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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More of this, please. Also, I know it's early, he still needs to win this race, blah blah blah... but Ossoff is definitely my personal 2028 Democratic nominee favorite right now. A lot can happen in the next 2 years of course, but this is good stuff.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Engaging in acts of bestiality is no longer disqualifying in order to work for the FBI. um... I'm sure I'm not the first person to make this joke... but I have to. So, they're now literal ratfuckers. I'm sorry.

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At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired

In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not only is "VP" not likely to be a high ranking position at a place like BofA, but more importantly, this is still a young person murdered in the street. There's no glorious revolution to be had here, and the lunatics celebrating it have no clue and have seemingly lost their humanity.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Avery Brooks, circa 1990ish. Or maybe me now, I suppose.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I cross-referenced my database of candidates against credible voter fraud cases. GOP politicians are implicated at 50x–38,000x the general public's rate. Yet even if every American voted with the integrity of a GOP candidate, it still wouldn't come close to justifying making voting one iota harder.

Bar chart titled "Voter fraud among Republican politicians vastly exceeds the public's. That rate is still just 1 in 850." The chart shows that 0.118% of Republican politicians (17 out of 14,442 DIME candidates from 2016–2026) have been credibly implicated in voter fraud. This rate is represented by a tall red bar that dwarfs the microscopic rates for the general electorate, making the politicians' rate 50x to 38,000x higher than the documented rates for everyone else.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If my country is the country of Jim Crow, it is also the country of Thaddeus Stevens, and it is incumbent upon us to make this the sort of country that embodies the ideals for which Thaddeus Stevens was ostracized after his death

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The biggest form of political correctness in America is that basically every single conservative commentator is a gutter bigot and it's just universally understood that it's beyond the pale to ever acknowledge that.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/04/2026

"these people are gonna be whitewashing trump like they did bush" as a lib just gonna raise my hand here and say i still bear a burning-hot hatred for bush v gore and indeed everything that ensued from putting that goddamn republican idiot in the white house

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Obama's presidency was a failure because it led to Trump" is a frustratingly common idea you run into on bluesky and it's dead wrong. By that standard no presidency is ever successful because eventually the other party *will* win again!

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wish it wasn't happening under this administration, and it might not result in much after this mission, but it's hard not to be excited for a flight to the Moon. Good luck, Artemis.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Genuinely happy for Venezuela, and even happier for Salvy and Maikel.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My "home river" is the Missouri, and it's obviously a huge and important river, but my current home is definitely more photogenic. Here are some photos I've taken with one of my new "home rivers."

Looking west down the Columbia River from the Starvation Ridge Trail on Mount Defiance, on the Oregon side of the river. About 1100 feet above the river.

The Crooked River, in Smith Rock State Park.

The Columbia River, this time from about 2500 feet on Dog Mountain. This is on the Washington side of the Gorge.

This is the Muddy Fork, looking up toward Mount Hood.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I'm pretty sure other people have observed this, but what I keep thinking in response to those who are trying to compare Ashli Babbitt to Renee Good; the one thing they have in common is that Donald Trump got both of them killed.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

If you cope with every bad thing by blaming Democrats, I dunno, maybe you should figure out a more productive way to deal with your emotions.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The GOT finale was actually fine (I'm still dying on this hill), but for my money, the best show endings have been Star Trek TNG, The Americans, and The Leftovers. Ted Lasso was close, but I guess that no longer counts as a finale.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This cat is making some good points. I guess it is time to eat.

Buffy is providing an editorial. She's not wrong.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 07/10/2025

gonna be so cool when we actively have a horrifically bad drug and organized crime problem in five years under a Democrat because Trump has systematically destroyed our capacity to fight things that need fighting in favor of deporting people and wanton pointless cruelty

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Spent a lovely Sunday walking around Portland. It is noticeably unburned. Downright pleasant, even. Would be nice if the president wasn't hellbent on ruining everything.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Why would you do this for charlie kirk and not melissa hortman, who was not a racist asshole who hated you but a member of your party, speaker of the house for another state's legislature, and by all accounts a good public servant and person

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A photo you took that brings you inner peace.

