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Bruce Godfrey

@brucegodfrey.bsky.social
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Dad, wage lawyer, Marylander, YIMBY train nut

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Jan @butwhosjan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy 30-year anniversary to the Democratic National Convention dancing to Macarena
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I’m just a small-town international relations professor, but I think it should be a huge, presidency-ending scandal that the President of the 🇺🇸 regularly violates the UN Charter by threatening the territorial conquest of other UN member-states & our NATO treaty allies: www.un.org/en/about-us/...
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
this guy is bad for business. Maybe he’s determined to make Michigan blue and Ohio and Florida (snow bird business) purple?
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ossoff didn’t mention anything about her character or actions. I suspect his comment is probably true, if I were married to Melania, I would want to travel with another member of the human race, even if it’s just to discuss baseball or the weather.
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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Warning: Contemplating Newt Gingrich accusing anyone in the world of having "no sense of honor" risks inflicting a serious case of toxic hypocrisy poisoning.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sean Hannity, eulogizing Lindsey Graham, but addressing Donald Trump as if Trump were God. This is blasphemy. This is a cult.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Ashley Brouillette said that on the same day her ex-husband told her he’d joined ICE, he left her a voicemail calling her a “disgusting, fat” expletive and saying that her throat should be slit.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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ICE officer’s troubled past renews questions about vetting
Ashley Brouillette said her former spouse, David Brouillette, told her he is the ICE officer who shot and killed an immigrant in Maine. She and others said Brouillette has a volatile history.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"The language used by the Trump administration echoes language long used by white supremacist movements both in the United States and abroad." www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump’s plans for racist renovations to the Smithsonian are unbelievable
The Trump administration’s campaign to whitewash American history and advance white supremacy took another step forward with the release of its report attacking the Smithsonian National Museum of…
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Steve Magness @stevemagness.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How does a team playing the most fun, fearless soccer in US World Cup history collapse 4-1 overnight? Their psychological frame flipped. From plucky underdogs playing "country road" to villains with a Belgium defending the entirety of soccer. open.substack.com/pub/stevemag...
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Losing the Fun: The Psychology of the USMNT Collapse
The Psychology of Playing Free vs. Playing Tight
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I had a deeply bad feeling about this guy intuitively, but that's cheap and easy to say now. No points for Godfrey.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Ayn Rand once bemoaned those who hated the good for being the good. We need to get a grip on the fact that MANY people love the evil for being the evil. M. Scott Peck got closer to this in his "People of the Lie" book 30+ years ago than Marx, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman did.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
No one showed up to Freedom250 so Trump canceled it due to 'extreme weather'. The thing is there's nothing extreme about the weather in DC right now, it's partly cloudy and clearing up.
THE OREAT American STATE PATR EVENT POSTPONED
DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER, THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED
CO TO FREEEDOM250 SOCIAL MEDIA FOR MORE UPDATES PLEASE PROCEED TO THE NEAREST EXIT
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2026
absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/06/2026
next journalist who interviews vance about his faith should ask him about his role in ethnically cleansing his co religionists
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
On Thurs 5/7/26 6:26 pm the driver (22/F) of a 2016 Hyundai Sonata hit & seriously injured a pedestrian (70/F) in the front drive aisle of Giant Food at Colesville Shopping Center. Police (MCP33820043) found the driver at fault: reckless or aggressive driving.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We have given our republic over to trash.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It was my extremely big honor to have an extremely small role in helping (in very limited ways) to sue her in this context.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Dunno who needs to hear it but the Holodomor was very much a genocide perpetrated by Stalin on behalf of the Soviet version of the Russian Empire against the Ukrainian nation. Half the replies seem to think it didn't happen.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It’s like Gabby Cats
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Preemptively announcing you are going to pardon your staff isn’t just rewarding criminals for their crimes—it’s encouraging them to commit new ones.
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Maryland Matters @marylandmatters.org · 12/04/2026
The House, in a near-unanimous vote Friday, approved a Senate bill aimed at cleaning up administrative procedures that have caused headaches and disenrollments for people seeking Medicaid waivers for coverage of developmental disabilities. marylandmatters.org/2026/04/11/b...
