Joe Brockmeier

Everyone hates political junk mail, which is why we tried to make our mail unique…

By making it into a comic book!

If you live in IL-09, you might receive this five part series about me and the campaign right in your mailbox:

"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"

Loving this talk from @jzb.bsky.social

There's a way to talk about the uncomfortable aspects of OSS, AI usage and the world at large without being a doomer or preachy. It's an important topic and super well presented by Joe <3

#cfgmgmtcamp #cfgmgmtcamp2026

It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.

This INCLUDES INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS. Among Democrats, the number is SEVENTY SEVEN PERCENT.

Any Democrat who isn't saying abolish ICE is serving someone other than you and me.

You cannot reform this.

Abolish ICE and defund every line item for the job and equipment of every agent from every agency who collaborates with them.

FYI this is an immediate block. You’re under no obligation to pay for my or anyone else’s work, but you won’t come onto my feed to complain about us earning a living.

Khan, Cylons, and Boba Fett were cool, but Vultan was The Man(TM).

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.

Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders

All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

Not to be all "if Biden did this" because the hypocrisy is the point, but people would rightly call for the man to step down if he had done this. And I'm not even talking from a political perspective here.

No Kings Ocean Beach, San Francisco

#NoKings

I wonder if they should redo the old UK public service films about not smoking, with character "Nick O'Teen", but they're now about not becoming an exploiting corporate bastard, lead character "Gill O'Teen"

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

JFC how huge were the founding fathers

Same energy

Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals

"Diorama of power dynamics." Beyond euphemism, that is glib glorification of dictatorship. The #BrokenTimes would rather show off its turn of phrase than call fascism what it is.
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

The Senate's “Big, Beautiful Bill” will create a disaster for rural moms and babies Medicaid cuts could endanger maternity services at more than 140 rural hospitals.

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill" is generally terrible for families. But women and babies who live in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump are likely to suffer some of its most sweeping and damaging effects.

The first part in Daroc Alden's series on how to write Rust for inclusion with the Linux kernel. Useful for Linux developers new to Rust, and Rust devs new to the Linux kernel. #Linux #Rust
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It's definitely not for everybody, but Nyxt is an interesting approach to providing an extensible web browser for those who like Lisp and Emacs. #OpenSource

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What are the benefits of Arch that are keeping you on it if has instability issues?

I wonder - have you considered running Debian/Mint and then Arch in a Distrobox for packages, etc.?

The handling of kernel core dumps has been a constant source of vulnerabilities for the Linux kernel. With luck, the 6.16 work will result in rather fewer of them in the future. lwn.net/SubscriberLi... #LWN #Linux #OpenSource

At Flock this year, two members of the documentation team (Petr Bokoč and Peter Boy) led a session on the state of Fedora's docs and how they plan to bring in more people to contribute. #Linux

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Adams on van hollen

Eric Adams cleaned out his City Hall staff. He cut his deal with Trump, and got his case dropped. Since then, the mayor has gone even more MAGA -- and has become even looser with the truth.

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I absolutely refuse to donate to anything that passes through Act Blue or the Democratic party at this point because the party is clearly more interested in preserving their fundraising jobs than electing good people and governing.

This is why it's stupid for dem consultants to keep insisting "don't hit them on immigration." Hit them on what they're strong on, *because they're doing terrible shit and you can make them not so strong any more*

Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad.

This is really moving

That is one of the weirdest moves... somebody said on Mastodon, "that's like drinking bleach because they're out of your favorite beer."