Walker Bragman

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...

New from Important Context and @assignedmedia.org: Reporter @billiejsweeney.bsky.social took a look at the Trump administration’s anti-trans attacks on Title IX hurt all sexual assault survivors. Must read story. www.importantcontext.news/false-protec...

Why the Hulscher-McCullough Ivermectin Cancer Study Was Retracted: bad methods, COIs. Better question: why was it published to start with? www.techarp.com/fact-check/h... via @techarp.bsky.social

The "protection" narrative promoted by Trump and far-right groups like Heritage is a dangerous fallacy. Trump's DOE has abandoned sexual assault investigations under Title IX. It has set rules that effectively put the survivors of rape on trial and that favor the men accused of victimizing them.

From its rule-making to its seismic shift in national enforcement – an abandonment of sexual assault investigations in favor of anti-trans initiatives – the Trump administration has demonstrated that protecting women is not its actual priority.

The Trump administration has worked to portray itself as protecting women and girls through their anti-trans policies. Meanwhile, they've worked tirelessly to undermine protections against sexual assault. Wither Title IX, in this exceptional new reported story by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social.

Brazil should have barred the whole Bolsonaro crime family from elected office. You can’t give fascists another chance.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Donald Trump is a fascist. Fascists always need an enemy. You could be next.

upselling people fighting for their lives to expensive plans under the pretense of being anti-war, how very noble of you sir

Despicable.

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

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The Republican Party is giving us cancer. The New York Times doesn't say it that directly, but its investigation proves it.

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

Protagonist Science / Science Counterpunch podcast: The dark money behind anti-science /w Philip Markolin and Walker Bragman @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social @walkerbragman.bsky.social bit.ly/3WrZFMl 💥

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

"This project will expose the funding of hate groups, including anti-LGBTQIA+ groups, anti-vax groups, and more."

The COVID contrarian movement sold itself as a grassroots rebellion of brave, censored truth-tellers. But what if they were just part of a larger machine all too willing to invest in its messengers? Great episode with the tenacious @walkerbragman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG-3...

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

Related: The @accountabilityji.bsky.social is building a free-to-use, searchable public database to reveal the individuals behind dark money groups and their connections to broader political influence networks. There’s nothing like it today. This will be an essential public resource.