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Brian F Campbell
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Dad, husband, tech guy, amateur cook. Laughs, politics, business, sports. ICYMI: President Trump is a MONSTER. Same handle on X and Mastodon. 😄✌️(San Diego)
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“All of this is a choice.”
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We are better than this own-goal dystopia, which disgracefully services POTUS’s and Stephen Miller’s racist, vengeful fever dreams and provides NOTHING kind, moral, or society-building. 🇺🇸

#LAStrong
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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at the the of the day, you can try to litigate and legislate lying, but you can’t force good faith and no amount of regulating the truth can fix society if its participants aren’t good faith members of the same project
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.

But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Unbelievable. No words ….
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.

Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders

All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I lived life as an autistic person for 41 years, and frankly it's wild to see someone who views your existence as a blight elevated to a position of such consequence. I generally see no reason to discuss being on the spectrum publicly, but I'll make an exception for this vile eugenicist. 1/x
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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When news media share Homeland Security's version of incidents during immigration enforcement, they need to remind the public that the feds have been caught lying repeatedly about what happened.
"Homeland Security, whose accounts of past incidents have often been proven untrue, said today ..."
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#Ukraine

Screenshot is from Yoroslav Trofimov — Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
The US now has the Thiel-Vance foreign policy, the Steve Witkoff foreign policy, the Jared Kushner foreign policy, the Marco Rubio foreign policy, and once in a blue moon the Donald Trump foreign policy... and Putin and Netanyahu plus Saudi, UAE & Qatar drive most of it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#Ukraine

Screenshot from X. GOP House Rep Don Bacon…
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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WAPO: “.. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times ..”

@washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Pathetic human beings. This is the online trolling and thuggery administration. They are devoid of any policy substance or semblance of human decency.

#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#resist
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It’s all bribes and extortion and corruption for $$. Say it loudly. Don’t let them gaslight us.
"defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon."
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I want this complete release because it will show that the calls for baseless investigations of me are nothing more than political persecution and slander.

I was never a client of Epstein’s and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The “jig is up” with the GOP. It’s zero governing and 7x24 campaigning, and blue state “hit jobs” on the Sunday shows. There’s nothing there, and the deplorable end result has been Congress allowing Trump to “control the purse” and conduct rampant extrajudicial terror. GOP: Someone lead!
The problem is they can't replace Obamacare with a more "republican" plan that isn't a disaster, because the ACA IS the Republican option: It was Romneycare with the serial numbers filed off!
NEW: As health insurance bills rise, Republicans are still seeking an Obamacare alternative

There is no legislative product yet.

No consensus in the party about a plan.

But top GOP lawmakers and policy figures on Capitol Hill have begun discussing concepts.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Been sayin'. "They'll vote yes to get out ahead of what's coming." (David Shuster last week). Over 1000 FBI and DOJ analysts had their eyes on the unsecure files during the review this past March. That's a lot of potential leaks. www.politico.com/live-updates...
House Dems predict major GOP support on bill to release Epstein files
Confidence is growing after the release of new damning emails for Trump.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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International stocks are outperforming the S&P 500 by the widest margin in 16 years.

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Low class and completely unnecessary. And McAfee just chuckles. smdh
Trump: "The Commanders as opposed to the Redskins. What happened to the Redskins?"
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Yes. Memory jogger: Donald Trump fell asleep in the oval office for ~20 minutes last Thursday. This is the proverbial “house of cards”.
The most dangerous people you can be spending time around at this point, are those who say, "I'll never quit fighting," but then, the moment something "bad" happens...instantly step into, "OMG. We're f*cked. It's all over." These people are like poison to your mind and emotions. Stay away.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Newsom near the end:

“… on our toes, not on our heals; a resurgent Democratic party.” 🎉 👍✌️

#resist
Newsom: "I support independent redistricting, but you can't do it state by state with one arm tied behind your back. You can't unilaterally disarm as other people are not playing by the rules. Donald Trump and Republican governors across the country -- they're not screwing around."
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?

He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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These operations would be unlawful even if those murdered had all been criminals. But it's important to show just how much deception is involved from start to finish in this gruesome charade.
The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.

They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.

apnews.com/article/trum...
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Well when you put it that way.

#UMich
November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM