Reposted by Dan BrooksBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Good @danbrooks.bsky.socialdefector.comAmerican Freedom | DefectorOn 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... 26711
Reposted by Dan BrooksBen 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...defector.comAmerican Freedom | DefectorOn 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... 062
Reposted by Dan BrooksBen Fowlkes @benfowlkes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Hey 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/...sports.yahoo.comA 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. 3171
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I wrote about the Trump Gaza video and MAGA irony more generally for the Times Mag. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/m...nytimes.comHow Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA StyleOnline Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies. 0111
Reposted by Dan BrooksJeremy Gordon @jeremygordon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Launching 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 051
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2025For the Atlantic, I wrote about people saying "oneshotted" online — the place it's least likely to happen to you. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...theatlantic.comWhy Is Everyone Talking About Getting ‘Oneshotted’?A slang term for the extremely online also serves as a weird mirror of the internet experience. 141
Reposted by Dan BrooksBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025begging people to get a grip www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1116710
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Part of being married is silently watching them destroy all the nonstick surfaces in the house. No one tells you. 021
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Nick learned these events were happening from the hooting of an owl. They were revealed to him in a dream. 040
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Sinead O'Connor Liz Phair Tina Turner Corin Tucker Chan Marshall 250
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025My generation has experienced a US economy that is not instrumental to human flourishing but antithetical to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...nytimes.comThe 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. 150
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Seeing 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. 030
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Firefighter: [after my house burns down] Fucking fire, am I right? 1100
Reposted by Dan Brooksthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/01/2025in 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" 661058
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The 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. 110
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025If 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! 130
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025My stepsister has a developmental disability and both these guys are fat pussies. 1101
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Caity Weaver is so funny, man. She makes me jealous. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...nytimes.comHow 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? 041
Reposted by Dan Brooksbakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025here comes pete hogsex with two bottles of gin in one of those beer can helmets and hes driving a nuclear equipped walking battle tank 28102190
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025A lot of people say Bluesky is like Twitter, but one difference is that when I clicked on the obviously fake account, it was suspended. 130
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025RIP to a titan of both experimental theatre and forbidden hair 010
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025They're talking about the Democratic Party. The most interesting trend in the Democratic Party is that it might court moderates. 020
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025This 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. 1190
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I've been using Bluesky the way I should have used Twitter (never posting.) 2220
Reposted by Dan BrooksWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This 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 0113
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024My man put his sandwich in the overhead bin, loose. 040
Reposted by Dan Brooksmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 17/11/2024oh 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 163024717
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Savoy Tomato and Cheese in Tokyo. I was skeptical, but the recommendations were absolutely correct. 040
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Voters 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...abcnews.go.comExclusive: Woman told House Ethics panel she witnessed Gaetz having sex with minor, lawyer saysAn 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. 020
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 11/11/2024I always bite on this prompt, because I am a reverse snob. Target Stable hand Stagehand Scenic carpenter Tutor 030
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Welcome 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. 040
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024I 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. 020
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 07/11/2024If anyone needs me for the next three hours, I'll be in this train car with 200 Japanese schoolchildren. 020
Reposted by Dan BrooksTad 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.theguardian.comDo you ever get the feeling that we're living in a postmodern fiction? You’re not alone | Dan BrooksThe 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 021
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2024It 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. 100
Reposted by Dan BrooksThe Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 03/06/2024Belated big ups for this one from @danbrooks.bsky.social.defector.comCulture Needs More Jerks | DefectorThis 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... 111
Reposted by Dan BrooksTottenham HotChicken in these streets @michaelgwhiz.bsky.social · 30/05/2024Oops, meant to tag @danbrooks.bsky.social on his excellent piece for Defector. 011
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2024Haven'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. 000
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 20/10/2023Guy 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. 110
Reposted by Dan BrooksJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/10/2023earlier 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 321538156