mkbrooks
@mkbrooks.bsky.social
Product Designer in OffSec by day, cartoonist and writer by night. Humboldt Park, Chicago.
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
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Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
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1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
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Now the real question: what are our representatives in Congress going to do about it?
Are they actually going to hold hearings, apply all punitive measures possible? Speak out loudly and often online, on the news, and everywhere else?
Where’s the leadership?
Are they actually going to hold hearings, apply all punitive measures possible? Speak out loudly and often online, on the news, and everywhere else?
Where’s the leadership?
a man in a suit and glasses is making a gesture with his hands
ALT: a man in a suit and glasses is making a gesture with his hands
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Now the real question: what are our representatives in Congress going to do about it?
Are they actually going to hold hearings, apply all punitive measures possible? Speak out loudly and often online, on the news, and everywhere else?
Where’s the leadership?
Are they actually going to hold hearings, apply all punitive measures possible? Speak out loudly and often online, on the news, and everywhere else?
Where’s the leadership?
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Cocchi and Suze in their first tree!
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Cocchi and Suze in their first tree!
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Our rights are slipping away. Young women nowadays have less rights than my mother did in the 70’s.
This wasn’t as long ago as you might think.
Women couldn’t even have credit in their own name until 1975. Equal rights for all hurt no one.
#Pinks ##ProudBlue #ERA #BostonMarathon
This wasn’t as long ago as you might think.
Women couldn’t even have credit in their own name until 1975. Equal rights for all hurt no one.
#Pinks ##ProudBlue #ERA #BostonMarathon
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Our rights are slipping away. Young women nowadays have less rights than my mother did in the 70’s.
This wasn’t as long ago as you might think.
Women couldn’t even have credit in their own name until 1975. Equal rights for all hurt no one.
#Pinks ##ProudBlue #ERA #BostonMarathon
This wasn’t as long ago as you might think.
Women couldn’t even have credit in their own name until 1975. Equal rights for all hurt no one.
#Pinks ##ProudBlue #ERA #BostonMarathon
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Opinion | Sorry, Epstein critics, but age is just a number.
by David Brooks
by David Brooks
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Opinion | Sorry, Epstein critics, but age is just a number.
by David Brooks
by David Brooks
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lol, lmao, lol, lmao
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
lol, lmao, lol, lmao
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One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
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America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
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Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow
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December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow
chicagoshovels.org
chicagoshovels.org
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In the USA even the very wealthy old men must perform as gladiators until death in inhospitable outposts like Indianapolis in order to provide their children with medical care.
December 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
In the USA even the very wealthy old men must perform as gladiators until death in inhospitable outposts like Indianapolis in order to provide their children with medical care.
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Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece:
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece:
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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From IMDb: “After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.”
“On behalf of Director Park Chan-wook's new film, we are cordially inviting all Fortune 500 CEOs to a special screening of NO OTHER CHOICE.
This is truly a film that speaks to our gracious executive leaders and the culture they have cultivated.”
Beast mode shit.
This is truly a film that speaks to our gracious executive leaders and the culture they have cultivated.”
Beast mode shit.
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
From IMDb: “After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.”
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"In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."
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The bear is now one of the renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The bear is now one of the renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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NYT op-ed reminds billionaires to heed the French Revolution, mentions Network State cultists Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan.
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NYT op-ed reminds billionaires to heed the French Revolution, mentions Network State cultists Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan.
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
"It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy."
🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
Mass murderer
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Mass murderer
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.