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Bill to cut red tape for developmental disability waivers nearing approval - Maryland Matters
The House, in a near-unanimous vote Friday, approved a Senate bill aimed at cleaning up administrative procedures that have caused headaches and disenrollments for people seeking Medicaid waivers for ...
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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
On the one hand, this is silly. On the other hand, if Canada goes back to having positive net migration after turning negative last year, the jokes about how the British monarchy's largest realm is an EU member will be funny.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/04/2026
For years, we were told the biggest threat to free speech were college students being upset by professors or fellow students making insensitive or bigoted comments. Now that states are banning entire concepts from curriculum, it's crickets. sanangelolive.com/news/educati...
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Texas Tech University System Shuts Down All “Pro-Gay” and Transgender (SOGI) Ideology in Courses
LUBBOCK, TX — The Texas Tech University System (TTUS) is eliminating every academic program “centered on” Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and imposing the strictest-ever system-wide ban on promoting transgender ideology or gender fluidity as science in the classroom.
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 11/04/2026
Something to remember is that it took more than a year for Ronan Farrow to write the Harvey Weinstein story, and it’s not because he was lazy.
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 06/04/2026
This is deeply and painfully ironic.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Trump has fucked up so badly that even Marjorie Taylor Greene can lucidly innumerate his blunders without resorting to conspiracy theories.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Morally, legally, economically the war on Iran is disastrous and the disaster goes on for years no matter what happens now. But what cannot be overstated is that in pure national security terms it is also an unmitigated catastrophe.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
25th Amendment. Articles of Impeachment. Now. What the hell else do you gutless, partisan fools need to see happen? What elze does he need to say? What else?
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Genius of Gavin Newsome to invite Trump to attack him for having a fairly ordinary learning disability. That sort of crap is how you get suburban school moms, even ones inclined to vote conservative, to stand out in the rain in Wisconsin and suburban Philly in November.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pretty rude of the United States to degenerate this fast without inviting me to the degeneration party.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/03/2026
“Jews are overrepresented in the media.” No, no, no, you’re thinking of cops. Cops are overrepresented in the media.
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Half of US broadcast network dramas are about cops
Perhaps one reason why America’s national reckoning on police brutality took so long to arrive is because TV is conditioning its citizens to view cops as reliable heroes.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
if it were up to me, I would put warning labels on drivers license licenses. Cars are death machines an one of the primary causes of non-disease human fatality. so if we’re up to me, I would make everybody getting a drivers license physically undersign 5-10 pages of crash photos and tombstones.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Normally when someone is this deluded, you'd ask them to name the president to see how far they're really gone
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Finland figured this out. Utah figured this out.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
bunch of prosperous suburban GOP voters angry at Trump about their 401(k)s getting schlonged for eight months before the midterm election. Iraq War II had a pretense cover story, not even a WMD fig leaf or a 9/11 connection fraud. like Sen. Graham said, gonna make a shit load of money
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/03/2026
President Trump wore a white “USA” baseball cap as the remains of six service members killed in the war with Iran were carried off an Air Force transport plane. The hat appeared to be a model that retails on the Trump Organization’s online store for $55.
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Trump’s wearing of baseball cap during dignified transfer draws criticism
President Trump faced continued blowback for wearing a USA-emblazoned cap during a dignified transfer ceremony for soldiers killed in the war with Iran.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Donald Trump continues to be the greatest 🇨🇦 Liberal since Wilfrid Laurier
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Trying to think of something stupider than this in American history. Probably more evil things come to mind, but fewer just as aggressively stupid as this fucking war. “China killing all the sparrows” level of stupid, for what? May out-dumb Gulf War II in idiocy, likely in debt and blood too.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This should work well
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Has anybody run a polymarket analysis of oil, futures, some sort of synthetic side bedding on the price? Why do I keep thinking we’re gonna see some half million dollar take option by some BarronSchlngmstrXXXor?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
When I was 8 or 9 I bought a cooler full of sodas and upsold them to people in line to buy gas. I should look into that again, more dignified than lawyering.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 07/03/2026
Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 07/03/2026
all of these people must live in prison
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.
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Bruce Godfrey @brucegodfrey.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
racism is implicated when politicians challenge the credentials of candidates of Culler on the basis of “DEI status“, but then preferentially seek out white morons with no experience who emphasize that they are “not politicians“. looking at half of the southern Republican Party with that shade.
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