Nathan Brown

@natebrown.bsky.social

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Assistant city editor, Santa Fe New Mexican. Politics reporter in Arizona and Idaho before that. Laconophobe. Every calculation based on experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico.

A thread on X where someone calls Obama the throat goat because of how he’s eating a hot dog and a Trump supporter says “Trump could throat more than him any day.”
Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl halftime show: “Hey Drake …”
A man with a beard and red hair wearing a shirt with a detailed map of Greece on it.
A map showing driving directions from Troy NY to Carthage NY to Utica NY.
A BlueSky list. “Dirty Leeds. Bio indicates that they’re a Leeds fan.”
Hank Schroeder reading on Walt’s toilet as he realizes Walt is cooking meth.
The clasped hands meme: “Can’t score at MetLife Stadium. Jets/Giants, Spain/Argentina.”
Bloody Bill Anderson
An X post making the brilliant point that immigration is bad because if the entire population of China moved to the U.S. it would cause some problems.
Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
Finn talking to Meadow in the Sopranos: “and don’t give me any of that poverty of the mezzogiorno bullshit.”
Milhouse: “But the talking airplane says I’m cool.”
Low information voters — with strong, loudmouth opinions about things they know little about. This makes them easily subject to the manipulation of their ignorance.
A gas grill with carne asada, hot dogs and hot dogs buns.
A scene from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: “He a little confused, but he got the spirit.”
A copy of the citizenship oath Antonio Visco took in 1894.
A line from a Washington Post editorial about the birthright citizenship ruling: “When the (14th) amendment was ratified, immigration was not a political issue in the way it is today.”
Cosmo Kramer talking on the phone in a phone booth: “I must be at the nexus of the universe!!”
A Wall Street Journal BlueSky post. The linked article is about New York City business elites recalculating their political strategies in response to Mamdani. The card is a story about how an Iranian attack on a U.S. naval base is causing the U.S. to recalculate.
Scrooge McDuck diving into a pile of gold coins.
An image of Troy New York with the Hudson River to the right.
The Wikipedia article on pitching great Rube Waddell. “According to baseball historian Lee Allen in The American League Story, Waddell began the 1903 season ‘sleeping in a firehouse at Camden, New Jersey, and ended it tending bar in a saloon in Wheeling, West Virginia. In between those events he won 22 games for the Philadelphia Athletics … toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt; courted, married and became separated from May Wayne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts; saved a woman from drowning; accidentally shot a friend through the hand; and was bitten by a lion.’ “
Dan Davies on Mexican food: “I don’t think you can possibly consider something to beat the best national cuisine in the world when you can’t even pair it with the best wine in the world. It’s cucina povera, like Italian food. It ranges from inedible to very gross. It’s just that Italian food doesn’t have lots of people making inflated claims about it on order to demonstrate how unracist they are, or people claiming that big pizza chains don’t actually serve real pizza.”
A scene from Austin Powers: “There are only two things I hate in the world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.”
The Don Draper drunken pitch meme with “my mayor is Muslim” on the board.
A plate of a half dozen chicken wings with a bit of yogurt dip next to a Pabst Blue Ribbon and a larger bowl of chicken wings.
A meme riffing off a well-known scene in Civil War: “What kind of history guy are you?”
Nuevo México is often incorrectly believed to take its name from the post-independence nation of Mexico. But as early as 1561 Spanish colonial explorers used el Nuevo México to refer to Cíbola, cities of wealth reported to exist far to the north of the recently conquered Aztec Empire. The name also evoked the Mexica people’s accounts of their ancestral origins in Aztlán to the north before their migration to Mexico centuries prior.
The results of the Rio Arriba county assessor race. Joaquin Valdez is leading with 39%, with 37% for Levi Valdez Jr. and 24% for Josie Valdez.
A slightly intoxicated middle aged man with a red beard waving a pride flag with “Isotopes” emblazoned on it.
A photo from the 2025 AFC championship game of Josh Allen getting a first down that the refs ruled he didn’t get.
American Objects. These are among the items that have shaped the nation. Here are their stories. Part of a recurring series, “American Objects,” marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.
If I lived in the U.S. I would never get anything done. All I’d do is watch baseball, usually sitting at a long bar of darkly polished wood, sipping beer, nibbling nuts, near-hypnotised by the slow rhythm of the contest unfolding on the screen. And when it finished, I’d spend the rest of the night talking about it with no shortage of fellow devotees.
(A dril tweet) CHIEF: Dracula is in our sights. Take the shot! SNIPER: I can’t sir. I’m woke! ME (watching through binoculars): He’s woke! He won’t do it!
Cedric Daniels in Season 1 of The Wire seeing Avon Barksdale in person for the first time.
Stan writing to Eminem in the music video for “Stan.”
Peggy Hill speaking in court in Mexico in Spanish: “I have too many good anuses ahead of me to spend my life in a cigar factory.”
Peggy Hill.
The results of a quiz showing my closest denominational aesthetic match is the Northern Baptist church.
Toby from Arrested Development: “Well, I don’t want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn’t help.”
A popular bumper sticker urging support for Edwards read “vote for the crook. It’s important.” Another read “vote for the lizard not the wizard.” Edwards said of Duke that “the only thing we have in common is that we have both been wizards beneath the sheets” and feigned concern for Duke’s health due to smoke inhalation “because he’s around so many burning crosses.”
An excerpt from the book “The Day Freedom Died,” explaining a Supreme Court ruling in the Colfax Massacre case that made a federal civil rights law essentially unenforceable by requiring proof of racist intent behind an act of violence or voter suppression.
John Sacrimoni from The Sopranos yelling “nicotine’s an addictive substance!!!”
A homemade pizza with pepperoni and chorizo and cheese both under and on top of the toppings.
A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles style logo that says “Marxist Caesar Papist Fusion.”
A view of (I believe) the Ortiz Mountains from Cerrillos Hills State Park.
Stringer Bell saying “that’s good. That’s like a 40 degree day.”
A Facebook post from South Carolina Senate candidate Mark Lynch, a Republican running against Lindsey Graham, promising to pressure Turkey to return the Hagia Sophia to the Greek Orthodox Church.
An opinion that ran in the Twin Falls Times News in May 2014 headlined “Just Shoot Me, Please,” arguing in favor of the firing squad as a better execution method than lethal injection.
A Washington Post editorial from Aug. 20, 2025 headlined “the Texas gerrymandering freakout. What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy.”
A screenshot from the Sopranos when a corrupt police officer tells Tony Pussy is wired for sound, changed to be about tomato sauce.
A list of players changing their numbers back to their normal numbers after everyone was 42 for Jackie Robinson Day.
A statement from Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández criticizing President Donald Trump’s comment on destroying Iranian civilization and calling for his impeachment.
A man wearing a green hat and shirt and brown pants standing behind a couple blocks of ice and water dripping from the top of the Capulin ice cave.
A homemade pizza with sauce on top of the cheese.
A screenshot of an Albuquerque Journal article. Headline: Texas House speaker wants lawmakers to look into annexing part of New Mexico. Subhed: NM House speaker says he needs to “get out” and “touch grass.”
Patrick Bateman in American Psycho reacting to the New York Rangers’ 6-1 win. “Impressive, very nice. Now let’s see the playoff standings.”
Hot dog guy: “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”
Venezuela won the world baseball classic. I am weeping and screaming at the set. I am the king of sports now.
A homemade pizza with chorizo, green bell pepper and jalapeños.