Brad Carpenter (he/him)
Interests include politics, sports, and painting Warhammer 40k models. Oh, and it'd be great if we could do something about income inequality and the impending fascism. Yeah...
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- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)BERNIE SANDERS: Is healthcare a human right? RFK Jr: It's not a right of a kind that we otherwise enshrine in the Constitution ... the objective is to get Americans the level of healthcare they want SANDERS: They don't want the choice to be uninsured or die
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- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)The one person a woman is married to is more likely to kill her than all the illegal immigrants in the country combined and yet none of our laws or policies seem to recognize that fact
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- I blame Joe Rogan
- everyone even mildly into polar exploration knows how badly vitamin A can fuck you up, and seeing the Health Secretary of the US recommend megadoses to measles patients made me so mad i wrote about it. im so angry at this malthusian ghoul buttondown.com/theswordandt...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)everyone even mildly into polar exploration knows how badly vitamin A can fuck you up, and seeing the Health Secretary of the US recommend megadoses to measles patients made me so mad i wrote about it. im so angry at this malthusian ghoul buttondown.com/theswordandt...
- More dragging of RW bigots and misinformation merchants by internet personalities from non-political arenas, please and thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8jT...
- This should happen everywhere he goes.
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- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Strong work 🫡 @rollingstone.com
- Not great
- Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)RFK Jr. Claims Measles Can Be Cured With A Good Concealer
- We should do something about this guy being in charge of people's lives. More than just hearings, I'd suggest.
- More insanity from being led by the most dangerous people we could find to make decisions about our lives.
- Shitty people should not have this much power over other people's lives.
- Insufferable fools with far too much power.
- It's @somemorenews.bsky.social day for those who celebrate! Everyone should! Huzzah! This one's about DOGE and how it's all lies. An important deep dive autopsy that feels too late, but is still important to do! Yay! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJQD...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)I once had a good friend ask me how it would work if we abolished the police, how would we deal with crime? I asked, 'What's the biggest reason people do crime?' They answered, 'Poverty, or maybe mental health reasons.' 'Do cops help with poverty or mental health?' And they immediately understood.
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)HAPPENING NOW: Hearing in the case of Kaseniia Petrova, the Harvard scientist from Russia who was detained by ICE after she failed to declare scientific samples when she returned to the US from France. The hearing is before a federal judge in Vermont. 🧵
- They're awful on purpose.
- They're going to steal everything, including our future, if we allow them to.
- Important thread
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Chris Murphy: "I just don't know that our Republican colleagues will ever break. This is a cult that operates like a cult, and for the time being, if Donald Trump says that black is white or 1+1=5, the Republican Party is gonna agree with him."
- Whatever happens to this man, he'll become a RW star and get hundreds of thousands of dollars on a GoFundMe.
- Oh FFS. Can we please do one good thing and force RFK jr. out? Either way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gefw...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)BREAKING: AOC broke it down— How the fuck does 1 million undocumented people = cutting 13.7 million citizens off healthcare? Because it was never about immigrants. It was about gutting the system and locking the door behind you. You lose your coverage—and then they outlaw your Plan B.
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Murphy: "There's no guarantee that we are gonna have a free and fair election in 2026. He's trying to rig our democracy, to destroy dissent, to cripple the opposition, so that even if his approval ratings are in the 30s next year, there isn't the ability for his opposition to muster a real campaign"
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Murphy: "He's going to these 3 countries for a simple reason: These are the 3 countries that are willing to pay him. Traditionally a president might go first to Canada or one of our European allies, but those countries aren't willing to write Trump a check."
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Okay, that’s enough internet for today.
- Private prisons shouldn't exist and people that work them should never know a stress-free public moment ever again.
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"He’ll eat in a room with a floor covered in feces. He’ll ask, many times, for supplies to clean it up... he’ll gradually start to long to be deported to El Salvador, a country he barely knows. He’ll want this but won’t get it, because this is an ICE jail." How is every story worst than the last? - Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Yes the water is starting to boil, but why would I voluntarily get out of the pot.
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)"Exaggeration"? If the Republican bill is passed as-is, then 13.7 million will lose health coverage. That's what CBO said, the result of 7.7m from the GOP bill, 4.2m from tax credits GOP isn't extending, and 1.8m from a Trump marketplace rule GOP isn't rescinding or modifying. 13.7m. It's a fact.
- In the first 15 minutes of the E&C markup, the number 13.7 million uninsured has already come up twice. It's an exaggeration of what the GOP bill would do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
- I can't believe the Cavs can't make a basket
- This video of Hasan Piker reacting to his detention being mocked by another online personality is more critical to our current politics than Jake Tapper continuing to rant about Biden's age. The online spaces matter now. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp8I...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Not willing to fight Trump, very willing to fight anyone who is.
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Like please just take the next step. write the letter, make the call, go to the hearing, donate the money, attend the meeting, join the group etc etc etc...
- We need to learn from the Tea Party and take over the Dems in less than a decade.
- Some are at least speaking out m.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_q...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)As someone who worked the flight deck of the USS Nimitz while deployed in the Persian Gulf, I have to admit, I find it disturbing (and I'm very suspicious) that two U.S. military fighter jets were recently lost from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman during its deployment in the Red Sea. 1/6
- You can't make this up. ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
- Stephen A. Smith is definitely going to make a move into politics, and it's definitely going to suck. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)I'm increasingly struggling with the fact that right wing members of Congress keep going to a concentration camp run by their favorite dictator, as if it's some kind of amusement park or sex club, and there's almost no backlash.
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)"why can’t timid Democrats call for the abolition of Ice, which was created only in 2003 by George W Bush, making it even younger than Leonardo DiCaprio’s current girlfriend?" My latest for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)"he can't be bought." [Qatar has entered the chat.] [Elon Musk has entered the chat.] [Jeff Bezos has entered the chat.] [Saudi Arabia has entered the chat.] [Donators to Trump's "inauguration fund" have entered the chat.] [Purchasers of Donald's cryptocurrency have entered the chat.] . . .
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)The real headline here seems to be that Schumer could have blocked Trump's other nominees. www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-...
- Trump's in it for the money and immunity from prosecution. Much of everything else bad that's going on is orders from foreign dictators and whoever he's talked to last. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV4s...
- Feels more relevant these days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkHS...
- Reposted by Brad Carpenter (he/him)I heard Pam Bondi might have a laptop that outlines a 400 million dollar personal gift to the president designed to curry personal favor. The gift might even be laced with a spy device. If the libs HUNT for that LAPTOP, BY THEN the game's over. Hearings. Outrage. Scandal.