A view of Mount Hood from the summit of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

My vote in the 2028 Democratic primary will go to the candidate that promises the most aggressive and effective destruction of the Republican Party as it currently exists, specifically via the most ruthless possible prosecution of every member and enabler of the Trump admin.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is the correct position.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Unironically, that's exactly what he and most current Republicans think. There is no such thing as an appropriate proportion of Democratic representation.

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Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I guess this has to be stated: Republicans are responsible for taking Medicaid, and SNAP, and Planned Parenthood funding, no one else, the Republicans did this to America without a single Democratic vote. The facts still matter.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Yep, Jane's absolutely right. To the "you can't vote your way out of this" folks... we could have done so last November. We could have done so in 2016. We could do so at the state and local levels. There may be a point where that isn't possible anymore, but until then, elections still matter

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is dumb, even by the standards of this administration. Throwing away such a great (and relatively easy!) opportunity to develop a legitimate planetary defense system is deranged. It's amazing how "America First" seems to require giving up on American innovation and leadership.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I have a ton of respect for Hank, but this isn't great. One Senator went to El Salvador to try to save a constituent, another was tackled and cuffed by ICE. A Congresswoman was charged for a fake assault. The NYC comptroller was just thrown around by ICE. These are real risks by significant folks.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Not every Republican wants to kill you, but none of them will ever do anything about the ones who do.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Given the choice between calling out Republicans for an extremely bad thing they are actually doing vs attacking Democrats for a made up thing that is the opposite of reality, I see we are again choosing door number two

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The moneybagses could keep brainstorming about how to grow a liberal Joe Rogan in a vat or they could just make Shari Redstone a better offer, buy CBS, and run a network news operation that covers the myriad fuckups and abuses of the Trump administration without watering it down for fake balance

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Good piece, but grim. Yet another bit of horrifying information that feels impossible to resolve or even combat right now. Also, not surprising that the Trump administration is full of people who don't understand the value of national parks.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

These little jerks are 8 years old today. Here's to many more years under their reign of terror!

I must have interrupted some sort of scheming.

Mingus is sitting on Buffy. She is not amused.

History's greatest monsters, about 4 months old, still learning their vile trade.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I don't have any legal expertise, but all of this makes sense to me.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Restoring trust and credibility to the United States will require not just pushing Trump out of power but putting him and all his cronies in prison.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Americans voted against the most successful economic recovery of any nation on the planet for this, because they were mad at their servants being paid more and listened to liars who made them feel good.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Climate change is the biggest “never too late, best time was before, second best is now.” It’s a gradient, not a switch. The more warming, the worse various risks get. Can’t avoid all risk at this point, of course, but can mitigate them substantially (or not). Complacent doomerism wildly misplaced.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I think at least some of this is just individual arrogance. A lot of people attribute their success to their own hard work/intellect/etc., while assuming everyone else is screwing up and/or being screwed by Them. It's like that thing where 70% of drivers believe they're above average in skill.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This level of incompetence isn't surprising - but I still find myself kind of amazed by it. Stuff like this is one of many reasons Putin has been propping Trump up for so long.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This may sound fanciful, but it's actually validated by social scientific research. One study showed that, when given accurate descriptions of Republican fiscal policies, a significant chunk of voters simply refused to accept that these were their views. It just sounded too extreme.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Simply put, cutting USAID is gonna kill a lot of people. And I'm seeing comments on the other app basically shrugging and saying "not our problem." The moral rot that leads one to not want to save lives when we can (with relatively little effort or cost) is astounding.

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This sucks. I've been reading Kevin Drum's stuff for 20 years or so. We lost a good one.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I think it’s fascinating how this administration’s guiding principle on every single policy is just “be evil.” Starving children? Take away their food. AIDS patients? Take away their treatments. Refugees from conflict zones? Deport them. Nations under attack? Cut off assistance. VA? Fire everyone.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

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Hunter @hbreck.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We're gonna have a Russian asset as the head of US intelligence, an anti-science guy with a literal brainworm in charge of health, and we already have a drunk rapist in charge of the military. Hard not to despair right now. Not just for the US, but also for the rest of the world.

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