A.P. Brown
@apxbrown.bsky.social
Front Range Colorado resident/ West Coast native, formerly ATL & PNW. Essayist, music critic, home baker, whiskey and barbecue enthusiast.
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Coal Mining is a tiny fraction of the economy! It's a tiny regional industry! Craft Brewing employs more than 10 times as many people with an estimated 440,000 jobs in the craft brewing industry
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Coal Mining is a tiny fraction of the economy! It's a tiny regional industry! Craft Brewing employs more than 10 times as many people with an estimated 440,000 jobs in the craft brewing industry
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they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"
US HIRING AT RECESSION LEVELS: HIRING RATE AT 3.3%, MATCHING THE 2020 CRISIS AND NEAR A 13-YEAR LOW.
February 11, 2026 at 3:12 AM
they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"
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February 11, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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"rich asshole who stops a multi-billion dollar project and causes an international incident to protect his lucrative duty-free gasoline concession" is really the perfect exemplar of parasitic trumpism. think of how wealthy the american people would be if we shook off all these bloodsuckers.
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
"rich asshole who stops a multi-billion dollar project and causes an international incident to protect his lucrative duty-free gasoline concession" is really the perfect exemplar of parasitic trumpism. think of how wealthy the american people would be if we shook off all these bloodsuckers.
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It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.
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in my familial circles some people have tried to use ivermectin to cure their cancer. that ended poorly
conservative influencers causing people to die yet again
conservative influencers causing people to die yet again
I feel bad for ivermectin, which genuinely is amazing stuff that won a deserved Nobel Prize but is now forever associated with crank antiscience
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 AM
in my familial circles some people have tried to use ivermectin to cure their cancer. that ended poorly
conservative influencers causing people to die yet again
conservative influencers causing people to die yet again
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Time to revisit this 2018 op-ed I still think about all the time
(This grift has been going for so long you can add gen z to this)
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/o...
(This grift has been going for so long you can add gen z to this)
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/o...
February 11, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Time to revisit this 2018 op-ed I still think about all the time
(This grift has been going for so long you can add gen z to this)
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/o...
(This grift has been going for so long you can add gen z to this)
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/o...
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The inability to understand that the oppression of trans Americans is not only part of fascism but a direct path to it is one of the reasons the right has found it so relatively trivial to gain power.
Liberation for all or not at all isn’t just a moral stance — it’s a strategic one.
Liberation for all or not at all isn’t just a moral stance — it’s a strategic one.
WHO THE FCK CARES?! It’s all hate and distraction from the fascist takeover of this country.
February 11, 2026 at 1:55 AM
The inability to understand that the oppression of trans Americans is not only part of fascism but a direct path to it is one of the reasons the right has found it so relatively trivial to gain power.
Liberation for all or not at all isn’t just a moral stance — it’s a strategic one.
Liberation for all or not at all isn’t just a moral stance — it’s a strategic one.
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Just initiated my return. When they told me the return window closed, I typed what this person typed and the return got approved.
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Just initiated my return. When they told me the return window closed, I typed what this person typed and the return got approved.
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Splurging on what? Juice and chicken.
February 11, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Splurging on what? Juice and chicken.
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If millennials are sitting there eating gruel with mud in it from a bowl with a plastic spoon, economists who write for the big press will be shaming us for choosing such a luxurious way to feed ourselves & telling us that's why we can't get rich.
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:08 AM
If millennials are sitting there eating gruel with mud in it from a bowl with a plastic spoon, economists who write for the big press will be shaming us for choosing such a luxurious way to feed ourselves & telling us that's why we can't get rich.
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Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 11, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Peep pushing this story right after their reporters found massive income and wealth shifts to the richest after the partial lockdowns ended.
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Peep pushing this story right after their reporters found massive income and wealth shifts to the richest after the partial lockdowns ended.
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That's why he's a legend
Mamoru Oshii, the director of legendary anime movie Ghost in the Shell, has said that he's played Fallout 4 for 10,000 hours while avoiding its main quest. https://bit.ly/4aud4Hh
February 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM
That's why he's a legend
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But HIS emails, amirite?
February 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM
But HIS emails, amirite?
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House votes down rule that included language to prevent any votes re: Trump’s tariffs thru July. Three Rs (Massie, Bacon & Kiley) voted no, with all Ds.
CO delegation voted along party lines.
Rs voted for the rule, Ds voted against.
CO delegation voted along party lines.
Rs voted for the rule, Ds voted against.
February 11, 2026 at 3:03 AM
House votes down rule that included language to prevent any votes re: Trump’s tariffs thru July. Three Rs (Massie, Bacon & Kiley) voted no, with all Ds.
CO delegation voted along party lines.
Rs voted for the rule, Ds voted against.
CO delegation voted along party lines.
Rs voted for the rule, Ds voted against.
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"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
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February 11, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
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Corporations have officially decided people should stop dreaming of finding a better job. They just want them to consume more to make the one they have bearable, rather than dreaming of real empowerment/change. If Amazon's workers dream of that, Amazon is boned.
February 11, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Corporations have officially decided people should stop dreaming of finding a better job. They just want them to consume more to make the one they have bearable, rather than dreaming of real empowerment/change. If Amazon's workers dream of that, Amazon is boned.
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I know it's a longshot, and the #Oscars are gonna Oscars, and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER has been winning damn near everything at every awards ceremony.
But I'm still holding out hope that Ryan Coogler brings home the Oscar for Best Director, as well as for Best Original Screenplay. #Sinners
But I'm still holding out hope that Ryan Coogler brings home the Oscar for Best Director, as well as for Best Original Screenplay. #Sinners
February 11, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it:
Testilying.
Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
Testilying.
Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
February 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it:
Testilying.
Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
Testilying.
Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
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We see how, in this society, men treat the things they own. . .
February 11, 2026 at 2:54 AM
We see how, in this society, men treat the things they own. . .
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Well, yeah.
Or, I'd say. . . pedophilia is simply the other side of the "men see women and children as things they own" coin.
Or, I'd say. . . pedophilia is simply the other side of the "men see women and children as things they own" coin.
"women's beauty standards are rooted in pedophila"
my god today.
my god today.
February 11, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Well, yeah.
Or, I'd say. . . pedophilia is simply the other side of the "men see women and children as things they own" coin.
Or, I'd say. . . pedophilia is simply the other side of the "men see women and children as things they own" coin.
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Admission to a capricious abuse of power based on petty grievance—a power usurped from Congress.
Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."
February 11, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Admission to a capricious abuse of power based on petty grievance—a power usurped from Congress.