Walker Bragman
@walkerbragman.bsky.social
He/Him. Dad. Journo tracking dark money and attacks on public health. JD, ADHD, occasional cartoonist.
Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org
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Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org
Signal: walkerbragman.44
Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
www.importantcontext.news
NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Every day Chuck Schumer says we need minor reforms to ICE, it’s a “fuck you” to the base, which is demanding abolition.
Schumer thinks it’s his job to temper the demands of Democrats and keep the party moderately conservative.
It’s an anti-democratic impulse and political malpractice.
Schumer thinks it’s his job to temper the demands of Democrats and keep the party moderately conservative.
It’s an anti-democratic impulse and political malpractice.
February 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Every day Chuck Schumer says we need minor reforms to ICE, it’s a “fuck you” to the base, which is demanding abolition.
Schumer thinks it’s his job to temper the demands of Democrats and keep the party moderately conservative.
It’s an anti-democratic impulse and political malpractice.
Schumer thinks it’s his job to temper the demands of Democrats and keep the party moderately conservative.
It’s an anti-democratic impulse and political malpractice.
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H/T @flapjacq.bsky.social for the idea.
"JAYLANIA- From GBD to MAHA to NIH in Five Years"
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"JAYLANIA- From GBD to MAHA to NIH in Five Years"
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February 12, 2026 at 6:57 PM
H/T @flapjacq.bsky.social for the idea.
"JAYLANIA- From GBD to MAHA to NIH in Five Years"
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"JAYLANIA- From GBD to MAHA to NIH in Five Years"
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yes jeremy carl is a white nationalist, he wrote a whole book about it. he also trains sheriffs.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 PM
yes jeremy carl is a white nationalist, he wrote a whole book about it. he also trains sheriffs.
Elon Musk is actually the worst online person on the planet.
Elon Musk makes it clear that he intends to ensure Grok becomes as racist as he is.
February 12, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Elon Musk is actually the worst online person on the planet.
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ICYMI: This week, we caught Robert Kennedy Jr.’s HHS using terminology developed by a Christian Right group to stigmatize gender-affirming care.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-rejecting procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
ICYMI: This week, we caught Robert Kennedy Jr.’s HHS using terminology developed by a Christian Right group to stigmatize gender-affirming care.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
Institutions fail us.
We won’t forget their cowardice.
We won’t forget their cowardice.
February 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Institutions fail us.
We won’t forget their cowardice.
We won’t forget their cowardice.
ICYMI: This week, we caught Robert Kennedy Jr.’s HHS using terminology developed by a Christian Right group to stigmatize gender-affirming care.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-rejecting procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
ICYMI: This week, we caught Robert Kennedy Jr.’s HHS using terminology developed by a Christian Right group to stigmatize gender-affirming care.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
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UMass abruptly canceled bottom surgery appointments for hundreds of patients with no explanation. Some had surgery dates booked a year in advance, others were scheduled to get revisions done.
www.wgbh.org/news/health/...
www.wgbh.org/news/health/...
‘I’m crushed’: Transgender patients left in limbo after UMass Memorial canceled their surgeries
Some people had waited nearly a year for their appointments with a preeminent surgeon. Now, they don’t know what to do.
www.wgbh.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
UMass abruptly canceled bottom surgery appointments for hundreds of patients with no explanation. Some had surgery dates booked a year in advance, others were scheduled to get revisions done.
www.wgbh.org/news/health/...
www.wgbh.org/news/health/...
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Pretty crazy how lazy news organizations treat this lawyer as a free speech champion who takes on the left and right when in reality, here was her contribution to this moment.
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February 11, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Pretty crazy how lazy news organizations treat this lawyer as a free speech champion who takes on the left and right when in reality, here was her contribution to this moment.
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Citizenship for anyone who has been living in the U.S. five years or more.
Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Georgia Army veteran deported to Jamaica after 50 years in U.S., despite appeal pending
The Georgia Army veteran was deported to a country he hasn't been to in decades despite his family saying his case was never fully heard.
www.cbsnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Citizenship for anyone who has been living in the U.S. five years or more.
Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
The framing of transgender existence as ideology is unscientific and bigoted.
Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.
They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.
Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.
They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.
Polling on trans issues is difficult to interpret. It becomes even more difficult when pollsters use politically charged terms like 'transgender ideology.'
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
When Trans Issues Become ‘Ideology’ — Assigned
Two surveys of Americans, published just days apart, reveal the limitations and revelations of polling.
www.assignedmedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The framing of transgender existence as ideology is unscientific and bigoted.
Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.
They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.
Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.
They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.
This is real America.
Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 AM
This is real America.
Groups like the Brownstone Institute have been pushing to get mRNA technology banned.
The FDA commissioner is an ally of Brownstone.
The director of CBER is an ally of Brownstone.
The director of CDER is an ally of Brownstone.
For those keeping tabs.
The FDA commissioner is an ally of Brownstone.
