Laurel Brown

Not an uncommon position in the PNW. I'm a fan of sea lions, but I'm very willing to admit they can be seriously problematic.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

In a universe that contains "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" ... I'm going to call bs on this one.

To my knowledge, no ICE Enforcement and Removal officer has ever been shot by an immigrant.

Might be wrong but I don’t think so.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

So, we're like 100% bombing Iran before Friday then?

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

You just need to go to one "professional" cocktail party to learn how very wrong this is.

now we're being asked to sacrifice our PCs, laptops, and smart phones for the fringe use-cases for AI.

fuck this.

The Left Won't Embrace Explicitly and Overtly Fascist Technology That Destroys the Water and the Air and Our Very Minds for the Profit of the Worst Most Fascist People Alive and Other Core Definitions of What It Means to be on the Left

Benefits of AI: Kind of creepy photos, industry-specific applications that no one talks about because they're boring.

Negatives of AI: Makes people insane/stupid/lazy, convinces corporations to lay off everyone, gives wrong answers, uses up resources, raises energy costs ...

Siri what’s the Streisand Effect

Time to bring back flash mobs…

The question is moot Reverend Jesse Jackson Saturday night live Dailymotion video by Jesse Jackson Jr.

RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson

There are going to be a lot of tributes to his activism, so I'm choosing to remember how much he crushed hosting SNL

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

that's the good stuff

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

A bipedal red fox paints a rainbow across the sky. They have a determined look on their face. To the right of the rainbow are segments of text from newspaper articles about grim news for LGBTQIA+ folks, especially trans folks. On the left, there are flowers on the ground, with butterflies flittering about. The discouraging words are illegible faint smudges.

Word.

Well, words.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Mobilize the NIMBYs of war

Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.

The idea that Trump is creating quotas for denaturalization is a gross abuse of power that should scare every single American.

Republicans used to pretend they were for legal immigration, but now they are working to strip citizenship from Americans for no reason.

Happy Colgate Day to those who celebrate.

Rhetorial question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

19-20 significant dislikes. 11 of them are absolute nos (including 1 allergy).

As a lawyer with the same gut reaction to immigration law, dammit...

(Stating publicly that I'm going to do something so I can shame myself into it, btw.)