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brains-matter.bsky.social
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The Marines now.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

The American experiment was always about trying to live up to our professed values and reach to make those mythologies true. We can do it but we have to *want* to do it. Over the past quarter century, we've come to learn half of the voting population does not.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1065 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 16 hours ago • 772 comments

The situation in Los Angeles is about to plunge us into a national emergency, except the people that normally solve national emergencies are the ones creating it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 370 comments

This is playing out right now.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2905 comments

Here we have a US Congressman spreading the white supremacist "Great Replacement" theory.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

It is not hard to imagine this scene as the prelude to the imposition of martial law.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

The power of speculative fiction. @aptshadow.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brainsma...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

open.substack.com/pub/brainsma...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

So he's saying that Canada is considering selling itself to the United States for $61 billion? Am I getting that right?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

So, in fact, Trump has been sheltering Russia from harm.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The techno-fascists really aren't that smart. Asimov and Gibson were speculating about things like this decades ago, and @aptshadow.bsky.social‬ and @marthawells.com today. Sacks thinks he's coming up with some new and clever idea here -- too much Curtis Yarvin in his brain, I wager.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"... the Trump administration will enforce the law and root out the evils of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in society and campuses" is almost certainly the most chilling statement by an American government official in my lifetime.

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submitted 19 days ago • 519 comments

FUCK ICE! www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Boeing agreed last year to plead guilty to defrauding regulators after the crashes of two 737 Max jets, in 2018 and 2019, that killed 346 people. But a federal judge rejected that proposed plea deal.

submitted 22 days ago • 137 comments

MAGA sees this picture and suddenly realizes that anecdotes prove nothing. Not all MAGA is like this!!! (Just like the mug shots on the White House lawn don't prove that all brown-skinned illegal immigrants are violent criminals. They don't get that, though.)

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is akin to "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats." It's a false narrative being spun out of lies and fabrications to demonize Garcia, precisely to gird the larger narrative of "criminal migrant invaders" that's the foundation of everything that Trump is doing.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

In "Bear Head," @aptshadow.bsky.social didn't just illuminate Trump, he also hinted at the "metagame" that underlies Elon Musk's insane persona as a productive genius. Musk has been remarkably good at self-aggrandizing propaganda, such that people think he's doing things he's not actually doing.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 60 days ago • 785 comments

"Hello, ICE? I'd like to report a brown person hiding in someone's attic."

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

open.substack.com/pub/brainsma...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just isn't the same.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine that this genuinely happened. Now, imagine what it means when you are told to show your papers to prove that you are not the "wrong" person.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

So says the fascist.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Show me a fascist who did violence himself.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/t...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/d...

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www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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submitted 72 days ago • 467 comments

Fuck, and I cannot stress this strongly enough, you.

submitted 72 days ago • 26 comments

I just want to thank @aptshadow.bsky.social for his incredible portrayal of Donald Trump in "Bear Head." I'm 70% done with the novel and I have a very different -- and much better -- perspective on Trump. And it's creepy as hell.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

How the heck do you get traction on this platform?

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submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Nancy Mace announces her transition.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

I'm feeling more and more like Winston Smith every day.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I'm very serious when I say this is the countdown to civil war.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW-...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Film poster for the upcoming suspense-horror movie, "The Epidemic Within," scheduled for release sometime in 2026.

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