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We've got posters all around D.C. demanding that federal agents take their masks off because public servants should face the public. Check them out and be sure to follow us @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social — we've got more coming and you're not going to want to miss it!
Hey D.C. friends! If you see billboards or posters in the District from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social demanding federal agents take off their mask, be sure to take a picture and share it!
Be sure to give us a follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social and if you see our signs in D.C., take a picture and tag us! Let's stand together, D.C., and stand up to Trump!
Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces? Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Mike Fanone: "There's no justification for using federal law enforcement and National Guardsmen as political pawns...It's imperative that officers conduct themselves professionally—and that starts with showing their faces." @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
Why are federal agents hiding their face? Public servants should face the public — take off the masks! Keep an eye out for our billboard driving around D.C.!
"Today Home of the Brave launched a major ad campaign across D.C. telling federal law enforcement to take off their masks." Read more about our new campaign from former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/help-us-un...
We've launched a new D.C. campaign demanding that federal agents take off their masks — because public servants should face the public. Our posters and mobile billboard will be blanketing the District, demanding accountability.
I’m back from vacation and it appears conservatives have still abandoned all their principles.
Oh, so that’s the problem. He doesn’t know what capitalism is.
Ben Wittes: "The search of Bolton’s house was designed to send a message. I know because I was there. For a while, I was the only one there. And even as I was there apparently alone, the New York Post was reporting that the raid was happening." www.thebulwark.com/p/john-bolto...
Trump killed the independence of the Federal Reserve and immediately made Americans poorer.
Breaking: Republican president to continue seizing the means of production
Gotta love MAGA Maoism
Gov. Wes Moore: "I always thought that the Republican Party was the one that wanted to get big government out of our lives. And we have never seen such an overreach of big government like we are seeing with the Trump administration."
Gov. Wes Moore: "We continue to listen to the president make just blissfully ignorant comments about Baltimore...If he came and spent time with the people on the ground who are actually doing the work, he could see the progress that's being made."
The U.S. now owns 10% of INTEL. MAGA communism is real.
Don't say "birthing person." Don't say "incarcerated person." Don't say "the unhoused." Don't say "chest feeding." Don't say "centering. Don't say "Latinx." When voters hear this, they think Democrats are out of touch crazy people. Just talk normal. Be normal.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on the deployment of the National Guard to D.C.: "I just don't think thats why people join the National Guard. They want to defend this country against foreign adversaries, and what they're doing now is micromanaging local government."
Republican Senator Thom Tillis (NC) on Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act: "The healthcare policy that was passed in H.R.1 is flawed. It's gonna hurt North Carolina."
The President of the United States is upset because museums in America are talking about "how bad Slavery was" while saying "nothing about the Future."
And read Fanone's latest on Trump's takeover of D.C. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/as-a-20-ye...
Check out Home of the Brave's Mike Fanone, a 20-year D.C. police veteran, on @velshimsnbc.bsky.social discussing Trump's takeover of Washington, D.C.:
Mike Fanone: "It's not an efficient use of federal resources. They could be better used. Federal agencies do a few things really well....Federal agents should be used for things like federal task forces, not walking around harassing people."
Mike Fanone: " I worked alongside federal partners as a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer. There is a place for that. That place is not having roving bands of officers in tactical gear aimlessly walking around Georgetown creating the optics of an occupying force."
Confused about what happened at the "very unusual" Trump-Putin summit? Listen to what Fox's Bret Baier, Brian Kilmeade, and Jacqui Heinrich said about it: "It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled."
Officer Daniel Hodges: "The federal government actually has the power to help us out. The first thing they could do is allow us to spend our own money...But Mike Johnson iss not doing anything about it — he dismissed the House early so he could protect Trump from Epstein."
Officer Daniel Hodges: "FEMA cut financial assistance to D.C. by like 44%. That's money that we need that could be used to fight crime." Q: "So you think there are things the federal government could do to help, it's just not what is happening now?" Officer Daniel Hodges: "Ya."
Officer Daniel Hodges: "Jan. 6 was an actual emergency that they could have activated the National Guard for...But Trump sat in his little chair and watched us get beaten on Fox. I had someone try to gouge out my eyes, someone beat me with my baton. But apparently that wasn't a national emergency."
Officer Daniel Hodges: "D.C. has crime — no doubt. But it's not a war-torn hellscape like Trump is making it out to be. I don't understand how any of this is supposed to help anything."
Officer Daniel Hodges: "Do you really think Pam Bondi has some keen insight into the deployment of urban law enforcement resources that our own law enforcement leaders don't have?"
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, E.J. Antoni, pictured at the January 6 Capitol insurrection:
Officer Daniel Hodges: "There is crime in D.C., I'm not going to pretend there isn't. But it's not exactly Mogadishu out here."
