Nick Brown
@elbroon42.bsky.social
Here for history, politics and the vibes. Interests in the two World Wars and lots of other stuff. Still on X @elbrun42 for now.
Also a councillor on Blaby District Council and Braunstone Town Council, but here strictly in a personal capacity.
Also a councillor on Blaby District Council and Braunstone Town Council, but here strictly in a personal capacity.
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This is really crucial in understanding today's right wing: it is an arena in which you can get attention, and become famous, without any skill or insight or knowledge. All you have to do is say outrageous shit.
So it's become a collection bin for all these failed, flailing narcissists.
So it's become a collection bin for all these failed, flailing narcissists.
Learned from the Posting Through It podcast just how many MAGA-era influencers turned to politics after failing at more glamorous pursuits — theater, comedy, fashion, TV, movies, music. Knowles, if I’m not mistaken, had dreams of Broadway.
Michael Knowles and the other Daily Wire chuds play act at being celebrities because it’s the thing they actually crave
February 6, 2026 at 9:20 PM
This is really crucial in understanding today's right wing: it is an arena in which you can get attention, and become famous, without any skill or insight or knowledge. All you have to do is say outrageous shit.
So it's become a collection bin for all these failed, flailing narcissists.
So it's become a collection bin for all these failed, flailing narcissists.
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Watching Dr. Strangelove (1964) and as always I find Group Captain Mandrake by far the most interesting character because he lives up to and subverts national/class stereotypes.
February 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Watching Dr. Strangelove (1964) and as always I find Group Captain Mandrake by far the most interesting character because he lives up to and subverts national/class stereotypes.
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The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."
January 30, 2026 at 7:24 AM
The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."
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This is how states fall apart, particularly federations. It's been a risk ever since a large % of the American population defected to its own communities, news shows, social media, histories: insulated themselves inside a completely false reality. But the risk is definitely rising.
Walz: "It's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of our state, and today that campaigned claimed another life. I've seen the video from several angles and it's sickening. But I have a strong statement here for our federal govt: Minnesota's justice system will have the last word."
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is how states fall apart, particularly federations. It's been a risk ever since a large % of the American population defected to its own communities, news shows, social media, histories: insulated themselves inside a completely false reality. But the risk is definitely rising.
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This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:41 PM
This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.
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that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
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This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.
January 20, 2026 at 9:21 AM
This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.
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1/ Donald Trump isn't the first person to be given someone else's Nobel Prize medal. The last recipient of an unearned Nobel medal was none other than Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, at the instigation of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. ⬇️
January 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
1/ Donald Trump isn't the first person to be given someone else's Nobel Prize medal. The last recipient of an unearned Nobel medal was none other than Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, at the instigation of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. ⬇️
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Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.
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‘War for Greenland is boring, let’s talk about the Tories’ is genuinely the weirdest thing for a former ambassador *to Denmark* to say, apart from anything else
This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.
January 16, 2026 at 9:37 AM
‘War for Greenland is boring, let’s talk about the Tories’ is genuinely the weirdest thing for a former ambassador *to Denmark* to say, apart from anything else
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Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
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Renee Good had just dropped off her 6 year old child at school.
She would never be there to pick him up again because this unarmed woman, with stuffed toys in her glove compartment, was shot dead by ICE agents while trying to drive away.
She would never be there to pick him up again because this unarmed woman, with stuffed toys in her glove compartment, was shot dead by ICE agents while trying to drive away.
Noem: "What happened was our officers were out trying to get a car stuck out of the snow when they were surrounded and assaulted and blocked in by protesters ... this was an act of domestic terrorism" (It was 40 degrees in Minneapolis yesterday and snow was melting ... )
January 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Renee Good had just dropped off her 6 year old child at school.
She would never be there to pick him up again because this unarmed woman, with stuffed toys in her glove compartment, was shot dead by ICE agents while trying to drive away.
She would never be there to pick him up again because this unarmed woman, with stuffed toys in her glove compartment, was shot dead by ICE agents while trying to drive away.
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I am in the only person whose death could make Donald sad.
December 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I am in the only person whose death could make Donald sad.
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When TFG finally chokes on his last burger I do NOT want to hear a single normsplainin word about ooh you mustn’t say anything mean about him cos it wouldn’t be nice.
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
When TFG finally chokes on his last burger I do NOT want to hear a single normsplainin word about ooh you mustn’t say anything mean about him cos it wouldn’t be nice.
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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The "Rachel from accounts" thing is sexist, classist, misogyny, and anyone who uses it should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The "Rachel from accounts" thing is sexist, classist, misogyny, and anyone who uses it should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
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This is an excellent, depressing, analysis. Trump accuses Democrats of treason, yet he is the one colluding with Russia, selling out allies, betraying NATO, and surrendering US interests to the diktats of a foreign nation. Trump is a deeply corrupt, compromised, craven Quisling.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is an excellent, depressing, analysis. Trump accuses Democrats of treason, yet he is the one colluding with Russia, selling out allies, betraying NATO, and surrendering US interests to the diktats of a foreign nation. Trump is a deeply corrupt, compromised, craven Quisling.
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I see from a recent answer to a PQ that the UK has supplied 85,000 drones to Ukraine in the past six months. That is rather impressive - not least for it happening with little publicity. It's the right approach: do more, shout about it less.
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I see from a recent answer to a PQ that the UK has supplied 85,000 drones to Ukraine in the past six months. That is rather impressive - not least for it happening with little publicity. It's the right approach: do more, shout about it less.
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Well, we finally have an answer about what MAGA believes. It has one and only one philosophical position, and that is that Trump’s lies about having nothing to do with Epstein must be accepted unquestioningly. It’s the whole movement distilled.
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Well, we finally have an answer about what MAGA believes. It has one and only one philosophical position, and that is that Trump’s lies about having nothing to do with Epstein must be accepted unquestioningly. It’s the whole movement distilled.
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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
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This is genuinely funny coming from a guy whose entire life is an endless stream of bitching and moaning while he leads the party of divorced dads who are mad their families hate them
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is genuinely funny coming from a guy whose entire life is an endless stream of bitching and moaning while he leads the party of divorced dads who are mad their families hate them
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Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Presumably he insists it be applied this way over the quietly appalled objections of his make up team.
Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly.
Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.
Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly.
Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Presumably he insists it be applied this way over the quietly appalled objections of his make up team.
Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly.
Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.
Same way he ignores the advice of his tailor and has his suits cut so badly.
Only a rich powerful man could look this bad.