Bri Erskine
Bri Erskine
@brismi.bsky.social
Life enthusiast, new Yinzer
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Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
May 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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So I flew back from Istanbul this weekend and was so anxious about going through passport control when I hit the US.

And I’m a citizen.

Born here and everything.

Why?

Because this administration wants to make sure none of us feel safe for expressing dissent to their policies.
May 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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NEW: An @npr.org review of thousands of pages of records across more than a dozen federal lawsuits finds an alarming pattern across agencies, where DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly — why. w/@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why
DOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases.
www.npr.org
March 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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@whipkclark.bsky.social: "If they didn’t stop at veterans programs and cancer research, I guess there is no line [Republicans] consider a red line that they won't cross. This is how countries lose democracies."
February 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”

Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Tom Homan says he sent an email to the Deputy AG asking if AOC is crossing the line by providing webinars to undocumented immigrants: I’m not an attorney… maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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having never been in a sinking boat, I’ve never had a bad experience with a lifeboat
December 7, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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D-amn
O-ligarchs
G-rifting
E-veryone
November 25, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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November 7, 2023 at 11:48 AM
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Fascinating column about one of my interests, food/diet myths. And to borrow a comment from the Other Place, all columnists should write one like this.

www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/11...
Perspective | 10 things I know are true about food – that people don’t want to believe
Gene editing isn’t always bad, plus nine other things about food and nutrition that often meet with public disagreement.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 7, 2023 at 12:17 PM
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Some hard truth here.
September 3, 2023 at 9:01 PM