Brendan Karet

Brendan Karet

@badtakes.bsky.social

ex-@MMFA researcher (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/brendan-karet), current gamer

9,562 Followers 389 Following 854 Posts Joined Apr 2023
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your woke card is now confiscated. i hope the money was worth it, and you spent it all on hair plugs in turkey

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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

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4 days ago

The screaming subtext here is a call for ethnic cleansing, in a healthy pluralistic government he’d be censured and expelled

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2 days ago

Man Who Is Famously Wrong Now Geopolitics Expert

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"ChatGPT, make me more missiles"

"Actually I can't do that, General Podcast. I can only give you ideas on how to make more missiles yourself."

"OK go"

"Return to 1970 and do not systematically dismantle your ability to manufacture anything except Shareholder Value."

"ChatGPT write me a will."

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John Fetterman eating a sandwich off the floor.

It's MAIIII swamp, leave me alone donkey so I can enjoy my floorwich

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1 week ago

I hope they surround it with inspirational quotes from college dropout Charlie Kirk like "college is a scam," or maybe the time he told a 14-year-old girl she should only go to college to find a husband to take care of her, or something detailing the harassment campaigns he led against professors?

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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gj

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RoundTable poll: Biss leads by single digits over Abughazaleh, Fine in congressional primary - Evanston RoundTable Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss leads the Democratic primary for Illinois' 9th Congressional District seat with 24% support, holding single-digit leads over

Update: New independent poll:

Biss 24
Kat 17
Fine 16

(But still 22 "not sure.")
evanstonroundtable.com/2026/02/24/r...

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Will Stancil is agitating in Minneapolis In Minneapolis, he pursues ICE and annoys some of his neighbors.

Will Stancil, man of the people or just an annoying guy?

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Holy shit, Frederick Brennan is dead.

shows.acast.com/im-from-the-...

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✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

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Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.

"You have to vote for us.”

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1 month ago
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

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1 month ago

Life must be so easy if you just have absolutely no ethics, can you imagine

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Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.

The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans.

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1 month ago

Newsmax stock hit an all-time low of $5.38/share today, down from its peak of $265.00/share ten months ago. It has lost 98.0% of its value.

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Dog food contains ‘alarming’ levels of lead, mercury and other contaminants | CNN Commercial dog foods contain high levels of lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium and plastic toxins, according to laboratory tests by a nonprofit organization.

Samples of popular commercial dog foods contained “dangerous levels” of heavy metals, plastic contaminants, and acrylamide, a cancer-causing compound created when food is subjected to high heat, according to a new investigation: https://cnn.it/3ObMICl

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I haven't been following this story very closely, and omg

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1 month ago

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”

Works for me.

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Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada

So if I read this right: a man who lied about his years-long practice of swelling around with his neighbor, the head of a global pedophile ring, met with a rent seeker whose finances depend on their monopoly on truck crossings of the U.S.-Canada border? And they cooked up an international incident?

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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

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Longevity guru Peter Attia keeps CBS News role despite showing up in Epstein files The physician and influencer was named as a paid contributor for the network on Jan. 28.

CBS News has no plans to drop health guru Peter Attia from his contributor role after his emails to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein surfaced last week.

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everyone involved in this political movement needs to be humiliated and left destitute. the longer you let this play out, the more they will be encouraged to carve away whatever they can get their hands on

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

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