Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social)
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HCW. Owned by a dog. Happily married. Small business owner. We are never going back.
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Hugs and healing thoughts.
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted
Breaking news: The Trump administration illegally withheld billions from Harvard University for alleged violations of rules against antisemitism, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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The Volatile Mermaid (@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social) reposted
The president probably blew up a boat smuggling migrants, not drugs, and this story is just going to go away tomorrow when he does something even worse, isn’t it?
Politico (@politico.com) reposted
Newsmax files an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Hence my saying they got ONE thing right. I am forever calling them Fox Lite otherwise.
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Hey!! CNN got one right! apple.news/Azf9ZfniVSNO...
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Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
More than 97% of workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks have voted to unionize. A big reason why? To fight back against Trump’s unprecedented attacks on our national parks. Here's what you should know. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
Hunter Walker (@hunterw.bsky.social) reposted
The secret Facebook page that seems to belong to Kristi Noem used a thinly veiled alias. It shared Christian content, typos, and a copypasta hoax. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
The vile sexual predator Donald Trump and his enablers, like [alleged] alcoholic and [alleged] rapist Pete Hegseth, used our nation's Air Force to distract from Jeffrey Epstein's accusers. This underscores how threatened they are by the truth.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social)
Nah CNN. Quit pushing the trump narrative. At this point you’re just Fox Lite. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/b...
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Prof Sam Illingworth (@samillingworth.com) reposted
💉 RFK Jr vs vaccine science A Danish study of 1.2M children found no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease. US health secretary RFK Jr called for its retraction, but the journal refused, saying no errors or misconduct occurred. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/d415... #SciComm 🧪 #Vaccines
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
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RFK jr is going to kill us all. apple.news/ASKTFddSURQm...
The Haunted Bookshop (@bookshopghost.bsky.social) reposted
Some of y'all never read Old Yeller and it shows. ... seriously though: vaccines don't cause autism. Not for you, not for Rover. If you can't or won't get your dog vaccinated, you shouldn't have a dog.
The Buckeye Flame (@thebuckeyeflame.com) reposted
A homophobic billboard in Ohio pissed her off. So this straight ally leapt into action to install a message of love. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/09/02/h...
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Hugs. Sending healing thoughts.
Shawn Harris (@shawnforcongress.bsky.social) reposted
As a Retired Brigadier General, I know firsthand the proper role of our military. A federal judge was right to block Donald Trump’s illegal attempt to use the National Guard as his personal police force in California.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Trump: "We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment." (That would be more than half the entire US GDP, so no.)
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
So THAT’S his new excuse…
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Oh! I get it because I have worked in a medical practice for 10 years and nobody but me has worn a mask for the last 5 1/2 years. It’s incredible!
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
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WTF for?!!?!! apple.news/Ah0d62KyNQVS...
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
We are already suing Ohio.
bluextina.bsky.social (@bluextina.bsky.social) reposted
Thoughts and prayers on this Labor Day. Rest up, summers over, we’ve got work to do Resisters. #Resist #FDT #GOPsucks #FBR #Fightback
Sassy Denise (@sassydenise.bsky.social) reposted
This wins the internet today!🏆 #releasetheepsteinfiles
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) reposted
Eric Trump loses sumo wrestling match in Japan
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
I startled the dog I laughed so hard.
Resistance Fighter #1 🇺🇸 (@debipenny24.bsky.social) reposted
PICTURE TAKEN LAST YEAR IN 2024.. what are they hiding? I have my fingers crossed he’s had a stroke.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Nice attempt at a walk back but we aren’t falling for it. We saw the video.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Shingles vaccine knocked me flat. And you have to get the second one. But trust me. It’s NOTHING compared to getting shingles.
jtickel STAND WITH UKRAINE (@tickedoff.bsky.social) reposted
trump regime wants to eliminate working class. all the trump whisperers tell him robots will rule, and he's dumb enough to think that's cool www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
I believe that 99% of what RFK Jr. does is motivated by: 1. Protecting his ego and vanity. He must convince people vaccines are bad b/c he can’t be wrong. Endless photos of himself exercising b/c vanity. 2. Creating conditions for his law firm to increase profits from suing various companies.
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buzzard123.bsky.social (@buzzard123.bsky.social) reposted
Polish Millionaire CEO Piotr Szczerek Reportedly Defends Snatching Kid’s Hat at US Open: “If You Were Faster, You’d Have It” And now he is trying to apologize and make it all better. Thiose who do business with him - is he really like this? www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember when the Monty Python movie “Life of Brian“ came out when I was in high school and our church youth group leader forbade us from seeing the movie. You know what we all did…
Purple Teacher (@peaceandteachin.bsky.social) reposted
Why is the WH posting photos from earlier this year? Why does Trump have bruising on both hands? Why isn’t Trump talking to the press? Why is Trump taking three medications to prevent strokes and cardiac episodes? Someone is lying to the public. 25th Amendment now. #ProudBlueVoices4Victory
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social)
He’s past it at this point. Quit propping him up by quoting his decades old book. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/p...
