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Dan Brooks

@danbrooks.bsky.social
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As seen in The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The Atlantic, various other places that went out of business but I was just freelancing, hi. www.bydanbrooks.com

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Good @danbrooks.bsky.social
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American Freedom | Defector
On March 26, the official White House Twitter account posted a photo of Vice President JD Vance aiming a military rifle with the caption “Just the Vice President of the United States sending some free...
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Ben McCormick @caseofthebens.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"The growing sense that 'freedom' is a word you say when you are bullshitting has made it harder to talk about freedom in non-bullshit ways." Terrific work from @danbrooks.bsky.social defector.com/american-fre...
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American Freedom | Defector
On March 26, the official White House Twitter account posted a photo of Vice President JD Vance aiming a military rifle with the caption “Just the Vice President of the United States sending some free...
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Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hey I wrote a story about how the “benefit” fights of the early American boxing scene show that it’s not just the UFC but rather the fight game itself that has no problem sending you out on a stretcher in your own retirement fight. sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/...
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A brief history of the 'retirement fight' — and why, as one UFC vet put it, you might leave 'on a stretcher'
UFC lightweight Dustin Poirier is in search of a retirement fight, but in the fight game there's a long history of tough exits for aging greats.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I wrote about the Trump Gaza video and MAGA irony more generally for the Times Mag. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/m...
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How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style
Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies.
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Jeremy Gordon @jeremygordon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Launching SEE FRIENDSHIP last night at Books Are Magic was a dream—the best a book event has ever been, possibly. Up next, I'll be hitting up San Francisco's Green Apple Books with Jay Caspian Kang on March 12—would love to see you there
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
For the Atlantic, I wrote about people saying "oneshotted" online — the place it's least likely to happen to you. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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Why Is Everyone Talking About Getting ‘Oneshotted’?
A slang term for the extremely online also serves as a weird mirror of the internet experience.
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
begging people to get a grip www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Part of being married is silently watching them destroy all the nonstick surfaces in the house. No one tells you.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Nick learned these events were happening from the hooting of an owl. They were revealed to him in a dream.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Sinead O'Connor Liz Phair Tina Turner Corin Tucker Chan Marshall
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Real pretty morning
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
My generation has experienced a US economy that is not instrumental to human flourishing but antithetical to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
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The U.S. Economy Is Racing Ahead. Almost Everything Else Is Falling Behind. (Gift Article)
The gap between Americans’ prosperity and quality of life has grown since the 1990s.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Simply Cheetos
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Seeing a lot of calls to violence on here from people who have no experience with or means to do violence. It's been 2016 for a long time.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Firefighter: [after my house burns down] Fucking fire, am I right?
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
in defending his notion of "ordered love," Vance remarks: "Aside from that, the idea that there isn’t a hierarchy of obligations violates basic common sense." Indeed it does! Fortunately for we who love Jesus and hunger for justice, Jesus's entire ministry challenges "basic common sense"
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Tennessee Garvey
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I probably did say that.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The word "Trump" does not appear anywhere in the substack this tweet quotes. Krugman says why he left, and it has nothing to do with Trump at all. This claim is horseshit.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you watch the video, she says it's the admin's position that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional because illegal immigrants are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of US law, which is the qualifier in the Fourteenth Amendment. That is a legal opinion — albeit one with fun implications!
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
My stepsister has a developmental disability and both these guys are fat pussies.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Caity Weaver is so funny, man. She makes me jealous. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...
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How My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey Into Hell (Gift Article)
For my whole life, I’ve been a hard-core sweets junkie. Could a spa help me quit in a week?
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
here comes pete hogsex with two bottles of gin in one of those beer can helmets and hes driving a nuclear equipped walking battle tank
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A lot of people say Bluesky is like Twitter, but one difference is that when I clicked on the obviously fake account, it was suspended.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
RIP to a titan of both experimental theatre and forbidden hair
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
They're talking about the Democratic Party. The most interesting trend in the Democratic Party is that it might court moderates.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This claim from David Brooks is baffling, especially because he spends the column to this point talking about 19th century history. The populist movement of that time was specifically and explicitly against the influence of the rich on government and had zero support from new-money tycoons.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I've been using Bluesky the way I should have used Twitter (never posting.)
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This period before Trump’s inauguration is a good time for everyone to re-read this 2020 @danbrooks.bsky.social essay about Trump, comedy, “ambiguous irony,” and outrage—the best piece of writing about how the Trump presidency affected popular culture last time around, in my view. t.co/ReuJhQzXAQ
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The beast in the jungle
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I can't think of anyone more qualified.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My man put his sandwich in the overhead bin, loose.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
oh you're hanging out with friends again?? ok well.. enjoy your echo chamber. i will be out with my enemies having a productive and intellectually enriching night of angrily stating and restating our standpoints on today's most important issues
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Savoy Tomato and Cheese in Tokyo. I was skeptical, but the recommendations were absolutely correct.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Voters wanted change, and the basic promise of the Harris campaign was continuity. So they went with the kind of change you get from a hand grenade. abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive...
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Exclusive: Woman told House Ethics panel she witnessed Gaetz having sex with minor, lawyer says
An attorney tells ABC News that one of his clients told the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed then-Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz having sex with a minor.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This guy
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
"Normal" is the left's "woke."
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I always bite on this prompt, because I am a reverse snob. Target Stable hand Stagehand Scenic carpenter Tutor
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Welcome new followers! Just to clarify, I am not the Dan Brooks who writes about Star Wars. Here is a picture of a dog wearing pants in Japan.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I'm donut?
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I agree with the first claim and strongly disagree with the second. We don't need propaganda. We need a progressive politics that improves American life for everybody.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Dear for best of who's grit
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
If anyone needs me for the next three hours, I'll be in this train car with 200 Japanese schoolchildren.
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Tad Harsh @tadharsh.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
"Incompetence is more common than malice, even though it makes for a less compelling plot" Good piece by @danbrooks.bsky.social in the graun. The last paragraph.
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Do you ever get the feeling that we're living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone | Dan Brooks
The once outlandish predictions of Ballard, DeLillo and (yes) The Simpsons are coming true. It’s time to author our own future, says writer Dan Brooks
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
It bums me out to see an editor talking this way. If you know anything about news journalism in general and the Times in particular, you know it doesn't work like that.
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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Belated big ups for this one from @danbrooks.bsky.social.
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Culture Needs More Jerks | Defector
This week, Defector has turned itself over to a guest editor. Brandy Jensen, former editor at Gawker (RIP) and The Outline (RIP), and writer of the Ask A Fuck Up advice column (subscribe here!), has c...
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Tottenham HotChicken in these streets @michaelgwhiz.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Oops, meant to tag @danbrooks.bsky.social on his excellent piece for Defector.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Haven't been here in a while, but I feathered my nest a little by blocking S*uthpaw. Together we can create a new network, without Twitter Lawyer Guys.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Guy with tattoos on his face rode his motorcycle up to the walkup window at the coffee hut, scaring Cracky. After I explained that he was timid, the guy — as a percentage of people will — tried to force an interaction. He even followed us when I led Cracky away.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
earlier when i was out walking my dog i saw some other guy walking his dog. and it’s just like, come on man. fuck you
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