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Jack Brand

@jacklbrand.bsky.social

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Seattle musician/songwriter/composer. Anti-MAGA is an understatement. Politics is complicated. If you are telling Democrats to "do something", fine, but you had better be doing something yourself. 2026 matters. #Mizzou #UW #Mariners

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hardly anyone will read this because I am not one of Those Accounts, but:

The most irresponsible msg people can be putting out now is trying to convince people that 2026 elections will not happen.

If we don't prep for 2026 elections, and they do happen, we hand the GOP even more power.

Stop it.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 3h

If Maxwell is pardoned, the fallout will be significant. And he is just that stupid to do it.

Plus, if Maxwell thinks she has to look over her shoulder in prison, just wait until she's out.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 4h

OAN signed it.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 4h

Especially since those statues were put up decades after that 4 years...

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 4h

"Look, Biden hardly signed anything. He was, I'm told anyway, in Portland setting fire to all the buildings there. Nothing left. Biden did that himself."

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 4h

The fact that Alex Jones is walking free is disgusting.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 4h

JD Vance about the leaked chats in 3...2...1... - "Look, this is what the media does, because they hate conservatives. This is a disgusting witch hunt the American people don't care about..." yappity yap yap yap.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 5h

Holy f*ck: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat. Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders gleefully about gas chambers, slavery and rape. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 5h

The Venn Diagram is a circle.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 5h

But we were told "both parties are identical" 🤷‍♂️

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe good reporters lose access at press conferences, but GOP attention whores will never stop wanting to come on mainstream media to be interviewed - they crave that.

So do like George Stephanopoulos did (finally) - ask tough Qs, and cut away when they don't answer.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 6h

Notice how he doesn't address not swearing her in. This is also the reporter's fault, for setting him up to gaslight about Epstein. Question should have just been about AZ reps duly electing someone and not having representation, and that Repubs were sworn in quicker in similar situation.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 7h

I am confident that, indeed, Markwayne Mullin and these "Jewish leaders" do not, in fact, have any understanding why many Jewish people vote for Democrats.

They don't have a clue.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson sounds desperate. Because he is.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 8h

Stating what should be the obvious here: every district/state is different, so the right candidate who can win in one would not win in another. There are a lot of clueless voters in purple districts who would not go for a Mamdani. I don't like it, but there it is.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 8h

chronologically, not developmentally 😎