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Brad Lang

@writer890.bsky.social

I'm the one on the left! I'm retired, but used to be a musician, Steely Dan fan, detective novelist, actor, advertising copywriter, and SDS member. Am still a strong progressive, and willing to march in the front row along with other disabled adults!

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A photo of Officer David Rose, father of two and former Marine, who was shot and killed at the CDC in Atlanta, GA, om August 8, 2025, by a man who fired 500 rounds attempting to kill health workers because he hated vaccines, or something. Donald Trump has never mentioned David Rose's name. It took him weeks to eve refer to the shooting. He never had flags flown at half-staff ("half MAST," as he says) for David Rose. But for Charlie Kirk, the entire nation is being told to mourn. And Kirk is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We are in the Upside Down. EIGHT MONTHS INTO THIS FUCKING PRESIDENTIAL TERM. I wonder if anyone will even recognise this country by 2028.

A photo of Officer David Rose, father of two and former Marine, who was shot and killed at the CDC in Atlanta, GA, om August 8, 2025, by a man who fired 500 rounds attempting to kill health workers because he hated vaccines, or something. Donald Trump has never mentioned David Rose's name. It took him weeks to eve refer to the shooting. He never had flags flown at half-staff ("half MAST," as he says) for David Rose. But for Charlie Kirk, the entire nation is being told to mourn. And Kirk is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We are in the Upside Down. EIGHT MONTHS INTO THIS FUCKING PRESIDENTIAL TERM. I wonder if anyone will even recognise this country by 2028.

Apparently Charlie Kirk is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously.

For all the tremendous, tremendous good work he did for his country.

11.09.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 8

I've had it up to here with all the pontification about "violence" seeping into our politics. It's always been there. Can we agree that ambushing people is wrong, and move on to discussing some of Charlie Kirk's more distressing beliefs?
And let's not be distracted from Issue #1: The Epstein files.

11.09.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Senate, including 11 Democrats, just voted to confirm Donald Trump's investment banker, a COVID conspiracy theorist, as ambassador to Japan.

Trump is having people kidnapped and deported, killing people by decimating scientific data, and ruining the economy, but let’s give him his ambassador!

08.04.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 959    πŸ” 328    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 106
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Trump Admin Guts Entire Teams Studying IVF, Maternal Health The departments were eliminated despite Trump's proclamations that he is the "father of IVF."

3) HuffPo's @alannavagianos.bsky.social detailing layoffs to a team that monitored IVF and tracks national maternal and infant health outcomes.

β€œThe elimination of this team means losing the only source of data about the health and behavior of women before, during and shortly after pregnancy.”

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Tim Walz hosts town hall in Youngstown
YouTube video by WKBN27 Tim Walz hosts town hall in Youngstown

2800 people turned out in Youngstown Ohio last night for a town hall with Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

Local GOP congressman Michael Rulli won't do events like this with his constituents, so Democrats are doing so in his district:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWH...

08.04.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8490    πŸ” 1651    πŸ’¬ 173    πŸ“Œ 77
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Attention Arizona: Report Social Security Disruptions Attorney General Kris Mayes continues to hold the federal government accountable for the illegal and unconstitutional actions by President Trump and Elon Musk, including reversing devastating federal ...

Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security.

Every state AG's office could do this. Might help.

www.azag.gov/socialsecurity

09.04.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8915    πŸ” 3154    πŸ’¬ 301    πŸ“Œ 221

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#HandsOff Novi Michigan an amazing experience with a couple hundred people at the corner of Grand River Ave. and Novi Road and the support of the hundreds of people who drove by tooting their horns and cheering!

05.04.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Read the Resignation Letter From Hagan Scotten (Gift Article) Hagan Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote to Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.

MUST READ: The resignation letter from SDNY Asst. U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten is powerful.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

14.02.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 237    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Unfortunately, we're going to need to fight, literally. It might take civil disobedience. Maybe even state militias. A martyr? Who knows? But these people have to be stopped, one way or the other.

10.02.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell me more about Republicans' respect for the military.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

06.02.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6545    πŸ” 1824    πŸ’¬ 383    πŸ“Œ 103
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Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza 'Riviera' comments The group Arab Americans for Trump is renaming itself Arab Americans for Peace after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would β€œtake over” the Gaza Strip.

"LANSING, Mich. (AP) β€” Arab Americans for Trump, a group that played a key role in Donald Trump’s voter outreach to the Arab American community is changing its name after the president said that the U.S. would 'take over' the Gaza Strip..."

apnews.com/article/arab...

06.02.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2220    πŸ” 501    πŸ’¬ 665    πŸ“Œ 138
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Raffensperger Asks Federal Government for Help Suppressing Voters Read more.

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202.

I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

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22.01.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 23202    πŸ” 6227    πŸ’¬ 310    πŸ“Œ 271
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Accurate.

02.01.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 21437    πŸ” 3984    πŸ’¬ 571    πŸ“Œ 198

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09.12.2024 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12931    πŸ” 3781    πŸ’¬ 1071    πŸ“Œ 277

I think their philosophy is to take progressive positions on everything, but not make it explicit that that's what they're doing. Kind of like the American public: If you ask them about specific issues, they are almost always left/liberal, but most of them think they're middle-of-the-road!

08.12.2024 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, I'm talking about MSNBC, not NBC/Universal, which is now in the process of spinning off MSNBC and their other cable properties, none of which aired The Apprentice. True, MSNBC have had a few right-wingers on their shows, particularly Ari Melber's, but they don't throw them softball questions!

07.12.2024 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
LOL! Trump Ally GETS ARRESTED…What He DESERVES
YouTube video by MeidasTouch LOL! Trump Ally GETS ARRESTED…What He DESERVES

Enjoy jail, Nick Fuentes!

07.12.2024 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5900    πŸ” 913    πŸ’¬ 284    πŸ“Œ 71

What do you expect them to do: Open each segment with a selected reading from Karl Marx? Nobody has been as strongly anti-Trump as MSNBC, especially after 4:00 pm.

07.12.2024 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The reason Trump's nominations are in trouble is because he has no respect for people with expertise. Why? Because experts always disagree with his idiotic pronouncements. He thinks people with knowledge of reality are just suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome!

03.12.2024 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hope you got to see this.

26.11.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 532    πŸ” 194    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 5

You, too. But I'm fine after the episode is over, except for the difficulty walking, as a result of lying in bed for a month after the COVID thing. They're clearly related, since I neve had AFib before COVID.

27.11.2024 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Musk Is Now Joking About Buying MSNBC To The Horror Of Liberalsβ€”Except It's Not For Sale Oh please no.

Oh please no.

27.11.2024 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3033    πŸ” 244    πŸ’¬ 416    πŸ“Œ 38
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Donald Trump wants you to believe that he is all powerful and that if you fight back you will lose.

He wants you to believe that if you fight back you face danger.

It is time for us to build not a temporary resistance but a long term opposition.

27.11.2024 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 34727    πŸ” 10254    πŸ’¬ 1238    πŸ“Œ 691

Sorry, you're overqualified.

24.11.2024 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As non-violence-oriented people have always known, true non-violence often results in violence. Witness Selma. Simply marching and posting do nothing. On the other hand, sitting in wherever deportation camps are being built has the potential to galvanize others into taking action.

24.11.2024 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The dog didn't put that umbrella on itself.😊

23.11.2024 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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