Bryan 🐳
@writerreformed.bsky.social
Formerly @WriterofDark on Twitter.
Still writing, still learning.
Still writing, still learning.
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I cannot stress this enough: going and doing something like this is a far better use of your time than arguing online about a primary campaign in a state/district where you don't even live. I'll be doing it again myself soon!
I went and volunteered at a food bank just a few days ago. it was good! there are more effective ways to feed people, sure, but it's still good! we fed lots of people. the org overall fed more. we'd all be better off if even more orgs and more people spent time and money doing stuff like that.
December 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I cannot stress this enough: going and doing something like this is a far better use of your time than arguing online about a primary campaign in a state/district where you don't even live. I'll be doing it again myself soon!
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Real radical left goals are UBI Reparations, guaranteed housing, free child care, etc. (all good ideas, only "fringe" because of how far right the center has gotten.) But if pundits told people that lunatic lefties want to help people, it would kill the both-sides game.
Even if you think the plastic-bag stuff is stupid, Democrats *are* the party of tax fairness, affordable health care and food for the poor compared to Republicans.
Whether the party is defined by those things is mostly up to pundits like Matt who decide what to focus on.
Whether the party is defined by those things is mostly up to pundits like Matt who decide what to focus on.
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Real radical left goals are UBI Reparations, guaranteed housing, free child care, etc. (all good ideas, only "fringe" because of how far right the center has gotten.) But if pundits told people that lunatic lefties want to help people, it would kill the both-sides game.
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So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
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Bad journalists support other bad journalists because it makes them think they’re actually good at their job. Neither of these people are a good standard for journalism. They’re bad and should not have the positions they have.
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Bad journalists support other bad journalists because it makes them think they’re actually good at their job. Neither of these people are a good standard for journalism. They’re bad and should not have the positions they have.
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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
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once again thinking about the people on here arguing with me because i said our politics needs to contend with the huge number of people in this country with shitty values and harmful political commitments.
Another way of looking at this chart is that everything being done by the government is to keep 73% of self-identified Republicans, and virtually no one else, "satisfied, happy or thrilled"
69% percent of Democrats and 21% of Independents are either furious or angry.
September 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
once again thinking about the people on here arguing with me because i said our politics needs to contend with the huge number of people in this country with shitty values and harmful political commitments.
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Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
White House Moves Forward on Plans for a Department of War
Trump’s goal of renaming the Defense Department might require congressional action, but his administration is looking at other ways to rebrand the military.
www.wsj.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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You’ve still done harm. You’ve failed in your responsibility as an adult to move through the world with care and intention. You treated something serious without adequate thought and now you have to face the consequences
August 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
You’ve still done harm. You’ve failed in your responsibility as an adult to move through the world with care and intention. You treated something serious without adequate thought and now you have to face the consequences
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Probably doesn't matter much in the grand scheme. But I suppose the only useful thing left to do if you're on this Court, and KBJ seems to have this impulse, is shred their pretense of good-faith legitimacy and normalcy. Mock them, denigrate them, call them dishonest, and make them publish it.
August 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Probably doesn't matter much in the grand scheme. But I suppose the only useful thing left to do if you're on this Court, and KBJ seems to have this impulse, is shred their pretense of good-faith legitimacy and normalcy. Mock them, denigrate them, call them dishonest, and make them publish it.
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ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
August 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
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i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
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a lot of orgs have basically decided they’d rather “survive” as fascist propaganda and live in a fascist country than go down swinging for a small chance to keep a semblance of democracy. and you should never give any of them a dime ever again
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
a lot of orgs have basically decided they’d rather “survive” as fascist propaganda and live in a fascist country than go down swinging for a small chance to keep a semblance of democracy. and you should never give any of them a dime ever again
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That’s what’s so wild about the LLMs. There are harms from the technology everywhere, and it’s going to get worse in the short term. Just education, that one use case, could cause massive damage to our society. Then you look at all the other applications and it’s so daunting.
August 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
That’s what’s so wild about the LLMs. There are harms from the technology everywhere, and it’s going to get worse in the short term. Just education, that one use case, could cause massive damage to our society. Then you look at all the other applications and it’s so daunting.
