Brian
Brian
@thechicagobrian.bsky.social
Anti Trump AF. Pro music, pro literacy, pro kindness.
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🤔Could you afford to spend $80 on an election? Because $80 is 0.04% of the median net worth of a US citizen.🤷🏿♂️ $445 million for him, is like $80 for you. Because he doesn't only have $1 billion, or $10 billion, or even $100 billion. He has $1,000 billion. Your silly rules let him get that rich.
NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”
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Why is major US corporate media unwilling to press Republicans who run on Elon Musk's money about Musk's unabashed racism, his fascist ideology, and his embrace of Nazi eugenics like the Lebensborn program? Jamelle Bouie goes there.
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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
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I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
May “The most ordinary man imaginable” follow him for the rest of his days
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR. n.pr/4zBvnWF
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Yes, this article is real. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
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I will be direct: Here how you can help me. 1. Spread the word about the threats to democracy and free and fair elections. 2. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Well this is true I suppose. trump can’t be bought; he is subscription based. You have to keep bribing him forever www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. www.propublica.org/article/fede...
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TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...
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Now Vance is blaming the “deep state” for Nixon’s shame. The efforts to erase history continue. Orwellian.
Vance: "If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it's not all that different from what the same group of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump."
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I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
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"Shame on the Reflecting Pool for allowing itself it to seem like a failure...Nobody likes a giant, shallow pool that understands how metaphors work." A red, white & green flag? A healing, algae-rich Reflecting Pool of Wellness? @rexhuppke.bsky.social is at it again. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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