brendanamartin
I tried the first time. I’ll keep trying. 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸 🐸, antifa, 86 ICE
- It’s her birthday today.
- This is what they call Queen shit.
- Reposted by brendanamartinAlberto Korda, Don Quixote of the streetlamp, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba, 1959
- Reposted by brendanamartinOn Earth 2, the publisher of the Post is telling Mr. Thatcher: “it’s my duty — and I’ll let you in on a little secret — it’s also my pleasure .. to see to it that decent, hardworking people in this community aren’t robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates.” @washingtonpost.com
- May I rearrange the words as a corollary? Oligarchs die in a democracy.
- How do you describe the mood of this music? The fury of longing? the grief of loving? the comic resignation of living? youtu.be/GChpdgUB9AU?...
- Reposted by brendanamartinThis is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
- Reposted by brendanamartinWhen you read this, you'll recognize some notoriously violent and shocking moments captured in photos and video – like people being shot in the face at close range with less lethals. @unraveledpress.com is putting names to faces/gaiters.
- Reposted by brendanamartinThis is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
- Reposted by brendanamartinThese vulgar gestures of power invite defiance. No one wants to be your fucking slaves. All you are doing is hardening your opposition.
- Reposted by brendanamartinJEFFRIES: We can do this the easy way or the hard way. TRUMP: The hard way. [ONE WEEK LATER] JEFFRIES: I was not prepared for that.
- Dunn is running in MD-5, the district vacated by Pelosi’s chalky cipher, Steny Hoyer, who has endorsed an MD delegate, Adrian Boafo. Boafo is a first-generation American, of immigrant parents from Ghana. I’d examine the candidates before automatically opting for Dunn for his physical heroism.
- Jan 6 hero Harry Dunn aka @libradunn1.bsky.social is running for Congress. Harry told me on the phone last night he was motivated to run after seeing Alex Pretti being gunned down in Minneapolis. Here’s Harry’s inspiring campaign launch video: youtu.be/KzUVfHPUVvw
- I generally prefer the coolness of old Brazilian MPB, but sometimes I like things scalding hot. Getting ready for that boricua, Bad Bunny…. youtu.be/OqG8odqWOyo?...
- Reposted by brendanamartinNew: Susan Collins raised more from AIPAC donors last year than small donors. We asked her campaign about it. They hung up. Last year, we asked if she knew how many Americans the Israeli military had killed. She replied: “I am pro-Israel.” @minnahfarshad.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social
- Reposted by brendanamartin🚨BREAKING: Virginia Democrats’ efforts to counter President Donald Trump’s redistricting gains across the country scored a procedural win Wednesday, when the state court of appeals hurried the case to the state supreme court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by brendanamartinGreat work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by brendanamartinAfter passing in the Senate, the bill limiting immigration enforcement in Virginia Courthouses goes to the House of Delegates where Democrats have several similar proposed bills. www.virginiascope.com/the-virginia...
- Reposted by brendanamartinwhoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero
- I can’t access this story, but sure as hell want to!
- Reposted by brendanamartinJeebus Christmas, this is fucking bananas. Not only refusing to actually answer, but FOUR nominees, one after the other, insisting on reciting the IDENTICAL SCRIPT for their "response."
- Reposted by brendanamartinSeems as good a time as any to share an update on the primaries, since Warner isn’t listening to his constituents. I highly encourage all Virginians to get involved with the primary candidate of their vibe & help support their campaign! @itsmarkmoran.bsky.social @loritadaniels4va.bsky.social
- Frightening designs but, for perspective, Bannon was trying to run public relations for Epstein right up until he was suicided. He’s wishcasting. He’s more likely to end upside-down in briefs at an Esso station than Miller and Vance are to send ICE to thousands of polling places against our will.
- Reposted by brendanamartin“CBS News’ newest “star” contributor Peter Attia once chose to meet with Jeffrey Epstein—ignoring his wife’s plea to come to the hospital where their infant son was being treated.”
- Reposted by brendanamartinThis Friday, Feb 6 at 7AM, CASA’s legislative priorities will be heard in the VA Public Safety Subcommittee #3. We need our brave community to speak up. Testify on Zoom or submit written testimony. 👉 Take action now: hodspeak.house.virginia.gov/submit_testi...
