Don Brown
@gettheflick.bsky.social
Retired ATC (ZTL) -- NATCA founding member
Amateur Photographer
Joe Biden Democrat
Should have been a cowboy.
Ask an ATC question (or about a Photography Park) at your peril.
Amateur Photographer
Joe Biden Democrat
Should have been a cowboy.
Ask an ATC question (or about a Photography Park) at your peril.
Imagine #Alabama with a Democratic Governor (if you can).
"The reason this is the most serious challenge that Tuberville will face is because it is not one that will be heard by a partisan committee or a legislative body with a Republican supermajority. This one will be heard by a court."
"The reason this is the most serious challenge that Tuberville will face is because it is not one that will be heard by a partisan committee or a legislative body with a Republican supermajority. This one will be heard by a court."
"A court challenge to Tuberville being on the November ballot will be the most dangerous for him and the Alabama Republican Party."
Analysis | The lawsuit that could knock Tuberville off the ballot pre-election
A court challenge to Tuberville being on the November ballot will be the most dangerous for him and the Alabama Republican Party.
buff.ly
January 27, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Imagine #Alabama with a Democratic Governor (if you can).
"The reason this is the most serious challenge that Tuberville will face is because it is not one that will be heard by a partisan committee or a legislative body with a Republican supermajority. This one will be heard by a court."
"The reason this is the most serious challenge that Tuberville will face is because it is not one that will be heard by a partisan committee or a legislative body with a Republican supermajority. This one will be heard by a court."
Dang! Who filled up Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (AL) voice mail? Did I miss out on something?
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Dang! Who filled up Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (AL) voice mail? Did I miss out on something?
Bovino is a stooge. A fall guy. He’s being sacrificed to protect Miller. And Trump. Noem and Homan need to understand that they too are expendable.
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Long past time.
Everyone involved with this reign of terror — including Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller — needs to be fired immediately.
Everyone involved with this reign of terror — including Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller — needs to be fired immediately.
Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell Nick Miroff.
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Long past time.
Everyone involved with this reign of terror — including Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller — needs to be fired immediately.
Everyone involved with this reign of terror — including Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller — needs to be fired immediately.
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Now do Stephen Miller
Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social.
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Now do Stephen Miller
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Yes, but Trump knows if Stephen Miller goes then the White House falls apart. He's the most powerful unelected man in the world and is essentially the head of DHS and DOJ.
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Yes, but Trump knows if Stephen Miller goes then the White House falls apart. He's the most powerful unelected man in the world and is essentially the head of DHS and DOJ.
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I agree that Bovino must be dealt with it’s really unfair to this administration how he and DHS made trump and Stephen Miller order him to do all those things
January 27, 2026 at 1:10 AM
I agree that Bovino must be dealt with it’s really unfair to this administration how he and DHS made trump and Stephen Miller order him to do all those things
Geez! If I didn't know better, I'd swear there is a coordinated effort to demand Steven Miller's political head on a platter. Count me in.
Bovino was doing exactly what Stephen Miller told him to. This is wildly insufficient.
January 27, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Geez! If I didn't know better, I'd swear there is a coordinated effort to demand Steven Miller's political head on a platter. Count me in.
As @maddow.bsky.social has said over and over, when we push back, Trump backs down. The problem is, we can't mobilize millions every time he does something.
I'm mad about him denigrating NATO soldiers that died fighting for us. But that's already forgotten. Anybody remember Daniel Burgess? #Resist
I'm mad about him denigrating NATO soldiers that died fighting for us. But that's already forgotten. Anybody remember Daniel Burgess? #Resist
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 AM
As @maddow.bsky.social has said over and over, when we push back, Trump backs down. The problem is, we can't mobilize millions every time he does something.
I'm mad about him denigrating NATO soldiers that died fighting for us. But that's already forgotten. Anybody remember Daniel Burgess? #Resist
I'm mad about him denigrating NATO soldiers that died fighting for us. But that's already forgotten. Anybody remember Daniel Burgess? #Resist
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Lest we forget:
On Sat night, as Minnesotans braved Arctic cold to honor Alex Pretti and demand that ICE/CBP leave their state...
