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Brad Me to the Signal Chat

@bradrick.bsky.social
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Techie, foodie, bevvie. I do media things. Intermittent sufferer from the midnight disease. Proud papá. Opinions are my own.

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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE recruitment now a diversion tactic for dudes on their way rehab
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I dunno, man, I find it pretty annoying — even aggressive — when restaurants ask me to pay for the food I've just eaten. Really puts a dent in my evening. And now grocery stores are in on it, and *they* want me to pay before I've even eaten anything!
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Tenured pundit ... and resident right-wing intellectual Zamboni driver"
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“We’ll know things are really bad when they start ignoring the courts”
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm afraid it's DTF St Louis, but good effort.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
All that AI money buys a shit-ton of beta blockers
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why not something in, for instance, animal husbandry?
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They pretty much skipped some key steps in "building a meaningful journalism-based media operation" too, but that didn't get in the way of a massive cash-out and a kick upstairs.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An actual US Senator loudly proclaiming that he and all his colleagues are too stupid and lazy to do their jobs. Sounds like voting advice to me!
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Almost time to replace all the lawyers on that barge with podcasters
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wow I would never have predicted any of that, super shocking, I guess you really never know
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Because child care has just been too damned easy for working parents in this country www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Forcing us to use Apple Maps is yet one more reason to hate Google
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This land is your land, this land is ... well, that guy's land now, I guess. (Don't worry, he's gonna make an absolute KILLING...)
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"desire for rigor" was my favorite romance novel last year
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Spam folder speaking the truth
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Doxxing" meaning "reading, summarizing, and deriving insights from public FEC records"? Isn't another word for that "reporting"?
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
... and who end up running the FAA and the FTC and ...
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Brief by tweet
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Land of the free, home of the pre-authorized
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
“Nobody knows what’s happening until the bulldozers are out there.”
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just in case we forgot the depth of the contempt in which they hold their own constituents
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“How dare you steal our stolen shit”
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Bwahahahahahahaha
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Tarrifs, eh?
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Does seem to be where his head is at
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ah, the soft bigotry of low expectations has entered the chat
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
More "winning" courtesy of the Trump administration www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...
Last year, the CDC scaled back a decades-long federal-state partnership that monitors foodborne illnesses, including those caused by cyclospora. The move no longer requires authorities to report cyclospora, along with six other pathogens, to the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, known as FoodNet.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Nothing would piss Maine voters off more than DC-punditry or solipsistic social-media opinions on how Maine voters should behave in a Maine senate race ... if Maine voters gave two wet shits about either of those things.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Trump turns everything he touches to shit, and this entire episode was a disgrace and an affront to every parent who’s trying to teach sportsmanship to their kids. But Flo Balogun has handled himself with dignity and integrity throughout, and that should be remembered.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Let me know if you can find “the voters of Maine” anywhere in this solipsistic, social-media-drunk explication of decisions made by … the voters of Maine.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The administration opens a new front in its war on intelligence in every form
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Well now pedantically speaking, it just reads "Lord". It doesn't specify *which* Lord.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Fuck you and your woke 'oxygen' requirements"
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Come for the law-bound, rights-based social contract; stay for the seven sauces that decorate the lonely chicken-nugget dinner you scarf in your poorly adjusted bucket seats"
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
A government stake could help the company avoid onerous regulation.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The way you tear down a relatively rational, relatively functional law-based democracy that's delivered more rights expansion and standard-of-living growth than any other social construct in history is to validate the government's kleptocratic toe-dips by gifting it a swimming pool
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“Nixon robbed gas stations. We’re the fucking mafia, bitch.”
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Current opposition party leadership is so not ready for the moment we’re in that it’s almost laughable. It’s not even knife-to-gunfight. It’s rubber-chicken-to-tank-fight.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
For the rest of us, it’s probably time to acknowledge that when the Supreme Court stops doing Supreme Court things and just rubber-stamps executive assertions, it’s no longer fulfilling its structural obligations, and needs structural reform
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You can’t fire up a dictatorship, or even an apartheid republic, without having the courts in your pocket
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Its price-to-sales ratio is almost 150, compared to less than four for Amazon, and while Amazon made $77 billion last year, SpaceX made a $4.9 billion loss" www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Reporter to Benjamin Netanyahu following recent, uh, developments: “This is why I was wondering whether you had ever observed Donald Trump.” www.todayintabs.com/p/epstein-so...
todayintabs.com
Epstein Social Club
This post is dedicated to everyone who thought The Christmas Adventurers Club was “a little much.”
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They don’t have the balls, the imagination, or the wit.
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
On the bright side, looks like a lot of us won’t be working at all
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The synechdoches seal themselves
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Preview of the next Taylor Sheridan series
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Looking at you, podcasts
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The internet's popularization of first-semester-freshman-year cultural analysis has fertilized a worldwide garden of extremely stupid takes
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Brad Me to the Signal Chat @bradrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How to Get A Government Contract Under the Current Administration, by Google
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