Brian Kidwell 🧦
@briankidwell.bsky.social
Just here to learn history & politics from 23 year old libertarians-turned-communist. Earnest poster. SE DC.
Woodworking. Dogs. Bikes. Science. Social democracy.
Woodworking. Dogs. Bikes. Science. Social democracy.
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"what's bushidoliberalism?" basically this but instead of an emperor the object of reverence is the constitution and trans rights
This is the way
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
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The cruelty is the point
DHS has announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians.
The decision, effective Feb. 3, 2026, affects up to more than a half million Haitians. They now face returning to a country plagued by criminal gangs that control all major roads into the capital Port-au-Prince.
The decision, effective Feb. 3, 2026, affects up to more than a half million Haitians. They now face returning to a country plagued by criminal gangs that control all major roads into the capital Port-au-Prince.
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The cruelty is the point
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Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
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That’s a real sentence
BREAKING Jair Bolsonaro, convicted of attempting a military coup and the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, is ordered today to begin his 27-year sentence
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www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Bolsonaro out of appeals; will start 27-year sentence for coup attempt
The former Brazilian president will begin his sentence in a specially prepared cell at federal police headquarters in Brasília.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
That’s a real sentence
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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God ran out of right angles when he was making Ka$h.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
God ran out of right angles when he was making Ka$h.
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It's been like 30-40 years since we figured out that roasting vegetables is easy and great but you still see people being like "ugh blech, CABBAGE?? BRUSSELS SPROUTS??" like some 1950s mom is gonna show up with a pot of boiled sludge
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It's been like 30-40 years since we figured out that roasting vegetables is easy and great but you still see people being like "ugh blech, CABBAGE?? BRUSSELS SPROUTS??" like some 1950s mom is gonna show up with a pot of boiled sludge
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
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"While Republicans are fighting inwardly over whether it's okay to hate Jews or it's okay to hate immigrants, they churn out campaign ads attacking our trans neighbors, because they're all okay with that hatred.
"As Democrats, that's not okay with us."
"As Democrats, that's not okay with us."
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"While Republicans are fighting inwardly over whether it's okay to hate Jews or it's okay to hate immigrants, they churn out campaign ads attacking our trans neighbors, because they're all okay with that hatred.
"As Democrats, that's not okay with us."
"As Democrats, that's not okay with us."
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I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
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tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
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Propaganda works
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Propaganda works
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Folks are dunking on this but honestly whatever you think of the man he has a point - capitalism did not create oppression, and what we had before capitalism was not freer for the majority of people.
Look up how subsistence peasantry lived, don't compare yourself to nobles or literati.
Look up how subsistence peasantry lived, don't compare yourself to nobles or literati.
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Folks are dunking on this but honestly whatever you think of the man he has a point - capitalism did not create oppression, and what we had before capitalism was not freer for the majority of people.
Look up how subsistence peasantry lived, don't compare yourself to nobles or literati.
Look up how subsistence peasantry lived, don't compare yourself to nobles or literati.
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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On the Punnett square of "The Iraq war was/wasn't done for oil" and "And that's good/bad" he is the only person on God's green, brown, blue, white and gold Earth who falls in the "It wasn't/And that's bad" quadrant, the most proactively imperialistic position possible.
Hero of the antiwar movement!
Hero of the antiwar movement!
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
On the Punnett square of "The Iraq war was/wasn't done for oil" and "And that's good/bad" he is the only person on God's green, brown, blue, white and gold Earth who falls in the "It wasn't/And that's bad" quadrant, the most proactively imperialistic position possible.
Hero of the antiwar movement!
Hero of the antiwar movement!
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Because the Liberal Currents writers have actual values, they are, almost uniquely among media, able to react our fascist moment not by asking “What if all our beliefs are wrong? What if we went too far with all the democracy and fairness stuff?” but by asking “How do we beat the fascists again?”
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Because the Liberal Currents writers have actual values, they are, almost uniquely among media, able to react our fascist moment not by asking “What if all our beliefs are wrong? What if we went too far with all the democracy and fairness stuff?” but by asking “How do we beat the fascists again?”
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it's also white people in deep,deep denial about how bad other white people are
"surely you can replace 13% of the population and their silly little identity issues with a message that appeals to the majority of people"is the message racism? is it specifically hating minorities? if not,no you can't
"surely you can replace 13% of the population and their silly little identity issues with a message that appeals to the majority of people"is the message racism? is it specifically hating minorities? if not,no you can't
I just read a lament, re: the laborious, nettlesome burden of keeping Black voters motivated to turn out, that the Dem coalition relies “on placating a group that is 13% of the population.”
Just do the math, it went on — which makes one wonder: doesn’t “the math” involve counting to 50? Hello?
Just do the math, it went on — which makes one wonder: doesn’t “the math” involve counting to 50? Hello?
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
it's also white people in deep,deep denial about how bad other white people are
"surely you can replace 13% of the population and their silly little identity issues with a message that appeals to the majority of people"is the message racism? is it specifically hating minorities? if not,no you can't
"surely you can replace 13% of the population and their silly little identity issues with a message that appeals to the majority of people"is the message racism? is it specifically hating minorities? if not,no you can't
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As a general rule, most people decrying "government intervention" regard state activity they approve of as merely ensuring the default, correct state of affairs and state activity they disapprove of as an artificial and unnatural infringement on it.
in general the American individuality and distrust of government disappears once criminal justice enters the conversation
Americans hate the government meddling in their everyday affairs but "criminals" are a separate class of ontologically bad people that they could never ever be a part of
Americans hate the government meddling in their everyday affairs but "criminals" are a separate class of ontologically bad people that they could never ever be a part of
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
As a general rule, most people decrying "government intervention" regard state activity they approve of as merely ensuring the default, correct state of affairs and state activity they disapprove of as an artificial and unnatural infringement on it.
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Gotta love how the standard Republican play is always "I think the Democrats are doing <obviously immoral and illegal thing> so that's why *I've* got to do it too!"
Austin Smith, a former Republican state representative and onetime leader within Turning Point Action—the political arm of Turning Point USA—pleaded guilty to forging signatures on nominating petitions for his 2024 reelection bid.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Gotta love how the standard Republican play is always "I think the Democrats are doing <obviously immoral and illegal thing> so that's why *I've* got to do it too!"
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These people are deep into committing election fraud, so they assume everyone else is too
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
Austin Smith, a former Republican state representative and onetime leader within Turning Point Action—the political arm of Turning Point USA—pleaded guilty to forging signatures on nominating petitions for his 2024 reelection bid.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
These people are deep into committing election fraud, so they assume everyone else is too
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
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When immigrants read "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,' and feel that that moral sentiment is the father of all moral principle in them, they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood of the men who wrote that Declaration."
—Lincoln
—Lincoln
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
When immigrants read "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,' and feel that that moral sentiment is the father of all moral principle in them, they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood of the men who wrote that Declaration."
—Lincoln
—Lincoln
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.