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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie
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Debunker, journalist, shitposter, Tlönista. Former fun girl turned weird plant, book, cat, dragon lady. Chaotic good lovable rogue, generally friendly, mostly harmless.
Profile photo shows me, a smiling white woman with long light brown hair and brown eyes, sitting on a couch, surrounded by plants, with a grey and white cat on my lap with an absurd expression on his face. Header photo is an image of a sunset. (Both taken by me.)
James GleickThis is important, no matter how much you thought you already knew. Our lawless secret police (there's a German word for it: Gestapo) is seizing, jailing, tasing, and beating American citizens.
We Found That 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 nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
memeorandum'I love Hitler': Leaked messages expose Young Republicans' racist chat (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p88#a251014p88
Helen BranswellThis is not how science is supposed to work: @statnews's Lizzy Lawrence interviews #FDA staffers on how the agency is being asked to investigate issues of interest to Health Secretary Kennedy. “It’s like the tail wagging the dog.... Go find data to support this." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/fda-under-trump-rfk-jr-staff-describe-political-pressure/
World News Bot'Your appointment's rescheduled': Shutdown cancels US citizenship ceremonies https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgywnjkrlqo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Touaregtweet"Today the president is taking credit for a cease-fire in Gaza. But who, in America, was first in calling for that exact thing?
Students on campuses.
And what happened to them? They were banned from their own public spaces, all over the country."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-protest #Gaza #StudentProtest
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
T. Thorn Coyle they/themHappy Indigenous Peoples Day. Here’s a section of the poem Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, by Joy Harjo:
Recognize whose lands these are on which we stand.
Ask the deer, turtle, and the crane.
Make sure the spirits of these lands are respected and treated with goodwill.
The land is a being who remembers everything.
You will have to answer to your children, and their children, and theirs…
Okay well I guess I'm back here for a while then
Galactic JourneyTonight, come join us for the first episode of Science Fiction Theater! We're broadcasting something classic and #ScienceFiction -al every Thursday night at 7pm PDT!
Ars TechnicaWe can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 lecture on YouTube
The lecture featured Hopper discussing future challenges of protecting information.
