allison brown
@drtralalallison.bsky.social
public health goth, political economy dilettante, sentimental leftist | they/she | chicago (everybody cheers)
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Summing up one of the structural problems that allows this to keep happening over and over again.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Summing up one of the structural problems that allows this to keep happening over and over again.
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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This is true. FICO was invented in the 50s but it wasn't until 1989 that it became the standardized, life-destroying cudgel we know today.
Most of us on this platform are older than the credit score system in the US and I think that says a lot about how deeply greedy and unnecessary that system is
October 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is true. FICO was invented in the 50s but it wasn't until 1989 that it became the standardized, life-destroying cudgel we know today.
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ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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even the reagan appointed federal judges are calling this batshit
September 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
even the reagan appointed federal judges are calling this batshit
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Some rare and remarkable processes are taking place this week, that we are not likely to observe for a long time!
These 2 Atlantic hurricanes are closer than any since at least the 1960s. They are now connected - in each other’s orbit, pivoting. Follow along 1/
These 2 Atlantic hurricanes are closer than any since at least the 1960s. They are now connected - in each other’s orbit, pivoting. Follow along 1/
September 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some rare and remarkable processes are taking place this week, that we are not likely to observe for a long time!
These 2 Atlantic hurricanes are closer than any since at least the 1960s. They are now connected - in each other’s orbit, pivoting. Follow along 1/
These 2 Atlantic hurricanes are closer than any since at least the 1960s. They are now connected - in each other’s orbit, pivoting. Follow along 1/
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Many of the people still active on Twitter and bashing Bluesky were declaring "Twitter is not real life" daily in 2019-2020. Text-based social media has always been distinct and in many ways unrepresentative. But the actual frustration they have is with forums that empower progressives/leftists.
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Many of the people still active on Twitter and bashing Bluesky were declaring "Twitter is not real life" daily in 2019-2020. Text-based social media has always been distinct and in many ways unrepresentative. But the actual frustration they have is with forums that empower progressives/leftists.
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I personally don’t find any value in putting faith in billionaire politicians or billionaire funded politicians. I think it’s tantamount to advanced levels of psychological delusion and brain damage. Please stop doing it
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I personally don’t find any value in putting faith in billionaire politicians or billionaire funded politicians. I think it’s tantamount to advanced levels of psychological delusion and brain damage. Please stop doing it
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Just to say it: this is one of Project 2025's goals for HHS
September 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Just to say it: this is one of Project 2025's goals for HHS
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A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
September 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
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TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out
to WACO: World Always Chickens Out
We are now at EMPANADA:
Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
to WACO: World Always Chickens Out
We are now at EMPANADA:
Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Taco is Dead. Long Live Empanada
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? The last two weeks have seen a flurry of Trump tariff deals before the August 1st...
buttondown.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out
to WACO: World Always Chickens Out
We are now at EMPANADA:
Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
to WACO: World Always Chickens Out
We are now at EMPANADA:
Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
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Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*
August 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*
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This is hanging on the side of the National Grange building on H Street.
Someday a podcaster will drone about how the catalyst for our final downfall was a weedy little shit getting popped by a 15-year-old girl. And oh, how the laughter will ring through the tunnels we skulk in.
Someday a podcaster will drone about how the catalyst for our final downfall was a weedy little shit getting popped by a 15-year-old girl. And oh, how the laughter will ring through the tunnels we skulk in.
August 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is hanging on the side of the National Grange building on H Street.
Someday a podcaster will drone about how the catalyst for our final downfall was a weedy little shit getting popped by a 15-year-old girl. And oh, how the laughter will ring through the tunnels we skulk in.
Someday a podcaster will drone about how the catalyst for our final downfall was a weedy little shit getting popped by a 15-year-old girl. And oh, how the laughter will ring through the tunnels we skulk in.
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Conservative tabloids (and similar) will simply take over the role of setting local/national narratives until liberal owners step up with their own ruthlessly anti-jargon, “common sense”-focused competitors. Center-left legacy media is not positioned to compete here. www.axios.com/2025/08/04/n...
New York Post to launch California Post newspaper in LA
Los Angeles is home to the second-largest concentration of Post readers, per News Corp.
www.axios.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Conservative tabloids (and similar) will simply take over the role of setting local/national narratives until liberal owners step up with their own ruthlessly anti-jargon, “common sense”-focused competitors. Center-left legacy media is not positioned to compete here. www.axios.com/2025/08/04/n...
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david hogg off the top rope on the other site
June 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
david hogg off the top rope on the other site
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This statement by a collective of Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues we must oppose the murderous assault that the Israeli and US militaries are carrying out against people in Iran while also refusing to condone the oppression perpetrated by the Iranian government.
June 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This statement by a collective of Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues we must oppose the murderous assault that the Israeli and US militaries are carrying out against people in Iran while also refusing to condone the oppression perpetrated by the Iranian government.
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If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.
June 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.
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Rep. Thompson: " Is there an independent expert that you can point to that says that [the Big Beautiful Bill] will not add to our national debt?"
Bessent: "Yes."
Rep. Thompson: "What are they?"
Bessent: "Art Laffer."
Rep. Thompson: "Art Laffer? Great."
Bessent: "Yes."
Rep. Thompson: "What are they?"
Bessent: "Art Laffer."
Rep. Thompson: "Art Laffer? Great."
June 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Rep. Thompson: " Is there an independent expert that you can point to that says that [the Big Beautiful Bill] will not add to our national debt?"
Bessent: "Yes."
Rep. Thompson: "What are they?"
Bessent: "Art Laffer."
Rep. Thompson: "Art Laffer? Great."
Bessent: "Yes."
Rep. Thompson: "What are they?"
Bessent: "Art Laffer."
Rep. Thompson: "Art Laffer? Great."