Leslie ❄️. Brown
@leslielkb.bsky.social
PhD, Curator, Photohistorian, Educator, and Scholar. Believer in wonder & kindness. Lover of art, music, history, science, rocks, weather, & tiny things.
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Whenever I see Gwen Stefani popping back up on socials.
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Whenever I see Gwen Stefani popping back up on socials.
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At least in Rittenhouse’s case, he ended up broke teaching classes on gun safety for $50 an hr. Conservative consultants and lawyers milked him dry, then he fled to Florida. Many such cases.
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
At least in Rittenhouse’s case, he ended up broke teaching classes on gun safety for $50 an hr. Conservative consultants and lawyers milked him dry, then he fled to Florida. Many such cases.
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Everything is getting stupider
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Everything is getting stupider
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you will be visited by 3 spirits
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
you will be visited by 3 spirits
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My son had a milk allergy so severe that it caused pseudo-seizures. He drank "medical food" for the first year of his life. It cost us $700 per month. He would have starved without it.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
My son had a milk allergy so severe that it caused pseudo-seizures. He drank "medical food" for the first year of his life. It cost us $700 per month. He would have starved without it.
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Look, the shingles vax does kinda suck.
You know what is like 10,000 times worse? Shingles.
You know what is like 10,000 times worse? Shingles.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Look, the shingles vax does kinda suck.
You know what is like 10,000 times worse? Shingles.
You know what is like 10,000 times worse? Shingles.
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Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
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Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
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Unfortunately not surprised. The hatred of immigrants (esp brown and Black folks) allows people to be ok with acting like the worst monsters.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Unfortunately not surprised. The hatred of immigrants (esp brown and Black folks) allows people to be ok with acting like the worst monsters.
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During today's oral argument, the Trump admin and the Court’s conservatives treated agencies as some kind of headless, out-of-control fourth branch of government, accountable to no one
But the real problem isn't about a lack of reins
It's about who holds them
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
But the real problem isn't about a lack of reins
It's about who holds them
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
The Supreme Court Wants You to Believe Congress Does Not Exist
The conservative justices aren’t concerned about unaccountable federal agency heads. They are concerned about federal agency heads who aren’t accountable to their favorite president.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
During today's oral argument, the Trump admin and the Court’s conservatives treated agencies as some kind of headless, out-of-control fourth branch of government, accountable to no one
But the real problem isn't about a lack of reins
It's about who holds them
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
But the real problem isn't about a lack of reins
It's about who holds them
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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JUST IN: Trump personally asserts executive privilege to protect 4K+ documents/messages from discovery in J6 civil suit. Court given very bare bones list. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... As first reported by POLITICO last week w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
JUST IN: Trump personally asserts executive privilege to protect 4K+ documents/messages from discovery in J6 civil suit. Court given very bare bones list. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... As first reported by POLITICO last week w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot.
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot.
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
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December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
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A society banning scholarship and creating government-mandated youth organizations
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A society banning scholarship and creating government-mandated youth organizations
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BREAKING: Chief Judge Denise Casper (D. Mass) grants Rümeysa Öztürk's preliminary injunction to adjust her SEVIS record in the government database so that she can do normal graduate student work like teach.
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
BREAKING: Chief Judge Denise Casper (D. Mass) grants Rümeysa Öztürk's preliminary injunction to adjust her SEVIS record in the government database so that she can do normal graduate student work like teach.
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The way student loans are meant to limit your options in general is truly unhinged. I have fully paid off the amount I took out twice and still owe more than I took out.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The way student loans are meant to limit your options in general is truly unhinged. I have fully paid off the amount I took out twice and still owe more than I took out.
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DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight.
ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight.
ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
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The midterms ads write themselves
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The midterms ads write themselves
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I guess the Administration is going to try not to release the full video.
Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.”
Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.”
Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”
Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.”
Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I guess the Administration is going to try not to release the full video.
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Has there ever been a better use case for this?
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Has there ever been a better use case for this?
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The rest of the country has to bail out Trump voters again after he crushed them with his policies. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Trump: We are going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. Farmers like me based on voting trends. So we are going to use that money to provide $12 billion in economic assistance to American farmers. $12 billion is a lot of money
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The rest of the country has to bail out Trump voters again after he crushed them with his policies. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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Exclusive: ICE has developed a plan to arrest undocumented migrants who try to voluntarily leave the U.S. via the Mexico border, so they can face formal removal.
Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers.
It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye."
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...
Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers.
It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye."
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...
ICE Has A Surprising New Plan To Arrest People Already Leaving The U.S.
“Operation Irish Goodbye,” as it’s being called, could be aimed at boosting numbers for Trump’s much-hyped deportation campaign.
www.huffpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Exclusive: ICE has developed a plan to arrest undocumented migrants who try to voluntarily leave the U.S. via the Mexico border, so they can face formal removal.
Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers.
It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye."
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...
Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers.
It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye."
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...
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Wins 2025 hands down
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Wins 2025 hands down
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When Democrats get back in power, they need to use these new SCOTUS-endowed superpowers to go scorched earth.
Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Expand Presidential Power
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
When Democrats get back in power, they need to use these new SCOTUS-endowed superpowers to go scorched earth.