack.com/p/the-weeken... 051
Reposted by Brian DossElizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 27/01/2025The Bank Secrecy Act regime forces banks to report customers to the government for an ever-growing list of “red flags.” reason.com/2025/01/25/t...reason.comBanks are narcing on you because Congress forces them toThe Bank Secrecy Act regime forces banks to report customers to the government for an ever-growing list of “red flags.” 57322
Reposted by Brian DossAaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 27/01/2025This is a very dead horse, but I do hope that if democracy survives, my progressive friends will take to heart the lesson that, yes, concentrating more power in the state can get you what you want when you're in control—but it also means bad people can use it for bad things when they're in control. 106811
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Party USA @liberalpartyusa.org · 27/01/2025By a 2 to 1 majority, Americans want to expand legal immigration and provide a way for undocumented people to stay in the U.S. If you're a younger voter in that 66-77% approval rating for pro-immigrant policies, you're likely craving a political home! Join us and fight for freedom! 143
Reposted by Brian DossChristopher Hudson @chrishudsonjr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025The late Steve Horwitz wrote this 8 years ago today about 1st Trump presidency and it remains just as relevant. Liberalism in the Balance | BHL bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2017/01/libe... @mattzwolinski.bsky.social 21812
Reposted by Brian DossJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/01/2025If it doesn’t come from 1930s Weimar, it’s technically sparkling fascism. 312017
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 20/01/2025This is a double betrayal. A broken promise from the Conservatives followed by a shameful cop out from Labour. First, ripping away what was promised to communities and then using the day of Trump’s inauguration in a shoddy attempt to bury the bad news shows an outrageous disregard for patients. 46622
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Party USA @liberalpartyusa.org · 20/01/2025"I have a dream..." Four simple words told the story of a future where humanity could reject animus and instead walk hand-in-hand. We have come a long way since Rev Martin Luther King Jr gave this groundbreaking speech, yet we still have work to do in healing divisions between people. 🗽 🕊 🌎 #dream 043
Reposted by Brian DossIlya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Many of Trump's announced executive actions are likely to be illegal abuses of power, especially some on border/immigration. In this piece, I go over several examples, explaining why they are illegal/dangerous: reason.com/volokh/2025/...reason.comTrump's Ilegal First-Day Executive ActionsDonald Trump announced today a wide range of planned executive orders and other actions. Several of them are dangerous and illegal abuses of power. 27454120
Reposted by Brian DossJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I guarantee they already have a glib set of talking points prepped explaining how of course that wasn’t the thing it very obviously was, how could you even think that. 501341183
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Party USA @liberalpartyusa.org · 20/01/2025The enduring legacy of Martin Luther King Jr was one where people argued his vision was an impossibility yet we have made immense progress. Even still our work continues! Be the change you wish to see in the world... and be a beacon of light and hope in the darkness. #bethelight #bethechange #hope 052
Reposted by Brian DossTyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Was a pleasure to sit down last night with @andyjabbour.bsky.social and @biodoss.bsky.social and talk a little liberalism. Thanks again for asking me on! 142
Reposted by Brian DossLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 12/12/2024It adds insult to injury that the Conservatives have now voted against exempting more dangerous criminals from this early release scheme - including some stalkers and even murderers. Liberal Democrats will always stand up for victims and survivors of crime, even if the Conservatives won’t. 44412
Reposted by Brian DossElizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Mike Lee's "App Store Accountability Act" would make Google and Apple check IDs Lee says this is about stopping kids from seeing "sexual and violent content." It goes far beyond that. reason.com/2024/12/11/m...reason.comMike Lee's app store accountability act would make Google and Apple check IDsUtah Republican Senator Mike Lee has introduced a bill to keep porn out of app stores. There might just be one tiny problem here: They already do. So, 1210051
Reposted by Brian DossXOmniverse @shawnhuckabay.info · 12/12/2024You can tell who is sincerely concerned about climate change and who just wants to use climate change for anti-capitalist agenda by how angry they get at solutions that don't involve dismantling capitalism, and especially if their anger correlates to how promising those solutions seem to be. 172
Reposted by Brian Dossandy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Take a listen! @biodoss.bsky.social @frashure.bsky.social & I discuss how @clpvirginia.org & @liberalpartyusa.bsky.social support #immigration, the free movement of people & open markets➕ -tariffs👎🏼! -@ij.org's #Virginia lawsuit - #privacy, #encryption, digital rights open.spotify.com/episode/4BKE...open.spotify.comBring on the immigrants! Pass on tariffs and trade wars, but an order of privacy rights, please.Commonwealth Classical Liberal Podcast · Episode 022
Reposted by Brian DossTyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Not for nothing, but for all that the far left sneers about liberals being a drop of the hat away from open enablers of fascism, it’s the far left, not the center, joining with fascists to destabilize France.amp.cnn.comFrance no-confidence vote: French lawmakers vote to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier, plunging country into chaos | CNNFrench Prime Minister Michel Barnier has been forced to resign just three months into his term, after lawmakers on the left and the right united to support a no-confidence motion and plunge the countr... 083
Reposted by Brian DossMike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/12/2024If I hear one more person claim that they voted for Trump because his administration supports free speech... 17810139
Reposted by Brian DossAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law. 81135103125
Reposted by Brian DossAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024South Koreans celebrate as the military leave the National Assembly after it voted to block martial law 190-0. 201003264
Reposted by Brian DossMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now. I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true. 1424370916
Reposted by Brian DossLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor 9594492823
Reposted by Brian DossAaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 20/11/2024American political discussions would be more fruitful if we didn’t treat “conservatism” and “the right” as synonyms, and if we distinguished social conservatism from personal or political conservatism. If nothing else, it would help more people understand the radicalism of the American far-right. 1141
Reposted by Brian DossRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/11/2024A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas. It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter. fox59.com/news/indycri...fox59.comPolitician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County CouncilHANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — A current central Indiana county commissioner has pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case, days after being elected to his local County Council. John D. Jessup – a cur… 80196754157
