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Escot McCloud

@brutusmaximus.bsky.social
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Ab initio. Ad infinitum. We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. Inspired by Sophie Scholl. Cat dad. Oxford commas. Midwest persistence. F45. F47. Indigestible rascal.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Little ghost! 👻 Photo from my collection, 1964.
Black and white photo of a shorthaired pretty little white cat standing on a lawn in front of a white clapboard building. It’s looks like it might be meowing as the mouth seems open. Its tail is up and it has a happy, relaxed air about it.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Craig Sicknick @jan6risingvoice.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
To those who cancelled their Disney related subscriptions. Since Trump defunded PBS, it would help them quite a bit if you took the same money you used to send to Disney and instead, sent it to PBS/NPR.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Even more telling: Where is his orange bronzer?
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Scotland
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The real cabal is at Mar-a-Lago.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/07/2025
Pursued relentlessly by the government of Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. He left behind an account of his final years—and an admonition to his country and the world.
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Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries
The Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world.
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Teri Goodson. 🚨🆘🇺🇲🆘🚨 @terigoodson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Rules for Surviving Authoritarian Times www.thebulwark.com/p/rules-for-...
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Rules for Surviving Authoritarian Times
Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins John Avlon to talk about how authoritarianism creeps into democracies, the patterns she’s seen around the world, and what history says about how to fight back.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: 87 year old veteran was released from the D.C. jail after being arrested Friday on the Capitol steps while protesting the Trump parade. Asked how it felt to be arrested at 87, he replied, 'I'm just beginning, my friend.'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/06/2025
Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.
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Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Pope Mammon.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I don't know who besides the White House needs to hear this, but spraying cheap, Chinese-made foam wall decorations with gold spray paint isn’t classy, it’s tacky as hell and prodigiously embarrassing Right now the Oval Office looks like the dumpster behind a Michael’s
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
worth reiterating that in literally any other context a 10% tariff on Japan alone would be getting wall to wall financial news coverage, would be considered the largest trade war escalation in modern American history and the dumbest economic policy move by a President in decades
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Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The rule of law no longer exists. The system of checks and balances between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches is effectively dismantled. It's a wild new frontier of freestyle lawlessness now.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
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Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Apparently, the new protocol is that all hecklers should be tackled and tazed. Daily noted. ✅
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.
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Joel Cardwell @joelcardwell.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Libraries across California are bracing for cuts to early literacy, information access and continuing education programs after the Trump administration’s latest effort to slash federal spending took aim at the nation’s libraries and museums. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California libraries losing millions in funding after Trump terminates federal grant
The funds had been distributed to support a wide range of programs across California's libraries, including story times for low-income families, summer reading initiatives, workforce-readiness skills ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2025
Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2025
Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"
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Joel Cardwell @joelcardwell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Winston Churchill - 1940
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a group of men are posing for a picture together .
ALT: a group of men are posing for a picture together .
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#NotMyJoker 🃏
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/03/2025
Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'"
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Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
along with wagon loads of other lies and bullshit from any number of sources
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Tom, BC 🇨🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇳🇴 @tomb80.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
For those who believe in biblical scripture, please inform Prez,Zelensky 🇺🇦 when this will be fulfilled. He is awaiting your response.
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Progressive Di @dialabama.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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NDNchick4Decency @fedtfupofthemall.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
here's today's post: "gaslighting Republicans turn the bullshit dial up to eleven" — for fuck̦’s sake, we all saw what we saw. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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gaslighting Republicans turn the bullshit dial up to eleven
for fuck̦’s sake, we all saw what we saw
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Brutal.
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Helpful advice from a nurse friend. The collapse of the US healthcare system is going to be an absolute shitshow. Cold-hearted cruelty is so deeply embedded in the MAGA agenda that they'll support it even as it affects their friends and families, just to prove their ideological purity.
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Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Salivation
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