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Bruce Garrett

@brucegarrett.bsky.social
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Systems software engineer for the Space Telescope Science Institute. Cartoonist, photographer, artist. AAEC, WDW annual passholder.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 12/10/2026
Thereby confirming that he personally ordered the raid.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, this is fascism, and they should report and write accordingly. From August 2024: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/10/2026
Experts say many fraternities offer a sense of community, but some rely on hazing and coercive tactics to build loyalty.
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Why the Cornell gang rape case has raised concerns about fraternity culture
Experts say many fraternities offer a sense of community, but some rely on hazing and coercive tactics to build loyalty.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/10/2026
Trump’s embrace of the term lawfare reflects his understanding of law as a pliable means to a political end, rather than a check on power and an impartial instrument of justice.
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How the right explains Trump’s authoritarian logic to themselves
The cries of "lawfare" are more than just false.
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We live in a country where 4 dopes on an HOA can block someone from putting a flag outside his house but no Court in the land can block the President from bulldozing ancient monuments, wildlife reserves and entire forests.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 12/10/2026
David Brooks is doing what the entire establishment right has done for decades — pretending the Nazis in their midst at every fucking level simply don’t exist, and anyone who says they do is a crackpot liberal who should be ignored. An argument LONG past its prime.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The only person who speaks positively of the political violence & threats of the present era in this NYTimes piece is The President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Ms. Greene reached out to Mr. Trump, hoping for compassion from a president she had stood by for years. She forwarded copies of the threats to him, hoping that seeing the threats against her family would be enough to tone down the attacks.

She got a five-word reply from the president: “Your fault, you deserve it.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'll take any excuse to post this evisceration of America's dullest centrist pundit. If you've never read it before, enjoy.
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David Brooks: Boo-Boos in Paradise
The classic 2004 examination of David Brooks’s “Bobos in Paradise” by Philadelphia magazine’s Sasha Issenberg.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
David Brooks doesn't even know what they do at a goddamn Applebee's. He can kindly shut the fuck up about "what we do here in America."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Bruce Garrett @brucegarrett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is depraved. George Will, of all people, once wrote that some object to the death penalty not only on moral grounds, but also that it contributes to the coarsening of society. Maybe he's changed his mind now, but he was right. Here it sickeningly is. We are being dragged into the sewer.
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Bruce Garrett @brucegarrett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A classmate of mine is a lawyer...not a criminal defense lawyer or prosecutor but a patent and copyright lawyer...and I wonder sometimes how he must feel being a witness to all this.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“last year, Stephen Miller asked the bureau to allow agents to go undercover in his Virginia neighborhood's political activist group, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.” www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...
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Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say
Stephen Miller spoke at a training session at FBI headquarters just days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, sources told CBS News.
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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 08/10/2026
Centrist Dems have pushed WAY more people to the left (including myself), because of their consistent fecklessness and complicity with this regime through either inaction or slowwalking various things. This is why so many are voting for candidates further left removing establishment incumbents.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026
Good(?) news: A Nevada county will pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who spent two years in prison for a stillbirth before her conviction was overturned. Her son’s ashes were returned to her as part of the settlement thenevadaindependent.com/article/she-...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Canonical example of NYT delighting in trolling its readers. See also: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-... and the all-time winner presswatchers.org/2022/12/just...
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New York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want | Press Watch
They want the Times to be more honest, not more partisan
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Starship becomes fully operational, I say we test it by firing Miller into the Sun.
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Bruce Garrett @brucegarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow! Ann Telnaes rules!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump: "Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion" (actual quote!) Zohran Mamdani:
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know you guys get it, but the clearest sign that the Prestige Press is totally in his pocket -- something that even your apolitical or MAGA pals would get -- is that he ALLOWS himself to be shown dozing in his meetings and they NEVER MENTION IT
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Candidate for Kansas Senate Roger Marshall (R):
Am I out of touch?
No, it's the *700* patients I sued who are wrong.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Top notch, but this will always be her finest work to me. So compact & lethal.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The leader of the Republican Party is stealing money paid by American taxpayers to buy campaign ads for Republicans in the midterms. You can’t vote him out in 5 weeks, but you can vote out the people he’s trying to help with your money he’s thieving while they remain silent.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is about as upset as a NYT reporter is allowed to get:”An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m with Homeland Security Investigations. I came here to talk to you about some online threats you made against ICE. Get the fuck off my property.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN.
EXPAND THE COURT
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Headline says it all
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As CNN, MS NOW, Politico Booted, White Nationalist Outlet Snags White House Press Slot
The White House moves to silence critical reporting—while handing access to a fringe outlet with explicit white nationalist ties.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026
#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc
At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sources close to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner say that, privately, the couple does not support bestiality.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
oh hey, trump's out of the country -- quick, somebody change the locks.
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Bruce Garrett @brucegarrett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This “noticing” talking point comes out of white nationalist/neo-Nazi circles. Typically part of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The American public has never been more anti-war so naturally Hakeem Jeffries appoints a warmongering DINO to lead a crucial foreign policy committee. The Democratic Party will not change willingly, we have to throw all these people out.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One thing I'm BEGGING people to do as we approach the election is to take back their morning. We cannot let X or a billionaire algorithim rule our brains. As part of that, I'm trying to resurrect the mighty RSS feed with a Google Reader-ish view. It's preloaded with great independent journalism.
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SOURCE! — Take Back Your Morning
No billionaire algorithm. Tip your reporter.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 07/09/2026
Let’s just observe that none of Juniper Blessing’s family got a New York Times op-ed about grieving after she was killed in the sort of hate crime Erika’s late husband used to encourage almost daily.
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Transgender University of Washington student stabbed over 40 times: Court documents
The transgender University of Washington student who was killed in her student housing building suffered over 40 stab wounds.
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 07/09/2026
i present to you: today's new york times lead opinion piece. if this doesn't make you realize whose side the times is playing on, you're dense and i can't help you. they are doing free advertising for fascists. there are very few places we can turn to for propaganda-free news now
ny times headling

OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
ERIKA KIRK: WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT GRIEF
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
FDR knew that you push to the LEFT and give people real, material benefits if you want to neutralize a rising fascist threat. Sadly, contemp centrists in the US and Europe have not learned this lesson.
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Banjo Barn Hermit 🍉 @moltarben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Alex Pretti has plenty of grieving family members who don’t have a daily opportunity to tell their side of things. this lady is “close friends“ with the goddamn Vice President, don’t think she needs her voice lifted up any
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.
ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop. Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community. Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered. Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/09/2026
the biggest “job creator” in america is walmart, a third of whose employees are on public assistance
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
why is the "what appeared to be" hedge necessary? if you're writing about a science fiction movie do you have to include "a spaceship, that appeared to be created with visual effects", if you're the NYT?
The president posted again several hours later, with what appeared to be an A.I. video of him placing a label with the word “America” over “Mexico” on a “Welcome to New Mexico” road sign.
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