Steve McClellan
@brownianemotion.bsky.social
Oakland dad and video essay enthusiast
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We want ICE abolished and their agents hauled before Nuremberg style tribunals. Anything less is a policy failure.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 2:09 AM
We want ICE abolished and their agents hauled before Nuremberg style tribunals. Anything less is a policy failure.
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It absolutely could not be clearer that the Constitution gives the states the power to conduct their own elections. It's right there, plain as day. Any attempt to "federalize" state elections would be unconstitutional, undemocratic, and impeachable.
BASH: Would you be comfortable w/Trump 'taking over' elections nationally?
REP GONZALES: POTUS is bringing up a fact on many Americans' minds - election integrity
B: Isn't the issue that he's not telling the truth?
G: One of the issues is every state does it differently. That gives a lot of doubt
REP GONZALES: POTUS is bringing up a fact on many Americans' minds - election integrity
B: Isn't the issue that he's not telling the truth?
G: One of the issues is every state does it differently. That gives a lot of doubt
February 3, 2026 at 6:42 PM
It absolutely could not be clearer that the Constitution gives the states the power to conduct their own elections. It's right there, plain as day. Any attempt to "federalize" state elections would be unconstitutional, undemocratic, and impeachable.
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These guys two months ago: ha ha I hope there's a civil war we'll make those LIBERAL BITCHES cry for mercy
These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa
(You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here:
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
)
These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa
(You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here:
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
)
Right-wing media figures are furious at activists for using whistles during ICE activity
Right-wing media figures are lashing out at community members in Minnesota for using whistles to alert others of federal immigration enforcement in the area, asserting that whistles should be “conside...
www.mediamatters.org
February 3, 2026 at 7:40 PM
These guys two months ago: ha ha I hope there's a civil war we'll make those LIBERAL BITCHES cry for mercy
These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa
(You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here:
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
)
These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa
(You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here:
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
)
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We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.
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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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i am pro shutdown and have been from more or less day one. this is a disaster, it ends in disaster, and the only job i care about any elected doing is pushing for it to end sooner, and withholding their consent to any other outcome
January 25, 2026 at 1:52 AM
i am pro shutdown and have been from more or less day one. this is a disaster, it ends in disaster, and the only job i care about any elected doing is pushing for it to end sooner, and withholding their consent to any other outcome
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Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
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His last words were, “Are you okay?”
Her last words were, “I’m not mad at you.”
ICE killed them both.
Her last words were, “I’m not mad at you.”
ICE killed them both.
January 24, 2026 at 8:19 PM
His last words were, “Are you okay?”
Her last words were, “I’m not mad at you.”
ICE killed them both.
Her last words were, “I’m not mad at you.”
ICE killed them both.
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I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
I wrote on the shameful situation re: the recession of a deanship to Emily Suski at the University of Arkansas Law. What was the reason? Prof. Suski signed an amicus brief supporting trans rights. The Arkansas legislators admitted that was it! Horrible outcome. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It
The revocation of Emily Suski’s job offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors everywhere.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
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Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:
January 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:
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As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor
Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes
Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day
Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes
Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day
Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
Naaaaaaailed it
January 16, 2026 at 12:38 AM
As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor
Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes
Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day
Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes
Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day
Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
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“We are committed to losing a major war” - secretary of war
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth announces that CSAM production AI Grok will join the US military's generative AI program, thus guaranteeing Elon Musk and xAI essentially unlimited funding direct from the NDAA. "We will become an AI First force."
January 13, 2026 at 1:59 AM
“We are committed to losing a major war” - secretary of war
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Related to this, if the next president is a Democrat, they shouldn't ask for the gifts back. Hire the plane reposessor to take the plane. Freeze any bank account that might have a gift in it. Send in the FBI to get the gold bars. Etc.
I’ll say it for the millionth time but we need to make section 1983 apply to federal officers because Bivens is useless and need to get rid of prosecutorial immunity. These people should be financially ruined at the very least for these bullshit investigations.
January 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Related to this, if the next president is a Democrat, they shouldn't ask for the gifts back. Hire the plane reposessor to take the plane. Freeze any bank account that might have a gift in it. Send in the FBI to get the gold bars. Etc.
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The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.
January 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.
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Incredible that people have careers based around telling those who are struggling to keep their chin up and not react because "They're clearly [doing worse thing than the last thing] to bait an excuse to [do even worse thing]."
It's a ratchet. You're describing a ratchet. You are selling ratchets.
It's a ratchet. You're describing a ratchet. You are selling ratchets.
January 10, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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this could be the floor
Who will be the first member of Congress to introduce legislation named after Renee Good that abolishes DHS?
January 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
this could be the floor
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extremely fucked that it’s equally plausible that:
1) he’s just lying
or
2) someone showed him an AI video and he believes it
1) he’s just lying
or
2) someone showed him an AI video and he believes it
January 7, 2026 at 10:30 PM
extremely fucked that it’s equally plausible that:
1) he’s just lying
or
2) someone showed him an AI video and he believes it
1) he’s just lying
or
2) someone showed him an AI video and he believes it
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Venezuela, MN, Greenland, etc, are not "distractions" from Epstein or anything else. They are all connected in that they are the fruits of unqualified and unstable people given absolute power and wielding it in ways that profit them and hurt others. It's not a conspiracy, it's an ethos.
January 7, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Venezuela, MN, Greenland, etc, are not "distractions" from Epstein or anything else. They are all connected in that they are the fruits of unqualified and unstable people given absolute power and wielding it in ways that profit them and hurt others. It's not a conspiracy, it's an ethos.
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There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches.
"Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.
"Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.
I disagree with the suggestion that term limits would further empower lobbyists and therefore we shouldn't consider them as a viable path forward. The current system of federal elected officials who are financially incentivized to become insider traders until they choose to retire isn't working.
January 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM
There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches.
"Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.
"Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.
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Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
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This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
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If an Old Navy Fourth of July shirt could read the news.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
If an Old Navy Fourth of July shirt could read the news.
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Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes