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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 1d

And, I will delete my original post since it’s not a fair judgment of you. My bad.

Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 1d

That said, I apologize for suggesting you’re a right winger. The “about” section of your website makes it sound like the ArlNow/AlxNow arrangement is a more local version of a Bezos/WaPo or Sinclair/WJLA situation. Glad to be wrong.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 1d

Well then, you got this one wrong, IMO—this doesnt come remotely close to crossing a line into speech not protected by the 1A. As a publisher, I’m sure you also know that the lawfulness of anti-MAGA speech is a matter of considerable public interest right now. It’s important to get the law right.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t call you right wing, Ryan, nor did I call you worthless. You know your company’s ideological leanings. And the biggest problem here is the headline, which I imagine you did not write—it’s inaccurate, feeds into a right wing trope & unfortunately it’s all most people will see/internalize.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 7d

D’Angelo’s passing hits hard. Really hard.

Rest in peace. You were a true gift to this world.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 11d

I amused myself with this one. Since Bluesky doesn’t do polls, feel free to treat it like one in the comments.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 12d

Indigent defense is saying to yourself “I’ve just got to get through the next few months” for 10 years straight.

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Justice Forward VA @justicefwdva.bsky.social · 26d

Sentencing guidelines called for 1 day to 6 months of incarceration, yet Shebri Dillon was sentenced to 30 yrs in a Virginia prison! We’ve filed an amicus brief highlighting how old mandatory jury sentencing laws support Shebri’s ineffective counsel claims. 1/4
justiceforwardva.com/blog/2025/9/...

Image: picture of a blog post on Justice Forward Virginia’s website. Text: September 24, 2025
Sentencing guidelines called for 1 day to 6 months, Shebri Dillon was sentenced to 30 years.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 29d

And every public defenders office on god’s green earth

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 29d

SIKE

Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 21

This person is now the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia. Holy hell.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · 29d

If you vote for a guy who unironically demands to be called “The People’s Protector,” you have no one to blame but yourself.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 21

This person is now the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia. Holy hell.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 17

Read the article

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 17

This is what people like me wanted to say, if we could have found the words.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 17

I mean, Ian formed Minor Threat in 1980. It’s kind of amazing he’s ONLY in his early 60s.

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Anne O. Green Gables @uujerri.bsky.social · Sep 15

abc7chicago.com/post/evansto...

License plate reader company under investigation in Illinois speaks out as suburbs end contracts

There is growing concern over the use of license plate reader technology in Illinois, as the secretary of state has ordered one of the nation's largest operators to stop cooperating with federal agenc...

abc7chicago.com

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 14

Imagine if Dems pledged to defend reproductive rights during a primary, but later in the general bragged about cutting planned parenthood funding, in order to court “centrists” who will never under any circumstances vote for them

Now you know what it’s like to be a criminal justice reform advocate

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 14

That’s the MAGA cult in a nutshell, tho. Rights do not exist in their world. Compassion and even MOURNING do not exist in their world, unless the form of mourning aligns with their ideology. It is a relentless process of dehumanization & othering, aimed at justifying harm.

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 14

All people—even fundamentally horrible people—have intrinsic human dignity. The fact that it’s not enough to ground my feelings about tragedy in a person’s inherent worth—that I must also celebrate his work & can be punished if I dont—suggests these beliefs about dignity are a 1-way street.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · Sep 14

Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Sep 14

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 13

Love ya, Sally (seriously, you’re my favorite sportswriter by far), but you missed the mark here. Charlie Kirk’s ideology was every bit as bad as people say. And the fact that he expressed it with an “aww shucks” smile while claiming to embrace dialogue is precisely why it was so harmful.

Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 13

Has Nick Freitas called off the civil war yet?

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hahahaha you win reply of the year

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Brad Haywood @bradleyrhaywood.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yes. But just because it’s legal doesn’t mean Trump goons won’t arrest you.

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