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Brent Anderson

@andbrent.bsky.social

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Bred in San Diego, led to Kansas City. @frictionbeer co-owner, copywriter, @Arsenal, drummer, cyclist, malcontent and aspiring bon vivant.

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · Jul 11

New post from my ‘90s backstage pass collection about a wonderfully eventful week in 1995. andbrent.substack.com/p/living-dea...

Living dead boys.

On the road with White Zombie.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · Apr 2

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 1h

The freakin' White House. Currently being destroyed by someone who said they wouldn't need to affect the existing structure while building a thoroughly unnecessary gaudy ballroom to somehow fill the gaping void in his soul.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

WHAT THE FUCK

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

When you see who is complicit, you understand how successful the effort has been to bury the story.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5h

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h

Not sure "if Trump could have silenced dissent by shutting down rallies, trampling on your freedoms, he would have" is quite the argument that the speaker thinks it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 7h

"satire to make a point." That point being to crown himself a king and that it's hilarious to shit on Americans. These clowns are so triggered and bereft of ways to refute the reality that millions of people can't stand them and want them out.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h

i love "no kings" especially because its making the gop do a batshit crazy argument of "no actually we like kings"

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 8h

Jared always looks like he's trying to hold in a fart.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1d

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 22h

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre
Andrew Harding
Paris correspondent, at the scene

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 23h

Having just gotten back from Ireland where we spent the least time in Dublin, pretty much checks out for any country. The renowned sights of the world in major cities are worth your time, but not at the expense of getting to know a nation's true personality and soul outside of them.

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 23h

And the Jeu De Paume and Orangerie are right down the Tuilleries gardens, wonderful in their own right and often overlooked.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 1d

“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful.
From @gelliottmorris.com

open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

open.substack.com

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 23h

Aka surveillance thrones.

Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 23h

Agreed. And the Raid is a nice touch. And honestly, what the hell does it have to do with partisan politics as opposed to objectively bad choices?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

Sounds … about right.

But still crazy to think those words were spoken aloud.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 23h

Invariably anything he does, no matter how illegal, unusual, or unbecoming of the office, is always framed as trying to make sense of potential future problems ("getting", "becoming", etc.) when in actuality it's very real now. It's less "rhetoric" and more purposeful verbal violence.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

They had told Newsom to keep I-5 open during this stunt.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 1d

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

couldn’t agree with this more. conservatives in casual conversation will say the most out of pocket shit you’ve heard in your life but we’re out of touch if we call them out or judge them for it because they get a benefit of the doubt never afforded to progressives.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 1d

Let alone that they continue to propagate this massive lie about Soros being an evil financial backer of anything they don't like.

Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 1d

Protest is one of the most pro-American things citizens can do and I saw a ton of kids and grannies yesterday. Meanwhile, we also have an absolutely insane AI video posted last night by Trump depicting him in a crown and literally dropping shit on Americans.

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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It’s Not a Dog Whistle If Everyone Can Hear It

A week of ostentatious bigotry in American politics

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 1d

Fraudulent and deliberately framed in their favor. Strong verbs and inferring the Marines are Vance's weapon to wield.

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Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 1d

And I thought the NYT framing was bad. "Jabs". They all treat it like a joke, a tit-for-tat in partisan bickering rather than the pointed insanity it really is. At least one thing is clear, his utter disdain for anyone who doesn't enable him.

Brent Anderson @andbrent.bsky.social · 1d

Kansas City turned up! #NoKings

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