Brian Russell
@posaune76.bsky.social
Hockey, dogs, science, watches, chess, spreadsheets, music.
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INVENTOR OF THE WASHING MACHINE: it’s a machine that washes
INVENTOR OF THE DISHWASHER: washes what
INVENTOR OF THE DISHWASHER: washes what
December 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
INVENTOR OF THE WASHING MACHINE: it’s a machine that washes
INVENTOR OF THE DISHWASHER: washes what
INVENTOR OF THE DISHWASHER: washes what
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Thank you to @nodemleftbehind.bsky.social
for their endorsement of our campaign to turn #IL16 #redtoblue!
NDLB and our campaign share a mission to aggressively fight for bold policies that support working families, combat corruption, and defend our democracy.
for their endorsement of our campaign to turn #IL16 #redtoblue!
NDLB and our campaign share a mission to aggressively fight for bold policies that support working families, combat corruption, and defend our democracy.
December 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Thank you to @nodemleftbehind.bsky.social
for their endorsement of our campaign to turn #IL16 #redtoblue!
NDLB and our campaign share a mission to aggressively fight for bold policies that support working families, combat corruption, and defend our democracy.
for their endorsement of our campaign to turn #IL16 #redtoblue!
NDLB and our campaign share a mission to aggressively fight for bold policies that support working families, combat corruption, and defend our democracy.
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Ok this influencer who usually does reactions to people making food did a video about taking his 91 year old grandma to Disney bc she wanted to go and it made me cry
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DScx9hG...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DScx9hG...
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ok this influencer who usually does reactions to people making food did a video about taking his 91 year old grandma to Disney bc she wanted to go and it made me cry
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DScx9hG...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DScx9hG...
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This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.
The admin is wasting no crisis... Sec. Kristi Noem said she is suspending the diversity visa lottery program (DV-1) after the Brown University suspect entered the U.S. through it in 2017.
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.
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Just out of curiosity, do I have a large gap in my historical knowledge about oil, land, and assets that Venezuela took from the United States? Sometimes my mind wanders in class so it is totally possible
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just out of curiosity, do I have a large gap in my historical knowledge about oil, land, and assets that Venezuela took from the United States? Sometimes my mind wanders in class so it is totally possible
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Two former FBI Directors, at least
Trump just endorsed a post calling for the arrests of Chris Wray and Merrick Garland.
There's almost no media coverage of the sitting president supporting the arrest of a former FBI director and former Attorney General.
There's almost no media coverage of the sitting president supporting the arrest of a former FBI director and former Attorney General.
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Two former FBI Directors, at least
#IL16 "Representative" LaHood is cosponsoring H.R. 2165, a bill to limit the EPA's ability to regulate vehicle emissions. Please write to him at lahood.house.gov/contactValid... to ask him why the little explodey bits under the hood get him so excited.
Then vote for @nolleyforcongress.bsky.social
Then vote for @nolleyforcongress.bsky.social
Contact Validated | Congressman Darin LaHood
lahood.house.gov
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#IL16 "Representative" LaHood is cosponsoring H.R. 2165, a bill to limit the EPA's ability to regulate vehicle emissions. Please write to him at lahood.house.gov/contactValid... to ask him why the little explodey bits under the hood get him so excited.
Then vote for @nolleyforcongress.bsky.social
Then vote for @nolleyforcongress.bsky.social
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Seemingly making common cause with the murderer, as well.
December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Seemingly making common cause with the murderer, as well.
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
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👀
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
👀
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This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.
Hegseth texted war plans to family & friends, imperiling troops.
Source: Hegseth
Method: Signal
Source: Hegseth
Method: Signal
House Intel Chair Rick Crawford on why he doesn't want video of the second Sept 2 boat strike released: "What the trained eye can detect from these videos may reveal sources and methods that would imperil troops." (But releasing video of the first strike didn't?)
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hegseth texted war plans to family & friends, imperiling troops.
Source: Hegseth
Method: Signal
Source: Hegseth
Method: Signal
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ICE are thug scum.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
ICE are thug scum.
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When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
"My presence made everything worse, and my leaving will only improve the situation"
-Shorter #AlinaHabba
-Shorter #AlinaHabba
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"My presence made everything worse, and my leaving will only improve the situation"
-Shorter #AlinaHabba
-Shorter #AlinaHabba
Mind the gap
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Mind the gap
File type didn't exist at the time of the founding, so it isn't pronounced. 6-3, with a heavily researched dissent by Justice Brown Jackson
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AGREES TO REVIEW PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF "GIF"
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
File type didn't exist at the time of the founding, so it isn't pronounced. 6-3, with a heavily researched dissent by Justice Brown Jackson
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#PEORIA FOLKS: A kind supporter just helped us set up a small Meet & Greet this Friday in Peoria and a few spots are still open. If you’d like to attend, email us or DM and we’ll confirm and send details. Late notice, I know but more events are coming soon in Peoria, Bloomington, and across #IL16!
December 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Me: Hi, how do I close my accounts?
Large national bank: We're sorry to hear you want to close your accounts. Let us acknowledge your distress and mixed feelings and console you.
Me: You're the only bank in my area that gave tens of thousands of $ to my MAGA rep. Happy to leave.
Bank: Oh
Large national bank: We're sorry to hear you want to close your accounts. Let us acknowledge your distress and mixed feelings and console you.
Me: You're the only bank in my area that gave tens of thousands of $ to my MAGA rep. Happy to leave.
Bank: Oh
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Me: Hi, how do I close my accounts?
Large national bank: We're sorry to hear you want to close your accounts. Let us acknowledge your distress and mixed feelings and console you.
Me: You're the only bank in my area that gave tens of thousands of $ to my MAGA rep. Happy to leave.
Bank: Oh
Large national bank: We're sorry to hear you want to close your accounts. Let us acknowledge your distress and mixed feelings and console you.
Me: You're the only bank in my area that gave tens of thousands of $ to my MAGA rep. Happy to leave.
Bank: Oh
What a life. Never heard of him, wish we all had.
What a moving detail about Walter Dowdle, a public health giant. “Ms. Hulsey recalled that her father walked to and from work each day with a large bag to pick up trash on his way home. As a child, she thought her father was a garbage man until a classmate informed her otherwise.”
Walter Dowdle, Public Health Leader in Times of Crises, Dies at 94
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
What a life. Never heard of him, wish we all had.
Likely there are more weapons being brandished on the boats in this illustration than on the actual boats
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Likely there are more weapons being brandished on the boats in this illustration than on the actual boats
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The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...