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Brian Amer

@brianamer.bsky.social

Now a resident of Northern Virginia. Previously Cleveland, Columbus, South Bend, Ann Arbor, Portland, & Bangkok.

389 Followers  |  190 Following  |  90 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2023  |  1.8817

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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

12.11.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10402    πŸ” 3448    πŸ’¬ 174    πŸ“Œ 369
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

07.11.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 11217    πŸ” 5405    πŸ’¬ 173    πŸ“Œ 1008

Tuned in to NBC tonight & they had a panelist refer to the Democrat Party. Shameful. πŸ‘Ž

05.11.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This can’t be true. Ezra Klein says she’s pro-choice.

04.11.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'll give you a topic...

24.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are several of them driving around Northern Virginia, in different colors.

23.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

21.10.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 10937    πŸ” 3690    πŸ’¬ 221    πŸ“Œ 134
Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

21.10.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6641    πŸ” 2855    πŸ’¬ 220    πŸ“Œ 894

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

21.10.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2606    πŸ” 848    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 25

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

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I'm enjoying the show "Task", but apparently everyone in the state of Pennsylvania still smokes. πŸ˜†

16.10.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To me!

14.10.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

03.10.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3100    πŸ” 1017    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 62

And if you are lucky enough to be in a group like this, hold on to it like grim death!

03.10.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the great things about Ted Lasso is the Diamond Dogs. If I had a group like that I'd never leave England. Being close to your kid is great and all, but an adult male friend group? That's like winning the lottery!

03.10.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If Donald Trump was president on 9/11/01, he would still be president today.

02.10.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

02.10.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8761    πŸ” 5506    πŸ’¬ 234    πŸ“Œ 218
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Exclusive: Federal drug prosecutions fall to lowest level in decades as Trump shifts focus to deportations The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the slowest rate since at least the late 1990s.

β€œThe number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a Reuters review of nearly 2 million federal court records found.” 9/29/25

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Pregnant women do not lack for judgmental, frightening and dubiously factual instructions about their health. Everywhere, they are told that they risk the health of their fetus by partaking in a series of banal everyday activities – be it jogging or having coffee or eating a certain cheese – that they are told will lead, by obscure mechanisms that are never quite explained, to impossible and devastating health outcomes for their children-to-be. The admonishments are multiple and often contradictory, but they all tend to agree on one thing: that it is always good for women to deprive themselves of joy and relief – and to suffer more – for the sake of their fetuses.

Pregnant women do not lack for judgmental, frightening and dubiously factual instructions about their health. Everywhere, they are told that they risk the health of their fetus by partaking in a series of banal everyday activities – be it jogging or having coffee or eating a certain cheese – that they are told will lead, by obscure mechanisms that are never quite explained, to impossible and devastating health outcomes for their children-to-be. The admonishments are multiple and often contradictory, but they all tend to agree on one thing: that it is always good for women to deprive themselves of joy and relief – and to suffer more – for the sake of their fetuses.

I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moralβ€”not scientificβ€”burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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You need to know what might be coming.

Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.

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Had 9/11 happened with a Democrat as president, the Republican congress would have started impeachment proceedings within a few weeks.

11.09.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@kristinkuster.bsky.social Go look at the moon!! 😎

08.09.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@abigailspanberger.com Maybe you should say that if elected, people will be able to get the COVID vaccine in Virginia.

07.09.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly. Exactly. We know there is no compromise to be had on immigration *BECAUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE TRIED TO BROKER ONE FOR 30 YEARS*.

Three f’ing decades! As long as Jerusalem Demsas, who offered another β€œlet’s hear the right out” proposal this week, has been alive!

06.09.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 582    πŸ” 143    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 5
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DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.

30.08.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6172    πŸ” 2291    πŸ’¬ 242    πŸ“Œ 129

My wife and I got the vaccine at the Portland convention center in 2021. The whole thing was staffed by National Guard folks. It was very efficient. We can do these things!

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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

As of late last month, the investigationβ€”led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgiaβ€”had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.

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Mauve Floyd

13.08.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The public does not know this. They don't realize how the budget at their beloved 🏈/πŸ€ State U works, or that their kids won't be able to take courses/labs they need there anymore, bc they won't exist without federal $ & foreign graduate students.

Maybe someone should speak up about this stuff? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈπŸ§

05.08.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

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