Officer Daniel Hodges: "With regard to federal partners, we could always use more hands. But...so many of these federal officers are investigators. They're supposed to be behind a desk, yet you're going to see them standing around in Chinatown, or on the mall, or in Georgetown."
Officer Daniel Hodges: "The emergency federalization doesn't make a lot of sense to me...I served as a Virginia National Guard member for six years, and I can tell you that this is not what they're trained to do. Soldiers are trained to fight and win wars. We're not in a war out here in D.C."
Ohio farmer Chris Gibbs on the uncertainty of Trump's tariffs: "In any business, and certainly farming, certainty is one of the things that we treasure...We need to know what the costs will be so that we can incorporate those into our business plan to continue to survive."
Ohio farmer Chris Gibbs: "What the president needs to understand is that we don't have time to trust him to make things better. Things are not getting better — we're already below the cost of production...And input costs are rising because of the tariffs."
www.notus.org/congress/rob...
MAGA Republican Rep. Rob Breshnahan represents the second poorest congressional district in the nation (#PA08) and is a prolific stock trader. Breshnahan also secretly owns a 2024 Robinson R66 helicopter worth between $1 million and $1.5 million.
Sarah Matthews: "Trump said that he would release the Epstein list...All of a sudden they seem to have changed their tune...It's not only a slap in the face to their voters; more importantly, it's a slap in the face to the victims who deserve answers and transparency."
Mike Fanone: "Ed Martin is a disgusting human. He also coincidentally referred to me as a fake police officer...despite the fact, as I'm sure he knows quite well, that I was a D.C. police officer for 20 years."
Michael Fanone: "There were three career federal prosecutors that were fired, escorted out of the DOJ building, and their only crime they committed was having prosecuted individuals who participated in the January 6th insurrection. That's it."
Mike Fanone on Jared Wise: "It speaks to this administration that that guy now holds a taxpayer funded job at the DOJ."
Candace Owens: "They sent Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General and also one of Trump's former [personal] lawyers... to go speak and inquire with Ghislaine Maxwell...What came out of that meeting was Ghislaine Maxwell being transferred to an even lower security prison."
Candace Owens: "Don't even act surprised when Trump pardons Ghislaine Maxwell...Trump is implicated by his sheer deceit right now. He's being so deceitful...They actually seem to be just covering things up. They're making moves that only reveal a deeper coverup."
The administration is kicking millions off of their healthcare and implementing tariffs that jack up prices on working Americans. Meanwhile, JD Vance had the army corps of engineers raise the water of an Ohio river so Vance could enjoy a boat vacation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
BREAKING: As Trump's tariffs come into effect, U.S. exports fall to a 5-month low.
Trump on Mike Tyson raping a 18 year old girl: "Mike should serve some time and everything else, but...here's a woman that was dancing at his door at one o'clock in the morning."
Republican Rep. Don Bacon admits that the people of Nebraska and Iowa are currently suffering through a recession economy exacerbated by Trump's tariffs.
BREAKING: Elon Musk was right.
The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Chat, is this good?
Donald Trump has gone back to his roots... Bankrupting casinos! www.8newsnow.com/news/local-n...
"I'm actually better off just lighting that on fire." Trump's tariffs are destroying the backbone of the American economy: dog harnesses.
Here @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social, we're speaking up and telling the stories of how Donald Trump is hurting you and your community. Join the fight! Follow us and tell your story!
For generations, the Ivy League has educated America's elites. Today, like the rest of the "elites," Brown University has bent the knee to Donald Trump. We're sick of elite cowards, and we will never back down. Follow us @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
🚨🚨🚨LIVE NOW: Sarah Matthews joins David Pakman to discuss Home of the Brave. Tune in: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Cheaper groceries? Unlikely. Trump's tariffs will raise prices on nearly 75% of food imports.
NEW: Michael Fanone on how you can stand up to the Trump Administration today. newsletter.ofthebrav...
Trump: "I never went to [Epstein's] island...I never had the privilege of going to his island."
Q: Why did you throw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago? Trump: "That's such old history. Very easy to explain but I don't want to waste your time by explaining it...He stole people who worked for me."
Trump: "I'm not a drawing person. I don't do drawings of women...Epstein was always a very controversial guy...Who would do a controversial drawing? There were many letters drawn by many people."
Trump on the Epstein files: "It's a hoax that has been built up way beyond proportion. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth — Comey, Garland, Biden, and all of the people that actually led the government including the autopen...The whole thing is a hoax."
Q: "Would you rule out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell?" Trump: "I'm allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody approached me with it...Right now it would be inappropriate to talk about it."
Trump: "My mother loved Scotland and she loved the Queen. I don't know, I might hurt myself by saying that but the monarchists are going to like it."
