Casey Husseman Brandt
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Casey Husseman Brandt
@caseyhb.bsky.social
Seattlite and lifelong PNW resident.
I work as the Executive Director for North America’s largest not-for-profit cooperative funeral home: The Co-op Funeral Home of People’s Memorial.
I’m nonbinary and seeking to support my gender-nonconforming community.
Book: Dark Money by Jane Mayer

This is what people mean when they talk about “money in politics,” specifically campaign finance. Billionaires can finance politicians, and here’s how. Watch the money get laundered and the obscure rules around who sits at the table in the room where it happens
February 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Book: How Democracies Die

It’s in the title. Read about the several North and South American countries with in some cases copy/paste constitutions based off the United States constitution. Democracies do slide into dictatorships. Published in 2016 out of fear from the Authors worried about the US
February 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reading: Burning Down the House. To know the future, we must know our history. The modern American Republican Party was born in 1980. Two of the key players were Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan. History in America is brief, and “normal” changes every 50 years or so in a 250 year old country.
February 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Explanation of my profile pic: A classic comic that’s stayed with me since 2015. These are Not Normal times™️ but also people have always liked to imagine we are living through the end times. This is a bump in a long road. Stay strong and be there for each other.
January 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM