kjb
@kjbrowning.bsky.social
Exhausted idealist, entering my crone era
Here for: news, opposition, higher ed, info literacy, unraveled Christians, pop culture, laughs, whimsy
my places: Spokane/PNW, Midwest, DC/MD, Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Here for: news, opposition, higher ed, info literacy, unraveled Christians, pop culture, laughs, whimsy
my places: Spokane/PNW, Midwest, DC/MD, Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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kjb
@kjbrowning.bsky.social
· Nov 7
i’m not doom scrolling i’m bereft browsing
I’m not doom scrolling, I’m
solidarity scanning
grief gathering
hope hunting
solidarity scanning
grief gathering
hope hunting
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This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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Then there's the second decision: how you judge others. If being gentlemanly means anything at all, it should mean what Newman wrote above: "interpret everything for the best." Or what Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: "A real desire to believe all the good you can of others ...
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Then there's the second decision: how you judge others. If being gentlemanly means anything at all, it should mean what Newman wrote above: "interpret everything for the best." Or what Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: "A real desire to believe all the good you can of others ...
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This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
Post a movie where you are from
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Post a movie where you are from
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Cassidy channeling the classic Simpsons episode where Homer accidentally invents tomacco and gets people addicted to it, and when Lisa confronts him about the harm he's causing he responds with "I know honey, but what can *I* do as an individual?"
Bill Cassidy has done infinitely more for the antivaccine movement than he can ever claim he has done to promote vaccination. He is one of the worst antivaxxers to ever live.
With all my heart, fuck this guy.
November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Cassidy channeling the classic Simpsons episode where Homer accidentally invents tomacco and gets people addicted to it, and when Lisa confronts him about the harm he's causing he responds with "I know honey, but what can *I* do as an individual?"
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This is…brilliant.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is…brilliant.
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Turn around, bright eyes
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Turn around, bright eyes
The snow glows white
on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint, not a hope
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the pope
The wind is howling
like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in
heaven knows I tried
on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint, not a hope
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the pope
The wind is howling
like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in
heaven knows I tried
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The snow glows white
on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint, not a hope
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the pope
The wind is howling
like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in
heaven knows I tried
on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint, not a hope
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the pope
The wind is howling
like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in
heaven knows I tried
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“Being complicit in criminal stuff and not standing up to bad people doing bad things carries possible risk of consequences for use of free will—
Even if you were —
say it with me —
just following orders.
News at 11.”
Even if you were —
say it with me —
just following orders.
News at 11.”
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“Being complicit in criminal stuff and not standing up to bad people doing bad things carries possible risk of consequences for use of free will—
Even if you were —
say it with me —
just following orders.
News at 11.”
Even if you were —
say it with me —
just following orders.
News at 11.”
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
This is why this story needs to be taken seriously.
I have found it very entertaining and had my share of laughs at these gross and foolish people, but their seedy secrets - and their lack of ethics - have resulted in real harm at an untold scale.
I have found it very entertaining and had my share of laughs at these gross and foolish people, but their seedy secrets - and their lack of ethics - have resulted in real harm at an untold scale.
Children are dying because of RFK Jr being Secretary of Health and Human Services. And this amoral fuckup (R Lizza, 51) knew a 'journalist' (Nuzzi, 32) he was fucking was running a catch-and-kill operation for political candidate RFK?
Even when you know the system is corrupt....
Even when you know the system is corrupt....
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is why this story needs to be taken seriously.
I have found it very entertaining and had my share of laughs at these gross and foolish people, but their seedy secrets - and their lack of ethics - have resulted in real harm at an untold scale.
I have found it very entertaining and had my share of laughs at these gross and foolish people, but their seedy secrets - and their lack of ethics - have resulted in real harm at an untold scale.
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everyone's talking about how bright and charming zohran must be, which is true, but then you remember the spider-brained cryptkeepers trump's surrounded himself with since '15 and realize a single smile from mamdani must have hit like barbecue spare ribs down the gullet of a 12th century peasant.
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
everyone's talking about how bright and charming zohran must be, which is true, but then you remember the spider-brained cryptkeepers trump's surrounded himself with since '15 and realize a single smile from mamdani must have hit like barbecue spare ribs down the gullet of a 12th century peasant.
