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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 7h

Kill Bill for Tax Purposes My Big Fat Greek Wedding for Tax Purposes

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 16h

3/4 of the replies to the original post are expressing disbelief that Reacher finds clothes big enough for himself at the thrift store. Like this is the only real plot hole.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 16h

Trump: pleez give us all the Russian money, which we will oversee in a very transparent and legal fashion.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 16h

I just can’t wait for him to bring this unbelievable charisma and rizz to the 2028 presidential campaign. He such a natural.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 17h

Lol. Well, you’re only as old as your attempts to relate to your students through cultural references they don’t get make you look.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 20h

Urging @raskin.house.gov to sign on as a co-sponsor to this legislation, which simply requires Americans to obey US and international law and not purchase land stolen from Palestinians.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 20h

So how many of your students have any idea what movie the slide is referring to?

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This looks like what would have happened if Deborah Harry had beat Arnold Schwarzenegger in an audition to be Conan the barbarian.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Every Democrat in the House and Senate should make clear that they will shut the govt down if Trump moves any further and will exact biblical vengeance upon every single person in the Trump administration that had anything to do with this even if they go no further.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Waiting for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to come out with some dumb ass statement suggesting that this raises questions, etc. and that they are not going to grind the entire government to a halt and exact biblical vengeance on Trump for even trying to move on Ilhan like this.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is going to fall apart, like every unconstitutional, illegal, bullshit legal case the Trump administration has tried to build against one of its opponents, but if they should attempt to move on Ilhan Omar I will join the thousands who all surround her and dare Trump’s goons to go through them.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

@nilsgilman.bsky.social among others have made the argument that taxing the super rich is really more of a democracy protection mechanism than a revenue generating one. No one should have oligarchic power over democracy, so we should tax the superrich to the point where that becomes impossible.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I think the chances of her doing the last part are near zero. She doesn’t care about Foreign Policy and I think is mostly asking for forgiveness for her past sins rather than articulating a better Foreign Policy vision she has never spent any time thinking about in her entire career thus far.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One of the most amazing oral histories ever.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK, so I posted this earlier, which talks about another diplomat who was almost as crazy, who also hold herself up in the embassy and refuse to leave after she was fired: bsky.app/profile/brad...

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

An interesting report by Israel’s leading civilian strategic think tank, outlining Israel’s de facto national security strategy post 2023, incl: 1 primacy of Jewish identity over democracy 2. Rejection of existence independent Arab states 3. Permanent war as a goal www.inss.org.il/publication/...

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I really do hope this grifting psychopath decides to burn it all down, though she would probably settle for a secure at some small right wing cable news network or podcast.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is actually a very interesting @shafrhistorians.bsky.social thought experiment. Who was the worst, craziest, most corrupt US ambassador appointment? Kimberly Guilfoyle may not even be top five. Credit to @zachsdorfman.bsky.social for posting this: adst.org/2015/06/this...

The Prime Minister of Nepal describing walking in on what appeared to be a sex party with the oversexed US ambassador.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I didn’t realize that Kim Stanley Robinson‘s book ministry for the future was a documentary.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This isn’t a “Trump continues to insist“ matter. The Trump administration has lied, pathologically and deliberately about this. It attempted to railroad and imprison an innocent person in ways that should land Jeanine Pirro herself in prison for false and malicious prosecution.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So the no bid contractor that Trump gave millions of dollars to concluded months ago in its own report that it was *entirely responsible* for the failures in the reflecting pool. Can journalists please now simply report that the Trump administration lied? www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Reflecting pool liner failed in 85 places due to flawed renovation, inspection found

The damage identified during an inspection commissioned by the contractor is far more extensive than has been previously reported, a document obtained by The Washington Post shows.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When I want to know the challenges the students at our branch campuses in Connecticut face I always wonder what one of the highest paid professors at the richest University in the world thinks. She clearly understands their struggles.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fox News: we think it’s suspicious that after a right wing grifter suggested that James Talerico is a transvestite sea otter with species dysphoria, that Talerico let us cover the story for a good week even though he had proof all along that the allegations were false and we are idiots.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Somebody has already been nipping on the oxygen masks that pop out of the ceiling.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Trump administration and Its associated cronies have probably engaged in more insider training than all other administrations in US history put together. A Sprawling years long criminal conspiracy that any future democratic Congress or administration must investigate and prosecute.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Calling my Rep @raskin.house.gov tomorrow to ask him to go sponsor this legislation.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I have no idea who he even is and now I don’t want to know.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I love that one because they filmed part of it at the Monterey Bay aquarium, which had just opened about 30 minutes from when my grandmother lived at the time and was widely considered the world’s best aquarium. Clint Eastwood was the mayor of Carmel, California at that time.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...

Retaliation goes far beyond firing. Of 196 recorded incidents of employer retaliation against employees speaking out on Palestine, nearly 40% (76) resulted in termination. Retaliation that does not rise to the level of termination is an even larger phenomenon.
All categories of academic workers are at risk. Of the 162 individuals whose employment status was disclosed, 30% involved non-tenure track faculty or instructors, and 36% were tenured.
People of color are disproportionately affected. Of the 134 cases recorded in the AFI database in which respondents’ identification is known, two-thirds were people of color: 30% SWANA; 10.5% Black; and 27% other POC. Additionally, 16.5% identify as Jewish. More than half of those targeted whose gender is known are women. Such retaliation compounds the abuse of already racist and sexist work environments.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And the straight flag wavers hero…

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I wonder what the NatSec guys whose job it is to estimate the effects of this rank it in terms of military debacles. Really,when was the last time that a US military base like this sustained such damage with such broad implications?

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I mean just wear a soldier-fit tshirt and Joe Rogan hat and be done with it.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Trump’s State Department aims to “direct more than $175m of the…department’s…human rights fund to…an anti-communism fund,…a group advancing white Afrikaner rights in South Africa, a campaign against Brazil’s supreme court & programs that would reward ideological allies in Europe….” 9/30/26 … 1/

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Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wtf is “raises questions”? How about “this is some illegal police state bullshit and we are going to impeach you the moment we retake the house.”

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Here’s Brandon flowers from The Killers wearing a sweater. Oh, you meant a real killer?

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

David Brooks: “What if I don’t like you calling my friends by their rightful names?”

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah, most non-US/UK English and non English language accounts are still on Twitter. Frankly, I don’t care if people who don’t read foreign press, don’t speak or read other languages, or don’t pay attention to journalist and activists who do criticize me. We have to read people where they write.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Victor Wembanyama looks poised to become the next Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, an all-time basketball great with a social conscience and intellectual curiosity who sees himself as a celebrity with a responsibility to speak out on issues of public importance. Good for him.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, many of these national guards people are disgruntled and pissed off that they are away from their families and picking up trash or standing around the Dupont Circle Metro doing nothing, but this is very obviously a show of intimidation against the largely non-white population of Washington DC.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you don’t live in Washington DC and don’t have to walk through the city feeling like you are living under armed occupation, in addition to dodging roving bands of masked ICE terrorist kidnapping squads, then you don’t have any right to tell the people who do live here how to feel.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Leads physical training,” lol

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Attack of the 50 foot Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ

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