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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 1h

My 2 cents -

They will not get a conviction here.

He called 911. The fire department did NOT put fire properly (it rekindled 2 days later).

This is not a good case.

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Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 1h

Never met an illegal immigrant from Mexico names "Rinderknecht" before.

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Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 1h

Update.

He came back and did the work. I think he just needed to go to his truck and take a shot of courage.

a man wearing a pink shirt that says wicked on it

ALT: a man wearing a pink shirt that says wicked on it

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 2h

Gardner just came into the backyard with his mower running. Looked at the grass, turned the mower off and walked out.

Should I be worried?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h

Blonde Ambition

B-List bimbo Bondi flaunts her faith like she's the Madonna, but she's on the borderline of total fraud when she says there aren't pics of Trump and Epstein on La Isla Bonita with a girl who looks like a virgin. Release the Epstein material, girl!

by Maureen Dowd

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 2h

And to own the libs...

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 2h

@bradmossesq.bsky.social

This is going to be HILARIOUS

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 2h

"jimmy fallon wants to turn wordle into a tv show" I scream into the phone to the police before I blow up the bank.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2h

"jimmy fallon wants to turn wordle into a tv show" i mutter in the dark to nobody from my hospital bed

The Verge @theverge.com · 19h

Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show

Savannah Guthrie will host the show, which NBC is piloting.

buff.ly

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 2h

a man with a beard and glasses is holding his chest and saying `` i 'm in my prime ! ''

ALT: a man with a beard and glasses is holding his chest and saying `` i 'm in my prime ! ''

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 2h

Is that why there is a fork at the end of my arm? That thing was freaking me out.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17h

"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
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Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 3h

I am beginning to suspect this is not the best timeline.

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 3h

You know what IS illegal - shooting reporters.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3h

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 14h

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White House Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty | Best Quotes

YouTube video by incognito

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17h

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21h

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University drops bid to fire professor for Charlie Kirk post

Phillip Michael Hook wrote online that he did not “give a flying f***” about Kirk, whom he described as a “hate spreading Nazi.”

www.newsweek.com

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 17h

This is the Katie Porter I have heard about.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17h

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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