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Jeff Browne

@jayschool.bsky.social

Journalist and educator currently serving time as a senior lecturer in communication/journalism at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Maryland. All views my own. Banner image: Mark Gunn, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

created November 12, 2024

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"These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."

1/9/2025, 11:22:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ironically, a diet of all brains leaves him curiously devoid of intelligent thought. Zombie, indeed.

1/9/2025, 4:56:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Leeches. Lots of leeches.

30/8/2025, 11:56:02 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/video/cdc-st...

28/8/2025, 10:10:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No need to be so hard on Joni. She's suffering from a dual diagnosis of dipshittery and asshattery.

27/8/2025, 10:44:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Similar experience in Boone, North Carolina in 2017, but without the obvious racial slurs. More along the lines of "Well, you COULD live in this neighborhood, but most people choose not to."

27/8/2025, 10:41:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, if you're gonna raise a fuss and you're gonna raise a holler, that might help.

24/8/2025, 7:08:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Steven's use of pronouns in the last sentence left open to interpretation who was ignoring the criminality of whom.

16/8/2025, 4:40:19 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TLDR: science isn’t science

12/8/2025, 3:39:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We'll get a sack of potatoes in return. A HUGE sack, of course.

9/8/2025, 7:06:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🧠 Babe (@lakeinla.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Welcome to the Heritage Foundation's Christian Nationalist America, co-sponsored by the Federalist Society and Palantir Technologies, hosted by reality TV's Donald Trump.

9/8/2025, 4:01:29 AM | 232 42 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fire Zillow immediately

8/8/2025, 1:00:44 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Or like Sinclair Media in Baltimore convincing rural Marylanders and out-of-staters to be very scared of the city.

5/8/2025, 1:31:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm pretty sure she'll have to use rented golf clubs, though. The indignity!

4/8/2025, 1:23:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

"Mr. President, sir. As a convicted criminal and adjudicated rapist, does that give you special insight into Ms. Maxwell's plight?"

1/8/2025, 8:15:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sadly, ICE is hiring. It's part of the plan. Desperate people taking whatever jobs are available.

1/8/2025, 2:24:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/8/2025, 2:22:58 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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He can park his gold-plated airplane in there.

31/7/2025, 10:15:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nobody needs to dress that nicely at the county courthouse.

27/7/2025, 4:29:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If only there had been a politician who warned us about this inconvenient truth. That person would easily have been elected after being hailed as a visionary by the public across the political spectrum, right?

20/7/2025, 8:15:15 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Barbie's face has less plastic injected into it.

18/7/2025, 10:46:12 PM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's skin color AND last name. Maybe throw in a "woke" belief or two, and it's MAGA bingo.

18/7/2025, 10:45:30 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's still performing that rectal exam on the Lard of Mierda Loca. We'll let you know when he emerges.

18/7/2025, 10:13:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think we found some "waist," fraud and abuse finally.

15/7/2025, 8:12:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, so maybe a bunch of rich white men in 1787 couldn't foresee the type of killing machinery we have today. Radical thought, but you just might be right!

12/7/2025, 3:16:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The primary purpose of the Second Amendment is for late 18th century farmers to grab their muskets, join up with a bunch of other farmers in local militias, and fire an occasionally lethal round of buckshot when King George or any of his progeny muster troops at the Canadian border and invade.

12/7/2025, 2:50:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But they got to keep their gas stoves, right? Worth it!

12/7/2025, 1:58:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No. No. Yes.

7/7/2025, 1:00:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

So not red and not blue. Musl’s White Party? That tracks.

6/7/2025, 9:29:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why?

4/7/2025, 9:35:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Kerr County 2024 presidential election count: 1. Donald Trump (Fascist-Florida) 76.73% (21,615) 2. Kamala Harris (Democrat-California) 22.42% (6,315) 3. E'erbody Else (Loons-Everywhere) 0.85 (240)

4/7/2025, 9:21:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep.

27/6/2025, 9:55:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bernie must also remember the USS Maine and the Spanish-American war.

22/6/2025, 6:30:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bonus: No eggs were damaged by the bombs.

22/6/2025, 1:22:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’ll be a great spot for fake funds and Krugerrands.

20/6/2025, 3:01:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gulf of Tonkin on the line, as is the USS Maine. It’s what we do.

19/6/2025, 11:45:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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See "Nixon, Dick."

19/6/2025, 4:31:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I lost a cousin who was stationed in Iraq. That's how stupid it was.

19/6/2025, 12:18:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ex-hooker as First Lady tracks.

13/6/2025, 7:23:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep. Definitely could be. Yep.

13/6/2025, 12:26:10 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the canary in the coal mine.

9/6/2025, 8:52:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The shocking this is, after his 10 years in the political arena, anyone believes a word out of his festering gob. I fear this country is lost to the fascist idiots and sociopaths.

9/6/2025, 8:46:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not just drab, but olive drab.

9/6/2025, 1:44:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MAGA is nihilism.

8/6/2025, 6:21:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Great question

7/6/2025, 6:45:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She has privilege to make claims of lawlessness even if they don’t hold up in court. She can be sanctioned for meritless prosecution.

7/6/2025, 5:47:00 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

"And BYOMask."

7/6/2025, 11:09:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Both now carry the same meaning.

7/6/2025, 11:08:45 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.propublica.org/article/trum...

6/6/2025, 12:16:22 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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So just one big, beautiful ball now?

6/6/2025, 12:02:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That post was “frot” with subtext.

6/6/2025, 12:55:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A comma away from perfection.

1/6/2025, 9:07:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The last dregs of his blighted soul, trying to escape.

30/5/2025, 11:21:10 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They break the law. It's what they do.

29/5/2025, 1:27:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surely the American public is well-informed enough to ferret out this weasel's bullsh ... oh, right. Never mind.

27/5/2025, 4:48:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm reminded of when golfers constantly refer to making "golf shots."

27/5/2025, 11:56:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/5/2025, 1:47:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We’re thinking Henry VIII

22/5/2025, 6:12:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next on ABC, "Monday Night Rehabilitation" starring President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho.

16/5/2025, 5:44:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Idaho or Iowa would be about white.

12/5/2025, 9:07:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lemme guess: they're headed for northern Idaho, maybe Iowa.

12/5/2025, 9:06:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Wingers don't need fact-based reporting or intelligence. They know in their gut who needs to be prosecuted.

10/5/2025, 5:33:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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9/5/2025, 9:08:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This "dog" needs to spend some time in the pound.

9/5/2025, 12:24:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because it's not truth without a little "plus."

7/5/2025, 10:50:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

So this would be the 1,000th this-should-be-the-end-of-a-political-career moment for a normal human being. Sociopaths and criminals apparently have an infinitely high wall to breach before any Republican notices.

4/5/2025, 4:00:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Lander (@paullander.bsky.social) reposted

US added 177,000 in April, but most of those went to Marco Rubio.

2/5/2025, 2:03:02 PM | 283 48 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

The cable company said he'd be here between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tick-tock, Marco.

2/5/2025, 4:55:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/4/2025, 9:23:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

30/4/2025, 2:19:07 PM | 54274 9942 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Those liver spots aren't going to cover themselves, people.

23/4/2025, 10:35:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Worst reality show ever.

23/4/2025, 10:33:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Here's a great NFL mock draft by Stevenson student Jimmy Rudolph: stevensonvillager.com/34616/uncate...

23/4/2025, 5:33:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I will text the deets.

22/4/2025, 11:00:13 AM | 67 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Dow is down nearly 6,000 points since Jan. 20. That's more than 15 percent.
21/4/2025, 5:41:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Batshit Signalgate

20/4/2025, 10:07:59 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not likely.

Weather in Nazareth, PA is cloudy and 54 degrees
20/4/2025, 12:29:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) reposted

A draft of an executive order to gut the State Department includes eliminating Africa operations, ending the foreign service exam and closing offices that focus on climate change, democracy and human rights. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html?unlocke

20/4/2025, 12:14:18 PM | 45 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Elwood and Jake definitely hated Nazis.

20/4/2025, 12:39:43 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Right? Assuming a living annual wage starts at around $50K these days, the boss could make as much as $1 million a year.

19/4/2025, 4:34:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Or more than 5,600 hours per week. Dude's a workhorse, no doubt, but also a time bender.

19/4/2025, 4:33:10 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nina Turner (@ninaturner.bsky.social) reposted

In fiscal year 2024, Target CEO Brian Cornell received total compensation of $19,203,353. This included a base salary of $1.4 million, $14.7 million in stock awards, and $3.1 million in other compensation. This compensation was 719 times the median employee pay of $26,696.

19/4/2025, 3:03:46 PM | 468 105 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

"Well, and chug some horse wormer, just in case."

18/4/2025, 8:17:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We're all tied up. Literally.

18/4/2025, 8:15:16 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She really good at doo-doo process. Not so much with due process or the Constitution.

16/4/2025, 11:17:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

NOTE: There are more people *in this frame of television* than there are transgender athletes in the State of Maine *All* of this is theater for stupid people

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Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

We made need a few.

16/4/2025, 4:21:41 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Peabody stands with Ukraine (@peabodya.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

You do realize this is where Trump is taking us, right? Let’s support the truth tellers among American journalists. Without them, we really have no country anymore www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

16/4/2025, 1:43:38 PM | 59 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, the whole "clean conscience" thing is vastly underrated in today's America.

15/4/2025, 9:27:11 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

Kennedy should just get it tattooed on his forehead: "I think the president's right." Then he'll never have to think again.

15/4/2025, 9:14:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What has the demented, criminal dictator decreed today?

14/4/2025, 1:45:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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13/4/2025, 11:11:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty sure they changed "all thy sons" to "all of us" in the lyrics, but well done.

13/4/2025, 1:15:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

12/4/2025, 4:39:47 PM | 20357 4227 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social) reply parent

So this one syphilis-addled sociopath gets to decide everything, everywhere for everybody all the time? Got it.

12/4/2025, 4:28:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones.bsky.social) reposted

Journalists: you cannot deport U.S. citizens out of their own country. Do not simply regurgitate the words of the administration if those words are inaccurate. To do so is spreading disinformation. Deportation, according to the govt itself, is for people with no legal right to be here.

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Profile picture Jeff Browne (@jayschool.bsky.social)

A great story by Stevenson student Daniel Mihm. Your feel-good news for today. stevensonvillager.com/34361/featur...

9/4/2025, 11:21:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm just excited to hear about deals on bedding!

9/4/2025, 10:48:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BeijingPalmer (@beijingpalmer.bsky.social) reposted

Americans voted against the most successful economic recovery of any nation on the planet for this, because they were mad at their servants being paid more and listened to liars who made them feel good.

9/4/2025, 4:52:25 AM | 7166 1424 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones.bsky.social) reposted

“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

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