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Daniel Brook

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Journalist, Author, Traveler New book, THE EINSTEIN OF SEX, out now: wwnorton.com/books/9781324007241

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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Having watched a fair amount of TV in Communist countries (mostly in China), this is pretty much what it looks like (except with Xi in place of Trump): www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At this point it would be worth polling Mississippi and Louisiana, where Trump is at -10 and -12 respectively (per The Economist).
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The sub-hed of this article should have been "A guide to keeping your health insurance until 65 without taxing Jeff Bezos."
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hear they‘re threatening to make next year’s gala black-tie optional.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Who’s ready for an East Coast/West Coast beef over round challah styles? I’m on Team Snail (East Coast)!
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maybe everyone’s just late because Dallas has no functional transit system.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Florida Man Trojan Horse En Route.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Sounds like Mace needs a refresher course on the Constitution: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Reli...
en.wikipedia.org
No Religious Test Clause - Wikipedia
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Finally made it to Maine, the penultimate state on my #FiftyBy50 quest. Just need Oklahoma now.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Amazing section in Nell Irvin Painter’s brilliant “History of White People” where Western Europeans circa 1800 actually claim that the Ancient Greeks had been pale/blond and only became olive/brunette because they had intermarried with their slaves, destroying their race/civilization.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
2 + 2 = 5 14 + 4 = 14
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The planet is Uchkuduk'ed.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
MSG is without question the most romantic basketball arena/wedding venue above a train station in all of Manhattan, arguably in all of NYC (sorry Barclays Center).
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What’s that old adage? Beware of sheikhs bearing gifts.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
They say “import the third world, become the third world” to blame immigrants for their own kleptocratic behavior. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com
Donald Trump’s $2.2bn windfall invites comparisons with global strongmen
Political scientists are beginning to see parallels between the US president and authoritarian leaders in Africa and Asia
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Three days after the Supreme Court told him he can fire officers at the SEC if they even think about investigating his family he‘s straight-up confessing knowing there will be no consequences.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fun historical tidbit about Teddy Roosevelt was that TR employed a trans cook who got posthumously outed when they died in a bar in Westchester in 1904.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Isn't there some ancient proverb about this? "Beware of sheikhs bearing gifts."
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Does John Roberts realized he just green-lighted a President AOC packing the NLRB with socialists?
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Fixed it.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Eye of Sauron, Mordor (left); JPMorganChase Headquarters, Manhattan (right):
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Sorry billionaires, it’s OUR lawn And we’re not getting off it.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Stabbed-in-the-buns.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump thinks the “Thucydides Trap” is one of the sex toys he used on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump thinks the “Thucydides Trap” is one of the sex toys he used on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Trump thinks the “Thucydides Trap” is one of the sex toys he used on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/w...
nytimes.com
Xi Warned of the ‘Thucydides Trap.’ What Is It?
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Duke Ellington nailed it: It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In 1868, New Orleans elected a Black man to represent it in Congress and at this very moment Louisiana Governor/US Envoy to Greenland Landry is scheming to make sure that never happens again. history.house.gov/HistoricalHi...
history.house.gov
John Willis Menard of Louisiana Became the First African American to Address the U.S. House of Representatives | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
On this date John Willis Menard of Louisiana became the first African American to address the U.S. House. With the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, African Americans first exercised the vote, catap...
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
OMG Trump‘s arch is just a giant gilded frame around Robert E. Lee’s plantation house.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The blackest state in the union (Mississippi) could end up with a congressional delegation as lily white as the whitest state’s (Maine). This is NOT what democracy looks like.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
And through a process in which the Founders very purposefully boxed out the president.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In 1868, New Orleans elected a Black man to represent it in Congress, and at this very moment Governor Landry is scheming to make sure that never happens again. history.house.gov/HistoricalHi...
history.house.gov
John Willis Menard of Louisiana Became the First African American to Address the U.S. House of Representatives | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
On this date John Willis Menard of Louisiana became the first African American to address the U.S. House. With the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, African Americans first exercised the vote, catap...
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
What’s the English word again for “collaborateur?”
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Politics aside, I think we can all agree that Brad Lander was outstanding in “The Princess Bride.”
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Happy TACO Tuesday to all who celebrate.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If he wants to go down this path he might as well note that he, Adam Liptak, is also a birthright citizen. (Born in Connecticut in 1960 per Wikipedia.)
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Katie Britt: “You can’t give an unhinged SOTU response from your own kitchen without an ID.”
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
No matter how many times I read it, I remain convinced that “Markwayne” is a copy-editing error.
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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Daniel Brook (@brookfiles.bsky.social) reports on ICE’s “Operation Swamp Sweep” in Louisiana. harpers.org/archive/2026...
harpers.org
Thirty-Eight Days of ICE, by Daniel Brook
The story of an occupation
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Hard to imagine a more textbook case of a constitutionally-prohibited “cruel and unusual punishment.”
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Trump’s appointee for US Attorney in New Orleans is, like Trump himself, the mentee of the local mafia lawyer (Vinny Mosca in NOLA and Roy Cohn in NYC for those keeping score at home). What could possibly go wrong? www.nola.com/news/courts/...
nola.com
New Orleans' new US Attorney talks his priorities, confirmation process and Trump's DOJ
In an interview with The Times-Picayune, David Courcelle explained his approach.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It a battle of DOW versus Dow.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Thrilled to talk about Weimar-era German-Jewish psychiatrist and queer rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld, a thinker who speaks to our harrowing moment, on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/the-einstein...
newbooksnetwork.com
Daniel Brook, "The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025) - New Books Network
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A week ago a poll on affordability showed the one thing the overwhelming majority of Americans still said they could afford to buy was (you guessed it) gasoline.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Doesn't this bill have a 14th Amendment problem? The government can only take away your liberties if it proves you've done something wrong; it's not on you to prove you're innocent in order to keep them.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The deadpan final sentence of this article is: The US in July will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which freed American colonies from the British monarchy’s control.
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Daniel Brook @brookfiles.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This guy cut his teeth in Soviet Communist Party, so he‘ll be hard to beat in the cult-of-personality competition.
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