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David W. Brown

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Author of THE MISSION 🛰️ and THE OUTSIDE CATS 🇦🇶 (forthcoming). Words for the New Yorker, &c. Ask me how to get involved in animal rescue. 🔗 https://davidwbrown.com 📍 New Orleans, but I have friends everywhere.

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · Jul 5

For @newyorker.com, I share the story of a little white dog, unwanted and set for euthanasia, his escape, and the nine surreal months an unlikely team spent trying to rescue him. It's about as New Orleans a story as you can get. 🧵 www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

How to Save a Dog

For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.

www.newyorker.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

Morning poem—Seamus Heaney

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 4d

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals initially struck down Louisiana's Ten Commandments bill.

Well, they got a change of heart.

Now, the full active-judge panel will reconsider the initial unanimous ruling.

open.substack.com/pub/newsouth...

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d

October Yeats

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teq @quilling.dev · 2d

they awarded me the nobel evil prize its new

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

For those keeping track of MAGA beliefs: migrant farm workers? Bad. Squadrons of Qatari F-15 fighter jets in the American heartland? Good! www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

www.cbsnews.com

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marcorasi.bsky.social @marcorasi.bsky.social · Jul 18

Night parasol, Royal street, New Orleans

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 2d

good morning lake michigan

a picture of an orange, pink and pale blue sky with the navy pier ferris wheel in view overlooking lake michigan in chicago

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 3d

From The New Yorker

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 3d

OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...

László Krasznahorkai - Words Without Borders

László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 5d

This Friday, a free @sarabandebooks.bsky.social zine workshop for yr lunch hour. My heart in that postscript. 🖤 We will wander through John Berger, little birds, and Rosa Luxembourg to write a p.s. zine. Register below. Come do words with me.

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Miss Havisham’s Ghost @therealjocelynj.bsky.social · 4d

She goes to a different school you don’t know her

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Hippity hoppity it’s time for chippity choppity

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6d

So Washington Post now smearing veterans, eh?

Nice, nice.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls

The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions on dubious and even fraudulent disabilities benefits. Meanwhile, some deserving cases wait.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 5d

I would be in prison if I had done this in Afghanistan.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 6d

The Italian edition of my first novel, translated by the wonderful Chiara Buffa, is available later this week, 10/10/25, from NN Editore in Milan. And this cover makes my old teen witch heart glad.

www.nneditore.it/libro/979125...

An illustration of a fox dressed in the ribcage of a human, the eyes white with death or transfiguration, surrounded by red and blue-green leaves. The image has a large San serif bold N superimposed, with the image clear inside the letter and faintly colored by a rust orange fade otherwise, the trademark of the house, NN Editore.

The text in white reads ALEXANDER CHEE
Edimburgo
NNE

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 5d

Can we agree now not to read the inevitable articles (or buy the inevitable books) by people who took the money and then found themselves doing ‘unconscionable things they now regret?’ Can we agree in advance you should have fucking known better?

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 5d

what are you doing.

David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 6d

Absolutely gorgeous.