...Tim Cook was at the White House for "friends and family" premiere of payola-based 'Melania' movie. Also Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO.
Bezos was at fashion show in Paris.
On Sat night, as Minnesotans braved Arctic cold to honor Alex Pretti and demand that ICE/CBP leave their state...
...Tim Cook was at the White House for "friends and family" premiere of payola-based 'Melania' movie. Also Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO.
Bezos was at fashion show in Paris.
January 26, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Lest we forget:
On Sat night, as Minnesotans braved Arctic cold to honor Alex Pretti and demand that ICE/CBP leave their state...
...Tim Cook was at the White House for "friends and family" premiere of payola-based 'Melania' movie. Also Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO.
Bezos was at fashion show in Paris.
On Sat night, as Minnesotans braved Arctic cold to honor Alex Pretti and demand that ICE/CBP leave their state...
...Tim Cook was at the White House for "friends and family" premiere of payola-based 'Melania' movie. Also Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO.
Bezos was at fashion show in Paris.
Anybody else remember how organized people were in resisting the PLA in Hong Kong?
They used traffic cones as chimneys for tear gas and put them out with bottled water.
They used traffic cones as chimneys for tear gas and put them out with bottled water.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 27, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Anybody else remember how organized people were in resisting the PLA in Hong Kong?
They used traffic cones as chimneys for tear gas and put them out with bottled water.
They used traffic cones as chimneys for tear gas and put them out with bottled water.
While you're sitting a home snowed in and wondering what to watch...
I bet this will hit you in a different way now. #SnowedIn #TV #Resist
Oh, and if you know anybody that can organize a peaceful, non-violent, multi-million person march on D.C., let me know where to sign up.
I bet this will hit you in a different way now. #SnowedIn #TV #Resist
Oh, and if you know anybody that can organize a peaceful, non-violent, multi-million person march on D.C., let me know where to sign up.
Rustin (film) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 PM
"Wine in the City"
The sunset wasn’t that good but the bokeh was. I was out at sunset, trying to find a new location when I noticed a flat surface in the right location.
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
155mm
F6@10 seconds
Polarizer
DSB_5068.JPG
©Don Brown 2026
#photography
The sunset wasn’t that good but the bokeh was. I was out at sunset, trying to find a new location when I noticed a flat surface in the right location.
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
155mm
F6@10 seconds
Polarizer
DSB_5068.JPG
©Don Brown 2026
#photography
January 26, 2026 at 8:28 PM
"Wine in the City"
The sunset wasn’t that good but the bokeh was. I was out at sunset, trying to find a new location when I noticed a flat surface in the right location.
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
155mm
F6@10 seconds
Polarizer
DSB_5068.JPG
©Don Brown 2026
#photography
The sunset wasn’t that good but the bokeh was. I was out at sunset, trying to find a new location when I noticed a flat surface in the right location.
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
155mm
F6@10 seconds
Polarizer
DSB_5068.JPG
©Don Brown 2026
#photography
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Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.
Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.
AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.
Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.
AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.
Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.
Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.
AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.
Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.
AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.
Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
Snowbound by the big storm? Need something to read? Here. My gift to you.
Please note the moral lessons you *should* be able to figure out here.
He could have been stopped. Greed is not good. It's a sin. Corruption corrupts. Everybody and everything.
He died in jail, a convicted sex offender.
Please note the moral lessons you *should* be able to figure out here.
He could have been stopped. Greed is not good. It's a sin. Corruption corrupts. Everybody and everything.
He died in jail, a convicted sex offender.
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Snowbound by the big storm? Need something to read? Here. My gift to you.
Please note the moral lessons you *should* be able to figure out here.
He could have been stopped. Greed is not good. It's a sin. Corruption corrupts. Everybody and everything.
He died in jail, a convicted sex offender.
Please note the moral lessons you *should* be able to figure out here.
He could have been stopped. Greed is not good. It's a sin. Corruption corrupts. Everybody and everything.
He died in jail, a convicted sex offender.
