Brandon Herrmann
@drakefantastic.bsky.social
Former HS history teacher, full time handyperson, part time audio engineer, full time ADHD traveler, part time spectrum adjacent traveler. I prefer religion to be Star Trek, and prefer the wealthy to be Columbo villains.
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
What if we did away with geographic districts and increased a district based on income blocks.
October 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What if we did away with geographic districts and increased a district based on income blocks.
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Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.
October 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.
Hear me out. They should award him the Nobel prize on the condition he accepts it in person. And when he shows up, the international court arrests him and we install the Duke of Orange as our king.
October 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hear me out. They should award him the Nobel prize on the condition he accepts it in person. And when he shows up, the international court arrests him and we install the Duke of Orange as our king.
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Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.
October 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.
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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
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Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it
Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
October 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it
Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
Do you think that Mike Johnson shakes it for him when he's done pissing, or do you think the mad king has a different courtier for that task?
October 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Do you think that Mike Johnson shakes it for him when he's done pissing, or do you think the mad king has a different courtier for that task?
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The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.
Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.
Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.
Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.
Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.
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I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
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This is a demonstration of how powerful the right wing misinformation machine is. They take a phrase or a word some Democrat said, attach the worst possible interpretation to it, and repeat their view of it THOUSANDS of times until even liberals remember it the way conservatives want them to.
I’ve heard Ezra now twice take one part of Hilary Clinton’s “deplorables” speech, without mentioning the rest of it, which does exactly what Ezra calls for Dems to do. I recognize that we have a politics of sound bits, but in full context the speech hits differently than he suggests.
September 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is a demonstration of how powerful the right wing misinformation machine is. They take a phrase or a word some Democrat said, attach the worst possible interpretation to it, and repeat their view of it THOUSANDS of times until even liberals remember it the way conservatives want them to.
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What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”
September 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”
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My garbled thoughts about this moment in U.S. media might be aided by revisiting Twain’s commentary on journalism.
Twain had no illusions about the trade in which he occupied every position from apprentice typesetter to owner.
Legacy publishers kow-towing to moguls would not have surprised him.
Twain had no illusions about the trade in which he occupied every position from apprentice typesetter to owner.
Legacy publishers kow-towing to moguls would not have surprised him.
September 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
My garbled thoughts about this moment in U.S. media might be aided by revisiting Twain’s commentary on journalism.
Twain had no illusions about the trade in which he occupied every position from apprentice typesetter to owner.
Legacy publishers kow-towing to moguls would not have surprised him.
Twain had no illusions about the trade in which he occupied every position from apprentice typesetter to owner.
Legacy publishers kow-towing to moguls would not have surprised him.
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
September 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
Goddamn
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Goddamn
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I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.
When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.
I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.
I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.
When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.
I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.
I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
We really need alternative ownership structures for news companies.
September 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We really need alternative ownership structures for news companies.
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It’s hard to convince non-cultists that a decision by a company on content was based purely on the free market & internal standards when the president began a campaign to suppress the content in July & the govt then repeatedly threatened to crush the company if they don’t comply.
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It’s hard to convince non-cultists that a decision by a company on content was based purely on the free market & internal standards when the president began a campaign to suppress the content in July & the govt then repeatedly threatened to crush the company if they don’t comply.
I'm a handyman who is stuck hearing Fox News in clients houses. The MAGA propaganda have/are/will completely rewriting the facts about this murder to fit their fear porn narrative. They are so pissed that they are publicly saying that facts no longer matter because "they" killed Kirk.
September 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I'm a handyman who is stuck hearing Fox News in clients houses. The MAGA propaganda have/are/will completely rewriting the facts about this murder to fit their fear porn narrative. They are so pissed that they are publicly saying that facts no longer matter because "they" killed Kirk.
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If he'd been radicalized by a leftist professor the bullet engravings would have been an unreadable 90,000 word rebuttal to another leftist academic over a purely semantic disagreement they've been arguing back and forth since the 70's and he'd have shot Reviewer 2.
September 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
If he'd been radicalized by a leftist professor the bullet engravings would have been an unreadable 90,000 word rebuttal to another leftist academic over a purely semantic disagreement they've been arguing back and forth since the 70's and he'd have shot Reviewer 2.
Debate is to discourse what the WWE is to wrestling.
September 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Debate is to discourse what the WWE is to wrestling.
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‘The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. … It operates on a simple premise: if you’re not vaccinating your kids, you need to protect them somehow, and here’s a bunch of things you can buy to do that.’
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social
Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca
I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.
macleans.ca
September 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
‘The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. … It operates on a simple premise: if you’re not vaccinating your kids, you need to protect them somehow, and here’s a bunch of things you can buy to do that.’
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social
Excellent writing in @macleans.bsky.social
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The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.
September 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.