Roger ZenAF (@rogerzenaf.bsky.social) reposted
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
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JD is a potato without the following of trump. He’s hated. I live in Ohio. I know. He was Senator here for a minute.
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨This OK lawmaker was found guilty of running a vehicle with his daughter and an adult relative off of the road and INTO a ditch, causing injuries — and he is STILL in office?!? Of course, he has a history of both domestic violence and law enforcement.
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Scary.
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Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
Governor Jared Polis says on a reddit AMA that Colorado will fix it so that people can access COVID vaccines without a prescription within the next few days.
PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦 (@periwinklerose.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I saw it coming! These pay issues & one day short of full 30-day deployments so the NG could not get full pay & receive deployment benefits, happened when Abbott called up the TX NG for Op Lonestar. TRUMP DOESN’T PAY HIS BILLS & THINKS HE PERSONALLY OWNS SOLDIERS! Send them HOME to their families!
barbisblue (@barbisblue.bsky.social) reposted
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.
🏳️🌈Rebel PRIDE🏳️🌈 (@rebelpussy.bsky.social) reposted
That's it. He's dead. He did not type that.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
The “tenure“ thing was a joke. There are no tenure graduate student positions. It just felt like it. My advisor called me into his office one day and said “it’s JUST a PhD…“. LOL! I did the graduate school thing for 14 years. Not full time. But practically a career.
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Of course. apple.news/AvWbZVrLNRB2...
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Hated lab work? I was a statistician for a nursing college for 4 years. I’m not a nurse. It was fun and it funded my PhD studies. I miss it. But I WAS the only graduate student with tenure. I loved grad school and didn’t want to leave.
Doug Crompton 💙🐕🦺🐶♉🦋🦝📻📡🎙️🎧 (@dougwa3dsp.bsky.social) reposted
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Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social)
Deporting CHILDREN. Peak Republican behavior. apple.news/Azdm6Fog3RHa...
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Followed. You nailed it. This drug has multiple uses but has been researched mainly on white males. We women have different anatomy physiology and chemistry. But we’re more than half the population so go figure.
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
Beaver Bones Darick (@darickr.bsky.social) reposted
Wait, WHAAAAAT?! You mean to tell me all these performative TV people can't actually do the jobs? Just because a fake business man and grifter who sold the world that he's a success because he played one on TV made it twice into the White House.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
He hasn’t posted on blue sky for more than two years so I doubt he ever wanders over here.
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
Everyone parrots the line, “They’ll just replace Trump with another figurehead.” Bullsh*t. Later today in my latest JHN Newsletter I’ll break down why Trump is the one irreplaceable piece of this machine. When he’s gone...the whole thing starts to crack.
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*clapping.
✌️Bob ☮ (Old Man Hippy)💙 (@oldmanhippy.com) reposted
I said 2PM but as this is my first, it is a little early. But that's okay... I hope. Take a look, vet and follow. These are all great folks. #StrongerTogether #BlueCrew #BreakfastCrew
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah. Ok. The woman in the foreground appeared to be clasping the veteran out of the room. I don’t have audio on because I’m in a group of people.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
I think those MAGA are clapping for the removal of the veteran speaking the truth.
Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted
“'ILLEGALS' my ass.” Rami Othmane has a green card and is married to Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, a hospital chief of staff. Despite having legal residency, ICE detained him for 13 days after grabbing him during a grocery run. This injustice cuts deeper than words.
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✌️Bob ☮ (Old Man Hippy)💙 (@oldmanhippy.com) reposted reply parent
Hope everyone will stop by and take a look at my first attempt at a starter pack. Great way to meet some new folks and share a meme or two.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social)
The internet is forever, sucker! apple.news/Ai0Hevxg_RMu...
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
WTAF.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Can attest. This is all true.
Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) reposted
used to be when White House press pool we haven’t seen and weren’t told where POTUS is, he’d be on a secret flight to some far off war zone to visit the troops… but that can’t be it now since the troops are deployed right out on the White House sidewalk
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JFC. apple.news/AJilFk9DBQPm...
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All I need to do is read the headline and known this nimrod is a trump sycophant. www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/p...
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Good!! apple.news/ArcFyh_yIRg6...
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(furiously signing up for Netflix)
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social) reposted
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) reposted
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
suzette sommer (@suzette.bsky.social) reposted
Bet this is why she’s not running again. It’s on video. Iowa would be seeing it EVERYWHERE.
Brutal Realist (@brutalrealist.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly.