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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I get “carried away” and I have to delete a self-indulgent footnote. He gets carried away and 700,000 people die in the Global South from his USAID cuts. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk says he got ‘carried away’ with Trump – but still holds on to contentious political views
In interview, billionaire says instead of running ‘Doge’ he should’ve ‘worked on my companies’ and shares extreme predictions
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Marco Rubio has exposed the internatioanl communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids! 🇨🇺 🇨🇺 🇨🇺 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...
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After "Political Terrorism" Event, U.S. Names 43 Americans + Groups
Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker + orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Stephen Miller got so shrill at the end of his speech today, I almost thought he was going to say the 14 Words out loud.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Local police implementation of NSPM-7 is farcical. “Antifa” warning signs include “use of public transportation” & “soliciting legal defense donations” via public platforms. Lordy, they’re using the subway & Zelle! Next they’ll be applying for home loans & FSAs! theintercept.com/2026/07/07/a...
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How Local Cops Are Running With Trump's NSPM-7 Attacks on Antifa
Local police accused the same legal assistance group targeted by Joseph McCarthy of being part of a vast antifa conspiracy.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
NSPM-7 in implementation. 30-100 years for Texas “Antifa” protesters. Who’s next? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
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What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing
And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."
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Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com · 24/04/2026
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Cobb grand jury indicts 3 over 2022 Stop Cop City protest
A Cobb County grand jury indicted three people for alleged arson and property damage stemming from a 2022 Stop Cop City protest.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Remembering Tortuguita today on what would have been their 30th birthday. #stopcopcity
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
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U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
When I was a kid, my family had a bomb scare at our home — a mysterious package containing some black cubes. My dad worked at an engineering school and my mom worried the package might have come from the Unabomber 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/r...
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A Visit to the Unabomber Cabin, 30 Years After the Arrest
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Time to manage those forests like the problem they are! www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Federalizing the elections, here we go… www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...
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Trump Signs Order Seeking Federal Control of Mail Voting as He Promotes False Claims
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Death panels are real. In Florida. For HIV meds. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
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States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We have First Amendment rights and Second Amendment rights, but if we exercise both at the same time, DHS claims the right to kill us.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Three years ago, police shot and killed my friend at the #StopCopCity protest camp in Atlanta. There’s no justice for a life stolen. But it’s important to think about what would stop future police (and ICE) murders from happening. Why not start by disarming them all?
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It’s possible to say that the US has always been an exceedingly violent and racist country — and things have reached a local maximum requiring a society-wide mobilization to push back. The country’s history should be a reason to get off the couch, not stay on it.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/01/2026
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
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Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I’m just being told that hell is running out of cold places and those requesting entry are being asked to prove eligibility by displaying government credentials.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“I was afraid for my life” never gets the victim off the hook, but it always gets the cop off the hook.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
What do you tell IR students right now? What are your takeaways, beyond “You’re living in a rapidly consolidating authoritarian state that can’t be constrained by laws?” What do you say to students in the armed services, who are likely to get illegal orders sooner or later?
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Good news! Georgia judge officially dismisses RICO Conspiracy charges against 61 Stop Cop City defendants. atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/31/f...
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Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Failed to Obtain Constitutional Authority from Governor Brian Kemp to File Sweeping RICO Conspiracy Indictment More than three months after a pretrial hearing in th...
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
To facilitate their arrests and deportations, ICE (and apparently the FBI) are drinking deeply from a data well dug by “scientific racists” and anti-left crusaders. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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This Day in History – Dec. 26, 1862: 38 Dakota Men Executed by Order of Abraham Lincoln
This Day in History: Dec. 26, 1862 — Most commonly revered as the United States president who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln is known for something different in Indian Country. On this day 163 year...
