Reposted by Ian BrickeyTom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/06/2026It honestly sucks Trump ruined the 250th. There should be parades and a big fair and parties, not this half-assed MAGA bullshit they self-sabotaged into the ground. 69513
Reposted by Ian Brickeyryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/06/2026righteous paragraph. I don't think I'm alone in being sick to fuckin death of hearing about Donald Trump 732090
Reposted by Ian BrickeySierra Club @sierraclub.org · 19/03/2026Welcome to March Badness! This year's tournament pits the 64 of the worst anti-environmental actions from the Trump Administration for our air, water, communities, climate, clean energy, and lands against each other. 😬 sc.org/marchbadnesssc.orgMarch Badness 2026: Trump 2.0 is ‘One Shining Moment’ for Corporate PollutersIt’s that time of year again – March Madness. Office pools are forming, water coolers are buzzing, and broadcast schedules are filling up, but Donald Trump and his pro-polluter policies are ensuring y... 11311
Reposted by Ian BrickeySierra Club @sierraclub.org · 19/03/2026From cancelling clean energy programs to attempts to sell our public lands, many are flagrant, and they're all just plain foul. Want to see the full bracket, learn more, and take action? 193
Reposted by Ian BrickeyMicah @rincewind.run · 14/01/2026the constitution has many flaws but addressing our current circumstances is not among them; the framers were in fact quite concerned about this kind of thing and were clear that it should not happen here what they did not and could not guard against is the people in charge ignoring their plain text 191512341
Reposted by Ian BrickeyChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I did a whole series of stories for the Washington post late 2020/early 2021 about coup attempts, democratic backsliding and authoritarianism, and got a lot of grief from reactionary centrists about how that was "just the opinion of some elite academics" 1037074
Reposted by Ian BrickeyCharlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember. 201200974801
Reposted by Ian Brickeyjab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Renee Good is dead because the system was created to harass, assault and intimidate Renee Goods, and because the people who do it enjoy it. Trump II's meme reign seems determined to persuade the last people unconvinced of this.thenation.comDismantling the Meme Logic Behind Renee Good’s ICE ExecutionThe Trump administration is once more invoking upside-down alibis of state to conjure the bogus specter of imminent threat. 9591128
Reposted by Ian BrickeyPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 09/01/2026It should be more like a menstruation hut where they are barely tolerated at the very margins of society for being spiritually dirty. We could use the little fort they built in the Everglades 5733
Reposted by Ian Brickeydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/01/2026there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school 179130752340
Ian Brickey @ianbrickey.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Everything we’ve seen from Trump is the logical conclusion of things that were first done by the George W. Bush administration: expansive executive power, ignoring the judiciary, the trampling of international law, all of it. 2017 to now is just 2002-03 without the patina of respectability. 020
Ian Brickey @ianbrickey.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Truly embarrassing work by the @washingtonpost.com, holding any concerns about the legality of overthrowing a government until the second-to-last graf, and having THIS be the criticism — scrutiny indeed! 000
Reposted by Ian Brickeymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/11/2025I'm being completely serious that you can draw a direct line between the introduction of instant replay to football and the widespread toleration of Donald Trump's bad-faith lawsuits and election overturning. Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown. 1118417
Reposted by Ian BrickeyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/10/20251. Washington DC #NoKings 👑 408240286108
Reposted by Ian BrickeyCythrin ⬇️ ↙️ ⬅️ ➕ [ 🐾 ] @cythrin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on. 1833642041
Reposted by Ian BrickeyCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 23/09/2025To illustrate what the rapid buildout of Gulf Coast LNG export terminals looks like, this beautifully written @sierramagazine.bsky.social story from @delaneynolan.bsky.social cleverly likens the development to an aggressive disease that advances in stages. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-... 2106
Reposted by Ian BrickeyHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Big rally of multiple unions in DuPont Circle in DC right now. “They want us to be quiet, but we’re just gonna get louder.” 5522123
Reposted by Ian Brickeyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2025one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder 140117512361
Reposted by Ian BrickeyNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens. 9441191237
Reposted by Ian Brickeyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2025the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech 429104801969
