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Daniel James Brown

@danieljamesbrown.bsky.social
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Author: THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, FACING THE MOUNTAIN, THE INDIFFERENT STARS ABOVE, and UNDER A FLAMING SKY. I write about the American character, as it once was. Fie on fascists, racists, and misogynists. www.danieljamesbrown.com/books

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2025
i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
They want us to memory hole tearing down the American flag to fly Trump’s.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
“McConnell laid the blame for Jan. 6 squarely at the feet of Trump. In private, he said things like: ‘If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is’ and indicated he expected bipartisan support for a vote to convict Trump … And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict.”
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Say what you want about Biden, he’s not out there claiming he actually won the election and sending a mob to the US Capitol to “fight like Hell” or they won’t have a country anymore. Republicans rightly condemned Trump on this day in 2021. He was unfit then. He is unfit now.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
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Greg Is Blue @gregisblue.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Adjudicated rapist says what?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Elon Musk has changed his X profile. His avatar is now Pepe the Frog, a mascot adopted by white supremacists. His name is a Latinisation of “Kek”, a phrase used by neo-Nazis. Musk has also backed AfD in Germany, the political home for racists. The man is telling us explicitly what he’s about.
Elon Musk’s new profile on X. Is shows Pepe the Frog as the profile pic and his name is changed to Kekius Maximus
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Musk's opinion piece for the German paper Die Welt, endorsing a right-wing extremist political party, matters a lot more for us than you might think, so I spent some time putting together a look at German politics, Musk's views, and the reaction to them. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...
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Musk in Die Welt
It did not take long for Eva Marie Kogel, the opinion editor at Die Welt, Germany’s paper of record, to decide what the right thing for her to do was.
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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is so cool
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
My latest. I wanted to take today off but I think more Americans need to know this before it's forgotten by tomorrow. "Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News" thelefthook.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
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Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News
Elon Musk & J.D. Vance tweeted in support of the AfD Party whose racist, anti-immigrant ideologies are shared by a terrorist who just killed 5 people in Germany. Maybe it's not "economic anxiety."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an “organization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 19/12/2024
This is ridiculous. Republicans might as well cut out the middle man and make Putin Speaker.
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Rand Paul floats Musk for speaker
The unconventional suggestion from one of the least conventional senators comes amid a conservative revolt over government funding legislation.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/12/2024
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
When Trump says "we want our FBI back" what he really means is, he wants to make sure they can never investigate or prosecute him again. This is not democracy.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A reminder that Christopher Wray, a lifelong Republican, was appointed FBI Director by Donald Trump but later became a target of Trump and MAGA after refusing to follow Trump’s illegal orders, lie on his behalf, and his role in the investigation of the Jan. 6 inssurection
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“We are a country that stands on the precipice, just six weeks away from swearing in, for the second time, a wannabe “dictator” with ambitions to wildly reshape our democracy. There is a desire to tune out. I get it.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...
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We Can’t Just Tune Out Donald Trump
Exhaustion is understandable after a bitter election, but ignoring what’s happening won’t make it go away.
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A little louder for the folks in the back: The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My daughter and I are obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" books. There is much drinking of grog in these books, so we whipped up a batch. Not bad, though quite apt to make you start belting out sea shanties at the top of your lungs if you indulge in more than a single glass.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Cassidy Hutchinson is one of the many people on Trash Patel's hit list. Her "crime"? She testified before the j6 committee. She was pressured by Trump's camp to downplay what she knew. She did not. This is one of the many reasons Trash Patel cannot have any role in law enforcement.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Elon Musk thinks HE won the election and gets to be the autocrat. Fascist and delusional to the core.
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Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
www.bookweb.org/news/year-da... Truly astonished and gratified to find The Boys in the Boat still on this list thirteen years after publication.
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The Year-To-Date 2024 Indie Bestsellers List
Here is the Year-To-Date 2024 Indie Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the period of January 1, 2024 to November 24, 2024.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Wow. When CNN reached out to multiple experts in doxxing, cyber bullying, and online abuse they refused to speak on the record for fear of themselves becoming a target of Elon Musk. Wow. This is where we’re @ ?! /1 www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...
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Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business
When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
One of the reasons why fascism is for losers is that they realize they've already lost the future. They turn to fascism because they see that they're residual culture, they've lost dominance. They can't win when they play by the rules, so they break democracy.
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hey @blueskystarterpack.com please add: go.bsky.app/R6VvfGB
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Mueller didn’t say he was innocent. Cannon didn’t say he was innocent. Merchan didn’t say he was innocent. Chutkan didn’t say he was innocent. Jack Smith didn’t say he was innocent. He got away with all of it. And not a one of them said he was innocent of any of it. Not one.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 25/11/2024
These words are engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court. It's time for them to be removed. They're clearly no longer accurate.
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
After today, Americans may well go on saying that no one is above the law. But no one will believe it. Nor should they. Trump has destroyed that America forever more. #trump #jacksmith
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In these trying times , I keep thinking about people I've written about. Today I'm thinking of Sarah Graves, who, starving, hiked her way over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the winter of 1846 to tell the world of the tragedy unfolding at Donner Lake. If she could do that, maybe I can survive Trump.
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I created a starter pack with links to authors of narrative nonfiction books. True tales from history, adventure, sports, and contemporary life. If you write such, let me know. go.bsky.app/R6VvfGB
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
1/After Trump claimed he didn't know anything about Project 2025, I wrote several columns for my newsletter, Civil Discourse, documenting that wasn't true. Now that he's appointed Russ Vought to his cabinet, here's a little refresher b/c Project 2025 is coming joycevance.substack.com/p/more-lies-...
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More Lies About Project 2025
Today, we learned that Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts will delay the publication of his book, “Dawn’s Early Light,” (foreword by GOP VP nominee J.D.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Two questions: a) What was the happiest single day in American history? b) The saddest?
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Because of the nature of the allegations, the attending nurse was required to report the visit to law enforcement authorities. The police report described the alleged offense as ‘Rape: Victim unconscious of the nature of the act,’ and recommended [local D.A. review]” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...
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Police Report Offers Graphic Details of Sexual Assault Claim Against Hegseth
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary was never charged with a crime and vehemently denied to the police that a sexual encounter was coerced.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Pretty clear signal of how damning that Ethics report is.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
RFK Jr revealed that his group, Children’s Health Defense, financed “Plandemic,” a conspiracy “documentary” suggesting the COVID-19 pandemic was government planned.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Friendly reminder: If the Gaetz House Ethics report exonerated him, the GOP would be clamoring to release it. They know what it says—and are refusing to release it. That’s all you need to know about just how damning it is.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
MOOD FOR THE NEXT FOUR FUCKING YEARS. #goodtrouble
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just an incredible sentence to appear in a news story about the man who might be the next attorney general.
Joel Leppard, an attorney representing two women who claimed former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz paid them for sex, told CNN on Monday that Gaetz paid for sexual favors through his adopted son Nestor’s PayPal account
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Call me a heretic, burn me at the stake if you must, but I'm stuck on this crazy idea that facts matter and I plan to stick to it.
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Daniel James Brown @danieljamesbrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hi all....Just arrived here. I write narrative nonfiction--The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain most recently. Always enjoy connecting with other writers, especially those interested in history. #writing #author #booksky #history
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