Sage Brennan
@sagebrennan.bsky.social
Portugal-based expatriate American, atheist and resistor. Whole-grain Liberal. Zero-beer-obsessed dork Dad. My dog’s name is Sigge: I watch him watch the falling leaves.
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
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This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
I fondly remember the 90% of my life in which “settled law” brought me a warm sense of order amid the ”growing pains” of American democracy.
it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I fondly remember the 90% of my life in which “settled law” brought me a warm sense of order amid the ”growing pains” of American democracy.
Not what we think in Europe, FYI.
Trump: "The European nations are reporting that your president might as well be the leader of the European nations also. They respect us like they've never respected us before."
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Not what we think in Europe, FYI.
This is insanely great. Now let’s take the rest of the South.
December 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
This is insanely great. Now let’s take the rest of the South.
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Countries famously make their soybean purchases out of respect for a country and its leader, rather than based on price or quality of the product.
December 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Countries famously make their soybean purchases out of respect for a country and its leader, rather than based on price or quality of the product.
These moonies appear to actually BELIEVE their own bullshit.
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
These moonies appear to actually BELIEVE their own bullshit.
Even in the very near term, this SCOTUS shift will have far more dramatic impact on the lives of everyday Americans than the collapse of Congress or the Executive branch. We will live the hubris of 6 eugenicist shitbags very soon.
More and more people are saying it:
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Even in the very near term, this SCOTUS shift will have far more dramatic impact on the lives of everyday Americans than the collapse of Congress or the Executive branch. We will live the hubris of 6 eugenicist shitbags very soon.
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As with everything he says, this is wildly uninformed. Formula keeps getting better and saves lives. And modern research indicates that outcomes are roughly the same. There are reasons to breastfeed but your child isn’t suffering if you don’t
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
As with everything he says, this is wildly uninformed. Formula keeps getting better and saves lives. And modern research indicates that outcomes are roughly the same. There are reasons to breastfeed but your child isn’t suffering if you don’t
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The U.S. *was* feeding poor people then Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance illegally killed off USAID.
Seeing a leader of the United States adopt this line is revolting. While the US remains imperfect, it is also the global leader in FDI as well as the world’s leading destination for inbound investment. China would love to have an economy like America’s.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The U.S. *was* feeding poor people then Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance illegally killed off USAID.
Someday MTG's Public Relations consultant will get well-deserved credit for this truly brilliant 'rebranding' campaign. I'm sure these intricately scripted interviews are having an enormous impact on some extremely dim people in America. (Obviously this is all bullshit, for the record.)
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I watched many of my Republican colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started kissing his ass and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time."
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Someday MTG's Public Relations consultant will get well-deserved credit for this truly brilliant 'rebranding' campaign. I'm sure these intricately scripted interviews are having an enormous impact on some extremely dim people in America. (Obviously this is all bullshit, for the record.)
All Hail the leaders in the Capitol, the moral center of Panem.
Reminds me of the time in 20115-16 the New York Times profiled homegrown nazis stepping out of the shadows and how they were so impressed with their dapper look and their “impressive” book collection.
How about instead sending them to college and courses in ethics, history, sociology, economics, communication, anything more edifying than how to slurp caviar?
Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
All Hail the leaders in the Capitol, the moral center of Panem.
"He doesn’t care about the GOP post-Trump. He’ll happily burn that party to the ground on his way out."
The paleo core of his brain that controls ego, in his case, is his ENTIRE brain. He's wrapping himself in gold-plated coziness and shutting out the world of hateful unappreciative haters...
The paleo core of his brain that controls ego, in his case, is his ENTIRE brain. He's wrapping himself in gold-plated coziness and shutting out the world of hateful unappreciative haters...
It certainly feels that way. It could also be that he knows he doesn’t have any more elections to win, so it doesn’t matter how much his followers start to hate him.
He doesn’t care about the GOP post-Trump. He’ll happily burn that party to the ground on his way out.
He doesn’t care about the GOP post-Trump. He’ll happily burn that party to the ground on his way out.
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
"He doesn’t care about the GOP post-Trump. He’ll happily burn that party to the ground on his way out."
The paleo core of his brain that controls ego, in his case, is his ENTIRE brain. He's wrapping himself in gold-plated coziness and shutting out the world of hateful unappreciative haters...
