Allyson Criner Brown
@theecrinerbrown.bsky.social
The one and only. Still migrating here from the bird app.
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Propaganda works, and Stephen miller and the rest of them know that a constant parade of fear will indeed do much of their work for them
I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...
September 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Propaganda works, and Stephen miller and the rest of them know that a constant parade of fear will indeed do much of their work for them
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"the white nationalists are back at it and this time there are more of them" might as well be the motto of the 21st century
September 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"the white nationalists are back at it and this time there are more of them" might as well be the motto of the 21st century
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The perfect eulogy for Charlie Kirk.
September 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The perfect eulogy for Charlie Kirk.
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An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"
Official Defies GOP Governor's Order To Fly Flags At Half Staff For Charlie Kirk
He said he did not want to honor a man "who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic."
www.huffpost.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"
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Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right?
Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see
Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see
September 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right?
Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see
Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see
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three days from now: tyler robinson linked to immigrant family member eight generations ago
September 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
three days from now: tyler robinson linked to immigrant family member eight generations ago
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Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.
August 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.
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“The fact that a concept as tepid as ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ caused our nation’s racists to become so enraged that the backlash to it threatens to end the American democratic experiment once and for all has made me reassess the virtues of the term.”
I used to find "DEI" to be a weak corporate counterpoint to "racial justice" but now I unironically want every business in America doing DEI as loudly as possible because the relevant counterpoint today is "overt racism."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...
More DEI! Louder!
Racism has turned a corporate buzzword into a moral imperative.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“The fact that a concept as tepid as ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ caused our nation’s racists to become so enraged that the backlash to it threatens to end the American democratic experiment once and for all has made me reassess the virtues of the term.”
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Climate change is a hoax. Right.
Is summer getting longer where you live? See how temperatures changed.
The hottest stretch of the year is expanding beyond any calendar definition of summer. See what regions are experiencing the biggest change.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Climate change is a hoax. Right.
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People are generally not ideological and mostly don’t care about policy. They have group based interests and trusted elites they look to for guidance and leadership in carrying out those interests. Most people’s beliefs are an incoherent ideological hodgepodge
My sense of things has always been that most people do not have strong, deeply felt opinions on a lot of policy issues, and so their opinions can change fairly quickly depending on what’s in the news.
Why do people's opinions on a single issue change with the direction of the wind?
July 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
People are generally not ideological and mostly don’t care about policy. They have group based interests and trusted elites they look to for guidance and leadership in carrying out those interests. Most people’s beliefs are an incoherent ideological hodgepodge
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gonna watch gop margins in rural areas decline by 4% after he took away their healthcare, deported their workforce, lost them market access for their biggest exports, crushed their budding green energy sector, and gutted their infrastructure projects
July 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
gonna watch gop margins in rural areas decline by 4% after he took away their healthcare, deported their workforce, lost them market access for their biggest exports, crushed their budding green energy sector, and gutted their infrastructure projects
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If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
July 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.
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UFW Statement on July 10 Federal Raid in Ventura County
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, California. Others, including US citizens remain totally unaccounted for.
ufw.org
July 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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July 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.
July 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.
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Turns out cis male cops are the bathroom invader threat!!!!
I’m shocked (sarcasm)
“Hodgson is accused of entering the women’s restroom and approaching a female while intoxicated and armed with a handgun and a firearm magazine.”
lataco.com/border-patro...
I’m shocked (sarcasm)
“Hodgson is accused of entering the women’s restroom and approaching a female while intoxicated and armed with a handgun and a firearm magazine.”
lataco.com/border-patro...
Border Patrol Agent Who Arrested U.S. Citizen In Pico Rivera Charged With Drunkenly Assaulting L.B. Cop ~ L.A. TACO
“No one is above the law, regardless of their position or badge. Law enforcement officers have a responsibility to always conduct themselves with integrity and professionalism. Our office will pursue ...
lataco.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Turns out cis male cops are the bathroom invader threat!!!!
I’m shocked (sarcasm)
“Hodgson is accused of entering the women’s restroom and approaching a female while intoxicated and armed with a handgun and a firearm magazine.”
lataco.com/border-patro...
I’m shocked (sarcasm)
“Hodgson is accused of entering the women’s restroom and approaching a female while intoxicated and armed with a handgun and a firearm magazine.”
lataco.com/border-patro...
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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With anomalous/trending injections of water into the subsurface that melting snows bring, climate change is now shown to increase risks of earthquakes in (e.g.) the Mount Blanc area. Quake catalog shows stronger heat waves lead to bigger seismicity jumps.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Global warming is triggering earthquakes in the Alps
Study provides first solid link between climate change and earthquake hazard
www.science.org
July 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
With anomalous/trending injections of water into the subsurface that melting snows bring, climate change is now shown to increase risks of earthquakes in (e.g.) the Mount Blanc area. Quake catalog shows stronger heat waves lead to bigger seismicity jumps.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Someone prove this wrong.
July 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Someone prove this wrong.
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School districts creating secondary literacy curriculum that doesn’t include novels during a ‘literacy crisis’ is baffling & counterproductive.
Stakeholders: your district doesn’t value your kids’ ability to read and think if their secondary English class is merely test prep.
Stakeholders: your district doesn’t value your kids’ ability to read and think if their secondary English class is merely test prep.
June 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
School districts creating secondary literacy curriculum that doesn’t include novels during a ‘literacy crisis’ is baffling & counterproductive.
Stakeholders: your district doesn’t value your kids’ ability to read and think if their secondary English class is merely test prep.
Stakeholders: your district doesn’t value your kids’ ability to read and think if their secondary English class is merely test prep.
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he's just going to lie his way straight through it
July 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
he's just going to lie his way straight through it
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I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing
July 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing
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This, not cancelation of elections, is the kind of scenario we should be gaming out (among others).
Besides the (by now very realistic) nightmare scenarios, there are more mundane political implications: this is a police force that can be used to affect elections. I predict that it will be deployed to discourage voting in Democratic strongholds in the next elections.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This, not cancelation of elections, is the kind of scenario we should be gaming out (among others).