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@comicrissieb.bsky.social

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Old trans lesbian, mom & grandma, artist (digital and pen/ink), sidekick to Captain Cookies (aka my bloodhound Jazz). Becoming Jewish 💙🤍💙✡️

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · Jan 8

The Bill of Rights was basically poppycock until the 1960s. When I was born, all of this was legal:

● Public school teachers could lead mandatory class prayers.

● Private employers could require employees to go to church.

● Both govt and private business could post jobs for Whites/Men Only.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 7h

I don't have network TV, so I'm just following the score tracker. 🤷‍♀️

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 8h

#Bills not having a good first half. 🙁

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 8h

It's been absurd today.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 8h

Like the old customer service joke:

"What if we accept the return, give you a full refund, fire the clerk, close the store, and burn down the building. Would THAT satisfy you?"

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, exactly.

There were things we didn't say, whatever we might have thought.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 8h

I'm glad it's not just me who thinks this sometimes.

Not a fan of bullying, but we have a lot of people who never learned some important life skills.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 8h

And wow, aren't the antisemites out in force today....

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Why wasn't this a bigger story? Odd

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Xena Warrior Chicken @xenawarriorchicken.bsky.social · 22d

Crickets...

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 10h

Except a lot of it isn't good.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 10h

It's so important. It should be required high school reading.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 10h

News Flash: Hamas Still Terrorists

Robert Rowley @robertrowley.bsky.social · 11h

Did anyone really think the "palestinians" would EVER tell the truth or keep their word?
#Gaza #palestinians #terrorism

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 10h

A lot of them seem to look like youth pastors and local Republican candidates and ... well, you know....

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 11h

Yep. I guess we're supposed to be able to spot The Bad Ones.... 🙄

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you for the repost.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 12h

They're literally not allowed to call bullshit "bullshit". It's one of the forbidden words in mainstream media.

And they have no substitute term. They just pretend it's something else.

We'll start to see progress when journalists understand what bullshit is and call it that.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 12h

Hamas' founding charter demands a "Free Palestine ... from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea."

They don't want a two-state solution. They want the extinction of Israel.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 12h

If men don't want to be mistaken for predators, maybe stop the predation.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, I'm kinda over the lie that "This isn't America!"

It always was, for everyone else.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 12h

It's not a lie. It's something worse than lying:

bsky.app/profile/comi...

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 2d

It's worth a moment to review 'On Bullshit' by Harry Frankfurt. 🧵

Because Trump has us awash in bullshit, and we need to know what it is ... and isn't.

It's not honest. It's also not lying. It's something else altogether.

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On Bullshit | Princeton University Press share.google/4Yw32ubLzEco...

On Bullshit

Over one million copies sold worldwideThe international and #1 New York Times bestsellerThe anniversary edition of the acclaimed book that reveals why bullshit is more dangerous than lying

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 12h

This is how most Americans communicate nowadays. Just sling invective like it's middle school.

We should expect better from each other, and definitely better from our government.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13h

It’s genuinely alarming that the official DHS account is talking like this. This isn’t a parody account, it’s a federal agency using the tone of an online teenage bully to respond to fair public criticism.

DHS Twitter account responding to Maria Cardona

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 13h

The 'base' is part of an officers' quarters, at an existing US flight training facility. Qatar has to pay rent for their pilots' rooms. That's the 'base'.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 13h

She does if the new GOP budget passes. It includes a provision immunizing federal officials who follow Trump's policies.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 13h

You're far more likely to be killed by a cop.

In the US, one-third of stranger homicides are committed by police.

Yes, really.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 13h

We provide pilot training facilities for lots of allies. It's really not a big story.