Seth Brown

I know the current regime is cartoonishly evil in many ways, but really, trying to destroy rainbows is such a hack 1980s cartoon villain thing from a children's show.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

UBI isn't just a moral good, it's also economically sensible.

Meanwhile, if you're an artist in Massachusetts, you've got 3 weeks to get in your MCC grant applications.

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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It's the difference between nice and kind <3

Revenge on the nerds Unfortunately, some of those middle-school bullies haven't changed in the past few decades, but they have found their way into government.

This week's column covers the miseries of grade school, RFK Jr.'s anti-autistic crusade, and the joys of living your best life.

If you think these issues deserve to be discussed more in-depth outside a humor column, you could always follow @audhd-psychnp.com

www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/colu...

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

YouTube video by Katherine Saxon Dear Ursula (The Science Fiction Song)

ATTENTION SCI-FI READERS:

My friend Katie Saxon commissioned me to write some lyrics for a new song about all her favorite dystopian sci-fi we're living out.

Have a listen, and enjoy YouTube's closed captioning which will let you catch all the fast-paced lyrics:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n9B...

It followed naturally from the conversation I was having in my head in the kitchen!

‪
S: (after almost burning myself on the oven) "Hey, did you know that ovens are hot?"

D: "Yes I did, because I went to Oven School."

S: "Very popular program, I'm led to believe. They have like 400 degrees."

The eternal dilemma is where I am isn't great but I don't have a better place to go.

(see also: why I'm still on Facebook which is objectively a terrible site, but also the only way I'm in touch w/many friends.)

YouTube video by jamzftwneverdies They Might Be Giants - James K. Polk

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Same answer as many relationship-related questions: Consent.

Please support the kickstarter for my movie Kraven the Gatherer. Kraven gathers so much shit in this movie and his friends are all "Kraven, where are you gonna put all that stuff your apartment ain't that big" But Kraven ain't trying to hear it. He is a gatherin' fool and whatnot

Wow.

After being fired from @washingtonpost.com, my Substack, The Golden Hour, has been #1 rising bestseller in Culture for three days.

Thank you all for the support!!

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I don't think of it as a recipe so much as an apprehended truth, that one reflects upon the nature of the universe and the wisdom of cheddar on apple pie becomes as natural as having ice cream on your brownies.

This is the grossest thing I've heard all week, which is a pretty high bar these days.

Speaking of pedophiles, read my column about Trump's Epstein birthday letter while it's still legal:
www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/colu...

more jesters, no kings

I would certainly read it as appreciation of your authenticity and humanity in a world which is increasingly corporate and focus-tested empty pablum and AI-slop-infested.

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

6 possible explanations for Trump's birthday letter to Epstein Child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's estate recently gave Congress a copy of the birthday book assembled for Epstein's 50th birthday, which included a lewd letter bearing Donald Trump's name. Many

As you know, Trump has continued his crusade against any comedian who mocks him, and wants them fired from their media orgs.

With that in mind, my latest column offers some alternative explanations for the Epstein birthday letter where Trump didn't write it:

www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/colu...

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

In reality, this was a fantasy. Americans could have a strong, growing economy, which requires immigration to bring in new people and fill demand for labor, or they could finance a deportation force and close the border to everyone but a small, select few. It was a binary choice. Theirs could be an open society or a closed one, but there was no way to get the benefits of the former with the methods of the latter.

@jamellebouie.net ties economic vitality to immigration in 77 words.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

"Don't Engage, Just Block" is praxis

I remember writing a column about this a decade ago, suggesting that if after 4 years of expensive elite education some graduates are still having trouble making ends meet while the college has a large endowment, perhaps they should be funding alumni instead.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Whatever you think about Charlie Kirk, it's sad to realize that school shootings have become so commonplace in this country that today's school shooting is either being entirely ignored or treated as a barely-relevant footnote by the media and a whole lot of politicians.

It's the guns.