Brian F Campbell
@brianfcampbell2.bsky.social
Dad, husband, tech guy, amateur cook. Laughs, politics, business, sports. ICYMI: President Trump is a MONSTER. Same handle on X and Mastodon. 😄✌️(San Diego)
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
“All of this is a choice.”
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We are better than this own-goal dystopia, which disgracefully services POTUS’s and Stephen Miller’s racist, vengeful fever dreams and provides NOTHING kind, moral, or society-building. 🇺🇸
#LAStrong
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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We are better than this own-goal dystopia, which disgracefully services POTUS’s and Stephen Miller’s racist, vengeful fever dreams and provides NOTHING kind, moral, or society-building. 🇺🇸
#LAStrong
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
This could be one of my favorites of all time
10/10 ICE protest sign
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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I’m collecting euphemisms American journalists are using to avoid telling readers that Warsh abandoned all his principles to land the gig.
January 30, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I’m collecting euphemisms American journalists are using to avoid telling readers that Warsh abandoned all his principles to land the gig.
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🧵: As the week ends there are 3 different things going on to keep in mind. 1) No matter what happens in the Senate today/this weekend, it will not stop the ICE/CBP actions. This is because the ridiculous 9 figures of ops & detention funds are locked in from last years One Beautiful Bill. 1/
January 30, 2026 at 5:01 PM
🧵: As the week ends there are 3 different things going on to keep in mind. 1) No matter what happens in the Senate today/this weekend, it will not stop the ICE/CBP actions. This is because the ridiculous 9 figures of ops & detention funds are locked in from last years One Beautiful Bill. 1/
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My very slightly different pet theory is that so many of the political stories that are important now involve the workings of complicated systems, and that tech journalists (and sf writers) are the people with the best developed skills to communicate this.
Verge out here killing it day in and day out
also Wired
warms my li'l wrinkled raisin of a heart to see tech outlets recognize that now that tech is everywhere and touches everything their remit is so much bigger than it was
also Wired
warms my li'l wrinkled raisin of a heart to see tech outlets recognize that now that tech is everywhere and touches everything their remit is so much bigger than it was
The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
January 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM
My very slightly different pet theory is that so many of the political stories that are important now involve the workings of complicated systems, and that tech journalists (and sf writers) are the people with the best developed skills to communicate this.
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How about:
Video Analysis Shows Trump’s Agents Murdered Defenseless Man, Then Lied About It
Video Analysis Shows Trump’s Agents Murdered Defenseless Man, Then Lied About It
January 27, 2026 at 3:48 PM
How about:
Video Analysis Shows Trump’s Agents Murdered Defenseless Man, Then Lied About It
Video Analysis Shows Trump’s Agents Murdered Defenseless Man, Then Lied About It
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2. the online crazies and the jackals of the RW media circus are used to getting everything they want from the admin and are desperately trying to get the WH to disbelieve or disregard the political winds that are blowing against them (possibly b/c the online right cannot understand reality anymore)
January 27, 2026 at 6:20 AM
2. the online crazies and the jackals of the RW media circus are used to getting everything they want from the admin and are desperately trying to get the WH to disbelieve or disregard the political winds that are blowing against them (possibly b/c the online right cannot understand reality anymore)
You and what army?
No, really, Matt: if you want to deport and jail all my neighbors, you’re going to need an army.
We’re in the real world now bucko. This isn’t internet land where you declare something and it becomes true. You need actual dudes. So where’s your army?
No, really, Matt: if you want to deport and jail all my neighbors, you’re going to need an army.
We’re in the real world now bucko. This isn’t internet land where you declare something and it becomes true. You need actual dudes. So where’s your army?
January 27, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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"The suspect put himself in that situation."
Well, we know that Bovino, Stephen Miller, Trump and the rest of this sick crew are not going to tell the truth. This is a war for them. A war against American citizens. And they will lie—and kill—to triumph.
Well, we know that Bovino, Stephen Miller, Trump and the rest of this sick crew are not going to tell the truth. This is a war for them. A war against American citizens. And they will lie—and kill—to triumph.
BASH: It feels as though you're blaming the victim here
BOVINO: The victims are the Border Patrol agents. I'm not blaming the Border Patrol agents. The victims are the Border Patrol agents.
BOVINO: The victims are the Border Patrol agents. I'm not blaming the Border Patrol agents. The victims are the Border Patrol agents.
January 25, 2026 at 3:20 PM
"The suspect put himself in that situation."
Well, we know that Bovino, Stephen Miller, Trump and the rest of this sick crew are not going to tell the truth. This is a war for them. A war against American citizens. And they will lie—and kill—to triumph.
Well, we know that Bovino, Stephen Miller, Trump and the rest of this sick crew are not going to tell the truth. This is a war for them. A war against American citizens. And they will lie—and kill—to triumph.
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2/ Some will say, "Well, they don't feel shame anyway." Yes they do. Everyone does. It's a psychological pain, and I want that pain to be intolerable. I want society to reject them. You don't get to claim you support this administration and are still "a good person." No. It's over. Be gone. END
January 24, 2026 at 11:27 PM
2/ Some will say, "Well, they don't feel shame anyway." Yes they do. Everyone does. It's a psychological pain, and I want that pain to be intolerable. I want society to reject them. You don't get to claim you support this administration and are still "a good person." No. It's over. Be gone. END
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We have a president that is a reality TV star trying to gaslight the entire country entire buying into a false version of reality where immigrants are a bigger threat than authoritarianism. Folks, we cannot let him succeed.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
January 24, 2026 at 7:17 PM
We have a president that is a reality TV star trying to gaslight the entire country entire buying into a false version of reality where immigrants are a bigger threat than authoritarianism. Folks, we cannot let him succeed.
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This is fascist propaganda. This is not a legitimate government.
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
This is fascist propaganda. This is not a legitimate government.
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they don’t even have the “she was driving a car” horseshit they used to smear Renee Good, they just wrestled this guy to the ground and shot him and it’s all right there for anyone to see
January 24, 2026 at 8:05 PM
they don’t even have the “she was driving a car” horseshit they used to smear Renee Good, they just wrestled this guy to the ground and shot him and it’s all right there for anyone to see
Reminder: Leaders that are fundamentally shitty human beings will produce deplorable outcomes.
#ice #stephenmiller #minnesota #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ice #stephenmiller #minnesota #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
January 24, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Reminder: Leaders that are fundamentally shitty human beings will produce deplorable outcomes.
#ice #stephenmiller #minnesota #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ice #stephenmiller #minnesota #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.
Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.
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Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law
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This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
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And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
January 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
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There is nothing complex or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening here.
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
There is nothing complex or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening here.
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The US Senate could be fixed either by making it less malapportioned or by eliminating its veto over ordinary legislation (that doesn't impinge on core state powers) (i.e., so the House could overrule a Senate veto with a majority vote, as in Germany).
January 14, 2026 at 8:05 AM
The US Senate could be fixed either by making it less malapportioned or by eliminating its veto over ordinary legislation (that doesn't impinge on core state powers) (i.e., so the House could overrule a Senate veto with a majority vote, as in Germany).