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Brendon M
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Los Angeles County resident. American with dual citizenship 🇮🇪 | Visual storytelling enthusiast: movies/TV/graphic novels/video games. Sci-fi+thrillers are my literary jam. Music soothes the soul 🎧 https://letterboxd.com/brendonla
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Hopefully today’s election results across the U.S. are a bell weather for the midterms next year: Americans have had enough of this regime’s garbage “policies.”

For now, enjoying the taste of victory. 🎉🍾

#CaliStrong💪
#YesOnProp50
Everything the the GOP accused the @democrats.org of doing during Obama and Biden's terms, THEY are doing NOW.

This is an important, eye-opening read about the MAGA infection that has almost killed the patient @TheJusticeDept

Gift link below.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Strong agreement - but it’s going to be a long slog to get to this as the corrupt GOP will not give up power.
Donald Trump is a convicted criminal.

The Trump administration is a criminal organization.

This is a transparently corrupt, impeachable offense.

When Trump is removed from office his actions and entire executive legacy must be expunged from the government.
Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The Affordable Care Act created a marketplace where consumers could use subsidies to help purchase private-sector plans. Trump’s concept of a plan involves no such marketplace, plunging consumers into a state of nature

"It’s so good ... They’re gonna feel like entrepreneurs" trib.al/7cyWvzQ
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
If one wants to go to a therapist (as I did for eight years) then go to a HUMAN therapist and do not use a goddamn AI app.

#mentalhealth

www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
AI therapy chatbots regularly commit ethical violations, Brown study finds
A new study by Brown researchers suggests that AI chatbots are not ready for mental health support.
www.browndailyherald.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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He can call it a hoax all he wants. The Epstein files are sticking to Trump like a bad rash that he will never get rid of.

This is brilliant 🏆
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Republicans expecting mass defections on Epstein vote
Republicans expecting mass defections on Epstein vote
Republicans are bracing for a significant chunk of the conference to vote for Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) Epstein file disclosure bill once it lands on the House floor. GOP leadership aides believe dozens of Republicans will vote it, possibly 100 or more, according to five people granted anonymity to speak candidly. Democrats pushing the petition publicly predicted that Republicans would rush to support the measure once it hit the floor. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said earlier Wednesday that he’d vote in favor of a bill demanding the Justice Department release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, but expressed confidence in the House Oversight Committee’s work in releasing information related to the case. “I think it’s a little bit of a false hope that’s going to provide these great results,” Bacon told MSNBC about the discharge petition. “It’s still got to work its way through the Senate and the president. But we’re already getting a lot of results.” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) also said he’d vote for the measure when it comes to the House floor. “Sure I’d support it, absolutely,” he said in a brief interview. “Unless there’s some reason not to. I don’t see any reason not to.”
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As disappointing as it is to watch this go down, it reinforces the fact that Congressional Republicans do not care about anything except forcing their agenda on the rest of us.

Going to a local food bank today to donate supplies and cash.

#GOPshutdown
BREAKING: John Thune just rejected a one-year extension of health care tax credits — confirming what we already knew. Republicans have zero interest in helping Americans facing soaring premiums.
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This just arrived in the mail. I know what I'll be listening to later today. Nice job packaging this material up @numerogroup.bsky.social

Surprised (but glad!) to see some of the Warner Bros. years represented on disc two.

#HuskerDu
#ZenArcade
#NewDayRising
#FlipYourWig
#MusicSaves
#MusicSky 🎵🎸🥁
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Nothing to see here, folks.
The US has eased sanctions against Belarus, according to Reuters

The Treasury Department has officially lifted sanctions against the Belarusian airline Belavia. The US has also issued a general license allowing certain operations involving three of Lukashenko's previously sanctioned aircraft.
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Wow — amazing!!! 👏👏
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Hopefully today’s election results across the U.S. are a bell weather for the midterms next year: Americans have had enough of this regime’s garbage “policies.”

For now, enjoying the taste of victory. 🎉🍾

#CaliStrong💪
#YesOnProp50
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Went searching for U2 songs on the Freegal music app and found this. No joke, this is a thing.

lapl.freegalmusic.com/album/342356...

#musicsky 🎼🎸🥁
NOW That's What I Call Dad Rock
Various Artists · Album · 2018 · 57 songs
lapl.freegalmusic.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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If I were Usha Vance, I’d be preparing my exit strategy.

Not because of rumors that JD is knocking boots with Mrs. Kirk, but because he wants her to reject her heritage and convert to Christianity.

This is not a man who loves his wife for who she is.
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.

Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Trump is underwater on everything. And massively so on a lot things:
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM