Patrick Briggs
@pbriggsiam.bsky.social
An IT Business Analyst who is discerning into the Episcopal Church and believes in justice and that the divine spark exists in all people I meet. Heros are Ed Bacon and John O'Donohue
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Dem leadership long ago gave up their moral authority to consultants and focus groups and it shows
Dem leaders in Congress can’t pivot b/c some centrist memo written months ago said “affordability is everything - always re-direct to it.” That’s why we hear insane things like “The real tragedy involving Alex Pretti is that his funeral expenses are 28% higher than they would have been in 2024!”
February 15, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Dem leadership long ago gave up their moral authority to consultants and focus groups and it shows
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Just once I’d like Schumer and Jeffries to show up on tv and not sound like wet noodles. Today isn’t that day. We’re faced with fascist thugs trying to destroy everything we believe in and the both of them are playing out of the safe consultant playbook like it’s still 1993.
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Just once I’d like Schumer and Jeffries to show up on tv and not sound like wet noodles. Today isn’t that day. We’re faced with fascist thugs trying to destroy everything we believe in and the both of them are playing out of the safe consultant playbook like it’s still 1993.
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Chuck Schumer is like if you told ChatGPT to speak only in politician-speak platitudes from thirty years ago, and with the same level of self-awareness.
Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"
February 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Chuck Schumer is like if you told ChatGPT to speak only in politician-speak platitudes from thirty years ago, and with the same level of self-awareness.
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Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Can’t believe we are still doing this
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Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."
February 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."
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“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
February 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
Hi @chu.house.gov thanks for coming to our Save U.S. Saturdays' fourth rally in a row. www.flickr.com/photos/39995...
San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible will keep leading the resistance in the Pasadena area - sangabrielfoothillsindivisible.org
San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible will keep leading the resistance in the Pasadena area - sangabrielfoothillsindivisible.org
February 14, 2026 - San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible - Save U.S. Saturdays Valentines Rally
sangabrielfoothillsindivisible.org/
www.flickr.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Hi @chu.house.gov thanks for coming to our Save U.S. Saturdays' fourth rally in a row. www.flickr.com/photos/39995...
San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible will keep leading the resistance in the Pasadena area - sangabrielfoothillsindivisible.org
San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible will keep leading the resistance in the Pasadena area - sangabrielfoothillsindivisible.org
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I’m selling bags of all brown M&Ms under the “Okay” banner.
February 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I’m selling bags of all brown M&Ms under the “Okay” banner.
Yes!
Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2
February 15, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Yes!
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American democracy can absolutely withstand a non-legally binding EO about voter ID.
The president does not control state election requirements.
Organizers, activists and operatives are prepared for Republicans to try to mess with election results as they have been for decades.
The president does not control state election requirements.
Organizers, activists and operatives are prepared for Republicans to try to mess with election results as they have been for decades.
This may be the most dangerous development of all. It will give Trump fake legal pretext to reject Nov election results. American democracy has like 9 months left.
Trump says he will issue executive order to get voter-ID requirements before midterms www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/t...
Trump says he will issue executive order to get voter-ID requirements before midterms www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/t...
Trump says he will issue executive order to get voter-ID requirements before midterms
President Donald Trump proclaims that he will find a way to implement national voter-ID requirements by November's elections.
www.cnbc.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM
American democracy can absolutely withstand a non-legally binding EO about voter ID.
The president does not control state election requirements.
Organizers, activists and operatives are prepared for Republicans to try to mess with election results as they have been for decades.
The president does not control state election requirements.
Organizers, activists and operatives are prepared for Republicans to try to mess with election results as they have been for decades.
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Because there are far too few cases of anyone being held accountable if they have sufficient power and influence. That creates the perception of pervasiveness.
You would think that the author of Twilight of the Elites would recognize this.
You would think that the author of Twilight of the Elites would recognize this.
February 14, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Because there are far too few cases of anyone being held accountable if they have sufficient power and influence. That creates the perception of pervasiveness.
You would think that the author of Twilight of the Elites would recognize this.
You would think that the author of Twilight of the Elites would recognize this.
Wow
'Purple Crocuses' by contemporary painter Cathy Rowe #WomensArt
February 14, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Wow
Just end DHS
We didn't need it before 9/11 and it's only been a nightmare since. So.
BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security shuts down as the White House and Democratic leaders continue to discuss changes to U.S. immigration enforcement.
February 14, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Just end DHS
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🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM
🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
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king in brown hoodie
doesn’t have time
for the Nazis
who catch him on cam
don’t give a damn
he gave fair warning
plenty of time
for a goon
to retract what he’d said
caught hands instead
doesn’t have time
for the Nazis
who catch him on cam
don’t give a damn
he gave fair warning
plenty of time
for a goon
to retract what he’d said
caught hands instead
February 14, 2026 at 2:29 AM
king in brown hoodie
doesn’t have time
for the Nazis
who catch him on cam
don’t give a damn
he gave fair warning
plenty of time
for a goon
to retract what he’d said
caught hands instead
doesn’t have time
for the Nazis
who catch him on cam
don’t give a damn
he gave fair warning
plenty of time
for a goon
to retract what he’d said
caught hands instead
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wait no one's even posting the hardest line
February 13, 2026 at 11:30 PM
wait no one's even posting the hardest line
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🚨BREAKING: Montana Court BLOCKS state law targeting students with unconstitutional residency requirement. A victory for our clients and the voters of Montana. www.democracydocket.com/cases/montan...
🚨 Montana Student Residency Requirement Challenge
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:58 PM
🚨BREAKING: Montana Court BLOCKS state law targeting students with unconstitutional residency requirement. A victory for our clients and the voters of Montana. www.democracydocket.com/cases/montan...
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“People feel it in their guts, on the streets. Abolish them, because otherwise they will execute us.”
NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE.
Our conversation:
Our conversation:
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
“People feel it in their guts, on the streets. Abolish them, because otherwise they will execute us.”
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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@andreapitzer.bsky.social "concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933"
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
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February 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
@andreapitzer.bsky.social "concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933"
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
This one gets it! Presidential material!
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
This one gets it! Presidential material!
Always brilliant perspective.
The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power
Ezra Klein NYT Gift Article
Fascinating discussion with Anand Giridharadas a journalist who analyzes Epstein and what is emerging from the sociology of American elites and power
Read the transcript or listen to it or watch it on YouTube
bit.ly/4cuc9ZP
Ezra Klein NYT Gift Article
Fascinating discussion with Anand Giridharadas a journalist who analyzes Epstein and what is emerging from the sociology of American elites and power
Read the transcript or listen to it or watch it on YouTube
bit.ly/4cuc9ZP
Opinion | The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Always brilliant perspective.
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This is wildly appropriate ☠️
February 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
This is wildly appropriate ☠️
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And they were right.
Old enough to remember when Republicans thought armed agents pointing a gun at a scared little Latino boy was an outrage. "Stormtroopers," they said. "Jackbooted thugs."
February 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
And they were right.