Naylor Brownell
@naylorbrownell.bsky.social
He/Him. Pediatric GI Lymphomaniac/ Pancreatologist. Uses hand gestures way too much.
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Hang the sense of it & keep yourself busy, it's better to be happy than to be right.🌈🐕🐈🥧🏥⚽️🌱
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Hang the sense of it & keep yourself busy, it's better to be happy than to be right.🌈🐕🐈🥧🏥⚽️🌱
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Seems like this would be a big deal for the Sincere Enemies of Anti-Semitism
They tried to burn a US governor and his family and the president of the United States has said nothing.
April 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Seems like this would be a big deal for the Sincere Enemies of Anti-Semitism
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If you are unfamiliar with science, the month a scientific discovery is made and then verified by experts in the field is generally not known in advance
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you are unfamiliar with science, the month a scientific discovery is made and then verified by experts in the field is generally not known in advance
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it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically
April 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically
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We are literally being led by the dumbest people alive
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We are literally being led by the dumbest people alive
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This is a little embarrassing
April 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is a little embarrassing
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Kids aren’t supposed to die
Doctors relentlessly worked to numb people to kids dying of viruses.
Why do we expect people to care about 2 kids dying of measles?
Why do we expect people to care about 2 kids dying of measles?
April 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Kids aren’t supposed to die
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First, Steves finds a way to talk about institutions and oligarchy that is dirt simple:
1. Institutions are PUBLIC WEALTH. They are our shared wealth, dammit.
2. Billionaires can't stand wealth they don't control.
3. So they are going to dismantle our public wealth to better bleed us dry
1. Institutions are PUBLIC WEALTH. They are our shared wealth, dammit.
2. Billionaires can't stand wealth they don't control.
3. So they are going to dismantle our public wealth to better bleed us dry
April 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
First, Steves finds a way to talk about institutions and oligarchy that is dirt simple:
1. Institutions are PUBLIC WEALTH. They are our shared wealth, dammit.
2. Billionaires can't stand wealth they don't control.
3. So they are going to dismantle our public wealth to better bleed us dry
1. Institutions are PUBLIC WEALTH. They are our shared wealth, dammit.
2. Billionaires can't stand wealth they don't control.
3. So they are going to dismantle our public wealth to better bleed us dry
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Sometimes in this fast-moving and complex modern world, it’s hard to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But here’s a handy rule of thumb: If you are ever on one side of an issue, and Sesame Street is on the other, YOU’RE the bad guy.
April 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sometimes in this fast-moving and complex modern world, it’s hard to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But here’s a handy rule of thumb: If you are ever on one side of an issue, and Sesame Street is on the other, YOU’RE the bad guy.
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I would say creator-writer-executive producer is a combo that is probably more often the case than not? It’s true that sometimes they direct and sometimes they don’t.
It’s also true that this is a Vision Of A Dude show. But so are a lot of others. This is, like, 2012 discourse, approximately.
It’s also true that this is a Vision Of A Dude show. But so are a lot of others. This is, like, 2012 discourse, approximately.
How you know this insipid piece wasn’t written by a critic: You would never work again if you submitted a lede like this. A creator who directs *and* executive produces?!?! Unprecedented!
March 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I would say creator-writer-executive producer is a combo that is probably more often the case than not? It’s true that sometimes they direct and sometimes they don’t.
It’s also true that this is a Vision Of A Dude show. But so are a lot of others. This is, like, 2012 discourse, approximately.
It’s also true that this is a Vision Of A Dude show. But so are a lot of others. This is, like, 2012 discourse, approximately.
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I've been a public defender in a larger urban area and in the rural South. This is right but I want to add some wrinkles.
u.s. rural and small town policing is, I suspect, generally way more corrupt and brutal than urban policing but also reported on much less
A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.
March 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I've been a public defender in a larger urban area and in the rural South. This is right but I want to add some wrinkles.
