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Walker Bragman

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He/Him. Dad. Journo tracking dark money and attacks on public health. JD, ADHD, occasional cartoonist. Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org Signal: walkerbragman.44 Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Jun 2

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.

The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.

www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya

Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27m

American “conservatism” has never truly been nonviolent.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 35m

Something the political Right needs to hear more from the Left:

This is our fucking country.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 39m

Hate, resentment, and big money are the foundations of the so-called conservative movement.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 41m

The New Deal Era and subsequent Democratic dominance, the successes of the consumer protection movement, the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act, etc. all taught the political Right that time is not their ally in a democracy.

So they abandoned democracy. They hate it.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 43m

This is why right-wingers and Republicans are constantly trying to do end-runs around democracy.

They stacked the SCOTUS and unleashed political spending.

They weaponized congressional and state legislative redistricting.

They impose barriers on mail-in voting and voter registration…

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 47m

Exactly

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 50m

The Right hates American democracy and freedom because it recognizes that those things tend to foster policies and cultural shifts they don’t want—consumer protections, environmental regulations, progressive movements, etc.

The right-wing agenda is deeply unpopular. And again, they know it.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 54m

These people fear progress and there have always been those on their side willing to kill to stop it. And they know that.

The goal of framing this march as supporting terrorism against America, or whatever, is to inspire these elements to mobilize. To threaten. To get the event canceled bc of fear

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 57m

Violent oppression and intimidation have always been the tools of the political Right in lieu of cultural currency.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 59m

Again, these people want violence. They want their supporters radicalized and ready to commit it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23h

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1h

More of this

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 3h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 11h

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible.

A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail.

My new piece.

gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

The Cass Review Continues To Be Severely Flawed

A new paper from an Australian team shines a light on the problems with the review

gidmk.substack.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12h

This is my personal all-time favorite shit pandemic take. It’s so comically on the nose, spelling out exactly what interests the political Right cares about.

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Reparations for the Business Victims of Lockdowns ⋆ Brownstone Institute

The lockdowns were and are an intolerable attack on property rights, the freedom of association, free enterprise, and basic rights of trade and exchange that have been a bedrock of a thriving economy ...

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13h

Argentina’s libertarian experiment crashed and burned.

But that’s bad for our president, whose ally implemented those reforms.

So now this.

Meanwhile, we gutted USAID.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13h

Yes! Thank you!

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13h

Don’t everyone respond at once…😅

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14h

I am working on a pretty big project. I can’t reveal too much about it, but I am putting out a public call for the worst pandemic takes from right-wing media and think tanks.

Bonus points if the author works in the Trump administration.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

lol this is crazy i mean this guys the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17h

Jay Jacobs, the chair of the New York State Democrats, has issued a statement on the indictment of AG Letitia James, calling it “nothing less than political retribution by a vindictive felon who happens to occupy the White House.”

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 20h

I’m voting for whoever promises to put Stephen Miller on trial for war crimes.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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