David W. Brown
@davidwbrown.com
Author of THE MISSION and THE OUTSIDE CATS (forthcoming).
✍️ Words for the New Yorker, &c.
🐈 Animal rescue is my thing.
🔐 Signal: dwb.11
🔗 https://davidwbrown.com
📍 New Orleans, but I have friends everywhere. 🌹
✍️ Words for the New Yorker, &c.
🐈 Animal rescue is my thing.
🔐 Signal: dwb.11
🔗 https://davidwbrown.com
📍 New Orleans, but I have friends everywhere. 🌹
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David W. Brown
@davidwbrown.com
· Jul 5
How to Save a Dog
For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.
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For @newyorker.com, I share the story of a little white dog, unwanted and set for euthanasia, his escape, and the nine surreal months an unlikely team spent trying to rescue him. It's about as New Orleans a story as you can get. 🧵 www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
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Convincing you to read WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by *also* sharing two paragraphs instead of one sentence. Because I'm a giver.
Share yours.
Share yours.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Convincing you to read WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by *also* sharing two paragraphs instead of one sentence. Because I'm a giver.
Share yours.
Share yours.
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This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
Happy Veterans Day! An excuse to drag out old photos of me looking vaguely annoyed. Except in the snowman picture—Blair, Phung, and I climbed atop a bunker and made a snowman during our first blizzard in Afghanistan.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Happy Veterans Day! An excuse to drag out old photos of me looking vaguely annoyed. Except in the snowman picture—Blair, Phung, and I climbed atop a bunker and made a snowman during our first blizzard in Afghanistan.
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What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
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An extraordinary issue. Still can’t believe i get to be part of this. 🥹 You will be blown away by these poems. ❤️
Looking beyond to 2026—!—and grateful to be working with the one and only @alinaetc.bsky.social as guest poetry editor for Turkoslavia's fifth.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
An extraordinary issue. Still can’t believe i get to be part of this. 🥹 You will be blown away by these poems. ❤️
meanwhile on cat tv
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
meanwhile on cat tv
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The blazing cowardice of the centre-right:
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The blazing cowardice of the centre-right:
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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did anyone else's vision go suddenly white like you were staring at the sun or was that just me
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
did anyone else's vision go suddenly white like you were staring at the sun or was that just me
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This brightened my day amidst the world’s gloom and doom. It brings me pure joy.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This brightened my day amidst the world’s gloom and doom. It brings me pure joy.
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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for fucks sake, democrats.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
for fucks sake, democrats.
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This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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Sharing this haunting micro-fiction by Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social , an American poet based in Boston. I think it moved me partly because it reminded me of William Carlos Williams, and also that poem by Heaney (if you know it), “Midterm Break”. Beautifully sad piece.
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Sharing this haunting micro-fiction by Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social , an American poet based in Boston. I think it moved me partly because it reminded me of William Carlos Williams, and also that poem by Heaney (if you know it), “Midterm Break”. Beautifully sad piece.
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every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.
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the bruce springsteen residency (for people sick of trying to write their books): drive all night, let the wind blow back your hair, dance in the dark, live with the sadness, love with all the madness in your soul
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
the bruce springsteen residency (for people sick of trying to write their books): drive all night, let the wind blow back your hair, dance in the dark, live with the sadness, love with all the madness in your soul
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“It gives me no joy to admit that there are certain kinds of professors who love little more than seeing their names in the paper.…But I like to think even they would’ve been able to spot the coiled wires and rusty springs of this particular trap.”
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“It gives me no joy to admit that there are certain kinds of professors who love little more than seeing their names in the paper.…But I like to think even they would’ve been able to spot the coiled wires and rusty springs of this particular trap.”
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establishment journalism's abject failure to express that this man has absolutely no idea how anything works should never be forgiven or forgotten
Trump: Our groceries are way down. Everything is way down. So I don't want to hear about the affordability.
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
establishment journalism's abject failure to express that this man has absolutely no idea how anything works should never be forgiven or forgotten
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all of it to avoid the recognition that this is a singularly evil and dangerous man, who climbed the greasy pole to power, even if he was uniquely right for the time period we live in. he is not going to stay there forever, he is not a god, but he got there and our lives are profoundly worse for it.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
all of it to avoid the recognition that this is a singularly evil and dangerous man, who climbed the greasy pole to power, even if he was uniquely right for the time period we live in. he is not going to stay there forever, he is not a god, but he got there and our lives are profoundly worse for it.
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the refusal to entertain at least a weak version of "Trump is how we got Trump" has been a recipe for a decade's worth of bad punditry and bad incentives for public intellectuals. "We got Trump because of some obscure event in the 1600s!" "We got Trump because of [niche voting demographic!"
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
the refusal to entertain at least a weak version of "Trump is how we got Trump" has been a recipe for a decade's worth of bad punditry and bad incentives for public intellectuals. "We got Trump because of some obscure event in the 1600s!" "We got Trump because of [niche voting demographic!"