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Rick Brown

@brownbattery.bsky.social

Music: https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com I play crate and blow things Office worker, proud union member, NYC renter, soon* to be retiree previously: https://brownoutspassed.bandcamp.com/ and http://www.juliagorton.com/coming-new-products/beat-it-zine-comp

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To add to this apt point; whatever Americans in safety of being thousands of miles away from all this may think, people in Turkey are indeed fearful they are the next. Israel targetting Turkey after Iran is vocally discussed. It is in our news as Israel openly voices it. It is a real threat for us.

28.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Again, neither being Evil nor doing Very Bad Things - in fact, not even actually Iran trying to acquire nuclear weapons - justifies the American president completely violating the UN Charter, the Constitution, & domestic law to start a war.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

28.02.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

28.02.2026 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2610    πŸ” 493    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 2

Today’s military strikes on Iran β€” carried out by the United States and Israel β€” mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

28.02.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 16532    πŸ” 3453    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 207

Our constitution is clear: the decision to take our nation to war rests with Congress. Trump’s reckless & dangerous decision to initiate military action without congressional authorization is clearly unconstitutional.

Congress must reconvene β€”immediately β€” for a vote on the War Powers Resolution.

28.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 744    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 21

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

28.02.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5637    πŸ” 1092    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 26

Can we have our hopes this high?

26.02.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Apaga La Luz
YouTube video by Willie ColΓ³n - Topic Apaga La Luz

Celia y Willie

23.02.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s can’t be said enough β€” this is a wildly corrupt betrayal of the MAHA crowd, and flies in the face of everything RFK JR has ever promised them.

Driven entirely by greed and paying off their big pesticide corporation donors.

19.02.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3230    πŸ” 1473    πŸ’¬ 380    πŸ“Œ 129

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

19.02.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 15158    πŸ” 5678    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 272
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2.16.26
Presidents Day

Hundreds of people joined Rise and Resist, gathering in front of Trump Tower in NYC to tell Trump to go fuck himself. It was beautiful. The people of New York hate him. Among the chants were "Fuck Trump" + "Lock Him Up!"
Power to the People!

πŸŽ₯ @recluseastrid.bsky.social

17.02.2026 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

17.02.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8057    πŸ” 2836    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 82

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

16.02.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 25445    πŸ” 8478    πŸ’¬ 555    πŸ“Œ 302

This is literally what Ted Bundy did to kidnap his victims.

15.02.2026 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.
How did I do it?

Blacked out lines

CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP.
There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

14.02.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 23271    πŸ” 4801    πŸ’¬ 223    πŸ“Œ 169
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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

11.02.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 33239    πŸ” 11226    πŸ’¬ 944    πŸ“Œ 598

that's... not an election?

14.02.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 493    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the β€œerasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

12.02.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14891    πŸ” 4608    πŸ’¬ 1551    πŸ“Œ 1454
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bite the hand that will not feed

17.11.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4428    πŸ” 1520    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

Rather than wrestling with a Professor, the guy just wanted to ask a question about student debt...

12.02.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US Rep. Balint after reviewing unredacted Epstein files:

"They are a bunch of sick fucks. So many people knew." She confirmed Trump lied about kicking Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. Other files show the relationship continued for years.

#OpDeathEaters #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles

10.02.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1729    πŸ” 660    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 27
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Just like with Brazil arresting their insurrectionists rather than re-electing them, other countries are holding their Epstein-tied politicians accountable far better than we do. www.bbc.com/news/article...

12.02.2026 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 13138    πŸ” 4231    πŸ’¬ 313    πŸ“Œ 241

What's next? Encouraging people to vote?

12.02.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2498    πŸ” 415    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 5
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Nick Fuentes: β€œThe number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: β€œOur #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

12.02.2026 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5667    πŸ” 2434    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2346

Asked to apologize to rape victims for failing to redact their personal information, the attorney general instead demanded that members of Congress apologize to the president for impeaching him, boasted about the stock market, and declared him the most transparent president in U.S. history.

11.02.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1053    πŸ” 281    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 25

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11.02.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

11.02.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 15017    πŸ” 5180    πŸ’¬ 366    πŸ“Œ 218
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MS NOW: "A congressional official with knowledge of the matter is telling MS NOW the cause of the shutdown of El Paso airspace is a lack of communication between the Pentagon and FAA. The official told us the FAA and DOD are 'not in clear communications with each other.'"

11.02.2026 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5466    πŸ” 2138    πŸ’¬ 732    πŸ“Œ 714
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These Haitian meatpacking workers may be deported. They voted to strike anyway. | Food and Environment Reporting Network This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them.

Standing up for themselves and their fellow workers in spite of the threats from the admin.
[h/t @supremenothing.myatproto.social ]

10.02.2026 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today at 5PM, community members will gather to express our outrage at the Trump National Parks Department's erasure of OUR history and OUR flag from OUR park!

10.02.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0