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John Brownell

@johnbrownell.bsky.social

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A 61 year old very underemployed PROGRESSIVE, Democratic Socialist and humanist in Wisconsin (Single, not really looking) Cishet Polyamorous/ENM and always an ally 🍍♾️🧠😉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♀️ MDNI🔞

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · Jun 28

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 11h

I see a definite tactic for future protests.

Position UPWIND from federal agents and let the wind push that tear gas back at them

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

A major confrontation erupted in Southside Chicago after an ICE GOON crashed their car.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17h

Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15h

I sense a pardon on its way.

A tweet by Jacob Shamsian reads: “The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she’s getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

Many members of Congress and city mayors may make bold statements, but let's not forget that we’re ultimately on our own. No one is coming to rescue us.

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 16h

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 12h

Might as well call it a sin tax. We're gonna be punished for anything beyond gruel and a leaky roof.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 12h

Lol
Ya don't say

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“.. Look no further than the automotive industry for the latest indication of a potential “K-Shaped” economy for U.S. consumers.”

@cnbc.com @mikewayland.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/n...

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Julie J @j1j2.bsky.social · 20h

Good Morning Resistance

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 12h

It's been 3 weeks.
They're 2½ weeks late.

John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 12h

Reporting USED TO INCLUDE getting secondary confirmation.

Repeating anything this administration says, even in quotes, is PROPAGANDA

NOT SO FAST, KIMOSABE!! @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 13h

It’s bullshit so they can continue masking and disappearing people.
I wouldn’t believe anything from No nothing Noem.
abcnews.go.com/US/cartels-i...

Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents: DHS

Drug cartels have "disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel," according to a press release from DHS.

abcnews.go.com

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 12h

It's about 80% of the Stock Market's growth this year.

Not sure where I read that

John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 12h

Announcing
Trump Golden Oil:
All the saturated fat your little heart desires...

Because the President should make more money from your death

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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tarasworld.bsky.social @tarasworld.bsky.social · 13h

I would trust sushi being sold at a gas station in Mississippi mid August before I would trust Pam Pedophile Protector Bondi. And Tina Fey as Kristi Gnome was comedy gold🥇

#bondiiscorrupt #dojiscompromised
#pinks

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 18h

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 13h

By running a primary before the Party anoints its choice and then get 💯 behind whomever the people choose.

Kind of like it were a democratic process

John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 13h

That ship sailed.
The next generation is already 50 to 70 years old.
Planter is the next next generation

John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 13h

So
More Schumers then?
Great plan

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 13h

Democratic Party establishment
NEEDS TO STAY TF OUT OF PRIMARIES

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17h

I had planned to stay out of the Maine Senate race for a while and respectfully consider the competing visions of both major candidates.

But I can’t do that now.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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