Jocelyn Brown
@jocelynmbrown.bsky.social
Not the singer. Lover of music, the moving image and clearing/administering the rights that make it all go together. No, I’m not listening to your demo or Soundcloud
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Jocelyn Brown
@jocelynmbrown.bsky.social
· Oct 19
There will be absolutely zero posts related to my working life here, so if you have followed for that reason I’m sorryboutcha. Mostly using this thing as a means to keep up with Twitter folks I enjoyed and to try to distract myself in the face of societal collapse
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California I love you please get in your ballot to vote yes on Prop 50, you have through Tuesday to do so
voterguide.sos.ca.gov/voter-info/
voterguide.sos.ca.gov/voter-info/
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
California I love you please get in your ballot to vote yes on Prop 50, you have through Tuesday to do so
voterguide.sos.ca.gov/voter-info/
voterguide.sos.ca.gov/voter-info/
Does anyone have a link to a decent site that skirts paywalls? Seems like they got to 12ft.io, which was my go-to
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Does anyone have a link to a decent site that skirts paywalls? Seems like they got to 12ft.io, which was my go-to
I don’t think I know more than a handful of people over the age of 65 who bother with online banking, my parent included. This is going to be GREAT for everyone 😒
The Social Security Administration will no longer issue physical benefit checks as of tomorrow for the majority of retirees — ending decades of mailed payments.
Social Security paper checks ending as of Tuesday
The Social Security Administration will no longer issue physical benefit checks for the majority of retirees.
www.axios.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I don’t think I know more than a handful of people over the age of 65 who bother with online banking, my parent included. This is going to be GREAT for everyone 😒
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To quote Marisa, the wife of #JDTwitch, in her post: "the most meaningful way to honour Keith is to keep playing his music, sharing your memories, and supporting the causes he cared about." In this thread, please find a series of links that will allow you to do just that. Please share widely:
September 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
To quote Marisa, the wife of #JDTwitch, in her post: "the most meaningful way to honour Keith is to keep playing his music, sharing your memories, and supporting the causes he cared about." In this thread, please find a series of links that will allow you to do just that. Please share widely:
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Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
karenattiah.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
Playing records during the second hour of Celsius Drop on @dublab.bsky.social with Frosty tonight - listen in: www.dublab.com/schedule/7t3...
dublab
www.dublab.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Playing records during the second hour of Celsius Drop on @dublab.bsky.social with Frosty tonight - listen in: www.dublab.com/schedule/7t3...
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As I wrote on Wednesday… www.headsupnews.org/p/all-eyes-o...
All eyes on Chicago’s resistance
'Be loud for America,' Gov. JB Pritzker implores Chicagoans
www.headsupnews.org
September 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
As I wrote on Wednesday… www.headsupnews.org/p/all-eyes-o...
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If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Woke up early today to watch Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka win 🎾
August 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Woke up early today to watch Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka win 🎾
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Despite the academic capitulations, media collapse, and Trump's attacks on history and race, it's now more important than ever to teach on all of these issues.
So I will.
I have set up an independent course to teach Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 in October.
Sign up here!
So I will.
I have set up an independent course to teach Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 in October.
Sign up here!
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Despite the academic capitulations, media collapse, and Trump's attacks on history and race, it's now more important than ever to teach on all of these issues.
So I will.
I have set up an independent course to teach Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 in October.
Sign up here!
So I will.
I have set up an independent course to teach Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 in October.
Sign up here!
Increasingly not liking this app so much due to account permissions, visibility and functionality; if we’re friends and know one another well, feel free to find me on Threads. I’m over there.
August 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Increasingly not liking this app so much due to account permissions, visibility and functionality; if we’re friends and know one another well, feel free to find me on Threads. I’m over there.
*Shoulders automatically started working overtime on beat*
If I say, “25 lighters on the dresser,” and you dont know what to say afterwards, we cant be friends.
August 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
*Shoulders automatically started working overtime on beat*
Chicago is fed 👏🏾 up 👏🏾 😌
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Chicago is fed 👏🏾 up 👏🏾 😌
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The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.
August 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.
Even when the world feels bleak, it is a huge comfort to walk into a venue, hear your friends playing for their lives and to see them afterward, satisfied that they were able to create and share. Every day I have Chicago to thank for this in one way or another and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
August 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Even when the world feels bleak, it is a huge comfort to walk into a venue, hear your friends playing for their lives and to see them afterward, satisfied that they were able to create and share. Every day I have Chicago to thank for this in one way or another and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
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I find it very interesting that JB Pritzker (with whom I disagree on many things) actually did way more substantive stuff to combat Trump and still gets less credit than Newsom because Newsom posted some tweets
August 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I find it very interesting that JB Pritzker (with whom I disagree on many things) actually did way more substantive stuff to combat Trump and still gets less credit than Newsom because Newsom posted some tweets
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there is a demand for consensus—the best scene, film, moment, group, band, zip code, et al— across mediums; in the process of one-ness we flatten the expansive nature of being into one nothingness. without contention we cease to feel anything deeply.
August 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
there is a demand for consensus—the best scene, film, moment, group, band, zip code, et al— across mediums; in the process of one-ness we flatten the expansive nature of being into one nothingness. without contention we cease to feel anything deeply.
Sometimes you do the risky thing, even when you know that doing said thing might ruffle some feathers higher up in the coop.
Sometimes you just have to be the fox in the coop.
Sometimes you just have to be the fox in the coop.
August 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Sometimes you do the risky thing, even when you know that doing said thing might ruffle some feathers higher up in the coop.
Sometimes you just have to be the fox in the coop.
Sometimes you just have to be the fox in the coop.
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Being right is wild when it's always about the worst shit.
August 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Being right is wild when it's always about the worst shit.
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It’s not crime stats it’s demographics defend DC youtu.be/A2M1bvJlXcA
Chocolate City
YouTube video by Parliament - Topic
youtu.be
August 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It’s not crime stats it’s demographics defend DC youtu.be/A2M1bvJlXcA
It’s humbling as hell to take a resume history of 15+ years in a specialized field and retool that puppy so that it fits back into the administrative world that you left in an attempt to just find stable work - especially after having lived through the worst year of your adult life.
Welcome to LA
Welcome to LA
August 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It’s humbling as hell to take a resume history of 15+ years in a specialized field and retool that puppy so that it fits back into the administrative world that you left in an attempt to just find stable work - especially after having lived through the worst year of your adult life.
Welcome to LA
Welcome to LA
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Read this.
Sixty years ago today, the first federal examiners went to work in the first nine counties covered by the Voting Rights Act.
Here's my account of the first day in Selma from the first draft of The Division manuscript.
Here's my account of the first day in Selma from the first draft of The Division manuscript.
Work in Progress: Registered
Work in Progress is a recurring feature on CAMPAIGN TRAILS, in which I share some of the more interesting materials I’ve uncovered in my book-in-progress on the work of John Doar and the Civil Rights ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
August 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Read this.
I have now reached the fine age where I’m understanding precisely why my mother let every call go straight through to the answering machine.
August 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I have now reached the fine age where I’m understanding precisely why my mother let every call go straight through to the answering machine.
Just jumping in here to cackle about so many PinkPantheress fans vibing to Underworld and they don’t even know it. Makes me happy 😌🥰
August 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just jumping in here to cackle about so many PinkPantheress fans vibing to Underworld and they don’t even know it. Makes me happy 😌🥰