Brookes Brown
@bcbrown.bsky.social
Prefers cookie dough to cookies, directionally challenged, once killed a cactus from under watering, has aged into appreciating licorice jelly beans, writes into the void aka political philosopher.
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We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.
All of my unread emails fit in one screen for the first time in at least three years. All hail me.
June 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
All of my unread emails fit in one screen for the first time in at least three years. All hail me.
Pro-death agenda
Phasing out NIH’s HIV clinical guidelines is flat-out immoral and unethical.
These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.
Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.
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These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.
Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.
wapo.st/3FQovhf
Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.
wapo.st
June 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Pro-death agenda
Have I mentioned I’m ranking Lander first? This isn’t my reason for doing so, but it’s consistent with the ones I already had.
The court part of this will probably get missed by most people but it really is nice to hear an elected politician talk firsthand about our fucked up, kangaroo immigration courts.
Lander was with another respondent today whose “native language is Yoruba, but who only got a translator in French.”
Lander was with another respondent today whose “native language is Yoruba, but who only got a translator in French.”
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
June 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Have I mentioned I’m ranking Lander first? This isn’t my reason for doing so, but it’s consistent with the ones I already had.
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I know this is controversial but I don't think we need to pay anybody to assault senior citizens. We can defund this 100%.
This is how LAPD treats our elders. Never forget.
June 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I know this is controversial but I don't think we need to pay anybody to assault senior citizens. We can defund this 100%.
Protestors out in Brooklyn today!
June 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Protestors out in Brooklyn today!
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Just over one hour left to get your comment in! Do it now, friends - tell Trump's FDA to let us get our COVID vaccines!
This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.
GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
May 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Just over one hour left to get your comment in! Do it now, friends - tell Trump's FDA to let us get our COVID vaccines!
I mean who amongst us hasn’t thought a little bit like leaving this world after spending time with JD Vance?
April 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I mean who amongst us hasn’t thought a little bit like leaving this world after spending time with JD Vance?
Anyone want to join my team huddle?
"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Anyone want to join my team huddle?
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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If we still had a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, they’d be in Tallahassee helping the community access federal resources for survivors, families, & students. Then they’d take what was learned to help prevent it from ever happening again.
Trump killed it on day 2.
Trump killed it on day 2.
April 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
If we still had a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, they’d be in Tallahassee helping the community access federal resources for survivors, families, & students. Then they’d take what was learned to help prevent it from ever happening again.
Trump killed it on day 2.
Trump killed it on day 2.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
You know I feel like I became a philosopher so that I didn’t have to know the usual relationship between bonds and the stock market.
April 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
You know I feel like I became a philosopher so that I didn’t have to know the usual relationship between bonds and the stock market.
Well now we know exactly how much financial bankers value these insults
April 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Well now we know exactly how much financial bankers value these insults
I typed the word relaxing into my search engine and it replaced it with triaging so that’s how things are going .
March 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I typed the word relaxing into my search engine and it replaced it with triaging so that’s how things are going .
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That we are at the point where we must say this out loud…
If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you?
My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.
My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.
March 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
That we are at the point where we must say this out loud…
Claim- all journals that want to promote or pretend to respect normative arguments that seriously engage with empirical evidence should have 12,000 word limits, at least. It isn’t possible to substantially engage with both literatures in 10,000 words or fewer without meaningfully faking it.
February 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Claim- all journals that want to promote or pretend to respect normative arguments that seriously engage with empirical evidence should have 12,000 word limits, at least. It isn’t possible to substantially engage with both literatures in 10,000 words or fewer without meaningfully faking it.
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This is gutting.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is gutting.
Today was the day I learned that nvidia and nxivm are not the same thing and so you can imagine I have had some background confusion these past few years.
February 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Today was the day I learned that nvidia and nxivm are not the same thing and so you can imagine I have had some background confusion these past few years.
All kudos to the student who informed me on my midterm course evaluation (under “anything else I should know?”) that narwhals primarily swim upside down.
February 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
All kudos to the student who informed me on my midterm course evaluation (under “anything else I should know?”) that narwhals primarily swim upside down.
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Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup
I swear to god if RFK messes this up for us
January 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I swear to god if RFK messes this up for us
There should be a button on uber where you can indicate topics you do not want to discuss.
You know what I don’t need at 630 am before work? A conversation about Joe Rogan by a vaccine skeptic while I’m trapped in a small moving tin can.
You know what I don’t need at 630 am before work? A conversation about Joe Rogan by a vaccine skeptic while I’m trapped in a small moving tin can.
January 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There should be a button on uber where you can indicate topics you do not want to discuss.
You know what I don’t need at 630 am before work? A conversation about Joe Rogan by a vaccine skeptic while I’m trapped in a small moving tin can.
You know what I don’t need at 630 am before work? A conversation about Joe Rogan by a vaccine skeptic while I’m trapped in a small moving tin can.
I can’t say I know what to do with the fact that Spotify thinks that on Tuesdays I listen to “people pleaser music”.
It IS the day on which I teach for three hours and have three hours of office hours…….
It IS the day on which I teach for three hours and have three hours of office hours…….
January 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I can’t say I know what to do with the fact that Spotify thinks that on Tuesdays I listen to “people pleaser music”.
It IS the day on which I teach for three hours and have three hours of office hours…….
It IS the day on which I teach for three hours and have three hours of office hours…….