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Millie Brigaud

@milliebrigaud.bsky.social
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Reporter wearing many hats @thetimes.com. I write the weekly Good Times newsletter and breaking news. I also like investigating and looking at data. @compjcdf / Cardiff Jomec grad 🇫🇷🇺🇸

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/05/2026
Rawbraining it
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
@lb-southwark.bsky.social put up a fancy new sign in my building with social handles and everything, but they spelled the name wrong 🫠 It’s *Leysdown Hose*
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Brilliant, happy read by @annadowell.bsky.social. I feel inspired to start collecting more data on myself. Unparalleled parker ticks off each bay in his second Sainsbury’s www.thetimes.com/article/e7d2...
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Unparalleled parker ticks off each bay in his second Sainsbury’s
Alexander the Great is said to have cried salt tears when there were no worlds left to conquer. Luckily for Gareth Wild, there’s a Morrisons and Lidl in Devizes
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Trump’s reasons for bombing Iran have all either been unproven or disproven, according to government officials, international weapons monitoring groups, and American intelligence reports. This NYT story is a day old but still newsworthy and worth a read:
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Great thread by Jade explaining what a data centre is and dispelling a few myths
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Hot take: Don’t use what an AI chatbot says as your hook for an article. For example: “ChatGPT says X, but actually it’s Y” or “I asked some AI chatbot to tell me such and such thing and here’s what it said.” I read this type of lede about once a week now. I find it both uninteresting and lazy.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My LinkedIn is full of people who were laid off. It’s shocking.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Ouais. 😔💛
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Minnesota Star Tribune. And a rundown of their latest on the crackdown: bit.ly/4pXDlDC
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump has signed more executive orders in the last year than during his entire first term. The result? An increase in government revenue, thanks partly to tariffs. But also stubborn inflation, growing unrest, and a record number of people in ICE detention. www.thetimes.com/article/98d9...
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Trump’s second term: a visual guide to a year like no other
From signing 228 executive orders to imposing widespread trade tariffs, the US president has reshaped America’s economy, borders and global standing
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I went up to Newark, Nottinghamshire yesterday to speak to Robert Jenrick’s constituents. Here’s what they had to say about their MP’s defection and his work in Newark more generally. www.thetimes.com/article/b713...
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Robert Jenrick quit Tories for sake of his own career, voters say
Reform is a ‘party of traitors’, says Kemi Badenoch as 57 per cent tell a Times-YouGov poll the former shadow justice secretary defected for his own ambitions
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Such an interesting analysis of the UK’s top 40 songs. I’ve definitely sensed pop music getting more gloomy and physical, but the extent of the change and other insights were more surprising
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A good explainer / overview of the missed deadline and what has or hasn’t been released
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NEW: On a podcast last month, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: - said HIV “very likely came from a lab.” - said Lyme disease came from a lab—“a high degree of probability.” - said the so-called “Montauk Monster”—a bloated, dead raccoon carcass—was proof “mad scientists” were doing experiments.
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FDA Commissioner: HIV “May Very Well Have Come From a Lab”
During a recent podcast appearance, Dr. Marty Makary promoted lab origin conspiracy theories involving HIV, Lyme disease, and one dead raccoon.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I loved helping out with @geraldinescott.co.uk‘s piece on the art Labour has hung up in government buildings. Art is “a very useful and cheap way of doing politics,” Dr. Buckley at Goldsmiths Uni told me. Recently, there’s been renewed interest in art as gov’t PR. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Labour ministers ditch stately prints for modern art
Classical landscapes have vanished from the walls of Whitehall in favour of Turner prize nominees. ‘The aristos are out,’ says our critic
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Unbelievable. Since when is the law and justice dependent on expediency?
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is a must-read for anyone in the news industry, and especially people hiring freelancers. We need a more efficient way to catch AI scammers. This problem undermines trust in journalism when it is already critically low, and it threatens genuine freelancers. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Last night, my friends threw a pasta and PowerPoint party. So naturally I did my presentation on freedom of information and subject access requests. What could be more fun and exciting than that??? Anyway, it was actually a hit. I’m helping someone submit a SAR today 💁🏻‍♀️ #foi #freedomofinformation
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/11/2025
At the very bottom of the US Army’s “Shutdown Guidance” for troops in Bavaria, there was a “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags” including various local food banks. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/army-tells-s...
