Ian Brickey
@ianbrickey.bsky.social
Comms at Sierra Club | W&M and Mizzou
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I'm being completely serious that you can draw a direct line between the introduction of instant replay to football and the widespread toleration of Donald Trump's bad-faith lawsuits and election overturning.
Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown.
Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown.
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I'm being completely serious that you can draw a direct line between the introduction of instant replay to football and the widespread toleration of Donald Trump's bad-faith lawsuits and election overturning.
Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown.
Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown.
No.
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No.
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October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.
October 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
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To illustrate what the rapid buildout of Gulf Coast LNG export terminals looks like, this beautifully written @sierramagazine.bsky.social story from @delaneynolan.bsky.social cleverly likens the development to an aggressive disease that advances in stages. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...
September 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
To illustrate what the rapid buildout of Gulf Coast LNG export terminals looks like, this beautifully written @sierramagazine.bsky.social story from @delaneynolan.bsky.social cleverly likens the development to an aggressive disease that advances in stages. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...
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Big rally of multiple unions in DuPont Circle in DC right now. “They want us to be quiet, but we’re just gonna get louder.”
August 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Big rally of multiple unions in DuPont Circle in DC right now. “They want us to be quiet, but we’re just gonna get louder.”
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one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
August 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
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Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
August 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
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the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
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A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
August 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
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NEW: National Guard troops deployed to DC by President Trump are now preparing to carry weapons.
It's a significant shift—defense officials emphasized two days ago that troops would not be armed or have weapons in their vehicles.
It's a significant shift—defense officials emphasized two days ago that troops would not be armed or have weapons in their vehicles.
August 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
NEW: National Guard troops deployed to DC by President Trump are now preparing to carry weapons.
It's a significant shift—defense officials emphasized two days ago that troops would not be armed or have weapons in their vehicles.
It's a significant shift—defense officials emphasized two days ago that troops would not be armed or have weapons in their vehicles.
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While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
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Return of the Jedi ending in DC
On the joyous day when Trump’s rotted and clotted heart finally explodes, all the loathsome hyenas in his orbit will eat each other, because he never offered anything to the world other that the opportunity for weak and amoral men to buy criminal favors in exchange for subservience.
Why in the HELL are people laughing! We all know he’s serious! I have never felt this way about another human being but I sincerely hope this man dies soon. Let the cosmos sort him out.
August 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Return of the Jedi ending in DC
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There’s just alot of people looking directly into a camera and saying 2+2=7 and expecting you to passively take that because you now have no agency and are merely a vessel for that lie to be conveyed and that’s generally bad I think
August 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There’s just alot of people looking directly into a camera and saying 2+2=7 and expecting you to passively take that because you now have no agency and are merely a vessel for that lie to be conveyed and that’s generally bad I think
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On the potential DC guard deployment:
“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”
via @reuters.com
“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”
via @reuters.com
US military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials say
The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.
www.reuters.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
On the potential DC guard deployment:
“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”
via @reuters.com
“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”
via @reuters.com
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"So we're getting this information from multiple sources [...] within the mayor's office and within Metro Police Department, that President Trump, come tomorrow, will deploy the National Guard along the streets of DC."
www.wusa9.com/video/news/n...
www.wusa9.com/video/news/n...
August 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"So we're getting this information from multiple sources [...] within the mayor's office and within Metro Police Department, that President Trump, come tomorrow, will deploy the National Guard along the streets of DC."
www.wusa9.com/video/news/n...
www.wusa9.com/video/news/n...
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the JD stands for Jeffrey Defender
July 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
the JD stands for Jeffrey Defender
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and the things trump has done — mainly the administrative agenda for Project 2025 — are things he denied he had anything to do with!
July 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
and the things trump has done — mainly the administrative agenda for Project 2025 — are things he denied he had anything to do with!
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trump promised to lower prices — hasn't happened.
trump promised that his tariffs would cause an explosion of manufacturing — hasn't happened.
trump promised to remove criminal illegal immigrants — hasn't happened.
trump promised that his tariffs would cause an explosion of manufacturing — hasn't happened.
trump promised to remove criminal illegal immigrants — hasn't happened.
July 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
trump promised to lower prices — hasn't happened.
trump promised that his tariffs would cause an explosion of manufacturing — hasn't happened.
trump promised to remove criminal illegal immigrants — hasn't happened.
trump promised that his tariffs would cause an explosion of manufacturing — hasn't happened.
trump promised to remove criminal illegal immigrants — hasn't happened.
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🚨 Senate Republicans are at it again — trying to sneak a massive public lands sell-off into their budget bill.
June 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
🚨 Senate Republicans are at it again — trying to sneak a massive public lands sell-off into their budget bill.
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Very good job by Shaw with Hawley's usual sarcastic approach. (Familiar if you watch Judiciary hearings - reframe witness's position as crazy, goad them into disagreeing, then say hey check out this smart guy who can't defend the position.)
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him?
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
June 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Very good job by Shaw with Hawley's usual sarcastic approach. (Familiar if you watch Judiciary hearings - reframe witness's position as crazy, goad them into disagreeing, then say hey check out this smart guy who can't defend the position.)
Not enough movies have wisecracking trailers that show grimy shots of Los Angeles ironically accompanied by Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.”
This kind of trailer peaked with 1997’s “Volcano,” and Hollywood has been downhill ever since.
This kind of trailer peaked with 1997’s “Volcano,” and Hollywood has been downhill ever since.
May 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Not enough movies have wisecracking trailers that show grimy shots of Los Angeles ironically accompanied by Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.”
This kind of trailer peaked with 1997’s “Volcano,” and Hollywood has been downhill ever since.
This kind of trailer peaked with 1997’s “Volcano,” and Hollywood has been downhill ever since.
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Yup. Privatizing and selling off our public lands. It was explicitly spelled out in Project 2025 but the media thought that was worthy of less coverage than implying a fake scandal around which month in 1989 Tim Walz was in China so here we are bsky.app/profile/gree...
When national parks become unkempt and closed due to staffing issues, Trump Inc. will propose they be privatized, much like how everything "public" was sold to oligarchs after the fall of the Soviet Union. I'd imagine some of the same people will be buying.
May 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Yup. Privatizing and selling off our public lands. It was explicitly spelled out in Project 2025 but the media thought that was worthy of less coverage than implying a fake scandal around which month in 1989 Tim Walz was in China so here we are bsky.app/profile/gree...