kjb
@kjbrowning.bsky.social
Exhausted idealist, entering my crone era
Here for: news, opposition, higher ed, info literacy, unraveled Christians, pop culture, laughs, whimsy
my places: Spokane/PNW, Midwest, DC/MD, Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Here for: news, opposition, higher ed, info literacy, unraveled Christians, pop culture, laughs, whimsy
my places: Spokane/PNW, Midwest, DC/MD, Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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kjb
@kjbrowning.bsky.social
· Nov 7
i’m not doom scrolling i’m bereft browsing
I’m not doom scrolling, I’m
solidarity scanning
grief gathering
hope hunting
solidarity scanning
grief gathering
hope hunting
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Remember this the next time you have flight delays: the Biden plan would have forced airlines to give passengers “between $200 and nearly $775 for delays ranging from three hours to over nine hours, along with guaranteed meals and lodging”
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Remember this the next time you have flight delays: the Biden plan would have forced airlines to give passengers “between $200 and nearly $775 for delays ranging from three hours to over nine hours, along with guaranteed meals and lodging”
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Wait. She stole the styling of my 1980s Western Ken Doll.
I still have him and this outfit somewhere.
I still have him and this outfit somewhere.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Wait. She stole the styling of my 1980s Western Ken Doll.
I still have him and this outfit somewhere.
I still have him and this outfit somewhere.
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I think a lot, especially living where I do now, that Ruby Bridges (now 71) is younger than my mom.
Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I think a lot, especially living where I do now, that Ruby Bridges (now 71) is younger than my mom.
Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
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We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
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So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon.
The rest of us will live in a society.
The rest of us will live in a society.
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon.
The rest of us will live in a society.
The rest of us will live in a society.
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For real, you all think the problem is "white guys don't see themselves in this party" but the problem really is "white guys are uncomfortable belonging to a party with women and BIPOC in leadership." That problem doesn't get solved by centering arrogant white guys more.
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
For real, you all think the problem is "white guys don't see themselves in this party" but the problem really is "white guys are uncomfortable belonging to a party with women and BIPOC in leadership." That problem doesn't get solved by centering arrogant white guys more.
Hey, @bsky.app! I am not interested in one single thing on the Trending List here - and why are they all stale items from yesterday?
Come on. Trending Topics should display from the last couple of hours.
Come on. Trending Topics should display from the last couple of hours.
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Hey, @bsky.app! I am not interested in one single thing on the Trending List here - and why are they all stale items from yesterday?
Come on. Trending Topics should display from the last couple of hours.
Come on. Trending Topics should display from the last couple of hours.
I can see why her post got flagged. Mods & users shouldn’t have to know every pop culture reference to give context to death threats.
ALSO, Bluesky should have communicated clearly and quickly to identify the problem post and make clear that it was a 3-day suspension not permanent.
ALSO, Bluesky should have communicated clearly and quickly to identify the problem post and make clear that it was a 3-day suspension not permanent.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I can see why her post got flagged. Mods & users shouldn’t have to know every pop culture reference to give context to death threats.
ALSO, Bluesky should have communicated clearly and quickly to identify the problem post and make clear that it was a 3-day suspension not permanent.
ALSO, Bluesky should have communicated clearly and quickly to identify the problem post and make clear that it was a 3-day suspension not permanent.
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When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
![From: Steve Bannon I
Sent: 4/23/2019 4:06:36 PM
To: Michael Wolff _________________________________1
CC: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners
Importance: High
Fix always in
On Apr 23, 2019, at 9:06 AM, Michael Wolff <
> wrote:
Look at the judges on this thing: the right-thinking establishment to a tee (to a Ta-Nihisi).
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:57 PM Steve Bannon < wrote:
Pile on](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreicowtp72c5t277drs3dolmxwnxoa5fks2u4znpvsyoq4kbtt22i4i@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
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“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet.”
Great work by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social & the @propublica.org a.org team piecing together what really happened in that war-like raid of a Chicago Apt bldg.
Great work by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social & the @propublica.org a.org team piecing together what really happened in that war-like raid of a Chicago Apt bldg.
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet.”
Great work by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social & the @propublica.org a.org team piecing together what really happened in that war-like raid of a Chicago Apt bldg.
Great work by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social & the @propublica.org a.org team piecing together what really happened in that war-like raid of a Chicago Apt bldg.
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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The whole war on “woke” and “cancel culture” was contrived to protect the worst people in our society and make it possible for them to keep doing despicable things to other people.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The whole war on “woke” and “cancel culture” was contrived to protect the worst people in our society and make it possible for them to keep doing despicable things to other people.
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger.
Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.
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no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump just pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Sydney Powell, and dozens of people who tried to steal the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Meanwhile, Donald Trump just pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Sydney Powell, and dozens of people who tried to steal the 2020 election.
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Healthcare costs for millions of Americans are doubling. Angus King has a net worth of $22 million.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Healthcare costs for millions of Americans are doubling. Angus King has a net worth of $22 million.
If @democrats.senate.gov cave on this tonight and destroy the ACA…
and if @schumer.senate.gov can’t control his caucus….
I will immediately be joining and campaigning for the DSA.
@murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov help your party understand the consequences of this decision.
and if @schumer.senate.gov can’t control his caucus….
I will immediately be joining and campaigning for the DSA.
@murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov help your party understand the consequences of this decision.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
If @democrats.senate.gov cave on this tonight and destroy the ACA…
and if @schumer.senate.gov can’t control his caucus….
I will immediately be joining and campaigning for the DSA.
@murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov help your party understand the consequences of this decision.
and if @schumer.senate.gov can’t control his caucus….
I will immediately be joining and campaigning for the DSA.
@murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov help your party understand the consequences of this decision.
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Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
This deal is rotten! Do not cave and bail Republicans out of this mess they have made. Regular people are beginning to understand it is the GOP making them suffer. Why would @democrats.senate.gov give them cover now?
This deal is rotten! Do not cave and bail Republicans out of this mess they have made. Regular people are beginning to understand it is the GOP making them suffer. Why would @democrats.senate.gov give them cover now?
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
This deal is rotten! Do not cave and bail Republicans out of this mess they have made. Regular people are beginning to understand it is the GOP making them suffer. Why would @democrats.senate.gov give them cover now?
This deal is rotten! Do not cave and bail Republicans out of this mess they have made. Regular people are beginning to understand it is the GOP making them suffer. Why would @democrats.senate.gov give them cover now?
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Absolute queen shit
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Absolute queen shit
we need to turn the heat up on the people who approve these headlines and topics
There's a sea if people who argue that headlines don't matter, just read the story. I am not one of those people.
This was an actual headline by the nation's most influential news outlet. It's now been changed multiple times but every update is unacceptable & the conversation itself in BS.
This was an actual headline by the nation's most influential news outlet. It's now been changed multiple times but every update is unacceptable & the conversation itself in BS.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
we need to turn the heat up on the people who approve these headlines and topics