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Brooke Newman

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Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · Jun 11

Cover reveal for my upcoming book THE CROWN’S SILENCE—out with Mariner in January 2026 and available for pre-order now wherever books are sold.

Cover of The Crown’s Silence by Brooke Newman, forthcoming with Mariner in January 2026

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1d

🎁 link—worth your time. “In the course of quantifying the risks of A.I., I was hoping I would realize my fears were ridiculous. But the opposite happened: The more I moved from apocalyptic hypotheticals to concrete real-world findings, the more concerned I became.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yes 🍸

Vince Keenan @vpkeenan.bsky.social · 1d

SOME PERSONAL NEWS! Cannot wait to get A HELL OF A DRINK out there in 2027. Chris Elford is a dear friend and a genius bartender. His horror movie inspired cocktails are fantastic. Every Sasquatch book is gorgeous. Halloween will never be the same again!

Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1d

💜 Portland

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1d

That we could all have or be such a mentor. “she saw her talent, her capacious intelligence…She praised Virginia to other people & was a supportive reader & mentor for this young woman who wasn’t sure, in her early 20s, she was going to be a professional writer.” www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

The story behind Virginia Woolf’s lost book: ‘It was magical’

Written in her twenties and released next month, The Life of Violet is a tribute to a mentor and early proof of Woolf’s desire to revolutionise fiction

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1d

“This is to try and push the dial so that the conversation begins that might lead to something, and that might take, very optimistically, another 100 years, another 150 years. We start the conversation so we can get on with it." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits - BBC News

The comedian's new book supports the case for the UK to give £18 trillion in compensatory payments.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 2d

I want your experts to comb through the collapse of democracy.

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Wes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 3d

Bondi: “Trump is the most transparent president in our nation’s history”.

👉 By transparent, she means the lifelong criminal commits a lot of his crimes right out in the open. The rest are being covered up by her.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 2d

“You want to go low, we’re gonna go lower,” Welch said. “The integrity politics of being perfect as a liberal needs to stop, and we need to bully the shit out of these guys, because they respond to it.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

How two blond suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 3d

Spotted my future in the wild! #spookyseason

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 4d

I love seeing the first 5 star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader reviews of my upcoming book, THE CROWN'S SILENCE (Mariner, Jan. 2026), on Netgalley! Pre-order your copy wherever books are sold. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

A lengthy Netgalley reader review of THE CROWN'S SILENCE

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 4d

Me too!

Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 5d

Every single day. We wake up to more needless devastation brought to us by Trump 2.0–and millions of Americans voters. The daily rage and despair is beyond exhausting. And that’s the point.

A guardian headline about Trump planning to cut down old-growth forests

A map of Virginia forests planned for logging

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d

Who needs forests when we could turn everything into cornfields? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 5d

It’s this adorable cutie’s first birthday. We love you, Whisky! ❤️

A tabby cat sniffing his birthday treat and candle

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 7d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 7d

It’s 2025: ideal conditions don’t exist. Just do your thing like your life depends on it. ✍️

A quote from E.B. White about the importance of writing, whatever the conditions.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 8d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 8d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 8d

Everything about this so-called compact amounts to extortion & overreach on behalf of the Fed govt. Make no mistake: if academic values, freedoms, & departments are suspended at universities to assuage Trump & secure fed funding now, they’re not coming back. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

White House Floats Compact for Preferential Treatment

Advocates condemned the proposal, which asked nine universities to overhaul admissions, hiring and speech policies and to suppress criticism of conservatives in exchange for more federal money.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 8d

Exactly.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 8d

This is their MO with these deals, the terms are vague and contradictory, the goalposts keep shifting, and universities will be put into a permanent purgatory of non compliance where there will always be one more thing they need to do to please Trump

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 8d

I also noted to Inside Higher Ed that the compact may be a bigger deal than individual campus settlements. The government could easily declare signatories out of compliance and use the arrangement to punish whole universities, specific programs, or individual faculty members.

White House Floats Compact for Preferential Treatment

Advocates condemned the proposal, which asked nine universities to overhaul admissions, hiring and speech policies and to suppress criticism of conservatives in exchange for more federal money.

www.insidehighered.com

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 8d

One outrage after another.

Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 8d

Or something.

Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 8d

I doubt Charles would haven given a flip about Trump’s stolen sword. “The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” & told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

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