Leslie ❄️. Brown
PhD, Curator, Photohistorian, Educator, and Scholar. Believer in wonder & kindness. Lover of art, music, history, science, rocks, weather, & tiny things.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThis is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court. And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...
- BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings It's a 2-1 ruling Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump) Minority: Douglas (Obama) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownExcellent. But they’ll keep trying because they need to crush any signs of successful opposition.
- Breaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownTrump posted more than 60 times on Truth Social last night, but he handed his phone to an “unknown staffer” when the video depicting the Obamas as apes was posted? GTFOH
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownI think it is notable that Jeffries is taking this sort of tone when they're currently engaged in a staredown with the house and senate GOP. Tells you that they think they have pretty much all the power in the current negotiations imho
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownI don't know what happens next, but Liam and his family are not being deported today.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThe US is traumatizing thousands of kids in detention camps. But we are also traumatizing *millions* of kids who are in hiding or fear their parents being snatched. Like how we have tens of thousands of kids who have survived school shootings, and a whole generation shaped by active shooter drills.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownEvery time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownA White House meeting around the upcoming National Governors Association weekend will only include Republicans — a break from its bipartisan past. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownHe looks like a vampiric gerbil.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownFirst 60 Minutes, now the Olympics. How soon before Canada sets up Radio Free America?
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- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownAll of this. And if you think that post was NBD, or you're just inured to it at this point, you're showing us who you are.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownJ.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it. “There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownI’ll be interested in seeing how quickly Olympics clips get taken down for copyright on Bluesky this year. They’re getting nuked pretty fast over on the MechaHitler app.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownTHEM: Musicians should stay out of politics JACK WHITE:
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownGood. Fuck Donald Trump. I'll say it again: Fuck Donald Trump. Now let's actually meet this moment, Hakeem. (And talk to Schumer while you're at it.)
- Here is the video of Hakeem Jeffries saying "fuck Donald Trump" for posting that racist video of the Obamas. (originally from his official Instagram account) www.instagram.com/reel/DUbeoy5...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownHe’s so happy!!
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownI take three prescription drugs regularly and was curious about what Trump RX would say
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- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownBREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThe Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownI sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownBBC here in Scotland showed the US team arrive to huge cheers and then cut to JDV and the whole stadium boos.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownJD Vance was just ruthlessly booed at the Olympics during the Opening Ceremony when he was shown on the screen. But you would never know by watching the broadcast on NBC.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. Brownmaybe it will happen during the State of the Union
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. Brownthe man who owns Palantir, a key contractor to the US intelligence community. Under US law, Thiel, as a holder of high level security clearances, was required to report this contact to USG. It does not appear he did so.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThis is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownFor those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. Brownjoe biden would get the names of foreign heads of state mixed up when talking extemporaneously - and angrily - and it would be a 4 day news cycle. trump wants to rename everything after himself, claims the polls are a hoax, is launching wars of aggression with little explanation: dog bites man
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. Brownwow too much for tim scott is saying something
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- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownMore than 40K people submitted comments. By OPM's own count, 94% of commenters opposed the new rule. Never mind, they say the objectors simply “misunderstand the law.” They understand it all too well. It is the administration that is lying about the law, and how they are operating.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownCf. the defining rallying cry of the Right during the Obama administration. [Goose chasing the dude meme]: "Back from what? Back from WHAT??" werehistory.org/i-want-my-co...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownMoreover, in 2012 more than 50%--MORE THAN HALF--of registered Republicans expressed doubt over Obama's birthplace. That combo of racism, xenophobia, & conspiracy theories was the defining unifying feature of the GOP as early as 2012, & ain't changed. americanstudier.blogspot.com/2012/11/nove...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThere are countless problems with our inability to remember anything for very long these days, but high on the list is this: Donald Trump became a national political figure for the first time as the face & voice of Birtherism. That was all he was in 2011-12, & it made his national political career.
- Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownEvery American needs to watch this:
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownIt’s precisely BECAUSE we cannot know what’s in another person’s heart that we cannot use that as the standard to judge their behavior. Intent truly only matters if it’s the difference between “I didn’t mean to offend AND AM FIXING IT NOW because I did” and “I am indifferent at best to my offense.”
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThese children have been held in punitive detention since June. Their father committed a hate crime, so, in retaliation, the US government is subjecting the children to medical neglect, starvation, and psychological torture.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownHistorian here President Abraham Lincoln opposed the Mexican War as a land grab for slavery when he was a first term Congressman from Illinois.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownDozens of articles yesterday reported on Trump's rambling, profane remarks at National Prayer Breakfast. But I was only 1 to cover the more dangerous #ChristianNationalist remarks by Pete Hegseth: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-nationa...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. Brown"When he said those words, it is not clear whether his brain was aware of what he was doing or if his mind was far away in a starless lightless void of enlightenment"
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThis is — arguably — a bigger journalistic scandal than Bari pulling the 60 Minutes CECOT report.
- Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...
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- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownBREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org is filing an OIG complaint after DOJ illegally withheld records from AG Pam Bondi, DAG Todd Blanche & other leaders discussing the Epstein files @axios.com: "DOJ omitted communication from Bondi, Patel in Epstein files, watchdog says"
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThis chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownLove how the presumption here is that the President doesn't know what he's sharing and that's fine and normal. Sorry, no, if the President doesn't know what he's sending out then that is indisputable proof of gross incompetence, cognitive unfitness, or both.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownThere's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownAnnoyingly, this doesn’t specify what exactly is happening. But it sure seems like DHS filed a “motion to pretermit” the asylum application. Which it is doing in countless cases around the country. There’s been a little reporting on this; there needs to be a bunch more. I’m working a piece myself.
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownWarehouses are not fit for human habitation. These will violate all sorts of health codes and human rights.
- The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
- Reposted by Leslie ❄️. BrownYou have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.
