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@brendono.bsky.social
· Nov 17
The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that!
The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall toward the earth’s center.
The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall toward the earth’s center.
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Virginia is for lovers, and love ALWAYS wins.
@abigailspanberger.com — Virginia’s next pro-equality governor — is speaking.
@abigailspanberger.com — Virginia’s next pro-equality governor — is speaking.
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Virginia is for lovers, and love ALWAYS wins.
@abigailspanberger.com — Virginia’s next pro-equality governor — is speaking.
@abigailspanberger.com — Virginia’s next pro-equality governor — is speaking.
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The next Governor of Virginia! 🏳️⚧️
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The next Governor of Virginia! 🏳️⚧️
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A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.
it also ensures that we will pass the equality act, the for the people act, and more when dems/libs have a trifecta.
If they eliminate the filibuster, it means national bans on gender affirming care, bathroom bans, a sports ban, gender marker bans, elimination of legal recognition etc. It will make life unlivable for trans people in the US, even in blue states. It's a worst case scenario.
Trump: “…BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD “CRAZY,” THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE “NUCLEAR OPTION,” GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
it also ensures that we will pass the equality act, the for the people act, and more when dems/libs have a trifecta.
@jvl.bsky.social needs some help folks.
"The shoulders are hunched. Walking in a circle. Keep grandpa going. No please, over here."
@jvl.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social narrate Trump's confused walk with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, which you just have to watch:
@jvl.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social narrate Trump's confused walk with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, which you just have to watch:
October 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@jvl.bsky.social needs some help folks.
The millions of children Putin has kidnapped and taken into Russia?
Leavitt: "President Putin thanked the First Lady for her efforts to bring back children and save children in this brutal conflict."
October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The millions of children Putin has kidnapped and taken into Russia?
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we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.
Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.
So we want the Democratic Party to defend rights that they can’t defend because they don’t have institutional power to defend said rights? Like you hear yourself right.
If we don’t have a large enough Senate majority, you can’t do anything.
If we don’t have a large enough Senate majority, you can’t do anything.
What concerns me is not that Democrats will compromise on something like trans athletes--that question is at SCOTUS now and thus beyond their reach anyway. What concerns me is that I hear far more about what rights of mine they're willing to sacrifice and very little about what rights they'll defend
Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
So we want the Democratic Party to defend rights that they can’t defend because they don’t have institutional power to defend said rights? Like you hear yourself right.
If we don’t have a large enough Senate majority, you can’t do anything.
If we don’t have a large enough Senate majority, you can’t do anything.
Well, and apologies, he's not saying much of anything.
MacCallum: "Charlie said, 'There is no such thing as hate speech.'"
Trump: "He might not be saying that now."
Trump: "He might not be saying that now."
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Well, and apologies, he's not saying much of anything.
I cannot stress this enough: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED FUCKING STATES NEEDS TO KNOW THINGS
MacCALLUM: Do you believe that there is a vast terrorist movement in the United States that's responsible for Charlie Kirk's killing and the attempts on your life?
TRUMP: You never know, do you. And we'll find out. In the meantime, we're gonna do a big thing with respect to antifa.
TRUMP: You never know, do you. And we'll find out. In the meantime, we're gonna do a big thing with respect to antifa.
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I cannot stress this enough: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED FUCKING STATES NEEDS TO KNOW THINGS
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I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
What is the other option? War? Perpetual violence?
I guess I don't find this critique to be compelling because you aren't presenting an alternative to learning to live together. In this moment, it is vital that we start listening to and talking with, not at, one another.
I guess I don't find this critique to be compelling because you aren't presenting an alternative to learning to live together. In this moment, it is vital that we start listening to and talking with, not at, one another.
Klein earnestly believes we all have to learn to live together even if we "believe different things." For him, it's ONLY about belief and opinion. He is not in a category in which his reproductive rights would be abridged, his marriage would be nullified, his accomplishments dismissed as "DEI." >
September 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What is the other option? War? Perpetual violence?
I guess I don't find this critique to be compelling because you aren't presenting an alternative to learning to live together. In this moment, it is vital that we start listening to and talking with, not at, one another.
I guess I don't find this critique to be compelling because you aren't presenting an alternative to learning to live together. In this moment, it is vital that we start listening to and talking with, not at, one another.
