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 · 24/02/2025I'm starting to worry about a Gillian Anderson-Krysten Sinema convergence. 100
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 · 15/02/2025media.tenor.coman 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 . 010
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 · 06/02/2025Really good, especially the Homer list, which might also benefit from Last Exit to Springfield (in which he becomes head of the union.) 010
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I got a CD copy of Exile in Guyville for the car and do not regret it at all. 020
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 · 29/01/2025This is really fun, except for the songs that give me a panic attack. 010
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 010
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Smart — the Pepto cushions the stomach upset of the Advil, like doing coke and ludes. 010
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Yeah, 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. 000
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 · 28/01/2025Do 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. 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 · 28/01/2025I 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. 120
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Yglesias 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. 150
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 · 24/01/2025From his recent column, which starts strong but turns embarrassing www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How Trump Will Fail (Gift Article)The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work. 030
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 · 22/01/2025I finished it on Sunday, and it rules. Like Borges but emotional rather than conceptual 010
Dan Brooks @danbrooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I think you may have me confused with the Dan Brooks who writes about Star Wars. 110
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