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Jennifer Brokaw

@jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social
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Retired physician. Wigging out about US autocracy, the next pandemic and CO2 levels. I deleted my LinkedIn, so don’t bother. jenniferbrokaw.substack.com

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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think we coined the term Fro Yo on college campuses here in Cali during the early 80s😉
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When you get into your 60s, the vaccine recommendations ramp up! Flu, Pneumococcus, COVID, RSV, Shingles😬😅 Of course, I’ll get them all, just not all at once. #vaccines
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can we can wallow in sadness and rage over what happened at Cornell while ignoring prostitution and trafficking in our communities? 😣 #sextrafficking www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...
sfchronicle.com
What I learned from the trafficked women on ‘the Blade’ in Oakland
A reporter shares the violence and isolation she saw on Oakland’s International Boulevard.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Someday, everyone will have been against this. 😶
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Say it loud, @anandwrites.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When climate scientists say things are going to be horrendous, people find out many years later that we’re right. With this El Niño, the “find out” part will come in months.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When there’s a job to be done….
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Accountability porn👇🏼 newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
The Five Trump Scandals That Deserve Thorough Investigation
A guide for the Democrats’ coming congressional majority
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Safe to say, Cornell’s female applicant pool is shrinking faster than the Greenland glacier.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Worth every minute of the 20 mins it takes to read. If you don’t have the time, the tldr (I still think worth the time) is there are plenty of tax loopholes to close without having to enact a wealth tax (that don’t work anyway). #economics #wealthtax
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Once you go EV, there’s no going back. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Sharply Scales Back Fuel Economy Rules for New Cars
The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fascinating to see the moves they’re making while so down in the polls and in danger of losing power. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We have reached the next level of authoritarianism. Not that they were getting the truth from briefings anyway. #journalism www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
nytimes.com
Live Updates: CNN and MS NOW Reporters Denied White House Access After Trump Announces Ban
President Trump announced a ban on Friday on the outlets, whose coverage he deems unfair. The move will likely be challenged in court.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Under-reported.👇🏼
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Quakers are for real.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now Annie Dillard is gone😰 #booksky
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Expanding Heathrow would add as much carbon to the atmosphere as the city of Birmingham. www.ft.com/content/a8cd...
ft.com
Heathrow expansion incompatible with climate goals, UK government advisers warn
New runway would emit as much CO₂ as the city of Birmingham, says independent Climate Change Committee
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today's cartoon by Bill Bramhall:
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So many great candidates for the Trying To Kill Us All award. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com
RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you want to understand American politics and society, you should read this article about the outsized influence of “everyday millionaires.” Private business owners across America who are the beneficiaries of hard work, free markets and under-taxation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Americans Don’t Understand Who’s Rich
The small-business owners with curiously large fortunes
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fossil fuel industry is worried AI will beat them to the punch of knocking out humanity…
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Earthjustice is keeping it real. Support Earthjustice. #climatescience earthjustice.org/article/airp...
earthjustice.org
Airplane Turbulence May Worsen Thanks to Trump
Pilots depend on climate data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to fly. The government wants to dismantle it.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Adam was a year ahead of me in high school. A scholarship athlete from a less privileged background than most of us. Widely beloved…now honored by a school in his name❤️ #9/11 www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-09...
ctpublic.org
Connecticut family turns 9/11 loss into a legacy of education
Adam J. Lewis was working at the twin towers as a trader on the day of the attack. To honor his legacy in the years since, his family has built a school that bears his name.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Voter turn-out, voter turn-out, voter-turnout, voter turn-out. #Midterms #VoteThemOut #SmashFascism #FairCount www.mobilize.us/faircount/ev...
mobilize.us
National Voter Registration Day Phone Bank · Fair Count
We're coming together across the country for National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 15—one of the most important days of the year for expanding the electorate! Fair Count, BAJI, and N...
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Throwing patients in jail for non-payment, then voting to repeal the ACA is some kind of sick. #whatsthematterwithKansas www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
nytimes.com
Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You know when the next huge No Kings March is? NOV 3, BABY. 💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pasadena, folks. Pasadena! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Protestors on sidewalk in Pasadena, California holding anti-ICE, anti-Trump signs
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dear Candidate, I don’t care about your fundraising goals. I care about your commitment to your constituents, and the Constitution. Sincerely, A Fickle Donor. #elections
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The @nytimes.com keeps me as a subscriber by publishing just enough pieces like this. Fascinating. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Shocked. Not. Impeach them all.😠
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🇨🇦Ⓥ🇨🇦 @doomrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm running out of ways to say we're fucked. www.facebook.com/share/1PRqE1...
The Gulf of Mexico’s average SST is now at a record high for the date while the Gulf Stream is making a hard right turn off New England and heading nearly due east before entirely disappearing from the surface far to the SW of Ireland. It normally travels much further north and maintains much more flow.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/08/2026
If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping, he can find time to testify in front of Congress about reports that NVIDIA technology is powering Russia’s war machine.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
But, is Jensen Huang losing sleep? 😱 #nvidia #AI www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
nytimes.com
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. (Gift Article)
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
70yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Now is an excellent time to learn to cook and even grow some food.😬 #foodsafety
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I can think of no bigger failure of a functioning society than sanctioned gambling on wildfires or other natural disasters. #polymarketmustgo www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
'That was fun.' As L.A. burned, online gamblers bet on how much the fires would destroy
While Southern California was burning in January 2025, people online were placing money on potential outcomes. Experts say the possibility of making money on disasters can create dangerous incentives.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Save our sailors😠
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
'It’s been a revelation': how heat pumps can cool your home as temperatures soar. It might seem an unlikely way to stop overheating, but many owners have found the tech a lifeline in hot weather. "If it is 35C outdoors, I can get the temperature down to 21C" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘It’s been a revelation’: how heat pumps can cool your home in a heatwave
It might seem an unlikely way to stop overheating, but many owners have found the tech a lifeline in hot weather
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Speechless.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States.
Line chart titled "The pace of job growth in Canada has outpaced job growth in the United States" showing cumulative percent change in employment since December 2024 for Canada and the United States. Canada's employment has grown 1.34% while US employment has increased just 0.34%, meaning Canadian job growth has outpaced the United States by nearly four to one. Canada's employment growth accelerated sharply from 0.98% in June 2026 to 1.34% in July 2026, the highest rate in the period shown, while US employment growth has remained relatively stable between 0.3% and 0.36% from April through July 2026.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.
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Banned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles away
Women in the team, which is recognised by Fifa, say football has given them freedom and independence.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We need a new DNC Chair, STAT. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
nytimes.com
Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party (Gift Article)
The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“No one should have to weigh the risk of being shot before attending an event, gathering with friends, or experiencing their city,” -Mayor Katie Wilson, Seattle. 😞 1/2
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Jennifer Brokaw @jenniferbrokaw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The answers are all out there. #renewableenergy #batteries
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Taylor Farms' parent company has given $2.2M to GOP PACs this election cycle. That includes $1M to Trump's own PAC, just 6 days after the FDA delayed new food tracing requirements last year. Money in politics is sickening.
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