Jared Brown

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

The business community wanted Trump because no one told them that he's a senile old man surrounded by nazis. The media instead sold a fake version of Trump that was a genius businessman. The reality has been somewhat startling to them!

I’m really not into the “FAFO” discourse when it comes to Trump voters. Am I angry and sad that we are where we are? Yes. But unless there is a correction, and *fast* we are *all* going down with the ship. Energy should be going to helping people survive what’s coming.

Not. A. Single. Freaking. Time. Have. They. Trashed. Russia. For. Exterminating. Ukraine. Instead. Of. Blaming. Ukrainians. For. Resisting.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

starting a thread of NPC names I invented that made my D&D party so mad they yelled at me

crab spiders and spider crabs inhabit what scientists call "the sweet spot"

maybe there was actually a pretty good reason for the 14th amendment to have banned insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the government from serving in government and the decision to just decide it was a dead letter and ignore it was a horrible mistake?

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

I wrote about the fascist party that's taking power, the deepest natural laws that they oppose, the ways that this opposition renders them fundamentally, illegitimate no matter what power they hold, and what that means for all of us. www.the-reframe.com/the-moon-is-...

a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

Please, call me Craw. Crawdad is my father.

People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...

I wrote about the reaction to the shooting of a CEO. "It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too." www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-sol...

One positive effect of watching a lot of basketball is that you get used to phrases like The Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis. It's not good to read stuff like that or know what it means but I sense it will help somewhat when something with a similar vibe and feel replaces Social Security.

it's clear now that republican trolls are squatting here. i know it's tempting to engage, but i cannot stress enough that blocking is the only way to preserve this community. block and move on. block and move on. block and move on.

When state power is wielded by immoral people for immoral ends, the moral response is to disobey state power.

between anti-abortion extremists and rfk the trump administration seems to be a targeted effort to increase maternal and early childhood mortality

My colleague, @democracyprof.bsky.social, wrote this back in 2016, about how states could resist an unconstitutional Trump admin. The key line is this: that the states have a constitutional obligation to defend the constitution, INDEPENDENT OF WHAT SCOTUS SAYS.

…Trump mad (ah yes Donald the dove, ending endless wars…), and Rubio has also backed up Trump’s anti-democratic elections heads-I-win-tails-you-lose bullshit He’s just a robotic MAGA guy, there to make Trump happy and have proximity to power. The Rubios of the world will do the opposite of save you

There are, in theory, worse picks Trump coulda made for Secretary of State but a reminder that Rubio for nearly a decade has turned himself into venal Trumpism. The incoming top diplomat has publicly stated he has no problem At All with Trump telling Russia to attack NATO allies if the allies make…

It's great because you can quote Trump verbatim to people and watch their eyes glaze over and do the "doesn't look like anything to me" bit from Westworld.

This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

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