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Brian Broadus

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Architecture. Architectural History. Historic Preservation. Charleston, Charlottesville, Cairo. Clemson University, University of Virginia. Devoted to Chelsea Football Club, and to my wife, Lynn, forever. Moved to Cleveland to join a coastal elite.

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350,000 peoples’ lives hang in the balance. A majority entered the U.S. legally and have never been in violation of any immigration law. They’ve had to go through multiple background checks. And yet they’re hanging on by a thread, even though the situation in Haiti hasn’t gotten any better.

07.03.2026 05:12 — 👍 562    🔁 158    💬 4    📌 2
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The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

05.03.2026 21:10 — 👍 2562    🔁 1083    💬 86    📌 85

It's definitely happened to me.

07.03.2026 04:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I bet that this Shield of the Americas thing will use the same logo as the Board of Peace.

07.03.2026 04:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dude has "cathar" written all over him.

07.03.2026 04:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

07.03.2026 01:31 — 👍 869    🔁 194    💬 18    📌 33

James Woods has done nothing in the last decade except prove that, once and for all, Sean Young was not the crazy one.

07.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“Trans children are perfect.”

06.03.2026 18:41 — 👍 3636    🔁 1002    💬 122    📌 146

I was as worried about Iranian ballistic missiles as I was about Iraqi drones.

(Yes. That was a thing.)

07.03.2026 02:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

07.03.2026 00:59 — 👍 3553    🔁 1682    💬 68    📌 106

Not my biggest concern by far but holy shit this must cost a lot of money.

07.03.2026 01:28 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dude needs to call up Jerry Falwell, Junior, and ask how this will play out if he doesn't bail on the relationship right now.,

06.03.2026 23:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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War and Presidential Self-Care: How We’re Tumbling Toward November A short time ago I got email from a TPM reader with...

War and Presidential Self-Care: How We’re Tumbling Toward November

Trump is going to get us all killed.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/war-a...

06.03.2026 23:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As a former Virginian, until the GOP gets behind laws to curb gerrymanders, y'all just need to cry harder, Mr. Ruffini.

I lived in blue Albemarle County but was gerrymandered into some Southside choad's district for decades. This change would give Central Virginia its voice again.

06.03.2026 21:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the way.

06.03.2026 19:31 — 👍 82    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

I checked. He's at AEI, out to wingnut welfare pasturage, I guess, probably pushing "We will be greeted as liberators this time!" bullshit again.

06.03.2026 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Aexa, how could Donald Trump fuck the Middle East up worse,?"

06.03.2026 21:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Someone has to teach those Zoroastrians the error of their ways.

06.03.2026 21:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Definitely looks cool. I'll be watching.

06.03.2026 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had rubeola, rubella, and mumps. It was not my parents' fault but, if it had been, I'd hold my suffering, which was real and included fevers so high that I hallucinated, against them to this day. And that was 60 years ago.

06.03.2026 20:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Panama Canal only works because it gets like 100 inches of rain a year. I don't think that the Arabian Peninsula competes.

06.03.2026 20:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'd be sad, too, if I suddenly had to go back to my wife and kids.

06.03.2026 20:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

disturbing reports that donald trumps economic policy is exactly as bad as anyone who knows anything said it would be

06.03.2026 14:09 — 👍 1228    🔁 215    💬 28    📌 4
MAGA vs. The Declaration of Independence
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie MAGA vs. The Declaration of Independence

thoughts on stephen miller’s rant about “human rights” youtu.be/3RJ_TWtFcMk?...

06.03.2026 16:45 — 👍 1228    🔁 278    💬 54    📌 0

At least they left Claire Daines out of it.

Seriously: this looks like some teen gamer dude put it together for a high school project.

06.03.2026 17:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No notes.

06.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I saw him play Virginia in U-Hall when I was a grad student at UVa. He was a senior. We lost, and he was easily the 'heel I hated most that night. I had no doubt that he could become the GOAT.

So, saw him in college. I'll remember that.

06.03.2026 04:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"Josef Mengele, check your email."

06.03.2026 00:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have now begun the "medical experimentation on concentration camp inmates" phase of fascism.

06.03.2026 00:50 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

If Trump persists in these sorts of personnel choices we'd all do well to pickup "Farsi for Dummies" at our local bookstore.

05.03.2026 23:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0