Janna Brancolini
@jannabrancolini.bsky.social
Reporter for The Daily Beast covering politics, culture, legal affairs and breaking news. Former Bloomberg and Los Angeles Times. "Liking" a post doesn't necessarily mean I agree (just that I wanted to save it). janna.brancolini@thedailybeast.com
Andrew Carnegie built libraries, auditoriums, museums, research labs, universities and a literal peace palace. Today's richest men are sending pop stars to space, firing the actual scientists, cutting off research funding and doing... this.
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
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This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Andrew Carnegie built libraries, auditoriums, museums, research labs, universities and a literal peace palace. Today's richest men are sending pop stars to space, firing the actual scientists, cutting off research funding and doing... this.
All CDC pages with anything gender/equity are down. From a doctor: "Including all physician-specific treatment guidelines on STIs, HIV, etc. Literally our fellow group chat is like 'does someone have the downloaded STD treatment guidelines because they no longer exist and I need to treat a patient'"
February 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
All CDC pages with anything gender/equity are down. From a doctor: "Including all physician-specific treatment guidelines on STIs, HIV, etc. Literally our fellow group chat is like 'does someone have the downloaded STD treatment guidelines because they no longer exist and I need to treat a patient'"
I admit I was intrigued by the constitutional basis for this idea, but it turns out state-sponsored piracy has some serious drawbacks.
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...
MAGA Senator Floats Crazy Plan for ‘Pirates’ to Fight Cartels and Take a Cut
Mike Lee has been fantasizing about state-sponsored piracy for more than a decade.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I admit I was intrigued by the constitutional basis for this idea, but it turns out state-sponsored piracy has some serious drawbacks.
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator...
Reality check. Even rural Pennsylvania is not cool with salutes that bear a striking resemblance to 1930s Germany.
A Republican official in Pennsylvania has been forced to resign after posting her own version of Elon Musk’s salute.
Lawmaker Forced to Resign After Repeating Elon Musk’s Salute
Lest there be any doubt who inspired her, Laura Smith used Musk’s “my heart goes out to you” line.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Reality check. Even rural Pennsylvania is not cool with salutes that bear a striking resemblance to 1930s Germany.
Friendly reminder that the Biden administration isn't actually enforcing the TikTok ban. The app went dark to make Donald Trump happy so he can be the "hero" who saves it.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
This TikTok thing is like a stupid version of the Iranian Hostage deal with Carter/Regan
January 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Friendly reminder that the Biden administration isn't actually enforcing the TikTok ban. The app went dark to make Donald Trump happy so he can be the "hero" who saves it.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
A ChatGPT query consumes at least 10 times the energy of a Google search and requires a bottle of water per 100 words of text to cool its data centers. Maaaaybe we could be just a little more discerning in how we use this technology?
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...
As part of my AI-life-takeover for the year, I have ChatGPT sending me AI tasks to do every day. Here’s today’s. AI has a very weird view of how humans like to spend our time.
January 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A ChatGPT query consumes at least 10 times the energy of a Google search and requires a bottle of water per 100 words of text to cool its data centers. Maaaaybe we could be just a little more discerning in how we use this technology?
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...