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
When will Georgia prosecutors stop holding their failed RICO case over the heads of 61 Stop Cop City activists? It’s been two years. No trials, no convictions. How many more years do the RICO 61 have to wait to get their lives back? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘An air of repression’: Cop City case hangs over heads of 61 defendants
US government continues holding on to massive amounts of seized personal property, from diaries to cellphones
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
ICE couldn’t even buy American for its liberty-destroying tank purchase
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
ICE (aka Miller & Noem) has a boatload of new surveillance and hacking tools and it’s coming after anyone who calls ICE (aka Miller & Noem) nasty names www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Harder they Come soundtrack was on the record player more than any other album when I was growing up. Thanks for all the great music, Jimmy Cliff.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
How do I make regime theory exciting for IR undergraduates? Apparently it’s not by explaining the Coase Theorem in detail.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Yesterday I was teaching my usual unit on state terrorism in a class I have offered since 2015. I asked students for some examples of state terrorism and they immediately pivoted to ICE. They came up with it on their own and it’s all they wanted to talk about.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
It is happening here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest
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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"The majority of them failed to meet ICE’s physical or academic standards, according to the data."
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This seems ominous, since “international terrorism” supposedly includes Antifa, and Antifa is anyone from your local rioter to George Soros to ActBlue. I’m sure Big Orange would love to send Army counterintelligence after them all… www.armytimes.com/news/your-ar...
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Army counterintelligence agents to get enhanced arrest powers
Civilian special agents will receive enhanced authorities to conduct searches, execute warrants and make arrests outside of military bases.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
From my UMass Boston colleague, Steve Striffler. www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...
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How Trump got his Nobel Peace Prize after all
The Nobel given to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado was really a prize for Donald Trump.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A whimsical, definitely-not-fascist Hitler love-fest in the Young Republicans’ private chats www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
On the one hand, it’s unhinged fascist cosplay. On the other hand, he’s communicating to his masked shock troops that the gloves are off and they can do whatever they want. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVC_...
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on task force in Memphis
YouTube video by WREG News Channel 3
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Medals for massacring Indigenous babies. There’s your Friday headline. www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...
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Pete Hegseth Letting Wounded Knee Soldiers Keep Medals Sparks Fury
Secretary Hegseth has said American soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor after the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre will keep their medals.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Could there have been a worse pick for HHS secretary?
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This is what the ICE surge in Massachusetts looks like. Masked agents holding a 5 year old autistic girl hostage until her father surrenders to them. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says
The girl's father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife.
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Richard, Democratic activist, ❌👑 @resist4747.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Violent far-right extremist have been responsible for 94 of the 108 terrorism fatalities (87 percent) in the United States in the past five years. This included 2022, when 18 of the 19 fatalities occurred during far-right terrorist attacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
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Opinion | ‘We Will Do It in Charlie’s Name’
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15/09/2025
RFKJ intentionally creates doubt, weaponizes the public’s scientific ignorance, and pushes a false balance between fringe ideas and scientific consensus. His fake skepticism encourages harm against children while saying he’s protecting them. It would be malpractice if he were actually a doctor.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
⁦‪I spoke with @onofftherecord.bsky.social ‬⁩ about the collapse of the Stop Cop City RICO prosecution. Georgia politicians had a legitimacy problem & tried to fix it by indicting their critics. The problem is, even to abuse the law, you have to read it first. They didn’t.
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Georgia AG Chris Carr has failed in biggest attempt ever to use RICO ag't a protest mvt. Why, and what does it mean? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @micahh.bsky.social @dnbrgr.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social @stopcopcity.bsky.social
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Prosecutors’ ‘Cop City’ case collapses as judge tosses Rico conspiracy charges
Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure
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Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com · 10/09/2025
We are live with today's Cop City RICO motions hearings, where Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kevin Farmer is expected to dismiss counts one and three of the indictment.
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Cop City RICO Motions Hearing | Wednesday, Sep. 9
YouTube video by Atlanta Community Press Collective
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Good news! A judge has thrown out most of the Cop City RICO indictment! Georgia’s AG lacked authority to bring Counts 1 & 3, accounting for most of the defendants. The state will appeal & a subset of defendants still face terrorism charges, but this win is something to celebrate.
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josephmbrown.bsky.social @josephmbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The Secretary of Health and Human Services says he doesn’t know how Americans have died from COVID.
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