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Sarah Brown

@finchbrown.bsky.social

Retired oncology RN, former English teacher, spouse, mom, daughter, friend, reader, gardener, walker, natural history lover and learner, always voter, trying hard to be more enraged than afraid.

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STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

22.02.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4811    πŸ” 2417    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 98

i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.

11.02.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4145    πŸ” 758    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 24
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβ€”because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.02.2026 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 47130    πŸ” 19329    πŸ’¬ 1349    πŸ“Œ 795
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Immigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato.

Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."

05.02.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2453    πŸ” 1074    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 46
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β€˜The Second Emancipation’ Review: Imagining Africa United The 20th-century Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah saw an opportunity to move Africa past the fragmentation left behind by colonial powers.

At the start of Black history month, I'd like to recommend my book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. As w my previous book, Born in Blackness, it follows the conviction that Black history is World history. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

01.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

24.01.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 20819    πŸ” 3296    πŸ’¬ 427    πŸ“Œ 96
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

22.01.2026 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 45277    πŸ” 14155    πŸ’¬ 871    πŸ“Œ 682

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: β€œNo, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

16.01.2026 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 33834    πŸ” 8697    πŸ’¬ 583    πŸ“Œ 338

protect and reinforce our supply lines

12.01.2026 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1491    πŸ” 200    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6

Trump’s line is that disrespect to law enforcement is punishable by death. Impeach and remove. This is not tolerable.

12.01.2026 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7151    πŸ” 2108    πŸ’¬ 486    πŸ“Œ 121
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🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.

08.01.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 25631    πŸ” 10331    πŸ’¬ 1728    πŸ“Œ 724
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β€˜We’ve got more in common than what divides us’: a Muslim-Jewish kitchen in Nottingham counters hate and hunger As antisemitism and Islamophobia rise, a community centre brings people together over shared meals, offering an antidote to food poverty, social isolation and division

Read more about how the Salaam Shalom kitchen, also known as SaSh, brings people together through food.
SaSh is being supported by advocacy group Hope Not Hate’s charity arm, Hope Unlimited, one of the recipients of this year’s Guardian charity appeal.

Donate at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk

28.12.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

Let’s talk about something not many people are chatting about and what’s actually happening right now.

You might wonder why Imran Ahmed and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suddenly became targets of the U.S. government. The honest answer is that their research hit where it hurt.

27.12.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4384    πŸ” 1385    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 108

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, β€˜Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now

23.12.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 19762    πŸ” 4764    πŸ’¬ 483    πŸ“Œ 207

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

20.12.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6666    πŸ” 2247    πŸ’¬ 343    πŸ“Œ 100
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So… he’s giving them their own money?

Where’s the tariff money?

18.12.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9326    πŸ” 3620    πŸ’¬ 873    πŸ“Œ 295

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

13.12.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2791    πŸ” 1124    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 71
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β€œA cultural challenge”

04.12.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 652    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 32

Gee, thanks!

04.12.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.

22.11.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1148    πŸ” 207    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 31

β€œICE agents then surrounded (Superior Court Judge McBurney’s) car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”

21.11.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 16

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

20.11.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 32712    πŸ” 10598    πŸ’¬ 602    πŸ“Œ 672
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If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.

20.11.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11

Stunning. Archives are everything.

15.11.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1532    πŸ” 324    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 3

Abortion providers, clinic staff, and volunteers put their lives on the line every day to make sure people can get the care they need.

We owe them a tremendous debt of gratitudeβ€”and *much* better protection.

14.11.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

12.11.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 18513    πŸ” 5388    πŸ’¬ 305    πŸ“Œ 120

This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.

13.11.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1050    πŸ” 278    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 18
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Amendment which strikes section which β€œallows senators who were legally subpoenaed during the January 6 criminal conspiracy investigation to get millions of dollars deposited into their bank accounts at taxpayer expense” voted down by Republicans

12.11.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2278    πŸ” 888    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 116

Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.

They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.

Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.

10.11.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3310    πŸ” 673    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 22

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

10.11.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3945    πŸ” 786    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 22