Reposted by BrendanWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up 16798283968
Reposted by BrendanScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case. 20479503369
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Seems like it’s not that hard to understand. People value fairness. Voting and establishing rules that apply equally to everyone is basically a widely-agreed upon method of establishing fairness. That is what people associate with democracy. 111
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/09/2025the only real tennis fans tired of seeing sinner/alcaraz are fans of another player who can’t get past them. if they weren’t as good, men’s tennis would be in shambles and a 38 year-old would be lapping the field while playing half the season. this is some of the best tennis ever played. 030
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 05/09/2025has there ever been an all-time great as careless as alcaraz when up 40-0 on serve and up 0-30 returning? 000
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 05/09/2025carlos refuses to hit it into the open court and novak knows this 000
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 05/09/2025the wta must be tired from carrying this tournament for 2 weeks 000
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Osaka-Muchova with some of the best hitting all tournament 010
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 03/09/2025this Felix-Demon match is worse than the Sabalenka-Vondroušová match yesterday. Felix regressed to the mean and Demon’s serve is awful. If there were any justice, both would lose in straight sets. Sinner should play left-handed in the Semis. 100
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 17/08/2025all alcaraz needs to do is put the ball in play and yet 000
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Carlos is gonna regret not just looping in his seconds there 000
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 16/08/2025you don’t have to worry so much about the fate of fascists. if the Dems ever get back into power, we already know they will do little to seek accountability and, insofar as they do, the justice system you seem to believe in favors the fascists anyway. they will be back in power in no time. 000
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Carlos isn’t beating Shelton the way he played today 000
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Alcaraz’s first serve abandons him at the worst times 000
Reposted by BrendanJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13/08/2025the giant shrug of it all is really unsettling 646160
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 12/08/2025alcaraz v medjedovic is a low-intensity practice session 000
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 12/08/2025alcaraz is gonna have a hard time breaking if he can’t put a return in play 000
Reposted by BrendanEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Things on the ChatGPT sub-Reddit are getting grim. 891560287
Reposted by BrendanTony Brewster Ⓥ🌈 @tonybdogs.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025. 20672349
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025It’s possible those of us shocked at this outcome have overestimated the critical thinking skills of people we once thought reasonable because the words they used generally corresponded to what we already believed and so we projected a degree of independent thought onto what was just repetition 000
Reposted by BrendanDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 08/08/2025Israel plans to invade and “take control” of Gaza City in a major ground operation. The decision came after a late night Security Cabinet meeting. 67241
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025I have never seen a tennis match, let alone a finals, where a player was leading by a set and decided to tank the match. Osaka was approaching penalization territory at some points there while Mboko kept double-faulting the breaks back. Just horrible. 110
Reposted by BrendanJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.theguardian.com‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of PalestiniansRevealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe 3119361298
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 07/08/2025osaka is looking different this tourney. it would be so awesome if she was back. she can play with anyone. 110
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 03/08/2025imagine getting upset at this feckless party for considering doing something to win a game in which there are no longer any rules 000
Reposted by BrendanNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme. 433697647
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 01/08/2025too bad higher ed decided to be a willing extortion victim instead of organizing and calling his bluff 000
Reposted by BrendanRhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls was on the Gaza freedom flotilla which was just raided by Israeli forces. 8910345
Reposted by BrendanMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 22/07/2025soon: "the stupidest people alive became obsessed with conspiracies about pedophile rings, which eventually ends with them helping empower a very high profile pedophile to basically emperor status, which he uses to pardon the only person to actually face consequences for running a pedophile ring" 9994142
Reposted by BrendanJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 24/07/2025The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time. 2382142
Reposted by BrendanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood. 121452378
Reposted by BrendanBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Columbia University announced disciplinary action Tuesday against students who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the Ivy League school’s main library before final exams in May and an encampment during alumni weekend last year.apnews.comColumbia University says it has suspended and expelled students who participated in protestsThe sanctions issued by a university judicial board also include probation and degree revocations, Columbia said in a statement. 72011
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 22/07/2025fraud makes fraud machine and warns that fraud is coming and it’s gonna be really fraudy 010
Reposted by BrendanMike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Trump Approval - 18-29 Year Olds: February 7, 2025: 🟢 Approve: 55% 🔴 Disapprove: 45% July 18, 2025: 🔴 Disapprove: 72% 🟢 Approve: 28% - YouGov - 1111873382
Reposted by BrendanAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share. 2253018913
Reposted by BrendanAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20/07/2025“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”ajc.comHispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks outMario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump. 3628071327
Reposted by BrendanJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/07/2025JD Vance was a creation of American liberal institutions that went on to destroy those same American liberal institutions. Liberals who wanted to empathize with the noble savages of the White Heartland. Real Greek tragedy level story 27998172
Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 18/07/2025in the event that the Dems somehow regain power, let’s just do ourselves a favor and not pretend like they are going to do anything you wish they would do. there will be no trials. there will be no consequences for any of this. they will not even pack the court. they will be who they are. 000
Reposted by BrendanSean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 17/07/2025pretty incredible indictment of NYT’s news judgement that Wyden just comes out and says the real news, while the NYT story is framed all about the posturing and buries the lede 332501601