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It might not lead to a wave, but the 2026 Democratic field of candidates gives the party its first real chance in years to gain ground.
Analysis | A Democratic lineup that could change things
It might not lead to a wave, but the 2026 Democratic field of candidates gives the party its first real chance in years to gain ground.
buff.ly
January 26, 2026 at 2:34 PM
It might not lead to a wave, but the 2026 Democratic field of candidates gives the party its first real chance in years to gain ground.
No need for you to wait for me to finish this. I know many Feds and ex-Feds will read it. I hope private citizens will too.
"Until the purges of the past year, the U.S. government housed an unmatched collection of experts, capable of some of the greatest feats in human existence." #CivilService
"Until the purges of the past year, the U.S. government housed an unmatched collection of experts, capable of some of the greatest feats in human existence." #CivilService
The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:39 AM
No need for you to wait for me to finish this. I know many Feds and ex-Feds will read it. I hope private citizens will too.
"Until the purges of the past year, the U.S. government housed an unmatched collection of experts, capable of some of the greatest feats in human existence." #CivilService
"Until the purges of the past year, the U.S. government housed an unmatched collection of experts, capable of some of the greatest feats in human existence." #CivilService
I ain't that drunk. This is *most* interesting.
I'm telling you: A lot of interesting ideas are coming out of Oz.
"...a nightmare, not only because the US government is now #$US38 trillion ($55 trillion) in debt...but also because it produced Trump, who is now blowing up the system...."
I'm telling you: A lot of interesting ideas are coming out of Oz.
"...a nightmare, not only because the US government is now #$US38 trillion ($55 trillion) in debt...but also because it produced Trump, who is now blowing up the system...."
Trump's economic chaos makes Keynes's idea look attractive
In the wake of Trump, the world will now have to revisit the conference that set up the "rules-based world order".
www.abc.net.au
January 26, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I ain't that drunk. This is *most* interesting.
I'm telling you: A lot of interesting ideas are coming out of Oz.
"...a nightmare, not only because the US government is now #$US38 trillion ($55 trillion) in debt...but also because it produced Trump, who is now blowing up the system...."
I'm telling you: A lot of interesting ideas are coming out of Oz.
"...a nightmare, not only because the US government is now #$US38 trillion ($55 trillion) in debt...but also because it produced Trump, who is now blowing up the system...."
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Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator.
The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him.
It's time for a massive general strike across the country.
The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him.
It's time for a massive general strike across the country.
January 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator.
The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him.
It's time for a massive general strike across the country.
The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him.
It's time for a massive general strike across the country.
You’ve been warned.
January 25, 2026 at 10:52 PM
You’ve been warned.
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Disappointingly weak statement from Ossoff. Will oppose current funding bill but still falls way short of defunding CBP/ICE operations, impeaching Noem and Bondi (for blocking prosecution of CBP/ICE thugs)
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Disappointingly weak statement from Ossoff. Will oppose current funding bill but still falls way short of defunding CBP/ICE operations, impeaching Noem and Bondi (for blocking prosecution of CBP/ICE thugs)
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Reminder: ICE is cracking down hard in blue states, mainly because so many people are out & about documenting it on their cell phones.
ICE is active in red states. @al.com has been covering this diligently.
Saw a post that said "media isn't covering ICE in the South," & that's simply not true.
ICE is active in red states. @al.com has been covering this diligently.
Saw a post that said "media isn't covering ICE in the South," & that's simply not true.
January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Reminder: ICE is cracking down hard in blue states, mainly because so many people are out & about documenting it on their cell phones.
ICE is active in red states. @al.com has been covering this diligently.
Saw a post that said "media isn't covering ICE in the South," & that's simply not true.
ICE is active in red states. @al.com has been covering this diligently.
Saw a post that said "media isn't covering ICE in the South," & that's simply not true.
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“Please get the truth out about our son.”
Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
January 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Please get the truth out about our son.”
Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
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It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough
January 25, 2026 at 3:12 PM
It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough
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Good to see from @nytimes.com
Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice
Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Good to see from @nytimes.com