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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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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
[Reagan.wav]
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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 · 24/02/2025
I'm starting to worry about a Gillian Anderson-Krysten Sinema convergence.
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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 · 15/02/2025
media.tenor.com
an older man with a beard is smiling and looking at the camera .
ALT: an older man with a beard is smiling and looking at the camera .
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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
Great interview
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Really good, especially the Homer list, which might also benefit from Last Exit to Springfield (in which he becomes head of the union.)
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I got a CD copy of Exile in Guyville for the car and do not regret it at all.
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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
Ban the economy
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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
This is really fun, except for the songs that give me a panic attack.
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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 Times wants Trump because it'll sell more papers" has got to be one of the dumbest ideas on social media. Like they're all worried they're going to run out of news
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Smart — the Pepto cushions the stomach upset of the Advil, like doing coke and ludes.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Yeah, I agree it is a really bad argument. I think Trump and his admin are cynical rather than stupid, but for sure no good judge would accept it. But it's not like the press sec doesn't know what a legal opinion is.
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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
Do I agree? No. Am I a judge? Also no. But neither is Trump or any number of past presidents and their administrations, all of whom interpreted the law and were checked or not by the judicial branch. This stuff sucks but it's not insane or stupid.
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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
Systematically wrong about everything
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I don't know Noah Smith's work; I just know him as the guy who goes viral on Twitter for saying something stupid every ten days.
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Yglesias is the most boring writer in America. He was born with maximal resources, never had to work, devoted his entire life to thinking and writing, and developed the insight of a Roomba.
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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
From his recent column, which starts strong but turns embarrassing www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...
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Opinion | How Trump Will Fail (Gift Article)
The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.
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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 · 22/01/2025
I finished it on Sunday, and it rules. Like Borges but emotional rather than conceptual
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Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I think you may have me confused with the Dan Brooks who writes about Star Wars.
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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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