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Brandon D

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/09/2026
Vote early. Election Day is the end of the election, not the beginning. With everything this regime is going to do to suppress our votes, it’s imperative that we leave plenty of time to correct any issues.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Look, are we the laughing stock of the world? Yes. Are we losing a war we should’ve never started? Yes. Is all our food poison now? Yes. Are all the jobs going away? Yes. But the important thing is a blue-haired college student I made up in my head feels bad about memes.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/07/2026
I do not believe democracy is compatible with billionaires being able to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026
No previous president has ever manipulated American foreign and domestic policy in order to make himself a billionaire. Unprecedented www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s income topped $2 billion in 2025, boosted by crypto, coin ventures
Almost 1,000 pages of financial disclosure forms show that the president’s earnings far outpaced his $600 million total income in 2024.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/05/2026
Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it. 

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families.

Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress. 

Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves. 

I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/05/2026
When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.
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singlecatlady23.bsky.social @singlecatlady23.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026
thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.
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Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If Republicans have had a belated realization that gerrymandering is bad, they should work with Dems to ban it entirely. I suspect though that they think it’s just bad when it happens to them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I suspect, however, that Republicans have not had this realization, and that they simply believe that disenfranchising Democrats is good but disenfranchising Republicans is bad. If that’s the case, then this race to the bottom will continue indefinitely. On Monday, Trump called the new maps a “shameful effort” to “silence the voices of Virginia conservatives.” He either didn’t remember or didn’t care that he had set off this whole process by demanding that liberals in Texas and other Republican-controlled states be similarly silenced. In fact, the president complained in a post today that the election had been “rigged” by virtue of the fact that all the votes—including mail-in ballots—had been counted.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/04/2026
This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Truth of gerrymandering issue is simple & clear: Democrats want to end gerrymandering, Republicans want to keep it. Democrats are forced to do it, to counter Republican use of it. Yet, false-equivalency (implicitly pro-Trump) rags are lying about the issue through their blatantly false narratives.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban's regime isn't just a Trump ally--he's the model for Trump's regime. Orban created a hybrid regime with the appearance of democracy, rampant corruption, stealing of elections, and the absence of the rule of law. His loss would be a setback for the project of authoritarianism worldwide.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I assume Orban conceded because the opposition's victory is too staggeringly large to deny. It's important for us to remember that, were he in Orban's position, Trump would never concede, no matter how large the margin.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela. It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe But it never goes to help Americans
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
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Brandon D @cobramantis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Pretty sure an American president gleefully promising to commit mass war crimes in our name should be removed immediately and never hold any public office ever again, for starters.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New U.S. bargaining position has no mention of the strait, or proxies, or ballistic missiles. Basically the president is begging for a return to the Obama nuclear deal but with Iran adding a massive new revenue source.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It’s crazy that the vice president openly intervening in a foreign election for the candidate backed by Russia ranks a distant second in insane things happening today.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
remember those other branches of government
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Brandon D @cobramantis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Deranged criminal who’s been casually slaughtering civilians in your name with your tax dollars in an illegal war he started for no reason gleefully promises to commit his biggest war crimes yet. Tell your members of Congress that it’s long past time to wake the fuck up.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/04/2026
Don't forget: this dangerous and risky rescue operation would not have been necessary had Trump not started an illegal war of choice in the first place. All of these troops were in danger for no discernible reason. Zero.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Brandon D @cobramantis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Small dictator energy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026
The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.
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Brandon D @cobramantis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Basically, the Trump regime will just be murdering anyone, anywhere, anytime, with zero justification and zero care for the consequences.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Americans live in a country where the leader can order the murder of anyone he wants, and doesn’t even need to explain why. The rule of law is gone. Republicans killed it.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
hey gen z welcome to republican governance
James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says
At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 28/02/2026
We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a ‘cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
So, to wrap up today's insanity: President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Donald Trump is: - Openly racist - Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children - Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state - Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders - Polling at 38% amongst the American people
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