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Old trans lesbian, mom & grandma, artist (digital and pen/ink), sidekick to Captain Cookies (aka my bloodhound Jazz). Becoming Jewish 💙🤍💙✡️

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · Jan 8

The Bill of Rights was basically poppycock until the 1960s. When I was born, all of this was legal:

● Public school teachers could lead mandatory class prayers.

● Private employers could require employees to go to church.

● Both govt and private business could post jobs for Whites/Men Only.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 3h

Those look very woke. Especially the unicorn. No wonder the ICE goons are so terrified....

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 15h

I've never forgotten. It was the MOVE group. Philly cops and city government had a policy of brutality back then.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, the essay must have been from her book. I don't recall where I read it, though. Perhaps an excerpt online.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 15h

Perhaps? I'm not sure. I remember reading an essay, quite a while ago. Years.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 15h

I'm nowhere near that optimistic. Historically, autocracies don't collapse quickly.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 15h

Reminds me of that essay: The world loves dead Jews.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you! 🙏

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know how to find out if my account is labeled.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 16h

Also, it's the Spectator. Not the most reliable news source....

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 17h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 16h

And they're demanding to be included in future government. Or they won't release the hostages.

So they're still terrorists. Today. Now.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sorry.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 17h

What they really mean: Israel should just go away.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 17h

Does it include people who haven't posted anything in a week?

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 17h

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 17h

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 17h

He'll never be POTUS.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 17h

Southern Baptists are ... well ... don't let your kids near a youth pastor. Just saying.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

Two years after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, let us pray for the return of all the remaining hostages, for all of the Israeli and Palestinian lives lost, and for a lasting end to the war.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 17h

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation.

Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation.

Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

Excerpt of Supreme Court transcript in Chiles v. Salazar:

JUSTICE JACKSON: No, but here's what
I mean, right? In Skrmetti, we had a state
that wanted to prohibit certain medical
treatment, gender-affirming care, being given
to minors in the form of medication.
And we said that was okay. And I
understand there are particulars with respect
to how the -- the arguments, the constitutional
arguments, worked, but the state can prohibit
that.

Here, we have a state that wants to
prohibit gender-related medical treatment in
the form of talk therapy, but we now have the
First Amendment that is inhibiting the state's
ability to do that.

And I'm just, from a very, very broad
perspective, concerned about making sure that
we have equivalence with respect to these
things.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of us have a lot that we haven't fully unpacked. It's an ongoing challenge across the trans community.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 18h

See, I don't want to write my anger. I feel like I'd just be marinating in it. I need to find my Something Else but it keeps slipping out of reach.

Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 19h

Serious question: How?

I usually write and draw silly, goofy stories that twist 'serious' things out of skew. I can't find that part of me with everything that's happening.

How do you do it?

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 19h

Like warning the battered woman about Making Him Mad....

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19h

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot

Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.