Dan Brien

Dan Brien

@danbrien.bsky.social

Optimist. Propaganda decoder. Time traveller.

38 followers41 following40 posts

Dan Brien reposted

Jamie Schler
@lifesafeast.bsky.social

3000 ICE and border patrol agents with 1500 military standing by IS an “occupying force”. The president of the United States has declared war on Americans. Fascism 101 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jac...

cbsnews.comMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says federal agents are an "occupying force"Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey criticized the administration's immigration operations, calling the surge of federal agents an "occupying force that has quite literally invaded our city."

Dan Brien reposted

Ben Lorber
@benlorber8.bsky.social

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

religiondispatches.orgElon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is DeafeningOn Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

Dan Brien reposted

Jack Todd
@jacktodd.bsky.social

A really dangerous trend. Trying to manipulate the media and dictate what questions can be asked and answered and by whom. There are many reasons not to vote for Poilievre but this is one very strong indication of the way he intends to rule. It's heavy-handed and authoritarian.

Toula Drimonis@mtltoula.bsky.social

By Evan Dyer CBC. This is highly problematic.

Dan Brien
@danbrien.bsky.social

Sad how people in the United States have less regard for their children than they do for their cars. School shooting? - Thoughts and prayers. Torch a Tesla? Death penalty for the domestic terrorist!

Dan Brien reposted

Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

"If Lutnick's Democratic predecessor, Gina Raimondo, took such a step -- urging Americans to buy stock in a company led by Joe Biden’s top campaign contributor -- it seems likely that more than a few congressional Republicans would call for her resignation..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

msnbc.comWhy is Trump’s Commerce secretary urging the public to buy Tesla stock?Howard Lutnick told a national television audience to buy a specific stock tied to the sitting president’s top campaign donor.
Dan Brien
@danbrien.bsky.social

It’s all about the ratings…

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

The television ratings for Donald Trump's second inauguration dropped 27% from Joe Biden's in 2021 and were nearly 20% lower than Trump's first swearing-in in 2017.

mediaite.comTrump’s Inauguration Ratings Down Bigly From Biden’sThe television ratings for President Donald Trump's second inauguration are in, and they dropped 27% from President Joe Biden's in 2021 and were nearly 20% lower than Trump's first swearing-in in 2017...

Dan Brien reposted

Jamie Schler
@lifesafeast.bsky.social

Remember how Donald Trump razed the old Bonwit Tellers building a pulverized the historic Art Deci frieze, replacing the building with his ugly, gaudy vanity project Trump Tower? Get ready…3, 2….

Andrew Weinstein@andrewjweinstein.com

These words are engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court. It's time for them to be removed. They're clearly no longer accurate.

You are up to date.