JB stan account
@johnbrownstan.bsky.social
Militant liberal. Aspiring re-education camp counselor. Filibuster abolition enjoyer.
Look down the game tree. What's at the end of all those off-equilibrium paths? DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
Look down the game tree. What's at the end of all those off-equilibrium paths? DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
Pinned
I think a lot of people are reading this and thinking "oh no, we are doomed, Collins is going to win", and I'm sorry, but if Mills can't even win the primary there is exactly zero reason to think she can win in the general
I am not saying this because I want the Totenkopf guy in the senate, I am saying this because it is plainly obvious Janet Mills is a terribly weak candidate and this problem is not going to go away on its own.
December 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I think a lot of people are reading this and thinking "oh no, we are doomed, Collins is going to win", and I'm sorry, but if Mills can't even win the primary there is exactly zero reason to think she can win in the general
Please let me just pay for my externalities, I'm begging you
December 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Please let me just pay for my externalities, I'm begging you
Do me
December 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Do me
There's no reason we should treat these pardons as legitimate
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
There's no reason we should treat these pardons as legitimate
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All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
For some reason Chicago is called the Windy City despite Boston being windier and Boston is called beantown despite Chicago having The Bean
December 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For some reason Chicago is called the Windy City despite Boston being windier and Boston is called beantown despite Chicago having The Bean
Ah, but China's population is heavily concentrated in the east, unlike... errr...
Well, China is extremely mountainous, which... err...
Well, China is extremely mountainous, which... err...
My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Ah, but China's population is heavily concentrated in the east, unlike... errr...
Well, China is extremely mountainous, which... err...
Well, China is extremely mountainous, which... err...
It's positively insane for conservatives to suggest that higher education discriminates against them when Adrian Vermeule gets to retain his position teaching constitutional law despite hating the constitution
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It's positively insane for conservatives to suggest that higher education discriminates against them when Adrian Vermeule gets to retain his position teaching constitutional law despite hating the constitution
Correct, there are three. One of them is by UB-40 and the other is sorta creepy if you really think about it
Begging the TV people to understand that there's more than one Neil Diamond song.
December 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Correct, there are three. One of them is by UB-40 and the other is sorta creepy if you really think about it
So what's our plan for how we stop everyone from becoming a conspiracy theorist? Because it seems like these days a good 60% of the population believes conspiracy theories
December 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So what's our plan for how we stop everyone from becoming a conspiracy theorist? Because it seems like these days a good 60% of the population believes conspiracy theories
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This is what White House staff is doing with President Trump.
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is what White House staff is doing with President Trump.
At my last job I was outside eating with a mid-20s coworker as a plane passed overhead creating contrails. He noticed it and asked what it was. I said it was a plane and he was in disbelief. Apparently in his 20+ years of life he had never noticed a contrail before.
I began this story focused on the weird lies about Hurricane Helene but became very disturbed at how prevalent this pseudo-environmentalism is. The movement blocks real policy to curb climate catastrophes.
For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
At my last job I was outside eating with a mid-20s coworker as a plane passed overhead creating contrails. He noticed it and asked what it was. I said it was a plane and he was in disbelief. Apparently in his 20+ years of life he had never noticed a contrail before.
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Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
Ready or Not is both a good game and pretty explicit fascist propaganda. Unfortunate
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Ready or Not is both a good game and pretty explicit fascist propaganda. Unfortunate
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These are Roberts Pardons
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
These are Roberts Pardons
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SCOTUS could have limited immunity to non-corrupt official acts, but it chose the broader protection for Trump. So, taking a bribe in exchange for an official act cannot be criminally prosecuted. No American has ever received this form of immunity. The opinion is an abomination.
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
SCOTUS could have limited immunity to non-corrupt official acts, but it chose the broader protection for Trump. So, taking a bribe in exchange for an official act cannot be criminally prosecuted. No American has ever received this form of immunity. The opinion is an abomination.
Really grateful to be done with the dating part of my life
OK team, there is a debate in the girls chat, and I have absolutely no idea which side to join in with, if any
If you, a girl, go home with a guy, and he has dishes in his sink or dish drying rack, does that give you the ick
If you, a girl, go home with a guy, and he has dishes in his sink or dish drying rack, does that give you the ick
December 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Really grateful to be done with the dating part of my life
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
I think the more accurate statement is that he believes they are the best possible ship, but our Navy has abandoned them because of Woke
My thought of the day is that Trump appears to think that battleships are still the primary capital ship of a modern navy. And that is not the case.
December 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I think the more accurate statement is that he believes they are the best possible ship, but our Navy has abandoned them because of Woke
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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
Just learned what Alf on a shelf actually is. What the fuck?
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Just learned what Alf on a shelf actually is. What the fuck?
Celiac disease rather famously existed in the 1920's, when an all-banana diet was prescribed as a treatment. (The treatment worked because if you're eating nothing but bananas you're not eating gluten.)
December 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Celiac disease rather famously existed in the 1920's, when an all-banana diet was prescribed as a treatment. (The treatment worked because if you're eating nothing but bananas you're not eating gluten.)
"We must grow union power for more political power" was a view that was already outdated in 2018 when it made its resurgence
The history of american labor is disproportionately white unions continuously choosing racism over growing labor power
American labor reliably chooses to really fuck themselves in the future to save a few jobs today.
December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"We must grow union power for more political power" was a view that was already outdated in 2018 when it made its resurgence
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The history of american labor is disproportionately white unions continuously choosing racism over growing labor power
American labor reliably chooses to really fuck themselves in the future to save a few jobs today.
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The history of american labor is disproportionately white unions continuously choosing racism over growing labor power