The director of CBER is an ally of Brownstone.
The director of CDER is an ally of Brownstone.
For those keeping tabs.
February 11, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Groups like the Brownstone Institute have been pushing to get mRNA technology banned.
The FDA commissioner is an ally of Brownstone.
The director of CBER is an ally of Brownstone.
The director of CDER is an ally of Brownstone.
For those keeping tabs.
The FDA commissioner is an ally of Brownstone.
The director of CBER is an ally of Brownstone.
The director of CDER is an ally of Brownstone.
For those keeping tabs.
Owning the libs by destroying America as a global leader
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says reut.rs/46vkQiO
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.
reut.rs
February 11, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Owning the libs by destroying America as a global leader
Ashish Jha is a “say anything to stay in the good graces of power” kind of guy.
He played the same game under Biden and it’s why that administration brought him in to greenlight their push for COVID normalcy.
He played the same game under Biden and it’s why that administration brought him in to greenlight their push for COVID normalcy.
Jha says Oz is doing "a very good job overseeing CMS."
What that job has looked like: rescinding emergency abortion care protections, proposing a nationwide ban on trans youth healthcare, gutting Medicaid, and wrapping it all in a racialized fraud narrative
www.patreon.com/posts/150452...
What that job has looked like: rescinding emergency abortion care protections, proposing a nationwide ban on trans youth healthcare, gutting Medicaid, and wrapping it all in a racialized fraud narrative
www.patreon.com/posts/150452...
February 11, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Ashish Jha is a “say anything to stay in the good graces of power” kind of guy.
He played the same game under Biden and it’s why that administration brought him in to greenlight their push for COVID normalcy.
He played the same game under Biden and it’s why that administration brought him in to greenlight their push for COVID normalcy.
Marty Makary is an anti-science crank.
NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
FDA declines to review Moderna application for new flu vaccine
Moderna requests meeting to discuss refusal as decision could have implications for all new and updated vaccines
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Marty Makary is an anti-science crank.
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Note: EPPC is the far right Catholic think tank in DC. Leonard Leo and Robbie George are on the board.
www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/02/10/h...
Note: EPPC is the far right Catholic think tank in DC. Leonard Leo and Robbie George are on the board.
www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/02/10/h...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank - EXPOSEDbyCMD
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.exposedbycmd.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:13 AM
@walkerbragman.bsky.social
Note: EPPC is the far right Catholic think tank in DC. Leonard Leo and Robbie George are on the board.
www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/02/10/h...
Note: EPPC is the far right Catholic think tank in DC. Leonard Leo and Robbie George are on the board.
www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/02/10/h...
The New Yorker is now giving Jenin Younes a platform to rebrand herself as free speech warrior—as opposed to right-wing operative and COVID crank.
This follows Jon Stewart’s decision to platform her.
Un-fucking-real.
This follows Jon Stewart’s decision to platform her.
Un-fucking-real.
February 10, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The New Yorker is now giving Jenin Younes a platform to rebrand herself as free speech warrior—as opposed to right-wing operative and COVID crank.
This follows Jon Stewart’s decision to platform her.
Un-fucking-real.
This follows Jon Stewart’s decision to platform her.
Un-fucking-real.
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The people who needed their own half time show are the same people who needed their own water fountains.
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 AM
The people who needed their own half time show are the same people who needed their own water fountains.
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SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
HHS Has Been Using Anti-Trans Language From a Christian Right Think Tank
The department refers to gender-affirming care as “sex-denying procedures,” a term coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
www.importantcontext.news
February 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals.
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group.
www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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Redfield is a Trump appointee and known crank. If COVID was circulating in summer of 2019, the entire timeline of the pandemic would be different. Chinese authorities were not "pushing the wet market narrative," they actively covered it up.
What is happening to people's brains over there
What is happening to people's brains over there
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Redfield is a Trump appointee and known crank. If COVID was circulating in summer of 2019, the entire timeline of the pandemic would be different. Chinese authorities were not "pushing the wet market narrative," they actively covered it up.
What is happening to people's brains over there
What is happening to people's brains over there
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Walker’s piece shows how powerful groups are working to reshape language around sex + gender. They work across interests and even countries, normalizing increasingly reprehensible language. But contrary to what The Atlantic would have you believe, none of those interests are trans people ourselves.
When Trump latched onto the phrase "gender ideology" in his EOs, it stood out as overtly eliminationist language. But popularized originally as an anti-feminism slogan by the Vatican, it became endemic in the UK in the past decade and has become arguably the most visible explicitly anti-trans term.
February 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Walker’s piece shows how powerful groups are working to reshape language around sex + gender. They work across interests and even countries, normalizing increasingly reprehensible language. But contrary to what The Atlantic would have you believe, none of those interests are trans people ourselves.
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The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9.
web.archive.org/web/20250908...
web.archive.org/web/20250908...
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9.
web.archive.org/web/20250908...
web.archive.org/web/20250908...