Brett Weed

@tarheelphan.bsky.social

Public health scientist, dad to a pack of three girls and three dogs, and adjunct at Johns Hopkins and UC Riverside. Lesser half of @carolinalaw08.bsky.social

In kindergarten we went to a puppet show about stranger danger. At the end the puppeteers invited kids in the crowd up to meet them. I screamed “don’t go up, they’re strangers!” and got in so much trouble for applying they lesson they had just taught me.

Chuck Hubbard, who defeated Virginia Fox in a Trump +18 congressional district in North Carolina, says he got into politics and ran to protect his LGBTQ daughter. I'm in tears watching this. It's so incredible to hear an ally talk like this about protecting us.

As you all awaken, bleary-eyes and emotionally-exhausted after the night before, you're hearing a strange humming noise. And a crackling. That's the sound of shredders and incinerators at the DoJ, DHS, and DoD. But in the background, you hear the faint, unmistakable sound of photocopiers, too.