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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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Miss Havisham’s Ghost @therealjocelynj.bsky.social · 10h

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

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 12h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 10h

Hippity hoppity it’s time for chippity choppity

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

what are you doing.

David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

Absolutely gorgeous.

David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

I have the horrible feeling that they're going to win, and since it takes months to feel the effects, people will sort of blindly just ask "What happened?" the way we have with skyrocketing grocery and fuel costs, and the villains will get away with it again.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

Sigh. Sadly they're learn, but by then it will be too late. It's so strange and sad to watch the planet being murdered before our eyes. How do we stop this?

David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

It's not that they don't know, but that they don't have any power to stop it. In Louisiana, they're building a data center 1,700 football fields in size. The largest in the Western Hemisphere. Everyone agrees it's bad, but our Republican reps. and governor approved it gleefully. We don't matter.

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

Me too Ali. And these data centers really keep me up at night. They are incompatible with a hospitable planet Earth. I cannot believe we have allowed this to happen.

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

LOL every time. I'm writing a column right now on AI and wine. (It's a thing.) The worst people are doing their best to annihilate all notions of humanity, and undermine human subjective experiences. And I don't know what's worse: That they know they're doing it, or don't.

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 6d

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ LAKE EFFECT by Hillary Behrman, is a debut short story collection about the wild and hidden places in nature and the heart. Selected by Lauren Groff (@legroff.bsky.social) to win the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Available May 2026. Preorder in bio!

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · 3d

The hero we need

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

Bari Weiss—it just doesn't matter. The system has mastered distraction and metastasis. There was no Walter Cronkite waiting in the wings. It was always going to be another vat-grown Ivy with the same interests in protecting capital.

David W. Brown @davidwbrown.com · 2d

I like that this (excellent) article points this out. These people live in the same neighborhoods, went to the same schools, have the same friends, and go to the same parties. Bari Weiss is infuriating, but it never mattered who they chose to run CBS News. It was going to be the same person.

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss signs huge deal to usher CBS News into its Vichy era: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

The Ellisons and the rest of the billionaire class don't need the aerodynamic drag of association with fringier right-wing stuff; they want the prestige and lubricity of affiliation with important, elite institutions. That's the value proposition of the Ivy-incubated, Wall Street Journal and New York Times veteran Weiss: obsequiousness to power and capital without any of the wacky stuff, the imprimatur of elite consensus unburdened by any inconvenient commitment to reporting on the business of powerful people. What does this look like in practical terms?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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Hank Scorpio III @hankscorpio.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, this honestly looks like they got stuck in construction traffic, rammed a truck, shot the driver, then choke slammed some other poor bastard they sideswiped.

Fucking hell. Fuck ICE but these guys IN PARTICULAR should be in irons standing in front of a judge.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE ramming a civilian car, then shooting them. They claimed 10 cars surround the agents. Where are they?
Happened in east garfield today

Disclaimer: I am merely sharing what I have read about this incident.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 4d

this is the kind of shit you hope starts to fracture the solidarity become the soft-fash local cops and the hard-fash feds

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 4d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon.

There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified.

This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

Shooting involving federal agents in Brighton Park under investigation

According to the Department of Homeland Security, a woman allegedly "boxed in" federal authorities, who opened fire.

chicago.suntimes.com

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