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MB Brown

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Member of the Church of Baseball, my denomination is the San Francisco Giants, my creed is #BeatLA I do defy him, and I spit at him. - William Shakespeare She/her Wear your masks, get your vaccinations Same handle as on the hellsite 🦋1,159,259 �

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 7d

I have five of the Harry Potter books in front of me, I think the others are on a lower shelf. Do I keep them or donate them?

Consider this a poll:

Keep

OR

Donate

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 9h

My statement on the ceasefire in the Middle East.

Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris
October 13, 2025

I am thankful and deeply encouraged that this ceasefire has brought long-awaited moments of joy and reunion — as 20 Israeli hostages are finally reunited with their loved ones and Palestinian families and the people of Gaza begin to receive desperately needed relief from unimaginable suffering.

Through diplomacy and persistence, today is an important first step toward a more hopeful future. I commend the leaders and partners whose efforts made this agreement possible, including the President and his team.

There is still much more work to do to secure a lasting peace, ensure the safety and dignity of every innocent life, and build a future where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in freedom and security.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 17h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 8h

To the chorus of Rock the Casbah:

🎶Duck the Fodgers
Duck the Fodgers🎶

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 9h

To the @maddow.msnbc.com Show chyron operators - this should read CHICAGO PASTOR ATTACKED BY ICE SUES TRUMP ADMIN. ”Reverend” is a title and “pastor” is the job.

MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 10h

A little late, but…

#BeatLA
#BeatLA
#BeatLA
#BeatLA

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10h

As we witness Project 2025 near 50% implementation across the United States gov’t, it is sadly quite clear that without Black innovation and leadership, they are plainly ill-equipped to defeat the Christian White Nationalist overhaul—which, mind you, rigs future elections.

No coming back from this.

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 10h

Puppy bum!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

gene kelly is antifa

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11h

Looks amazing.

Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 13h

The first review for my book is in, and I got the coveted star from Kirkus! So deeply honored and over the moon.

What a summary: “A passionate and urgent account that transforms the embers of a bypassed history into flames that consume the present.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

EL PASO | Kirkus Reviews

Illuminating the history and identity of “the new Ellis Island.”

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Daniel Carroll @tworsandtwols.bsky.social · 11h

I did have my phone ready for this:

Humpy, a salmon mascot, has one knee on the ground and is petting a dog, Tucker, a team dog for the Mariners, who is facing away from the camera.

Tucker, the Mariners dog, bites the blue life preserver ring around Humpy’s waist.

Humpy is wearing a “winner” sash and gold chain in addition to his regular costume.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 11h

Congrats to University of California professors & alumni for being awarded 5 Nobel Prizes!

California’s scientists are leading the world in crucial breakthroughs.

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week

The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Rep. Doris Matsui @dorismatsui.bsky.social · 10h

Republicans have shut down the government rather than lower your health care costs.

People across our community are already getting their health care rate notices and I want to hear from you. [1/2]

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 10h

I grabbed the mini tote bags on Saturday! The only seasonal item I indulged in, oh, no, wait, I picked up a container of pumpkin cream cheese, too.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Layla & Piglet @era-now.bsky.social · 11h

There is a fake @flashtastic.bsky.social soliciting donations! Please avoid it. Check all accounts before donating money!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 16h

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

FYI: If you know of intersections of religion and pushback to ICE/DHS in general, but especially Chicago, feel free to drop me a line.

You can reach me via Signal at: jackmjenkins.60

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 13h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 15h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

reut.rs

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 13h

Seriously, this. If you think elections won't happen, stop whining and get to work helping to build the protest apparatus we need sooner rather than later.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 23h

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 23h

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 17h

Sanity says: “if there is a risk that the AMOC is weakening and heading towards a tipping point, we need to act on that (just like with other major risks). This is not an issue where we can afford to wait until we are certain, or pretend it’s just an academic discussion without major consequences.”

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 1d

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)

The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...

www.realclimate.org

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 18h

Stronger together, indeed. Appreciate the solidarity from our neighbors to the North*!

*mostly North, Seattle is further north than Toronto, for example 😁 ❤️ 🇨🇦

Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 1d

Canadians will be protesting in solidarity with our American friends on October 18th at No Tyrants rallies in Vancouver, BC, as well as in Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario. Stronger together.

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