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Brandon
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Milwaukee Based Photographer. The emergent property of 37+ billion cells
Recent work: https://linktr.ee/roostmke
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Hello Bluesky Millions:
I'm a Milwaukee-based photographer living in East Tosa!

I 📸 weddings, couples, portraits, & architecture.

I post about biking, running, books (fantasy mostly), music, vinyl records, religion, politics critical theory, vegetarian cooking, & life.
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The idea that they’re having dinner with MBS, while this administration drop bombs on boats for people whom they *haven’t even identified* under the pretense that they can summarily execute foreign nationals simply for posing a threat to Americans, is so stomach-churning. Just gruesome.
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Everyone but him!
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 10d
President Trump says he's asking the Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to high-profile figures, including political foes https://cnn.it/3M1ebp3
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Why the fuck is Tr*mp on the NFL broadcast. I thought we were supposed to keep politics out of football?
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Hey Siri, what is an autopen?

Siri:
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Billionaires are a malignant tumor in a democratic body
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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they should ALL be tried and i've been saying this whole time if we ever get another administration after this, america needs to be put under the jurisdiction of the ICC.

no more safe haven for war criminals: foreign or domestic.
IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."
October 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place
Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???
October 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
blockclubchicago.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Taylor’s Life of a Showgirl is 5 for 5 so far.
October 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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In a world of Ezra Kleins and Jake Tappers - try to be a Ta-Nehisi Coates.
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My dad was a huge NRA-for life gun-lover. A few years ago he was dividing up his collection and I let my brothers take them all - claimed his stereo instead.

It’s all part of the liberal radicalization of my children to “love your neighbor as yourself”
September 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.
September 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
American people: I have big feels - let’s see what happens if we give the insurrectionist party another go.

Insurrectionists: thanks, let’s deport foreign-looking people, demonize lgbtq people, declare the 50% of US terrorists, excuse rape + pedo, and ruin the economy so we can collect bribes
September 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In a world of Ezra Kleins and Jake Tappers - try to be a Ta-Nehisi Coates.
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The problem with most American Christian’s is that they actually hate Jesus’ life and teachings… but have never realized this fact because they don’t know much about Jesus’ life and teachings.
September 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Me: this CK quote is terrible.

Them: “you leftist assholes keep taking it out of context”

Me: (reads context)… you’re right, it’s way worse than I initially thought.
September 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Dear politicians and political groups - if you text me , you get blocked and reported as spam. I don’t care what party you are from - find a different way.
September 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
One of the first things I was taught about planning funerals is that it’s unethical to “preach someone into heaven” or “make paint then as a saint”

I thought this was weird advice at the time - but turns out many people try.
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Violence has many forms - while some are obvious and loud, most violence is polite and respectable. All violence hurts and kills. As a society, collectively we have proven unwilling to address either type - and so violence remains deeply present in all facets of American life.
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
On the blog: Nikki & Amanda’s Story Hill Firehouse vow renewal!

🌈✨link-> www.roostmke.com/blog/married... ✨🌈
🌈 Nikki + Amanda’s Story Hill Firehouse Vow Renewal — Roost - Milwaukee Wedding Photographer
Nikki & Amanda renewed their vows at Story Hill Firehouse in Milwaukee! A colorful LGBTQ+ vow renewal full of joy, champagne, cake, and trolley fun.
www.roostmke.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.
September 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM