Brian
@brn-ags.bsky.social
GIS nerd / PennDesign ‘14 and The Ohio State Univ. ‘12 / Rochester expat / praying for snow / cheap beer aficionado / go bills! go buckeyes! go phils!
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Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
October 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
This administration is so self-conscious and nervous that they feel the need to denigrate a musician over a snippet of a forthcoming recording… Says all you need to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...
Kristi Noem Attacks Zach Bryan’s New Lyrics About ICE
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This administration is so self-conscious and nervous that they feel the need to denigrate a musician over a snippet of a forthcoming recording… Says all you need to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...
This is actually the right move. Like similar algorithm pricing recommendations in real estate, this consultant-higher ed relationship is likely distorting tuition pricing. Ivy league was guily of it, wouldn’t be surprised if these other colleges are as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
Republicans Take Aim at ‘Industry Behind the Curtain’ of College Prices
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is actually the right move. Like similar algorithm pricing recommendations in real estate, this consultant-higher ed relationship is likely distorting tuition pricing. Ivy league was guily of it, wouldn’t be surprised if these other colleges are as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.
The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party
But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.
open.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.
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the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao
September 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao
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Elon Musk shared one of the worst charts I've ever seen, so I decided to write about it. www.pbump.net/o/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk should buy a introductory data course
I am not revealing any trade secrets by telling you that Elon Musk's public persona is unserious. He obviously has some business acumen; he remains in control of a number of corporations that are not ...
www.pbump.net
September 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk shared one of the worst charts I've ever seen, so I decided to write about it. www.pbump.net/o/elon-musk-...
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moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
lol yeah they are
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
lol yeah they are
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I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.
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We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do?
Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do?
Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
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This is why I don't understand the hagiography of him as a bastion of free speech. I agree that his murder was an assault on free speech as a principle of liberal democracy, but so was his politics. Condemning both is the only consistent position.
Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
September 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is why I don't understand the hagiography of him as a bastion of free speech. I agree that his murder was an assault on free speech as a principle of liberal democracy, but so was his politics. Condemning both is the only consistent position.
Sorry I refuse to consume your slop.
September 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Sorry I refuse to consume your slop.
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The guy who nearly got people killed spreading Pizzagate. Who called for an end to American democracy *last year*. Who told his followers to “take the path of the hunter … we are going to make them the prey."
We’re watching this country collectively descend into madness.
We’re watching this country collectively descend into madness.
I'd list all the things Jack Posobiec is known for, but I think it would get me banned on Bluesky in the current environment of automated moderation.
Let's just say he has an extensive page at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Anyway, CBS News is talking with Posobiec about his friend Charlie Kirk.
Let's just say he has an extensive page at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Anyway, CBS News is talking with Posobiec about his friend Charlie Kirk.
September 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The guy who nearly got people killed spreading Pizzagate. Who called for an end to American democracy *last year*. Who told his followers to “take the path of the hunter … we are going to make them the prey."
We’re watching this country collectively descend into madness.
We’re watching this country collectively descend into madness.
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What’s up with the Prime Thursday Night football broadcast being so desaturated?
September 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
What’s up with the Prime Thursday Night football broadcast being so desaturated?
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Jesse Watters goes full bloodlust in response to Charlie Kirk's death: "Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? ... This is a turning point. And we know which direction we are going."
September 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Jesse Watters goes full bloodlust in response to Charlie Kirk's death: "Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? ... This is a turning point. And we know which direction we are going."
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I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.
September 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.
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condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
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The tech industry says social media doesn’t polarize us but sure feels like you could watch it happen in real time today
September 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The tech industry says social media doesn’t polarize us but sure feels like you could watch it happen in real time today
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A real leader would remind us that the vast majority Americans do not hate each other. That what unites us is greater than what divides us. That violence is not a solution.
But Trump is going to use this as an opportunity to suppress critics who had nothing to do with this crime and condemn it.
But Trump is going to use this as an opportunity to suppress critics who had nothing to do with this crime and condemn it.
Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A real leader would remind us that the vast majority Americans do not hate each other. That what unites us is greater than what divides us. That violence is not a solution.
But Trump is going to use this as an opportunity to suppress critics who had nothing to do with this crime and condemn it.
But Trump is going to use this as an opportunity to suppress critics who had nothing to do with this crime and condemn it.
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"they are at war with us"
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"they are at war with us"
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Swift movement to blame Democrats and the left by a few accounts with sizable followings.
Worth noting, however, that these are not politicians or elected officials.
Worth noting, however, that these are not politicians or elected officials.
September 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Swift movement to blame Democrats and the left by a few accounts with sizable followings.
Worth noting, however, that these are not politicians or elected officials.
Worth noting, however, that these are not politicians or elected officials.
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for the record I don't even understand how this matters to the question of whether it's fake, if someone was faking a letter to Jeffrey Epstein from Donald Trump in 2003, which is obviously absurd, they could have just used the arcane pre-AI technology appliance known as a copy machine
For much of his presidency, President Donald Trump has been focused on the signature of his predecessor and whether an autopen was used to affix it.
But over the course of 36 hours, attention has pivoted to Trump’s signature.
But over the course of 36 hours, attention has pivoted to Trump’s signature.
No clear answers on whether Trump signed the Epstein birthday book
Trump denies it is his, and experts say they can’t be sure. The White House welcomed a forensic analysis of the loopy D and long tail.
wapo.st
September 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
for the record I don't even understand how this matters to the question of whether it's fake, if someone was faking a letter to Jeffrey Epstein from Donald Trump in 2003, which is obviously absurd, they could have just used the arcane pre-AI technology appliance known as a copy machine