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@bretthatten.bsky.social

Living the dream in the Chicago suburbs. Just a divorced dad trying to find the humor in life… one meme at at time. Anti-fascist, feminist, and supporter of DE&I.

105 Followers  |  58 Following  |  46 Posts  |  Joined: 07.01.2025  |  2.3049

Latest posts by bretthatten.bsky.social on Bluesky

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

08.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 9804    🔁 2804    💬 301    📌 93
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Border Patrol agents shoot woman in Chicago as protesters confront immigration personnel No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident.

What is happening?! Seriously, this country…

Border Patrol agents shoot woman in Chicago as protesters confront immigration personnel - www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

04.10.2025 21:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The people who’ve been calling you baby murderers your whole life want you to turn down the temperature.

02.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 7134    🔁 1496    💬 127    📌 27

Donald Trump is using federal agents to stoke fear and violate constitutional rights — all with the aims of expanding his control and sending military troops to our cities.

It’s unlawful and un-American. We must all stand up and speak out against fanning the flames of violence.

27.09.2025 22:04 — 👍 6198    🔁 1746    💬 171    📌 60

Yeah, I don’t plan on resubscribing to Disney. They sold out to a fascist and only folded when there was money being lost. I don’t support that kind of business model.

Regardless, Welcome back @jimmykimmel.com

22.09.2025 22:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The United States is in a dark time. Do not stay silent but be safe. Patience and persistence are key.

18.09.2025 12:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

17.09.2025 23:22 — 👍 61337    🔁 17761    💬 1772    📌 719

Irony is celebrating your 18th wedding anniversary on Monday only to get divorced on Thursday. Ferris Bueller was right, life comes pretty fast!

04.09.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

18.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 73923    🔁 18911    💬 1484    📌 835
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CBS cancels Stephen Colbert’s show days after Trump settlement criticism The late-night host had scoffed at a decision by CBS’s parent company to pay the U.S. president $16 million over a disputed interview.

@cbsnews.com and @paramountpictures.bsky.social should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. This is truly astonishing that they would bend to the whims of a wannabe dictator and cancel on of the most uniquely American voices in media in @stephencolbert.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

18.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Proud of live in Illinois and am grateful that @govpritzker.illinois.gov is running for another term given the clown car in Washington.

05.07.2025 13:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What's in the tax and spending bill that Trump has signed into law President Donald Trump has signed his tax and spending bill into law after Republicans muscled it through Congress.

There is something very rotten in our country at the moment.

apnews.com/article/what...

05.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the darkest time in our nation since the Civil War. The right is radicalized at Berlin 1941 levels and many Americans are celebrating cruelty and lawlessness masquerading as power.

It is time for an awakening of morality, decency and public resistance to evil.

30.06.2025 17:58 — 👍 7907    🔁 2438    💬 315    📌 117
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Bluesky Sunday sermon

29.06.2025 16:00 — 👍 11440    🔁 2686    💬 247    📌 108

They bend every law, they break every law, they hack voting machines, they deploy roving gangs of thugs to steal people off the street, they openly embrace racism, they lie nonstop, they incite political violence, and much more. Their evil knows no limits. Then they claim to be followers of Jesus.

27.06.2025 19:05 — 👍 13345    🔁 3902    💬 644    📌 242
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Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship broadens Trump's power It handed a significant victory to Donald Trump - and future American presidents.

What the hell is wrong with this country?!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

27.06.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

14.06.2025 21:20 — 👍 9772    🔁 2592    💬 96    📌 55
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Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade.

#NoKings #NoKingsDay

14.06.2025 10:41 — 👍 30337    🔁 6074    💬 845    📌 276

Tanks roll in D.C.
Marines patrol your block.

But your courage isn’t forged in uniforms.
It’s forged in community, in solidarity, in relentless refusal.

You carry democracy in the streets.

This is not spectacle. This is witness. This is resistance.

#NoKings

14.06.2025 12:17 — 👍 431    🔁 122    💬 13    📌 7
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What happened to Senator Padilla is absolutely DISGUSTING. Point blank, period.

This shit is out of control.

Another elected official disrespected while doing their job. (1/2)

12.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 32361    🔁 7043    💬 1023    📌 220
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Something tells me no one in the White House has ever watched Battleship Potemkin archive.ph/2025.06.09-1...
“The troops — whose makeshift quarters are shown in photographs exclusively obtained by the Chronicle — arrived without federal funding for food, water, fuel, equipment or lodging”

09.06.2025 19:35 — 👍 45    🔁 9    💬 6    📌 1

Someone got lost on the way to TruthSocial, it seems.

08.06.2025 11:54 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of. They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

02.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 29562    🔁 11781    💬 1025    📌 532

My dog turns 3 today. Yes, this was a post-worthy moment. The world is on fire, and my Little Gentleman is pretty cool.

Thank you for attending my TED Talk.

30.05.2025 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Let cash registers ring!"

29.05.2025 15:18 — 👍 14505    🔁 3836    💬 417    📌 148
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Andor nails it — Many of Nazism's earliest supporters ended up in the camps. The man who wrote 'First They Came For' was an anti-communist Minister who cheered the incarceration of socialists. The poem is a warning about the dangers of supporting authoritarianism that you think works for you.

16.05.2025 23:52 — 👍 1248    🔁 328    💬 27    📌 16

Honor our fallen but hold those who sent them there accountable when the intentions aren’t pure and honorable.

Almost every major theater of war since 1945 has been under false or disguised intentions.

Shame on us and for the lives lost.

26.05.2025 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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