Adrienne
@adriennebobadrian.bsky.social
Casual politics consumer, intense weird pop culture consumer.
I will always consider it a failure of both legacy and new media that they did not understand who this man was, what he was capable of, and communicate to the public the threat he posed and what it would mean to reelect him. Not to let the public off the hook, but the media arrogance was staggering.
Trump is losing the war over ICE — both the culture war and the war in the streets.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I will always consider it a failure of both legacy and new media that they did not understand who this man was, what he was capable of, and communicate to the public the threat he posed and what it would mean to reelect him. Not to let the public off the hook, but the media arrogance was staggering.
I did not much care for Dawson’s Creek, and never really watched it. James Van Der Beek didn’t mean much to me as an actor or cultural icon, but I find myself very sad about his passing? Not sure what’s up with that, but RIP.
February 12, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I did not much care for Dawson’s Creek, and never really watched it. James Van Der Beek didn’t mean much to me as an actor or cultural icon, but I find myself very sad about his passing? Not sure what’s up with that, but RIP.
This is literally what 99 Luftballons was about.
February 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
This is literally what 99 Luftballons was about.
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Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
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This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.
Trump threatens to support primaries against Republicans who vote against tariffs
February 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM
This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.
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I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show
Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something.
By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?
February 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show
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Trump won mostly by being the beneficiary of relentless negative economic reporting by elite Republican captured media, and a collective amnesia over who was President in 2020.
The political dynamics of 2025 were shaped by Democrats and Republicans over-reading Trump's victory in the same way. That turns out to be a problem for a LOT of rich and powerful people who made a very large bet on the theory that MAGA had won the culture war. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-...
Trump Has Lost The Culture
And his greediest collaborators are awakening to the fact that they made a terrible bet.
www.offmessage.net
February 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Trump won mostly by being the beneficiary of relentless negative economic reporting by elite Republican captured media, and a collective amnesia over who was President in 2020.
My true love of the Winter Olympics is Ice Dancing. Figure skating in general but ice dancing has surpassed it all in recent years. It’s just so much. The older I get the more I like cringe, campy shit and it is the most highly skilled, elite camp there is.
February 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
My true love of the Winter Olympics is Ice Dancing. Figure skating in general but ice dancing has surpassed it all in recent years. It’s just so much. The older I get the more I like cringe, campy shit and it is the most highly skilled, elite camp there is.
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This is true, and even if we get rid of Trump, we still have to reckon with the fact that a substantial proportion of US economic and political elites were *eager* to jump on the fascism train. They will still be the same people when Trump is gone.
The political dynamics of 2025 were shaped by Democrats and Republicans over-reading Trump's victory in the same way. That turns out to be a problem for a LOT of rich and powerful people who made a very large bet on the theory that MAGA had won the culture war. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-...
Trump Has Lost The Culture
And his greediest collaborators are awakening to the fact that they made a terrible bet.
www.offmessage.net
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
This is true, and even if we get rid of Trump, we still have to reckon with the fact that a substantial proportion of US economic and political elites were *eager* to jump on the fascism train. They will still be the same people when Trump is gone.
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it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.
February 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.
One of the most challenging things about parenting that I don’t think enough people talk about is how in order to raise a polite child you can take out in society you have to act like the inappropriate stuff they bust out with isn’t the funniest shit you have heard in your life.
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
One of the most challenging things about parenting that I don’t think enough people talk about is how in order to raise a polite child you can take out in society you have to act like the inappropriate stuff they bust out with isn’t the funniest shit you have heard in your life.
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The republican faction that has most opposed Trump is neocons. Other factions like business execs or religious conservatives have reasons for, and examples of, opposition to Trump, but Libertarians had the easiest case and the weakest examples. Total frauds, still preoccupied with campus left.
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
The republican faction that has most opposed Trump is neocons. Other factions like business execs or religious conservatives have reasons for, and examples of, opposition to Trump, but Libertarians had the easiest case and the weakest examples. Total frauds, still preoccupied with campus left.
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Just a reminder that despite doing a good thing on the Epstein Files, Thomas Massie is a deeply unserious person.
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Just a reminder that despite doing a good thing on the Epstein Files, Thomas Massie is a deeply unserious person.
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It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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wrote about the sweeping Republican backlash to Trump's racist video post.
I don't think the GOP has suddenly found a line it won't cross. I think trump's poll numbers have scared them. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-obam...
I don't think the GOP has suddenly found a line it won't cross. I think trump's poll numbers have scared them. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-obam...
The blowback to Trump's racist video reveals his weakness
Even his allies don't want to be anywhere near him.
www.publicnotice.co
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
wrote about the sweeping Republican backlash to Trump's racist video post.
I don't think the GOP has suddenly found a line it won't cross. I think trump's poll numbers have scared them. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-obam...
I don't think the GOP has suddenly found a line it won't cross. I think trump's poll numbers have scared them. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-obam...
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Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
I don’t do the Super Bowl ever, even if I like the halftime performer so today I went and checked it out. As an old person I have ambivalent to blandly positive feelings about Bad Bunny and the show was certainly a lot of fun. Wall to wall hot people, which is always great.
February 9, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I don’t do the Super Bowl ever, even if I like the halftime performer so today I went and checked it out. As an old person I have ambivalent to blandly positive feelings about Bad Bunny and the show was certainly a lot of fun. Wall to wall hot people, which is always great.
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Exactly this
VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.
February 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Exactly this
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Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.
February 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.
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I’ve seen enough: primary every Democrat to the right of Mamdani
Early returns in Louisiana’s special election:
The Dem candidate is leading 58.5% to 41.5%. That’s with a third of the vote in.
Context: this is a Dem-held seat but in a district TRUMP carried by 13%, so has been a big/obvious GOP target. Stay tuned.
The Dem candidate is leading 58.5% to 41.5%. That’s with a third of the vote in.
Context: this is a Dem-held seat but in a district TRUMP carried by 13%, so has been a big/obvious GOP target. Stay tuned.
February 8, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I’ve seen enough: primary every Democrat to the right of Mamdani
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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This writer was a perfect fit for the NYT. Repro people’s messages looked like this discussing her stories
What utter BS. After 46 paragraphs about her reading her bible at 5AM, visiting kids, etc, we get to what matters:
“In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time. Her disagreements emerge only in private, in conversations”
🤮🤮🤮, @nytimes.com
“In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time. Her disagreements emerge only in private, in conversations”
🤮🤮🤮, @nytimes.com
The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:11 AM
This writer was a perfect fit for the NYT. Repro people’s messages looked like this discussing her stories
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McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.
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Wait ‘til he hears about the guy who reposted it.
Mike Lawler on Trump's racist apes post: "Whoever created the original meme is an idiot"
February 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Wait ‘til he hears about the guy who reposted it.