Brad Reed
@bwreed.bsky.social
Currently a staff writer at CommonDreams.org.
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1/ Sometime in the next few months I expect we'll be bombarded with op-eds along the lines of, 'My Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein Was a Mistake--But Do I Really Deserve To Be Canceled For It?'
And the response should be, 'Yes, motherfucker, you do.'
And the response should be, 'Yes, motherfucker, you do.'
This was a truly disastrous decision and it came from the pre-MAGA court.
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
This was a truly disastrous decision and it came from the pre-MAGA court.
Those of us who hate AI want it to fuck off forever and wish we didn't have to deal with it.
At the same time we may have no choice.
At the same time we may have no choice.
I confess I do not understand why “the left should prepare for the worst case scenario with AI and jobs” seems to have elicited such a strong negative reaction bsky.app/profile/chri...
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Those of us who hate AI want it to fuck off forever and wish we didn't have to deal with it.
At the same time we may have no choice.
At the same time we may have no choice.
RACISTS: 'People who are not of European descent can never truly acclimate to our culture.'
BLACK BRITISH GUY: 'Here are my reviews of 50 sticky toffee puddings.'
BLACK BRITISH GUY: 'Here are my reviews of 50 sticky toffee puddings.'
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
RACISTS: 'People who are not of European descent can never truly acclimate to our culture.'
BLACK BRITISH GUY: 'Here are my reviews of 50 sticky toffee puddings.'
BLACK BRITISH GUY: 'Here are my reviews of 50 sticky toffee puddings.'
Facebook just promoted a Free Press article on my feed scolding us for making ICE agents into 'cartoon villains,' and here they are laughing about shooting an unarmed woman.
“My 15 mins of fame. Lmao.” -- Border Patrol agent, texting someone to brag about shooting a woman multiple times in Chicago.
Imagine almost killing someone and then responding with a "laugh my ass off" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Imagine almost killing someone and then responding with a "laugh my ass off" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different.
"It’s time to get aggressive," a Border Patrol agent said shortly before Marimar Martinez was shot five times.
www.motherjones.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Facebook just promoted a Free Press article on my feed scolding us for making ICE agents into 'cartoon villains,' and here they are laughing about shooting an unarmed woman.
Reposted by Brad Reed
report from St Paul: "Very bad car accident involving ice agent who left the scene"
February 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
report from St Paul: "Very bad car accident involving ice agent who left the scene"
Let's put Burgum in a room and pump lots of CO2 into it and see how he handles it.
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
February 11, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Let's put Burgum in a room and pump lots of CO2 into it and see how he handles it.
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big reason why the oligarch class went so hard for Trump. they HATE lots of job creation because when your workers can quit and get another one the next day, it's much harder to abuse them
With revisions, the +130,000 jobs in January is actually the best of the Trump's term. He didn't have a single month over +100,000 in 2025, with 3 months of job losses.
Also Biden is no longer the only president ever to have positive jobs numbers every month of his tenure. Jan '25 is now negative.
Also Biden is no longer the only president ever to have positive jobs numbers every month of his tenure. Jan '25 is now negative.
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
big reason why the oligarch class went so hard for Trump. they HATE lots of job creation because when your workers can quit and get another one the next day, it's much harder to abuse them
So Big Tech's grand vision seems to be the following: Get AI to put people out of work en masse. Then make people dependent on universal income that limits their individual earning power. Then get people to spend that income on addictive sports betting apps.
February 11, 2026 at 1:24 PM
So Big Tech's grand vision seems to be the following: Get AI to put people out of work en masse. Then make people dependent on universal income that limits their individual earning power. Then get people to spend that income on addictive sports betting apps.
Yep. They want AI to target and replace any potential obstacles to their accumulation of greater power.
Instead of taking this at face value, think of it as a *hit list* of targets that billionaires would like to eradicate.
Translators, historians, broadcasters, political scientists...
...now do you get the picture?
Translators, historians, broadcasters, political scientists...
...now do you get the picture?
Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:
February 11, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Yep. They want AI to target and replace any potential obstacles to their accumulation of greater power.
'It is afraid.'
The Washington Trump-Post says Democrats will lose voters by taxing the rich, all the polls show otherwise www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Trump is making voters uneasy. Democrats are pushing them away.
Punishing the wealthy might make Democrats feel good, but it won’t convince many voters.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:50 PM
'It is afraid.'
God bless her.
Mejia told Axios that when Democrats try to meet Trump "in the middle ... you're kind of falling into this trap of accepting egregious behavior because it seems like it's halfway to where they're at, when they're all the way to crazy."
www.axios.com/2026/02/11/a...
www.axios.com/2026/02/11/a...
Scoop: Dem House candidate Analilia Mejìa won't commit to voting for Hakeem Jeffries
"I look forward to sharing my concerns," the New Jersey progressive told Axios.
www.axios.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:49 PM
God bless her.
How about 'Fuck AI and fuck you for liking it.'
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Right now, “left-wing discourse on A.I. feels like a collection of irritable mental gestures in search of a consistent theme,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.
Right now, “left-wing discourse on A.I. feels like a collection of irritable mental gestures in search of a consistent theme,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.
