Topher Brennan (he/they)
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Protect trans rights!
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.
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The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.
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Average American Thanksgiving: President declares total ban on immigration, calls an esteemed democratic governor a slur, and then goes on TV to talk about Somalis like animals when asked about a mass shooting by a former child soldier and member of a CIA associated death squad.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Average American Thanksgiving: President declares total ban on immigration, calls an esteemed democratic governor a slur, and then goes on TV to talk about Somalis like animals when asked about a mass shooting by a former child soldier and member of a CIA associated death squad.
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I don’t want to be alarming but I think shit might be getting out of hand and we have yet to see the worst of it
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I don’t want to be alarming but I think shit might be getting out of hand and we have yet to see the worst of it
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If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you are in the National Guard and fear you may be deployed to violate the rights of US citizens, there is help. Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
Visit girightshotline.org for more information
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We made Afghan Rambo (from the first movie, not the jingoistic latter ones) and he allegedly killed two random National Guards who got sent on a pointless fascist errand they didn't sign up for. Just the churning machine destroying people for nothing.
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We made Afghan Rambo (from the first movie, not the jingoistic latter ones) and he allegedly killed two random National Guards who got sent on a pointless fascist errand they didn't sign up for. Just the churning machine destroying people for nothing.
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Available as always to talk about the imperial boomerang on your podcast or TV show or just show up at your house and talk at your dinner guests
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Available as always to talk about the imperial boomerang on your podcast or TV show or just show up at your house and talk at your dinner guests
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Oh my god (Douglas Adams would have LOVED this)
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Oh my god (Douglas Adams would have LOVED this)
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i feel like if it was just the crazy sex stuff this would be the take but there's a big "she consistently acted in ways that should have ended her career as a political journalist and nobody cared". like, she told the rfk jr campaign who was *her source* that was leaking stories from the campaign
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
i feel like if it was just the crazy sex stuff this would be the take but there's a big "she consistently acted in ways that should have ended her career as a political journalist and nobody cared". like, she told the rfk jr campaign who was *her source* that was leaking stories from the campaign
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
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nuzzi / lizza misconduct imo enabled the destruction of so much public health & scientific research — and a resurgence in measles in the US. this is not petty tabloid gossip or inside baseball. that they went undetected or were rewarded while great reporters were laid off? it’s a huge system failure
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
nuzzi / lizza misconduct imo enabled the destruction of so much public health & scientific research — and a resurgence in measles in the US. this is not petty tabloid gossip or inside baseball. that they went undetected or were rewarded while great reporters were laid off? it’s a huge system failure
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i’m so angry that we’re apparently going to be getting even what... three more of these? i can’t take this. it’s sickening bsky.app/profile/oliv...
this fuckin guy ...dropping allegations of journalistic malpractice and source betrayal in separate piece meal events like it’s delicious media gossip and then writing, “we haven’t reached the halfway point, and I haven’t yet described the most bizarre, consequential, and newsworthy events”
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
i’m so angry that we’re apparently going to be getting even what... three more of these? i can’t take this. it’s sickening bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
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also, why on earth did Lizza wait to release this if this information is true? this is crucial info about the election and RFK that he could have released months ago, when maybe it could have kept RFK out of office!
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
also, why on earth did Lizza wait to release this if this information is true? this is crucial info about the election and RFK that he could have released months ago, when maybe it could have kept RFK out of office!
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Lizza says Nuzzi was acting as a campaign operative while pretending to be a journalist. she did catch and kill, outing sources in the campaign; she tried to get RFK surrogates on television; she wrote strategy memos. 1
While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
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November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Lizza says Nuzzi was acting as a campaign operative while pretending to be a journalist. she did catch and kill, outing sources in the campaign; she tried to get RFK surrogates on television; she wrote strategy memos. 1
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
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California republicans: turns out having national prop 187 and radicalizing democrats so they now want to do the California republicans what red state republicans did to red state democrats was not in our best interests ... so can we all just get along?
California Republican suddenly supporting a national partisan gerrymandering ban. IT’S GAME THEORY BABY THINK OF THE STRATEGERY, WE PLAYING DEFECT-DEFECT NOT DEFECT-COOPERATE, IT’S TIT FOR TAT, CONSIDER THE INCENTIVES
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
California republicans: turns out having national prop 187 and radicalizing democrats so they now want to do the California republicans what red state republicans did to red state democrats was not in our best interests ... so can we all just get along?
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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this is a story about farming that they have decided to make about datacenters. the amazon rep called them liars directly and they just print it and then return to insinuating all sorts of shit
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
this is a story about farming that they have decided to make about datacenters. the amazon rep called them liars directly and they just print it and then return to insinuating all sorts of shit
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Whenever I read stuff like this, I think about how Mike Davis described California NIMBY-ism as a “unholy alliance between the Sierra club and white citizen councils”
Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Whenever I read stuff like this, I think about how Mike Davis described California NIMBY-ism as a “unholy alliance between the Sierra club and white citizen councils”
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
100% this. Even calling it a sabotage operation rather than a money-saving gives Musk et al too much credit. They 100% drank the Kool-Aid on right-wing conspiracy theories. bsky.app/profile/dant...
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
100% this. Even calling it a sabotage operation rather than a money-saving gives Musk et al too much credit. They 100% drank the Kool-Aid on right-wing conspiracy theories. bsky.app/profile/dant...
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Marx talks very fondly of a highly automated future where machines can take care of most labor in The German Ideology, Mr. Read Theory
this! marx wasnt alive for ai, stop putting words in his mouth
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Marx talks very fondly of a highly automated future where machines can take care of most labor in The German Ideology, Mr. Read Theory