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Brian Holden

@brholden.bsky.social

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Atheist liberal from California and proud of it. Author of an upcoming Sci-Fi trilogy. 💙🔵🌊🌎♻️🇺🇦🎹🐶⚾️🌈ally

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · Nov 19

Because of our country’s declining birth rate, #immigration is a good thing to help pay for #SocialSecurity and #Medicare. We should embrace immigrants and thank them for choosing to become part of the American story.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 9h

Solar plus grid-scale batteries is the answer to getting the world's electrical grid off of fossil fuels.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 21h

My guess is that Trump will grift 100 Billion dollars off of us by the time all of this is done.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 1d

I voted YES today for CA proposition 50. We need to push back against the wave of red-state gerrymandering.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s endgame for all of his mayhem is to invoke the Insurrection Act and cancel elections.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 4d

Please vote YES on California Prop 50. Our democracy depends on changes like this.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 8d

Trump has already committed at least 25 different impeachable offenses.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 8d

I am going to vote YES on California Prop 50 because each generation must do its part to save democracy.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 11d

I’m guessing that some of the generals at the Quantico meeting worked out a side agreement concerning how they will respond to the inevitable illegal orders from Trump.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 11d

Hegseth’s ludicrous antics at his meeting of generals illustrates how definitively unqualified he is for his role as the Secretary of War.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 14d

The GOP is headed for a long and painful government shutdown on their watch. I’m guessing that the voters aren’t going to be happy.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 15d

Trump’s daily horror show is designed to wear us down. We’re not going to wear down.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 19d

Even though autism hadn’t been identified yet in the 19th century, there are plenty of characters in literature who clearly were somewhere on the spectrum, including Sherlock Holmes and Jane Eyre. Tylenol is a 20th century drug.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 19d

Today, Trump humiliated our country on the world stage. Tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that will be much the same.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 21d

Trump would love to use the military to influence the 2026 elections. We must prevent that from happening.
#fascism

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 22d

Trying to control the media is on page one of the dictator playbook.
#fascism

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 23d

Wannabe dictator Trump thinks that he can silence us. Let's prove him wrong.
#fascism #FirstAmendment

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 24d

Seth Meyers is now the last person standing who does late night political commentary. Let’s rally around him and help protect him.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 24d

I have seen the combination of narcissism and dementia similar to Trump’s case in a family member. It was devastating to everyone and ended in with a slow and medicated death in memory care.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 25d

Just a reminder that Trump is not fit to be the President.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 26d

Flags should have been at half-staff for Melissa Hortman, the MN House Rep, who was assassinated in June.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 27d

Release the unredacted Epstein files today.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 27d

Given so many mass shootings, banning the sale of assault rifles seems like a no brainer.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · 29d

A Fox News host calling for the killing of the homeless is yet another terrible instance of the right-wing echo chamber in action.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · Sep 10

Happy 175th anniversary, California! Here we celebrate our diversity. We are strong because of that diversity, not in spite of it.

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Brian Holden @brholden.bsky.social · Sep 9

Our reality has become a bad WWII movie where the officer says, “Your papers please.”
#fascism

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