Briar Bear
briar-bear.bsky.social
Briar Bear
@briar-bear.bsky.social
Splitting my time between NYC and Boston.
Open to friends and donut shop recommendations.
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It's amazing to think that there was a time before social media when, if you were a gobshite, everybody ignored you. There was no way to make money saying stupid, provocative things because nobody wanted anything to do with you.
October 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
September 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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September 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Consecutive leaders only use scripture when they need justification for subjugation, to hurt people, to deny their humanity; not to help those who are in need.
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”

#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
July 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
June 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Patrick McGee is an award-winning journalist who spent years covering Apple for the Financial Times and author of the new book, ‘Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company’. This week on the pod, he explained why iPhones could never be made in the U.S.
May 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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They should let you take one index card of handwritten notes to your reincarnation
May 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Checking notes- it was actually the republicans who hammered these two issues.
This is such bullshit. There wasn't a single Dem who made bathrooms and sports significant parts of their campaigns. I'm really getting sick of guys like Cuomo and Rahm Emanuel retconning the 2024 election.
Haven’t seen this reported yet: in a speech to supporters posted to TikTok last week, NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo said he believes that Democrats lost in 2024 because “we’re talking about bathrooms and who’s gonna play in what [sports] team”
May 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Just sharing a pic of the most perfect pup
May 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I mean, we are just stupid. Stupid, stupid, stuuuuu*p*id.
White people really brought measles, a once eradicated disease, back because they allowed other white people (ex. RFK jr) to convince them that vaccines cause autism…
a woman wearing a purple sweater and a floral dress is making a face .
ALT: a woman wearing a purple sweater and a floral dress is making a face .
media.tenor.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
To reiterate, simple the worst people
It takes effort and intention to be this malicious.

Their conduct shames decent law enforcement officers everywhere.

Their cruelty shames America.
A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
May 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Simply the worst people, honestly
was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy
1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC.

The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."
May 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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@brookegladstone.bsky.social: We've never been in such a period of retrenchment. There's always two steps forward, one step back, but this is just a great leap backwards.

Bryan Stevenson: I don't know that I agree that we've never seen this before...
May 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Today, FBI Director Kash Patel showed up to Congress with little understanding of his own administration's budget proposal, no clear plan on how to properly fund the FBI, and then lashed out when he was called on his lies.

He said he wanted receipts — so here they are.
May 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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A Physical Education is proud to uphold the Sagan way: scientific thinking that challenges power and is skeptical of authority www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
May 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Wanna see something cool?

At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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There’s still time to protect yourself and others.

Talk to your doctor.
May 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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All right I finally watched this and JESUS CHRIST
Possibly the best interview of all-time
April 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.

A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
April 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM