Brian McCabe

Brian McCabe

@mccabeagent.bsky.social

SciFi Nerd, Horror Geek, Book Lover. Probably watched too much film/TV. Instagram: @mccabeagent

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Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

Johanna T 👻 📚@johannamation.bsky.social

I am b e g g i n g people to mask up at major cons, *especially* ones with 5-digit crowd sizes!! Lightbox this weekend was absolutely ravaged; I’m hearing of SO many attendees and exhibitors who got sick from doing the show this year!! Please stay safe out there! 🙏 🙏

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Intimate?

CALL TO ACTIVISM@calltoactivism.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: Travis County judge granted Gina Hinojosa's request to inspect Greg Abbott's unredacted Musk emails. Judge Mauzy set Thursday 10 AM as the DEADLINE for Abbott to let her see them. Abbott tried to keep them hidden, calling them "intimate and embarrassing."

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The piece mentions neither Amazon or Bezos, so as much as there has been some very good reporting under the current regime, they do have their limits. And if people really want to read the whole piece I assume they can find it with the subtle clue that it's in the Washington Post.

bjkeefe@bjkeefe.bsky.social

It's easy to dunk on Bezos, and he deserves all of it, but it's worth pointing out that the reporters who have managed to keep their jobs continue to do solid work. Also, @schooley.bsky.social should supply links. Screenshots-only is dishonest. Here is a gift link: wapo.st/3W3WdYo

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Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

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Replying to @rafiews.com

More shocking displays by Bolsonaro supporters in the last 24 hours: voters wearing T-shirts that say “long live fascism,” doing a Nazi salute when entering the polls, and a white man walking a Black man on a chain at a pro-Bolsonaro gathering in Rio de Janeiro.

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We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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NINE DAYS before an election, Trump says all the “great stuff” he’s done will “kick in later.” You know what actually kicks in later? His healthcare cuts. More Medicaid restrictions. More people at risk of losing coverage.

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Losing Orban and Vucic is a blow to Putin. Let's hope a big setback to his most important Western ally (Trump and MAGA) is in the cards for next week.

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The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW, NYT: More action from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of California that is not based in law and runs counter to DOJ policy. DOJ is threatening local elections officials in CA after DOJ did not get what they wanted from their BS lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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If you aren’t instantly reminded of the history of forcing indigenous children into residential “schools” and the roll of family separation in the machinery of slavery, you are not looking clear-eyed at the present moment.

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

Sen. Wyden said Donald Trump is putting kids at risk of falling into "horrific cycles of trafficking" and the new ICE facility for unaccompanied children in Louisiana "will be another black box location for the Trump administration to disappear migrant children" www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

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“Toxic Empathy” author Allie Beth Stuckey is now asking for folks to understand that ICE has separated a good man from his family over a paperwork issue.

Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social

Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey, a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.

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i don't care how jk rowling is justifying her murderous bigotry today actually. over 600 transgender ppl have died in the uk in the last 18 months bcos of policies she demanded the british government implement. she is a monster. i don't care how much you like harry potter.

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Detainees at ICE's Folkston detention center in Georgia say a Mexican national has taken his own life. Detainees heard the man screaming in pain while being held in solitary confinement. Then, the screams stopped. He is the 60th person to die in ICE custody under Trump. More to come...

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Arabic names (including Somali and Egyptian names) are usually patrilineal patronymics. Your "middle name" is typically your father's first name. Your "last name" could be your grandfather's first name or your family name, or both, and you might use both interchangeably. None of this is nefarious.

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Consumer facing "A.i." is a tool for fascism made by technofascists.

Florida Freedom to Read Project@flfreedomread.bsky.social

Palm Beach pulled 1800+ titles from its school library collections because AI flagged them for review. Media specialists and principals must sign attestation forms verifying their libraries are compliant with vague law. None of this is normal. freedomtoreadproject.substack.com/p/when-ai-de...

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NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

propublica.orgBird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that expe...

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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

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Remember, Republicans made George Soros an international boogeyman when he was giving Democrats a *tenth* of this Now... {crickets}

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AI billionaires are trying to buy elections... but when voters know who's pushing ads, it backfires. One of the most important things we can all do right now is make sure our friends and family know which candidates are being backed by freaks like Musk and Andreessen www.inc.com/sam-blum/ai-...

inc.comAI Founders Have Poured Millions Into Politics. Voters Aren't ConvincedSurvey data suggest the AI industry's political spending isn't working with voters who are concerned about jobs and data centers.

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Pete Hegseth wanted Dwight Eisenhower's globe for his office. His staff broke it. Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.

washingtonpost.comHegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.

I did the math of how much I make versus what I need just to survive & it ain’t mathing. I kept me up most of the night & I’m wondering what the fuck am I doing? Why am I fighting so hard to stay here?

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BREAKING: New Mexico judge says Meta must pay $25 billion for deceiving users about data privacy. The company was found to have committed 43 million violations of New Mexico law since n this case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...