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John Brownell

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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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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 55m

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 18m

Well done
I didn't know who Weiss was before her ascension

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2h

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

Be there. Saturday, October 18th.
www.nokings.org

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 12h

Be advised
Janet only buys plain and sprinkled, so plan accordingly

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 14h

Base vs facility is a big deal

They don't have guaranteed flight corridors into & away from the facility.
They won't control landings & takeoffs.
They can't fuel/arm their aircraft without the US specifically handing over those supplies.
Hell, they can't even take their aircraft home w/o permission

John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 15h

Dystopia is when "Jewish Space Laser" lady is the sane Republican

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

ICE GOONS arrested a father and mother in front of their child.
Chicago, Illinois

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 15h

I anticipate a new federal law will be signed to ban costumes at protests (masks already are in some places).
Somebody could hide a lot in one of those

John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 15h

I anticipate a new federal law will be signed to ban costumes at protests (masks already are in some places).
Somebody could hide a lot in one of those

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15h

I knew I should have invested in frog costume futures

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog
Every voter should be a taxpayer who can pass an 8th grade civics exam.

John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang
I'd settle for every president being a taxpayer who can pass an 8th grade civics exam.

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NurseGenius @nursegenius1019.bsky.social · 1d

PDX is refusing to play Kristi’s Propaganda video required at airports. Portland says F off

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent summary of the. "Made in America" dilemma and the conservative cognitively dissonant hypocrisy

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 15h

Worse criminal CONVICTION record. We don't know how many kids he molested

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 16h

Sleepy Joe was so on top of his game that he seized control of Trump's FBI AND manipulated magats* at the Capital to commit insurrection.

While all #Donny2Dolls could do was throw ketchup** at walls

*Historically, a laughably easy group to manipulate
**Reports vary -It may have been catsup.

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Amintegrity @amintegrity.bsky.social · 1d

They gave up their white sheets and cross burning for masks, zip tying children and decending from helicopters to assualt innocents in the night.

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 19h

$1 billion doesn't seem like a big enough number to qualify as stockpiling.
That's only about 4 million pounds of dysprosium which would probably fill just a couple of warehouses

John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 19h

For the love of god

Why won't he just go away?

Scribbles over a link to James Carville commentary on Trump

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 21h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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John Brownell @johnbrownell.bsky.social · 19h

Not only was he President, he HAD been President for 2 weeks shy of FOUR FULL years.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

👇👇

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 22h

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫,

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