Discouraged by the lack of opposition to Trump? Us too — so we started Home of the Brave. Our project collects stories from Americans just like you who’ve been screwed over by this administration. So get in the fight. Tell your story now. ofthebrave.org/tell-your-st...
Michael Fanone on Home of the Brave: " The purpose of it is to provide a platform for everyday Americans who have been adversely affected by this administration's actions.”
Fanone: " I don't believe that the Republican Party ever backed the blue. But they lost all credibility in doing so when they pardoned the more than 500...violent insurrectionists who assaulted uniformed police officers who were just doing their jobs like myself on January 6th."
Michael Fanone: "Mike Johnson is an insurrectionist member of Congress who was one of the architects of the justification for the attempt to overturn a free and fair election."
Marco Rubio, this you bro?
Trump's tariffs are crushing small businesses across the country, pushing many to the brink of collapse. "Entrepreneurs, we're used to dealing with some amount of uncertainty and some amount of ambiguity, but this is on a whole different level." Via NRF news
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell and her attorney David Oscar Markus today. Last year on David Oscar Markus's podcast Todd Blanche said to Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney: "I now consider you a friend and someone who I know pretty well."
Trump, again, claims that Epstein is a "Democrat CON JOB," "SCAM," and "HOAX."
Sen. Chris Murphy: "You have the DOJ now operating to cover up the crimes and corruption of Donald Trump and his friends. And the Epstein files is not the only place this is happening."
Sen. Chris Murphy: "The number one priority for this administration is the protection of the rich and the powerful — the use of the White House to let Donald Trump and his friends get away with illegality, corruption, and immorality."
Rep. Robert Garcia: "We should not be scared of what's in those files. We don't care who you are, how powerful you are, if you're in politics, what party you are, the amount of money you have — if you've committed these horrific crimes, it should be out to the American public."
Rep. Robert Garcia: "[Ghislaine Maxwell] is a bad person who has hurt young girls and young women. She should not be trusted. She's already lied multiple times under oath...I am sick that folks in the MAGA world are somehow giving her some kind of grace. She's a monster!"
Nixon: I am not a crook. Clinton: I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Trump: I was not told that I am in the Epstein files.
NEW: South Park showed courage last night, refusing to bow to political intimidation by delivering a fearless, uncompromising, (full) frontal assault on the president's authoritarian agenda. newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/south-park...
Ghislaine Maxwell is meeting with the DOJ today. Besties reunited!
South Park ROASTS 60 Minutes for their cowardice.
South Park stands up to their cowardly corporate owners at Paramount:
Trump + Epstein + Satan South Park reminding us what it means to be brave.
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "This scandal has legs...because the call is coming from inside the house. It was his people who put this forward. It was his FBI director. It was his Attorney General...Voters want to see the [Epstein] files. Trump's not able to just say 'Move on.'"
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Democrats can make [Epstein] an issue going into 2026...if Democrats say 'Trump protects the elites, he protected them with the big billionaires' bill he passed, and he did it with Epstein.'"
Columbia University is a profile in cowardice: apnews.com/article/colu...
BREAKING: Elon Musk was right.
Q: "Did [Pam Bondi] tell you that your name appears in the [Epstein] files?" Trump last week: "No."
WSJ: Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files www.wsj.com/politics/jus...
Trump just brought a man convicted for triple homicide back to the country. How is this making America safe again? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
We're asking the important question: Trump, why won't you release the Epstein Files?
"The Republican Accountability Project, they're gonna put billboards up about the Epstein files asking 'Why won't Donald Trump release the list?'...They're putting ads up on television that's running on Fox News in the Bedminster area so that the president and others see it."
Sen. Thom Tillis on Epstein: "Release the damn files. It makes no sense to me...The promise to release the file during the campaign was either overplayed and we got a nothing burger or it's something really disturbing,..This is gonna be an issue all the way through next year."
Tillis: "Release the damn" Epstein files! www.axios.com/2025/07/23/t...
Candace Owens: "Trump arranged a party at Mar-a-Lago for young women...Epstein was the only other guest...[Trump's] making it sound like he kicked [Epstein] out of Mar-a-Lago because [Epstein] was inappropriate. In reality, it was a real estate deal gone wrong."
Our mobile billboards have been driving around D.C. asking a simple question: Trump, why won't you release the Epstein Files?
Tim Dillon: "Bondi said we have 10,000 hours of video...She's the AG. Why would she say she has files on her desk if none of these implicated anything? It just feels like they're covering something. For sure — 100%...The story doesn't make any sense."
Candace Owens: "What is Trump hiding? Why is he going down like this over Jeffrey Epstein...What is the connection between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump? Because clearly there is something here that gives him pause."