Brian DePasquale

Writer/Researcher/Music nerd

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

A 90-year-old woman emailed me this week. She told me she was raped by her doctor 60 years ago.
"A woman lawyer told me not to prosecute him because I would be dragged through the mud," she explained.
I get emails like this almost every day. These women aren't asking me for anything, except to acknowledge them and their pain.
They want the world to understand that they have been silenced by a system in which men say "eight years ago?" as if there is a deadline that expired for their trauma.

[Lindsey P. Horvath @LindseyPHorvath]

We know lots of people are talking about the K Line Northern Extension. Good!

This Thursday, we need every voice we can get. Tell the Metro Board: approve the K Line Northern Extension, without delays.

[Brian DePasquale @RealBDP]

The realignment theory was always nonsense. To me, it's pretty clear that 2024 was more of a rejection of Biden/response to inflation than it was an endorsement of Trump.

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

Hispanic voters have completely reverted to 2016 trend line. All GOP gains here have been lost.

The ‘Racial Realignment’ theory can officially be declared dead

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

[Brian DePasquale @RealBDP]

@StephenM You’re a liar. The videos prove it. Your impotence is showing.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Actually we aren't going to need anymore videos.

There is no rationale for thousands of masked and armed agents of the state to be in Minneapolis shooting protestors. They should get the fuck out before they kill anyone else. This is not a legal or necessary operation.

[Brian DePasquale @RealBDP]

@ESPNFANSUPPORT I subscribed to your service to watch football today. The stream is jumpy and unwatchable. Will never watch something on here again.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close.

[Matthew Segal @segalmr]

I'll say it again:

In my opinion, when companies or institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law; they are making educated guesses that the U.S. is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won't matter.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

[Brian DePasquale @RealBDP]

Absolutely horrific.

[Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip]

The degree to which the algorithm on this platform is pushing video of the shooting is incredibly disturbing. There has to be some human that can turn the dial down in a situation like this.

[Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip]

The degree to which the algorithm on this platform is pushing video of the shooting is incredibly disturbing. There has to be some human that can turn the dial down in a situation like this.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

1/28

The Epstein "Birthday Book" is a disturbing read, filled with lots of crass 'jokes' related to the abuse of minors.

This is just 1 document of the 300,000 files still sealed about Epstein's trafficking ring.

Here are a few damning things I found in a quick skim:

[Brian DePasquale @RealBDP]

Partisan gerrymandering is one of the worst things about American politics. Redistricting rules should be uniform across all states.

[Brian DePasquale @RealBDP]

@TheBigPic Uh... The Sixth Sense?

[katie @katefeetie]

keeping myself humble by remembering that no matter how smart I think I am, it’s still not smart enough to get off twitter

[Brian DePasquale @RealBDP]

Noah!

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

'The Pitt's Noah Wyle Teases Second Season: "Our Job Is Not To Outdo Ourselves. Our Job Is To Do Ourselves" https://t.co/n0JPOGOcpT

[Brian DePasquale @RealBDP]

The “politics”

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

I am pleased to announce that the United States Navy is renaming the USNS Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.

We are taking the politics out of ship naming.

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

This budget does not and would not belong to a country moving in the right direction