Cole Brecheen
@cbrecheen.bsky.social
Has this story been reported in any right-wing news outlet? Any channel at all that's to the right of @nytimes.com ? If so, please send me a link. I'd like to see how it is being spun.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Has this story been reported in any right-wing news outlet? Any channel at all that's to the right of @nytimes.com ? If so, please send me a link. I'd like to see how it is being spun.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Reading @sykescharlie.bsky.social this morning was a white-light conversion experience for me. I had been thinking Democrats couldn't afford another "defund the police" mistake. I now realize we face a completely different situation. Read and share: charliesykes.substack.com/p/why-ice-ca...
February 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Reading @sykescharlie.bsky.social this morning was a white-light conversion experience for me. I had been thinking Democrats couldn't afford another "defund the police" mistake. I now realize we face a completely different situation. Read and share: charliesykes.substack.com/p/why-ice-ca...
From @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social this morning. Haven't seen anyone else point this out. It needs repeating:
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-te...
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-te...
ICE Was Terrorizing Worshipers Long Before Don Lemon Entered a Church
Let’s take a stroll through the last year.
www.thebulwark.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
From @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social this morning. Haven't seen anyone else point this out. It needs repeating:
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-te...
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-was-te...
Here's what I want in my Bluesky feed: something that tells me each day what is top-of-mind for my low-information right-wing friends so I know what to expect when I chat with them at the store -- like the invaluable False Flag but bsky post-length. What do you think @willsommer.bsky.social?
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Here's what I want in my Bluesky feed: something that tells me each day what is top-of-mind for my low-information right-wing friends so I know what to expect when I chat with them at the store -- like the invaluable False Flag but bsky post-length. What do you think @willsommer.bsky.social?
If this doesn't scare you, wait until drones start following people based on what they post here on BlueSky.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:18 PM
If this doesn't scare you, wait until drones start following people based on what they post here on BlueSky.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
I'm looking for a Republican who has ever - even once - disavowed a lie and apologized for having helped to spread it. Has MTG qualified? How about on our side? Were we lying about Biden's mental condition? If so, did any of our leaders apologize for that?
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I'm looking for a Republican who has ever - even once - disavowed a lie and apologized for having helped to spread it. Has MTG qualified? How about on our side? Were we lying about Biden's mental condition? If so, did any of our leaders apologize for that?
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
As usual, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social has his eye on the ball:
"The purpose of the FBI’s action in Georgia was to establish a precedent for further federal intervention in state and local elections ... and to intimidate state and local officials ..." See:
www.thebulwark.com/p/defang-ice...
"The purpose of the FBI’s action in Georgia was to establish a precedent for further federal intervention in state and local elections ... and to intimidate state and local officials ..." See:
www.thebulwark.com/p/defang-ice...
Defang ICE → Save the Midterms
The fight over ICE isn’t just about civil rights. It’s about free and fair elections, too.
www.thebulwark.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:07 PM
As usual, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social has his eye on the ball:
"The purpose of the FBI’s action in Georgia was to establish a precedent for further federal intervention in state and local elections ... and to intimidate state and local officials ..." See:
www.thebulwark.com/p/defang-ice...
"The purpose of the FBI’s action in Georgia was to establish a precedent for further federal intervention in state and local elections ... and to intimidate state and local officials ..." See:
www.thebulwark.com/p/defang-ice...
Important reset for my attention from @andreweggers.bsky.social this morning in @thebulwark.com :
"Donald Trump is the kind of guy who tries to steal elections. He’s now presiding over a Justice Department that seems primed to help him try."
Original at
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-s...
"Donald Trump is the kind of guy who tries to steal elections. He’s now presiding over a Justice Department that seems primed to help him try."
Original at
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-s...
Trump Is Still Obsessed with Stealing Elections
The FBI’s seizure of Georgia ballots is as much about future elections as past ones.
www.thebulwark.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Important reset for my attention from @andreweggers.bsky.social this morning in @thebulwark.com :
"Donald Trump is the kind of guy who tries to steal elections. He’s now presiding over a Justice Department that seems primed to help him try."
Original at
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-s...
"Donald Trump is the kind of guy who tries to steal elections. He’s now presiding over a Justice Department that seems primed to help him try."
Original at
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-s...
Opinion | The Best Weapon You Have in the Fight Against ICE
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
If you're a Christian who still supports Trump, please read this article. It's short, but do let me know how long it took you, and in exchange I will spend the same amount of time reading or listening to whatever you suggest that might change my mind.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
Trump is causing incalculable damage to the Christian faith, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.
www.theatlantic.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:49 PM
If you're a Christian who still supports Trump, please read this article. It's short, but do let me know how long it took you, and in exchange I will spend the same amount of time reading or listening to whatever you suggest that might change my mind.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Google's roll-out of RCS-chat support in Google Messages is just astonishingly poor -- billions of people must be baffled by it -- but maybe it will nudge more of us to stop relying so heavily on old-fashioned text messages and start using Signal. Text me there, please, using cole_brecheen.97.
