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John Breen
@breen.myatproto.social
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He/They. Queer.🏴

Tech worker (derogatory)

Fuck fascism

📍: Northern Virginia
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This u?
Who can interact with this post? Everybody can reply to this post.
February 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Yep
Kernighan’s post with the default blue avatar
February 2, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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This is who runs this account
Me as a baby inside a Gatorade cooler. I have a big ole smile on my face
February 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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We got some new snacks at distro today. These Master P Bbq cheese puffs are delicious
A bag of Rap Snacks Master P Bar-B-Quin With My Homies Heat Cheese Puffs There’s a pic of Master P on the front
January 31, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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I remember the last time the birds hired a Packers QB Coach
Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb on the sideline together
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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No, I don’t know if he was in Richmond or not.

The quoted post is a video from the Black Panthers in Philly saying that panther elders made them stop using the BPP name bc of something about immigrants

I brought up BLM757 because (as a comrade pointed out) the video has their watermark on it
Quoted post: “The New Black Panther Party has been banned from using the name due to the original Black Panthers not agreeing with their support for illegal immigrants.” Video is. Handful of Black men standing in front of a camera with a BLM757 watermark
January 27, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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This is what Aaron Dixon had to say about it btw:
Aaron Dixon 1d•O ... It was not easy to be a member of the BPP. A lot was asked of its members.You were required to memorize the 10 point program and read 2 hrs daily including reading the Bpp news paper before going out to sell your required 100 news papers a day. You were required to understand the revolutionary principles of the party you had to read the redbook and understand it. And work in the various programs you were assigned to. Sometimes you were sent away to work in different chapters without much notice and to learn about weapon and how to use them. Yes people were often expelled for violating rules and principles.i had to personally expelled someone that i was close to we still remained good friends. After the Bpp went out of existence many groups attempted to name there organization and groups after the BPP.. Some of these groups that approached me I ask them to come up with there own names which they did. Like Open in New Jersy and the Elephant party in Tacoma Washington. Aaron Dixon 1d • & • • • dull vastlylun. When I was contacted by Paul Birdsong he was already using the BPP name.which he said was part of a Bpp group from LA under the leadership of some OG Panthers So I agreed to advise him and he brought me to Philly .He exhibited a lot of dedication to the people with weekly food programs and weekly barbecues as well as adressing Police brutality issues. I also connected him with a original Philly panther to also give him guidance. When I left Philly I was impressed with his discipline and his dedication. Shortly after that he began to get a lot of social media exposure. I had also got a original panther from Chicago to advise him. We were both impressed by him. However we noticed that his usage of the word I was more prominent that the word we when talking about his work. And he was often using profanity in his confrontations with the police in front of the people who had gathered. At one point he said all power to the mothafuckin people which is something we never would have said. We never used profanity in front of the people... did notice his ego was getting bigger and he was posting more videos of himself. So myself and a New York veteran panther and my Chicago comrade decided to call him out on the carpet we met for 2 hrs addressing our concerns.. And ended with asking him not to announce the names of the original Panthers that were going to be at the event on the 31st at his headquarters. 5:374 • Safari • l 48 < Aaron Dixon 1d • O ••• However we noticed that his usage of the word I was more prominent that the word we when talking about his work. And he was often using profanity in his confrontations with the police in front of the people who had gathered. At one point he said all power to the mothafuckin people which is something we never would have said. We never used profanity in front of the people..! did notice his ego was getting bigger and he was posting more videos of himself. So myself and a New York veteran panther and my Chicago comrade decided to call him out on the carpet we met for 2 hrs addressing our concerns.. And ended with asking him not to announce the names of the original Panthers that were going to be at the event on the 31st at his headquarters. Unfortunately he violated that promise in a interview that he did.And the way he conducted himself in that interview was very contrary to the way a panther was supposed act. Us elders got together and came to the conclusion that we can no longer allow groups to call themselves The Black Panther Party.in any form. By groups using that name the expectations are to high and through social media it becomes to performative. And they give themselves titles like Chairman or minister of defense, that and the uniforms creates something more performative than substance. In 1969 we were ordered to stop wearing the panther uniform as well as getting rid of the titles which were replaced by coordinaters. We also decided since he violated our trust we would have break to ties with him.there was just to much flack coming are way .i had also asked him to stop posting things on social media something he just could do as evident in the last video he posted It's never easy to separate from something or someone that you have invested your time in i am sad that it had to come to this but he left us no alternative. I do hope that his organization will flourish and rise to the occasion. Only time will tell. We are in a time where we need unity just as we were 50 years ago.It is the most important thing but not the only thing. It's about doing what we have to do to make change, that idea of unity really is just a idea a notion. But history teaches us that it is the people that are the determining factor for change whether we are totally united or not. There will be somethings that we can unite on but not all things will we be united on. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE and we will whether this storm we are currently in. We just must remember one thing keep loving forward.
January 27, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Why is the “Alexander Vindman” trending topic full of posts that don’t talk about Alexander Vindman?
Screenshot showing the Alexander Vindman trending feed with posts that don’t mention Vindman at all
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Well this sucks. The Potter’s House is closing 😭😭
Important Update on the Operation of The Potter's House DC Please see the below statement regarding the immediate closure of The Potter's House DC for the foreseeable future. Please also note that any communications received between January 7th and January 27th were not sent by PHDC staff, nor are they aware of what those communications entailed. To our community, Due to recent and unforeseen circumstances, The Potter's House DC (PHDC) will be closed until further notice. This closure includes the cafe and bookstore's normal operating hours, as well as all public and private events at PHDC. As many of you may know, we scheduled a temporary break during the month of January to update many of our administrative systems, train our staff with updated guidance, and hire additional staff to help us expand our ability to operate sustainably as a nonprofit organization. When we came to work on January 1, 2026, we fully believed that this plan would be put into action. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control and additional challenges we were unaware of, PHDC no longer has access to the necessary funds to continue operation at this time.
January 27, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Camera operator looking at him like “what are you doing bro”
A guy with a nfl films hat and a camera looking at Mcvay with an upset look on his face
January 26, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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Here’s the full video, again from Washingtonian Problems on IG
January 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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I love DC. There was a big snowball fight in Malcolm X Park and they put up a cutout of an ICE agent for people to hit with their snowballs
Screenshot from a video of a bunch of of people pelting a cutout of an ICE agent with snowballs
January 25, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Geordi from Star Trek meme. He is holding his hand out to say “no thanks” to the word “FASCIST PIGS” Second panel he is pointing approvingly to the word “MASSIVE HOGS”
January 25, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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The puppy likes the snow, but she does not like the cold. She’s been sitting in front of the space heater for like 10m now
A dog with brindle fur sitting in front of a space heater looking out the window at the snow
January 25, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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AP left out the best part of this story: the sign that someone put up
A sign that someone put in front of of the spill. It says “shits creek”
January 24, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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Look, ma. No mask!
Screenshot showing a Nazi with an orange mustache and sunglasses who does not have his gaiter around his face
January 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Washingtonian Problems posted this video earlier of what looks like FBI agents shooting flash bangs at people during a traffic stop yesterday (1/21)
January 23, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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And i thought the wind chill here was going to be bad 😳
Screenshot of weather app. Wind chill down to a lower of-11 over the next several days
January 22, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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I literally have nothing to do with Northsky, and these are the only lists I maintain
Likes Loli/Shota Moderation list by @acab.dad Aka explicit drawings of underage children Blue MAGA Moderation list by @acab.dad Do not subscribe to this, it's for my own personal use. This is a personal list I generated from Blockenheimer based on people who shared ai-generated or otherwise gross Blue MAGA memes. Examples include that Al-generated TACO Trump going around Black Trans Texas Scam Accounts Moderation list by @acab.dad Accounts associated with a fake mutual aid group in Texas Context: www.dailydot.com/irl/black-tr... TERFS Moderation list by @acab.dad Self-proclaimed TERFS Literal Fascists Moderation list by @acab.dad Not European
January 20, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

Delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Manhattan’s Riverside Church, April 4, 1967

www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/cou...
My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettos of the North over the last three years, especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked, and rightly so, "What about Vietnam?" They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.
January 19, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Richmond friends: emergency anti-ICE protest tomorrow!
Protesta: ICE FUERA DE VIRGINIA Traigan pancartas, carteles, tambores, instrumentos ruidosos, ropa abrigada Se recomienda el uso de mascarillas para protegerse contra el COVID Domingo, 18 de enero 2 PM Monroe Park 620 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23220
January 17, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Did a thing today
PRINCE WILLIAM HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION PRESENTS TO JOHN BREEN HUMAN RIGHTS RECOGNITION For your tireless contributions to human and civil rights in our community January 17, 2026 Curtis O Porter Mr. Curtis Porter, Chair
January 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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And it’s not there on custom feeds. Consistency!
Screenshot of the Mutuals feed with no “what’s up?” Bar on the top
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Why are there now two separate ways of starting a post on the same screen?
Screenshot showing the Bluesky Discover feed with a “what’s up?” Bar at the top and also a floating action button that opens the post composer
January 16, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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What’s a horror film that more people should be aware of?

This one might be cheating because it’s already well known among horror enthusiasts

The Wailing (2016)
Cover of the movie The Wailing (2016). The cover has a lot of blue colors and a Korean man standing in the road of a village.
January 16, 2026 at 1:23 PM