Brandi Broome
Med student, writer, wife, mom, outdoors enthusiast, gardener, caver, hiker, raging feminist, and the kind of future doctor who cares what happens to you.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" --Mary Oliver
- Reposted by Brandi BroomeThe costs of disinvestment in science: nondefense government R&D yields returns of 150% to 300% & accounts for roughly a QUARTER of American productivity growth since World War II. The authors conclude:“Our findings point to a misallocation of public capital & substantial underinvestment in R&D.”
- Reposted by Brandi BroomeThe corruption is so obscene and brazen. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- Just another way of trying to step around the judicial branch. They said no deporting people to El Salvador, not Libya, you see. Shame on Libya for assisting the Trump regime with its concentration camps.
- They should be afraid. When you've shown the whole country who you are--a bunch of billionaire-supporting bros who are cool with ethnic cleansing and unaware of constitutional law--you should expect to lose.
- I'm planning to implement the advice offered here. Less plastic will be a good thing, and we can reduce overall risk with a few changes. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
- Two nuclear powers are shooting at each other, but sure, let's worry about parades, golf weekends, defending Hegseth at all costs, and changing the name of the Persian Gulf. apnews.com/live/india-p...
- Reposted by Brandi BroomeChannel your inner @emilyjaynef.bsky.social while listening to Maria Ressa’s “How to Stand Up to a Dictator”. It’s a playbook for the authoritarian age. Just listen to Chapter 10: Don’t Become a Monster to Fight a Monster. Seriously, Emily and Maria are leading the way. Watch, listen, and learn.
- Reposted by Brandi Broome“We are not a theory. We are not a policy debate. We are real people, doing real jobs, in defense of a nation we still believe in, even when it struggles to believe in us.” SecBro is a fraction of the caliber of these leaders he so gleefully bans. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
- What the hell is happening on this ship? Losing a second $60 million jet is insane. Or to put this in terms that Trump understands--that's 1.5 parades. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
- Reposted by Brandi BroomeOne of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