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same thing happened with LA. a lot of political observers seem to think we are in a perpetual November 2024.
We spend days agonizing about how Trump is tapping into some secret silent majority when it turns out a good chunk of the country knows crazy when they see it.
August 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
same thing happened with LA. a lot of political observers seem to think we are in a perpetual November 2024.
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This definition of genocide means you can only use the term once it has been completed.
Typical psychopath talk. Open & shut case if he ever goes to the Hague. Especially if he testifies like this!
⚠️ Netanyahu denies starvation in Gaza and boasts:
“If we wanted to commit genocide in Gaza, all the Gazans would be dead by one afternoon.”
“If we wanted to commit genocide in Gaza, all the Gazans would be dead by one afternoon.”
August 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This definition of genocide means you can only use the term once it has been completed.
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if we are to make it out of this, ideally, the Democratic Party will adopt a policy of nuking your career from orbit if you are a Democrat with credible allegations of corruption. needless to say we have a lot of work to do here
A willingness to accept corruption is a failing we cannot tolerate going forward
August 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
if we are to make it out of this, ideally, the Democratic Party will adopt a policy of nuking your career from orbit if you are a Democrat with credible allegations of corruption. needless to say we have a lot of work to do here
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this was a crime against humanity, and the prosecution of that should fall to the ICC, imo. he should also be prosecuted federally for the myriad national security laws he violated. these crimes are as serious as it gets. we have to see justice
"What is his level of responsibility? What is a fair moral comparison? What consequences should a liberal society impose—if any—on someone like him?"
One Lancet study estimates USAID's destruction by DOGE will cost 14 million lives. It also decimated an entire ecosystem of organizations & careers.
One Lancet study estimates USAID's destruction by DOGE will cost 14 million lives. It also decimated an entire ecosystem of organizations & careers.
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
www.thebulwark.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
this was a crime against humanity, and the prosecution of that should fall to the ICC, imo. he should also be prosecuted federally for the myriad national security laws he violated. these crimes are as serious as it gets. we have to see justice
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I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.
"I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," a retired US special forces officer told the BBC when asked he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution centres. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
www.bbc.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.
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I was told by certain people that liberals and progressives were a threat to free speech on campus?
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I was told by certain people that liberals and progressives were a threat to free speech on campus?
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This is capitalist brain rot. Folks like Leno would gladly entertain fascists at the concentration camp O-club if they got paid enough. No personal values or morals beyond making money.
Leno Calls for Late Night to Drop Partisan Politics: ‘Why Shoot for Just Half an Audience?’
“I love political humor, don’t get me wrong,” the veteran comedian told the Ronald Reagan Foundation.
www.thedailybeast.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is capitalist brain rot. Folks like Leno would gladly entertain fascists at the concentration camp O-club if they got paid enough. No personal values or morals beyond making money.
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Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM
July 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
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The only thing to understand about the pronoun thing is that just because something is outside of your lived experience doesn’t mean it’s not real or the person telling you is mistaken or you are being inconvenienced
im always taken aback by just how much cis people will humiliate themselves to be dicks to trans people. like sorry, youre confused about pronouns? how did you make it thru 6th grade english you slimy dipshit? why are you going on podcasts to advertise youre too stupid to understand simple concepts?
July 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The only thing to understand about the pronoun thing is that just because something is outside of your lived experience doesn’t mean it’s not real or the person telling you is mistaken or you are being inconvenienced
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No, this is not a joke. This is real.
North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...
North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...
Don’t Say Vote: NC GOPers Want to Bar Election Officials From Encouraging Turnout
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
No, this is not a joke. This is real.
North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...
North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...
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similarly the numerous conservatives that NPR and PBS platformed and promoted did nothing to defend those institutions. if they are destroyed, the conservatives will move to sinecures at think tanks or right-wing funded media. they were placed there, in some sense TO destroy NPR/PBS.
Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."
The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.
July 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
similarly the numerous conservatives that NPR and PBS platformed and promoted did nothing to defend those institutions. if they are destroyed, the conservatives will move to sinecures at think tanks or right-wing funded media. they were placed there, in some sense TO destroy NPR/PBS.