Eli Brand

Increasing your knowledge is like inflating a balloon

Knowledge is like a sphere; the greater its volume,
the larger its contact with the unknown.
-David Christian

bingo

That one aged like an egg salad sandwich on a hot summer day.

More messaging like this please

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Another tragic accident.

When politics crowds the exam room patients suffer • Kentucky Lantern I know what happens when politics crowds the exam room. Administration’s sweeping warnings against pregnant women taking acetaminophen are dangerous.

Commentary by Katie Vandegrift

When politics crowds the exam room patients suffer

"I will not apologize for following my doctor’s advice. I will not accept a politics that makes women choose between untreated pain and public shaming."

kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/06/w...

Lots of thoughts and prayers to all the casualties, orphans, and people left homeless in war ravaged Portland as you dig yourselves out of the rubble and wreckage of what remains of your once beautiful city. You will never be forgotten.

The entire country is walking on eggshells because a madman is hallucinating about crime sprees and burning cities.

Stephen Miller asks when in our history have we tolerated unlawful, riotous assemblies around government buildings

Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…

Someone needs to drop a dose of reality on this dandy

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.

#KYsen

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Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

The phrase “I only believe what I see” isn’t true either. Most people believe what they want. No matter what they see.

Don’t look over here, look over there!

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

California Statewide Special Election
November 4, 2025

Save Democracy

Vote YES on Prop 50.

www.sos.ca.gov/elections