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remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...
www.marketwatch.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
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Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans
March 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans
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The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.
March 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.
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'Alarm’ was originally a call to arms.
The Italian phrase ‘all’arme!’ means literally “to arms” or “to your weapons.”
We'd still probably hit 'snooze.'
The Italian phrase ‘all’arme!’ means literally “to arms” or “to your weapons.”
We'd still probably hit 'snooze.'
March 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
'Alarm’ was originally a call to arms.
The Italian phrase ‘all’arme!’ means literally “to arms” or “to your weapons.”
We'd still probably hit 'snooze.'
The Italian phrase ‘all’arme!’ means literally “to arms” or “to your weapons.”
We'd still probably hit 'snooze.'
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No better evidence that modern conservatism is 100% grievance-based than their opposition to congestion pricing. Do they… want every resident of New York to drive everywhere? That would destroy their own quality of life!
Duffy on the New York City subway: "It's dangerous. It's dirty ... they don't want you to drive your car. They want you to take a train. If you want me to take a train, make the train safe, make it clean. But if you won't do that, we're gonna pull money."
March 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
No better evidence that modern conservatism is 100% grievance-based than their opposition to congestion pricing. Do they… want every resident of New York to drive everywhere? That would destroy their own quality of life!
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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NEW: U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered officials to stop action on all Biden-era discretionary grants to build bike lanes and other "green infrastructure" so the agency can review the project for possible removal.
BREAKING: U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes — Streetsblog USA
Now U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is coming for our bike lanes!
usa.streetsblog.org
March 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
NEW: U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered officials to stop action on all Biden-era discretionary grants to build bike lanes and other "green infrastructure" so the agency can review the project for possible removal.
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Everything got so stupid so quickly.
March 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Everything got so stupid so quickly.
Can’t wait until the MAHA Republicans find out that some retinol is trans
March 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Can’t wait until the MAHA Republicans find out that some retinol is trans
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The new head of the FDA division that regulates infant formula was in recent months a corporate lawyer defending a top formula maker from claims that its product gave rise to debilitating harm to premature babies.
He Fought Claims of Harm From Infant Formula. Now He Regulates It.
Kyle Diamantas, a former corporate lawyer, is the new director for the F.D.A. food division, which oversees infant formula. He defended a top maker in cases claiming the company had not warned of pote...
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The new head of the FDA division that regulates infant formula was in recent months a corporate lawyer defending a top formula maker from claims that its product gave rise to debilitating harm to premature babies.
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Every analysis of the death penalty shows that it does not deter crime and it costs more than the alternatives. So this is literally just performative gun violence and unnecessary taxpayer expense.
Horrifying to see South Carolina preparing for its first execution by firing squad. The inmate, Brad Sigmon, will have a hood placed over his head and a target pinned over his heart before a three-person squad fire their rifles. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
South Carolina prepares for first firing squad execution, ushering return of rare method
Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010.
www.nbcnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Every analysis of the death penalty shows that it does not deter crime and it costs more than the alternatives. So this is literally just performative gun violence and unnecessary taxpayer expense.
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a lot of you just haven’t had good honeydew
Right now is the perfect time to say whatever you want because people are too busy doing the thing that makes them mad
March 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
a lot of you just haven’t had good honeydew
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Not to like toot my own horn but *every time* I bring up tariffs on the radio I define them: "tariffs are taxes American businesses pay to import goods from abroad."
Given all the lies and the fact that many Americans didn't take international economics 101, I encourage others to do this as well.
Given all the lies and the fact that many Americans didn't take international economics 101, I encourage others to do this as well.
March 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Not to like toot my own horn but *every time* I bring up tariffs on the radio I define them: "tariffs are taxes American businesses pay to import goods from abroad."
Given all the lies and the fact that many Americans didn't take international economics 101, I encourage others to do this as well.
Given all the lies and the fact that many Americans didn't take international economics 101, I encourage others to do this as well.