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- Reposted by brendanamartinYou cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
- Reposted by brendanamartinSome people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]
- Reposted by brendanamartinA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- More of Representative Beyer’s constituents whose livelihoods have been destroyed by kleptocratic oligarchs. He has among the cushiest commutes, but a district suffering as much trauma as any outside of Minnesota, or others invaded by ICE and CBP.
- Statement by @beyer.house.gov on the Washington Post: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...
- Release them to Mar a Lago massage rooms?
- Reposted by brendanamartinOh no
- Reposted by brendanamartinThe brilliant and brave *former* Ukraine correspondent at the @washingtonpost.com, Lizzie Johnson. "I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated." This country is being destroyed by the oligarch class. Are y'all ready to overthrow them?
- Reposted by brendanamartinNEW: 70 organizations—Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Unitarian, civil rights, academic, legal, peace, and human rights groups —submitted a formal request to DOJ’s National Security Division seeking a FARA investigation into Canary Mission, citing our Drop Site story.
- “I don’t know whether investing tens of millions of dollars in a puff piece documentary about the First Lady is a savvy business move, but I know that Bezos’ well publicized meddling in and censorship of the Post’s editorial pages cost the paper hundreds of thousands of subscriptions.”
- Statement by @beyer.house.gov on the Washington Post: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...
- Reposted by brendanamartinFun Fact: The historical Black press once had correspondents abroad, dating back to the early-mid 20th century.
- Reposted by brendanamartinThey are coming for the election. I have a post going up on Thursday about what we should do about that.
- 🚨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/...
- Reposted by brendanamartinJeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
- Reposted by brendanamartinDOJ didn’t forget to redact this one.
- Reposted by brendanamartinShit isn't going to flood the zone by itself.
- Reposted by brendanamartinI expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
- Encouragingly lovely, impassioned peroration from Kaine. Indeed, why don’t we call criminals guilty or fraud or sex crimes “illegals”?
- Reposted by brendanamartinAlex Pretti wasn't killed by rhetoric, he was killed by two masked CBP agents shooting him 10 times in the back after they had disarmed and pepper sprayed him. Rhetoric didn't kill Renee Good either, a thug from ICE did that with a gun as she tried to avoid hurting him.
- Reposted by brendanamartinI've been tripping on this irony a great deal: They arguably were better off with Biden as president since his administration was seemingly so disinterested in anything related to the Epstein Files.
- If we knew at the time what we know now, many more people would have seen Trump's 2024 campaign for what it was: A campaign of deception to CONCEAL the Epstein files, that gained support by promising to RELEASE them. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-2024...
- “…I think all editorial boards should be abolished. They are confusing for readers, and, as an anonymous voice on high, often ascribe more authority to their writers than is deserved—creating mistrust on one end and impunity on the other.” That vaunted “wall” was a bulkhead; Opinions sank the ship.
- From this 2024 thing I wrote gillianbrockell.ghost.io/bezos-should...
- Reposted by brendanamartinFor context: Wayne Connell is the bitch-ass motherfucker who was forcing people back to the newsroom and taking fucking attendance in 2022, and now he doesn’t even have the balls to lay people off to their fucking faces.
- Reposted by brendanamartin🚨I’ve been saying this 2+ years now: We don’t know WHY WaPo was suddenly hugely unprofitable and started this downturn in 2023, because Jeff Bezos’s friend Patty Stonesifer barred investigation.🚨 It is becoming more and more obvious this was a premeditated murder, long before he cut the editorial.
- Reposted by brendanamartinTo be clear: a zoom call with the employee’s webcams disabled so they didn’t have to see any of their faces while they laid them off.
- I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
- Reposted by brendanamartinyou're deporting and killing people who are on the inside and who have lived most of their lives here. Johnson doesn't realize it and wouldn't agree with it, but his love/hate line is an argument for amnesty.
- “Bezos's sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left an especially ugly stain of their own. This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.” On thing Baron omits: Bezos’s backstabbing blame of reporters for “the public losing trust” in journalism.
- Reposted by brendanamartin“We are positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives and also the only person we know is Rahm Emanuel.”
- Reposted by brendanamartinThe ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
- Reposted by brendanamartin".. Bezos has remained silent, and did not respond to a series of letters sent by staffers .. On Monday, though, he was there in person to warmly greet Pete Hegseth .." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
- This whole long 🧵is a tutorial of what every community everywhere needs to do to prevent this network of concentration camps from ever being built.
- “We know enough.” Extraordinarily eloquent. Watch this and emulate when you publicly demand an end to these concentration camps—before they start—in your communities.
