Kay Brown 🪩
@whoiskaybrown.bsky.social
🪩✨ spending my days making dance floors, entertainment and gaming safer 💡 founder of Four 4 Consent 🧠 opinions my own
a lotta nonsense (as a treat)
a lotta nonsense (as a treat)
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Spreading awareness. My friend’s daughter (15) is currently in the hospital fighting Leukemia. I want to share their story and GoFund to help support. If you have the means to help and donate, please do.
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Donate to Help Ionna (15) Fight Leukemia: A Mother's Plea, organized by Jawanna Reynolds
A Mother’s Plea/Battle to Save Her Daughter from Leukemia
On Octo… Jawanna Reynolds needs your support for Help Ionna (15) Fight Leukemia: A Mother's Plea
www.gofundme.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Spreading awareness. My friend’s daughter (15) is currently in the hospital fighting Leukemia. I want to share their story and GoFund to help support. If you have the means to help and donate, please do.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ionna...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ionna...
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Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
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UPDATE: DOJ has filed a notice that it is appealing tonight's time-limited TRO — an order that is generally not appealable — to the Ninth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
UPDATE: DOJ has filed a notice that it is appealing tonight's time-limited TRO — an order that is generally not appealable — to the Ninth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Please take a minute to oppose the proposed limit on foreign student visa to four years. It would collapse higher ed in the US on the graduate/professional school level. It's harebrained and evil, like most of the shit they come up with
www.regulations.gov/commenton/IC...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/IC...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
September 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Please take a minute to oppose the proposed limit on foreign student visa to four years. It would collapse higher ed in the US on the graduate/professional school level. It's harebrained and evil, like most of the shit they come up with
www.regulations.gov/commenton/IC...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/IC...
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Global health leaders expressed dismay at Kennedy's objection but vowed to move forward without the support of the U.S.
RFK Jr. 'rejects' a U.N. declaration on non-communicable diseases
Global health leaders expressed dismay at Kennedy's objection but vowed to move forward without the support of the U.S.
n.pr
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Global health leaders expressed dismay at Kennedy's objection but vowed to move forward without the support of the U.S.
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Can you imagine what we could do in this country if we actually started caring about each other?
September 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Can you imagine what we could do in this country if we actually started caring about each other?
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UPDATE — DHS spokesperson confirms delivery worker Cristian Enrique Carias Torres was brutalized by six ICE agents in DC on Saturday for being undocumented and having traffic violations. The administration says they’re “proud” of their agents.
The full despicable statement provided to me here:
The full despicable statement provided to me here:
August 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
UPDATE — DHS spokesperson confirms delivery worker Cristian Enrique Carias Torres was brutalized by six ICE agents in DC on Saturday for being undocumented and having traffic violations. The administration says they’re “proud” of their agents.
The full despicable statement provided to me here:
The full despicable statement provided to me here:
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This was ultimately my biggest problem with substack: their notion that the answer to Nazi ideas is to amplify them so you can defeat them with better ideas presupposes that Nazi ideas have not yet been defeated on the merits, and that Nazis will ever recognize such a defeat.
July 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This was ultimately my biggest problem with substack: their notion that the answer to Nazi ideas is to amplify them so you can defeat them with better ideas presupposes that Nazi ideas have not yet been defeated on the merits, and that Nazis will ever recognize such a defeat.
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The notion that fascists can be “defeated in the marketplace of ideas,” completely overlooks the fact that fascists don’t so much have ideas as they have murderous and usually genocidal intentions; for fascists ideas are just tools to achieve those intentions.
I’m not sure the problem here is bad faith. The fascists were quite honest about being fascists. The problem is overrating the value of winning a debate with people who are much more interested in normalizing their ideas than persuading.
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...
How Liberalism Sabotages Itself
Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.
www.offmessage.net
July 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The notion that fascists can be “defeated in the marketplace of ideas,” completely overlooks the fact that fascists don’t so much have ideas as they have murderous and usually genocidal intentions; for fascists ideas are just tools to achieve those intentions.
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"you're unhappy because you spend too much time on your phone" speak for yourself i'm posting this shit from desktop like a true lunatic
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"you're unhappy because you spend too much time on your phone" speak for yourself i'm posting this shit from desktop like a true lunatic
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To be honest I’ve always felt that “separating the art from the artist” is intellectually cowardly and erodes what the practice of making and experiencing art is
April 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
To be honest I’ve always felt that “separating the art from the artist” is intellectually cowardly and erodes what the practice of making and experiencing art is
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Blue checks are coming to Bluesky!
It's an interesting hybrid model that combines centralized verification (Bluesky says you're legit) with decentralized verification (an outside org says you're legit).
It's an interesting hybrid model that combines centralized verification (Bluesky says you're legit) with decentralized verification (an outside org says you're legit).
link to blogpost is dated april 21st, so monday. can't wait for my bluecheck 😊
April 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Blue checks are coming to Bluesky!
