Chase
@bradchase.bsky.social
*20+ years as a Media Guy writing some news stuff - behind the scenes - that you’ve definitely seen and read
*New York Times Crossword afficionado
*Lover of the em dash
*L.A.—>Seattle
www.chaseglobal.media
*New York Times Crossword afficionado
*Lover of the em dash
*L.A.—>Seattle
www.chaseglobal.media
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Chase
@bradchase.bsky.social
· Mar 10
www.barrons.com
Great story from @frankietaggart.bsky.social at @afpfr.bsky.social about the disaster that is the Democratic Party's communications operation. Message discipline and simple language are Comms 101 staples. It's past time for "the resistance" to learn it.
#crisiscomms www.barrons.com/news/democra...
#crisiscomms www.barrons.com/news/democra...
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reveal how it apportions taxpayer money, including information it apparently tried to hide through spend plans in footnotes.
This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!
This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!
Court once again shuts down OMB attempts to keep spending secret - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
A federal judge ordered the Trump admin to reveal legally binding plans to spend congressionally appropriated funds today in a lawsuit brought by CREW against OMB and OMB's Director Russell Vought.
www.citizensforethics.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:29 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reveal how it apportions taxpayer money, including information it apparently tried to hide through spend plans in footnotes.
This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!
This is a huge win for transparency and accountability!
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Dems need to get more personal — relentlessly attacking MAGA personalities and reveling in their downfall. It’s fun! But more importantly drives infighting among these petty influence-based neofascists. Watch Bovino, Noem, Miller fall, and then their factions fight over it. Sow division from within
Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
January 29, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Dems need to get more personal — relentlessly attacking MAGA personalities and reveling in their downfall. It’s fun! But more importantly drives infighting among these petty influence-based neofascists. Watch Bovino, Noem, Miller fall, and then their factions fight over it. Sow division from within
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Yes. More of this.
Love to see it.
Love to see it.
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 29, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Yes. More of this.
Love to see it.
Love to see it.
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Six years ago, I wrote about how the media has been falling for Trump's "new tone" nonsense for five years at that point. So we're now... 11 years into the media falling for Trump's "new tone." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
January 28, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Six years ago, I wrote about how the media has been falling for Trump's "new tone" nonsense for five years at that point. So we're now... 11 years into the media falling for Trump's "new tone." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved from 89 seconds to 85 seconds , four seconds closer to “doomsday.” That is the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight. That’s when, in the metaphor proposed by the keepers
The Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight. Does Anyone Care?
The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved from 89 seconds to 85 seconds, four seconds closer to “doomsday.” That is the closest the Clock has ever been...
www.404media.co
January 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close humanity is to destroying itself, has moved from 89 seconds to 85 seconds , four seconds closer to “doomsday.” That is the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight. That’s when, in the metaphor proposed by the keepers
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“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Good @adamserwer.bsky.social.
Trump banded the morally depraved together, but they’re still badly outnumbered.
Good @adamserwer.bsky.social.
Trump banded the morally depraved together, but they’re still badly outnumbered.
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 AM
“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Good @adamserwer.bsky.social.
Trump banded the morally depraved together, but they’re still badly outnumbered.
Good @adamserwer.bsky.social.
Trump banded the morally depraved together, but they’re still badly outnumbered.
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I think that would *probably* be an equal protection violation?
ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.
California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing
ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I think that would *probably* be an equal protection violation?
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“If you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 AM
“If you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice.”
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Does this mean Texas gets invaded now? Or is that only after intrepid reporter Nick Shirley gets a scoop?
www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...
www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...
January 27, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Does this mean Texas gets invaded now? Or is that only after intrepid reporter Nick Shirley gets a scoop?
www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...
www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...
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This is one of my favorite charts because the obvious implication is ... obvious, but you absolutely are not allowed to say it out loud in US public discourse.
January 27, 2026 at 6:41 AM
This is one of my favorite charts because the obvious implication is ... obvious, but you absolutely are not allowed to say it out loud in US public discourse.
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I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.
January 27, 2026 at 4:54 AM
I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
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Great. Everything is so fucked that somehow I agree with Greenwald.
He nails it here, though.
He nails it here, though.
January 26, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Great. Everything is so fucked that somehow I agree with Greenwald.
He nails it here, though.
He nails it here, though.
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Senator Rosen calling for Noem’s impeachment. More of this, please.
Kristi Noem and her department’s latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately.
January 25, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Senator Rosen calling for Noem’s impeachment. More of this, please.
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Leaving this here...
January 26, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Leaving this here...
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Damn proud of Minnesota.
January 26, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Damn proud of Minnesota.
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Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.
January 26, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.
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The Patriots are the designated home team, so we get the lucky white jerseys for #SuperBowlLX
January 26, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The Patriots are the designated home team, so we get the lucky white jerseys for #SuperBowlLX
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I’m fairly high-info, and I didn’t know half the details in this.
“CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States”.
Also, they only get 47 days of training. Yes, that’s why.
“CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States”.
Also, they only get 47 days of training. Yes, that’s why.
Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I’m fairly high-info, and I didn’t know half the details in this.
“CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States”.
Also, they only get 47 days of training. Yes, that’s why.
“CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States”.
Also, they only get 47 days of training. Yes, that’s why.
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The reporting I've seen from @startribune.com over the last few days is a great endorsement of the need for quality local journalism, which is suffering from fiscal setbacks across the country.
January 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The reporting I've seen from @startribune.com over the last few days is a great endorsement of the need for quality local journalism, which is suffering from fiscal setbacks across the country.
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.