Opinion | The Left Needs a Sharper A.I. Politics
The future may put progressive theories of work and human nature to the test.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 12:40 PM
How about 'Fuck AI and fuck you for liking it.'
Yeah well they had a funny way of showing last election when they voted for the guy who floated using the military against American citizens.
@democrats.org:
“This survey adds to a growing mountain of evidence that “kitchen table issues” are not, in fact, all that matters to voters, and that they care about their rights and freedoms and our democratic system as well.”
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/department...
“This survey adds to a growing mountain of evidence that “kitchen table issues” are not, in fact, all that matters to voters, and that they care about their rights and freedoms and our democratic system as well.”
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/department...
Department of Government Embezzlement
Trump opposes government charity . . . unless it’s for him.
www.thebulwark.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Yeah well they had a funny way of showing last election when they voted for the guy who floated using the military against American citizens.
What evidence could they even present? 'These lawmakers were mean to My President' is not a crime.
"The government attorneys assigned to the case are political appointees, not career Justice Department prosecutors, according to a source familiar with the investigation."
NEW: Trump DOJ tries, fails to secure indictment over Democratic lawmakers' social media video on unlawful orders. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
February 11, 2026 at 1:57 AM
What evidence could they even present? 'These lawmakers were mean to My President' is not a crime.
This is why I don't feel bad about canceling. It's already dead, I ain't gonna help pay for a corpse.
The Washington Post layoffs were a bigger bloodbath than you thought. New figures reveal 44 to 47.5 percent of the paper's newsroom was eliminated during last week's cuts.
Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought - Washingtonian
The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and…
washingtonian.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
This is why I don't feel bad about canceling. It's already dead, I ain't gonna help pay for a corpse.
AIPAC is making a hilarious number of enemies out of former allies and I am here for it.
BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June
February 10, 2026 at 3:54 PM
AIPAC is making a hilarious number of enemies out of former allies and I am here for it.
Uh, actually it's ICE agents frequently showing up to civilians' houses letting them know they know where they live.
Your attempts to make the Secret Police sympathetic are not going to be successful, champ.
Your attempts to make the Secret Police sympathetic are not going to be successful, champ.
RON JOHNSON: In Central America, if you become a police chief, the drug cartels send you a DVD w/ a video of your family going to church or school...that's what ICE agents are facing
SORKIN: But these people are allowed to protest
J: They want their activists to dox them & put families at risk
SORKIN: But these people are allowed to protest
J: They want their activists to dox them & put families at risk
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Uh, actually it's ICE agents frequently showing up to civilians' houses letting them know they know where they live.
Your attempts to make the Secret Police sympathetic are not going to be successful, champ.
Your attempts to make the Secret Police sympathetic are not going to be successful, champ.
'Stop trying to make the Secret Police comply with the US Constitution!'
Ron Johnson: "Why would they to remove their masks? Because they want these officers exposed, they want them afraid, they don't want to carry out their enforcement actions. They want judicial warrants, which would completely neuter ICE's ability to apprehend"
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
'Stop trying to make the Secret Police comply with the US Constitution!'
Huh but Michael Tracey assured me Maxwell is the Nelson Mandela of our time.
Republican Rep. Luna: “According to the files we saw, Ghislaine Maxwell was engaged in trafficking and rape of young women. Potentially children. I don’t think she deserves any special treatment. She’s a monster.”
(From @acyn.bsky.social )
(From @acyn.bsky.social )
February 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Huh but Michael Tracey assured me Maxwell is the Nelson Mandela of our time.
'Started lying...'
HONKY PLEASE.
Though honestly, the issue is one of demand more than supply.
The GOP base demands to be lied to. If you don't lie to them they will get furious and revolt.
HONKY PLEASE.
Though honestly, the issue is one of demand more than supply.
The GOP base demands to be lied to. If you don't lie to them they will get furious and revolt.
February 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM
'Started lying...'
HONKY PLEASE.
Though honestly, the issue is one of demand more than supply.
The GOP base demands to be lied to. If you don't lie to them they will get furious and revolt.
HONKY PLEASE.
Though honestly, the issue is one of demand more than supply.
The GOP base demands to be lied to. If you don't lie to them they will get furious and revolt.
Nah. The GOP is riding this ship all the way to the bottom of the ocean.
I believe a point in time will come when Trump's approval rating is low enough, the midterms will [be / have been] bad enough, and Congress knows enough that the dam breaks on Trump and Epstein.
Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
February 10, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Nah. The GOP is riding this ship all the way to the bottom of the ocean.
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Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
Hahahahaha suck it, chuds.
NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Hahahahaha suck it, chuds.
When Taylor Swift played in Brazil they welcomed her in English with a projection on the Cristo Redentor.
Only MAGA are such ridiculous babies about people speaking in foreign languages.
Only MAGA are such ridiculous babies about people speaking in foreign languages.
February 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
When Taylor Swift played in Brazil they welcomed her in English with a projection on the Cristo Redentor.
Only MAGA are such ridiculous babies about people speaking in foreign languages.
Only MAGA are such ridiculous babies about people speaking in foreign languages.
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM