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Brian Wendell Morton

@diegodelaestafa.bsky.social
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Former radio news reporter, congressional press secretary, White House staffer and 15-year newspaper columnist. Sleight-of-hand artist and BBQ maven. USAF veteran. Baltimorean. One Heck of A Swell Guy.

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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CBS seems to have forgotten how he molested young boys...
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Perhaps we need an AI-controlled remote machine gun mounted on Abe Lincoln's head inside the Lincoln Memorial to stop terrorists. Man, won't that show Al-Qaida!
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oooh, 'tis a puzzlement. 🧐
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This should torpedo Gavin Newsom as a presidential candidate once and for all.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No notes.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And gosh thanks, CBS, for carrying water for the Republicans and making it all about their bullshit talking points instead of the actual issues of the short-fingered vulgarian and his party driving the US into a garbage dump.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: James Brown Mavis Staples Prince Bruce Springsteen The Grateful Dead To Petty & The Heartbreakers Billy Joel Earth, Wind & Fire Parliament Funkadelic Tito Puente
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Mister Magic @mistermagic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a failure of the media.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If Mark Carney really wanted to fuck with the Commander-In-Thief, he could shows that Canada Don't Play That.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nice arts center/presidential memorial you got there. Shame if something should happen to it.—Mango Mussolini
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Her memory IS a blessing.
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Man reveals Dolly Parton sponsored uniforms at Black high schools without any publicity for years
Parton is known for doing charity work without requiring any public recognition and fanfare for it.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So in other words, the "I smell weed" lie is still operative for Arkansas cops. Black people, take note.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chauvin was, in fact, the cause of Floyd’s death. He used a technique that MPD and most other agencies have banned, specifically because it causes death. And the crime for which he was convicted is unintentional second-degree murder, which by definition does not require intent to kill.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My favorite FDR quote: "They are united in their hatred for me—and I welcome their hatred."
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The main ICE criteria: Existing While Brown. That's it.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This one is RICH. Monica Lewinsky laughs mordantly. "A profoundly dishonest politician with no sense of honor," says the guy who ditched his wife dying of cancer on her deathbed.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I have said the last elected Republican that operated in good faith was Eisenhower. Retired conservative Judge Luttig now says the next bad faith act the GOP will pull will be refusing to seat elected Democrats in 2027 if they gain the majority, claiming fraud. You heard it here first.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Final Battle for America's Democracy When the Republican House Refuses to Seat the Democrat Majority-Elect to the 120th Congress By JUDGE J. MICHAEL LUTTIG judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/the-final-...
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The Final Battle for America's Democracy
January 3, When the Republican House Refuses to Seat the Democrat Majority-Elect to the 120th Congress
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Monuments fenced off. Bulldozing part of the executive mansion. Engraving the current leader's name on memorials to previous leaders. Nationwide surveillance camera networks. Secret police roaming the streets. People being disappeared. Secret court dockets. Our country is a dystopia.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Constitution's Article II, Section 3, "[The president] shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed," is hereby rendered null and void.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is what the poultry producers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland have been doing to screw over minority subcontractors for decades—it's the exact same game plan. Amazon is just Perdue Chicken on a national basis.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Promise?
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If Abbott wants to run in Michigan, let him run in Michigan. His opponent is Talarico.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This interview is worth reading, if only because Mfume's answers are dead-on point. The conservative-leaning mass media want to make "Democratic Socialism" a bigger thing than it is—but it's a thing because so many Democrats are cowed by that same media (and the power of money).
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Pretty much this.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I miss Al Franken, whom I'm sure could concoct an SNL cold-open-worthy sketch out of this in real time: "Before this hearing sir, I asked six first graders to answer this question, yet you curiously seem unable to. Maybe you need a juice box?"
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I was going with the Trump Trots, but this'll do...
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BY a 5-4 margin, the U.S. Supreme Court has determined the U.S. Constitution has plain words that actually mean what they say. In a dissenting opinion, Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch & Kavanaugh argue they are dread pirates and therefore the U.S. Constitution is more a guideline than a hard rule.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Gonna be interesting to see how "originalism" justifies a magazine-fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifle designed for war in 1956.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Four votes saying that the 14th Amendment doesn't say what it says. This is INSANE.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
She's probably "concerned" about that too. And she'll ponder it some more after the election.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
As he was walking out, she should have said, "You know—President Obama never bailed out mid-interview."
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Bet you didn't predict this future in 2024...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There is no legal recourse the Supreme Court will allow. It’s “white’s win always” and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Supreme Court clears way for Alabama Republicans to use congressional map for midterms
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Alabama Republicans to remove the state’s second majority-Black congressional district for the midterms, handing the party a pickup opportunity in a…
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/06/2026
The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A Supreme Court that upholds gerrymandering in one breath and denies any protection from the overt use of race in the next is as destructive to this republic as any court that ever beat down Homer Plessy or Dred Scott. This is a betrayal of everyone who ever fought or died for American civil rights.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
But of course race has absolutely nothing to do with this.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What's next—John Roberts or Sam Alito approvingly quoting Roger Taney? We're not that far off.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
As I have been saying for quite a while now: they'll issue bald-faced lies and claim they are telling the truth. The last Republican to operate in good faith was Eisenhower.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Never thought I'd be alive at the end of the Second Reconstruction. Jim Crow II is on its way.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Statue of limitations has not expired on this tweet.
A Jack Posobiec tweet reading just:

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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New Mexico authorities should use ground-penetrating radar on Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, all 8,000 acres plus ~1,200 leased acres, action I recommended in March, to search for bodies. Sworn testimony says at least two young women were strangled and buried there.
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Brian Wendell Morton @diegodelaestafa.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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