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brettmonnard.bsky.social

@brettmonnard.bsky.social
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Teacher, gifted advocate, proud medieval nerd, amature radio host, rennie, pastor's husband, he/him

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WIRED @wired.com · 13h
A retired Army colonel who has worked with the Pentagon to promote Pete Hegseth’s agenda has a history of praising dictators, denigrating women and minorities, and suggesting that only people with children should be allowed to vote.
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
If the US had such good intelligence on the RAF Fairford suspects, then why did it take a 999 call to arrest the guys? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot
US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 11h
UK judge refuses bail for far-right activist charged with slashing migrant dinghy
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UK judge refuses bail for far-right activist charged with slashing migrant dinghy
Daniel Thomas, better known by his nickname Danny Tommo, will have to stay in jail while on trial for criminal damage. The charges are linked to a video showing him slashing a dinghy migrants used while an emergency worker was on board.
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Rob Kenton @robkenton.bsky.social · 9h
The Premier League have to take the nuclear option and expel them. Everything they've achieved is based on huge financial fraud.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
Chuck Grassley is useless old geezer but he does swear in witnesses, unlike many of his colleagues.
Jack Smith raising his hand to take the oath.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner think the way to negotiate with these barbarians is to offer them business deals.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h
Running a regression on primary vote share vs general election share and it predicts a 9.6% dem advantage in the House vote share. You would expect a few polls with the generic ballot at +15 in such a scenario. We could be looking at a 10%+ win for Dems in the house.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h
🧑‍🌾 “Iowa is on the verge of a farm crisis that threatens to wreck the agricultural heart of the state and hurt the fortunes of Republicans at the top of the midterm ticket… Democrats could win in several once-reliably Republican states…”
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"Brace for losing everything": Farm crisis fears grip GOP in Iowa
Trump's policies have cause severe financial problems for farmers. Iowa is especially vulnerable.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h
I'm really tired of this assholes ability to shape the language and terms everyone uses for things. The tech companies being groveling cowards will adopt this going forward and force everyone to use it.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h
Absolutely. If any Dem Member of Congress concocted a conspiracy theory based upon the assumption that going to a Hawkeyes basketball game necessarily meant going to Atlanta, it would be a week of TV spots and three months of op-ed columns about Dems' cultural disconnect.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h
Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h
4/ in a very good light, to put it mildly. This Times write up of the Patton hearing says “Mr. Arias did not deny the assault, though he appeared to question some of the details of the victim’s account.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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A Tough Ad Reminds Nebraska Voters About a Brutal Crime and a Pardon
A group supporting Dan Osborn, the independent Senate candidate in Nebraska, is airing an ad attacking Senator Pete Ricketts, a Republican, for pardoning a man convicted of sexual assault.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h
3/ off the sex offender registry and I think allow him to own a gun. rickets was on the pardon board as gov and voted for the pardon. The ad certainly gave me the impression that the pardon released arias from prison. And that’s not the case. But I’m not sure this is a defense that puts Rickets …
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h
2/ Okay I looked this up. The details are somewhat different from the impression the ad gives. But not in a way that really helps rickets. Crime is in 1993. Rapist is sentenced to 15-30 years. He’s released after 14 years in 2008. Fast forward to 2022 he asks to be pardoned which would get him …
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 15h
3 little words: cease and desist! The WH is using JMSN’s music in campaign-style ads without permission that they wouldn’t have gotten anyway @democracydefendersaction.org w/Ballard is proud to represent JMSN, demanding immediate end to ads using his music & a written account of every airing -TN
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JMSN, "Love Me" Artist, Demands White House Stop Using His Music in Its Political Ads
Attorneys for Christian Berishaj, who performs as JMSN, last night sent a cease-and-desist letter to White House Chief o
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2h
It’s no accident community college dropout Chuck Kirk usually “debated” college kids: the few times he engaged actual experts, even just ppl his own age—he usually regretted it. I’m legit insulted UCLA (illegally) fired me for posting truth about this dumb ass bigot. www.gofundme.com/f/waiting-fo...
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 16h
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3h
I would give anything to be able to vomit bees
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h
Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
This is also why I hate Jon Hamm. He beat and tortured a freshman in the process of hazing that included dragging him around by his genitals that were looped around the claw of a hammer. The pledge suffered severe injuries and dropped out of school. I can’t get over that
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
At my college a freshman recruit literally died from falling down the stairs after being coerced into drinking too much. Some of his frat “brothers” put off calling the ambulance and by the time someone did it was too late. I often think about him and his poor family
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
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Kate Feldman @kateefeldman.bsky.social · 11h
In high school, my teachers taught us to investigate source material. Where information came from, who was telling it, who they were telling it to. Not all information is created equal. Anyway, it took me a while to realize that level of analysis, fundamental in my life, is not widely taught.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 17h
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 6h
LOOK AT THIS LEVEL OF FAILURE IT MADE IT TO MISSOURI I may never stop laughing. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 6h
they all knew this was coming! look at them collapse. if you cant laugh at this woman's misfortune that she is not able to smear a good man's name on behalf of a bad one, my account is not for you. bsky.app/profile/solo...
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 12h
I didnt know it gets funnier than a whole ass United States Senator accusing a man of being at a Hawks game in ATL when he was at a Hawkeyes game in MD, BUT... He let every media outlet know he had a big moment coming so they all saw him clown himself and watched Amy Klobuchar clean up the pieces.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
Not a peep when Trump sought to indict six members of Congress for making a video. Not a single grand juror voted to indict them. But that? My colleagues don’t care about that weaponization.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
Schiff is up. Apologizes to Jack Smith. “My colleagues have attacked you, but NONE of them have tried to deny what happened on January 6th. They attack you because they don’t want to address the facts. The Barr DoJ sought toll records without a peep from my colleagues.” 1/
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 14h
Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 2h
The GOP has abandoned any pretense of standing for anything. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth to cut more generals, admirals in bid to remake military’s top ranks
The defense secretary is expected to announce that the number of top officers will be reduced by as much as 20 percent, officials said.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 6h
JD Vance and Eric Schmitt should definitely run together. Two un charismatic weirdos who don’t know shit about sports, the economy, or running anything. Conservatives will love them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 11h
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 9h
For once, Ken Paxton is being honest: if it weren't for our broken campaign finance system, he'd have no shot. #UnrigWashington candidate @jamestalarico.bsky.social is running to reform our system and fight for Texans. Ken Paxton can't say the same. #TXSEN
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 5h
Why did Eric Schmitt fuck up his gotcha moment so badly? No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game. A MAGAt undone by misogyny. Not at all surprising.
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Aatos Lehtila @aatosl.bsky.social · 13h
The US is at a tipping point.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 4h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 4h
These men make me feel sick to my stomach. Men like Michael Tracey and the rape-defending scum of the earth on that website need to burn in hell. I just hope she’s safe. Fuck.
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