Dan
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the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and it cannot bind anyone until it protects everyone | tech lawyer | Boston fan in New York | bivalve enthusiast | principal instigator @scienceforhaters.bsky.social
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If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
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September 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
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“Taxes are how we build the world for each other.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-owe-each-...
We Owe Each Other Better: Reject Slopulism, Embrace Building the Republic
We must end the permanent retreat that began with Reagan.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 22, 2026 at 10:01 AM
“Taxes are how we build the world for each other.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-owe-each-...
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a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
September 20, 2026 at 12:57 AM
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank.
Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
September 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank.
Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
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Chris Simms my GOAT. He's 100% spot on here
September 19, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Chris Simms my GOAT. He's 100% spot on here
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Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand
he fucking bulldozed our collective property
he fucking bulldozed our collective property
September 19, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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Disbarment and sanctions for everyone involved.
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution”
ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
ballsandstrikes.org
September 16, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Disbarment and sanctions for everyone involved.
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The core of the Republican project over the last few decades is to find any Allowed Bigotry they can, and use that to wedge to the door open to allow All Bigotry
trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible
September 10, 2026 at 8:57 PM
The core of the Republican project over the last few decades is to find any Allowed Bigotry they can, and use that to wedge to the door open to allow All Bigotry
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My best guess after a lot of on-the-ground research is that so many political types, esp reporters, spend so much time on Twitter/X because they aren’t terribly interesting people and crave likes from other people to convince themselves they are interesting
September 7, 2026 at 11:51 PM
My best guess after a lot of on-the-ground research is that so many political types, esp reporters, spend so much time on Twitter/X because they aren’t terribly interesting people and crave likes from other people to convince themselves they are interesting
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us: democrats should make noise about their rivals fuck ups and harp on the gross boogeymen funding the party
blue maga: shut up dont criticize precious theyre doing their best
blue maga: shut up dont criticize precious theyre doing their best
it is unfortunate that we have to devote so much time and energy to getting @democrats.org to do what is essentially basic politics. its like constantly telling a political party "hey get your candidate's names on the ballot," this is so BASIC in the area of politics
democrats, literally the only thing you should be talking about for the next 3 days is donald trump lying about being a 9/11 hero. i dont care if the question is about the economy or gas prices or about how sexually attractive you are, you steer that answer to trump lying about being a 9/11 hero
September 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
us: democrats should make noise about their rivals fuck ups and harp on the gross boogeymen funding the party
blue maga: shut up dont criticize precious theyre doing their best
blue maga: shut up dont criticize precious theyre doing their best
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to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.
September 7, 2026 at 11:19 PM
to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.
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So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
September 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM
So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...
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this stuff loses a lot of regular people like me, wins no one on the right, and undermines efforts to build unity in a coalition that go back to AOC backing biden. with elections right around the corner, does the dem party have a toxic centrist problem?
New From the Hater and Losers Caucus of the Democratic Party:
September 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
this stuff loses a lot of regular people like me, wins no one on the right, and undermines efforts to build unity in a coalition that go back to AOC backing biden. with elections right around the corner, does the dem party have a toxic centrist problem?
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Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training
Students: we hate that is there another option?
Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training.
It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
Students: we hate that is there another option?
Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training.
It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
August 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training
Students: we hate that is there another option?
Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training.
It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
Students: we hate that is there another option?
Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training.
It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
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if centrists didn't want to be put in a situation where the democrats have to reform the electoral system and judiciary within the first two years of the next president's term, perhaps they should have done it when it wasn't an emergency. if we do not do it, we will die under worse than Jim Crow.
This site will expect the next Dem president to deliver what FDR delivered in four terms but in the first 100 days and if they don’t they’ll call them a fascist.
A non-zero number of folks on Bluesky, for understandable reasons, have put way too much hope in the next Democratic administration in the US, and are brewing themselves up for another existential breakdown in like 2029 or 2030.
August 29, 2026 at 4:27 PM
if centrists didn't want to be put in a situation where the democrats have to reform the electoral system and judiciary within the first two years of the next president's term, perhaps they should have done it when it wasn't an emergency. if we do not do it, we will die under worse than Jim Crow.
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There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage.
Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
August 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.”
BRUH.
BRUH.
August 23, 2026 at 11:31 AM
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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There's a case to be made for democratic socialism not as a rejection of capitalism, but as a clearheaded recognition of market failures that need to be addressed because capitalism cannot do so.
Healthcare is an example: if capitalism could provide universal healthcare, it would. It doesn't.
Healthcare is an example: if capitalism could provide universal healthcare, it would. It doesn't.
hey look the bros are ok with universal healthcare now
August 14, 2026 at 7:43 PM
There's a case to be made for democratic socialism not as a rejection of capitalism, but as a clearheaded recognition of market failures that need to be addressed because capitalism cannot do so.
Healthcare is an example: if capitalism could provide universal healthcare, it would. It doesn't.
Healthcare is an example: if capitalism could provide universal healthcare, it would. It doesn't.
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The centrists
The guy handed me a shovel and told me to start digging. He had a gun after all. I thought maybe if I dug a good enough hole he’d stop being mad at me. It never even occurred to me the whole time that I was holding a sharp ass shovel.
The guy handed me a shovel and told me to start digging. He had a gun after all. I thought maybe if I dug a good enough hole he’d stop being mad at me. It never even occurred to me the whole time that I was holding a sharp ass shovel.
August 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The centrists
The guy handed me a shovel and told me to start digging. He had a gun after all. I thought maybe if I dug a good enough hole he’d stop being mad at me. It never even occurred to me the whole time that I was holding a sharp ass shovel.
The guy handed me a shovel and told me to start digging. He had a gun after all. I thought maybe if I dug a good enough hole he’d stop being mad at me. It never even occurred to me the whole time that I was holding a sharp ass shovel.
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it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television
Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Exclusive: RFK Jr. will host a new cooking show with celebrity chefs
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an exclusive interview, says he will be 'reintroducing' Americans to cooking again in a new series.
www.usatoday.com
July 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television
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the only Trojan Horse discourse I’m interested in
July 28, 2026 at 6:00 PM
the only Trojan Horse discourse I’m interested in
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“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis."
Musk literally just shrugs.
Musk literally just shrugs.
July 26, 2026 at 11:58 AM
“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
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Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.
July 23, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.
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You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...
Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota
The Trump administration is pausing over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota "because of suspected fraud and noncompliance," U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said ...
www.reuters.com
July 21, 2026 at 6:41 PM
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.