The paleo core of his brain that controls ego, in his case, is his ENTIRE brain. He's wrapping himself in gold-plated coziness and shutting out the world of hateful unappreciative haters...
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The priorities of senior Trump Administration officials…
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The priorities of senior Trump Administration officials…
The highly-covered antics of Hegseth, MTG, Cruz, Johnson, Vance and the rest of the clowns constitute a blatantly propagandist distraction from the deliberate destruction of our American institutions and society. Not surprising, but nonetheless shocking to see.
Witkoff, Kushner, Miller, Vought... I don't understand how major 'news' organizations don't understand the need to cover these four shysters above the fold, every day, chronicling the process of them giving away American power and goodwill.
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The highly-covered antics of Hegseth, MTG, Cruz, Johnson, Vance and the rest of the clowns constitute a blatantly propagandist distraction from the deliberate destruction of our American institutions and society. Not surprising, but nonetheless shocking to see.
Witkoff, Kushner, Miller, Vought... I don't understand how major 'news' organizations don't understand the need to cover these four shysters above the fold, every day, chronicling the process of them giving away American power and goodwill.
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
www.france24.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Witkoff, Kushner, Miller, Vought... I don't understand how major 'news' organizations don't understand the need to cover these four shysters above the fold, every day, chronicling the process of them giving away American power and goodwill.
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Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
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I must have missed the email - maybe it landed in my Spam folder because that's about the only thing we can afford these days?
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I must have missed the email - maybe it landed in my Spam folder because that's about the only thing we can afford these days?
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I have to confess, I hate Pete Hegseth with a visceral sort of feeling that is probably decidedly un-Christian.
I hate that he comes to a job where the lives of so many people depend on him with a smug arrogant overconfidence and incompetence, married to astounding callousness.
I hate that he comes to a job where the lives of so many people depend on him with a smug arrogant overconfidence and incompetence, married to astounding callousness.
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I have to confess, I hate Pete Hegseth with a visceral sort of feeling that is probably decidedly un-Christian.
I hate that he comes to a job where the lives of so many people depend on him with a smug arrogant overconfidence and incompetence, married to astounding callousness.
I hate that he comes to a job where the lives of so many people depend on him with a smug arrogant overconfidence and incompetence, married to astounding callousness.
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This is too much.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is too much.
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"When Trump is cogent enough to understand what is happening, he commits one grotesque atrocity after the next, and when he is not, a bunch of scheming viziers elbow each other out of the way to commit their own." prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...
The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King - The American Prospect
John Roberts created a monster: Donald Trump compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
prospect.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"When Trump is cogent enough to understand what is happening, he commits one grotesque atrocity after the next, and when he is not, a bunch of scheming viziers elbow each other out of the way to commit their own." prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...
Like Tim Walz, I am deeply concerned that Trump lacks the mental capacity to do the job. There is little evidence to the contrary... he doesn't even know WHY the doctors prescribed him an MRI. This feels like ELDER ABUSE by the close team around him. Shame.
Walz on calling for Trump to release MRI results: "Here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families, ate, played Yahtzee. This guy is apparently in a room ranting. It's not normal behavior. It's not healthy. Has anyone in history ever had an MRI & had no idea what it was for?"
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Like Tim Walz, I am deeply concerned that Trump lacks the mental capacity to do the job. There is little evidence to the contrary... he doesn't even know WHY the doctors prescribed him an MRI. This feels like ELDER ABUSE by the close team around him. Shame.
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WELKER: Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud in your state?
TIM WALZ: I take responsibility for putting people in jail. And I will note, it's not just Somalis.
TIM WALZ: I take responsibility for putting people in jail. And I will note, it's not just Somalis.
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
WELKER: Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud in your state?
TIM WALZ: I take responsibility for putting people in jail. And I will note, it's not just Somalis.
TIM WALZ: I take responsibility for putting people in jail. And I will note, it's not just Somalis.
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At the Civil Rights Museum today, I heard this musical rebuke to Richard Nixon written by Stevie Wonder.
I was struck by how much the words also apply to Trump.
I was struck by how much the words also apply to Trump.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
At the Civil Rights Museum today, I heard this musical rebuke to Richard Nixon written by Stevie Wonder.
I was struck by how much the words also apply to Trump.
I was struck by how much the words also apply to Trump.
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it is going to be a big weekend for Republicans being too busy to read Trump's posts
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
it is going to be a big weekend for Republicans being too busy to read Trump's posts