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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸
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* public policy, public administration, media regulation, civic engagement. ** re-posts not necessarily approval *** views belong to me; not to those who employ me

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 22h
Some people think this interview is totally self serving. And some people think that this interview— the selection of the questions, their phrasing, etc— epitomize what’s often unhelpful and even misleading in NYTimes coverage. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 5d
Kakistocracy

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 7d
Has George Clooney called on him to step down yet??

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 14d
So.. he gave her the nuclear codes?

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · 15d
The very people talking about an AI bubble are those actively creating an AI bubble

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Oct 27
Are you talking about him, or about the reporter asking the question?

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Oct 7
Accurate

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Sep 18
This is a year old video that @washingtonpost.com is passing off as having happened on Tuesday
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 18
Erosion, rising seas and churning storms have caused the collapse of a dozen homes along a stretch of the Outer Banks in North Carolina over the past five years.

The latest incident came Tuesday, when an unoccupied, two-story, wood-shingled home crumbled into the surf. https://wapo.st/4pL86wL

Reposted by Lori A. Brainard

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 18
Erosion, rising seas and churning storms have caused the collapse of a dozen homes along a stretch of the Outer Banks in North Carolina over the past five years.

The latest incident came Tuesday, when an unoccupied, two-story, wood-shingled home crumbled into the surf. https://wapo.st/4pL86wL

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Sep 5
Needs updating. The data are from 2020 and Biden is not on here.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 27
He hasn't fired her. He's trying to.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 22
when I was in grad school we used to intentionally put a typo on each page of our papers. If the prof caught it, we knew they were reading the paper.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 14
So do we all need to carry passports in dc now?

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 14
The intent might be distraction but the effects surely are not.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 12
And we’re asking you to do this because DC does not have voting representation in Congress

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 11
There was/is a protest happening. Y’all could come if you want

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Aug 9
Between this cat election and Somerville being the birthplace of Fluff, so proud of my hometown

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · Jul 11
ICE interrogate kids at youth baseball practice—threatens to arrest coach when he defends them.

Every kid on team is U.S. citizen.

"Agent said if kids are here legally, what do they have to lose," coach Youman Wilder explained.

"I told them they still have their 5th & 4th Amendment rights."

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Jun 14
Started sprinkling at 6:30 but it’s stopped

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Jun 5
Men are too emotional to be President.

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · May 15
Still waiting for George Clooney to write an op-ed about Trump’s mental deterioration

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Apr 15
Didn’t Regan do something similar?

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Apr 15
He may not be able to do anything according to laws and regulatory authority and rules. But it seems Carr, like Trump, could do whatever people and other institutions will allow him to do

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Apr 3
this is all truly like watching the kid who didn't do the homework try to fake it in class

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Mar 26
Oh, one of my all time favorite words

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Mar 15
Thank you for your no vote on CR. As a citizen of DC, thank you for this bill as well. Please lean on Schumer to step down.

Reposted by Lori A. Brainard

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Penny Alexander @pennyalexander.bsky.social · Feb 25
🚨 3 days 🚨
Pass it on!
Economic Blackout 2/28

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Feb 23
And March 4 (“march forth!” Sounds pretty cool and inspiring)

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Lori Brainard 🇺🇸 @loribrainard.bsky.social · Feb 22
Please join me in asking. Each time a dem politician posts, I make the request. Maybe if enough of us do it…