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Brandy Zadrozny
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Reporter lady. MS NOW. Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email if you must, from a non-work account: [email protected]
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Several times now I have typed and deleted a post about a recent feature article and I think it best to shut up on this Thanksgiving Eve so throwing this out to the universe instead and hoping it scratches the itch.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
@baxterholmes.bsky.social tricked me into reading about basketball

(Its really about Robert Caro and how all the best people adore him)

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
How a legendary historian is quietly fueling OKC's championship rise
As OKC GM Sam Presti formed a Thunder team built for a dynasty, he was inspired by a man who has been working on the same project for more than 50 years.
www.espn.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Brandy Zadrozny
Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
The current Surgeon General of Louisiana has made headlines recently, including for allegedly burying a whooping cough outbreak.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.

Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.

Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Brandy Zadrozny
Fifteen years after Andrew Wakefield lost his medical license for his bogus study on autism and vaccines, the ascent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given the discredited former doctor a new level of popularity.
www.ms.now/news/the-ret...
The doctor who falsely tied vaccines to autism is enjoying a comeback
Andrew Wakefield, who was once cast out for his retracted study tying autism to the MMR vaccine, is making a comeback in the second term of President Donald Trump as an ally of Health and Human Servic...
www.ms.now
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A 15-year-old autistic boy walked away from his mother's fruit stand. When she called police for help, they found him, called ICE, and locked him away for weeks.

Unconscionable.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.

She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.

“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Brandy Zadrozny
“Public health has been turned inside out by the second administration of Donald Trump… and it is in this landscape that the comeback of Andrew Wakefield no longer feels impossible—it is underway.”

READ MORE by @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social:
www.ms.now/news/the-ret...
The doctor who falsely tied vaccines to autism is enjoying a comeback
Andrew Wakefield, who was once cast out for his retracted study tying autism to the MMR vaccine, is making a comeback in the second term of President Donald Trump as an ally of Health and Human Servic...
www.ms.now
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I’ve written a lot about birth and freebirth and have my own history with “natural” birth and it’s hard… these women have done such harm AND we have to better address a failure in the medical model and the actual abuse that led so many women to them. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is haunting and so full of love and heartbreak and the world is just so unfair. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
wow
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Reposted by Brandy Zadrozny
BIG: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists for quietly sitting in on court cases, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This very cool, very kind gentleman teaches my kid drums. And if you, like me, enjoy 70’s-ish reminiscent kind of easier listening hipster music, you should check his music out. (This might be a terrible description but I’m gonna go with it)
open.spotify.com/track/7JYaKR...
Didn't Think You'd Notice
open.spotify.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
one of these things is
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Brandy Zadrozny
Is there some sort of pattern here? Help me, it's so hard to see.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I’m also struck how many important MAHA people are folks who tripped on shrooms for the first time as adults and think they’ve discovered something.
HHS Secretary has made a key component of his tenure ridding the agency of … checking notes … ah yes, conflicts of interest

(From a write up of Kennedy’s MAHA Summit via one of many MAHA propaganda publications)
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
HHS Secretary has made a key component of his tenure ridding the agency of … checking notes … ah yes, conflicts of interest

(From a write up of Kennedy’s MAHA Summit via one of many MAHA propaganda publications)
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Brandy Zadrozny
President Donald Trump’s reflexive defenders lazily rely on the phrase “Trump derangement syndrome” (TDS) as both a schoolyard taunt and a blanket pardon for any fact-based criticism of the president. But the level of mass denial many of them exhibited this week is actually deranged.
Trump die-hards and fellow travelers are using a ‘Jedi mind trick’ on themselves
The real “Trump derangement syndrome” is looking at the Epstein emails, Trump's graft and U.S. warships in the Caribbean and saying, “There’s nothing there.”
www.ms.now
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I’ve reported on so many regular people being threatened and villified by conspiracy theories and hatred for people, many times spread by MTG. It’s awful when anyone has to deal with harassment and threats and I wonder if the congresswoman can look inward, too
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Brandy Zadrozny
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM