Brett Sur
@brettsur.bsky.social
Links to come. Here to read and muse on politics or culture. I only post when I have something of value to add to the discourse.
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Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃
I reposted a few other things today, but this one gets a special set of !!!!!!!👇👇👇👇👇👇
If you go to a VA hospital in need of emergency abortion, US policy is now to let you bleed out in the parking lot.
You could conceivably deploy, sustain an injury and receive lifesaving care. But if you're raped on duty and the resulting pregnancy is say, ectopic, your country will let you die.
You could conceivably deploy, sustain an injury and receive lifesaving care. But if you're raped on duty and the resulting pregnancy is say, ectopic, your country will let you die.
Veterans Affairs will no longer perform some emergency services
The department began the process of rolling back the policy this summer.
federalnewsnetwork.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I reposted a few other things today, but this one gets a special set of !!!!!!!👇👇👇👇👇👇
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After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country. n.pr/4saai1J
A radio station in Amsterdam is a lifeline for Sudan. After USAID cuts, it's faltering
Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country.
n.pr
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country. n.pr/4saai1J
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
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In short: the fate of the MAGA murder budget is undecided. Please consider joining a phonebank tomorrow to reach folks in key states and push more calls to senators who we might be able to sway:
Phonebank shifts for 7/1:
- 11AM ET and 5PM ET with Medicaid Defenders/SEIU
- 3PM-4:30PM ET with Food and Water Watch
- 4PM-9PM ET with People’s Action
- 5:30PM-10:30PM ET with Together for CA Health
- 6PM-7:30PM ET with Activate America
- 6PM-8PM ET with MoveOn
Links in replies:
- 11AM ET and 5PM ET with Medicaid Defenders/SEIU
- 3PM-4:30PM ET with Food and Water Watch
- 4PM-9PM ET with People’s Action
- 5:30PM-10:30PM ET with Together for CA Health
- 6PM-7:30PM ET with Activate America
- 6PM-8PM ET with MoveOn
Links in replies:
July 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
In short: the fate of the MAGA murder budget is undecided. Please consider joining a phonebank tomorrow to reach folks in key states and push more calls to senators who we might be able to sway:
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Using my last gift link for the month because this is so mind-blowing, even for Trump. He's sending MS-13 gang members back to El Salvador, where they're being treated like royalty, so that he can suck up to the dictator, who's been locking up his deportees. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Using my last gift link for the month because this is so mind-blowing, even for Trump. He's sending MS-13 gang members back to El Salvador, where they're being treated like royalty, so that he can suck up to the dictator, who's been locking up his deportees. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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Breaking: The US dollar has suffered its worst first half of the year since 1973, as Donald Trump’s trade and economic policies prompt global investors to rethink their exposure to the world’s dominant currency. https://on.ft.com/4ev1ux1
June 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Breaking: The US dollar has suffered its worst first half of the year since 1973, as Donald Trump’s trade and economic policies prompt global investors to rethink their exposure to the world’s dominant currency. https://on.ft.com/4ev1ux1
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This is the 6-year-old who just finished chemo for leukemia and is now falling apart without his medical care in a detention jail for brown people
“He’s pale. He’s bruising. He cries every night.”
A detained Texas family says their son’s health is deteriorating: bit.ly/4ldATHp
A detained Texas family says their son’s health is deteriorating: bit.ly/4ldATHp
Family sues over US detention in what may be first challenge to courthouse arrests involving kids
A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center.
bit.ly
June 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is the 6-year-old who just finished chemo for leukemia and is now falling apart without his medical care in a detention jail for brown people
Anyone who thinks this court wouldn’t rule in favor of segregated schools on any such premise/argument, isn’t paying attention.
looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs
June 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Anyone who thinks this court wouldn’t rule in favor of segregated schools on any such premise/argument, isn’t paying attention.
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If I'm running a news room now, I assign everyone who has done piece on Biden's final-years fitness-to-govern, and have them apply same standards here.
(Once heard Bill Clinton give 45-minute ad-hoc on what diff *counties* in Arkansas had done in Civil War. Trump doesn't know WHAT YEAR it was.)
(Once heard Bill Clinton give 45-minute ad-hoc on what diff *counties* in Arkansas had done in Civil War. Trump doesn't know WHAT YEAR it was.)
Trump: "If you look at the end of the Civil War -- the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day -- was it 1869? Or whatever."
June 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If I'm running a news room now, I assign everyone who has done piece on Biden's final-years fitness-to-govern, and have them apply same standards here.
(Once heard Bill Clinton give 45-minute ad-hoc on what diff *counties* in Arkansas had done in Civil War. Trump doesn't know WHAT YEAR it was.)
(Once heard Bill Clinton give 45-minute ad-hoc on what diff *counties* in Arkansas had done in Civil War. Trump doesn't know WHAT YEAR it was.)
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June 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.
Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training
Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.
wapo.st
June 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.
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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...
June 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
June 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
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It’s wild that in the video DHS posted in an effort to make the beating of an innocent landscaper (with 3 marine sons) seem justified there’s a masked ice goon pointing a gun at a random car passing by and they don’t seem to think it matters at all
June 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It’s wild that in the video DHS posted in an effort to make the beating of an innocent landscaper (with 3 marine sons) seem justified there’s a masked ice goon pointing a gun at a random car passing by and they don’t seem to think it matters at all
If the Dems don’t use this reporting to dogmatically drill the fact that MAHA has a dangerous charlatan at its helm, citing fake research and a fake resume to demolish what’s left of America’s legitimate medical and science infrastructure, 1/2
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man
One of the primary architects of the Make America Healthy Again takeover of the federal health apparatus, Means has risen to power in part on the strength of his personal narrative: he was a Big Food ...
www.vanityfair.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
If the Dems don’t use this reporting to dogmatically drill the fact that MAHA has a dangerous charlatan at its helm, citing fake research and a fake resume to demolish what’s left of America’s legitimate medical and science infrastructure, 1/2
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
No
The Trump administration said that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.
Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absurd.”
trib.al
June 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
No
This is terrorism.
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
June 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is terrorism.
The idea that Trump’s policy was ever coherent or held a purpose beyond “I am telling this audience in front of me whatever they want to hear” is just bonkers.
Anyway, congrats to all the outlets that did this, nailed it
![BBC
Foreign policy
Harris has vowed to support Ukraine “for as long as it takes”. She has pledged, if elected, to ensure the US and not China wins "the competition for the 21st Century".
She has been a longtime advocate for a two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians, and has called for an end to the war in Gaza.
Trump has an [highlight] isolationist foreign policy [/highlight] and wants the US to disentangle itself from conflicts elsewhere in the world.
He has said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours through a negotiated settlement with Russia, a move that Democrats say would embolden Vladimir Putin.
Trump has positioned himself as a staunch supporter of Israel but said little on how he would end the war in Gaza.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreiaij6z4y7xqwe22rhf2sla6k67otehagi577paetoxoq73j2vru5u@jpeg)
June 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The idea that Trump’s policy was ever coherent or held a purpose beyond “I am telling this audience in front of me whatever they want to hear” is just bonkers.
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Please don’t presume this is now an American president making a serious decision for the good of America, not a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.
June 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Please don’t presume this is now an American president making a serious decision for the good of America, not a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.
As often as I think about Alito, it would be good for my mental health to meditate on Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented.
But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...
But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...
In a Stunning Critique, Ketanji Brown Jackson Nails One of This Court’s Worst Traits
The court is contorting the law to favor big business while locking out the most vulnerable, the newest justice wrote.
slate.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
As often as I think about Alito, it would be good for my mental health to meditate on Ketanji Brown Jackson.