🎹Brendan Getzell🎸
@brendangetzell.bsky.social
he/him
SF music human
Singer-songwriter
Musical Director of Kat Robuchaud’s Misfit Cabaret
Host of the Hotel Utah Open Mic
We should improve society somewhat
SF music human
Singer-songwriter
Musical Director of Kat Robuchaud’s Misfit Cabaret
Host of the Hotel Utah Open Mic
We should improve society somewhat
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MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
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🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location.
ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.
This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.
This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
June 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location.
ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.
This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.
This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.
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A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source.
In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up.
@ember-energy.org
In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up.
@ember-energy.org
June 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source.
In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up.
@ember-energy.org
In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up.
@ember-energy.org
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Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.
June 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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"But you see, officer, I wasn't SPEEDING, I was merely SIDESTEPPING TYPICAL PROCEDURES."
Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"But you see, officer, I wasn't SPEEDING, I was merely SIDESTEPPING TYPICAL PROCEDURES."
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Hey Eric, could you read this section of the current New York Times Code of Conduct for me?
May 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey Eric, could you read this section of the current New York Times Code of Conduct for me?
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yes
My thought of the Qatari jet is that the moment Trump is out of office, the net president ought to seize it and sell it on the grounds that based on the emoluments clause, it could never have been a gift to Trump personally and so must have been a gift to the federal government.
May 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
yes
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the neck gaiter pulled up over the nose is the SS uniform of the Trump regime
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
the neck gaiter pulled up over the nose is the SS uniform of the Trump regime
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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
Say Dem leadership said that tomorrow. What would those to their left say?
April 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Say Dem leadership said that tomorrow. What would those to their left say?
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I spoke to another person this week—also a US-born citizen—who showed me the DHS email she received informing her that she had to leave the country. Incompetent, evil or both?
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I spoke to another person this week—also a US-born citizen—who showed me the DHS email she received informing her that she had to leave the country. Incompetent, evil or both?
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Positive outcome from Supreme Court:
The Government must facilitate the return of Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador prison.
Sets up Judge Boasberg to order same for detainees sent in defiance of his orders.
Good judicial confrontation with lawlessness.
The Government must facilitate the return of Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador prison.
Sets up Judge Boasberg to order same for detainees sent in defiance of his orders.
Good judicial confrontation with lawlessness.
April 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Positive outcome from Supreme Court:
The Government must facilitate the return of Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador prison.
Sets up Judge Boasberg to order same for detainees sent in defiance of his orders.
Good judicial confrontation with lawlessness.
The Government must facilitate the return of Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador prison.
Sets up Judge Boasberg to order same for detainees sent in defiance of his orders.
Good judicial confrontation with lawlessness.
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I'd bet most Americans don't realize the six Nazi extermination camps during World War II also involved rendition to a foreign country.
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek were all located in Poland. Not Germany. Important historical fact.
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek were all located in Poland. Not Germany. Important historical fact.
This is a concentration camp, by the way.
This is a death camp. We're setting up death camps in foreign countries and renditioning people there.
This is a death camp. We're setting up death camps in foreign countries and renditioning people there.
Trump admin prepares to send more deported migrants to notorious El Salvador prison
Erik Prince wants in on the action
Prince - who is gaining traction in the second Trump admin - has pitched a plan to set up a US-run immigrant detention facility in El Salvador
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
Erik Prince wants in on the action
Prince - who is gaining traction in the second Trump admin - has pitched a plan to set up a US-run immigrant detention facility in El Salvador
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
April 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'd bet most Americans don't realize the six Nazi extermination camps during World War II also involved rendition to a foreign country.
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek were all located in Poland. Not Germany. Important historical fact.
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek were all located in Poland. Not Germany. Important historical fact.
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They have and are literally doing things in every box. This isn't just journalistic failure by the NYT, it is disinformation.
Currently on the front page of the New York Times.
April 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
They have and are literally doing things in every box. This isn't just journalistic failure by the NYT, it is disinformation.
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Yes there will be people who are not the exact type of lefty as you at a protest. a lot of it will be cringe perhaps. No it will not solve all of the real problems. Do it anyway. You will be glad you did.
April 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Yes there will be people who are not the exact type of lefty as you at a protest. a lot of it will be cringe perhaps. No it will not solve all of the real problems. Do it anyway. You will be glad you did.
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I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
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I don't give a shit what he chooses or declines to rule out. It's not his fucking choice. Stop writing about it as if his opinion matters. Write about it like it is: unquestionably illegal, not a debate, not his call, not going to fucking happen.
President Donald Trump on Sunday declined to rule out seeking a third presidential term — an unconstitutional act explicitly barred under the 22nd Amendment — saying that “there are methods which you could do it.”
Trump suggests ‘methods’ exist for bid for unconstitutional third term
President Donald Trump again raised the idea of running for a third term in office, an unconstitutional idea that would run afoul of the 22nd Amendment.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I don't give a shit what he chooses or declines to rule out. It's not his fucking choice. Stop writing about it as if his opinion matters. Write about it like it is: unquestionably illegal, not a debate, not his call, not going to fucking happen.
“donald the dove” update
Trump today: If Iran does not agree to a deal “There will be bombing and it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before”
Can he go 1 day without threatening a new war? How many would he like?
- Greenland
- Panama
- Gaza
- Mexico
- Yemen
- Somalia
- Gaza
- Venezuela
Is 8 enough?
Can he go 1 day without threatening a new war? How many would he like?
- Greenland
- Panama
- Gaza
- Mexico
- Yemen
- Somalia
- Gaza
- Venezuela
Is 8 enough?
March 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“donald the dove” update