Mark Brandriss
@markbrandriss.bsky.social
Geologist, bird enthusiast
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In a way, this simply seems an elite, legacy-media microcosm of my catchall explanation for 2024:
“People were decadent and so bored by a dull, facilely annoying status quo that they decided ‘fuck it, let’s burn it all to the ground”, gambling they wouldn’t get scorched.
“In retrospect, oops.”
😕
“People were decadent and so bored by a dull, facilely annoying status quo that they decided ‘fuck it, let’s burn it all to the ground”, gambling they wouldn’t get scorched.
“In retrospect, oops.”
😕
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In a way, this simply seems an elite, legacy-media microcosm of my catchall explanation for 2024:
“People were decadent and so bored by a dull, facilely annoying status quo that they decided ‘fuck it, let’s burn it all to the ground”, gambling they wouldn’t get scorched.
“In retrospect, oops.”
😕
“People were decadent and so bored by a dull, facilely annoying status quo that they decided ‘fuck it, let’s burn it all to the ground”, gambling they wouldn’t get scorched.
“In retrospect, oops.”
😕
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NYT jokesters: "The president also can press Congress to extend tax credits for Obamacare health insurance plans. He can work with Congress to expand legal immigration. He can nominate Fed officials who will resist political pressure to deliver short-term growth at the expense of inflation."
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
NYT jokesters: "The president also can press Congress to extend tax credits for Obamacare health insurance plans. He can work with Congress to expand legal immigration. He can nominate Fed officials who will resist political pressure to deliver short-term growth at the expense of inflation."
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The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking
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Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This is a heist, plain and simple. Just nonstop grift and corruption from this crooked President and his administration.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is a heist, plain and simple. Just nonstop grift and corruption from this crooked President and his administration.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
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Why would we believe anything this administration says today?
I mean if they had told the truth like a COUPLE of times then we’d be like “well, maybe”
But now? No
I mean if they had told the truth like a COUPLE of times then we’d be like “well, maybe”
But now? No
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Why would we believe anything this administration says today?
I mean if they had told the truth like a COUPLE of times then we’d be like “well, maybe”
But now? No
I mean if they had told the truth like a COUPLE of times then we’d be like “well, maybe”
But now? No
Fun igneous geology: here's a rigid xenolith of peridotite in gabbro, with a less rigid xenolith of anorthosite that was smushed on top of it as the mushy pile of partially molten gabbro compacted under its own weight. On Sgurr na Stri, Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands.
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Fun igneous geology: here's a rigid xenolith of peridotite in gabbro, with a less rigid xenolith of anorthosite that was smushed on top of it as the mushy pile of partially molten gabbro compacted under its own weight. On Sgurr na Stri, Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands.
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They're really having fun with it on tiktok.
November 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
They're really having fun with it on tiktok.
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Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Meanwhile... Corporate America is being subsidized by taxpayers...
November 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Meanwhile... Corporate America is being subsidized by taxpayers...
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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“Would Americans be so accepting if, instead of observing the detached remoteness of a missile from the clouds, we watched our servicemen board the vessels and simply execute everyone on board without asking a single question?
It is, in every way, the same thing.”
It is, in every way, the same thing.”
Former federal prosecutor Dan Gelber recalls prosecuting “boat cases” in 1980s Miami | Opinion,
When ‘drug boat’ justice meant asking questions, not missile strikes | Opinion
Former federal prosecutor Dan Gelber recalls prosecuting “boat cases” in 1980s Miami | Opinion,
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Would Americans be so accepting if, instead of observing the detached remoteness of a missile from the clouds, we watched our servicemen board the vessels and simply execute everyone on board without asking a single question?
It is, in every way, the same thing.”
It is, in every way, the same thing.”
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
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Democrats are expected to provide think tank level policy proposals for every societal ill under the sun (fully paid for too, natch!!) while Republicans are just like "we'll figure something out" and the media nods along.🙃
Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Republicans' healthcare plan: "The plan is to come up with something better."
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Democrats are expected to provide think tank level policy proposals for every societal ill under the sun (fully paid for too, natch!!) while Republicans are just like "we'll figure something out" and the media nods along.🙃
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(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
100% agree! Whoever gets the most attention creates the agenda. That's why we get elections that hinge on things that nobody thought much about until Republicans started whining about them 24/7.
(3) Pollsters like to test messages with captured audiences who are being paid to pay attention. That isn’t reality. It’s pretend.
No such circumstances exist outside of their experimental settings.
The fight over attention is the central fulcrum point of contemporary politics.
No such circumstances exist outside of their experimental settings.
The fight over attention is the central fulcrum point of contemporary politics.
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
100% agree! Whoever gets the most attention creates the agenda. That's why we get elections that hinge on things that nobody thought much about until Republicans started whining about them 24/7.
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AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here
Humanoid robot:
Humanoid robot:
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here
Humanoid robot:
Humanoid robot:
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Mike Johnson describes Trump’s mental decline and unhinged behavior.
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Mike Johnson describes Trump’s mental decline and unhinged behavior.
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Before the election, my MAGA focus group said their top priorities were releasing the Epstein files and getting the US out of foreign entanglements. Today, they say their priorities are stabilizing Argentina’s economy and funding the White House State Ballroom construction project.
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Before the election, my MAGA focus group said their top priorities were releasing the Epstein files and getting the US out of foreign entanglements. Today, they say their priorities are stabilizing Argentina’s economy and funding the White House State Ballroom construction project.