Brian Nelson
@briannelsonnow.bsky.social
Writer/producer called "grizzled" by GQ. Films HARD CANDY, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, DEVIL. TV: ALTERED CARBON, 11.22.63, DAVINCI'S DEMONS, TESTAMENT: THE STORY OF MOSES, MURDER IN THE FIRST, 20000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (ABC), etc. Podcast AGENT STOKER.
This is a pretty funny meme that everyone's sharing, but really, isn't it a new camouflage that should be interrogated? How ailing must Trump now be, if he's leaving behind the look that he's compulsively worn for decades to mask his already uncontrollable bulk?
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This is a pretty funny meme that everyone's sharing, but really, isn't it a new camouflage that should be interrogated? How ailing must Trump now be, if he's leaving behind the look that he's compulsively worn for decades to mask his already uncontrollable bulk?
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JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
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Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently:
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21
The full impact of the pandemic has been much greater than what is indicated by reported
deaths due to COVID-19 alone. Strengthening death registration systems around the
world, long understood to be ...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Went looking for COVID19 death statistics recently:
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
18.2 million people worldwide, 1.13 million in the US
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We still have no day of remembrance or mourning.
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Flatiron Building, New York City, Built 1902
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Flatiron Building, New York City, Built 1902
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In rural Alaska, people rely on public radio stations, like KYUK, for critical information about natural disasters. But after Congress clawed back federal dollars, KYUK lost 70% of its funding.
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In rural Alaska, people rely on public radio stations, like KYUK, for critical information about natural disasters. But after Congress clawed back federal dollars, KYUK lost 70% of its funding.
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Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
Inducing immunity against cancer via the gut
Could a microbe that can smuggle antigens into the immune system of the gut provide a simple way to treat cancers?
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
The victor will advance to play the winner between the Tampa Bay Floridians and the Seattle Washingtonians.
Houston Texans genuinely gotta be the worst team name in the history of names. Just the laziest shit ever.
“And in today’s baseball game it’s the Toronto blue jays versus the New York New Yorkers”
“And in today’s baseball game it’s the Toronto blue jays versus the New York New Yorkers”
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The victor will advance to play the winner between the Tampa Bay Floridians and the Seattle Washingtonians.
This @npr.org story was interesting yet disappointing. Altering the LA River is illegal, it notes, suggesting the law is some odd bureaucratic quirk. Why no mention of the epic devastation from the 1938 LA River flood that led to the present controls on the river? www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
This @npr.org story was interesting yet disappointing. Altering the LA River is illegal, it notes, suggesting the law is some odd bureaucratic quirk. Why no mention of the epic devastation from the 1938 LA River flood that led to the present controls on the river? www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
What Columbo would do is ask what happened to the list Epstein had on his person before he died, so we could all watch who comes to the cell to look for it.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
What Columbo would do is ask what happened to the list Epstein had on his person before he died, so we could all watch who comes to the cell to look for it.
If this Pikachu is sitting alone outside a Citibank isn't an economic warning sign, I don't know what is.
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
If this Pikachu is sitting alone outside a Citibank isn't an economic warning sign, I don't know what is.
Today I said to my therapist, "Maybe in West Wing terms, I need to cultivate an inner Leo to watch out for my inner Josh." And she said she doesn't know who those characters are -- so the session ran a little long.
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Today I said to my therapist, "Maybe in West Wing terms, I need to cultivate an inner Leo to watch out for my inner Josh." And she said she doesn't know who those characters are -- so the session ran a little long.
Our logo on podcast apps got an update today because Season 4 is on its way!!
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Our logo on podcast apps got an update today because Season 4 is on its way!!
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Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
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“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
So government-subsidized housing is okay in these cases, I see.
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So government-subsidized housing is okay in these cases, I see.
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My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
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majoring yn English ys punk rocke
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
majoring yn English ys punk rocke
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
Silence from all those gunsplainers who told us for years that you can't have an opinion about anything unless you have published papers about caliber and ballistics.
NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range."
POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'
Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.
www.nbcnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Silence from all those gunsplainers who told us for years that you can't have an opinion about anything unless you have published papers about caliber and ballistics.
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
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💥 A group founded by Stephen Miller filed a federal complaint in July against the 2025 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers for their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The team's website continues to display its commitment to DEI.
Congratulations, Dodgers!
#Dodgers #WorldSeries
Congratulations, Dodgers!
#Dodgers #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
💥 A group founded by Stephen Miller filed a federal complaint in July against the 2025 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers for their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The team's website continues to display its commitment to DEI.
Congratulations, Dodgers!
#Dodgers #WorldSeries
Congratulations, Dodgers!
#Dodgers #WorldSeries
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Also, L.A. has had a really rough year, with the fire hurricane and Trump's thugs marauding through the streets every day. A little good news for us is welcome.
We're going to pass prop 50 on Tuesday too.
We're going to pass prop 50 on Tuesday too.
I'm a Dodger fan and can't help but be thrilled that they won. But those Blue Jays were something else and deserve all the kudos. As one wag said on BSky when they beat the Yankees "Any team that beats the Yankees is America's team.If that's the Toronto Blue Jays, so be it. I don't make the rules."
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Also, L.A. has had a really rough year, with the fire hurricane and Trump's thugs marauding through the streets every day. A little good news for us is welcome.
We're going to pass prop 50 on Tuesday too.
We're going to pass prop 50 on Tuesday too.
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good morning to no one except the woman who dressed up like an AMC movie theater for the halloween parade
November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
good morning to no one except the woman who dressed up like an AMC movie theater for the halloween parade