Ha! I have been laughing (and raging) with the discourse this morning while feeling like an elder because I read the Google Doc before I went to sleep last night.
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ha! I have been laughing (and raging) with the discourse this morning while feeling like an elder because I read the Google Doc before I went to sleep last night.
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I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
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I love paywalls now.
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I love paywalls now.
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Our task:
Feed Elon Musk’s wealth into the woodchipper.
Feed Elon Musk’s wealth into the woodchipper.
Over on X today, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is having another normal one www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot ranks him as world history’s greatest human
Users on X shared examples of the “truth-seeking” AI chatbot praising its owner as “strikingly handsome,” a “genius,” and fitter than LeBron James.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Our task:
Feed Elon Musk’s wealth into the woodchipper.
Feed Elon Musk’s wealth into the woodchipper.
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confiscate it due to his crimes, and use it to fund government programs like USAID
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
confiscate it due to his crimes, and use it to fund government programs like USAID
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this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years
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An Irish woman. A veteran’s wife.
Detained since JULY. Since JULY!!
In case you thought any of us were safe.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Detained since JULY. Since JULY!!
In case you thought any of us were safe.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
‘She’s been degraded’: A man’s battle in Washington to free his Irish wife from Ice detention
Jim Brown tells representatives about the plight of his wife, Donna Hughes-Brown, who has been detained since July after returning from Ireland
www.irishtimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
An Irish woman. A veteran’s wife.
Detained since JULY. Since JULY!!
In case you thought any of us were safe.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Detained since JULY. Since JULY!!
In case you thought any of us were safe.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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She’s a green card holder. Her “crime” was writing 2 bad checks many years ago, totaling less than $60 for both.
She paid them back at the time.
But ICE needs their quotas.
She paid them back at the time.
But ICE needs their quotas.
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
She’s a green card holder. Her “crime” was writing 2 bad checks many years ago, totaling less than $60 for both.
She paid them back at the time.
But ICE needs their quotas.
She paid them back at the time.
But ICE needs their quotas.
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A Republican state lawmaker from Arizona called for me to be hanged in September.
Now, Trump is saying Democratic members of Congress should be hanged.
This is not a joke. These calls for political violence are completely unacceptable and they must stop now.
Now, Trump is saying Democratic members of Congress should be hanged.
This is not a joke. These calls for political violence are completely unacceptable and they must stop now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A Republican state lawmaker from Arizona called for me to be hanged in September.
Now, Trump is saying Democratic members of Congress should be hanged.
This is not a joke. These calls for political violence are completely unacceptable and they must stop now.
Now, Trump is saying Democratic members of Congress should be hanged.
This is not a joke. These calls for political violence are completely unacceptable and they must stop now.
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As much as a lot about RFK Jr and even Elon is funny, I can’t get over how many deaths they’re causing, particularly of children. If justice is ever restored in this country, authorities will need to reckon with what they’ve done.
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
As much as a lot about RFK Jr and even Elon is funny, I can’t get over how many deaths they’re causing, particularly of children. If justice is ever restored in this country, authorities will need to reckon with what they’ve done.
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point: what will you do when your fave is revealed to be a friend to Jeffrey Epstein
counterpoint: I do not have faves who are friends with Jeffrey Epstein
counterpoint: I do not have faves who are friends with Jeffrey Epstein
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
point: what will you do when your fave is revealed to be a friend to Jeffrey Epstein
counterpoint: I do not have faves who are friends with Jeffrey Epstein
counterpoint: I do not have faves who are friends with Jeffrey Epstein
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We should get serious about sanctions. Russian missiles that kill Ukrainian civilians contain parts made in the West. And this repeated mass murder of civilians by Moscow should bring total boycotts on Russian gas and oil. And the Ukrainians should get everything they need to defend themselves
16 people were killed and 49 injured after russia’s strike on Ternopil. Missiles and drones hit 2 residential buildings and damaged an industrial facility. Rescue workers are still clearing the rubble. u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We should get serious about sanctions. Russian missiles that kill Ukrainian civilians contain parts made in the West. And this repeated mass murder of civilians by Moscow should bring total boycotts on Russian gas and oil. And the Ukrainians should get everything they need to defend themselves