@rbrookeb.bsky.social
Reposted
A perfect summation
July 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A perfect summation
Reposted
The Afghan withdrawal gave the media permission to tear into the Biden administration because they claimed to care about these allies. This story isn't even on CNN's front page.
These are the Afghans that American promised to help, and Trump is sending back to the Taliban.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
July 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The Afghan withdrawal gave the media permission to tear into the Biden administration because they claimed to care about these allies. This story isn't even on CNN's front page.
😭🤬🤬🤬
In a disgusting display of authoritarian abuse, ICE violently detains an Iranian-born American doctor, even breaking his car window, as he dropped his child off at daycare.
July 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
😭🤬🤬🤬
Reposted
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
July 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
Reposted
We are governed by a lunatic
May 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We are governed by a lunatic
Reposted
Reposted
The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year.
This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.
See what DOGE is really about?
This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.
See what DOGE is really about?
April 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year.
This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.
See what DOGE is really about?
This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.
See what DOGE is really about?
Reposted
Serious question: what would he be doing differently if he were aggressively trying to destroy the USA?
April 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Serious question: what would he be doing differently if he were aggressively trying to destroy the USA?
Reposted
We all know he just cut snap, meals on wheels and so many other programs that are economic stabilizers in economic downturns, right?
April 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We all know he just cut snap, meals on wheels and so many other programs that are economic stabilizers in economic downturns, right?
Reposted
This is one I'm bookmarking. So much good messaging in one post.
The "Do Not Associate" List
How to stop helping MAGA spread their myths.
reframingamerica.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is one I'm bookmarking. So much good messaging in one post.
Reposted
Elon fired hundreds of “unnecessary” Twitter employees and the platform has been down for hours today.
Now he’s firing hundreds of “unnecessary” FAA employees. What could go wrong?
Now he’s firing hundreds of “unnecessary” FAA employees. What could go wrong?
March 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Elon fired hundreds of “unnecessary” Twitter employees and the platform has been down for hours today.
Now he’s firing hundreds of “unnecessary” FAA employees. What could go wrong?
Now he’s firing hundreds of “unnecessary” FAA employees. What could go wrong?
Reposted
Call it by its name: Trumpcession
March 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Call it by its name: Trumpcession
Reposted
Reposted
In “Way of the Kings” there’s a cursed king who doesn’t know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning.
That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
February 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In “Way of the Kings” there’s a cursed king who doesn’t know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning.
That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.
Reposted
Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
February 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
Reposted
“Because the key insight is this: The tech sector operates as a winner-take-all economy. But our political economy is based on perpetual competition.” @jvl.bsky.social
Winner Take All
Why the tech bros want authoritarian government.
www.thebulwark.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“Because the key insight is this: The tech sector operates as a winner-take-all economy. But our political economy is based on perpetual competition.” @jvl.bsky.social
Reposted
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
Reposted
California educators: CalSTRS invests in Tesla. It's YOUR pension fund, and you have the right to demand that we divest from a co. led by a man that is trying to kill public education.
The next board meeting is on March 12, and you can submit a public comment, here: www.calstrs.com/public-comment
The next board meeting is on March 12, and you can submit a public comment, here: www.calstrs.com/public-comment
Public comment
The Teachers’ Retirement Board accepts comments from the public. Public comment may be shared in writing at any time or verbally at board or committee…
www.calstrs.com
February 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
California educators: CalSTRS invests in Tesla. It's YOUR pension fund, and you have the right to demand that we divest from a co. led by a man that is trying to kill public education.
The next board meeting is on March 12, and you can submit a public comment, here: www.calstrs.com/public-comment
The next board meeting is on March 12, and you can submit a public comment, here: www.calstrs.com/public-comment
Reposted
The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.
Reposted
It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.
February 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.
Reposted
One thing DOGE has gutted is an effort to REFORM how the US divvies up donated organs.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
February 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
One thing DOGE has gutted is an effort to REFORM how the US divvies up donated organs.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Reposted
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
February 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
Reposted
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
Reposted
WSJ: “DOGE touts $55 billion in cuts - WSJ counts $2 billion if spending levels remain constant, and only 2% were DEI-related… majority of cuts were research, including Alzheimer’s & traumatic brain injury and education…”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
WSJ: “DOGE touts $55 billion in cuts - WSJ counts $2 billion if spending levels remain constant, and only 2% were DEI-related… majority of cuts were research, including Alzheimer’s & traumatic brain injury and education…”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...