Brian
CS teacher, model rocketeer, zymurgist, photographer, ukulele player, podcaster, TTRPG game designer, wargamer, husband, father. He/Him.
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- Texas man arrested after he started fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
- this man is going to be the world’s first trillionaire and even most of the too online sickos on this website are significantly happier than he is
- Thread. Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.
- The one that got me was Garrison Keillor. Rowling, meh, Eddings, meh, Gaiman, ouch, but I literally grew up on Prairie Home Companion. I have been known to sing the Powdermilk Biscuit song in the shower. That one still hurts.
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- If I had even a fraction of Bezos's money I would fund so much unprofitable shit and let it absolutely rip.
- Spanberger is a moderate Democrat who used to work for the C.I.-fucking-A. It should put the actions of Schumer and Jeffries into perspective for everyone. Are they Republicans? Because they sure act like it. They need to get the fuck out.
- NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- The federal government is just disappearing children.
- These 2 kids detained last week were brought back to MN today. But school officials say many others from the Columbia Heights district are missing. They're not sure if they're in ICE detention or have moved away with their families. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.
- We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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- The recent budget deal included enough funding for the federal defender program to lift its hiring freeze, so there are a lot of backlogged vacancies now being advertised, and more coming soon! www.fd.org/employment/v... I'll use this thread to post appellate openings, so feel free to mute it.
- I wrote about Julie Le's courtroom crashout yesterday Trump’s Justice Department is hemorrhaging attorneys, and it would appear that those who remain are unable to keep pace with fascism’s demands...! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
- You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.
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- But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.
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- In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
- Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
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- I think this would have the opposite effect of what is intended. Instead of supressing the vote you’re going to end up with angry people even more determined to cast a ballot bsky.app/profile/marc...
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
- jesus
- can’t not hear and see:
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Breaking: Fulton County just announced it has filed a motion "seeking the return of all files from the 2020 Election that were confiscated by the FBI" last week.
- Folks, every single video you've seen on here (or anywhere online) of local law enforcement arresting ICE is fake. They're all AI-generated. They're not real. I know they may look real to you, but they're not. Please, for the love of all that's good, stop sharing these videos.
- Is it bad if your stock is down almost 40% over a year despite quadrupling down on AI during a stock market bubble?
- Democracy dies in oligarchness
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- MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
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- An account you control, @PagliacciDaClown, has been suspended for the following post: "Who up doing clown shit, lmao? I'm thinking about ending my own life." Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown
- People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience
- I think it’s weird we’ve never seen Jason Mantzoukas and Animal from the Muppets together. And I don’t mean in TV shows or movies, necessarily. I just mean, like, hanging out, having lunch, in paparazzi photos and such.
- ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
- New analysis shows that Jeff Bezos could absorb the Washington Post's annual losses for 5 years with the amount he makes in a single week. His net worth has increased by $224 billion since buying the paper.
- After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
- The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
- I just fundamentally don’t understand very rich people who get up to this kind of conflagratory nonsense. If I had more money than I could ever use I would adopt fifteen dogs and just stop going to work
- Unbelievable
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- Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
- Love how he focuses all his energy on trying to beat the high school girls. Even as the high school boys jump in. Easily the least surprising aspect of it.
- FAFO being all "THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!" www.reddit.com/r/Austin/com...
