Hunter
@hbreck.bsky.social
Midwest to PNW. Occasional haver-of-thoughts and writer-of-words. Less frequently a doer-of-things. Always looking for a mountain to climb, literally and metaphorically.
This cat is making some good points. I guess it is time to eat.
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This cat is making some good points. I guess it is time to eat.
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gonna be so cool when we actively have a horrifically bad drug and organized crime problem in five years under a Democrat because Trump has systematically destroyed our capacity to fight things that need fighting in favor of deporting people and wanton pointless cruelty
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
gonna be so cool when we actively have a horrifically bad drug and organized crime problem in five years under a Democrat because Trump has systematically destroyed our capacity to fight things that need fighting in favor of deporting people and wanton pointless cruelty
Spent a lovely Sunday walking around Portland. It is noticeably unburned. Downright pleasant, even. Would be nice if the president wasn't hellbent on ruining everything.
October 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Spent a lovely Sunday walking around Portland. It is noticeably unburned. Downright pleasant, even. Would be nice if the president wasn't hellbent on ruining everything.
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Why would you do this for charlie kirk and not melissa hortman, who was not a racist asshole who hated you but a member of your party, speaker of the house for another state's legislature, and by all accounts a good public servant and person
There’s no reason to be flying our flags half-staff here in Oregon for unelected MAGA agitator Charlie Kirk for any amount of time, let alone 4 full days, especially when he advocated for Portland to be invaded along with other sanctuary cities & hated LGBTQ @tinakotek.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov
September 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Why would you do this for charlie kirk and not melissa hortman, who was not a racist asshole who hated you but a member of your party, speaker of the house for another state's legislature, and by all accounts a good public servant and person
A photo you took that brings you inner peace.
August 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
A photo you took that brings you inner peace.
My vote in the 2028 Democratic primary will go to the candidate that promises the most aggressive and effective destruction of the Republican Party as it currently exists, specifically via the most ruthless possible prosecution of every member and enabler of the Trump admin.
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My vote in the 2028 Democratic primary will go to the candidate that promises the most aggressive and effective destruction of the Republican Party as it currently exists, specifically via the most ruthless possible prosecution of every member and enabler of the Trump admin.
This is the correct position.
If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.
August 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is the correct position.
Unironically, that's exactly what he and most current Republicans think. There is no such thing as an appropriate proportion of Democratic representation.
Trump won 56% of the vote in Texas. Currently 66% of the state’s congresspeople are Reps. The new GOP gerrymander would make the number 79%.
What’s the right number? 100%?
What’s the right number? 100%?
Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick: "We're a red state. We deserve more representation."
August 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Unironically, that's exactly what he and most current Republicans think. There is no such thing as an appropriate proportion of Democratic representation.
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I guess this has to be stated: Republicans are responsible for taking Medicaid, and SNAP, and Planned Parenthood funding, no one else, the Republicans did this to America without a single Democratic vote.
The facts still matter.
The facts still matter.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I guess this has to be stated: Republicans are responsible for taking Medicaid, and SNAP, and Planned Parenthood funding, no one else, the Republicans did this to America without a single Democratic vote.
The facts still matter.
The facts still matter.
Yep, Jane's absolutely right.
To the "you can't vote your way out of this" folks... we could have done so last November.
We could have done so in 2016.
We could do so at the state and local levels.
There may be a point where that isn't possible anymore, but until then, elections still matter
To the "you can't vote your way out of this" folks... we could have done so last November.
We could have done so in 2016.
We could do so at the state and local levels.
There may be a point where that isn't possible anymore, but until then, elections still matter
You beat their ass in elections, a thing Democrats can and have done. Because yeah, standing for nothing but owning the libs is bad, and they should lose because of it, and all efforts should, in my view, center on “them losing”
okay but what do you do to change the republicans? they are a party of pure evil, they stand for nothing but malice and destruction and revel in it. yelling at them will just have them going "heh, the libs are triggered"
July 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Yep, Jane's absolutely right.
To the "you can't vote your way out of this" folks... we could have done so last November.
We could have done so in 2016.
We could do so at the state and local levels.
There may be a point where that isn't possible anymore, but until then, elections still matter
To the "you can't vote your way out of this" folks... we could have done so last November.
We could have done so in 2016.
We could do so at the state and local levels.
There may be a point where that isn't possible anymore, but until then, elections still matter
This is dumb, even by the standards of this administration. Throwing away such a great (and relatively easy!) opportunity to develop a legitimate planetary defense system is deranged.
It's amazing how "America First" seems to require giving up on American innovation and leadership.
It's amazing how "America First" seems to require giving up on American innovation and leadership.
This is very upsetting. We're talking about science that can literally *save the life of every human on Earth*, and cost only a pittance, but Trump is just throwing it away. No explanation, no reason. Just a desultory wave of the hand.
An exceedingly rare asteroid flyby will happen soon, but NASA may be left on the sidelines arstechnica.com/features/202...
June 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is dumb, even by the standards of this administration. Throwing away such a great (and relatively easy!) opportunity to develop a legitimate planetary defense system is deranged.
