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Music, politics, baseball, art. Hates fake quotes. I need a crowd of people, but I can't face them day to day. New (and old) music I recently internetted at robertbeverly.bandcamp.com.

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ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-mar...

04.02.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 736 πŸ” 287 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 11

all of Minneapolis is being treated the way police have often treated Black neighborhoods, because Minneapolis as a whole has made it clear it stands with marginalized people.

24.01.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 194 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

Is it too early to start working on Apology Tour merch?

13.01.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're wondering how the Renee Good murder (and more recently, the release of the ICE agent's footage) is going over, Fox News has over 60 stories on its homepage right now, and looks to me that zero of them are about the incident.

13.01.2026 04:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The correct comparison partner for Renee Good isn't Charlie Kirk, it's Ashli Babbitt. The fun game for your friends and neighbors is Can You Spot The Actual Domestic Terrorist?

08.01.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a close relative with a decades-old car-accident related lobotomy, PTSD from multiple violent experiences, dementia, and years of homelessness, who dwells on his traumatic experiences, and even he will sometimes focus on your wellbeing and sincerely mean it. That's how damaged Trump is.

25.12.2025 02:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

20.11.2025 17:18 πŸ‘ 8546 πŸ” 2591 πŸ’¬ 262 πŸ“Œ 256

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

20.11.2025 15:33 πŸ‘ 32700 πŸ” 10592 πŸ’¬ 602 πŸ“Œ 672

Seriously, this feels like the political comms equivalent of a successful Queer Eye makeover.

08.10.2025 02:49 πŸ‘ 877 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 7

She. Is. So. Brave.

08.10.2025 02:50 πŸ‘ 772 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 4
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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

01.10.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 35950 πŸ” 12805 πŸ’¬ 999 πŸ“Œ 673
Trump Audibly Counting Non-White Generals

Trump Audibly Counting Non-White Generals

Trump Audibly Counting Non-White Generals

30.09.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 3158 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 19

Dear @apnews.com

The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once.

Fix your headline.

01.10.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 6757 πŸ” 2483 πŸ’¬ 228 πŸ“Œ 137
The controversy started with a post Tuesday from Jacqueline Garretson, who, according to her X bio, is the Illinois state director for The Conservative Caucus and previously worked as a staffer for failed Republican attorney_general candidate Thomas DeVore.
Garretson wrote that a relative, whom she later identified as her mother-in-law, ordered the Mint Majesty tea with two honeys β€” an order known to be Kirk's favorite drink - from the
Starbucks. When the order was completed, the cup had "Loser" written on it, Garretson said.

The controversy started with a post Tuesday from Jacqueline Garretson, who, according to her X bio, is the Illinois state director for The Conservative Caucus and previously worked as a staffer for failed Republican attorney_general candidate Thomas DeVore. Garretson wrote that a relative, whom she later identified as her mother-in-law, ordered the Mint Majesty tea with two honeys β€” an order known to be Kirk's favorite drink - from the Starbucks. When the order was completed, the cup had "Loser" written on it, Garretson said.

Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee who’d been accused of writing β€œLoser” on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirk’s β€œfavorite drink.”

The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety.

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One Hashtag To Rule Them All Secretary Hegseth, poster boy for the right wing’s existential hashtag, rates his actual suitability for his position on a scale from 1 to 10.

If it's Tuesday, it must be Parenthetical. @middle8.bsky.social

12.08.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Is This Sign Illegal In Idaho? Maybe it’s not that complicated.

If it's Tuesday, it must be Parenthetical. @middle8.bsky.social

08.07.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Upwardly Deplorable: Rep. Mary Miller Right-wing America: When you care enough to attack someone because of their religion, but don’t care enough to learn squat about other religions.

My latest at First Draft. If you're like me, you've seen this kind of thing before and chalked it up to misdirected post-9/11 anti-Muslim sentiment. But as this MTG-wannabe reveals, even that version of bigotry was too charitable. first-draft.com/2025/06/09/u...

09.06.2025 14:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Time For A Round Of β€œHow Many Of Them Are White Folks?” Because there’s nothing racists hate more than context and critical thinking. Take a moment to dip into some of both, won’t you?

In this episode, we put the lie to the whole "if they would just do it legally" facade, but we also make room for a look at more than just "deportations."

27.05.2025 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bruce Opines, Trump Whines Springsteen enters full DGAF mode and DJT can’t handle the truth. Read on for some fun comparison and Bruce background.

My First Draft column this week offers an excuse to delve into some Springsteen nerdery in the light of Trump's recent tantrums.
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20.05.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This week's column at First Draft checks in on candidate Spanberger as she tried to triangulate her way around the issue of Virginia's anti-union laws on her path to the governor's mansion. Included: two good maps and two good Pernice Bros. songs.

13.05.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Whose Economy Is It, Anyway? The scoop on how to tell the Biden Economy from the Trump Economy: One licked the nattering nabobs of recessionary negativism with the softest landing in the world. The other one just bites.

My Tuesday evidence-based column -- Here's the scoop on how to tell the Biden Economy from the Trump Economy: One licked the relentless recession doomposters. The other one just bites. (Bluesky showing useful graph instead of pun-supporting photo of Joe w ice cream.) first-draft.com/2025/05/06/w...

06.05.2025 13:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Idaho’s Incitements & Indictments From GOP town hall thuggery to a Heil-Hitlering CEO, this year has brought its share of bad press, bad choices, and consequences to the hard-right Famous Potatoes state.

The spud state is making the news for all the wrong reasons this year, but some folks are stepping up and doing the right thing. My Tuesday morning column offers the latest plus a little history on the side.
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29.04.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If people deny that Israel is for the Jews, they will be punished by our Antisemitism Task Force. And if they deny that it's for Jews so as to bring on the events of Revelations so Jews can be cast into Hell, they will be punished by our Anti-Christian Task Force.

by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem

23.04.2025 01:34 πŸ‘ 781 πŸ” 119 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2
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Can’t Shake Those Self-Oblivious Blues Swift, Davies, Dylan, and Givens all do what they can to clue in POTUS and the cabinet, but some people just can’t take a hint.

No deep dive for my Tuesday column this week, more of an attempt to skim and scathe across recent events. Remember, kids, it's not Imposter Syndrome if you're really not qualified.

22.04.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I heard that on separate occasions Hegseth texted the Joint Chiefs his lunch order, four dad jokes, and a request for short-term financial assistance from a Nigerian prince, so it seems like reasonable Americans should be able to just call this a wash and move on.

21.04.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of the most important pieces of journalism any of us will read this year. Shows exactly how policy is made now - a scrabble of advisors trying to push an unreliable executive to pursue their agendas, at a moment’s notice

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

19.04.2025 10:45 πŸ‘ 623 πŸ” 173 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 21

way too on point. Churchill put Mosley in prison for the duration of the war. Fascist quislings in waiting were a danger to the war effort. Sent the ex-King to be gov of Jamaica for similar reasons. None of this will end well.

17.04.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 827 πŸ” 271 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 5

@pitcherlist.com Red Sox fan and fantasy mgr enjoying checking PL daily as usual. Noticing a couple remarks dinging the STL offense, and it's early and I'm not used to it either, but the Cards are MLB #1 OBP (#3 OSP) so far. In a QS league, OBP kills so I check it. Anyway, thx for the great work!

16.04.2025 14:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally got around to watching The Old Man via Hulu. It was considerably better than expected based on the trailer from months ago that had turned me off. And not just because of the excellent surprise of hearing Joe Henry's voice at just the right time.

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