Astrid
@astridbrand.bsky.social
Love gardening, keeping an eye out on climate, concerned at current affairs
Monday morning vibe.
January 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Monday morning vibe.
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🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7
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What really drives U.S. foreign policy?
Listen to what Bernie Sanders had to say 20 years ago.
Listen to what Bernie Sanders had to say 20 years ago.
January 7, 2026 at 7:31 PM
What really drives U.S. foreign policy?
Listen to what Bernie Sanders had to say 20 years ago.
Listen to what Bernie Sanders had to say 20 years ago.
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this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
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🚨🧵on Venezuela
While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see.
I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions...
1/11
While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see.
I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions...
1/11
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
🚨🧵on Venezuela
While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see.
I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions...
1/11
While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see.
I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions...
1/11
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John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
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I was reading this and wondering why it was the best-written thing I've ever read at TNR, and then I saw that Virginia Heffernan—one of the best writers in America—wrote it.
(I admit, abashedly, that I too have been following this MAGA drama. When you add in the Milo Yiannopoulos angles too, woof!)
(I admit, abashedly, that I too have been following this MAGA drama. When you add in the Milo Yiannopoulos angles too, woof!)
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes: What Could Go Wrong?
The unfolding MAGA battle over Turning Point USA is chilling, disgusting—and a lot of fun to watch.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I was reading this and wondering why it was the best-written thing I've ever read at TNR, and then I saw that Virginia Heffernan—one of the best writers in America—wrote it.
(I admit, abashedly, that I too have been following this MAGA drama. When you add in the Milo Yiannopoulos angles too, woof!)
(I admit, abashedly, that I too have been following this MAGA drama. When you add in the Milo Yiannopoulos angles too, woof!)
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Wearing a mask is not a political statement
It’s either an act of kindness or of self defence (and often both)
It’s either an act of kindness or of self defence (and often both)
December 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Wearing a mask is not a political statement
It’s either an act of kindness or of self defence (and often both)
It’s either an act of kindness or of self defence (and often both)
This morning's crisp air is filled with delicious biscuit smells.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This morning's crisp air is filled with delicious biscuit smells.
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Prof. Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social with the always-timely rundown of Trump's crimes for the week.
Watch, then share with people in your world who may not know what is happening with this criminal administration.
As always: keep demanding impeachment.
Watch, then share with people in your world who may not know what is happening with this criminal administration.
As always: keep demanding impeachment.
Helluva week in America... here are 5 minutes breaking down some of the key things you should know!
All these actions and more available on www.trumpactiontracker.info
youtu.be/3xjl2U2QteY
All these actions and more available on www.trumpactiontracker.info
youtu.be/3xjl2U2QteY
Undermining democracy this week in America
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Prof. Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social with the always-timely rundown of Trump's crimes for the week.
Watch, then share with people in your world who may not know what is happening with this criminal administration.
As always: keep demanding impeachment.
Watch, then share with people in your world who may not know what is happening with this criminal administration.
As always: keep demanding impeachment.
Increadibly good post.
"Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system."
authoritarian-stack.info
authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
authoritarian-stack.info
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Increadibly good post.
Up the Dragon's back today with the kids and the hounds. T'was wet, muddy and very very slippy. I may have come down on my backside, which was very undignified and hilarious in equal measures. #hiking #chromehill
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Up the Dragon's back today with the kids and the hounds. T'was wet, muddy and very very slippy. I may have come down on my backside, which was very undignified and hilarious in equal measures. #hiking #chromehill
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You may have seen quite a bit of news from Caerphilly today.
But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?
Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’
bsky.app/profile/then...
But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?
Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’
bsky.app/profile/then...
"It's democracy, but not as we know it"
Nerve Reform UK correspondent
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social
went to Caerphilly on byelection day. Where *was* candidate Llŷr Powell, ex-colleague of Russian puppet Nathan Gill? And what did Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle say?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq83...
Nerve Reform UK correspondent
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social
went to Caerphilly on byelection day. Where *was* candidate Llŷr Powell, ex-colleague of Russian puppet Nathan Gill? And what did Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle say?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq83...
Film made by John Lubbock & Daisy Steinhardt
YouTube video by Lyn Cat Irv
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You may have seen quite a bit of news from Caerphilly today.
But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?
Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’
bsky.app/profile/then...
But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?
Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’
bsky.app/profile/then...
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Wise from Paul Musgrave... U.S. hegemonic withdrawal and the destruction of the post war liberal international order is proceeding apace and it's not coming back.. we need imaginative thinking about what should come next.
musgrave.substack.com/p/dual-colla...
musgrave.substack.com/p/dual-colla...
Dual Collapse
The republic and the empire fall separately
musgrave.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wise from Paul Musgrave... U.S. hegemonic withdrawal and the destruction of the post war liberal international order is proceeding apace and it's not coming back.. we need imaginative thinking about what should come next.
musgrave.substack.com/p/dual-colla...
musgrave.substack.com/p/dual-colla...
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Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
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🔴 Farage’s new senior advisor has some awful views on Russia and Ukraine
Farage’s new hire won’t help his Putin problem
He’s got a new senior advisor... who has some pretty awful views.
writesbright.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🔴 Farage’s new senior advisor has some awful views on Russia and Ukraine
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He moving to the most pro EU country in the Union 🤣
October 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
He moving to the most pro EU country in the Union 🤣
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Is he under some sort of misapprehension that Ireland will be the right-wing paradise he's looking for? 😂
October 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Is he under some sort of misapprehension that Ireland will be the right-wing paradise he's looking for? 😂
Unbelievable! Brexiter and stout EU hater from my village selling his house to move to Ireland, because he does not like what is going on in the UK. I hope the Irish are ready for him.
October 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Unbelievable! Brexiter and stout EU hater from my village selling his house to move to Ireland, because he does not like what is going on in the UK. I hope the Irish are ready for him.
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It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."
September 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.
How? 1/
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Wow! Nearly 1000 followers already. We are blown away. 🎉
We’re launching on Tuesday and we’d love your support.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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We’re launching on Tuesday and we’d love your support.
Sign up here for free to receive our new biweekly newsletter. Or join us as a paying member of the Nerve community. 🙏
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