Brian Gaerity
@briangaerity.bsky.social
Professional family guy, amateur cyclist. Nonprofit leader, business geek, community volunteer, former school board member. Love all who make the world better, especially cats and dogs.
Will someone please call him on this bullshit excuse? “Disrespecting” a LEO is not a crime. Being a “professional agitator” is not a crime. Trump is a coward and a thug.
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
January 12, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Will someone please call him on this bullshit excuse? “Disrespecting” a LEO is not a crime. Being a “professional agitator” is not a crime. Trump is a coward and a thug.
Homan is a coward and utterly full of shit. If you react to verbal criticism with violence, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement. If you think someone mocking you is a threat, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement. LEOs must held to a higher standard than brutes and thugs.
WELKER: What do you see in that video?
HOMAN: I've said from March -- if the hateful rhetoric doesn't decline there's going to be bloodshed. And unfortunately I was right. You gotta put yourself in the mind of the officer.
HOMAN: I've said from March -- if the hateful rhetoric doesn't decline there's going to be bloodshed. And unfortunately I was right. You gotta put yourself in the mind of the officer.
January 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Homan is a coward and utterly full of shit. If you react to verbal criticism with violence, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement. If you think someone mocking you is a threat, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement. LEOs must held to a higher standard than brutes and thugs.
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"If people just did whatever ICE said no one would get hurt" is the equivalent of "if you just had dinner on the table when I got home from work, I wouldn't have to punch you in the face and strangle you." We are being domestically abused by our own government and it shows.
January 10, 2026 at 9:24 PM
"If people just did whatever ICE said no one would get hurt" is the equivalent of "if you just had dinner on the table when I got home from work, I wouldn't have to punch you in the face and strangle you." We are being domestically abused by our own government and it shows.
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“This is the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and from my vantage point this looks like a Boston Massacre, an event that can galvanize public opinion.”
@jamellebouie.net lays out what public officials, and ordinary people can do right now.”
@jamellebouie.net lays out what public officials, and ordinary people can do right now.”
January 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
“This is the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and from my vantage point this looks like a Boston Massacre, an event that can galvanize public opinion.”
@jamellebouie.net lays out what public officials, and ordinary people can do right now.”
@jamellebouie.net lays out what public officials, and ordinary people can do right now.”
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This week brings new releases from Joy Williams, Simon Winchester and Tracy K. Smith, among other talented writers. n.pr/48lbbww
This week in books: Get stuck in a Nov. 18 time loop, and explore the world in 70 maps
This week brings new releases from Joy Williams, Simon Winchester and Tracy K. Smith, among other talented writers.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This week brings new releases from Joy Williams, Simon Winchester and Tracy K. Smith, among other talented writers. n.pr/48lbbww
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I will never get over the fact that the president of the United States talks and writes like this.
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I will never get over the fact that the president of the United States talks and writes like this.
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
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This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
This is how to write about redemption and public service. “By withdrawing from the race this year and aggressively supporting the Dem candidate next year, Platner can show that he really does reject what he was when he got the tattoo and made those horrible posts.”
Rich Young Rulers and Wee Little Men
How to do redemption correctly.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is how to write about redemption and public service. “By withdrawing from the race this year and aggressively supporting the Dem candidate next year, Platner can show that he really does reject what he was when he got the tattoo and made those horrible posts.”
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Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.
When I predicted that wealthy communities would increasingly turn to private security, I didn’t see this coming. Another reason to tax the hell out of billionaires.
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
Nation's largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November.
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
When I predicted that wealthy communities would increasingly turn to private security, I didn’t see this coming. Another reason to tax the hell out of billionaires.
Congrats to Alabama men’s rowing! The Varsity A team finished first in Men’s Collegiate 8+, beating perennial powerhouses Michigan State, Clemson and UNC.
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Congrats to Alabama men’s rowing! The Varsity A team finished first in Men’s Collegiate 8+, beating perennial powerhouses Michigan State, Clemson and UNC.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
“the thing next to the thing you're looking for”: I’d steal this as an album name, if I had any musical talent.
