Dan Brooks
@danbrooks.bsky.social
As seen in The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The Atlantic, various other places that went out of business but I was just freelancing, hi.
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"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
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American Freedom | Defector
On 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...
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April 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"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
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Hey 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/...
A 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.
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March 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hey 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/...
I wrote about the Trump Gaza video and MAGA irony more generally for the Times Mag. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/m...
How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style
Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I wrote about the Trump Gaza video and MAGA irony more generally for the Times Mag. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/m...
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Launching 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
March 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Launching 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
For the Atlantic, I wrote about people saying "oneshotted" online — the place it's least likely to happen to you. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Why Is Everyone Talking About Getting ‘Oneshotted’?
A slang term for the extremely online also serves as a weird mirror of the internet experience.
www.theatlantic.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
For the Atlantic, I wrote about people saying "oneshotted" online — the place it's least likely to happen to you. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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begging people to get a grip www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
February 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
begging people to get a grip www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Part of being married is silently watching them destroy all the nonstick surfaces in the house. No one tells you.
February 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Part of being married is silently watching them destroy all the nonstick surfaces in the house. No one tells you.
Nick learned these events were happening from the hooting of an owl. They were revealed to him in a dream.
February 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Nick learned these events were happening from the hooting of an owl. They were revealed to him in a dream.
Sinead O'Connor
Liz Phair
Tina Turner
Corin Tucker
Chan Marshall
Liz Phair
Tina Turner
Corin Tucker
Chan Marshall
In our continued effort to get to know members of our Bluesky community better, we’re curious…who are your five favorite FEMALE SINGERS / VOCALISTS of all time?
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dolores o'riordan
angel olsen
ella fitzgerald
phoebe bridgers
norah jones
Hmmmm.
- Hayley Williams
- Stevie Nicks
- Michelle Branch
- Shirley Manson
- Taylor Swift
Honorable mentions: Emily Massey (Slow Pulp), Blondshell, Sia, Soccer Mommy, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Charli XCX, Olivia Rodrigo, Britty Drake (Pity Sex), Laura Jane Grace, Karen O
- Hayley Williams
- Stevie Nicks
- Michelle Branch
- Shirley Manson
- Taylor Swift
Honorable mentions: Emily Massey (Slow Pulp), Blondshell, Sia, Soccer Mommy, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Charli XCX, Olivia Rodrigo, Britty Drake (Pity Sex), Laura Jane Grace, Karen O
February 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Sinead O'Connor
Liz Phair
Tina Turner
Corin Tucker
Chan Marshall
Liz Phair
Tina Turner
Corin Tucker
Chan Marshall
Real pretty morning
February 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Real pretty morning
My generation has experienced a US economy that is not instrumental to human flourishing but antithetical to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
The 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.
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February 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My generation has experienced a US economy that is not instrumental to human flourishing but antithetical to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...
Seeing 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.
February 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Seeing 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.
Firefighter: [after my house burns down] Fucking fire, am I right?
When you’re in line at the supermarket next week and prices have gone up, you’ll know who to blame:
Donald Trump and his tariffs.
Donald Trump and his tariffs.
January 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Firefighter: [after my house burns down] Fucking fire, am I right?
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in 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"
January 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
in 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"
I probably did say that.
January 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I probably did say that.
The 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.
The new York times wanted Trump to win the election and Paul Krugman did not want Trump to win the election and so Paul Krugman no longer works there
“I felt that my byline was being used to create a storyline that was no longer mine. So I left.”
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January 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The 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.
If 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!
What is a “legal opinion”? Says Trump’s “legal opinion” is that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional
January 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If 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!
My stepsister has a developmental disability and both these guys are fat pussies.
January 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
My stepsister has a developmental disability and both these guys are fat pussies.
Caity Weaver is so funny, man. She makes me jealous. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...
How 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?
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Caity Weaver is so funny, man. She makes me jealous. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...
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here comes pete hogsex with two bottles of gin in one of those beer can helmets and hes driving a nuclear equipped walking battle tank
January 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
here comes pete hogsex with two bottles of gin in one of those beer can helmets and hes driving a nuclear equipped walking battle tank
A lot of people say Bluesky is like Twitter, but one difference is that when I clicked on the obviously fake account, it was suspended.
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A lot of people say Bluesky is like Twitter, but one difference is that when I clicked on the obviously fake account, it was suspended.
RIP to a titan of both experimental theatre and forbidden hair
Writer/Director/Genius Richard Foreman has died at age 87.
“I’m there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing from my life. And if other people don’t like it, I’m very unhappy, but I can’t do anything about it.”
“I’m there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing from my life. And if other people don’t like it, I’m very unhappy, but I can’t do anything about it.”
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
RIP to a titan of both experimental theatre and forbidden hair