Brandon Borrman
@borrman.bsky.social
Look, I’m out of practice, this stuff is going to be all over the place for a while.
An exciting snapshot of the complete moral failing of US foreign policy over the last 20+ years.
And everything our government is doing in response to the DC shooting is making that failing worse.
And everything our government is doing in response to the DC shooting is making that failing worse.
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
An exciting snapshot of the complete moral failing of US foreign policy over the last 20+ years.
And everything our government is doing in response to the DC shooting is making that failing worse.
And everything our government is doing in response to the DC shooting is making that failing worse.
Well, there goes my kids’ hopes for running for office. We call my wife’s best friends their “aunts.”
I’m sorry for this terrible lie.
I’m sorry for this terrible lie.
In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Well, there goes my kids’ hopes for running for office. We call my wife’s best friends their “aunts.”
I’m sorry for this terrible lie.
I’m sorry for this terrible lie.
12 Monkeys or 28 Days Later?
Here we go!
Here we go!
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
12 Monkeys or 28 Days Later?
Here we go!
Here we go!
Just sitting here in 2025 getting updates from our school district on whether or not the military will be showing up in town this weekend.
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Just sitting here in 2025 getting updates from our school district on whether or not the military will be showing up in town this weekend.
Every fucking generation, the one that was labeled as “lazy” points at the next one and says, “no those guys are.”
“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6
Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune
From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.
trib.al
October 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Every fucking generation, the one that was labeled as “lazy” points at the next one and says, “no those guys are.”
Anyone who says the left has to abandon protecting the trans community in order to win votes is simply surrendering, and it immediately undercuts the legitimacy of any other “resistance” rhetoric they spew.
Trans right are human rights. It’s that simple.
Trans right are human rights. It’s that simple.
The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
FBI Readies New War on Trans People
“We’re looking at the entire web”
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Anyone who says the left has to abandon protecting the trans community in order to win votes is simply surrendering, and it immediately undercuts the legitimacy of any other “resistance” rhetoric they spew.
Trans right are human rights. It’s that simple.
Trans right are human rights. It’s that simple.
Honestly, I look at the responses to this and really wonder if our society as a whole is so far gone we shouldn’t try to save it.
He’s not praising the guy, he specifically says his ideas were terrible. That doesn’t mean his murder isn’t a tragedy for his family. Both points can be true.
He’s not praising the guy, he specifically says his ideas were terrible. That doesn’t mean his murder isn’t a tragedy for his family. Both points can be true.
September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Honestly, I look at the responses to this and really wonder if our society as a whole is so far gone we shouldn’t try to save it.
He’s not praising the guy, he specifically says his ideas were terrible. That doesn’t mean his murder isn’t a tragedy for his family. Both points can be true.
He’s not praising the guy, he specifically says his ideas were terrible. That doesn’t mean his murder isn’t a tragedy for his family. Both points can be true.
Hard to overstate the harm done to society by shutting down so much of the reporting and research on online extremism.
Just as with refusing to allow research into guns as a public health crisis we are knowingly, but blindly, walking into a very dark moment.
Just as with refusing to allow research into guns as a public health crisis we are knowingly, but blindly, walking into a very dark moment.
September 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hard to overstate the harm done to society by shutting down so much of the reporting and research on online extremism.
Just as with refusing to allow research into guns as a public health crisis we are knowingly, but blindly, walking into a very dark moment.
Just as with refusing to allow research into guns as a public health crisis we are knowingly, but blindly, walking into a very dark moment.
Please please please please please please please please please please please please
ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy likes the idea of a Kleya and Vel ‘Nazi hunters’ spin-off series in which the duo hunt after former Imperials following the fall of the Empire with the assistance of Dedra Meero in a Hannibal Lector-esque role.
(Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)
(Source: youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...)
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Please please please please please please please please please please please please
I don’t know, maybe he didn’t know what Pritzker was going to announce. But even so, holy shit do look inept suggesting there’s common ground with someone sending troops into cities and states that don’t want them.
Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."
September 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I don’t know, maybe he didn’t know what Pritzker was going to announce. But even so, holy shit do look inept suggesting there’s common ground with someone sending troops into cities and states that don’t want them.
