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@bradaltad.bsky.social
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Liberal/left/progressive, 🏳️‍🌈 dad of two, Canadian-Californian lawyer and recovering German historian haunted by today’s parallels to the fall of the Weimar Republic. Cantab./CUWBC/CULRC

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 12h
I’ll bet you also think “both sides” are responsible for our awful politics and it’s “Congress” that regularly fails to get anything done (rather than both being 100% the fault of the GOP).
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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 14h
Tax the rich. Take away all their absurd luxuries. You could eradicate homelessness from this country entirely in 6 months.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s funny how JD “I’m a better Catholic than the Pope” seems to always forget that the Catholic Church has been against the death penalty for a very very long time. Maybe he’s not actually a good-faith Catholic. Just sayin’…
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And yet the message they’ll take from a midterm win is that “doing nothing, focusing on prices rather than demonizing the awful of the GOP, ignoring the base, throwing trans people under the bus, and cooperating with fascists” won it for them.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Collegiality always comes first for democrats. They’d rather an awful bill that screws their base but gets 2 GOP votes so they can say it’s “bipartisan” rather than pass a great bill with zero token GOP votes.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
republicans wrote us off long ago. you dont see republicans trying to win over clinton/obama/biden/kerry voters. and its more of an uphill climb for them. if dems spent 1/3 as much time cultivating their base as they do kissing the feet of republicans hoping theyll change, the party wouldnt lose
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Institutional Dems have this belief that with the right perfectly triangulated slogan or argument, MAGA politicians and voters will all suddenly see the light and become FDR Democrats when the reality is that they’re all a lost cause whose vile views should not feature into anyone’s calculations.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exactly this! The GOP are goofy but also vile villains who think and say repulsive things. The Dems should be on the attack 24/7, not “oh let’s try and work together.” I don’t want my party to work together with the people who don’t think I should be married and who think I shouldn’t have kids.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you’re a non-straight-white-Christian-natural-born-American, do you have even the slightest confidence that Dems will stand up for you? Of course not! “Obama is opposed to gay marriage, suck it up.” “We want a tough bipartisan border bill!” “Trans kids shouldn’t be in sport, we agree!”
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m so damn tired of these Vichy Dems who, faced with 26+ years of the GOP as a racist, hateful, fascist party that cheats on elections, saying “oh we can work with them.” Every interest of the base sacrificed on the altar of “bipartisanship for bipartisanship’s sake.”
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A great day for Canada and, therefore, of course, the world!
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every one of our so-called elites ist just a cuck.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And Walsh was one of the biggest cheerleaders of that approach and regularly accused people opposed to the Iraq War of hating America and wanting the terrorists to win.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Do women actually find him to be hot, or do odious women-hating men whose dads didn’t love them think that Andrew Tate is what women find hot? Because this gay thinks he’s gross physically as well as in all the other ways.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why are Dems always “demanding an investigation”? Why don’t you just DO something for once?
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t forget that Joe Walsh spent decades supporting GOP candidates who said the worst things about cities like Los Angeles. Walsh’s problem is he thinks Trump is a bad messenger. But Walsh doesn’t mind the message.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dems never fight back when the GOP throws slurs because Dems have convinced themselves that their path to power lies in appealing to racists and bigots.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Lifelong Democrat” except the most cursory search of the internet shows he was a virulent lifelong Trump-loving bigot. The Atlantic - laundering fascism.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Does anyone have even the slightest doubt which way the Court will go here?
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our idiot president missing the fact there are no penguins in the arctic.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It breaks my heart that Dems are not running on a platform of “throw everyone complicit in this outrage into jail and never let them out.”
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Fly when he jumped through the window.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dude is the uncanny valley but human.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Only a straight white Natural Born American™️ would suggest that all we need to do is sit down for lunch with the people who think my husband and I are “groomer pedos” who should be forcibly divorced and our two beautiful sons taken away from us.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Journalists should end and refuse to broadcast any interview where the subject lies about provable facts.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh look, the Atlantic worrying about the feeling of MAGA chuds more than the feelings of the victims of this administration. Democracy dies with media on their knees felating the powerful.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the clear throughline behind every Trump voter is a refusal to believe that their behavior has consequences
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You attached the wrong video, you phony. Cory Booker - dramatic posts and speeches but as much of a quisling as the rest.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To be fair, Dems are hardly making an issue about it. Imagine if every Dem took to the airwaves for weeks at a time about the corruption the way the GOP did about Her Emails or His Laptop.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is absurd that all cars aren’t equipped with a speed lock that prevents them going over the max speed limit. So much marketing for cars is the “macho powerful engine” but that’s only useful for illegal activity.
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good one @thebeaverton.com! "Apology experts say that would be an impossibility at this point, due to the fact that Donald Trump is now the only person, place, or thing on this planet that Canadians do not and will never feel the urge to apologize to." Sorry, never sorry eh! 🇨🇦🤣
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Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize
"Canadians will say they’re sorry, in that particular Canadian pronunciation, to literally anything, but they won’t say it to Donald Trump."
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The hypocrisy of right-wing Catholics laid bare: the Catholic Church is unequivocal in its opposition to the death penalty.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I was thinking virtuous things at the time, but didn’t act on them” is a common trait among American politicians.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For all those folks who are lionizing Jack Smith for speaking the truth at a Senate hearing: 1) your standards are very low. Anyone can tell the truth for a few hours 2) he filed an open and shut winner in FL instead of DC, a deal-breaking blunder 3) he didn’t prosecute ANYONE in Trump’s orbit
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think what he’s saying is “I too am in the Epstein files and went to Epstein Island many times.”
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So what is the Dems’ plan, other than “keep funding Trump’s government and supporting his war and saying the Supreme Court needs no changes and no admin official should be impeached”?
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow, can I get a job as a legal reporter at Reuters, where I can just uncritically accept the words of politicians without checking to see if they’re even remotely accurate? “Elite American Journalist” seems like something you could become after taking stenography and nothing else.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yet more flagrant corruption that Dems will utterly ignore.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dems are too busy trying to win the votes of people who participated in Jan 6 to do this.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The lesson Dems will take is “we can restore trust in the Court by continuing to treat it as a legitimate apolitical reviewing court that needs no changes.”
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are days away from Trump declaring that crops be watered with Gatorade and our entire political establishment going along with it.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“No kings” say a people whose elected tyrant has powers greater than any European absolute monarch could ever have dreamed of and no English or British monarch has held since before the Tudors.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dems are 100% going to think “we won because our campaign was great and we are popular” and not “we won because America hates Trump” and then just carry on as if they’re dealing with a normal opposition party and the world is just going to forgive America and go back to the way things were in 1999.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely. You should have to be vaccinated to live in a city, period. And vaccinated to enter a school, library, hospital, public building, or common carrier, etc. We don’t have to indulge stupidity by pretending it is a good-faith or legitimate religious or moral objection.
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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A bit late for Dems to start suddenly caring about qualifications when they’ve spent two years shrugging (and confirming some of his nominees!)
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