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Last month, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis and other CDC experts resigned amidst RFK Jr.’s anti-vax, anti-science, and anti-public health actions.
Now, Dr. Demetre shares advice for how we can stay healthy and fight back.
Now, Dr. Demetre shares advice for how we can stay healthy and fight back.
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last month, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis and other CDC experts resigned amidst RFK Jr.’s anti-vax, anti-science, and anti-public health actions.
Now, Dr. Demetre shares advice for how we can stay healthy and fight back.
Now, Dr. Demetre shares advice for how we can stay healthy and fight back.
He used his "christian motivational speeches" as a cover for his bigotry, racism, and hatred. And far too many christians either didn't care, couldn't tell, or agreed with him.
Forgive me if I don't need to listen to his christian motivational speeches to understand who Charlie Kirk was.
Forgive me if I don't need to listen to his christian motivational speeches to understand who Charlie Kirk was.
This is interesting, but like, these two realities of kirk are not nearly on even footing.
Goebbels had 6 kids and apparently, I've learned on Bluesky this week, "made a great strudel."
Its much more important to know their horrors than the times they did something nice.
Goebbels had 6 kids and apparently, I've learned on Bluesky this week, "made a great strudel."
Its much more important to know their horrors than the times they did something nice.
September 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
He used his "christian motivational speeches" as a cover for his bigotry, racism, and hatred. And far too many christians either didn't care, couldn't tell, or agreed with him.
Forgive me if I don't need to listen to his christian motivational speeches to understand who Charlie Kirk was.
Forgive me if I don't need to listen to his christian motivational speeches to understand who Charlie Kirk was.
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Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.
September 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.
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You can let them know how you feel about their reporting here: act.hrc.org/page/177823/...
Take action today!
act.hrc.org
September 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
You can let them know how you feel about their reporting here: act.hrc.org/page/177823/...
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oh so now it's a crime to have friends? and write them little poems? wow. you people just hate male friendship. this is why there's a male loneliness epidemic
September 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
oh so now it's a crime to have friends? and write them little poems? wow. you people just hate male friendship. this is why there's a male loneliness epidemic
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The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to:
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
September 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to:
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
•admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states
•abolish ICE
•grant citizenship to any immigrant
•disband the 5th Circuit
•expand the Supreme Court
Seriously: Why the hell not?
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BREAKING: Sen. Warnock gets RFK Jr. to admit that he demanded that then-CDC Director Monarez fire CDC officials before her firing.
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
BREAKING: Sen. Warnock gets RFK Jr. to admit that he demanded that then-CDC Director Monarez fire CDC officials before her firing.
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This is a Republican member of Congress giving a press conference in front of signs that say "Trump = Traitor" and "Release the Epstein Files #Pedo47."
Remarkable stuff.
Remarkable stuff.
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
September 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is a Republican member of Congress giving a press conference in front of signs that say "Trump = Traitor" and "Release the Epstein Files #Pedo47."
Remarkable stuff.
Remarkable stuff.
they yearn for the days of AIDS
Sen. Roger Marshall on the CDC purge: "This is the same group of so-called experts that told the entire country we should live in fear of monkeypox, but failed to tell us that unless you're a homosexual man you don't have to worry about this at all, that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease."
September 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
they yearn for the days of AIDS
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The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC.
@kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
@kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him.
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC.
@kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
@kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
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one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers
Reuters/Ipsos poll:
– 38% support Trump deploying the Nat'l Guard to DC. 46%opposed
– Among independents, it's just 28% in favor, 51% opposed
– Trump's approval remains at 40%.
www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
– 38% support Trump deploying the Nat'l Guard to DC. 46%opposed
– Among independents, it's just 28% in favor, 51% opposed
– Trump's approval remains at 40%.
www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
Just 38% of Americans support Trump's use of troops to police DC, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Few Americans outside President Donald Trump's Republican Party support his deployment of National Guard troops to police the streets of Washington, D.C., according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
www.reuters.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers
well its a great thing that Alejandra Caraballo has absolutely zero influence over actual politics.
Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour.
www.them.us/story/pete-b...
www.them.us/story/pete-b...
Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports
“I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
www.them.us
August 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
well its a great thing that Alejandra Caraballo has absolutely zero influence over actual politics.