brandon
@brandowrites.bsky.social
📍Chicago, IL 🇵🇸From the river to the sea🇵🇸 IG: brando_writes
party theme was “prints” and I thought it’d be best if I made my own
last day of Pride month before we all have to return to the sea until next June 😔
Hope y’all had as wonderful of a Pride weekend as I did! 😌
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment”
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Paul Blumenthal@paulblumenthal.bsky.social · last yr.Someone shot Charlie Kirk at a university event www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...
“So do you think he’s dead? Was that a body double? A clone? Maybe they’re pulling a weekend at Bernie’s? Anyways, that dom top texted me.”
Happy Labor Day y’all. May we all unionize our workplaces and shake the money down from the top of the ladder. 👊🏻
Now that it's been a few days, I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces I wrote for Eater over the 6+ years I was there. First off, I got to write a lot about the intersection of food and queerness, culminating in this piece that got me a JBFA nomination www.eater.com/24162871/foo...
The Food That Makes You Gay
Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.
eater.com
Being gay and a writer has fundamentally altered the way I hear “Trade Publication” like damn trade has an official magazine now?
New, from me, for Eater Chicago. Hamburger Mary’s has finally returned to Chicago. Great new space that’s as gay as ever 💃🏻🪩💅🏻 chicago.eater.com/openings/161...
A Drag Icon Is Reborn in Edgewater as Hamburger Mary’s Reopens
The burger bar has persevered through the pandemic and political turmoil
chicago.eater.com
I don’t get why so many gays are mean when you can wear flowers and tell people they’re hot and you love seeing them on the dance floor
Queer food is eating lobster mac and cheese in one of the nation’s oldest taverns where the founding fathers got pissed drunk as “Good Luck Babe!” plays over the bar’s speakers
Imagine hating me and I’m just in my existential crisis void like
Grateful for warm weather at the start of this Pride season
Why would I, as a customer, pay $300 a person for a meal where the chef completely outsourced their creativity? At that level your own imagination is precisely what I'm paying you for, what an L and an insult to admit you can't do it and charge me anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/d...
This Year’s Hot New Tool for Chefs? ChatGPT.
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