It's amazing how "America First" seems to require giving up on American innovation and leadership.
It's amazing how "America First" seems to require giving up on American innovation and leadership.
I have a ton of respect for Hank, but this isn't great. One Senator went to El Salvador to try to save a constituent, another was tackled and cuffed by ICE. A Congresswoman was charged for a fake assault. The NYC comptroller was just thrown around by ICE. These are real risks by significant folks.
June 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I have a ton of respect for Hank, but this isn't great. One Senator went to El Salvador to try to save a constituent, another was tackled and cuffed by ICE. A Congresswoman was charged for a fake assault. The NYC comptroller was just thrown around by ICE. These are real risks by significant folks.
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Not every Republican wants to kill you, but none of them will ever do anything about the ones who do.
Not even going to link the article. But as much as the NYPost is known for employing propagandists and professional liars I'm not sure I've ever seen a more egregious example than their piece on the Hortman murders.
June 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Not every Republican wants to kill you, but none of them will ever do anything about the ones who do.
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Given the choice between calling out Republicans for an extremely bad thing they are actually doing vs attacking Democrats for a made up thing that is the opposite of reality, I see we are again choosing door number two
Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?"
The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.
The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.
June 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Given the choice between calling out Republicans for an extremely bad thing they are actually doing vs attacking Democrats for a made up thing that is the opposite of reality, I see we are again choosing door number two
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The moneybagses could keep brainstorming about how to grow a liberal Joe Rogan in a vat or they could just make Shari Redstone a better offer, buy CBS, and run a network news operation that covers the myriad fuckups and abuses of the Trump administration without watering it down for fake balance
May 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The moneybagses could keep brainstorming about how to grow a liberal Joe Rogan in a vat or they could just make Shari Redstone a better offer, buy CBS, and run a network news operation that covers the myriad fuckups and abuses of the Trump administration without watering it down for fake balance
Good piece, but grim. Yet another bit of horrifying information that feels impossible to resolve or even combat right now.
Also, not surprising that the Trump administration is full of people who don't understand the value of national parks.
Also, not surprising that the Trump administration is full of people who don't understand the value of national parks.
Please read/share if you love your national parks!
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service.
They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service.
They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-vs-a...
Trump vs. America's National Parks
What a sprained ankle reveals about how badly stretched park workers are
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Good piece, but grim. Yet another bit of horrifying information that feels impossible to resolve or even combat right now.
Also, not surprising that the Trump administration is full of people who don't understand the value of national parks.
Also, not surprising that the Trump administration is full of people who don't understand the value of national parks.
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Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"
Homan on Abrego Garcia: "He got more due process than Laken Riley got."
April 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"
These little jerks are 8 years old today. Here's to many more years under their reign of terror!
April 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
These little jerks are 8 years old today. Here's to many more years under their reign of terror!
I don't have any legal expertise, but all of this makes sense to me.
Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/
April 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I don't have any legal expertise, but all of this makes sense to me.
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The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.
Here's one of the many clarifying passages in the White House (notionally GSA) letter. It demands Harvard set up a system of political commissars who will enforce hiring and admissions set asides for MAGA luminaries and high school red hats.
April 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.
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I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.
April 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.
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Restoring trust and credibility to the United States will require not just pushing Trump out of power but putting him and all his cronies in prison.
even if we throw these people out of power the enduring legacy of Trump is that nobody can ever again trust the US government to keep a promise, and that will come back to bite us over and over again
what a shameful thing this is
what a shameful thing this is
April 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Restoring trust and credibility to the United States will require not just pushing Trump out of power but putting him and all his cronies in prison.
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Americans voted against the most successful economic recovery of any nation on the planet for this, because they were mad at their servants being paid more and listened to liars who made them feel good.
April 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Americans voted against the most successful economic recovery of any nation on the planet for this, because they were mad at their servants being paid more and listened to liars who made them feel good.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Climate change is the biggest “never too late, best time was before, second best is now.”
It’s a gradient, not a switch. The more warming, the worse various risks get. Can’t avoid all risk at this point, of course, but can mitigate them substantially (or not). Complacent doomerism wildly misplaced.
It’s a gradient, not a switch. The more warming, the worse various risks get. Can’t avoid all risk at this point, of course, but can mitigate them substantially (or not). Complacent doomerism wildly misplaced.
I can’t stop thinking about this framing when it comes to climate. And I don’t mean “doom” as in “I feel badly about this situation,” but as in “it’s too late.” Someone responded to my post about the impact of climate activism yesterday calling it hopium. Two people who follow me liked it.
Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.
March 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Climate change is the biggest “never too late, best time was before, second best is now.”
It’s a gradient, not a switch. The more warming, the worse various risks get. Can’t avoid all risk at this point, of course, but can mitigate them substantially (or not). Complacent doomerism wildly misplaced.
It’s a gradient, not a switch. The more warming, the worse various risks get. Can’t avoid all risk at this point, of course, but can mitigate them substantially (or not). Complacent doomerism wildly misplaced.