Erin Brudvik
@erinbrudvik.bsky.social
Minneapolitan, lifelong Gopher, reader of books, watcher of games, believer of science, haver of opinions. My favorite season is the fall of the patriarchy.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
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Can’t believe the guy whose love language is hate speech didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Can’t believe the guy whose love language is hate speech didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize
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Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick
It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research
Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D
🎁Link
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research
Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D
🎁Link
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick
It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research
Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D
🎁Link
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research
Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D
🎁Link
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.
August 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.
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There’s a shocker…
“A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion.”
www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...
“A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion.”
www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...
Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism
Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...
www.psypost.org
July 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There’s a shocker…
“A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion.”
www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...
“A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion.”
www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...
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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
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After Texas failed to pass a bill to improve flood warning systems, a Kerr County lawmaker says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which aimed to establish a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.
bit.ly/44xMjyr
bit.ly/44xMjyr
Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local flood warning systems this year
A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communicati...
bit.ly
July 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
After Texas failed to pass a bill to improve flood warning systems, a Kerr County lawmaker says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which aimed to establish a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.
bit.ly/44xMjyr
bit.ly/44xMjyr
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Nearly 800 rural hospitals are at risk of closure. Here’s the MN breakdown from Beckers Hospital Review. Heckuva time, Congress, to cut nearly a trillion out of Medicaid funding.
June 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Nearly 800 rural hospitals are at risk of closure. Here’s the MN breakdown from Beckers Hospital Review. Heckuva time, Congress, to cut nearly a trillion out of Medicaid funding.
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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
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All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.
June 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.
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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
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"We are reviewing—not resisting, not questioning, just, you know, vigorously squinting at—the new NIH grant conditions that now require applicants to solemnly swear they have never even thought about organizing a potluck for underrepresented scientists."
Our University Is Replacing DEI with Vibes and Vaguely Diverse Stock Photos
“President Trump signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and un...
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April 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"We are reviewing—not resisting, not questioning, just, you know, vigorously squinting at—the new NIH grant conditions that now require applicants to solemnly swear they have never even thought about organizing a potluck for underrepresented scientists."
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yessss i want a government so small that it could pass as the e coli colonies in my milk
BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
www.cbsnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
yessss i want a government so small that it could pass as the e coli colonies in my milk
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I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
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the way I’ve been thinking about it is: if noncitizens face real danger for saying what they think, then it is the responsibility of citizens, who don’t yet face that same danger, to be even louder
April 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
the way I’ve been thinking about it is: if noncitizens face real danger for saying what they think, then it is the responsibility of citizens, who don’t yet face that same danger, to be even louder
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US higher ed is:
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
April 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
US higher ed is:
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
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The GOP's nostalgia for manufacturing jobs is telling. In reality, their parents and grandparents enjoyed a "good life" because of unions, pensions, high marginal tax rates, and strong social policies — with a little post-War exceptionalism and a lot of racism and sexism thrown in.
April 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The GOP's nostalgia for manufacturing jobs is telling. In reality, their parents and grandparents enjoyed a "good life" because of unions, pensions, high marginal tax rates, and strong social policies — with a little post-War exceptionalism and a lot of racism and sexism thrown in.
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These measles deaths are not medical errors. This sits squarely on the back of antivaccine voices that have continued to spread disinformation.
Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles
The health secretary has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the outbreak, embrace of alternative treatments and tepid endorsement of vaccination.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
These measles deaths are not medical errors. This sits squarely on the back of antivaccine voices that have continued to spread disinformation.