Walker Bragman
@walkerbragman.bsky.social
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
Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org
Signal: walkerbragman.44
Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
Pinned
“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.
www.importantcontext.news
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...
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...
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This moment really gives the game away. Trump openly admits that he’s attacking another immigrant group for no related reason to the National Guard shooting. The logic amounts to “one immigrant bad = all brown immigrants bad & must be deported”
Transparent racist scapegoating.
Transparent racist scapegoating.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This moment really gives the game away. Trump openly admits that he’s attacking another immigrant group for no related reason to the National Guard shooting. The logic amounts to “one immigrant bad = all brown immigrants bad & must be deported”
Transparent racist scapegoating.
Transparent racist scapegoating.
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This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Accountability for Trump and his goons won’t be enough.
We also need a massive expansion of the welfare state to ease struggle.
We need massive investments in public education to ensure the next generation learns history.
We need major campaign finance reform to go after the right’s lie machine.
We also need a massive expansion of the welfare state to ease struggle.
We need massive investments in public education to ensure the next generation learns history.
We need major campaign finance reform to go after the right’s lie machine.
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Accountability for Trump and his goons won’t be enough.
We also need a massive expansion of the welfare state to ease struggle.
We need massive investments in public education to ensure the next generation learns history.
We need major campaign finance reform to go after the right’s lie machine.
We also need a massive expansion of the welfare state to ease struggle.
We need massive investments in public education to ensure the next generation learns history.
We need major campaign finance reform to go after the right’s lie machine.
He’s crashing out. Absolutely flailing.
Poll numbers on the decline, his party increasingly looking like it’s going to get wiped out in the midterms, Trump is like a cornered animal.
Poll numbers on the decline, his party increasingly looking like it’s going to get wiped out in the midterms, Trump is like a cornered animal.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
He’s crashing out. Absolutely flailing.
Poll numbers on the decline, his party increasingly looking like it’s going to get wiped out in the midterms, Trump is like a cornered animal.
Poll numbers on the decline, his party increasingly looking like it’s going to get wiped out in the midterms, Trump is like a cornered animal.
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
The absolute fucking irony.
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The absolute fucking irony.
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
I learned too much from the painting.
Why is there a fucking painting?
Why is there a fucking painting?
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I learned too much from the painting.
Why is there a fucking painting?
Why is there a fucking painting?
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Hot dog meme guy x1000.
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hot dog meme guy x1000.
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Congratulations, journalism. I no longer think Hollywood owns the most fucked up industry in the world.
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Congratulations, journalism. I no longer think Hollywood owns the most fucked up industry in the world.
End all non-medical exemptions for vaccines
No major religion objects to vaccines.
All major religions object to liars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
All major religions object to liars.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
State Court Rules School Vaccine Law Can’t Bar Religious Exemptions
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
End all non-medical exemptions for vaccines
Again, all of this is over Robert Kennedy Jr.
Robert Kennedy Jr…
That guy.
Robert Kennedy Jr…
That guy.
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Again, all of this is over Robert Kennedy Jr.
Robert Kennedy Jr…
That guy.
Robert Kennedy Jr…
That guy.
AOC and Mamdani not backing a primary challenge to Jeffries is fine, actually.
It’s transactional, sure. But Jeffries did ultimately come around and endorse.
IMHO throwing a primary challenge at him now sends a message: Even if you do come around, we may still come after you.
It’s transactional, sure. But Jeffries did ultimately come around and endorse.
IMHO throwing a primary challenge at him now sends a message: Even if you do come around, we may still come after you.
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
AOC and Mamdani not backing a primary challenge to Jeffries is fine, actually.
It’s transactional, sure. But Jeffries did ultimately come around and endorse.
IMHO throwing a primary challenge at him now sends a message: Even if you do come around, we may still come after you.
It’s transactional, sure. But Jeffries did ultimately come around and endorse.
IMHO throwing a primary challenge at him now sends a message: Even if you do come around, we may still come after you.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
The conservative movement is part corporate counterrevolution and part hate movement.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The conservative movement is part corporate counterrevolution and part hate movement.
Another grotesque oil war.
She probably wasn't supposed to admit that we are attacking Venezuela for oil.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Another grotesque oil war.
The anti-vaccine movement is a death cult
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The anti-vaccine movement is a death cult
For her serious ethical lapses, Nuzzi was rewarded with an editor role at Vanity Fair.
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
For her serious ethical lapses, Nuzzi was rewarded with an editor role at Vanity Fair.
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ATTENTION! All of USA's government is under a gag order. No one with gov is allowed to commemorate and or promoting World AIDS Day, Dec 1.
THE day aims to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, support those living with it, remember those lost, & promote prevention & education.
What will you do?
THE day aims to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, support those living with it, remember those lost, & promote prevention & education.
What will you do?
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
ATTENTION! All of USA's government is under a gag order. No one with gov is allowed to commemorate and or promoting World AIDS Day, Dec 1.
THE day aims to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, support those living with it, remember those lost, & promote prevention & education.
What will you do?
THE day aims to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, support those living with it, remember those lost, & promote prevention & education.
What will you do?
Reading this, about how much he’s driven by insatiable, reckless desire, and I kept thinking about my late uncle.
He too was an addict.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
He too was an addict.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reading this, about how much he’s driven by insatiable, reckless desire, and I kept thinking about my late uncle.
He too was an addict.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
He too was an addict.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Love to see it
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Love to see it
“You might think that you’re safe, but we’re going to come after you..This will not end until we hold every single person that has violated the Constitution and the rights of people in our communities accountable.”
Trump’s crimes will not be buried, and his deportation machine doesn’t get a free pass, not now, not ever.
We’re going to keep exposing the abuses, holding Trump and every immigration enforcement agency accountable, and making sure they answer for breaking the law.
We’re going to keep exposing the abuses, holding Trump and every immigration enforcement agency accountable, and making sure they answer for breaking the law.
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“You might think that you’re safe, but we’re going to come after you..This will not end until we hold every single person that has violated the Constitution and the rights of people in our communities accountable.”
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The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…
It was never “woke” that needed to go. Dems should 100% stand by trans folks, immigrants, and other minority groups.
What sucked was when corporate Dems tried to pit identity politics against economic populism/big universal programs. The “Would breaking up the banks end racism?” shit.
What sucked was when corporate Dems tried to pit identity politics against economic populism/big universal programs. The “Would breaking up the banks end racism?” shit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It was never “woke” that needed to go. Dems should 100% stand by trans folks, immigrants, and other minority groups.
What sucked was when corporate Dems tried to pit identity politics against economic populism/big universal programs. The “Would breaking up the banks end racism?” shit.
What sucked was when corporate Dems tried to pit identity politics against economic populism/big universal programs. The “Would breaking up the banks end racism?” shit.