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Janna Brancolini

@jannabrancolini.bsky.social

Reporter for The Daily Beast covering politics, culture, legal affairs and breaking news. Former Bloomberg and Los Angeles Times. janna.brancolini@thedailybeast.com

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Janna Brancolini @jannabrancolini.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Andrew Carnegie built libraries, auditoriums, museums, research labs, universities and a literal peace palace. Today's richest men are sending pop stars to space, firing the actual scientists, cutting off research funding and doing... this.

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Janna Brancolini @jannabrancolini.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

All CDC pages with anything gender/equity are down. From a doctor: "Including all physician-specific treatment guidelines on STIs, HIV, etc. Literally our fellow group chat is like 'does someone have the downloaded STD treatment guidelines because they no longer exist and I need to treat a patient'"

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Janna Brancolini @jannabrancolini.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I admit I was intrigued by the constitutional basis for this idea, but it turns out state-sponsored piracy has some serious drawbacks. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...

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MAGA Senator Floats Crazy Plan for ‘Pirates’ to Fight Cartels and Take a Cut

Mike Lee has been fantasizing about state-sponsored piracy for more than a decade.

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Janna Brancolini @jannabrancolini.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Reality check. Even rural Pennsylvania is not cool with salutes that bear a striking resemblance to 1930s Germany.

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Janna Brancolini @jannabrancolini.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Friendly reminder that the Biden administration isn't actually enforcing the TikTok ban. The app went dark to make Donald Trump happy so he can be the "hero" who saves it. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

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Janna Brancolini @jannabrancolini.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A ChatGPT query consumes at least 10 times the energy of a Google search and requires a bottle of water per 100 words of text to cool its data centers. Maaaaybe we could be just a little more discerning in how we use this technology? www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...

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