Brent Anderson
@andbrent.bsky.social
Bred in San Diego, led to Kansas City. @frictionbeer co-owner, copywriter, @Arsenal, drummer, cyclist, malcontent and aspiring bon vivant.
Pinned
One more time, from the top.
This was my beautiful life, how did I get here?
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
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What an obsequious, toadying, servile, brown-nosing, corrupt little cunt Gianni Infantino is.
The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life.
Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.
The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life.
Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What an obsequious, toadying, servile, brown-nosing, corrupt little cunt Gianni Infantino is.
The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life.
Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.
The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life.
Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.
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Your four year reminder that this could have been an email.
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Your four year reminder that this could have been an email.
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a coke and coffee joint called bump and grind
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
a coke and coffee joint called bump and grind
Jess continues to bring the rural heat.
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Jess continues to bring the rural heat.
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This is my big soap box. We gave the presidency too much power with the PATRIOT Act, extrajudicial drone strikes, indefinite detention and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump is just using executive authority Congress gave to the presidency after 9/11 to maximum effect.
Congress, in my opinion has ceded too much of its authority to the Executive Branch in the last nearly quarter of a century. What the administration has been doing is simply part the Post 9/11 legacy. It’s got to stop. I say this as a GWOT era veteran.
Credit to Rand Paul. He hated extrajudicial drone strike killings under Obama and he HATES them under Trump where Congress has given no authorization.
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is my big soap box. We gave the presidency too much power with the PATRIOT Act, extrajudicial drone strikes, indefinite detention and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump is just using executive authority Congress gave to the presidency after 9/11 to maximum effect.
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Behold the greatest economy in the history of the world
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Behold the greatest economy in the history of the world
JFC Americans are drowning in choice. These people think turning back the clock isn't just for daylight savings time.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
JFC Americans are drowning in choice. These people think turning back the clock isn't just for daylight savings time.
More of this energy.
We're proud to announce our newest endorsement: @melatkirosco.bsky.social in #CO01!
A barista & renter—who lost her job as a lawyer for defending pro-Palestine protests—Melat knows Denver's struggles because she's lived them.
#CO01 needs a leader powered by courage, not corporations.
A barista & renter—who lost her job as a lawyer for defending pro-Palestine protests—Melat knows Denver's struggles because she's lived them.
#CO01 needs a leader powered by courage, not corporations.
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
More of this energy.
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Live wrong and prosper
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Live wrong and prosper
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All of this RIGHT HERE!👇🏼👇🏼🔥🔥
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
All of this RIGHT HERE!👇🏼👇🏼🔥🔥
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If we can convince the PL to give us a point per injury we are absolutely cooking
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If we can convince the PL to give us a point per injury we are absolutely cooking
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“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted?
JFC what are you doing?
JFC what are you doing?
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted?
JFC what are you doing?
JFC what are you doing?
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There's a reason DC, with all its Roman architecture and nomenclature, doesn't have a triumphal arch. They are imperial. The practice is older, but they're primarily associated with the later surviving ones, exclusively reserved for emperors. Thus why the one in Paris is a Napoleonic monument.
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There's a reason DC, with all its Roman architecture and nomenclature, doesn't have a triumphal arch. They are imperial. The practice is older, but they're primarily associated with the later surviving ones, exclusively reserved for emperors. Thus why the one in Paris is a Napoleonic monument.
Heartbreaking story.
Wong’s plight — arms raised in anguish and weeping as he stands against the backdrop of what became Hong Kong’s deadliest fire since 1948 — was captured in a Reuters photograph that went viral, becoming the emblematic frame of the disaster reut.rs/4rzTZek
The photo that became a symbol for Hong Kong's deadly fire
Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades shattered Wong’s life: a walk to school became a desperate search as his wife vanished in the deadly blaze.
reut.rs
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Heartbreaking story.
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(📢) BREAKING NEWS: After Publishing Historic Racist Screed Against Minnesotan Somali-Americans, Trump Orders His Personal Army to Invade Minnesota and Ruthlessly Terrorize As Many Nonwhites As Possible
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
(📢) BREAKING NEWS: After Publishing Historic Racist Screed Against Minnesotan Somali-Americans, Trump Orders His Personal Army to Invade Minnesota and Ruthlessly Terrorize As Many Nonwhites As Possible
The "thoughts and prayers" of actual action.
JAKE TAPPER: You called on Hegseth to release the full tapes of the attack. What sort of action are Democrats prepared to take to make this happen?
CHUCK SCHUMER: We hope that they will release the tapes.
CHUCK SCHUMER: We hope that they will release the tapes.
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The "thoughts and prayers" of actual action.
I named my fists Jack and Daniel because they like to get punch drunk.
I named my fists Milli and Vanilli because they've not had a hit since the 80s.
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I named my fists Jack and Daniel because they like to get punch drunk.
Son-in-lawbreaking
What is Jared Kushner's job in the administration?
I’d rather question why is Kushner there and why is he laying out a vision? We did not vote him into any gov position nor the senate we voted for has approved his candidacy.
This isn’t a grey zone anymore, it’s 50 shades of grey.
This isn’t a grey zone anymore, it’s 50 shades of grey.
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Son-in-lawbreaking
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Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
As a small business owner in the alcohol sector (in a ruby red state), the amount of taxation, redundancy and time-wasting bureaucracy is punishing to say the very least. And that's before insurance. Politicians love praising small businesses, but measures like this would actually deliver to them.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
As a small business owner in the alcohol sector (in a ruby red state), the amount of taxation, redundancy and time-wasting bureaucracy is punishing to say the very least. And that's before insurance. Politicians love praising small businesses, but measures like this would actually deliver to them.
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It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Clash
Prince
Afghan Whigs
Slayer
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Clash
Prince
Afghan Whigs
Slayer
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Van Halen
Beastie Boys
Sturgill Simpson
Me Like Bees
Parker Millsap
Van Halen
Beastie Boys
Sturgill Simpson
Me Like Bees
Parker Millsap
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Senses Fail
SeeYouSpaceCowboy
My Chemical Romance
Taking Back Sunday
Better Lovers
Senses Fail
SeeYouSpaceCowboy
My Chemical Romance
Taking Back Sunday
Better Lovers
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Clash
Prince
Afghan Whigs
Slayer
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Clash
Prince
Afghan Whigs
Slayer