Brad Cupples
@bradcupples.bsky.social
Beloved communist upstart/Currently alive human.
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What a terrible piece. Legitimates an effort to randomly label Ms. Rachel an antisemite for… expressing concern and sympathy for Palestinian children in Gaza. That’s a slanderous accusation.
I'm embarrassed for the New York Times that they published this piece on Ms. Rachel, in which they cite a ridiculous anonymous righwing website Stopantisemitism while indulging the mad, mad claim she may be funded by Hamas (!).
This isn't journalism:
This isn't journalism:
Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
What a terrible piece. Legitimates an effort to randomly label Ms. Rachel an antisemite for… expressing concern and sympathy for Palestinian children in Gaza. That’s a slanderous accusation.
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One of the worst legacies of 2000s New Atheism was the idea that conflicts like the Troubles or Israel-Palestine were thousand-year religious wars that could end if the participants stopped being so superstitious, rather than political conflicts with start dates, causes and goals on both sides.
May 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One of the worst legacies of 2000s New Atheism was the idea that conflicts like the Troubles or Israel-Palestine were thousand-year religious wars that could end if the participants stopped being so superstitious, rather than political conflicts with start dates, causes and goals on both sides.
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every four months for the last 8+ years there’s a major article about how younger republicans are upset people don’t want to fuck them because of their beliefs and we’re expected to sympathize with them and not say “yes you fuckwits that’s how principles work”
FWIW: This is a new thing. Young folks in DC have always tended to cluster somewhat by political affiliation, but working for the Bush admin in the early aughts didn't automatically make you a social leper. People were friends and dated across party & ideology. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Young Trumpies Hit D.C.
… And D.C. hits them right back.
www.politico.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
every four months for the last 8+ years there’s a major article about how younger republicans are upset people don’t want to fuck them because of their beliefs and we’re expected to sympathize with them and not say “yes you fuckwits that’s how principles work”
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Why federal law enforcement started blurring out officer's faces in press releases
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/faceless-f...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/faceless-f...
Faceless Feds at War With America
Why law enforcement are suddenly blurring their own faces in press releases
www.kenklippenstein.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Why federal law enforcement started blurring out officer's faces in press releases
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/faceless-f...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/faceless-f...
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Or, hear me out, the bill is an unconstitutional censorial mess that Trump himself has promised to abuse to take down content he doesn't like.
Multiple experts offered to help you fix the bill and you ignored them all.
This makes you a part of the problem.
Multiple experts offered to help you fix the bill and you ignored them all.
This makes you a part of the problem.
Good news to end the day: The House just passed my bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act and now it will be signed into law! This bill will provide victims of online abuse with the legal protections they need when intimate images — real or deepfake — are shared without their consent.
April 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Or, hear me out, the bill is an unconstitutional censorial mess that Trump himself has promised to abuse to take down content he doesn't like.
Multiple experts offered to help you fix the bill and you ignored them all.
This makes you a part of the problem.
Multiple experts offered to help you fix the bill and you ignored them all.
This makes you a part of the problem.
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US kills scores of African migrants in airstrike on Yemen detention center www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is a war crime. The United States is a criminal terror state
This is a war crime. The United States is a criminal terror state
Yemen: Dozens of African migrants killed in US strike, Houthis say
Houthi-run media report the bodies of 68 people have been recovered from a migrant detention centre in Saada.
www.bbc.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
US kills scores of African migrants in airstrike on Yemen detention center www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is a war crime. The United States is a criminal terror state
This is a war crime. The United States is a criminal terror state
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This whole clip is truly unbelievably great. I am genuinely astounded by how good this is.
Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
April 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This whole clip is truly unbelievably great. I am genuinely astounded by how good this is.
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They are going to let Trump donors hunt people for sport aren't they?
Within 90 days, SecDef, in coordination with the AG, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime
This mechanism shall inc use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such enforcement
This mechanism shall inc use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such enforcement
April 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
They are going to let Trump donors hunt people for sport aren't they?
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Which party turned out more in 2024? Official turnout records show registered Republicans had higher turnout rates than Democrats everywhere but DC (avg gap R+7 pts).
That’s hard to square with the narrative that Democrats now benefit when fewer people vote.
That’s hard to square with the narrative that Democrats now benefit when fewer people vote.
April 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Which party turned out more in 2024? Official turnout records show registered Republicans had higher turnout rates than Democrats everywhere but DC (avg gap R+7 pts).
That’s hard to square with the narrative that Democrats now benefit when fewer people vote.
