Brad Jeffcoat
@jeffbradcoat.bsky.social
Defender of immigrants, refugees, and all my rainbow friends
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The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.
October 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.
Is this how we get Trump Tower DC?
Thought experiment, how much of the White House could the president tear down before anyone in power did anything meaningful to stop it? Like if he just kept going?
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Is this how we get Trump Tower DC?
Coming to a town near you. Or maybe just coming to you.
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Coming to a town near you. Or maybe just coming to you.
It’s only going to get worse
“YOU hit HER.”
CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s only going to get worse
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Does the news reflect what we die from?
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Does the news reflect what we die from?
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If you meet people who don't understand why you say that Charlie Kirk was a hate preacher, please send them to view the mountainous archive of videos at Media Matters - in his own words, said from his hateful chest.
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk
Charlie Kirk
www.mediamatters.org
September 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you meet people who don't understand why you say that Charlie Kirk was a hate preacher, please send them to view the mountainous archive of videos at Media Matters - in his own words, said from his hateful chest.
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk
Lawmakers taking every chance they can to make queer existence itself illegal. Hell, this is broad enough that a cis girl posting a picture of herself in jeans and a t-shirt could be categorized as “imitating… the other biological sex” and, therefore, pornographic.
to the surprise of no one, the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" also bans trans people from the internet in the state. calling trans and queer experiences "pornographic" has been part of the playbook for a long time
September 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Lawmakers taking every chance they can to make queer existence itself illegal. Hell, this is broad enough that a cis girl posting a picture of herself in jeans and a t-shirt could be categorized as “imitating… the other biological sex” and, therefore, pornographic.
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We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
September 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
So Trump proved to the American people that immigration is good. Wish would could have gotten here without setting people’s lives on fire.
Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago
September 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
So Trump proved to the American people that immigration is good. Wish would could have gotten here without setting people’s lives on fire.
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Also, Trump is not "claiming the power" to do anything.
He is very clearly claiming the impunity to break the law.
The press is routinely blurring this distinction between power as legal right and power as impunity from legal consequences, but it matters.
He is very clearly claiming the impunity to break the law.
The press is routinely blurring this distinction between power as legal right and power as impunity from legal consequences, but it matters.
September 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Also, Trump is not "claiming the power" to do anything.
He is very clearly claiming the impunity to break the law.
The press is routinely blurring this distinction between power as legal right and power as impunity from legal consequences, but it matters.
He is very clearly claiming the impunity to break the law.
The press is routinely blurring this distinction between power as legal right and power as impunity from legal consequences, but it matters.
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A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
August 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
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DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
My tax dollars at work. Disgusting.
July 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My tax dollars at work. Disgusting.
Not sure how much more evidence we need that they don’t actually care about these kids, but keep piling it up. Maybe one day enough people will wake up to this fact.
Opponents of transgender rights have claimed not enough research exists on care for trans kids. “However, results from our exhaustive literature searches have led us to the opposite conclusion,” the report commissioned by Utah Republicans states.
www.advocate.com/news/utah-go...
www.advocate.com/news/utah-go...
Utah Republicans ignore study supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth. It's research they demanded
In 2023, the state legislature banned care for transgender youth “pending research.” The research is in — and inconvenient for Republicans.
www.advocate.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Not sure how much more evidence we need that they don’t actually care about these kids, but keep piling it up. Maybe one day enough people will wake up to this fact.
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An update from me from Northern Mexico—today, I visited a family who was deported, without due process, from the U.S. with their U.S. citizen children—including their 11-year-old daughter who is suffering from a brain tumor.
May 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
An update from me from Northern Mexico—today, I visited a family who was deported, without due process, from the U.S. with their U.S. citizen children—including their 11-year-old daughter who is suffering from a brain tumor.
When you bury the truth to preserve the narrative
The Texas State Comptroller reported in 2006 that the 1.4M unauthorized immigrants in TX contributed almost $18B to the gross state product and $1.58B in state revenue while costing the state about $1.16B in services used. #IRS
This was the first and the last time Texas conducted such a study. 🤔
This was the first and the last time Texas conducted such a study. 🤔
A 2006 study found undocumented immigrants contribute more than they cost Texas. The state hasn’t updated it since.
A comptroller’s report found that deporting the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants living in Texas in 2005 would have cost the state about $17.7 billion in gross domestic product.
www.texastribune.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
When you bury the truth to preserve the narrative
He definitely learned *A* lesson
Remember when Trump abused his power to stop funding for Ukraine and was impeached and Susan Collins was confident he’d learned his lesson? I think maybe he didn’t.
January 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
He definitely learned *A* lesson
We will become a model for cruelty across the globe
Advocate groups ordered to stop aiding refugees who have already arrived in US www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/p...
Advocate groups ordered to stop aiding refugees who have already arrived in US | CNN Politics
The Trump administration on Friday abruptly halted services for refugees in the United States, including Afghans, according to a memo obtained by CNN, stunning agencies that provide critical support t...
www.cnn.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
We will become a model for cruelty across the globe
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Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Attacked Police, Videos Show. Here are some of the most egregious acts of violence that took place during the Capitol attack, as seen in videos of convicted parties now pardoned by Trump. (By Alan Feuer and Dmitriy Khavin) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
Violent Acts of Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Are Shown in Videos (Gift Article)
President Trump pardoned men who violently attacked police officers on Jan. 6 along with nearly 1,600 other people who had been charged in connection with the riot. But his grant of clemency did not e...
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Attacked Police, Videos Show. Here are some of the most egregious acts of violence that took place during the Capitol attack, as seen in videos of convicted parties now pardoned by Trump. (By Alan Feuer and Dmitriy Khavin) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
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Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
January 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
Finishing up my rewatch of season 1 of #Severance before starting season 2 and realizing I somehow never watched the season 1 finale?!? I don’t remember any of this!
January 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Finishing up my rewatch of season 1 of #Severance before starting season 2 and realizing I somehow never watched the season 1 finale?!? I don’t remember any of this!
Kitchen Nightmares began airing in 2007. How are you going to invite Gordon Ramsay into your restaurant and NOT CLEAN THE KITCHEN?!?
January 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Kitchen Nightmares began airing in 2007. How are you going to invite Gordon Ramsay into your restaurant and NOT CLEAN THE KITCHEN?!?
He’s so emboldened and every time someone pays tribute it just makes him worse. Bullying exists because bullying works, sadly.
Q: Do you think Zuckerberg is responding to the threats you've made to him in the past?
TRUMP: Probably. Yeah. Probably.
TRUMP: Probably. Yeah. Probably.
January 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
He’s so emboldened and every time someone pays tribute it just makes him worse. Bullying exists because bullying works, sadly.
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Elon Musk has a net worth of approximately $486 billion
Yesterday, he decided to use his influence to convince House Republicans to shut down the government
As a result, TSA agents will be required to report to work over the holidays WITHOUT PAY
The average TSA agent makes less than 50K/year
Yesterday, he decided to use his influence to convince House Republicans to shut down the government
As a result, TSA agents will be required to report to work over the holidays WITHOUT PAY
The average TSA agent makes less than 50K/year
December 19, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Elon Musk has a net worth of approximately $486 billion
Yesterday, he decided to use his influence to convince House Republicans to shut down the government
As a result, TSA agents will be required to report to work over the holidays WITHOUT PAY
The average TSA agent makes less than 50K/year
Yesterday, he decided to use his influence to convince House Republicans to shut down the government
As a result, TSA agents will be required to report to work over the holidays WITHOUT PAY
The average TSA agent makes less than 50K/year