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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m currently enjoying Emmet A. O'Brien’s VEGA VICTRIX series. Great worldbuilding, intriguingly complex protagonist and situations.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Insights for “kitchen-table populism”: “… working people should be able to give their kids a better shot. .. bring costs down, make the biggest corporations pay their fair share, and crack down on the people who game the system. “hard work should pay off.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We surveyed 6,000 Americans. Here is the winning message for Democrats | Dustin Guastella

It’s about ‘kitchen-table populism’: focusing on Americans’ day-to-day economic struggles

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

2026: 1. Stop the corruption 2. Stop the wars 3. Stop the lies 4. Stop the lawbreaking 5. Stop wrecking America 2028: 1. Medicare for all 2. Tax the rich 3. Break up monopolies 4. Make housing affordable 5. Save our planet

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A smart recommendation, making traffic calming the default.

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Canadian Loyalist 🇨🇦 @shakespearesgal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Neat! But makes it all the more important to be testing on what you aim for students to learn.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The Forest Service has been an extraordinary public organization. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Well said! How reputations and visible monitoring help expand cooperation.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Wow! Powerful, moving, and so meaningful now.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

To Ride a Rising Storm. Second book of Nampeshiweisit, by Moniquill Blackgoose. Anequs and her dragon engage in indigenous struggles with Norse rulers and Anglish settlers, coming of age in an alternate history of Turtle Island. Written for young adults, but having just turned 70 I’m enjoying it.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

bumping this again as one of the most insightful things I have read all week -- @donmoyn.bsky.social on the rule of the nomenclicktura:

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Maybe Wiles is hoping to win the 2026 midterms by throwing out the fanatics: Miller, Vought, Navarro, RFK Jr., etc. (and, if possible, Vance), thereby rescuing Trump’s future.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Insightful. Not unconditional forgiveness but a request to show what they will do to repair the harm.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What I said 6 months ago. I still think it would be a viable strategy, if there were at least a small caucus of Republicans willing to stand up for the republic.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

One of my favorite conferences and I'm looking forward to visiting Japan again.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Good analysis of how coordinated opposition can make a difference. Implication is coordination among those who still have autonomy: blue states, district courts, universities with endowments, etc., and the people power of anyone who isn't dependent on pleasing Trump. So show up for No Kings Day!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Well said! This essay addresses vital issues that need to be discussed. I say that as someone who spent my career in international development, mostly in trying to help smallholder farmers have a say in designing and managing irrigation systems to water their crops.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I really wish I could donate to ActBlue or DNC and get on a list so that I don’t get any more texts from Democratic candidates and groups asking for money.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

BREAKING: Prince George's County, the DC suburb of about 1 million people, is moving to suspend all data center permits while a task force completes a review of the projects and their impacts.

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nota-karen.bsky.social @nota-karen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Please comment on the proposed changes to Roadless Rules in National Forests - see below.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

For Immediate Release: 50501 Joins Free DC’s National March this Saturday; Mobilized for next No Kings on October 18th. Join us in DC this weekend, and in communities across the country in October. See you in the streets 📣 #nokings

Press Release:

50501 Mobilizes for a National March In DC THIS SATURDAY, September 6th, And Announces a Second No Kings National Day of Action on October 18th
The United States — On September 1st, over 500,000 working people in more than 1,000 communities joined the Workers over Billionaires Coalition for Labor Day demonstrations. Now, the 50501 Movement is gearing up for two key actions. First, it is answering Free DC’s call for a National March in the nation’s capital, this September 6th. And then, on October 18th, the 50501 Movement will be joining communities around the country for a second No Kings National Day of Action.

Workers over Billionaires
“With over 1,000 events across the nation this past weekend, we showed that we can do what Trump can't; show up for workers and for workers’ rights,” said Gloriann Sahay, Chair of Political Revolution and 50501 National Partner.

On Labor Day, working people in all 50 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Sweden gathered in solidarity to demand that the American government end its complicity in the billionaire takeover; protect and defend social services for working people; fully fund schools, housing, and healthcare; and stop its attacks on marginalized people and laborers around the country.

We Are All DC
The 50501 Movement is calling on every person who opposes Donald Trump’s illegal occupation of Washington, D.C., to join us in the nation’s capital for Free DC’s We Are All DC national march this Saturday, September 6th.

“The National Guard in DC is a fascist circus of performative brute force that is meant to terrify the people,” said Sarah Parker, the Executive Director of Voices of Florida and 50501 National Partner. “But we are not afraid. We are mobilizing with local grassroots organizers and with the communities that are the most targeted, most impacted, and most ignored. We are rising up. We will not bow down to authoritarianism. We will not be silenced.”

The demonstration will begin at Mal…

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 26/08/2025

Dan Froomkin of Press Watch: “The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state.” [presswatchers.org]

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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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/08/2025

Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies. Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It’s happening before our eyes, and can feel overwhelming (which seems like the intention). The recent polls showing support for immigrants and immigration point to one of the areas where pushing back might make a big difference, especially if Trump would dump Stephen Miller.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/07/2025

In 2011, FEMA's National Flood Insurance map was updated to include Camp Mystic in a "Special Flood Hazard Area." Camp Mystic fought that designation, getting 15 of the buildings removed in 2013, and 15 more in 2019–20. You can change the map, but that doesn't change reality.

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FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing ...

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We’ve seen the bromance breakup between Trump and Musk. What would it take for Trump to dump Miller? Are there ways to help make it happen?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

this is a very good thread

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Well said, though what’s happened is terribly wrong, and I wish UVA’s President, Board of Visitors, and state leaders had strongly maintained a principled stand opposing the Trump administration’s bullying and abuse of federal power. (I grew up in Charlottesville.)

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barbararogan.bsky.social @barbararogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Cooperative games (those with third-party enforcement) versus non-cooperative games (without). Most non-cooperative games have mixed interests, both conflicts and opportunities to cooperate for mutual gains. So coopetition is an appropriate word for such games and many situations in real life.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

50501 Movement upholds a strict and unwavering commitment to nonviolence. We do not condone, support, or tolerate any form of violence, threats, or the destruction of property—whether public or private. Our mission is rooted in integrity, accountability, and nonviolent action.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Google’s AI transformation into evil exploitative monopoly. “AI Overviews, and especially AI Mode, are the logical outcome of Google's years-long transformation from an indexer of information to an insular web portal built on scraping content from around the web.” arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

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Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris

Google’s first year with AI search was a wild ride. It will get wilder.

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Hal @heyfriend-1.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

“They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.” • REBECCA SOLNIT

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Excellent analysis of how misguided and destructive DOGE has been.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Yes, plenty more space between the courthouse and parking garage.

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#DumpTrump - Three Ways Out Impeach and convict, declare unable, or else Resign! Go play golf #EndTheMadness #MayDay2025

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Bryan Bruns @bryanbruns.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Build back better, for government. Worth a read. “… the three main strategies would be: expand the capacity of Congress to legislate; restrict the discretion of the president and executive branch; and codify the procedures of the administrative agencies and the rights of the civil service ...

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