Will Brockman

Will Brockman

@willbrockman.bsky.social

West Baltimore | Rowhouse enthusiast | Michigan farmboy

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I don’r want to be the only Bluesky user who hasn’t reposted this. (Nine out of ten posts in my feed are this clip.) But also AES’s part of this exchange with this bigot is just . . . magnificent. Michigan is so blessed to have this talented and morally-centered rhetorician as a Senate candidate.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Will Brockman
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I actually considered, for a moment, whether El-Sayed’s campaign might have planted Tommy in that crowd to make AES look awesome and go viral. Nope. Tommy turns out to be another braindead Republican stooge. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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mtsw
@mtsw.bsky.social

I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.

John Bistline@bistline.bsky.social

Nepal passed 5% battery electric vehicle share in August 2021 and is at 75%. The U.S. passed 5% in October 2022 and is at 6%.

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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

baltimorebrew.comA disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore BrewBREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr
@zoandbehold.bsky.social

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

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Eric Umansky
@ericumansky.bsky.social

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

abc7.comICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEOSurveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.

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Baltimore Beat
@baltimorebeat.bsky.social

In an already unsteady industry, Baltimore’s immigrant restaurant owners and workers are feeling the strain baltimorebeat.com/in-an-alread...

baltimorebeat.comIn an already unsteady industry, Baltimore’s immigrant restaurant owners and workers are feeling the strainBefore Candice Bruno bought Old Major, the Pigtown bar and restaurant known for its authentic Caribbean bar food and community events, it was a cop bar called the Cockeyed Cow.  “I spent time during…

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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

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Justin Mikulka
@justinmikulka.bsky.social

"Gasoline-only cars fell below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time, as the Hormuz crisis and record fuel prices accelerated the shift toward EVs."

oilprice.comFuel Price Shock Pushes Global Gas Car Sales Below 50% for First Time | OilPrice.comThe share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward...

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Memento Mori Mother Kira
@kmaustinyoung.bsky.social

God damn this evil murdering country.

WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio@wpln.bsky.social

UPDATE: US Supreme Court allows Christa Pike’s execution in Tennessee to go forward wpln.org/post/tenness...

wpln.orgTennessee's rare execution of a woman is halted by a court in final hourTennessee's execution of Christa Gail Pike for a murder she committed at age 18 was halted Wednesday about an hour before it was set to begin, as a federal appeals court sought to review whether her a...

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Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

If your #Baltimore neighborhood streets are too hot, this organization can help. Contact the Tree Trust to find out how to scope your streets for good shade tree spots, then partner with the Trust to create a more beautiful, far cooler, more healthful city www.baltimoretreetrust.org/in-the-commu...

baltimoretreetrust.orgHow We Plant - Baltimore Tree TrustWe pride ourselves on building strong relationships with neighborhood leaders and community stakeholders, and engaging residents through every step of our

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Monkeytime
@tmorman.bsky.social

"Imagine having to choose between not driving and outing yourself as trans every time you enter a club, buy an alcoholic beverage, go to a building where security personnel check ID (an office building, your kid’s school), vote, rent a car, check into a hotel or are stopped for a traffic violation."

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social

M. Gessen has written a truly extraordinary piece about the "soft fascism" faced by transgender people in America, and by trans people in Kansas particularly. Beautifully written and reported, deeply humane. I really hope you'll read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)Is Kansas just the beginning?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
@seamas.bsky.social

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽
@lolgop.bsky.social

These guys won’t stand up for the daughter of a Republican US Senator and they’ll never stand up for your daughter. But they will send some goon to inspect her crotch.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Max Miller is denying all the allegations against him and you can tell he's sincere because of the popped collar.

Will Brockman
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Read this whole thread, which closely examines the persistent assumption that centrists are generally more “electable” than leftists.

Hyde T. Voltyge@hydevoltyge.bsky.social

Ideological moderates are not a thing in the sense that 30% of the country agrees with Third Way. 30% of the country or whatever number you wish to use has *incoherent* ideological views that result in about a 50/50 split on issues. Centrism is not nearly as real as you think offline and outside DC.

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Andrew Lawrence
@ndrew.bsky.social

replace “ai” with “green energy” in any of these stories and imagine the public and political backlash

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...

cnn.comAI is making your life more expensive. Here’s how | CNN BusinessAI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.
Will Brockman
@willbrockman.bsky.social

I just can’t get over how stupid this discourse is. Bluesky wants Democratic officials who will fight, I get it. But think for just half a second about the goal these people are demanding Gov. Beshear to pursue. No words.

Dr. Jack Brown@drjackbrown.bsky.social

Gov. Andy Beshear is (finally) calling out Mitch McConnell:

Will Brockman
@willbrockman.bsky.social

Note that the tone of exasperated impatience—“(finally)”—is misleading as well as misguided. Beshear has been raising the salience of this issue, and doing anything more than that, as the people replying to that post are demanding, would be utterly foolish. bsky.app/profile/crai...

Craig Harrington@craigipedia.bsky.social

Andy Beshear isn’t “finally” calling Mitch McConnell out. The reason McConnell’s team produced the first proof-of-life photo was in response to a public letter from Beshear on July 8 and remarks on July 12 demanding answers on McConnell’s health and whereabouts. time.com/article/2026...

time.comMcConnell Breaks Silence With Photo and StatementThe former GOP leader explained his absence from the Senate, saying he intends to finish his term, but some critics still have questions.
Will Brockman
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Tapped out, I’m sorry to report. I got a few of the last pours last week.

Will Brockman@willbrockman.bsky.social

Zella’s still has Resurrection and always has awesome pizza. (Cem bought a bunch of kegs when the news about Brewer’s Art came down.)

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neuse river hag
@neuseriverhag.bsky.social

solidarity to the brave neighbors of springfield and haitians all over the country, we need these nazis put away

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

cbsnews.comICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources sayThe plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
Will Brockman
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I agree that the Maine election is now a referendum on Collins’s votes to give ICE $70 billion and to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. But *both* votes are implicated in today’s murder of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, because he was a victim of a “Kavanaugh stop” based on racial profiling.

Micah@rincewind.run

the maine election is, unfortunately for susan collins, now a referendum on her voting for brett kavanaugh and to give ICE tens of billions of dollars with no strings attached, and no amount of Susan Collins Is Very Concerned posting is going to change that

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Murshed Zaheed
@murshedz.bsky.social

Every single person in Maine and everyone around the country with a sense of humanity and decency need to remember this today. mainebeacon.com/collins-vote...

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social

After multiple murders by ICE/CBP, Ds refused to provide additional $$ for them w/out reforms & oversight. Rs were opposed to reform and unilaterally provided more $$ through reconciliation. Now ICE has enough to run at 4x capacity through 2029 — w/ LESS oversight than before. This is the result.

Will Brockman
@willbrockman.bsky.social

People, please. The video segment is 36 seconds long. Listen to it before you reskeet misinformation. And delete your post after people in your comments told you you got it wrong.

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