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Hal M. Brown

@halmbrown.bsky.social

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I'm a retired psychotherapist writing a free daily political Substack at https://halbrown.substack.com also at https://www.halbrown.org - I appreciate all Blueskyers who check it out.

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Today, again reporting from Portland: halbrown.substack.com/p/the-lying-...

The lying flaming faked Oregon GOP post on X led me to take a stroll down their page. I'm posting some of what I found here. By Hal M. Brown

This was reported in The Guardian:

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Today, again reporting from Portland: halbrown.substack.com/p/the-lying-...

The lying flaming faked Oregon GOP post on X led me to take a stroll down their page. I'm posting some of what I found here. By Hal M. Brown

This was reported in The Guardian:

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 22h

Today a break from writing about my city of Portland: halbrown.substack.com/p/todays-pol...

Today's political show is Pam Bondi and I give her performance a rave review, By Hal M. Brown

There are two basic defintions of the word honorable.

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 1d

From my town: The marathon route passed by the ICE facility in South Portland, which has been the site of frequent protests in recent months and especially in the past week, but a news crew drove by that section of the race on Sunday and didn't see any disturbances. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyr...

Portland city councilors cheer on marathon runners near ICE facility

YouTube video by The Oregonian

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Another once revered news organization bites the dust: www.salon.com/2025/10/06/f...

From Dan Rather to — Bari Weiss? How far CBS News has fallen

The Tiffany Network has become a battlefield in the billionaires' war on journalism

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Today, another Portland report: halbrown.substack.com/p/who-are-th...

Who are these Trump thugs aiming their sniper rifles at? They are aiming them at us. By Hal M. Brown

Of the 11 photos in this Portland TV station, WKOIN, website article…

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Here's where radio host Thom Hartmann lives and works. I live even closer at 16 minutes away from Portland's ICE headquaters.

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

WTF: On top the the Portland ICE building

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

This is how close we live to the ICE building:

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Today from Portland: halbrown.substack.com/p/go-beyond-...

Go beyond keeping protests peaceful, Portland, pretend ICE headquarters is invisible. By Portland resident Hal M. Brown

If anything leave them our famous Voodoo Doughnuts.

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Today I send greetings from Portland which may be invaded by the 82nd Airborne. Read: halbrown.substack.com/p/that-anyon...

That anyone would even think of sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland should send chills of terror down the spines of all democracy loving Americans, By Hal M. Brown

The foreground above is from Spartan Military Prints and the background is from a tourist website showing a typical Portland street screen with a colorfully painted building like many others in the do...

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Today: halbrown.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...

Trump is the Baby Balloon enabled, unleashed, and unrestrained, By Hal M. Brown

The skin is the largest human organ.

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Trump says US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean in first armed conflict where one side isn't shooting back: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Trump says US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict,” according to a Trump administration memo obtained ...

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Today: halbrown.substack.com/p/i-was-goin...

I was going to write about how the MAGA uproar and ICE threats about Bad Bunny and the Superbowl but then I saw Melania Trump's AI post on X, By Hal M. Brown

I looked at HUFFPOST this morning and saw the articles above about Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl.

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry this is late. I forgot to post it this morning: halbrown.substack.com/p/leave-it-t...

Leave it to my friend Sabrina Haake to write the best article about what Trump is doing to my city of Portland, By Hal M. Brown

This also led me to register on the local Sinclair station so I could post a link to her Substack there.

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 7d

I posted this on a Sinclair station website:

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Today: halbrown.substack.com/p/trump-i-lo...

Trump: "I love my signature, actually everybody loves my signature." By Hal M. Brown

In his address to the general and admirals Trump bragged about using the most expensive high quality paper with real gold on it for the documents promoting generals and admirals.

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Or not to be too disgusting (click to enlarge)

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Sabrina asked for a sh-t brown one.

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Sabrina Haake wrote "Who needs late nite when Trump lampoons himself?
Unpacking the buffoonery in his $15 billion dismissed vanity suit against NYT, just for fun" here: sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/who-needs-... AI showed me what Trump's lawsuits would look like if they were actual suits.

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Today: halbrown.substack.com/p/portland-t...

Portland threat is flower power: Time Magazine story photo shows just how dangerous Portland protestors are, by Hal M. Brown

I hope someone who knows this so far unidentified woman sees the article and lets her know about it because, while not as classic as the 1967 Flower Power photo (which has a Wikipedia page), it is sti...

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 11d

Today: halbrown.substack.com/p/losing-fre...

Losing freedoms one seagull at a time, by Hal M. Brown

I can’t describe the profound symbolism of birds any better than the following introduction to this webpage with three famous poems about birds and freedom:

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 13d

Today: halbrown.substack.com/p/the-many-f...

The many frequencies of violence, By Hal M. Brown, MSW

Whether it is the man who shot Charlie Kirk or the person who shot the people at the Dallas ICE facility we do not know with certainty their exact motives.

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 14d

Today: halbrown.substack.com/p/which-trum...

Which Trump personality will we get? Is getting the Nobel Peace Prize so important to Trump that he’d risk pissing off Putin? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

I read the following in RAWSTORY:

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Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 15d

Hal M. Brown @halmbrown.bsky.social · 16d

Trump brags about how he hates his enemies -

There are two kinds of psychopaths, those who ate "merely" criminals and those who are sadistic criminals.

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Sadistic personality disorder - Wikipedia

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