Brian Voelkerding
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Freelance editor, frustrated actor, and then there are the other miscellaneous passions...
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Trump praised him as a “friend,” a “great American,” and a “patriot.” The banking institution tied to the Mellon family (BNY Mellon) has faced lawsuits for financial ties to Epstein’s network.
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Trump praised him as a “friend,” a “great American,” and a “patriot.” The banking institution tied to the Mellon family (BNY Mellon) has faced lawsuits for financial ties to Epstein’s network.
I’m telling you. Around 10-12 years old. Puberty hits. Something fucks them up (bigotry, bigotry wrapped in evangelical nationalism, devaluing of emotional intelligence) and they never recover. Sociopaths. Good little soldiers of the god grifters.
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’m telling you. Around 10-12 years old. Puberty hits. Something fucks them up (bigotry, bigotry wrapped in evangelical nationalism, devaluing of emotional intelligence) and they never recover. Sociopaths. Good little soldiers of the god grifters.
Fix your hearts or die.
October 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Fix your hearts or die.
Trump/Epstein/the 1% are an organized criminal enterprise. Don’s the Don. Rather, he *thinks* he’s the don. Really he’s the brain dead Trojan Horse for the real evil and inhumanity of fascism to spill out. A god-grifting mob where it’s “just business.”
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Trump/Epstein/the 1% are an organized criminal enterprise. Don’s the Don. Rather, he *thinks* he’s the don. Really he’s the brain dead Trojan Horse for the real evil and inhumanity of fascism to spill out. A god-grifting mob where it’s “just business.”
Fight on, my brothers and sisters, for peace and love. Fuck the Empire.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Fight on, my brothers and sisters, for peace and love. Fuck the Empire.
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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If you asked me to picture someone named “Tate McRae” it would be much closer to this.
April 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you asked me to picture someone named “Tate McRae” it would be much closer to this.
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The word “critics” is doing some heavy lifting here.
“Critics” of blatant, by definition, unconstitutional crimes against humanity.
If only the old expression was true: that everyone *was* a critic.
@npr.org
“Critics” of blatant, by definition, unconstitutional crimes against humanity.
If only the old expression was true: that everyone *was* a critic.
@npr.org
'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
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April 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The word “critics” is doing some heavy lifting here.
“Critics” of blatant, by definition, unconstitutional crimes against humanity.
If only the old expression was true: that everyone *was* a critic.
@npr.org
“Critics” of blatant, by definition, unconstitutional crimes against humanity.
If only the old expression was true: that everyone *was* a critic.
@npr.org
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Most chode in a sea of them.
April 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Most chode in a sea of them.
They will double down on their scummery, the death rattle of their bigoted way of being, until every white rage bluster devolves into the tears of sociopaths making the Sign of the Cross.
April 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
They will double down on their scummery, the death rattle of their bigoted way of being, until every white rage bluster devolves into the tears of sociopaths making the Sign of the Cross.
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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Oh great. So instead of doing his job at DOL (a Senate-confirmed position), they're sending Sonderling to shut down a small independent agency that supports early literacy development, summer reading programs and more. But not before DOGE harvests whatever data they can get their hands on...
NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.
March 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Oh great. So instead of doing his job at DOL (a Senate-confirmed position), they're sending Sonderling to shut down a small independent agency that supports early literacy development, summer reading programs and more. But not before DOGE harvests whatever data they can get their hands on...
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Normally we don't recommend clapping back when the overlord of the attention economy reposts something offensive...
...but in this case, we'd love for anyone who has ever worked a public sector job to tell Apartheid Clyde exactly what they think. 🖕
...but in this case, we'd love for anyone who has ever worked a public sector job to tell Apartheid Clyde exactly what they think. 🖕
Elon Musk reposted a tweet that equated public service workers with genocidal murderers. Our nurses, educators, firefighters and sanitation workers make our communities strong. Elon has no idea what working people go through.
