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Author: THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, FACING THE MOUNTAIN, THE INDIFFERENT STARS ABOVE, and UNDER A FLAMING SKY. I write about the American character, as it once was. Fie on fascists, racists, and misogynists. https://www.danieljamesbrown.com/books/

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i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

11.01.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 42235    πŸ” 6584    πŸ’¬ 2337    πŸ“Œ 419
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They want us to memory hole tearing down the American flag to fly Trump’s.

07.01.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 9008    πŸ” 3406    πŸ’¬ 315    πŸ“Œ 185

β€œMcConnell laid the blame for Jan. 6 squarely at the feet of Trump. In private, he said things like: β€˜If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is’ and indicated he expected bipartisan support for a vote to convict Trump … And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict.”

06.01.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 395    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 10

Say what you want about Biden, he’s not out there claiming he actually won the election and sending a mob to the US Capitol to β€œfight like Hell” or they won’t have a country anymore. Republicans rightly condemned Trump on this day in 2021. He was unfit then. He is unfit now.

06.01.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1537    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 9

TouchΓ©.

05.01.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

04.01.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 65091    πŸ” 31082    πŸ’¬ 1050    πŸ“Œ 1123
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Adjudicated rapist says what?

01.01.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 18
Elon Musk’s new profile on X. Is shows Pepe the Frog as the profile pic and his name is changed to Kekius Maximus

Elon Musk’s new profile on X. Is shows Pepe the Frog as the profile pic and his name is changed to Kekius Maximus

Elon Musk has changed his X profile.

His avatar is now Pepe the Frog, a mascot adopted by white supremacists.

His name is a Latinisation of β€œKek”, a phrase used by neo-Nazis.

Musk has also backed AfD in Germany, the political home for racists.

The man is telling us explicitly what he’s about.

01.01.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3722    πŸ” 1559    πŸ’¬ 259    πŸ“Œ 404

in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter

29.12.2024 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6131    πŸ” 1030    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 43
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Musk in Die Welt It did not take long for Eva Marie Kogel, the opinion editor at Die Welt, Germany’s paper of record, to decide what the right thing for her to do was.

Musk's opinion piece for the German paper Die Welt, endorsing a right-wing extremist political party, matters a lot more for us than you might think, so I spent some time putting together a look at German politics, Musk's views, and the reaction to them. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

29.12.2024 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6426    πŸ” 2263    πŸ’¬ 239    πŸ“Œ 142
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This is so cool

29.12.2024 05:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6693    πŸ” 748    πŸ’¬ 194    πŸ“Œ 117
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Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News Elon Musk & J.D. Vance tweeted in support of the AfD Party whose racist, anti-immigrant ideologies are shared by a terrorist who just killed 5 people in Germany. Maybe it's not "economic anxiety."

My latest.

I wanted to take today off but I think more Americans need to know this before it's forgotten by tomorrow.

"Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News"

thelefthook.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

21.12.2024 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7684    πŸ” 3109    πŸ’¬ 252    πŸ“Œ 177
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an β€œorganization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.

20.12.2024 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 53555    πŸ” 12802    πŸ’¬ 1513    πŸ“Œ 1097

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21.12.2024 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rand Paul floats Musk for speaker The unconventional suggestion from one of the least conventional senators comes amid a conservative revolt over government funding legislation.

This is ridiculous. Republicans might as well cut out the middle man and make Putin Speaker.

19.12.2024 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 594    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 7
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Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.

Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

17.12.2024 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 45890    πŸ” 13534    πŸ’¬ 2134    πŸ“Œ 739

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

11.12.2024 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7301    πŸ” 2296    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 288

When Trump says "we want our FBI back" what he really means is, he wants to make sure they can never investigate or prosecute him again. This is not democracy.

11.12.2024 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7559    πŸ” 1929    πŸ’¬ 414    πŸ“Œ 89

A reminder that Christopher Wray, a lifelong Republican, was appointed FBI Director by Donald Trump but later became a target of Trump and MAGA after refusing to follow Trump’s illegal orders, lie on his behalf, and his role in the investigation of the Jan. 6 inssurection

11.12.2024 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 225    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1
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We Can’t Just Tune Out Donald Trump Exhaustion is understandable after a bitter election, but ignoring what’s happening won’t make it go away.

β€œWe are a country that stands on the precipice, just six weeks away from swearing in, for the second time, a wannabe β€œdictator” with ambitions to wildly reshape our democracy. There is a desire to tune out. I get it.”

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...

10.12.2024 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9920    πŸ” 2777    πŸ’¬ 780    πŸ“Œ 191
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A little louder for the folks in the back:

The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind.

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

09.12.2024 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 31727    πŸ” 7733    πŸ’¬ 580    πŸ“Œ 305
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My daughter and I are obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" books. There is much drinking of grog in these books, so we whipped up a batch. Not bad, though quite apt to make you start belting out sea shanties at the top of your lungs if you indulge in more than a single glass.

07.12.2024 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cassidy Hutchinson is one of the many people on Trash Patel's hit list.

Her "crime"?

She testified before the j6 committee. She was pressured by Trump's camp to downplay what she knew. She did not.

This is one of the many reasons Trash Patel cannot have any role in law enforcement.

05.12.2024 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 25524    πŸ” 5680    πŸ’¬ 523    πŸ“Œ 143

Will do!

05.12.2024 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much!

05.12.2024 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would subscribe to all of Candice's suggestions and I've assembled a few more in a Narrative Nonfiction starter pack here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

02.12.2024 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here is what Kushner admitted to when he pled guilty.

30.11.2024 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 18484    πŸ” 5992    πŸ’¬ 809    πŸ“Œ 300

Aye!

28.11.2024 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post by Musk:

Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty

Post by Musk: Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty

Elon Musk thinks HE won the election and gets to be the autocrat. Fascist and delusional to the core.

27.11.2024 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 37345    πŸ” 6334    πŸ’¬ 2902    πŸ“Œ 531

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