Brandon Friedman
Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • MSNBC columnist • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • BJJ • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
rakkasantea.com
@rakkasantea.bsky.social
- This is all so incredibly racist and white nationalist and everyone is going about like it's all perfectly normal. Also, when you listen to the Deputy Secretary of State, you realize what a mistake it was to stop calling these people weird. Because this is a guy I would not allow near my kid.
- This is such beta shit
- An elected official accepting a 747 from a foreign country is so flamboyantly illegal that any news outlet characterizing it as "controversial" or "an ethical issue" should be ignored, have their subscriptions canceled and their reporters banned as TV pundits forever. This isn't close.
- President Trump is replacing Air Force One with a Qatari luxury jet sent as a bribe
- Almost like modern business is designed to extract wealth from customers regardless of quality, by any means necessary, rather than to create beloved, useful products and services in exchange for money
- DHS arrested a Democratic mayor and is now threatening to imprison Democratic members of Congress. I assume this means no more talk of seeking "bipartisan legislation with my Republican friends," right?
- DHS confirms to @axios.com that they are considering arresting Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez. Watson Coleman's office says they reviewed the body cam footage and that it proves "nobody 'assaulted' any agents." More here: www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...
- This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This is not an exaggeration.
- Read this. It's horrifying. Democratic governors, mayors and councils need to proactively mobilize their National Guard units and police departments to *protect their residents* from lawless federal agents making arrests without warrants.
- This thread is wild. Elon Musk needs to be in jail for a lot of things, but this obscene waste of taxpayer dollars is up there.
- Very pleased with myself for never having trusted this Republican