Reposted by Ian BrickeyJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/08/2025A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle. 11524201075
Reposted by Ian BrickeyVera Bergengruen @verambergen.bsky.social · 16/08/2025NEW: National Guard troops deployed to DC by President Trump are now preparing to carry weapons. It's a significant shift—defense officials emphasized two days ago that troops would not be armed or have weapons in their vehicles. 55702388
Reposted by Ian BrickeyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it. 97181023279
Reposted by Ian BrickeyBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Lmfao 374142012651
Reposted by Ian BrickeyBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/08/2025There’s just alot of people looking directly into a camera and saying 2+2=7 and expecting you to passively take that because you now have no agency and are merely a vessel for that lie to be conveyed and that’s generally bad I think 111552155
Reposted by Ian Brickeyjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11/08/2025On the potential DC guard deployment: “One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.” via @reuters.comreuters.comUS military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials sayThe U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday. 148921
Reposted by Ian BrickeyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11/08/2025"So we're getting this information from multiple sources [...] within the mayor's office and within Metro Police Department, that President Trump, come tomorrow, will deploy the National Guard along the streets of DC." www.wusa9.com/video/news/n... 124935463
Reposted by Ian BrickeyJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/07/2025the JD stands for Jeffrey Defender 2633180516
Reposted by Ian Brickeyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2025and the things trump has done — mainly the administrative agenda for Project 2025 — are things he denied he had anything to do with! 111456149
Reposted by Ian Brickeyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2025trump promised to lower prices — hasn't happened. trump promised that his tariffs would cause an explosion of manufacturing — hasn't happened. trump promised to remove criminal illegal immigrants — hasn't happened. 131147153
Reposted by Ian BrickeySierra Club @sierraclub.org · 12/06/2025🚨 Senate Republicans are at it again — trying to sneak a massive public lands sell-off into their budget bill. 44424
Reposted by Ian BrickeyDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Very good job by Shaw with Hawley's usual sarcastic approach. (Familiar if you watch Judiciary hearings - reframe witness's position as crazy, goad them into disagreeing, then say hey check out this smart guy who can't defend the position.) 691895257
Ian Brickey @ianbrickey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Not enough movies have wisecracking trailers that show grimy shots of Los Angeles ironically accompanied by Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” This kind of trailer peaked with 1997’s “Volcano,” and Hollywood has been downhill ever since. 100
Reposted by Ian Brickeymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Yup. Privatizing and selling off our public lands. It was explicitly spelled out in Project 2025 but the media thought that was worthy of less coverage than implying a fake scandal around which month in 1989 Tim Walz was in China so here we are bsky.app/profile/gree... 61116285
Reposted by Ian BrickeyRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The Secretary of the Interior requires his staff to make him cookies and serve him meals. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly BakedThe unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House. 3431756657
Reposted by Ian BrickeyPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The competing impulses to both do evil on a massive scale and make a better world have been there in the US since the very beginning. It's a real "two wolves inside you" situation. I absolutely refuse to let that mangy motherfucker win. 118715
Ian Brickey @ianbrickey.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Everything we’re seeing today is fallout from 2008: the unbalanced response to the financial crisis, Obama refusing to repudiate the W. Bush administration, elite failure to recognize (or acknowledge) growing populist sentiment.media.tenor.coma bald man in a blue shirt and red bow tie is saying it is happening againALT: a bald man in a blue shirt and red bow tie is saying it is happening again 040
Ian Brickey @ianbrickey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025If this were true, then the 22nd amendment is pointless. It was clearly ratified with the goal of limiting a president to two terms. If you start doing “one weird trick” bullshit to get around that, you might as well throw the whole constitution out. 020
Reposted by Ian Brickeysurlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 31/03/2025We can discuss how self-serving it was, but I do think it was valuable that Americans *used* to think that we *should* be a force for good and be willing to reach out and help. Beyond soft power, it was a good thing folks would expect us to send aid, to organize around it and to offer support. 272694383
