Brian Broadus
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Architecture. Architectural History. Historic Preservation. Charleston, Charlottesville, Cairo. Clemson University, University of Virginia. Devoted to Chelsea Football Club, and to my wife, Lynn, forever.
Moved to Cleveland to join a coastal elite.
Moved to Cleveland to join a coastal elite.
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Brian Broadus
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ยท May 14
"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
Theodore Bear applauds your service.
January 17, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Theodore Bear applauds your service.
As a UVa guy, it's a start. Good, but a start. Be thorough, Abigail.
January 17, 2026 at 1:08 AM
As a UVa guy, it's a start. Good, but a start. Be thorough, Abigail.
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โIf theyโll murder a U.S. citizen in broad daylight in front of dozens of people filming it โ and still lie about it โ imagine what theyโre doing to immigrants when no one is watching. Imagine wtf is in those Epstein files.โ
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January 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
โIf theyโll murder a U.S. citizen in broad daylight in front of dozens of people filming it โ and still lie about it โ imagine what theyโre doing to immigrants when no one is watching. Imagine wtf is in those Epstein files.โ
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Democrats almost always prefer to follow polls over actually leading. The fact that they're *not* following polls on ICE (which a plurality of voters want to abolish) tells us a lot about who they actually work for.
Indeed. Progressive Democrats in the Senate should be pushing to slash, decrease (if not just zero out) ICE funding - instead of looking to maintain the status quo of "zero increases."
The status quo shouldn't be acceptable.
The status quo shouldn't be acceptable.
Zero increases is not actually good.
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Democrats almost always prefer to follow polls over actually leading. The fact that they're *not* following polls on ICE (which a plurality of voters want to abolish) tells us a lot about who they actually work for.
Pretty sure it's plastic, not marble.
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Pretty sure it's plastic, not marble.
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has just published a piece about his โnew visionโ for NIAID.
Friends, it is an infuriating litany of unsupported claims and meandering nonsense that serve his political beliefs and not health or science.
Friends, it is an infuriating litany of unsupported claims and meandering nonsense that serve his political beliefs and not health or science.
The new vision from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Nature Medicine
Preparing for tomorrowโs threats by enhancing our ability to help patients today.
www.nature.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:34 PM
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has just published a piece about his โnew visionโ for NIAID.
Friends, it is an infuriating litany of unsupported claims and meandering nonsense that serve his political beliefs and not health or science.
Friends, it is an infuriating litany of unsupported claims and meandering nonsense that serve his political beliefs and not health or science.
His fingers really are short.
January 16, 2026 at 9:55 PM
His fingers really are short.
He applies his same 200-word vocabulary to every answer.
January 16, 2026 at 9:53 PM
He applies his same 200-word vocabulary to every answer.
Shouldn't they all be poodles?
January 16, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Shouldn't they all be poodles?
I read that CBP tossed a gas canister and maybe a flash-bang UNDER the car and the smoke filled the passenger compartment. Just for accuracy.
January 16, 2026 at 9:42 PM
I read that CBP tossed a gas canister and maybe a flash-bang UNDER the car and the smoke filled the passenger compartment. Just for accuracy.
Did the Assembly ever get around to repealing that "crimes against nature" law that basically criminalized anything other than vaginal sex?
January 16, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Did the Assembly ever get around to repealing that "crimes against nature" law that basically criminalized anything other than vaginal sex?
I have this poem printed and hanging next to my office desk next to the one that's my pinned tweet (quote from Steinbeck).
January 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I have this poem printed and hanging next to my office desk next to the one that's my pinned tweet (quote from Steinbeck).
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This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks continues to be an anchor on hard days.
January 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks continues to be an anchor on hard days.
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๐ณ Isaiah Taylor of Valar Atomicsโwhich somehow scored a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor by July 4โclaimed that โa person cld hold the spent nuclear fuel from [Valarโs] reactor in their hand & get the same amount of radiation as one would expect from a hospital CT scan.โ
About thatโฆ 1/
About thatโฆ 1/
January 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
๐ณ Isaiah Taylor of Valar Atomicsโwhich somehow scored a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor by July 4โclaimed that โa person cld hold the spent nuclear fuel from [Valarโs] reactor in their hand & get the same amount of radiation as one would expect from a hospital CT scan.โ
About thatโฆ 1/
About thatโฆ 1/
AISC is known to all of us architects and engineers of a certain age as publisher of the Manual of Steel Construction, indispensable and updated every few years. I still have the Blue edition.
January 16, 2026 at 9:08 PM
AISC is known to all of us architects and engineers of a certain age as publisher of the Manual of Steel Construction, indispensable and updated every few years. I still have the Blue edition.
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A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
January 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
Progress is being able to use a highly personalized application to order bad pizza more efficiently.
January 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Progress is being able to use a highly personalized application to order bad pizza more efficiently.
In all seriousness, it's part of a rehearsed GOP pitch that also references child sexual assault (DON'T THINK OF EPSTEIN) and "criminal aliens." Not injured women on the way to a doctor or 37-year-old moms. It's all a fantasy and bolstered by press releases that sound like AI.
January 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM
In all seriousness, it's part of a rehearsed GOP pitch that also references child sexual assault (DON'T THINK OF EPSTEIN) and "criminal aliens." Not injured women on the way to a doctor or 37-year-old moms. It's all a fantasy and bolstered by press releases that sound like AI.
Wait. You're NOT getting regular wads of Sorosbucks deposited on your doorstep in CAVA bags? Like the rest of us? I just assumed...
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Wait. You're NOT getting regular wads of Sorosbucks deposited on your doorstep in CAVA bags? Like the rest of us? I just assumed...
Jennings was McConnell's man for, what, decades? He's clearly transitioning to a new GOP gig.
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Jennings was McConnell's man for, what, decades? He's clearly transitioning to a new GOP gig.
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Trumpโs America. ๐๐บ๐ธ
January 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Trumpโs America. ๐๐บ๐ธ
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Was just going over some old issues of The Racket and found this. I wrote it in July 2024, just after the Republican convention.
January 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Was just going over some old issues of The Racket and found this. I wrote it in July 2024, just after the Republican convention.