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Brian Wilcox

@brianwilcox.bsky.social

Social scientist, retired professor, former Senate staffer, enthusiastic guitarist and bass player. Unrepentant audiophile. Policy (not politics) guy. Californian who's lived in TX, OH, VA, DC, NE, and Porto Alegre (Brazil) but returned home.

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Yes, please read.

Cardinal Cupich captures the moral emptiness of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump, and the incels running the White House social media account.

08.03.2026 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grew up watching those guys in clubs in LA. The best!

08.03.2026 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Driving traffic to Xitter???

08.03.2026 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kari really knows how to rack up the losses.

08.03.2026 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any time there's the slightest breeze, the hat goes one because he knows photographers will have a field day with his bizarre "hair."

08.03.2026 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.

A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2074...

07.03.2026 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2387    πŸ” 746    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 111

This is what America has become under Trump.

Amoral.

07.03.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Citizens Bank & ICE Detention | De-ICE Citizens Bank Citizens Bank is financing ICE detention companies. Learn more and find out how you can take action to De-ICE Citizens Bank.

LEARN MORE HERE: www.de-icecitizensbank.org

07.03.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Setting aside the toxicity of this garbage, the White House doesn't seem to know what a touchdown looks like.

07.03.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...and "not cisgender male."

07.03.2026 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

🎁 article.

AI (in this case, ChatGPT) is as stupid as the people writing the prompts, as a couple of DOGE boys demonstrated as they attempted to destroy the National Endowment for the Humanities.

When government is run by the stupidest and most ill-informed, this is what happens.

Kakistocracy.

07.03.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like the DOGE boys and their pathetic AI concluded "Not White = DEI."

07.03.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oppose Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General The Senate HELP Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the nomination of Casey Means to serve as U.S. Surgeon General on Wednesday, February 25th. While we were hoping this nomination was dead, i...

Tired of unqualified hacks running the U.S. public health system? I sure am.

Sometimes it feels like there is nothing we can do to fight this.

But right now, we can write letters to our Senators to oppose Casey Means as Surgeon General to prevent yet another quack from gaining power.

07.03.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 9

Feel better!

When I feel like shit I turn to classics that make me smile: The Princess Bride, The Shawshank Redemption, any Monty Python, LA Story, A Fish Called Wanda, The Big Lebowski, This is Spinal Tap…

07.03.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Were those school girls in the groups that WERE considered for targeting?

07.03.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Extremely accurate. Tell that to those dead school girls in Iran.

07.03.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

American with a strong German accent.

07.03.2026 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜†

07.03.2026 06:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pure horseshit. Manufacturers are laying off employees. The job numbers have nothing to do with immigration.

07.03.2026 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait. I thought we were trying to free Iranians from their tyrannical government. So the goal is to kill them all or make them believe we will?

07.03.2026 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump has given more thought to NIL payments and the transfer portal than to the war he's started in Iran.

07.03.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What are the odds on (X)itter complying with this law? Musk's platform has become a porn site masquerading as a news site.

07.03.2026 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And Xitter is now one of the biggest free hardcore porn sources on the internet, one reason why 8 out of every 10 incels choose Xitter.

07.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ–• DOJ and the Trump Administration.

07.03.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, more troubling but entirely understandable, given the clowns populating this Administration.

07.03.2026 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's quite a battle, isn't it!

06.03.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

No, I meant it as the likely correct answer. As a former professor, I'm all too aware of how colleges and universities are bending the knee.

06.03.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like Hegseth's kind of guy.

06.03.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🎯🎯🎯

06.03.2026 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably required by the Trump administration.

06.03.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0