A thing I missed when we all stopped going to the office in 2020 was the accidental knowledge you might pick up just from poking your head into a colleague's workspace to work out, in person, some puzzlement.
Same deal with printed dictionaries: the thing next to the thing you're looking for.
Same deal with printed dictionaries: the thing next to the thing you're looking for.
September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“the thing next to the thing you're looking for”: I’d steal this as an album name, if I had any musical talent.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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One of my deeply held beliefs is that if we could condition people to accept how chance affects their lives, they’d be much better equipped to recognize how systemic things impact them.
We are suckers for agency when we think we can game a system, even where we can't. "I have a system to always win auctions/gambling/stock market..." No you don't, you get lucky sometimes and notice, and then keep chasing that.
July 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
One of my deeply held beliefs is that if we could condition people to accept how chance affects their lives, they’d be much better equipped to recognize how systemic things impact them.
This. What’s interesting is that pension funds are some of the largest institutional investors in the market. It seems that everyone’s financial situation is dependent on market returns, directly and indirectly, and so we are stuck. There is no incentive to control increasingly higher profit margins
The shift from pensions to 401ks played a big role in fueling Americans' hesitance to tax big wealth. Because now, even Americans who have only a tiny retirement account feel invested in the success of an institution that overwhelmingly benefits those much wealthier than them.
Every news outlet that reports on US stocks "surging" should be required to note that the wealthiest 10% of Americans hold more than 90% of all the value of US stocks.
July 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This. What’s interesting is that pension funds are some of the largest institutional investors in the market. It seems that everyone’s financial situation is dependent on market returns, directly and indirectly, and so we are stuck. There is no incentive to control increasingly higher profit margins
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I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
July 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.
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I watched a young adult person just struggle his way through counting coin change in a line and we really need a lot of public health information campaigns, a 24/7 public Sesame Street channel, & a moratorium on all education debt.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
June 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I watched a young adult person just struggle his way through counting coin change in a line and we really need a lot of public health information campaigns, a 24/7 public Sesame Street channel, & a moratorium on all education debt.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.
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I know I’ve said this several dozen times, but right wing lunatics frankensteined together unrelated Bible verses to create “the antichrist” and a description of what he would look like, and then the guy fucking showed up and they love him.
I mean I'm a hardened atheist who at this point believes like 80% unironically that Trump is the/an antichrist, so...
June 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I know I’ve said this several dozen times, but right wing lunatics frankensteined together unrelated Bible verses to create “the antichrist” and a description of what he would look like, and then the guy fucking showed up and they love him.
The administration that most closely resembles the former USSR is this one. And so far, it’s not nearly as competent (thank god). If ICBMs appear in the June 14 parade, however, we’re really screwed.
Comrade Leavitt on Leader Trump's Five-Year Patriotic Plan.
I liked it better when Presidential micro-managing involved personally scheduling the White House tennis court rather than dictating the proper mix of workers and university majors by illegally defunding higher education.
I liked it better when Presidential micro-managing involved personally scheduling the White House tennis court rather than dictating the proper mix of workers and university majors by illegally defunding higher education.
Leavitt: "Electricians, plumbers -- we need more of those in our country, and less LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard University. And that's what this administration's position is."
May 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The administration that most closely resembles the former USSR is this one. And so far, it’s not nearly as competent (thank god). If ICBMs appear in the June 14 parade, however, we’re really screwed.
This isn’t dictator behavior at all. Perfectly normal that we have a demented President and his ass-kissing minions use the power of the federal government to intimidate his critics.
Secret Service Questions Comey Over Social Media Post About Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This isn’t dictator behavior at all. Perfectly normal that we have a demented President and his ass-kissing minions use the power of the federal government to intimidate his critics.
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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
www.rollingstone.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery
White Southerners just can’t see themselves moving beyond the 19th century.
they're censoring scholarly research on race and gender as "obscene materials"
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
April 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
White Southerners just can’t see themselves moving beyond the 19th century.
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements