Dan Phillips
@danphillips0.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Educator. Singer of The Stalloners.
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Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.
June 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.
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A protest against the detainments of immigrants at 930 e towne in LA beginning to escalate. Detainees are being filed into trucks. Large protest is here. Tear gas has been deployed. More to come.
June 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A protest against the detainments of immigrants at 930 e towne in LA beginning to escalate. Detainees are being filed into trucks. Large protest is here. Tear gas has been deployed. More to come.
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ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources
Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.
abcnews.go.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
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This list is like the Avengers for people who only read airport books called something like "Leading Leadership for Leaders"
June 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This list is like the Avengers for people who only read airport books called something like "Leading Leadership for Leaders"
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If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier than You Think
Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how screw over poor and working people more effectively.
newrepublic.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
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new york democrat: corruption is BAD. we should RID the city of these VENAL LIARS and make PROGRESS
new york democrat after encountering one hundred US dollars:
today i would like to announce my support for corruption
new york democrat after encountering one hundred US dollars:
today i would like to announce my support for corruption
June 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
new york democrat: corruption is BAD. we should RID the city of these VENAL LIARS and make PROGRESS
new york democrat after encountering one hundred US dollars:
today i would like to announce my support for corruption
new york democrat after encountering one hundred US dollars:
today i would like to announce my support for corruption
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DOGE used *cheap, outdated* AI to "munch" the VA contracts.
The code was so chump it hallucinated the size of contracts.
It repeatedly pegged contracts as worth $34 million -- they were actually worth $34,000.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The code was so chump it hallucinated the size of contracts.
It repeatedly pegged contracts as worth $34 million -- they were actually worth $34,000.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
June 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
DOGE used *cheap, outdated* AI to "munch" the VA contracts.
The code was so chump it hallucinated the size of contracts.
It repeatedly pegged contracts as worth $34 million -- they were actually worth $34,000.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The code was so chump it hallucinated the size of contracts.
It repeatedly pegged contracts as worth $34 million -- they were actually worth $34,000.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor
And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
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tbh, this perfectly comports with my recollection of 2024.
Democrats: we don't need the left to win! we'll just try to get the votes of "moderate Republicans" (an oxymoron)
[Democrats get crushed after this plan fails]
Democrats: this is the left's fault!
[Democrats get crushed after this plan fails]
Democrats: this is the left's fault!
June 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
tbh, this perfectly comports with my recollection of 2024.
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Said it before but the worse things get it bears repeating. You are not a ‘creative’ or a ‘maker.’ You’re an artist, & if you choose to distinguish, a playwright, painter, whatever. These words have a lineage, they mean something. They’re politically important. Take responsibility.
June 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Said it before but the worse things get it bears repeating. You are not a ‘creative’ or a ‘maker.’ You’re an artist, & if you choose to distinguish, a playwright, painter, whatever. These words have a lineage, they mean something. They’re politically important. Take responsibility.
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For those of you who scoff at the idea, there will be no elections under the GOP, here it is. Black and white.
This is how the game is played by the dirty side. Time for the Democrats to wake up.
This is how the game is played by the dirty side. Time for the Democrats to wake up.
Liar Greg Abbott says he has refused to set a special election to fill the seat of recently diseased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner because he says Harris County doesn’t do their elections properly.
June 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
For those of you who scoff at the idea, there will be no elections under the GOP, here it is. Black and white.
This is how the game is played by the dirty side. Time for the Democrats to wake up.
This is how the game is played by the dirty side. Time for the Democrats to wake up.
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McMahon: Wasn’t that when Junkyard Dog destroyed Randy Savage at the Tulsa Memorial Coliseum in 1989?
Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
June 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
McMahon: Wasn’t that when Junkyard Dog destroyed Randy Savage at the Tulsa Memorial Coliseum in 1989?
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it’s almost like courage in the face of fascism is rewarded by voters or something
Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool
June 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
it’s almost like courage in the face of fascism is rewarded by voters or something
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ICE agents are literally just standing outside court grabbing anyone who looks brown
Agents just approached a man and tried to detain him.
He was a court interpreter. They let him go.
He was a court interpreter. They let him go.
June 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICE agents are literally just standing outside court grabbing anyone who looks brown
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This is the *real* rationing and “death panels.” ‘Merica.
He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler
In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...
www.nbcnews.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This is the *real* rationing and “death panels.” ‘Merica.
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It remains one of the wildest things in the world that Disney paid late-career Hunter S. Thompson to write despairing columns about the sickening depravity of American empire and, to a slightly lesser extent, Skip Prosser's Wake Forest. www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...
June 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It remains one of the wildest things in the world that Disney paid late-career Hunter S. Thompson to write despairing columns about the sickening depravity of American empire and, to a slightly lesser extent, Skip Prosser's Wake Forest. www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...
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Ah, so that's what 'AI' stands for...
June 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Ah, so that's what 'AI' stands for...
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Proud of these people. “Hit the bricks!”
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Proud of these people. “Hit the bricks!”
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“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.
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Armed FBI agents knocked on the doors of two pub defenders at SEVEN AM, asking to talk w them, having made no earlier effort to reach out.
Both PDs represented ppl detained by ICE.
FBI said they “wanted to reach out before work.” Which is nakedly not true.
HARASSING DEFENSE LAWYERS IS REALLY BAD.
Both PDs represented ppl detained by ICE.
FBI said they “wanted to reach out before work.” Which is nakedly not true.
HARASSING DEFENSE LAWYERS IS REALLY BAD.
FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders *at their homes*. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.
FBI shows up at Charlottesville public defender's home unannounced after ICE raid
The day before the Memorial Day weekend, FBI agents arrived at the homes of Charlottesville-area lawyers to question them about an ICE raid in the city in April.
dailyprogress.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Armed FBI agents knocked on the doors of two pub defenders at SEVEN AM, asking to talk w them, having made no earlier effort to reach out.
Both PDs represented ppl detained by ICE.
FBI said they “wanted to reach out before work.” Which is nakedly not true.
HARASSING DEFENSE LAWYERS IS REALLY BAD.
Both PDs represented ppl detained by ICE.
FBI said they “wanted to reach out before work.” Which is nakedly not true.
HARASSING DEFENSE LAWYERS IS REALLY BAD.
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“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month…
“By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Seven Ugliest Provisions in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Weakened courts, happy heirs, and work requirements. The House-passed version of Donald Trump's tax plan takes from poor, gives to rich.
www.rollingstone.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month…
“By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good
May 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good