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
7 am today oops
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This election has me absolutely WIRED. It’s 1:15 am in London, and I have work at 7 am tomorrow 🫠
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 27/10/2025
🔔 First, listen to this PSA from @johncusack.bsky.social on the need to unpaywall public records reporting. Then, RSVP to our webinar and hear @josephcox.bsky.social and @katie-drummond.bsky.social discuss why this is so essential. 🗓️ Oct. 29, 2 p.m. EDT freedom.press/unpaywalled
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Big news for Wales and the whole UK
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
There is so much in this. Well worth reading. And it makes me wonder what happens when the AI news sites start generating content off of other AI fake news content 🫣 www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...
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AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs
A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
It was a sea of colors and American flags, and the speeches were almost drowned out by cars and trucks honking in support as they drove by. There were no counter protestors. As the event came to a close and people cleared out, one passerby could be heard booing.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Anne Paluck, 74, said “we’re upset about just about everything that’s been happening.” “My father fought in WWII, and I’m so glad he’s not here to see this because he would be devastated. Those people risked everything for democracy and now these people are trying to take it away from our country.”
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Placards displayed a mix of anti-Trump and pro-democracy messages.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
5,000 people gathered in front of Princeton’s revolutionary war monument yesterday for the town’s No Kings protest, more than the estimated 3,000+ that attended the last. #nokings #protest #america #princeton #newjersey
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Quality reporting, and an excellent example of collecting data when the government fails to do so itself. @propublica.org “compiled cases by sifting through both English- and Spanish-language social media, lawsuits, court records and local media reports.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Claire Miller @clairemiller.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This week has been #BannedBooksWeekUK but going through #FOI data on complaints and removal requests, UK library books mostly stay on the shelves. clairemiller.net/2025/10/are-...
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Are UK library books at risk of being banned? - Words + Numbers
How many complaints have UK libraries had about books and are they responding by removing titles from their shelves?
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Just confused why this wasn’t done sooner. There is no convincing argument for excluding foreign journalists from reporting on this conflict.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The BBC, AFP, AP, and Reuters released a short film calling on Israel to let foreign journalists into Gaza. Unlike other conflicts, in “Gaza, the job of reporting falls solely to Palestinian journalists who are paying a terrible cost, leaving fewer to bear witness.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BBC and news agencies launch film calling on Israel to allow foreign journalists into Gaza - BBC News
Israel does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza independently, citing security grounds.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Paddington station right now
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Obsessed with this
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Taylor Luck @taylorluck.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Foreign media outlets rely on Gazans to risk their lives daily for their reporting, yet absolutely nothing is done to protect them from being killed in Israeli strikes. Any journalist worth the title should be ashamed. #journalismisnotacrime #gaza #israel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Four journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, say health officials
Deaths take the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the conflict since 7 October 2023 to at least 192
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A horrifying and important read www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
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ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction
Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
www.thetimes.com/article/12a4...
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Homelessness minister quits after ‘hiking rent at house by £700 a month’
Rushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green & Stepney, steps down from government after being described by the Tories as an example of ‘staggering hypocrisy’
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
First page 1 byline! Pretty excited about it, I won’t lie ☺️
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Following an update to Grok, which according to Elon Musk aimed to stop it from "parroting legacy media" and politically correct views, Grok called itself "MechaHitler", praised Hitler for stopping anti-white hatred, complained about "Jewish surnames", and posted about sexually assaulting a user.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
An average of 37 phones were stolen a day in the West End last year. As London’s phone theft epidemic soars to record levels, I got a hold of neighbourhood-level data to reveal the hotspots. (More coming soon on the hoops I had to jump through for this data!) www.thetimes.com/article/8a2d...
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London mobile phone thefts hit a record high
Met Police data reveals that 37 people a day, on average, have their phone snatched in the West End — but the true figure may be higher as crimes go unreported
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Three quarters of UK voters *don’t* want Reform in power, but because of the first-past-the-post system, they’re projected to win 42% of seats in the House of Commons. Interesting column by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here is the single thing Labour can do to see off Reform and make British politics work | Will Hayward
Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Super interesting
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Dogs for democracy!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
For those at No Kings protests today, @gelliottmorris.com is trying to get counts of protestors. Help out if you have the information.
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Someone shared this footage from the No Kings protest in Princeton with me
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/04/2025
‘TheTrillionDollarDinner.Gov’ Registered Around Time of Trump’s Pay-to-Play Memecoin Dinner Announcement 🔗 www.404media.co/thetrilliond...
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‘TheTrillionDollarDinner.Gov’ Registered Around Time of Trump’s Pay-to-Play Memecoin Dinner Announcement
Other official government domains included DinnerForAmerica.gov and TheTrillion.Gov, and signal that there may have been plans to incorporate official government internet infrastructure with the meme ...
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Millie Brigaud @milliebrigaud.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Cycling down Jamaica Rd with no cars yesterday was pure bliss until I hit the race aftermath 🙈
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