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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 · 4h

Got it, ok, thanks!

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 6h

I also see a march from Capitol Hill - can you confirm that was is prior to the rally, from CH to Seattle Center?

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 6h

Especially when one of your supporters in the crowd was shot dead.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 6h

MAGA will never believe Maxwell is innocent. That's like saying they'd ever believe that Jan. 6 rioters were-- uh, never mind.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 7h

Bondi: Democrats=Antifa=Communists=Hamas=MS-13=...

🥱 This is how desperate they are. They know they will be fucked eventually.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

OAN signed it.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 14h

"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 · 14h

The fact that Alex Jones is walking free is disgusting.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

The Venn Diagram is a circle.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 14h

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

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

Mike Johnson sounds desperate. Because he is.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 18h

chronologically, not developmentally 😎

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 18h

Ideally the rocket ship could hold all Trump's voters as well.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

And: "here's what's really happening" and "the fact is" just mean "I think".

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

Eichorn had better not slow down his conviction past 2028 or he won't get his pardon.

Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

Remember the jerk who got his kicks insulting people in your 5th grade class and laughing about it?

Vance is simply an adult version of that.

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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 19h

The GOP is being politically dumb on the protest. A savvy party would say, "Everyone has the right to protest in our country, so we're not opposed to that."

But they are too insecure, afraid, and nervous. So they tell white grannies they "hate America".

Really dumb, and I'm here for it.

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