Reposted by BrandonBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4hhmmm do we think maybe there's been some cheapening of the framework around genocide here if it can encompass the pro-Palestinian mayor of New York City. 361101123
Reposted by BrandonJake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy. 661203293
Reposted by BrandonProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines 42565161
Reposted by Brandonregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026HELL YEAH GET EM 201504363
Reposted by BrandonJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Greenland “deal” epitomizes Trump. A huge amount of drama, a huge amount of damage that won’t be fixed for years and maybe never. And in the end he gets literally nothing but the diplo equivalent of Danish FIFA peace prize. 🏆 Stood down by Greenland and Denmark. Both hilarious and pathetic. Sad! 29998186
Reposted by BrandonDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war. 30828257
Brandon @btavshanjian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is almost clintonian (but in a good way) strategic semantics 010
Reposted by BrandonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/09/2026Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness" 7811339183
Reposted by BrandonMike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. 37511
Reposted by BrandonBaltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating. 311240434
Reposted by BrandonDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism 1674256723
Reposted by Brandonderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie 1272207243993
Reposted by BrandonBrown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026www.forbes.com/sites/maryro... The EU rejected this beef due to safety standards, but it’s being imported to the U.S. duty-free anyway. Why are we lowering standards on what we eat? If it isn't safe enough for the EU, it shouldn't be on our plates!forbes.comBrazil And Argentina Will Send Tariff-Free Beef To U.S.—Despite Quality ConcernsBrazilian beef was recently rejected from the EU for failing to meet quality standards and 30,000 pounds of Argentinian meat was recalled in Texas and Florida this summer. 80460247
Reposted by BrandonAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 04/09/2026By this measure, you could say the Trump administration is “paying” Maggie Haberman, since having access to him “put her in a position” to write a best-selling book. 22841151
Reposted by BrandonThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 04/09/2026Behind closed doors, John Fetterman dodges constituents, alienates fellow Democrats and shows little interest in the work of a senator.on.wsj.comBehind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a SenatorThe first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel. 171973264
Reposted by BrandonMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Good news we’ve created the drug war quagmire from the book ‘don’t get in a drug war quagmire’ 17415
Brandon @btavshanjian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It also shows the level of sophistication of the man, who supposedly is a key force behind a neural-machine interface company. It’s up there with Elizabeth Holmes’s “a chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal” line for showing someone doesn’t know something 0278
Reposted by Brandontomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 02/09/2026Netanyahu bragged in Hebrew that 1,000 hours on American television let him manipulate Fuckface into attacking Iran, a war that's killed 18 Americans and dragged on six months. He denied ever being talked into it. Even Nancy Mace, walking her dog, called it fucked up.rawstory.comDog-walking Nancy Mace drops F-bomb as she learns of Netanyahu's brag about TrumpMAGA Rep. Nancy Mace hurled an expletive Tuesday as she learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bragged on live TV that he manipulated Donald Trump into attacking Iran.Viewers were left... 01713
Reposted by BrandonStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My ill-informed opinion on Piker is that he chose provocateur as his career path as is constitutional right, and by all indications, he's been successful at it. But having made this decision, he has to learn to live with provoked people the same way swineherds live with swine and bricklayers bricks. 2169988
Reposted by BrandonFlock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026pulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men 284119729
Reposted by BrandonJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Impossible to argue with this.👇 24395562923
Reposted by BrandonThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 23/08/2026There are many academics who believe that the freedom of the academy is so critical to civil society that members of civil society should never be allowed to impose negative consequences on academics who expressly seek to harm civil society from within the safety of the academy. 616020
Reposted by BrandonDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19/08/2026[pointing at the invariable behavior of socialist cadres] this is not the behavior of socialist cadres 0634
Reposted by BrandonBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Natalie Harp, the child aide being viciously attacked for being a helpless young girl, is 35 years old. 1071216993500
Reposted by BrandonDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2026Remember: States, not the federal government, set vaccination requirements for children. Many have said they no longer follow vaccine recommendations from the federal government and instead follow those from the American Academy of Pediatrics and major medical organizations. They need to hold firm. 13525170
Reposted by BrandonMS NOW @ms.now · 08/08/2026MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: In fiery meeting, military families confront acting Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln www.ms.now/news/navy-me...ms.nowIn fiery meeting, military families confront acting Navy secretary over conditions on the USS LincolnFamily members of sailors and Marines challenged Navy leaders on Thursday night over their concerns about mental health, supply shortages and water contamination aboard the aircraft carrier on a recor... 1151593481
Reposted by BrandonCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026time to reup this classic 511100224
Reposted by BrandonThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/07/2026GigSlave Goes Public With $84 Billion Valuation 11727102
Reposted by BrandonFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/07/2026Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul. 2263675428
Reposted by BrandonSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18/07/2026"What I want to do and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a Green Card to be able to stay in this country." - donald trump, 2024 abcnews.com/Politics/tru...abcnews.comTrump proposes giving green cards to all noncitizen college graduates. His campaign says only after they are vettedTrump's campaign clarified his immigration proposal to give green cards to all foreign college students, arguing there would be an "aggressive vetting process." 1228580
Reposted by BrandonLarry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous. 891104366619
Reposted by Brandonghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026the Balogun red was obvious horseshit in real time, there is no consistency whatsoever in foul calls across games within the World Cup, player suspension is stupid anyway, stop whining 2932529
Reposted by BrandonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026Gov. Josh Shapiro on the Supreme Court: "I think everything needs to be on the table. I think we need radical reform." 1323204664
Reposted by BrandonThe Onion @theonion.com · 01/07/2026“This is the first time the Supreme Court has given its blessing to redistricting across the boundaries of four-dimensional space,” political scientist Jonas Neuhaus said of the decision in RNC v. Garnertheonion.comSupreme Court Upholds Temporal Gerrymander That Would Cost Democrats 1932 ElectionWASHINGTON—In a wide-reaching decision likely to affect every era of American life, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling Tuesday upholding a temporal gerrymander that would cost Democrats c... 8853107
Reposted by BrandonFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Trump: I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up 42430259
Reposted by BrandonStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/06/2026One of the bleakest things about American politics is that we're reflexively anti expert on issues that truly have right and wrong answers, but are slavishly obsequious to experts in "the law and the constitution" despite that field being completely made up and fake. 141596298
Reposted by BrandonResistandfight @resistandfight.bsky.social · 29/06/2026www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va... Hold Elon accountable FFS!thenerdreich.comElon Musk's USAID Cuts: A Silicon Valley GenocideWorld's First Trillionaire is Killing the World's Poorest Children 045
Reposted by BrandonThe Phantom Judge You Harshly 🎃💀🦇🧛♂️ @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 27/06/2026In honor of his 100th birthday let’s recognize the genius that is Mel Brooks 🤟😎 853620688
Reposted by Brandonthreadwhisperer.bsky.social @threadwhisperer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026the sheer volume of people who marched for racial justice in DC and got kettled and pepper-sprayed vs. people who literally broke into the Capitol and got pardoned is the whole thesis statement of this administration 115115
Reposted by BrandonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Clearest proof we've seen that he thinks refugees claiming political asylum were refugees from an actual insane asylum. The leader of the United States is dumber than dirt but there's an entire cult enabling him and a corporate media too cowardly to call them out. 26160761641
Reposted by BrandonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/06/2026Trump on an executive order he's about to sign that he clearly has no clue about: "Quantum ... cryptography. Does anybody know what that is?" 4543331887
Reposted by BrandonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2026What a wild lie from Musk as well, given that USAID funding was completely halted virtually everywhere, and this was extremely publicly reported. 561693425
Reposted by BrandonJenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 20/06/2026So if you're in Congress and pass high level info to your kid, is that insider trading? 🤔 A 22-year-old got a $30 million investment valuing his futures exchange at $300 million He wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Sen @kirstengillibrand.bsky.socialfortune.comSon of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | FortuneLux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million. 075
Reposted by BrandonFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Real diplomatic instruments are not full of basic grammatical errors and unintentional ambiguities. It is a unique humiliation that the American regime did not even have a professional translation and resolve ambiguities. They ran it through grok and signed it. 121430290
Reposted by BrandonBrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026trump will NEVER beat President Obama. He is smarter. He is classier. He is better in every way. trump's deal will NOT measure up. 22555551281
Reposted by BrandonKevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Perfect microcosm of Trump II. An attempted temporary fix using the wrong thing in the wrong amount done the wrong way. Like, peroxide can do that, but you'd need to use stronger solutions, in higher amounts, introduced at inflow, and done regularly. This is doing approximately nothing. 1425
Brandon @btavshanjian.bsky.social · 06/06/202682 years ago today a bunch of foolhardy young dudes participated in the largest amphibian invasion in history to kick fascism, a system that sought to convert citizens into nothing more than disposable pawns for national greatness, in the nuts. Here’s hoping we can do it again. 000
Reposted by BrandonThe Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 05/06/2026Better is a poor one who walks in integrity than a rich one who is crooked in wicked ways (Proverbs 28:6). 1489
Reposted by BrandonCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026House bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, children www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comHouse bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, childrenMillions of WIC recipients would have less money for fruits and vegetables under the legislation, which funds the Agriculture Department and other agencies. 97680394
