Brian (he/him)
@sobrianrowe.bsky.social
Movies, queer culture, baseball. 🏳️🌈
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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it is not some accident that the people suing charlottesville over its efforts to build more housing are retired university professors and their friends
college towns are absolutely fantastic, one of the great American concepts, and for unknown reason the people who live in college towns absolutely loathe them and want to ensure no one else can live there
August 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
it is not some accident that the people suing charlottesville over its efforts to build more housing are retired university professors and their friends
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Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement.
The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.
The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.
Israel aggressively bombing Iran—unlike two incidents of strikes in 2024, which followed Iranian missiles launches against Israel—is in part another consequence of a weak, chaotic US president.
Worth noting that this didn't happen under Biden, Obama, or Bush, despite Israel talking about it a lot.
Worth noting that this didn't happen under Biden, Obama, or Bush, despite Israel talking about it a lot.
June 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement.
The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.
The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.
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don’t forget, no matter how many monsters use pink washing in their genocidal agenda, there ARE Queer people in Palestine. they exist, they are experiencing the same violence, hunger, and displacement. fight for them just as hard as you fight for the Queer people in your own community.
June 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
don’t forget, no matter how many monsters use pink washing in their genocidal agenda, there ARE Queer people in Palestine. they exist, they are experiencing the same violence, hunger, and displacement. fight for them just as hard as you fight for the Queer people in your own community.
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America is so fucking weak with Trump as POTUS
IMPEACH AND REMOVE THIS MOTHER FUCKER
IMPEACH AND REMOVE THIS MOTHER FUCKER
April 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
America is so fucking weak with Trump as POTUS
IMPEACH AND REMOVE THIS MOTHER FUCKER
IMPEACH AND REMOVE THIS MOTHER FUCKER
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You gotta be a real sicko to enjoy how bad things have started this year for the Brewers.
March 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
You gotta be a real sicko to enjoy how bad things have started this year for the Brewers.
Carson Kelly hits for the cycle, the first Chicago Cub to do so since Mark Grace in 1993. How can you not be romantic about baseball?
April 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Carson Kelly hits for the cycle, the first Chicago Cub to do so since Mark Grace in 1993. How can you not be romantic about baseball?
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Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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I hate to point this out, but notice how all the QAnon people super worried about pedophiles all over the place are the fucking pedophiles they told us to worry about?
March 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I hate to point this out, but notice how all the QAnon people super worried about pedophiles all over the place are the fucking pedophiles they told us to worry about?
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I'd like to bring this video to your attention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'd like to bring this video to your attention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
We don’t talk enough about how hot Mr. Milchick is. #severance
February 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We don’t talk enough about how hot Mr. Milchick is. #severance
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ah trump’s merit in action. only certain people can be meritorious
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
ah trump’s merit in action. only certain people can be meritorious
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Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?
The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…
propub.li
February 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
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"All elections are rigged and Democrats don't exist" is the kind of paranoid delusion that once got you shunned from society and maybe committed. Now it gets you retweeted by the defacto president and the adoration of thousands of other cultists.
February 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"All elections are rigged and Democrats don't exist" is the kind of paranoid delusion that once got you shunned from society and maybe committed. Now it gets you retweeted by the defacto president and the adoration of thousands of other cultists.
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i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
February 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
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Imagine cheering on financial destruction of your own nation and closest trading partners because you’re too stupid to know better. I hate it here.
February 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Imagine cheering on financial destruction of your own nation and closest trading partners because you’re too stupid to know better. I hate it here.
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Watch this with the audio on for the most frantic “pay no attention to the man behind curtain” spinning you’ve ever heard
February 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Watch this with the audio on for the most frantic “pay no attention to the man behind curtain” spinning you’ve ever heard
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A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
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Right-wing responses to the fires include: claims the fires were started by unhoused people, that gender affirming care for undocumented people has consumed disaster funding, and Elon Musk’s claim that these fires are “easily preventable.” That’s how they’ll avoid talking about climate. Scapegoats.
January 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Right-wing responses to the fires include: claims the fires were started by unhoused people, that gender affirming care for undocumented people has consumed disaster funding, and Elon Musk’s claim that these fires are “easily preventable.” That’s how they’ll avoid talking about climate. Scapegoats.