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Jack Brand

@jacklbrand.bsky.social

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Seattle musician/songwriter/composer. Anti-MAGA is an understatement. Politics is complicated. If you are telling Democrats to "do something", fine, but you had better be doing something yourself. 2026 matters. #Mizzou #UW #Mariners

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hardly anyone will read this because I am not one of Those Accounts, but:

The most irresponsible msg people can be putting out now is trying to convince people that 2026 elections will not happen.

If we don't prep for 2026 elections, and they do happen, we hand the GOP even more power.

Stop it.

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Pierre L @plabbe14.bsky.social · 1m

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 1m

Anything to change the subject from the Young Republicans Nazi story.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 10m

Not quite - Trump said something accurate the other day, that he probably isn't getting into Heaven.

Both because Heaven doesn't exist, and because if it did they wouldn't let him near it.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 13m

The Young Repubs just proved, for the millionth time, that the prime motivating force in conservatism is racism, and always has been.

Jess, you see this in Missouri daily: people who are still seething that the Confederacy lost and that Brown v. Board & the Civil Rights movement happened at all.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 27m

Bessent is flailing badly. "We need to get the government out of the way." Bro, the government is shut DOWN. How much more out of the way can it get?

His voice sounds like he's about to cry. They know the Finding Out phase is coming.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 29m

The Hague Awaits.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 43m

ICE doesn't care, because they are bounty hunters, motivated by racism+money.

Noem doesn't care, because she's in a cult.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 9h

Got it, ok, thanks!

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 11h

I also see a march from Capitol Hill - can you confirm that was is prior to the rally, from CH to Seattle Center?

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 11h

Especially when one of your supporters in the crowd was shot dead.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 11h

MAGA will never believe Maxwell is innocent. That's like saying they'd ever believe that Jan. 6 rioters were-- uh, never mind.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 12h

Bondi: Democrats=Antifa=Communists=Hamas=MS-13=...

🥱 This is how desperate they are. They know they will be fucked eventually.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 18h

If Maxwell is pardoned, the fallout will be significant. And he is just that stupid to do it.

Plus, if Maxwell thinks she has to look over her shoulder in prison, just wait until she's out.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

OAN signed it.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

Especially since those statues were put up decades after that 4 years...

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

"Look, Biden hardly signed anything. He was, I'm told anyway, in Portland setting fire to all the buildings there. Nothing left. Biden did that himself."

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

The fact that Alex Jones is walking free is disgusting.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

JD Vance about the leaked chats in 3...2...1... - "Look, this is what the media does, because they hate conservatives. This is a disgusting witch hunt the American people don't care about..." yappity yap yap yap.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 19h

Holy f*ck: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat. Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders gleefully about gas chambers, slavery and rape. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

The Venn Diagram is a circle.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

But we were told "both parties are identical" 🤷‍♂️

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe good reporters lose access at press conferences, but GOP attention whores will never stop wanting to come on mainstream media to be interviewed - they crave that.

So do like George Stephanopoulos did (finally) - ask tough Qs, and cut away when they don't answer.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 21h

Notice how he doesn't address not swearing her in. This is also the reporter's fault, for setting him up to gaslight about Epstein. Question should have just been about AZ reps duly electing someone and not having representation, and that Repubs were sworn in quicker in similar situation.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 22h

I am confident that, indeed, Markwayne Mullin and these "Jewish leaders" do not, in fact, have any understanding why many Jewish people vote for Democrats.

They don't have a clue.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 22h

Mike Johnson sounds desperate. Because he is.