Brooke T. Sample
Cat lady, editrix, occasional sports fan, nap aficionado. She/her/hers. Editorial board member, Bloomberg Opinion. All views mine alone.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleTrump attacking Kaitlan Collins for asking about justice for Epstein survivors: You are the worst reporter. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile. Your organization should be ashamed of you.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleAbsolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleIt’s weird how the “if you haven’t done anything wrong then you don’t have anything to worry about” crowd is trying to illegally shield what they’re doing from journalists who are acting 100% within their rights and the law.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleUPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThe Establishment pick, folks. www.axios.com/2026/01/23/j...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
- People are showing up. People, vote.
- photo 1/23/26 by Alex Kormann for The Minnesota Star Tribune www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Brooke T. Sample“.. Perhaps you shouldn’t have dismantled the Department of Education so quickly.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/online/white...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThe parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleI've covered a lot of protests and resistance movements of various kinds in my days on this earth -- I've never seen anything quite like this epic day in Minneapolis today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleCheck out this eagle-eyed traffic reporter! We spotted this beauty perched over I-35W in Minneapolis 🦅 Want to see road conditions, traffic impacts and some more wildlife? Explore our cameras on 511mn.org today.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThe director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Best picture Oscar nominees! "Sinners" and "OBAA" were each fantastic. Looking forward to checking the rest off the list (not you, "F1") Sinners Hamnet Frankenstein Marty Supreme Sentimental Value One Battle After Another Bugonia F1 The Secret Agent Train Dreams
- Me every few minutes during this press … thing
- Thought the paper-clip moment would be the standout. Nope … hearing him say “lover” is where my gag reflex kicked in
- Hoooo boy
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleNew — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:
- Reposted by Brooke T. SamplePeople in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
- Biggest loser in all of this: the committee that chooses the “winner” www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThe FBI’s raid today on the home of @washingtonpost.com reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social is an alarming escalation in the Trump administration’s war on the press. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain how the DOJ is not only attacking the First Amendment but also ignoring federal law.
- Reposted by Brooke T. Samplethinking a lot about the 2023 police newspaper raid in marion, kansas in light of the FBI searching a washington post reporter's home.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleSomebody couldn’t fall asleep last night.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThe nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleVideo message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThis poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleIn the early hours, it looks like we’re going to “run a country” via Zoom apnews.com/live/trump-u...
- He really does think that phrase makes him sound cool, doesn't he?
- Reposted by Brooke T. Sample“It has to be judicious because that’s what we’re all about.” — Trump added.
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- From November: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleTrump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleBari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
- Did the Third Reich tour in Munich today. German-born guide was brilliant but Americans on the tour (even those of us pretty well-versed in WWII/Holocaust history) looked increasingly terrified as the morning went on
- “Accurate” — mother of a fifth grader
- WAIT WHAT
- The site I'm using to watch this keeps kicking me offline. The universe has spoken
- 1. Serious question: What's the point of this? 2. No snark: Using prime time to yell stuff at viewers doesn't seem like a winner ... right?
- Reposted by Brooke T. Samplethis is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
- On our way to Newark airport. Husband: Did you fart? Me: No, that’s just Elizabeth.
- If this doesn't make you feel a certain way, there's nothing that can help you.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleWhoa … this is really strange. Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone. 🎁 link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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- Ya think?!
- Reposted by Brooke T. Samplefishtopher tuesday where fishtopher politely requests you donate what you are able (time, money, support) to your favorite animal rescues
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- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThings Happen For @contrariannews.org Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleGreat, if harrowing piece about the Freebirth Society, who we touched on in our latest Truly Tradly Deeply Episode about motherhood www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleWhile pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life. Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleI will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
- “THINGS HAPPEN”?!?! This is absolutely terrifying language for *every* American. WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump dismisses criticism of Saudi Crown Prince over 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, says 'things happen.'
- I swear, every time I think things can’t get worse for NJ Transit …
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThe rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleDressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleHere’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
- May we all get to relax (even for just a few moments) as deeply as Jeffrey does on a #Caturday
- Reposted by Brooke T. Samplepatton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
- Reposted by Brooke T. Sample“Gambino was never the commander in chief. there was little gambino could do as the walls closed in. not so with this maniac,” Epstein wrote of Trump. Trump, Epstein allowed, was “borderline insane. and corroborated by some that are close.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
- I don't even know which reaction to go with here “'I actually don’t have time to consume a lot of news,'” Mr. Roberts told staff members at the Heritage Foundation last week. 'I consume a lot of sports.'"
- Being a Pirates fan is hard: Even the good things make you feel like Charlie Brown with the football
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleEpstein described Trump as a “dirty” businessman who was “borderline insane,” untrustworthy and worse in “real life and upclose” than the image he sought to portray to the public. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleThe Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
- Reposted by Brooke T. Sample*SANDWICH THROWING EX-DOJ EMPLOYEE ACQUITTED IN ASSAULT CASE
- Reposted by Brooke T. Sampleincredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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- There's a fine line between "famous" and "infamous"
- Reposted by Brooke T. Samplea really key point here. Cuomo's attempt at gutter Islamophobic race baiting failed because Dem voter opinion on Israel-Palestine has shifted more than 70 points since 2023, and he somehow didn't notice prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleSherrill’s victory marks the first time in 60 years that one party has won three consecutive gubernatorial elections in the Garden State. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Brooke T. SampleSpanberger.
- Time to vote, New Jersey.
- Reposted by Brooke T. Sample🇺🇸❤️”One year ago, everything was so different. In late October 2024, before the US presidential election, thoughtful Americans could certainly acknowledge the deep flaws of their country – its injustices and inequality – but they could still recognize it as the United States” @sulliview.bsky.social
- A Halloween tale (1/2) Doorbell rings. I’m in our front room reading; porch lights are off because we don’t have candy.* I check the Ring camera — trick or treater with her dad. She peeks through the blinds, which I’ve closed but there’s a gap. “There’s a grandma sitting in there!”
- (2/2) Dad: Stop that! “She’s just sitting there! She must be deaf!” (Rings again) “She’s really mean!” Dad: Seriously, stop that. They go away. Maybe my stylish new glasses are … not. *We rarely get trick or treaters so we stopped giving out candy years ago. I just don’t answer the door.
- My kid took his flu shot like a boss today. My boss editor friend shepherded this excellent AP investigation into anti-science efforts around the country. apnews.com/article/vacc...
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