Nick Brooke
@hidrnick.brookeinsights.com
Hi, everybody! 👋
Dad, mathematician, freelancer, nerd. #OKC.
A fact is just a fantasy unless it can be checked. #ScienceRules
Dad, mathematician, freelancer, nerd. #OKC.
A fact is just a fantasy unless it can be checked. #ScienceRules
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@maddow.bsky.social: “There are very few Americans right now who have any idea why the United States did this. If this was about drug trafficking then why did President Trump just pardon the former President of Honduras who was convicted of sending hundreds of tons of drugs into the US?”
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
@maddow.bsky.social: “There are very few Americans right now who have any idea why the United States did this. If this was about drug trafficking then why did President Trump just pardon the former President of Honduras who was convicted of sending hundreds of tons of drugs into the US?”
I've read somewhere that Congress has the power to declare war. Oh, right, IT'S IN THE FUCKING CONSTITION.
Hakeem Jeffries was not briefed on the operation, Jake Sherman is now reporting. Neither was House Armed Services Committee. Amazing.
Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
January 3, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I've read somewhere that Congress has the power to declare war. Oh, right, IT'S IN THE FUCKING CONSTITION.
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Strong Towns Chicago deployed my location crash report dashboard 🤝 @strongtownschicago.bsky.social
Use this to generate crash reports for intersections, corridors, or your own ward.
Best experienced on desktop
🗺️ www.strongtownschicago.org/chicago-cras...
Use this to generate crash reports for intersections, corridors, or your own ward.
Best experienced on desktop
🗺️ www.strongtownschicago.org/chicago-cras...
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Strong Towns Chicago deployed my location crash report dashboard 🤝 @strongtownschicago.bsky.social
Use this to generate crash reports for intersections, corridors, or your own ward.
Best experienced on desktop
🗺️ www.strongtownschicago.org/chicago-cras...
Use this to generate crash reports for intersections, corridors, or your own ward.
Best experienced on desktop
🗺️ www.strongtownschicago.org/chicago-cras...
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Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.
January 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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Outlook for the new year ...
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Outlook for the new year ...
People should have read The Mueller Report.
Trump to a reporter: "You're saying maybe the attack didn't place? That's possible too I guess. But President Putin told me this morning it did."
December 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
People should have read The Mueller Report.
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Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!
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Coach had some moves.
We wouldn't want the Gatorade bath in 18 degree weather either
We wouldn't want the Gatorade bath in 18 degree weather either
He was trying then one of the players grabbed him and he ended up getting clubbed with the cooler before getting the remainder dumped on him
December 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Coach had some moves.
We wouldn't want the Gatorade bath in 18 degree weather either
We wouldn't want the Gatorade bath in 18 degree weather either
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ICYMI: I wrote about FIRE.
The group supported a lawsuit by a far-right group against an Ohio school board over its anti-bullying policy, arguing it violated the rights of students who wished to misgender their trans/nonbinary peers.
FIRE has a long record of siding with anti-trans folks/groups.
The group supported a lawsuit by a far-right group against an Ohio school board over its anti-bullying policy, arguing it violated the rights of students who wished to misgender their trans/nonbinary peers.
FIRE has a long record of siding with anti-trans folks/groups.
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ICYMI: I wrote about FIRE.
The group supported a lawsuit by a far-right group against an Ohio school board over its anti-bullying policy, arguing it violated the rights of students who wished to misgender their trans/nonbinary peers.
FIRE has a long record of siding with anti-trans folks/groups.
The group supported a lawsuit by a far-right group against an Ohio school board over its anti-bullying policy, arguing it violated the rights of students who wished to misgender their trans/nonbinary peers.
FIRE has a long record of siding with anti-trans folks/groups.
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Merlin rocks. Could not issue a stronger “check it out”
‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app
‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app
Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the world
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Merlin rocks. Could not issue a stronger “check it out”
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There's been a M7.0 earthquake off the coast of northeastern Taiwan. focustaiwan.tw/society/202512...
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocks northeastern Taiwan - Focus Taiwan
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Taiwan at 11:05 p.m. Saturday, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA).
focustaiwan.tw
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There's been a M7.0 earthquake off the coast of northeastern Taiwan. focustaiwan.tw/society/202512...
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All I’m saying is that someone who isn’t on the pedophile list wouldn’t be doing so much to stop the public from seeing the pedophile list.
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
All I’m saying is that someone who isn’t on the pedophile list wouldn’t be doing so much to stop the public from seeing the pedophile list.
Unfortunately, dogs are not equally distributed. They're normally distributed: most people have an average numbers of dogs, a few more, and a few less.
But that's not quite either. Some people have 5, 6, 7, even 15 or 20 dogs.
It's a long-tail distribution.
But that's not quite either. Some people have 5, 6, 7, even 15 or 20 dogs.
It's a long-tail distribution.
December 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Unfortunately, dogs are not equally distributed. They're normally distributed: most people have an average numbers of dogs, a few more, and a few less.
But that's not quite either. Some people have 5, 6, 7, even 15 or 20 dogs.
It's a long-tail distribution.
But that's not quite either. Some people have 5, 6, 7, even 15 or 20 dogs.
It's a long-tail distribution.
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It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
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Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Merry Christmas!
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Don’t forget to tip your food delivery people extra today!!
December 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Don’t forget to tip your food delivery people extra today!!
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'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over
www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over
"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event."According to preliminary Nielsen data, 'The Kennedy Center Honors' o...
www.rawstory.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over
www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
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High enough on her own supply to keep Narcan around.
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
High enough on her own supply to keep Narcan around.
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The reality for the other students is that they are no longer enrolled in a psychology class. It is a Psychology plus My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.
Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The reality for the other students is that they are no longer enrolled in a psychology class. It is a Psychology plus My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.
Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class.
Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
A "warehouse" is a place to store wares, that is, things to be sold, so this tracks.
🧊 WAREHOUSING HUMANS 😲
ICE plans to herd their captives "into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE plans to herd their captives "into one of seven large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, where they would be staged for deportation." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A "warehouse" is a place to store wares, that is, things to be sold, so this tracks.
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THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
December 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
What explains the Virginia postmark is that it was placed into the mailstream by a crank in Virginia, then sent to Nassar's old prison, where he no longer was, then returned to Epstein's prison in NYC. That's how mail is handled.
The FBI doesn't have evidence postmarked when it's sent around. 🙄
The FBI doesn't have evidence postmarked when it's sent around. 🙄
UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials.
Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).
Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
What explains the Virginia postmark is that it was placed into the mailstream by a crank in Virginia, then sent to Nassar's old prison, where he no longer was, then returned to Epstein's prison in NYC. That's how mail is handled.
The FBI doesn't have evidence postmarked when it's sent around. 🙄
The FBI doesn't have evidence postmarked when it's sent around. 🙄