Brian T. Brown
@briantbrown.bsky.social
Author of "Someone Is Out to Get Us." A binge-worthy, popcorn-flavored exploration of some of the Cold War's darkest and most sensational episodes. -- LJ
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NEW: More questions about the long-term effects of GLP-1 weight loss drugs as new research finds people with higher muscle mass showed less brain ageing.
Many users of GLP-1s such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro shed muscle mass at the same time as they lose fat.
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Many users of GLP-1s such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro shed muscle mass at the same time as they lose fat.
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Muscly people show slower brain ageing, study finds
Research highlights possible drawback of muscle mass loss through use of GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs
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November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEW: More questions about the long-term effects of GLP-1 weight loss drugs as new research finds people with higher muscle mass showed less brain ageing.
Many users of GLP-1s such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro shed muscle mass at the same time as they lose fat.
www.ft.com/content/b735...
Many users of GLP-1s such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro shed muscle mass at the same time as they lose fat.
www.ft.com/content/b735...
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Why go for the complicated explanation? He's clearly been living in fear of those files. Maybe there's something else, but the first-order explanation - that he's in them and it's horrible - makes sense until there's more evidence.
I continue to believe that what’s in the files is irrelevant, because he knows what should be in them. Backup possibility: he has been blackmailing people by telling them there’s stuff about them in there, and it’ll come out that there isn’t, and then they will be weapons free.
Man, whatever's in those files, it must be pretty horrible
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Why go for the complicated explanation? He's clearly been living in fear of those files. Maybe there's something else, but the first-order explanation - that he's in them and it's horrible - makes sense until there's more evidence.
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
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wearing slippers and pajamas to the airport is antifa now
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
wearing slippers and pajamas to the airport is antifa now
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Marjorie Taylor Greene went from being chummy with Trump to not serving out her full term. Could Zohran Mamdani be next?
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene went from being chummy with Trump to not serving out her full term. Could Zohran Mamdani be next?
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The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
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THREAD: One reason I haven't complained about Democrats this year is the simple math that 218 House Votes & 67 Senate Votes are required for impeachment.
There is no way Democrats, ALONE can save us. Less still if we actively erode them.
What we actually need is Republicans to defect. 🧵
There is no way Democrats, ALONE can save us. Less still if we actively erode them.
What we actually need is Republicans to defect. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
THREAD: One reason I haven't complained about Democrats this year is the simple math that 218 House Votes & 67 Senate Votes are required for impeachment.
There is no way Democrats, ALONE can save us. Less still if we actively erode them.
What we actually need is Republicans to defect. 🧵
There is no way Democrats, ALONE can save us. Less still if we actively erode them.
What we actually need is Republicans to defect. 🧵
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One day I woke up and decided I wanted to do a stop motion animation. So I animated a simple run cycle, printed each frame and stuck them around my city ✨️
(Which btw, I felt super guilty about)
(Which btw, I felt super guilty about)
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
One day I woke up and decided I wanted to do a stop motion animation. So I animated a simple run cycle, printed each frame and stuck them around my city ✨️
(Which btw, I felt super guilty about)
(Which btw, I felt super guilty about)
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"Quiet piggy" makes sense when told through this lens
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Quiet piggy" makes sense when told through this lens
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Members of the military take an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to obey the orders of the president too.
I guess they never imagined the president could present the threat to the Constitution, but here we are.
I guess they never imagined the president could present the threat to the Constitution, but here we are.
CROW: Donald Trump has made a series of very disturbing comments and suggestions that would violate US law and put our military in terrible positions. We are standing by our troops--
MacCALLUM: Who sign up every day as you did to carry out the orders of the commander in chief
MacCALLUM: Who sign up every day as you did to carry out the orders of the commander in chief
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Members of the military take an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to obey the orders of the president too.
I guess they never imagined the president could present the threat to the Constitution, but here we are.
I guess they never imagined the president could present the threat to the Constitution, but here we are.
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In case data-centers weren’t politically toxic enough already.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In case data-centers weren’t politically toxic enough already.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!
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Colorado Senator, Michael Bennet, jokes
"This is one area where I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans.
There's no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half the cost we're providing now."
"This is one area where I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans.
There's no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half the cost we're providing now."
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Colorado Senator, Michael Bennet, jokes
"This is one area where I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans.
There's no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half the cost we're providing now."
"This is one area where I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans.
There's no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half the cost we're providing now."
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Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
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The Neo-Nazi Groyper War to capture the Republican Party is a good example of "network war." A group existing mostly online ("in the cloud) takes power in the real world. When it becomes powerful enough to also take land, the victor of a network war can become a network state. That's the 101 theory.
In 2022, Peter Thiel protégé Balaji Srinivasan—formerly of Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase—envisioned a Second American Civil War.
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Neo-Nazi Groyper War to capture the Republican Party is a good example of "network war." A group existing mostly online ("in the cloud) takes power in the real world. When it becomes powerful enough to also take land, the victor of a network war can become a network state. That's the 101 theory.
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This is the other one. With fossil fuels, discovery costs rise while tech costs fall, meaning prices stay roughly the same (inflation-adjusted) over time. With electrotech, discovery costs are $0, so the only dynamic is falling tech costs. Victory is inevitable.
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is the other one. With fossil fuels, discovery costs rise while tech costs fall, meaning prices stay roughly the same (inflation-adjusted) over time. With electrotech, discovery costs are $0, so the only dynamic is falling tech costs. Victory is inevitable.
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“What is new is the confluence of three trends:
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
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The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Welcome to Tesla Capitalism
Or: JVL explains why Americans are toying with socialism.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“What is new is the confluence of three trends:
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The sheer scale of wealth for the richest.
The untethering of compensation from performance.
The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society.
All three are rising to a dangerously high tide.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
via @kansasreflector.com
via @kansasreflector.com
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret
TOPEKA — A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.In two of the…
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November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
via @kansasreflector.com
via @kansasreflector.com
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Hiding the data - a sure sign that things are going great
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Hiding the data - a sure sign that things are going great
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The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.
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President Trump can get to Jeffery Epstein in one hop
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make
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November 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
President Trump can get to Jeffery Epstein in one hop
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I wonder if the South American fishermen he's routinely killing would count as "innocent Christians" too, or nah?
Confirmation from TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth.
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I wonder if the South American fishermen he's routinely killing would count as "innocent Christians" too, or nah?
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The crowd tonight in Norfolk, Virginia for Abigail Spanberger and Barack Obama. LET’S GO!!!
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The crowd tonight in Norfolk, Virginia for Abigail Spanberger and Barack Obama. LET’S GO!!!