Read our full statement: m.afsc.me/1kk
Read our full statement: m.afsc.me/1kk
March 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Normally we don't recommend clapping back when the overlord of the attention economy reposts something offensive...
...but in this case, we'd love for anyone who has ever worked a public sector job to tell Apartheid Clyde exactly what they think. 🖕
...but in this case, we'd love for anyone who has ever worked a public sector job to tell Apartheid Clyde exactly what they think. 🖕
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Another CBA ignored. We're about to see a wave of straight up union busting at other agencies like what happened with the TSA.
Unions, what actions are you prepared to take? (Hot tip: Fiery statements aren't cutting it.)
🚨🚨 This is not a drill, IT'S A 5-ALARM FIRE 🚨🚨
Unions, what actions are you prepared to take? (Hot tip: Fiery statements aren't cutting it.)
🚨🚨 This is not a drill, IT'S A 5-ALARM FIRE 🚨🚨
Return to office email just dropped for all SSA employees, union contracts be damned. Dropped after 5pm, per usual, with return to office on Monday, the first day we will potentially be working unpaid. Fuckers 🤬🤬🤬
March 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Another CBA ignored. We're about to see a wave of straight up union busting at other agencies like what happened with the TSA.
Unions, what actions are you prepared to take? (Hot tip: Fiery statements aren't cutting it.)
🚨🚨 This is not a drill, IT'S A 5-ALARM FIRE 🚨🚨
Unions, what actions are you prepared to take? (Hot tip: Fiery statements aren't cutting it.)
🚨🚨 This is not a drill, IT'S A 5-ALARM FIRE 🚨🚨
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Schumer: "I supported what the House did to vote against this bill universally, but that didn't cause a shutdown. It's different in the Senate. I knew people were gonna disagree with me but I thought so strongly that the shutdown would be the greatest disaster we face ... "
March 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Schumer: "I supported what the House did to vote against this bill universally, but that didn't cause a shutdown. It's different in the Senate. I knew people were gonna disagree with me but I thought so strongly that the shutdown would be the greatest disaster we face ... "
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New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
March 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
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It is clear that some of us understand the present danger & some don’t!
I stand by the NO vote on the blank check for Trump & Elon… I’ve got no explanation nor agreement with Senate Dems being complicit in Trump’s Tyranny.
I stand by the NO vote on the blank check for Trump & Elon… I’ve got no explanation nor agreement with Senate Dems being complicit in Trump’s Tyranny.
March 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It is clear that some of us understand the present danger & some don’t!
I stand by the NO vote on the blank check for Trump & Elon… I’ve got no explanation nor agreement with Senate Dems being complicit in Trump’s Tyranny.
I stand by the NO vote on the blank check for Trump & Elon… I’ve got no explanation nor agreement with Senate Dems being complicit in Trump’s Tyranny.
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Firing probationary employees "was a sham in order to avoid statutory requirements."
Thank you, Judge Alsup, for calling it what it is 👏👏
abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...
meme from @parkdisservice on IG
Thank you, Judge Alsup, for calling it what it is 👏👏
abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...
meme from @parkdisservice on IG
March 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Firing probationary employees "was a sham in order to avoid statutory requirements."
Thank you, Judge Alsup, for calling it what it is 👏👏
abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...
meme from @parkdisservice on IG
Thank you, Judge Alsup, for calling it what it is 👏👏
abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...
meme from @parkdisservice on IG
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the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
March 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
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If we could defend the speech of Westboro Baptist Church, how can we now justify arresting students for speaking out?
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
March 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If we could defend the speech of Westboro Baptist Church, how can we now justify arresting students for speaking out?
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
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A sad day for America—Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist, has been arrested by ICE, not for any crime, but for his political activism. The Trump administration claims he was involved in “pro-terrorist” activities, yet no formal charges have been filed.
March 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A sad day for America—Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist, has been arrested by ICE, not for any crime, but for his political activism. The Trump administration claims he was involved in “pro-terrorist” activities, yet no formal charges have been filed.