John Brandt @withanh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This guy is so fragile. Baby soft. Couldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight. Pathetic. 100
John Brandt @withanh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Every once in a while he stumbles his way into something good… 000
Reposted by John Brandt ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 177123832653
Reposted by John Brandt Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute 121766294
Reposted by John Brandt Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America. 412646391
Reposted by John Brandt U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/09/2026It's a great baby safety tip. 419437
John Brandt @withanh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This coming from the alleged “Real Americans” party btw… 000
Reposted by John Brandt Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141881737
Reposted by John Brandt Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.socialmotherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past. 14804354
Reposted by John Brandt David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey remember when Trump announced a plan to lower beef prices by opening the market to imports? Let’s take a big mouthful of coffee and check headlines from the last 24 hours to see how that’s going… 12313
Reposted by John Brandt jon @senderblock23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is the most ai sounding quote possible, good job tom 0292
Reposted by John Brandt lunch enjoyer @hoaagie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tone, you hear about this Kashi thing? They went from making dogshit cereal to letting you bet on if the Jets will win the Super Bowl before World War 3. 68952188
Reposted by John Brandt Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes. “If you defund and deplatform anti-racists then that will force their movement underground, and then they will be truly dangerous!” is never, ever an argument you will hear from the right-wing media. Because they know very well that defunding and deplatforming *actually works*. 124370
John Brandt @withanh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We like our politicians predictable and @gavinnewsom.bsky.social will never miss an opportunity to make life easier on the ultra wealthy. 000
Reposted by John Brandt Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138793688
Reposted by John Brandt muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it's amazing how much collective sacrifice these people are capable of faking for the common good of one dumb asshole 943862
Reposted by John Brandt Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms www.ft.com/content/7a28...ft.com‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’🤩🤩🤩 14409115
Reposted by John Brandt The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/09/2026AI firms are subject to already-existing laws, Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social: Part of the conversation around regulating AI “seems to assume that these current developments are happening in some legal vacuum,” she adds, “and that is just false.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26 1113648
John Brandt @withanh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026static.klipy.comTim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It!ALT: Tim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It! 000
Reposted by John Brandt Taegan Goddard @politicalwire.com · 17/09/2026Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be On the Ballot politicalwire.com/2026/09/17/hundre… 011
Reposted by John Brandt Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran would one hundred percent hide a zombie bite. 23666556
Reposted by John Brandt Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...projects.propublica.orgJohn F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublicaSince 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as... 1428501046
Reposted by John Brandt Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Don Jr clearly has enough money to pay for his own wedding. But the family motto is to never pay for anything if you can avoid it, especially when there are bribe opportunities on the table. 411450327
Reposted by John Brandt Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“The tax incentives weren’t designed with AI in mind specifically…But it’s the tech industry that’s making the most of them, putting a major dent in corporate tax receipts.” 04421
Reposted by John Brandt giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026at the intersection of broader disconcerting trends—everything is phone, everything is gambling, and nobody knows how to be around each other in public—lies the 2026 U.S. Opendefector.comThe State Of The U.S. Open Is The State Of Us | DefectorIt’s being shouted from all corners: The U.S. Open has become an overcrowded, overpriced circus awash in influencers, aspirational influencers, corporate stooges, drunken buffoons, brand activations, ... 1531980
Reposted by John Brandt Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's bad that the central rule of US diplomacy is now "sometimes the president just says crap, and sometimes he justs post crap, and neither is the official position of the United States, except sometimes seriously but not literally, or sometimes literally, or sometimes it is. You'll find out." 371413366
Reposted by John Brandt brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I hope everyone realizes that they are listening to a dude reciting the plot to the last two Mission Impossible movies, right? 1745179
Reposted by John Brandt The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/09/2026Exclusive: A campaign staffer for Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) once used a photo of Nazi soldiers as his Facebook profile photo and recently added to a playlist of songs celebrating Rhodesia, a defunct White-minority-ruled nation often venerated by white supremacists.washingtonpost.comOhio Senate campaign staffer used Nazi soldiers as profile photoA top staffer for Sen. Jon Husted's reelection campaign recently made a playlist of songs in honor of White colonists in Rhodesia and wore a Nazi uniform. 167739
Reposted by John Brandt NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/09/2026August was the hottest month ever recorded, soaring past a key climate threshold as human-caused climate change combined with a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus.nbcnews.toGlobal heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth’s hottest month they’ve measured.“It is now time to stop acting surprised that our warming planet keeps getting warmer,” said Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler. 33615
Reposted by John Brandt Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 253116723316
Reposted by John Brandt Snowden St. @snowden.st · 09/09/2026This is a good column. I’m struck by how this phenomenon hits across a large swathe of places that, for decades, made it a priority not to brag or promote themselves. And how a big wave of stupid people can swipe that away in a minute. Do-gooders (at least in the social media age) _have_ to promote. 1133
