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@eadbrookes.bsky.social

Recovering journalist, dilatory author. 'FRAGILE CARGO: The World War Two Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City'. Also some spy novels. Opinions valid.

349 Followers  |  513 Following  |  80 Posts  |  Joined: 20.10.2024  |  2.0721

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"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

08.10.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5214    πŸ” 2226    πŸ’¬ 335    πŸ“Œ 160

Put these guys faces everywhere. Let them know the same fear they are bringing everyday to undocumented immigrant communities.

05.10.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Primary enemies of American Presidents. πŸ‘‡

06.10.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4525    πŸ” 1643    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 53
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Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin On why re-examining our β€œdialects” is about resisting hierarchies, opposing discrimination, and pursuing linguistic justice, rather than cultural β€œorthodoxy”.

Some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin - from someone growing up internalizing the stigma associated with our native dialect chenchenzhang.net/2025/10/05/s...

05.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the most melodramatically malevolent federal officials ever to do it. If we live through this he should maybe become a stock villain of Italian theater.

05.10.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1357    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 9

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

04.10.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11384    πŸ” 3564    πŸ’¬ 305    πŸ“Œ 218
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Spot on.

04.10.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 23483    πŸ” 10710    πŸ’¬ 724    πŸ“Œ 477
Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

Tweet from the VP: Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt. My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

04.10.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 13347    πŸ” 3352    πŸ’¬ 1146    πŸ“Œ 551
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From the udub community on Reddit: Nazi interrupts Psych 210, receives predictable response Explore this post and more from the udub community

Source and explanation:

> Context: this piece of filth barged into Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) at UW throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone β€œ[r-slur] degenerates”.
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> Class didn’t appreciate it.

www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...

02.10.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2706    πŸ” 515    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 62
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Inside Congress
www.politico.com/newsletters/...

THE BUCK STOPS HERE:

30.09.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4480    πŸ” 1804    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 100
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So exhausting..

28.09.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9811    πŸ” 3929    πŸ’¬ 211    πŸ“Œ 416

Fake, I'm afraid.

27.09.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn this is good. History, politics, emotion, hope, CHANGE.

26.09.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk.

He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

26.09.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8771    πŸ” 3258    πŸ’¬ 554    πŸ“Œ 261
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Guess What’s Not Outlawed in Peter Thiel and Don Jr.’s New Olympics? That’s right. For the Enhanced Games, athletes are encouraged to dope it up to their hearts’ content. Look out, here comes the master race.

MAGA is officially pro-doping.
I wrote about the Enhanced Games:

newrepublic.com/article/2008... via @newrepublic.com

26.09.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Night of the Long Knives would like a word.

26.09.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How fascinating. Hitler, in order to hasten the annihilation of Soviet society, planned to tell the conquered Russians that vaccines were dangerous to their health. From Evans, 'The Third Reich at War'.

24.09.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

23.09.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3295    πŸ” 400    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 11

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

23.09.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8510    πŸ” 1899    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 67
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Goebbles or Miller?

23.09.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9480    πŸ” 4022    πŸ’¬ 789    πŸ“Œ 312

I can’t believe such a wretched, morbidly obese, drug addicted, deviant, illiterate, sexual predator found the secret sauce to turn half our country into absolute lunatics. Turning a blind eye daily to the most rampant corruption in American history as they genuflect before him.

21.09.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9911    πŸ” 2473    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 156
Bach Toccata and Fugue bwv 565 in d minor.
YouTube video by Constantini Music Bach Toccata and Fugue bwv 565 in d minor.

apparently this instrument (bandoneon) is hard as heck to play even on normal mode, but this may be my new favorite recording of Bach's toccata and fugue in d minor πŸ₯°

16.09.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Turns out... throttling the storied Washington Post opinion section by the neck like this doesn't turn it into something new or exciting! It turns it into print newsmax. Or truth social with better kerning or something. This is dime-a-dozen stuff now -- who's asking for this?

10.09.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2306    πŸ” 570    πŸ’¬ 172    πŸ“Œ 62
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Leg braces - $20-$30k, I’ve had at LEAST 6 leg braces.

Wheelchairs - $5k for manual with no bells and whistles, I’ve had 2

Medications - anywhere between $100-$2000 /month pending health issues

Surgeries - 19 surgeries $40k to - $1m inc. hospital stays

I had polio. This is the cost.

07.09.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2316    πŸ” 826    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 27
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I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It. Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

10.11.2024 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3358    πŸ” 1719    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 56
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The biggest analytical weakness of Americans in trying to understand the current moment is that their powers of analogy begin and end with US history. The idea that something qualitatively different might be arising simply doesn’t occur to them.

06.09.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 653    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 14
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I dated Jeffrey Epstein. The files must be released | Stacey Williams This is not a partisan issue. The American people – and Epstein’s many victims – deserve transparency

I dated Jeffrey Epstein. The files must be released | Stacey Williams

04.09.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 559    πŸ” 236    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 26
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You guys see where this is going? Right?

01.09.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13674    πŸ” 3852    πŸ’¬ 1199    πŸ“Œ 546
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For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you.
If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight

27.08.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3332    πŸ” 1037    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 103

love this city

25.08.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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