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Brian Sprague

@briansprague.bsky.social
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Small business owner. USN retired. Alum of USNA’s best class. Go Navy, Beat Army! Sometimes photographer. Big reader. Pretty decent cook. Mainah. Nevah Trumpah.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/04/2026
It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/03/2026
Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
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Dr. Roux @tcrotte.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Quit talking about Trump. Address everything, every issue to Miller and Vought. Make Trump irrelevant, his ego will not let him be out of the spotlight and you’ll see Miller and Vought removed and the rest of the administration collapse.
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Kids today are going to grow up thinking “hoax” means a crime committed by Trump.
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God @thegodshow.com · 13/11/2025
Megyn Kelly said she thinks “there’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old” when it comes to sexual abuse. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter. Megyn Kelly is going to Hell.
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/11/2025
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/04/2025
If you wrote a story about a regime so comically evil that it literally snatches people from their citizenship interviews, you'd be accused of over-the-top imaginings.
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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Great leaders are constant readers. We cannot be afraid of books with which we don't agree. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? (Gift Article)
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson. College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.
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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Donald Trump (2016): “In my administration, I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information.”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion. If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This goes so far beyond politics. I'm just morally disgusted to be living in a country that is behaving like this.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/03/2025
Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“when you turn America into a vast extortion machine, you will get some short-term wins as weaker powers bend to your gangsterism, but you will burn the relationships, at home and abroad, that are actually the source of America’s long-term might.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
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Opinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
What happens when a superpower goes rogue.
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/03/2025
Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:
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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
One of the problems, IMO, w/both Dems in Congress and the pundits screaming at them rather than the fascists is they still think fixing Trump is abt winning an election. That's a luxurious thought but wildly wrong-headed. Problem is winning enough non-, swing-, and GOP voters to halt things now.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 02/03/2025
"Londoners keep dying because Churchill refuses to make peace. If he stopped asking for aid and stopped insulting Hitler, the bombs would stop falling." — Elon Musk, 1940 (probably)
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Zelenskyy should propose a counteroffer for 100% of his country’s supply of adamantium, vibranium AND unobtainium as well. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Trump officials pitch Zelenskyy on U.S. owning 50% of Ukraine's rare earth minerals
The Trump administration indicated U.S. troops could be deployed to provide security in connection with the minerals if there’s a peace deal with Russia, sources told NBC News.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We are not a serious country.
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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Every week or two I’m left wondering about the source of Spelling Bee’s deep aversion to nautical words.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 22/02/2025
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask it again: where oh, where are all of those strict constitutionalists demanding that the executive branch’s power and reach is limited in their very, very very limited government view?
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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The best thing about imaginary grievances is that you can grift off of fighting them for years because they’ll never be “fixed.”
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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 16/02/2025
If you do want to know how it works—and, specifically, how it can work in the US, here’s a thing I wrote: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Trump Can Be Stopped
Other countries managed to fend off autocracy. By borrowing from their playbook, America can too.
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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Sometime soon Trump is going to say that the United States is more respected in the world than ever before.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
1/ Elon Musk may be planning to effectively close down much of the US government and replace it with AI, according to Jeff Stein, the economics reporter for the Washington Post. ⬇️
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Steven Dennis' maxim: If they had the votes, *they would be voting.* 3/
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 06/02/2025
Conservatives warning about George Soros but make the footage Elon Musk
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