Brooke T. Sample

Brooke T. Sample

@brookesample.bsky.social

Cat lady, editrix, occasional sports fan, nap aficionado. She/her/hers. Editorial board member, Bloomberg Opinion. All views mine alone.

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beautiful moment in Wawa today… older dude, probably 70-75, wearing a sharp tan suit with a crisp colorful button-up underneath, waiting in line with a coffee young guy, probably 20-25, walks up and taps him on the shoulder “yo, you look fresh as hell, man” old dude might still be beaming

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Once upon a time, Americans took pride that people would leave other countries and come to the USA because it was so much better

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says of Somalia that "all they have is people that shoot you all the time ... it's a shit house country"

Don’t get to see movies as soon as they come out anymore, but I made an exception for “You Can See Everything.” It is everything everyone says it is. However/whenever you see it, just do.

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DOJ plays no role in the certification process so the question is a non sequitur as is the answer.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

When the president calls a rape survivor a liar, so many will take it as permission to do the same.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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Shannon Phillips on the Trump regime's targeting of Mélanie Joly: "This is an administration that the only corrupt grifters that they've fired so far have been women. And they like to have a woman enemy. They don't have Chrystia Freeland anymore."

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Seriously. Nobody asked your goddamn opinion about what a woman can do with her own body. Unless you want mandatory vasectomies that you can pay to reverse later, sit down and shut the fuck up about women's bodies and lives. If you have bodily autonomy, so should women.

I cut my parents off for funsies! No real reasons whatsoever! Or maybe I needed a peaceful life where the same harmful patterns weren’t being repeated while the son I was raising would have to witness it. Naaaaah. Obviously I should focus only on the good parts, because they did their best.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

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Look, two things can be true at once: 1) Women are being disproportionately forced out of the Trump administration for things that men have also done; and 2) Every single individual mentioned in the story deserved to be shitcanned. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...

nytimes.comThe Trump Administration and the Shrinking Number of Women in Top RolesIn President Trump’s second term, those heading for the exits, voluntarily or involuntarily, are female officials.

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I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

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"If they get away with this it will be worse next time. I promise you." – @adamserwer.bsky.social, Jan. 6, 2021

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December. Just find myself muttering variations of "this can't be real" over and over again.

Penn State’s refusal to move past JoePa will keep it from ever being more than a wannabe elite. I’m an alum. I love my alma mater — my education is priceless. But I graduated in 2000. 1/?

Danny 🐦‍⬛@stagraven.bsky.social

Penn State traded a doofus for a bigger doofus who also wants to prop up Joe Pa. So have fun with that.

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I’m so exhausted by Penn State’s response to Sandusky (utterly lacking), the university’s clinging to JoePa’s legacy after all these years, the pulling-teeth process to move on in the athletic department. 5/

In super-short, I maintain: The university’s refusal to move on meaningfully from JoePa will keep us from recruiting the kind of athletes who will bring the football program to elite status. Because the new generation? They don’t give a F**+ about JoePa. And that’s a good thing.

Penn State’s refusal to move past JoePa will keep it from ever being more than a wannabe elite. I’m an alum. I love my alma mater — my education is priceless. But I graduated in 2000. 1/?

Danny 🐦‍⬛@stagraven.bsky.social

Penn State traded a doofus for a bigger doofus who also wants to prop up Joe Pa. So have fun with that.

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Penn State’s refusal to move past JoePa will keep it from ever being more than a wannabe elite. I’m an alum. I love my alma mater — my education is priceless. But I graduated in 2000. 1/?

Danny 🐦‍⬛@stagraven.bsky.social

Penn State traded a doofus for a bigger doofus who also wants to prop up Joe Pa. So have fun with that.

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I also built my identity around being a Penn Stater. So, so proud of my education. But so much of it was built on “success with honor” and that (to be super-brief) has felt like an absolute farce since 2011. 4/

Penn State’s refusal to move past JoePa will keep it from ever being more than a wannabe elite. I’m an alum. I love my alma mater — my education is priceless. But I graduated in 2000. 1/?

Danny 🐦‍⬛@stagraven.bsky.social

Penn State traded a doofus for a bigger doofus who also wants to prop up Joe Pa. So have fun with that.

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Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Lemme get this straight: I'd never heard this song or even heard *of* it until this week because ... I was making a concerted effort to not know about something I didn't know existed in order to be cool?

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social

This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.

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"We're uprooting fraud by getting rid of these freeloaders who keep paying into the system without taking anything back out" Genius.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"