ABrown

I love gray skies and rain. And sitting quietly in the company of books and cats.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

Something to remind us …

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #WomensArt #PosterAndBannerWeek

[ABrown @adelbrown]

@jvmediadesign Hmm. I have an amazing old PowerBook that just keeps going … and runs Creative Suite 6.

Moving files from that gramma computer to a newer one can get tedious. And file management can become “interesting” at times.

But you’re right: no fees.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

🫢

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: For the first time in internet history, agentic traffic has surpassed human traffic online, per Cloudflare Radar.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

@DavidLaneDesign Would you be willing to tell me about how you choose which button should be the top buttoned button?

(Awkward sentence. Apologies.)

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

“It’s hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point.”

The CMS released its interim final rule on Medicaid work requirements, mandating that everyone who seeks Medicaid support has to prove they are unable to work to a greater extent, even if they are already on Medicaid. https://t.co/WSXfNnyCVG

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?

[ABrown @adelbrown]

Talk to people who remember their fathers, uncles, cousins and grandfathers with black lung.

Then see if you can with good conscience cheer “clean coal.”

(I remember. It was heartbreaking and horrifying.)

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Make Black Lung Great Again

[ABrown @adelbrown]

This. ⬇️

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Friendly reminder that Pride isn't about turning your straight kids into gay kids. It's about not turning gay kids into dead kids.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

Yes, please!

[Tatiana Walk-Morris @Tati_WM]

For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

Mitch who?!?!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🔥🚨 MAJOR JUST IN: The SAVE America Act Just Failed In The Senate.

The measure, which would have required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide, was rejected 48-50.

Republican senators Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins voted no.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

🫢

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Jeff Bezos is now worth about $260 billion.
You want to know how he did it? He skipped 43.33 billion lattes. It's that easy.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

This is shocking. No one suspected a thing.

/s

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[ABrown @adelbrown]

🥁

[mariana Z @mariana057]

Physician: Your body has ran out of magnesium.

Me: 0mg

[ABrown @adelbrown]

Do it, Seattle!

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Seattle poised to ban new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium
https://t.co/uUBo8aQMNm

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Met a young person who can't find a job bc of AI. His mom is sick and needs home care. He drives Uber to pay rent, but is barely getting by. I told him the White House pool is going to be longer than skyscrapers and he burst out crying. "Thank you sir," he said, "I needed that."

[ABrown @adelbrown]

🩵🩵🩵

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

We really can take care of each other. Compassion. kindness, a conscience.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A program giving cash assistance to pregnant women in Flint, Michigan, was found to lower the rate of premature births, according to a study by The Lancet.

The program gave women $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 a month for a baby’s first year, and is expanding to 42 cities.

[ABrown @adelbrown]

Their “Christian” priorities.

[ProPublica @propublica]

The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
https://t.co/F92hGp0SSO

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Reminder: Long COVID's disability & suffering will be the pandemic's most devastating long-term global legacy. Neither GBD supporters nor critics anticipated its scale or included it in their policy calculus -and “let er rip” strategies prioritizing widespread exposure clearly worsen the toll. Millions affected, with real costs in lives and productivity (on top of 20 million direct deaths globally, which we should never forget or minimize). https://t.co/I48h2XxxfS

[ABrown @adelbrown]

And now I know …

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

A herring is a fish.

When a herring is preserved by salting and smoking, it turns red and smells.

It's so pungent that it's a great diversion to distract hunting dogs from their trail.

Now, a ‘red herring’ refers to anything that diverts attention from the issue at hand.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Isn’t it hypocritical to take a few Bible verses on sexuality and demand they be legislated over an entire country, while reducing over 2000 verses about wealth, care for the poor, the disabled, the vulnerable, and refugees to a private personal choice?