January 21, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Google's roll-out of RCS-chat support in Google Messages is just astonishingly poor -- billions of people must be baffled by it -- but maybe it will nudge more of us to stop relying so heavily on old-fashioned text messages and start using Signal. Text me there, please, using cole_brecheen.97.
The whole country needs to understand the outrageously flimsy and authoritarian basis of Trump's "criminal investigations" of Minnesota leaders. I didn't understand them until I read Robert Hubbell this morning:
roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-retr...
roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-retr...
January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The whole country needs to understand the outrageously flimsy and authoritarian basis of Trump's "criminal investigations" of Minnesota leaders. I didn't understand them until I read Robert Hubbell this morning:
roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-retr...
roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-retr...
Great article from @thejohnsonpost.bsky.social this morning:
open.substack.com/pub/marccjoh...
If there is one Republican in the whole country who has the courage or integrity to read it, I'd be astonished and would love to know who it is. Just one? That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?
open.substack.com/pub/marccjoh...
If there is one Republican in the whole country who has the courage or integrity to read it, I'd be astonished and would love to know who it is. Just one? That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?
The Real GOP Base
The party is the same today as it was in 1964 - fearful, xenophobic, often hateful and full of disgust for civil rights and people not like them
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Great article from @thejohnsonpost.bsky.social this morning:
open.substack.com/pub/marccjoh...
If there is one Republican in the whole country who has the courage or integrity to read it, I'd be astonished and would love to know who it is. Just one? That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?
open.substack.com/pub/marccjoh...
If there is one Republican in the whole country who has the courage or integrity to read it, I'd be astonished and would love to know who it is. Just one? That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?
Never having heard Joe Rogan's podcast, but knowing he influences lots of southern men, I've been wondering what he's been saying about the onslaught of horrors. This is heartening:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Never having heard Joe Rogan's podcast, but knowing he influences lots of southern men, I've been wondering what he's been saying about the onslaught of horrors. This is heartening:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
My MAGA friends would say they want an America that is richer, more aggressive and dominant, more like it was for white men in the good-old-days. William Kristol boils all that down here (fairly) to "smaller, meaner, and whiter." Beware the company you keep:
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
MAGA’s Lust for Fascism
Trump’s ideologues want a smaller, meaner, whiter America.
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
My MAGA friends would say they want an America that is richer, more aggressive and dominant, more like it was for white men in the good-old-days. William Kristol boils all that down here (fairly) to "smaller, meaner, and whiter." Beware the company you keep:
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Hmm. I want to argue with this -- like, how does a study like this account for age differences in the tendency to be posturing and filtered -- but real maturity might be an admission that it annoys me. If I can see the problem in others, it's probably also in me.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
January 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Hmm. I want to argue with this -- like, how does a study like this account for age differences in the tendency to be posturing and filtered -- but real maturity might be an admission that it annoys me. If I can see the problem in others, it's probably also in me.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
I think @jenrubin.bsky.social is a bit more clear-eyed than the NYTimes today: contrarian.substack.com/p/headfirst-...
Was hoping to find some Republican, any Republican, able to make a principled case for this invasion. Here's the closest thing I could find: www.nationalreview.com/corner/ten-q...
Was hoping to find some Republican, any Republican, able to make a principled case for this invasion. Here's the closest thing I could find: www.nationalreview.com/corner/ten-q...
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I think @jenrubin.bsky.social is a bit more clear-eyed than the NYTimes today: contrarian.substack.com/p/headfirst-...
Was hoping to find some Republican, any Republican, able to make a principled case for this invasion. Here's the closest thing I could find: www.nationalreview.com/corner/ten-q...
Was hoping to find some Republican, any Republican, able to make a principled case for this invasion. Here's the closest thing I could find: www.nationalreview.com/corner/ten-q...
The stench of Putin's influence on this administration is overwhelming.
See www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che.... Great reporting, as always, from @willsommer.bsky.social
See www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che.... Great reporting, as always, from @willsommer.bsky.social
Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.
www.thebulwark.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The stench of Putin's influence on this administration is overwhelming.
See www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che.... Great reporting, as always, from @willsommer.bsky.social
See www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che.... Great reporting, as always, from @willsommer.bsky.social
Reading this joycevance.substack.com/p/unsealed-a... from @joycewhitevance.bsky.social today made my blood boil.
Surely all of my law-school friends have by now resigned from the Republican party, but if not: shame on you. Lots of my friends just don't know any better, but you ex-lawyers sure do.
Surely all of my law-school friends have by now resigned from the Republican party, but if not: shame on you. Lots of my friends just don't know any better, but you ex-lawyers sure do.
Unsealed: Abrego Garcia
The sealed order in the Abrego Garcia case that I wrote about in Sunday night’s “The Week Ahead” column was unsealed today.
joycevance.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reading this joycevance.substack.com/p/unsealed-a... from @joycewhitevance.bsky.social today made my blood boil.
Surely all of my law-school friends have by now resigned from the Republican party, but if not: shame on you. Lots of my friends just don't know any better, but you ex-lawyers sure do.
Surely all of my law-school friends have by now resigned from the Republican party, but if not: shame on you. Lots of my friends just don't know any better, but you ex-lawyers sure do.