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Kyle

@kbehrend.bsky.social
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Expat Texan, adopted Yinzer, husband, father, AvGeek

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Warrior Princess ⬇️
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept. (Gift Article)
The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm against you. This is very simple. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
[scrolling the TL thinking of riffs to make about Current Events] Hmm. Can’t say that. Can’t say that. Can’t say that. Definitely can’t say that. Not even sure I can think that one. Can’t say that. “Hey guys has anyone ever tried to use a hammer to”—shit wait nope can’t say that. Can’t say that
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/02/2026
other people can make inroads and find common ground with regretful trump voters, in my personal capacity as a private citizen i am committed to hating those dumb motherfuckers for the rest of my life
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
After 20 years, I finally understand why George Lucas made it extremely obvious that Palpatine and Darth Sidious were the same person right from the start and made the Jedi soooo cartoonishly incompetent in stopping him. George, you were right. About everything. Fuck.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Every ICE officer should be tried for crimes against humanity.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Today’s newsletter is free. But this is the part that matters. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
DHS claims that Renee Nicole Good tried to run over the agents, but there is copious video footage and eyewitness testimony showing that to be a lie. Good was sitting in her stopped car. ICE officers screamed at her to move her car, she attempted to move, and they shot her multiple times through the windshield and the open driver side window. There were no warnings. There were no attempts to deescalate. Just an immediate resort to deadly force for the "crime" of blocking traffic.
This killing reminds me of how, in 2023, a suburban Columbus cop killed a pregnant woman named Ta’Kiya Young by shooting through her windshield in a grocery store parking lot. Young was suspected of shoplifting, nothing more. The cop was actually indicted for murder but he walked after claiming that Young tried to run him down. The cops have a playbook. They know if they simply say "she was coming right at me" that a lot of people will buy it because a lot of people want to believe cops regardless of what the reality on the ground happens to be. The authorities in this country have been killing people with impunity for centuries, sometimes even when there has been clear video of it. This is the latest example of it.Good was 37. She was an award-winning poet. She had a six year-old daughter whose father died in 2023 and now her mother has been murdered by Donald Trump's masked secret police force, after which the United States government and its allies in the media spent the day telling outrageous lies about her. I agree with them that an act of terrorism occurred yesterday, but it was perpetrated by the United States government, not Good. Don't let the government tell you that you're wrong about what you see with your own two eyes.
America is lost. It's completely lost and it is marching deeper and deeper into darkness every day. We're past the point of mere elections fixing it. It's going to take the prosecution of scores if not hundreds of members of the current regime and the eradication of their evil and lawless works to even begin to put us on something resembling a path back into the light. Like, that's where we have to start to even have hope of a positive future.
We cannot go back. We must forge a new path forward and through. Anyone who promises, with clarity and conviction, to do that has my support. Anyone without the courage to do so does not.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation."
- Ghorman senator Dasi Oran, to Mon Mothma as the Empire baselessly justifies another atrocity.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels. I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I think of all the establishment pundits and corporate columnists who engaged in civility politics for 10 years and told me and other people of color in a paternalistic tone that we were hysterical and reactionary about Trump's racism and we should be nicer to MAGA and...I see Nazi slogans in 2025.
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RunningMn9 @runningmn9.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
You keep describing the current system and asking people if they want that as a consequence to some different system. Not only are regular people experiencing these things, we are already paying more than every other country on earth to do it. So much of it gets hidden, get it out in the open.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I know most of you are sane and not masochist like me and follow the right wing swamp and ecosystem. However, MAGA has gone full white nationalist and Groyper. It's the entire party now. Just straight up neo Nazi language and conspiracy theories and rhetoric. They're playing for all the marbles.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
When Trump was asked about the release of the Epstein files, he called one reporter "piggy" and said another was "being insubordinate." When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video. He's a tyrant.
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Kyle @kbehrend.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Or there’s Turtle Creek if you want a shorter hike and to piss off the billionaire donor class.
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Kyle @kbehrend.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
White Rock Lake!
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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days. It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.
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Kyle @kbehrend.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Screenshot of Sean Connery as Captain Marco Ramius in “The Hunt for Red October” with the words “One vote only” across the top of the image.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This is straight up white nationalist talking points posted by the DHS.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 09/10/2025
you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate
NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
*Sees the most Catholic person in the world doing the most Catholic thing there imaginable*: goddamn Pagans!
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
politicalwire.com

“Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion’, but is in favor of the death penalty, is not really pro-life. Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States’, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

— Pope Leo, quoted by the Catholic News Service.
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Kyle @kbehrend.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
6 kids, 3 cats, 2 dogs. It’s… a lot, but very do-able. Best advice I ever got from a friend who is married to a vet was make sure you have 2 litter boxes per cat and it keeps things manageable. So if you have room for that, go for it!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2025
Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.
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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
THIS IS IMPORTANT Louisville gave Pudge his own locker for game day 😭😭😭
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Free speech censorship Political hit lists Detentions w/o due process Internment camps Military in our streets Corrupted law enforcement Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions MSM amplifying state propaganda We are not barreling towards fascism. We are in it.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
As @shannonrwatts.bsky.social pointed out, where's the Democrats Leadership's response to JD Vance and the Trump Administration essentially declaring war on the majority of America? Debunking all his lies? Calling out right-wing terror? Anything? Anything at all? Bueller...Bueller?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It's clear to the rest of us, the majority, that our lives don't matter to Trump or institutions of power in this country. Just look at how everyone, including the Yankees and former Presidents, come out to condemn Kirk's murder and offer sympathies as this country unleashes ICE on brown people.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time: 1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society 2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
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