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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · 1d

Photos from my session with Water Monster last year #spokane

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible visuals with this scrolling infographic. Heartbreaking.

Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of attention has been paid to overseas aid cut by the Trump administration, but this brilliant piece of visual data journalism illustrates the devastating cuts to food banks here at home: 94 million pounds of food that were never delivered projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · 4d

Car washes are the new mattress store - they’re popping up everywhere

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · 7d

NEED

Seattle Kraken (Bot) @notseattlekraken.bsky.social · 7d

Our FIRST EVER shoe has surfaced 🌊

Get ready to run the rink in the Brooks Ghost 17: Kraken Edition available at 9 a.m. on October 6!

Photo of new Brooks Ghost: Kraken Edition.

Photo of heal seat of Brooks Ghost: Kraken Edition.

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Feeding America @feedingamerica.org · 9d

Many people in America are a single missed paycheck away from needing support from their local food banks. A prolonged shutdown will deepen the strain.

📰 Read our full statement: bit.ly/4gMi1hb

Quote from Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot. When the federal government shuts down, uncertainty begins immediately. Families, federal workers—including active-duty military—people who work for federal contractors and seniors suddenly face impossible choices not knowing if paychecks or food benefits will arrive on time.

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · 13d

Hey I’m playing drums tonight at baby bar. Landline is 1st at 8
#spokane

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · 14d

Big Dumper is objectively the best nickname because it sounds cool while also asserting dominance

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · Sep 8

Now, Trump is resuming workplace raids, raising the question of what will happen to our food supply if ICE goes after JBS’s workforce again. A collaboration with @thefern.org.

How an immigration raid reshaped meatpacking — and America - High Country News

In 2006, large-scale ICE raids in Greeley, Colorado, and elsewhere, triggered massive changes to the meatpacking workplace that continue reshaping the center of the country.

www.hcn.org

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our garage is full of moths for some reason which seems like the beginning to a horror film

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Sep 8

This week 🎧
#last.fm #listening

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Legacy news orgs have caved to a power consensus at an institutional level. They might be able to write a 76-page report addressing what’s happening, and even include some trenchant facts. But in the end, in the aggregate, they will manage to say little to nothing." - @andreapitzer.bsky.social

See no evil

When journalists and public intellectuals ignore reality.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Sep 2

This week 🎧
#last.fm #listening

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Aug 24

This week 🎧
#last.fm #listening

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Aug 24

New weird thing at the gym: encountered my first gym influencer, giant tripod and all

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Aug 17

Billy Strings is Silverwoodcore
#Silverwood

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Aug 4

This week 🎧
#last.fm #listening

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Aug 2

Colville
#payphoneography
#leicam10

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 29

Late-season overripe raspberries >

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 27

This week 🎧
#last.fm #listening

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Lebanexican @lebanexican.bsky.social · Jul 23

“The world is watching as people who’ve already been stripped of nearly everything they have are being forced to hand over the one thing they have left: the very fat on their bodies.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 22

Read my latest:

Gaza is starving

Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 20

This week 🎧
#last.fm #listening

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Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 18

Gigs:
Sandpoint tonight at Pour Authority
Seattle Sunday at the Sunset

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 18

Loratadine would make a great baby name

Brandon Vasquez @brandonjvasquez.bsky.social · Jul 17

Cougar town