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Brian Broadus

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Architecture. Architectural History. Historic Preservation. Charleston, Charlottesville, Cairo. Clemson University, University of Virginia. Devoted to Chelsea Football Club, and to my wife, Lynn, forever. Moved to Cleveland to join a coastal elite.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h
Hegseth has by all professional assessments bungled a war against Iran and likely lost it. He is incapable of articulating the reason for the war or the objectives he is pursuing. Yet he is spending almost every waking hour denigrating soldiers, sailors and airmen and trying to foment divisions and
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 20h
RFK Jr Promotes Raw Milk It Nearly Killed A Toddler A 17-month-old nearly died of E. coli after drinking raw goat milk from an unlicensed California farm. Regulators had texts showing the seller knew a child was drinking it. The state imposed no penalty. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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This really is the point. Mister "superintelligence expert" and his goons can't spell OR run an automated spell check routine.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#AZ Trump's 300K metric ton beef import surge crashed Gila County cattle prices-ranchers rebuilding after drought now undercut by subsidized foreign beef timed for midterms. NCBA & USCA warn it sidelines US producers, threatens safety. Our ranchers deserve better than being campaign props. # Pinks
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 30/09/2026
#Dogs are smarter than you think.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It annoys me greatly how easy it would have been for everything to be okay. Not perfect, not even great, but just 5/10 "I can slog through a day in undisturbed mediocrity without the Health Secretary declaring soap causes autism while the president literally shitposts about his war from the toilet."
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now the New York Times and the Associated Press agency have confirmed what the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. Netanyahu's genocidal regime had full knowledge of the attacks that Hamas was going to carry out on October 7, 2023, and did nothing to stop them. The leader of the United Arab
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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is, for us Jefferson watchers, just the exact opposite of news.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m considering taking up smoking for the eccentric lighters.
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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 30/09/2026
Abolition Teapot by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, c. 1760 www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/s...
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today is the 63rd anniversary of the publication of the Denning Report into the Profumo affair, which is not really obscure history, but you may enjoy this telegram from the British Embassy in Paris to the Foreign Office about what Those Saucy Bleeders The Damned French were making of it all
FROM PARIS TO FOREIGN OFFICE
By Bag
Sir P. Dixon
DEPARTMENTAL DISTRUBUTION
No. 242 Saving
September 28, 1963
R: September 29, 1963
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 242 Saving of 28/9

R.F.I. Saving to: Washington
Bonn

Denning Report

No doubt the more sensational Paris papers had been hoping to find new provender in the Denning Report. Some have done their best with the little they found. The pro-Gaullist Paris Presse, for example purports to be publishing the complete text: the tabloid Paris Jour adorned its centre page account with no less than 7 pictures of Miss Keeler in various stages of undress. But other equally popular papers (Parisien Liberé, for example) recognised from the outset that the material for sensationalism was disappointing and played the story down (“Report not worth 7 shillings”). The official Gaullist broadsheet La Nation went so far as to headline “Denning Report Damp Squib: Macmillan Acquitted: Ward Posthumously Executed”. The normally sedate Figaro went through contortions deciding how to handle the story: early editions were confined to an assessment of political consequences but the editor had second thoughts and later editions covered the Report in a way which will certainly bring complaints from parts of the paper’s rather squeamish public.2. With regard to the political consequences, almost the only serious comment has so far come from Correspondents in London. A despatch from Henri Pierre in Le Monde published under the headline “Lord Denning’s Report contains a severe indictment of Mr. Macmillan and his colleagues and the Government” speaks of “a new stock of dynamite” for the Opposition and of the “casualness, incompetence of Mr. Macmillan’s direct associates”. Paris Presse under the heading “Stricken Macmillan goes to see Churchill” describes the Prime Minister as “madly incompetent … The report is hard, very hard, on him and his team that the only real censure…..is addressed”.

Capuano in L’Information adopted a rather similar line in a despatch headlined “Denning Report may offer Labour opposition good electoral platform”. “If the content … is no surprise, it nevertheless calls in question the Prime Minister’s foresight and authority. The political repercussions that this aspect of matters might have, is not to be under-estimated.” Bertrand in Le Figaro in reporting that elections would not take place before next Spring at the earliest, nevertheless speaks of the electoral battle as ”virtually begun”.3. On the other hand the Prime Minister’s television appearance was reported in Le Monde under the heading “Mr. Macmillan defends himself in masterly fashion”. “He defended himself and defended his colleagues with such masterliness that Mr. Wilson is going, as is usual, to ask the right to reply to him. Mr. Macmillan was in fact excellent, making a bludgeon of his honesty and sincerity and even of his naivety”.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s the 43rd anniversary of the day the world might have ended but for one man, and I don’t have time to write that up, and anyway why try when @garius.bsky.social has done this...?
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The Day the World Didn’t End
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“In addition, giraffes are now tall horses. Because that’s what they are. They’re just tall horses. Everybody knows it, they just don’t say it. I’m not afraid to say these things. And those so-called capybaras will be known as ultimate guinea pigs.”
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unaccompanied children as young as 2 are forced to represent themselves in immigration court without any legal services: "The kids who are unrepresented, they can’t read the form, much less figure out how to file it. ... No one is asking a single question — who will you go to? Will you be safe?"
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Speaking of "throwing up in one's mouth", Sen. Kennedy is a disgrace and Trump apologist. www.c-span.org/event/senate... (cartoon detail from the archives)
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 29/09/2026
The RAF Fairford ‘bomb plot’ was designed to fail. So who was behind it?
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The RAF Fairford bomb plot was designed to fail. So who was behind it?
If this was a ploy to use old school techniques in the age of drones, it was doomed from the start, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
29 September 1913 | A Pole, Władysław Szumilas, was born in Krakow. A handball, table tennis & football player of Wisła Kraków. He was arrested for participation in resistance. In #Auschwitz from 14 January 1942 No. 25538 He perished in the camp on 18 June 1942.
Vintage black and white photo of a soccer player in a dark jersey and shorts, kneeling on grass with a soccer ball in front.
Two soccer players in action during a match, one wearing a white shirt and the other in a dark shirt with a star emblem, competing for the ball on a grassy field.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"They are targeting trans people because trans life represents the principles of dignity, self determination, and gender equality that they abhor." YES! @moiradonegan.bsky.social that sentence is so good
Screenshot from a Guardian op-ed by Moira Donegan that includes the quote "They are targeting trans people because trans life represents the principles of dignity, self determination, and gender equality that they abhor."
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is Oklahoma.
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dls100.bsky.social @dls100.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Netasgard News Ireland @en-ie.pds.netasgard.com · 28/09/2026
Ireland — Irish players wore black armbands as they defeated Israel 3-0 in a Nations League game, amid rising tensions over Gaza. #Israel #Ireland #Dublin #News
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Ireland Beats Israel 3-0 in Nations League Match Amid Gaza Tensions
Ireland secured a 3-0 victory over Israel in their Nations League match in Debrecen, Hungary, with goals from Troy Parrott, Adam Idah, and Jack Moylan. The game took place under a somber atmosphere, a… · Photo : Giuseppe Milo (www.pixael.com) · CC BY · Flickr
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The farmers who voted for Trump didn’t care about what he was going to do to the rest of us, so long as it didn’t impact them. And here we are…
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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is our Super Bowl year. I CAN FEEL IT.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New Google Maps satelite photos, you can literally see it with your own eyes now! But it's not a genocide... 🤡🤡
Flattened area
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I should add that in addition to being much funnier than anticipated--Musk is going to be intensely humiliated by this movie, it's going to attack the deepest wounds he tries so hard to conceal--it is also bone-chilling. I think he gutted USAID with DOGE to kill masses of people in the third world.
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abcdef 🕶️ @onecaliberal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The NFL is owned by rapists and genocide supporters.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is how Republicans care about the working people.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MedicareForAllNOW
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Trump lies: "Oil will come dropping down as soon as Iran gives up, as soon as the war is over, which will be soon. Prices for groceries have come way down for Biden. Almost every price has come way down. And remember one thing -- oil is less expensive now than it was under the Biden administration."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The people who spent 15 years saying that society was George Orwell’s 1984 because rappers could say the N word but you can’t are now saying you must love the great machine that knows all of our wants and desires
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Local, state public health officials overwhelmingly faced serious backlash during pandemic, report reveals www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt... via @missmeghanmack.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social
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Local, state public health officials overwhelmingly faced serious backlash during pandemic, report reveals
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I get a real kick anymore just halfheartedly tracing the shape and trajectory of the tech assholes' eschatological delusions. Thiel with his secularized evangelical millenarism apocalyptism and all the bastardized sci-fi fantasies. It's incredible we gave historical wealth to people this stupid.
Tweet from Patrick F. Feeley with accompanying screenshot of Pete Thiel: Peter Thiel tells Mathias Döpfner the only real way to slow AI is a one-world government, and that cure may be worse than the disease (via @mdmeets).

“In theory, you could slow it down if you had genuine, deep cooperation across the whole world. But I think that would require like a one world government with real teeth, real force. And the sort of classical liberal part of me thinks that's almost frying pan into fire. It's a cure that's worse than the disease.

And then of course you can have fake global government where we have a lot of conferences, discuss it, a lot of somewhat empty statements that get put out. And then there's also, of course, a risk that it ends up being slowed down in the West and not in China.

The pope recently issued this AI encyclical, or I would characterize it as an anti-AI encyclical. And again, this is, maybe it was too harsh, but the rhetorical point I have on it is that the Communist Party of China is not going to listen to the pope. There's a chance people in the US will. And so in effect, the pope's encyclical was working for the Communist Party. I'm not saying he was an agent of the Communists, but he was at least acting as a useful idiot for the CCP.”
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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Take it from me, kids, the best reason to give as to why you brought a beer to a job interview is, "Because I was thirsty."
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pope Leo in Paris: “Liberty, equality and fraternity are not simply words emblazoned on the front of your public buildings; they refer to universal ethical imperatives that also find in the Gospel message an inexhaustible source of inspiration and fulfillment.”
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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lamine Yamal (19 yo) knows a racist when he sees one.
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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't make me start liking Barça and Yamal.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Case @case.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some tools the body learns. Some tools the body cannot learn. This is the difference between a car and a touchscreen.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remembering the late, great, Oscar winning PAUL NEWMAN — who left us 18yrs ago today, aged 83.
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