Andrew Bridges
@andrewbridges.bsky.social
Retired lawyer, Philhellene, wannabe philosopher but still just a philotheamon. SF Bay Area, Greece (Μεσσηνία), Michigan. Interested in the Rule of Justice, FoE, disestablishment, Mediterranean cultures & history, and defeating fascism and the Confederacy.
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Appalling. I noticed this immediately. And the NYT page website buried it low in the front page. I will wait to see how the print version looks.
Seriously, cancel your NYT subscription if you haven’t already. It’s garbage. The crossword and games aren’t worth supporting this.
The NYT app the morning after the biggest wave of protest rallies in America in a generation
They buried the story between other headlines, opting not to use a photo too.
They buried the story between other headlines, opting not to use a photo too.
October 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Appalling. I noticed this immediately. And the NYT page website buried it low in the front page. I will wait to see how the print version looks.
Are Democrats working on a Project 2026 and Project 2028? They had better be doing those. Failure would be dereliction of duty.
September 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Are Democrats working on a Project 2026 and Project 2028? They had better be doing those. Failure would be dereliction of duty.
I offer this teaching video to Ron De Santis and his Florida teachers for their “classical” curriculum gender lessons. Watch to the end. This is a second century CE Roman copy of a second century BCE Greek original.
September 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I offer this teaching video to Ron De Santis and his Florida teachers for their “classical” curriculum gender lessons. Watch to the end. This is a second century CE Roman copy of a second century BCE Greek original.
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Interesting idea actually
Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.
This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.
September 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Interesting idea actually
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I have never heard of anyone getting offended because someone shared MLK’s or Lincoln’s or FDR’s words online. Weird to be offended when your hero is simply being quoted.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have never heard of anyone getting offended because someone shared MLK’s or Lincoln’s or FDR’s words online. Weird to be offended when your hero is simply being quoted.
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I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades.
This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
And Portugal announces they are buying French jets rather than F-35s. Great idea to send Vance and Don Jr on a scouting mission as a precursor to a Greenland takeover.
September 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades.
This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.
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This video is 100% worth watching.
Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.
"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."
Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?
Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.
"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."
Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?
Things are all just worse now, but this does remind me of the time parents of a kid in my eighth grade world history course tried to get the teacher fired for teaching us that Jesus was Jewish.
Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
September 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This video is 100% worth watching.
Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.
"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."
Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?
Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.
"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."
Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?
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It’s almost cartoonish how villainy Mamdani’s opposition turns out to be—and how much they seem set on helping him win.
“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”
“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”
(NYT) - Some of New York City’s richest landlords are done sitting on the sidelines of the city’s mayor’s race.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It’s almost cartoonish how villainy Mamdani’s opposition turns out to be—and how much they seem set on helping him win.
“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”
“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”
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If only his two former bosses had not been totally invisible in fall 2024, when loudly & publicly telling people that reluctantly voting for the Democrat was the only democratic option left for lifelong, pro-democracy Republican voters might have made a difference.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
August 31, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If only his two former bosses had not been totally invisible in fall 2024, when loudly & publicly telling people that reluctantly voting for the Democrat was the only democratic option left for lifelong, pro-democracy Republican voters might have made a difference.
I pray that Trump gets the best health care that RFK can provide.
August 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I pray that Trump gets the best health care that RFK can provide.
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Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
August 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
I am inclined to believe that the all-black-and-white versions of the American flag are the fascist flag. Why would I be wrong?
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I am inclined to believe that the all-black-and-white versions of the American flag are the fascist flag. Why would I be wrong?
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A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.
August 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.
Stand your ground! No identification, no warrant? Legitimate to assume it is a criminal assault.
Masked, un-uniformed, unidentified secret police ambushes. What could go wrong?
August 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Stand your ground! No identification, no warrant? Legitimate to assume it is a criminal assault.
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As a DC resident I'm firmly in favor of a jury strike during this occupation. If you're on grand jury duty, refuse to indict. If you're on trial jury, refuse to convict.
August 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
As a DC resident I'm firmly in favor of a jury strike during this occupation. If you're on grand jury duty, refuse to indict. If you're on trial jury, refuse to convict.
Why did the chicken cross the road? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Why did the chicken cross the road? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Of course: Texas DA once paid for abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims
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Texas DA who charged abortion patient with murder accused of once paying for one
Three years after Texas prosecutors charged a woman with murder for inducing her own abortion, the local district attorney is accused of paying for an abortion while having an affair decades ago.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Of course: Texas DA once paid for abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims
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1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
What about The Beatitudes?
Well she is a magat. So she might not have figured that out.
I think we can know murder is wrong without the Ten Commandments in government buildings.
August 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What about The Beatitudes?
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"Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him."
-- Plutarch, ≈ 100 A.D.
-- Plutarch, ≈ 100 A.D.
BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
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August 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him."
-- Plutarch, ≈ 100 A.D.
-- Plutarch, ≈ 100 A.D.