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Bryan 🐳

@writerreformed.bsky.social
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Formerly @WriterofDark on Twitter. Still writing, still learning.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Better things are possible.
Graphic with a quote from KAPOW Handbook, it reads: 

 “Cynicism is for losers.
We can build the world we want to see”

At the bottom, it displays the URL: https://kapow.works/handbook
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Defector @defector.com · 23/09/2026
No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...
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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
in the immediate wake of 9/11, people talked about carpet bombing muslim countries with the same casualness as talking about a nominal tax hike.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
it’s not crazy to simultaneously be optimistic and pessimistic about the future. to recognize both major advancements and also rising fascism and political instability. both can be true. it’s not even a contradiction in a stratified society where the social gains are unevenly distributed
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
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Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
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M, the other white meat @lotusprime.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Slaves. Taylor Farms, uses slaves.
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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have just been prescribed a medicated mouthwash that costs $3,480.92 Stop voting against healthcare
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/08/2026
Rowling signed the Harper’s Letter, which lamented, “it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.” Are ANY of her co-signatories — some follow me — going to speak up about her crusade against trans people?
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
a lot of what the right does nowadays is create an emotional support system for bigots. bigotry will offend and alienate people in your life, so the right looks provides a counterweight that lavishes you with praise.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Some harm reduction advocates are annoying" isn't a serious policy analysis or prescription. Everyone wants to get homeless people off the streets. Harm reduction advocates want to get them into shelters and treatment, which works. Their opponents want incarceration, which doesn't.
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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At its core, the reason the right needs to villainize Fauci and push the lab leak conspiracy is that in reality Covid was the inevitable consequence of climate change-fueled ecocollapse, and it is Republican heresy to acknowledge the existence of such a thing.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
it's bad that people are willingly making themselves dull and stupid or in some cases insane
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
setting aside data centers, environmental concerns, any sci-fi/fantasy AI-apocalypse concerns, and concerns about built in bigotry or using AI for evil ends like drone targeting; discounting all that, i'd be for banning LLMs just based on lazy people overusing them and it making those people stupid
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.
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install.exe @lakecounty1975.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Finding Common Cause with differing opinions requires they at least share the same reality. We've spent the past decade moving farther and farther away from that. I don't know how you find common cause with people who think the vaccine connects you to the internet and essential oils cure cancer.
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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@omgsidewalks

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
To the point about fascism, Jager is ignoring the fact that the movement has emerged in response to the *imagined conception* of organised socialism It might not exist in real life but Republican voters, drunk on Fox News, think there's a Communist revolution underway that they need to repel
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If hypothetical President Harris’s DOD was covering up KIA’s in a war of choice with Iran in its 6th month, we’d see slurs being hurled not seen since reconstruction, instead its:
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Watch what they do, not what they say
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 21/07/2026
ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Every day this guy does something like this and every day the same people who dress him up as a terrifying commie destroyer of civilization do a dozen things to sabotage the public good, to murder and destroy and hate and kill, and I can't anymore handle those who won't see the clear difference.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
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D.J. Kirkland @ohheydj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
THE KIDS ARE BORED BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO OR ANYTHING TO DO!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.
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Dave Lack @davelack.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A person who can’t take a small loss about an insignificant thing and move on has no business being a leader of anything.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
this is really well said www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... @liberalcurrents.com
There is also the elementary truth that Platner is but one man among millions; we are no more condemned to him than we are to Susan Collins. Neither has a right to rule; that is what democracy means. To say that we should have standards for those who govern us, and hold them to higher ones than we may hold a private citizen, is not elitism. It is a bulwark against everything we’re now fighting against—who can deny that Trump’s dictatorial streak is downstream of his violent entitlement, personal bigotry, and utter lack of moral restraint? His solipsism is a cataclysmic personal flaw, and has proven fatal when applied to the mighty instruments of American power. His personal flaws have a body count that may already number in the millions.
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Dave Lack @davelack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Coining a new word right now for this. Schadenthread If you want to feel joy in how miserable Trump’s 250 disaster really was, this is the thread to read. Haha
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I love this country. It's got a lot of problems, but it's my home and I want it to be good and I think it could be good. I love my country and I want to celebrate our 250th Independence Day too And all day--ALL DAY--the administration has made it clear that they don't consider me a real American
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” ~ James Baldwin
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
republicans are having their secret police execute americans in broad daylight and letting the murderer walk free. theyre sending innocent people to foreign gulags. they want to denaturalize millions and rip them out of their homes and send them to slave labor camps
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Paige, TheMaverickGirl @themaverickgirl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If nothing else, today's announcements make me feel really vindicated for building a wide collection of physical video games over the last few years. Physical media is ALWAYS worth it.
A pair of media bookcases with hundreds of physical video games from a wide variety of consoles, as well as CDs, movies, and some gaming strategy guides.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Your kid isn't getting admitted on an athletic scholarship no matter how much you drive her to practice, but it always feels better to have an Other to blame, especially one that isn't real and can't be falsified.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”
NYT: Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History
The president’s move to open new business ventures, rather than eliminate potential conflicts, defies a long-held tradition.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.
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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The clear & obvious text of the Constitution wins by the slimmest possible margin at the 'court' that claims to be its most solemn guardian. This means the fascist movement currently in control of the US federal government is just one (1) vote shy of what it needs to fully suspend the Constitution.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Bluesky as a whole should be intellectually hostile to this RFK-ass bullshit. It’s the gateway to antivax stuff that literally kills people.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.
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Bryan 🐳 @writerreformed.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
i have absolutely fucking had it with 100% of all of this shit. gambling websites, lies, cryptocurrency, rampant corruption, lies, deep fakes, lies, plagiarism, devaluation of expertise, lies, bile, abuse, violence, bombs, genocides, lies, plutocrats, oligarchs, and lies. fucking enough. rules time
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