Brett G
@goody1206.bsky.social
Midwest liberal, Twitter expat. I used to combine song lyrics and dinosaur facts and tweet at musicians. John Popper responded to me once.
Tennis, soccer, Purdue 🏀, live music, sci-fi, cooking, plants, trivia, bourbon, 🏳️🌈 rights
Entirely too online
Tennis, soccer, Purdue 🏀, live music, sci-fi, cooking, plants, trivia, bourbon, 🏳️🌈 rights
Entirely too online
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So I felt almost... embarrassed? initially by how much that ending scene in Heated Rivalry ep 5 impacted me (and continues to upon each rewatch). Some day hopefully this kind of scene will only hold up as a period piece that younger generations maybe can't even relate to, but we're not there yet.
December 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
So I felt almost... embarrassed? initially by how much that ending scene in Heated Rivalry ep 5 impacted me (and continues to upon each rewatch). Some day hopefully this kind of scene will only hold up as a period piece that younger generations maybe can't even relate to, but we're not there yet.
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]"
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
October 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]"
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
Could be a glitch, but by Friday when I 86'ed my Hulu/Disney subscription, they did not give me an "Other" box to provide my own reason for cancelling. 🤔
September 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Could be a glitch, but by Friday when I 86'ed my Hulu/Disney subscription, they did not give me an "Other" box to provide my own reason for cancelling. 🤔
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I believe it's here: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
[Column] Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliation
This incident should prompt us in Korea to comprehensively reassess our investment projects in the US
english.hani.co.kr
September 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I believe it's here: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.
‘Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, “in the early days of a new fascism”? In 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, Seymour argues that in trying to understand the new far right, we have been looking in the wrong places.’
@trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.
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Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.
August 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Orlando wasn’t having what DeSantis did. They recolored the Pulse Memorial crosswalk.
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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
The measles outbreak is already bad enough, but we are in for a world of hurt if this administration has to lead a response to a bird flu pandemic.
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.
arstechnica.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The measles outbreak is already bad enough, but we are in for a world of hurt if this administration has to lead a response to a bird flu pandemic.
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"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil"
"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
Free this man immediately.
apnews.com/article/mahm...
"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
Free this man immediately.
apnews.com/article/mahm...
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
apnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil"
"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
Free this man immediately.
apnews.com/article/mahm...
"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
Free this man immediately.
apnews.com/article/mahm...
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
Every couple years this song pops into my head and somehow it's more relevant each time? Haunting me at this point. youtu.be/sIN9sKDBdJk?...
Guster - "Hard Times" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Guster
youtu.be
April 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Every couple years this song pops into my head and somehow it's more relevant each time? Haunting me at this point. youtu.be/sIN9sKDBdJk?...
Felt cynical hearing a "Vote them out!" chant at the Indianapolis Hands Off rally yesterday.
Later I realized that whether we're able to vote our way out of this mess or not, what's important is that we were there, protesting together. Visibility, community, and hope are a powerful starting point.
Later I realized that whether we're able to vote our way out of this mess or not, what's important is that we were there, protesting together. Visibility, community, and hope are a powerful starting point.
April 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Felt cynical hearing a "Vote them out!" chant at the Indianapolis Hands Off rally yesterday.
Later I realized that whether we're able to vote our way out of this mess or not, what's important is that we were there, protesting together. Visibility, community, and hope are a powerful starting point.
Later I realized that whether we're able to vote our way out of this mess or not, what's important is that we were there, protesting together. Visibility, community, and hope are a powerful starting point.
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Just rewatched Welcome to Mountport (season 4, episode 5 of Game Changer on Dropout) after randomly remembering Jess McKenna's brilliant line: "no home run is worth it if you can't run home to a home you love", and for me this remains one of the best things on the Internet from the past decade.
February 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just rewatched Welcome to Mountport (season 4, episode 5 of Game Changer on Dropout) after randomly remembering Jess McKenna's brilliant line: "no home run is worth it if you can't run home to a home you love", and for me this remains one of the best things on the Internet from the past decade.
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i love artificial intelligence
February 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
i love artificial intelligence
Holiday cocktails are my jam! Played around with the proportions a bit, but recipe inspiration here: www.shekeepsalovelyhome.com/sparkling-pe...
December 25, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Holiday cocktails are my jam! Played around with the proportions a bit, but recipe inspiration here: www.shekeepsalovelyhome.com/sparkling-pe...
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I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.
I love how far afield this is from any problem government can address. “Now that Trump won people have to like and agree with me and not tell me I suck anymore.” bsky.app/profile/yash...
2. “For the last four years, very acutely, and I know it preceded these four years as well, but there's been kind of a pressing down. A pressing down and kind of limiting what people can say.”
November 15, 2024 at 4:53 AM
I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.
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My primary thought on the election, after a week to reflect: We have to face up to some hard, uncomfortable truths about who we are. But we also have the opportunity to run headlong towards the nobility that accrues to to those who commit themselves to making us better. Thread:
November 11, 2024 at 6:21 PM
My primary thought on the election, after a week to reflect: We have to face up to some hard, uncomfortable truths about who we are. But we also have the opportunity to run headlong towards the nobility that accrues to to those who commit themselves to making us better. Thread:
Rewatching She-Ra on Netflix because (1) it's the exact kind of show (queer) that conservatives want to get rid of, and (2) now more than ever it's cathartic to see a group of misfits rise up against an oppressor. Even without that context, it's funny and heart warming and I love it so much.
November 10, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Rewatching She-Ra on Netflix because (1) it's the exact kind of show (queer) that conservatives want to get rid of, and (2) now more than ever it's cathartic to see a group of misfits rise up against an oppressor. Even without that context, it's funny and heart warming and I love it so much.
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Voters backed both Trump and progressive policies like minimum wage hikes and abortion rights. This disconnect is the answer to the "how did this happen" question.
A lot of voters are profoundly ignorant. More so than in the past. I explore why.
www.salon.com/2024/11/08/a...
A lot of voters are profoundly ignorant. More so than in the past. I explore why.
www.salon.com/2024/11/08/a...
Why millions voted for both Trump and progressive policies
Trump voters backed abortion, minimum wage, and family leave — and don't get that Project 2025 would take it away
www.salon.com
November 8, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Voters backed both Trump and progressive policies like minimum wage hikes and abortion rights. This disconnect is the answer to the "how did this happen" question.
A lot of voters are profoundly ignorant. More so than in the past. I explore why.
www.salon.com/2024/11/08/a...
A lot of voters are profoundly ignorant. More so than in the past. I explore why.
www.salon.com/2024/11/08/a...