That’s hard to square with the narrative that Democrats now benefit when fewer people vote.
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FBI Claims Gavel, Black Gowns Prove Ties To MS-13 Gang
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April 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
FBI Claims Gavel, Black Gowns Prove Ties To MS-13 Gang
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theonion.com/fbi-cla...
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Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Reality Check
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
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The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital.
They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces.
They call it
“scientifically illiterate”
and
“biologically nonsensical”
1/3
They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces.
They call it
“scientifically illiterate”
and
“biologically nonsensical”
1/3
April 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital.
They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces.
They call it
“scientifically illiterate”
and
“biologically nonsensical”
1/3
They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces.
They call it
“scientifically illiterate”
and
“biologically nonsensical”
1/3
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Me when my wife asks what I accomplished at home while she was away for three days
lmao Hannity's Trump accomplishments ticker got even more pathetic
April 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Me when my wife asks what I accomplished at home while she was away for three days
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People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund
NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
April 29, 2025 at 4:03 AM
People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund
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ICE is entrapping people who are here legally---telling them to report to the Immigration Office to advance their status--and then abducts them for deportation without due process. This can't be legal.
April 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
ICE is entrapping people who are here legally---telling them to report to the Immigration Office to advance their status--and then abducts them for deportation without due process. This can't be legal.
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CHUCK SCHUMER: We sent him [Trump] a very strong letter just the other day.
DANA BASH: You'll let us know if you get a response to that letter.
DANA BASH: You'll let us know if you get a response to that letter.
April 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
CHUCK SCHUMER: We sent him [Trump] a very strong letter just the other day.
DANA BASH: You'll let us know if you get a response to that letter.
DANA BASH: You'll let us know if you get a response to that letter.
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Gerry Connolly asked 70 year old Rep. Stephen Lynch to take up his Oversight responsibilities until the next election. Lynch’s background is…colorful:
“Lynch was arrested for drunkenly attacking a group of Iranian students protesting U.S. intervention abroad”
“Lynch was arrested for drunkenly attacking a group of Iranian students protesting U.S. intervention abroad”
April 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Gerry Connolly asked 70 year old Rep. Stephen Lynch to take up his Oversight responsibilities until the next election. Lynch’s background is…colorful:
“Lynch was arrested for drunkenly attacking a group of Iranian students protesting U.S. intervention abroad”
“Lynch was arrested for drunkenly attacking a group of Iranian students protesting U.S. intervention abroad”
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when i say that there was a venture capitalist conspiracy against american democracy i cannot express how literal i am being
Observations from this article on "tech" chat groups: 1) they are 100% male, 2) they are texting all day, 3) they seem to have little other work to do, 4) these are investors, not true 'techies', 4) the author of the article seems not to realize himself how airless and homogeneous these groups are.
April 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
when i say that there was a venture capitalist conspiracy against american democracy i cannot express how literal i am being
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“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend.
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? (Gift Article)
The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend.
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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Lol villainous beyond repair
April 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Lol villainous beyond repair
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The DOJ just allowed DOGE staffers, including the groyper who wrote "normalize Indian hate" and that he wants a "eugenic immigration policy," to access the addresses and case histories for millions of legal and undocumented immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data
About a half-dozen DOGE “advisors” won approval from the the Justice Department to access the ECAS system, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The DOJ just allowed DOGE staffers, including the groyper who wrote "normalize Indian hate" and that he wants a "eugenic immigration policy," to access the addresses and case histories for millions of legal and undocumented immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Keir Starmer you are a wet piece of shit who makes Mayor Pete look like Winston Churchill
Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no".
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
April 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Keir Starmer you are a wet piece of shit who makes Mayor Pete look like Winston Churchill
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you have college kids speaking up knowing they could be sent to a gulag and these absolute cowards cant even offer light criticism from their senate offices
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the quiet part out loud: “We are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious about using my voice because retaliation is real.”
April 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
you have college kids speaking up knowing they could be sent to a gulag and these absolute cowards cant even offer light criticism from their senate offices
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The new McCarthyism. Violent censorship of left-wing political speech in the name of national interest. And like the Red Scare, these actions were enabled by many Democrats who thought they could do reasonable, managed suppression, until the right inevitably took the reins.
JENA, La. (AP) — Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.
April 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The new McCarthyism. Violent censorship of left-wing political speech in the name of national interest. And like the Red Scare, these actions were enabled by many Democrats who thought they could do reasonable, managed suppression, until the right inevitably took the reins.