Even if true, the maniacs around him will continue their work and …
I’m not confident the Dems will do what’s necessary to fracture his base. He’s a folk hero to them, Vance can’t hold it together with his damp paper bag personality.
But “civility” will get in the way.
I’m not confident the Dems will do what’s necessary to fracture his base. He’s a folk hero to them, Vance can’t hold it together with his damp paper bag personality.
But “civility” will get in the way.
August 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Even if true, the maniacs around him will continue their work and …
I’m not confident the Dems will do what’s necessary to fracture his base. He’s a folk hero to them, Vance can’t hold it together with his damp paper bag personality.
But “civility” will get in the way.
I’m not confident the Dems will do what’s necessary to fracture his base. He’s a folk hero to them, Vance can’t hold it together with his damp paper bag personality.
But “civility” will get in the way.
Saying this as a former (and maybe future) consultant, the best step the Dems could make is to …
Fire all the consultants.
Fire all the consultants.
I wrote what is essentially a blog post (😱) about why Dems keep screwing up their efforts to build out a liberal media ecosystem and what can be done about it: www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
Why Dems Keep Screwing Up Media Efforts
Wired has a story by Taylor Lorenz about Chorus, which is a Dem backed influencer agency, attempting to recruit influencers with $8000 a month retainers and contracts that stipulate that they not disc...
www.elizabethspiers.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Saying this as a former (and maybe future) consultant, the best step the Dems could make is to …
Fire all the consultants.
Fire all the consultants.
This is all correct. The only thing I’d add is that some states have literally made it legal to run down protestors with your car.
For a nation that likes to wave the First Amendment in everyone else’s face, we’ve done a terrible job actually protecting it in the last decade.
For a nation that likes to wave the First Amendment in everyone else’s face, we’ve done a terrible job actually protecting it in the last decade.
this (from the brilliant @everywhereist.bsky.social) puts into words the big black tangle of frustration i have whenever i get the same question
August 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is all correct. The only thing I’d add is that some states have literally made it legal to run down protestors with your car.
For a nation that likes to wave the First Amendment in everyone else’s face, we’ve done a terrible job actually protecting it in the last decade.
For a nation that likes to wave the First Amendment in everyone else’s face, we’ve done a terrible job actually protecting it in the last decade.
Who is writing this crap? It’s unbelievable to me how they continue to deliver such limp corporate-speak messaging right now, especially given how much that contributes to their deep unpopularity with even their core voters.
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Who is writing this crap? It’s unbelievable to me how they continue to deliver such limp corporate-speak messaging right now, especially given how much that contributes to their deep unpopularity with even their core voters.
Every day, a new opportunity to be deeply disappointed in our media as someone who believes they have a critical and fundamental role to play in our society.
August 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Every day, a new opportunity to be deeply disappointed in our media as someone who believes they have a critical and fundamental role to play in our society.
Ugh. I guess I have to begrudgingly appreciate that Newsom is stating the reality so plainly. Since the rest of them seem stuck in a past that no longer exists.
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
August 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Ugh. I guess I have to begrudgingly appreciate that Newsom is stating the reality so plainly. Since the rest of them seem stuck in a past that no longer exists.
Maron gets it, and not just because he was a podcast pioneer. People want to feel like you’re talking with them not at them. That you have a POV you believe in, not a set of talking points.
Breaking through is not that hard, you just can’t seem like you’ve been media trained to death, just be you.
Breaking through is not that hard, you just can’t seem like you’ve been media trained to death, just be you.
I have really really enjoyed watching @marcmaron.bsky.social dismantle the fashy apologist Rogan bro comedy omniverse on his new special podcast tour
Marc Maron, Hero Of Our Time.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Maron gets it, and not just because he was a podcast pioneer. People want to feel like you’re talking with them not at them. That you have a POV you believe in, not a set of talking points.
Breaking through is not that hard, you just can’t seem like you’ve been media trained to death, just be you.
Breaking through is not that hard, you just can’t seem like you’ve been media trained to death, just be you.
Man, if the generation of consultants who insisted on putting Walz in a box got out of the way, some good things might happen.
August 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Man, if the generation of consultants who insisted on putting Walz in a box got out of the way, some good things might happen.
The second time I’ve had to like Billy Long. The first was when he shut up a Laura Loomer protest in a House committee meeting by going full auctioneer.
BREAKING
IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired hours after he refused to furnish additional confidential taxpayer information on suspected undocumented immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security.
Full Story: wapo.st/4lo4rBv
IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired hours after he refused to furnish additional confidential taxpayer information on suspected undocumented immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security.
Full Story: wapo.st/4lo4rBv
August 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The second time I’ve had to like Billy Long. The first was when he shut up a Laura Loomer protest in a House committee meeting by going full auctioneer.
I remain flabbergasted that Dems aren’t out there talking about this administration being pro cancer. I mean, every health decision they make results in … more cancer and more death.
And mRNA research has generated at least two potential cures for previously untreatable cancers (kidney and pancreas) earlier this year. Kakistocracy, folks!
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
August 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I remain flabbergasted that Dems aren’t out there talking about this administration being pro cancer. I mean, every health decision they make results in … more cancer and more death.
The New York Times Style section remains the greatest blemish on the face of American journalism.
August 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The New York Times Style section remains the greatest blemish on the face of American journalism.
Why again should Democrats not fight for transgender rights? How it’s a “side issue,” a “distraction”?
Transgender rights are a civil rights issue. And if you wish your political leaders would just stop talking about it, then know where you would have stood on civil rights issues in 50’s and ‘60s.
Transgender rights are a civil rights issue. And if you wish your political leaders would just stop talking about it, then know where you would have stood on civil rights issues in 50’s and ‘60s.
New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output"
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
July 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Why again should Democrats not fight for transgender rights? How it’s a “side issue,” a “distraction”?
Transgender rights are a civil rights issue. And if you wish your political leaders would just stop talking about it, then know where you would have stood on civil rights issues in 50’s and ‘60s.
Transgender rights are a civil rights issue. And if you wish your political leaders would just stop talking about it, then know where you would have stood on civil rights issues in 50’s and ‘60s.
Where’s the media machine? Run ads in these districts right now.
Your Rep sold your healthcare for a signed MAGA hat. Because the king means more to them than your family does.
Your Rep sold your healthcare for a signed MAGA hat. Because the king means more to them than your family does.
As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
Trump Goes on a Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Where’s the media machine? Run ads in these districts right now.
Your Rep sold your healthcare for a signed MAGA hat. Because the king means more to them than your family does.
Your Rep sold your healthcare for a signed MAGA hat. Because the king means more to them than your family does.
This is the inside of a Japanese internment camp in California during WWII. It looks shockingly like the camp in Florida, but with more space and light.
We are repeating one of the most shameful and horrific mistakes our nation has ever made with Alligator Aushwitz.
We are repeating one of the most shameful and horrific mistakes our nation has ever made with Alligator Aushwitz.
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is the inside of a Japanese internment camp in California during WWII. It looks shockingly like the camp in Florida, but with more space and light.
We are repeating one of the most shameful and horrific mistakes our nation has ever made with Alligator Aushwitz.
We are repeating one of the most shameful and horrific mistakes our nation has ever made with Alligator Aushwitz.
You don’t actually have to point to Nazi Germany as a prior example here.
We, the US, have done this before. To Japanese residents and citizens of Japanese descent in WWII. We should know better than this because WE’VE already done it.
We’re just too ashamed to remind ourselves.
We, the US, have done this before. To Japanese residents and citizens of Japanese descent in WWII. We should know better than this because WE’VE already done it.
We’re just too ashamed to remind ourselves.
Trump on DeSantis's new detention camp for migrants: "We'd like to see them in many states. And at some point they might morph into a system."
July 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You don’t actually have to point to Nazi Germany as a prior example here.
We, the US, have done this before. To Japanese residents and citizens of Japanese descent in WWII. We should know better than this because WE’VE already done it.
We’re just too ashamed to remind ourselves.
We, the US, have done this before. To Japanese residents and citizens of Japanese descent in WWII. We should know better than this because WE’VE already done it.
We’re just too ashamed to remind ourselves.