Brad's Avatar

Brad

@bradaltad.bsky.social

Liberal/left/progressive, happy husband πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ and dad to our smart and perfect son, recovering German historian haunted by today’s parallels to the fall of the Weimar Republic.

961 Followers  |  569 Following  |  3,974 Posts  |  Joined: 18.10.2023  |  2.2425

Latest posts by bradaltad.bsky.social on Bluesky

He’s so close to getting it.

Maybe a system where neither of these people have to pay for care?

08.10.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s unconscionable that in a society as wealthy as America, there’s no paid parental leave, and zero publicly funded daycare. β€œWhat to do with kids whiles we work and they aren’t old enough for TK” is such a barrier/weight/burden.

08.10.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willingβ€”even eagerβ€”to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

08.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2093    πŸ” 563    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 32

It's disgusting how much you are depending on others to do your jobs. You're waiting for the courts to take action, rather than DOING SOMETHING YOURSELVES TO STOP THE FASCISM.

You're all still pandering to those three rural men who love Law & Order in a Kansas diner who'll never vote for you.

07.10.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Surely that was not intended to be heard as a compliment by anyone who's not a moron. Trump took it as one but I suspect Carney didn't mean "transformative" in a positive way.

07.10.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone's fat dumb racist uncles showing up to stand around showing off what they learned from Call of Duty.

07.10.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AND YET DEMS ARE NOT DOING A THING TO FIGHT IT.

How about "we'll fund the government when the authoritarianism stops"?

You guys are so invested in pandering to the right that you can't fight back against military occupation and ICE thugs, for fear of pissing off people who'll never vote for you.

07.10.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe legislature alone determines supply to the executive” is a foundational principle of the entire US-CanAusNZUK constitutional order.

07.10.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well that’s a thousand years of constitutional law just out the door. Supply has always been the prerogative of the legislature. It’s the whole damn point.

07.10.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you guys have just nothing to say about ICE or the military occupation of blue cities?

Are you so desperate to pander to the law-and-order crowd?

Dems are just chickenshits who love to post and then run off to have lunch with Ted Cruz.

07.10.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is no point in having these hearings. There's no consequences to Bondi lying and obfuscating. Dems are just giving her a platform to make sound bites for Fox and for them to spout their propaganda.

We need to penalize lying by excluding liars from public life, not "debating" them.

07.10.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i'm not out of line here in thinking there's a tremendous amount of property theft, extortion, and worse, happening with ICE right?

07.10.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

So it’s going to involve running around buying testosterone supplements?

07.10.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need a complete and total shutdown on right wing pseudo-intellectuals bloviating about how their substack posts are bravely defending the foundations of β€œWestern civilization” against the radical left onslaught until we can determine if their ideas made more sense in the original German.

07.10.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDesperate” is Hitler in the bunker mobilizing kids as inevitable defeat looms.

β€œDesperate” is not the current GOP, with elites bending the knee, the courts in their grasp, and Democrats too terrified to talk about anything other than the rote β€œthis is all a distraction from healthcare.”

07.10.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are also on eggshells because the response from the good guys is limp and pathetic.

07.10.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fascism is not a distraction from healthcare or Epstein. If healthcare were perfect and Epstein never existed, they would be still doing fascism.

06.10.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I seem to remember a parade with tanks on his birthday.

06.10.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THE FASCISM IS NOT A DISTRACTION FROM HEALTHCARE YOU LIMP SQUIB.

06.10.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This because the current administration is made up of man boys who think war is just like Call of Duty.

06.10.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Senator, we are going down the fascism road and you guys are just sitting around saying it’s all a distraction from egg prices.

Schumer should be on Veep, he’s so pathetic and soft.

06.10.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t forget β€œUCC 1-308, no recourse.”

06.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Crash MORE planes than they already have been.

06.10.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fascism is the point. It’s not the distraction.

06.10.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œResisting intense pressure” = doing her job right.

06.10.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s insane the which the Very Smart Consensus continues to be that a party wins power by being polite, avoiding extreme positions, and providing detailed moderate policy positions, when the GOP has seized total control by doing the exact opposite of all of those things

06.10.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 164    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

These are the people Schumer and Jeffries are desperate to make a deal with.

06.10.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

06.10.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2520    πŸ” 650    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 49

Of course Dems’ first instinct is β€œlet’s sit down for a good faith debate.”

Bruh, anyone who debated you would just stand up and lie, over and over again, and you’d just stand there trying fruitlessly trying to rebut them.

06.10.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the reasons Trump has been successful is indeed people from a variety of political perspectives, including your own, being unable to place the level of danger and suffering he represents in its proper context inculcating a level of unwarranted complacency. Some idiots continue to be useful.

03.10.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

@bradaltad is following 20 prominent accounts