It's an interesting hybrid model that combines centralized verification (Bluesky says you're legit) with decentralized verification (an outside org says you're legit).
It's an interesting hybrid model that combines centralized verification (Bluesky says you're legit) with decentralized verification (an outside org says you're legit).
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A big lesson I hope folks can learn quickly is the difference between reclaiming an oppressive phase and accepting an oppressor’s ideology.
“We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it” reclaims a slur by trading shame for pride.
“Lock him up” accepts a fascistic frame of cruelty and expands it.
“We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it” reclaims a slur by trading shame for pride.
“Lock him up” accepts a fascistic frame of cruelty and expands it.
April 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A big lesson I hope folks can learn quickly is the difference between reclaiming an oppressive phase and accepting an oppressor’s ideology.
“We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it” reclaims a slur by trading shame for pride.
“Lock him up” accepts a fascistic frame of cruelty and expands it.
“We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it” reclaims a slur by trading shame for pride.
“Lock him up” accepts a fascistic frame of cruelty and expands it.
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Can you imagine the conversations happening in other government admins right now. They have actual intelligent people figuring out how to fuck over the U.S. tremendously right now
April 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Can you imagine the conversations happening in other government admins right now. They have actual intelligent people figuring out how to fuck over the U.S. tremendously right now
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Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing.
Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.
Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.
April 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing.
Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.
Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.
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The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit
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We’ve been taught our whole lives that violence is an individual person causing you direct physical harm.
And that’s why Trump/Musk use bureaucratic violence. They are hoping we’ll think it’s just a shuffling of papers and fail to notice that they’re literally killing people with their decisions.
And that’s why Trump/Musk use bureaucratic violence. They are hoping we’ll think it’s just a shuffling of papers and fail to notice that they’re literally killing people with their decisions.
March 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We’ve been taught our whole lives that violence is an individual person causing you direct physical harm.
And that’s why Trump/Musk use bureaucratic violence. They are hoping we’ll think it’s just a shuffling of papers and fail to notice that they’re literally killing people with their decisions.
And that’s why Trump/Musk use bureaucratic violence. They are hoping we’ll think it’s just a shuffling of papers and fail to notice that they’re literally killing people with their decisions.
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keep it together, tectonic plates, NOT NOW
March 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
keep it together, tectonic plates, NOT NOW
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If you're curious how a democracy transitions from a free press to state-run media, this is the kind of step you'd expect to see.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter.
"Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."
"Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."
February 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you're curious how a democracy transitions from a free press to state-run media, this is the kind of step you'd expect to see.
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Yeah which means any coverage moving forward from any outlet who continue to participate should be understood as pre-vetted and state approved. They don’t have to check every story now they’ve established the dynamic.
The message is clear. Given that the White House has already kicked one news organization out of the pool because of coverage it does not like, it is making certain everyone else knows that the rest of us can be barred too if the president does not like our questions or stories.
Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
February 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Yeah which means any coverage moving forward from any outlet who continue to participate should be understood as pre-vetted and state approved. They don’t have to check every story now they’ve established the dynamic.
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Something about Soviet bread lines, something something.
At Costco, there’s 400 people here for eggs. Tensions are high
February 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Something about Soviet bread lines, something something.
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BREAKING: Office of Special Counsel Finds Many DOGE Firings Unlawful with Major Implications for the Future of the DOGE Purge and Potential Jeopardy for Those Who Executed DOGE's Orders talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-d...
BIG: DOGE Firings Found Unlawful by Office of Special Counsel
There was a very important development today, still only little noted in...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
BREAKING: Office of Special Counsel Finds Many DOGE Firings Unlawful with Major Implications for the Future of the DOGE Purge and Potential Jeopardy for Those Who Executed DOGE's Orders talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-d...
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It’s deeply sick how women in particular are part of the charge to undo any and all gains made during the MeToo movement, which were already so small compared to the scale of injustice. Now women are playing into the idea that it was all a lie, to the tune of temporary profit and endless peril
February 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It’s deeply sick how women in particular are part of the charge to undo any and all gains made during the MeToo movement, which were already so small compared to the scale of injustice. Now women are playing into the idea that it was all a lie, to the tune of temporary profit and endless peril
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As always, the “stranger danger” panic enables abusive men.
There are a whole lot of sexual assaults that happen in cars, facilitated by the illusion than an Uber or a first date’s passenger seat is “safer” than public transit.
There are a whole lot of sexual assaults that happen in cars, facilitated by the illusion than an Uber or a first date’s passenger seat is “safer” than public transit.
I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier
February 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
As always, the “stranger danger” panic enables abusive men.
There are a whole lot of sexual assaults that happen in cars, facilitated by the illusion than an Uber or a first date’s passenger seat is “safer” than public transit.
There are a whole lot of sexual assaults that happen in cars, facilitated by the illusion than an Uber or a first date’s passenger seat is “safer” than public transit.
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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now
February 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now