Brann Herbsman
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Brann Herbsman
@branarchy82.bsky.social
Artist, dog lover, avid reader.
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A draft indictment against Jeffrey Epstein prepared by federal prosecutors in 2007 listed a series of sex crimes he was accused of committing against more than a dozen teenage girls, saying he told one 16-year-old that bad things could happen to her if she reported what happened at his house.
Draft Epstein Indictment Accused Him of Crimes Against More Than a Dozen Girls
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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NEW: Independent Journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon Arrested by Feds Along With Three More Activists

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Independent Journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon Arrested by Feds Along With Three More Activists - UNICORN RIOT
A week after arresting three activists over protesting an ICE director who pastors in a church, federal agents made five additional arrests, this time targeting two journalists who covered the protest...
unicornriot.ninja
January 31, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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It's funny how all these billionaires started buying up all the social media apps, newspapers, and television networks right as all these revelations were starting to come out.
Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2012 and 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s island
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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The number of immigration agents in Minnesota may be reduced, but they'll leave leave behind a changed community, including many U.S. citizens questioned and detained in recent weeks. n.pr/4caeUzg
Minnesota citizens detained by ICE are left rattled, even weeks later
The number of immigration agents in Minnesota may be reduced, but they'll leave leave behind a changed community, including many U.S. citizens questioned and detained in recent weeks.
n.pr
February 1, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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A Multnomah County jury has awarded more than $760,000 to our client Cider Riot owner Abram Goldman-Armstrong after finding defendants associated with the far-right group Patriot Prayer liable for a violent 2019 attack. Even though the justice system moves slowly, we will always stay the course.
January 31, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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It Really Is Safer in the Front

On 1/24, in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, protesters converged on the ICE facility in Portland.

A participant describes the experience of crossing the line into revolt and discovering that when everyone does this together, our oppressors’ power evaporates.
Crossing the Line: It Really Is Safer in the Front
A participant in a demonstration in Portland describes the experience of collectively crossing the line into revolt.
crimethinc.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Teaching prep & reading Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal.” Brilliant & scathing critique of Power, colonialism, Zionism, the West, & more.
Releasing next week @haymarketbooks.org; preorder NOW! Mustread for westerners incldg pro-Palestine academics!🔥🤎🇵🇸
February 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Israeli forces conducted an unprecedented escalation in the West Bank over the weekend by detonating 20 apartment buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The move constituted the largest single demolition operation in the West Bank since 1967.
Israel Escalates Its West Bank Assault, Conducting Largest Demolition in Years
Israel detonated 20 apartment buildings in Jenin as part of an offensive that has displaced over 20,000 Palestinians.
buff.ly
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Donald Trump intends to do to the United States government what Elon Musk did to Twitter: seize it, fire everyone who is not loyal to him, and turn it into a vehicle for profiteering and spreading fascism.

crimethinc.com/thetrumpyears

How can this comparison inform how we understand the risks?

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November 22, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Instagram and Facebook have reportedly blocked posts from some abortion pill providers.

Reproductive rights are human rights — and they include the right to access legal and safe abortions.
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The solution to low wages is solidarity among all workers—employed or unemployed—on both sides of every border against the billionaires who seek to exploit and oppress us.

Deporting people is performative violence intended to channel anger away from those who are the true cause of our suffering.
January 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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After Biden’s Historic Grants of Clemency, Calls to Commute Leonard Peltier Reignite

unicornriot.ninja/2024/after-b...
January 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Experts have warned that deaths from causes like starvation could majorly overshadow those from Israeli strikes and gunfire. Doctors who have served in Gaza have estimated that the true death toll is at least 119,000, if not over 300,000.
Gaza’s Population Has Plunged at Least 6 Percent in 15 Months of Genocide
The population has declined by 160,000 people since October 2023, with at least 45,000 people killed by Israeli attacks.
truthout.org
January 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM