Celeste Brown
@fenwickpepper.bsky.social
Came from Tennessee, raised three Bostonians.
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4-year-old told me “I like you more than space likes planets” which as I understand is a huge honor in his culture
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
4-year-old told me “I like you more than space likes planets” which as I understand is a huge honor in his culture
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Pulling forward this excellent column appearing today’s print @latimes.com about @lataco.bsky.social he “stepped into the storm”
“when you’re in the midst of everything, you forget someone has to keep an archive…”
Deep bow of Sunday 🙏🏼 to all who doing the work in this time of shameful cruelty
“when you’re in the midst of everything, you forget someone has to keep an archive…”
Deep bow of Sunday 🙏🏼 to all who doing the work in this time of shameful cruelty
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Pulling forward this excellent column appearing today’s print @latimes.com about @lataco.bsky.social he “stepped into the storm”
“when you’re in the midst of everything, you forget someone has to keep an archive…”
Deep bow of Sunday 🙏🏼 to all who doing the work in this time of shameful cruelty
“when you’re in the midst of everything, you forget someone has to keep an archive…”
Deep bow of Sunday 🙏🏼 to all who doing the work in this time of shameful cruelty
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When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
YouTube video by SamCam2011
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
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A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.
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if sully sullenberger were a bird
August 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
if sully sullenberger were a bird
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There are all these documentaries about octopuses that I can't watch because I know I'll be rendered useless for days and just cry forever.
Anyway, here's my kitchen backsplash that I painted and gilded in 2014.
Anyway, here's my kitchen backsplash that I painted and gilded in 2014.
August 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
There are all these documentaries about octopuses that I can't watch because I know I'll be rendered useless for days and just cry forever.
Anyway, here's my kitchen backsplash that I painted and gilded in 2014.
Anyway, here's my kitchen backsplash that I painted and gilded in 2014.
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Trump is gunning for unions—stripping collective bargaining from federal employees in ~21 agencies to muzzle dissent and punish opposition. A court slaps that down as an “unprecedented” attack on First Amendment rights. Read it yourself: www.reuters.com/business/wor...
US judge blocks Trump's elimination of union bargaining for federal workers
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from eliminating union bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
www.reuters.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Trump is gunning for unions—stripping collective bargaining from federal employees in ~21 agencies to muzzle dissent and punish opposition. A court slaps that down as an “unprecedented” attack on First Amendment rights. Read it yourself: www.reuters.com/business/wor...
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Countless lives are at risk. Click the link to send an email to your senator urging them to push back and oppose canceling funding for lifesaving international assistance programs ➡️ brnw.ch/21wTdjM.
June 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Countless lives are at risk. Click the link to send an email to your senator urging them to push back and oppose canceling funding for lifesaving international assistance programs ➡️ brnw.ch/21wTdjM.
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Beth Knobbe of CRS sat down with the podcast “Illuminating Catholics.” She talks about federal funding cuts to humanitarian assistance and how they’re affecting the most vulnerable populations of the world as well as Americans.
Take action ➡️ brnw.ch/21wTdjM
Take action ➡️ brnw.ch/21wTdjM
June 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Beth Knobbe of CRS sat down with the podcast “Illuminating Catholics.” She talks about federal funding cuts to humanitarian assistance and how they’re affecting the most vulnerable populations of the world as well as Americans.
Take action ➡️ brnw.ch/21wTdjM
Take action ➡️ brnw.ch/21wTdjM
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Millions of malnourished children now face death—not due to war or famine, but because the U.S. just pulled the plug on the lifeline. On July 1, USAID disappears. Contracts canceled. Clinics closing. Families left with nothing.
Read this and share it.
🔗 reliefweb.int/report/world...
Read this and share it.
🔗 reliefweb.int/report/world...
June 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Millions of malnourished children now face death—not due to war or famine, but because the U.S. just pulled the plug on the lifeline. On July 1, USAID disappears. Contracts canceled. Clinics closing. Families left with nothing.
Read this and share it.
🔗 reliefweb.int/report/world...
Read this and share it.
🔗 reliefweb.int/report/world...
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/3….short, of course, of the unpleasant, deadly, and very hard Jeffersonian win scenario of disposing of the armed thugs, the government actors sending them, and the political and intellectual elite that wrote the plans for their thuggery.
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
/3….short, of course, of the unpleasant, deadly, and very hard Jeffersonian win scenario of disposing of the armed thugs, the government actors sending them, and the political and intellectual elite that wrote the plans for their thuggery.
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/2 The hidden premise of the question seems to be there is some hidden cheat code that lawyers know that will solve this. But there’s no cheat code for fascism. You submit to the masked armed thugs or you get brutalized and/or prosecuted. There’s no win scenario…
June 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
/2 The hidden premise of the question seems to be there is some hidden cheat code that lawyers know that will solve this. But there’s no cheat code for fascism. You submit to the masked armed thugs or you get brutalized and/or prosecuted. There’s no win scenario…
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That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.”
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Serious question for lawyers - what are you supposed to do if people without warrants, badges, ID, and covering their faces attempt to detain you?
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.”
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I’m begging you: take some time out of your day to explore this newly released map of our universe. 🤯 This interactive site shows JWST’s view of the COSMOS-Web field, containing more than 800,000 galaxies spanning 98% of cosmic time. Its actually mindblowing 🧪🔭 cosmos2025.iap.fr/fitsmap.html
June 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’m begging you: take some time out of your day to explore this newly released map of our universe. 🤯 This interactive site shows JWST’s view of the COSMOS-Web field, containing more than 800,000 galaxies spanning 98% of cosmic time. Its actually mindblowing 🧪🔭 cosmos2025.iap.fr/fitsmap.html
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These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
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Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.
June 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.
I'm baffled and amused.
Gashapon (or Gachapon) are vending machines found all over Japan that dispense capsules containing miniature toys and other items. There are thousands of different kinds. Here’s a thread of the best ones I saw on my recent trip. 🧵
June 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I'm baffled and amused.
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
154. The Government's Unclean Hands in D.V.D.
open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
154. The Government's Unclean Hands in D.V.D.
The Trump administration's latest request for emergency relief from the Supreme Court hides the government's deeply problematic litigation behavior behind a plausible jurisdictional objection.
open.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
154. The Government's Unclean Hands in D.V.D.
open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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As historians know but I just want to articulate: Chinese people fighting for their rights IN COURT laid the groundwork for immigrant rights fights in federal courts today. Chinese immigrants brought suits, despite the odds. They didn’t always win. But Wong Kim Ark did. And it’s a big one.
A good morning to read about birthright citizenship from the perspective of the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, the plaintiff whose case in 1898 affirmed that birthright citizenship is guaranteed to the children of undocumented migrants born in the U.S. wapo.st/3F9Djae
His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. Norman Wong is trying to save it.
One hundred and twenty-seven years after Wong Kim Ark’s Supreme Court victory enshrined birthright citizenship, Norman Wong is fighting to protect that legacy.
wapo.st
May 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
As historians know but I just want to articulate: Chinese people fighting for their rights IN COURT laid the groundwork for immigrant rights fights in federal courts today. Chinese immigrants brought suits, despite the odds. They didn’t always win. But Wong Kim Ark did. And it’s a big one.
@techconnectify.bsky.social I just followed you, having watched your Algorithms are breaking the way we think. I'm old enough to have "left" most platforms. Currently taking a break from here. But will be back. I'm looking forward to the follow. Later. I don't post much. Not a bot.
March 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@techconnectify.bsky.social I just followed you, having watched your Algorithms are breaking the way we think. I'm old enough to have "left" most platforms. Currently taking a break from here. But will be back. I'm looking forward to the follow. Later. I don't post much. Not a bot.
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I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉
February 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉
CNN on the transition team's Treasury enquiry "The transition operation hadn’t requested substantive briefings on any of Treasury’s other critical areas of operation" sounds like 9/11 terrorists taking flying lessons in the US. "I don't need to know how to land."
February 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
CNN on the transition team's Treasury enquiry "The transition operation hadn’t requested substantive briefings on any of Treasury’s other critical areas of operation" sounds like 9/11 terrorists taking flying lessons in the US. "I don't need to know how to land."
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🗣️ @jimacosta.bsky.social’s CNN exit sign-off:
January 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🗣️ @jimacosta.bsky.social’s CNN exit sign-off: