Dan Z
@danz740.bsky.social
Tech leader, volunteer firefighter, foodie and NY sports fan.
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Redaction immediately following "Trump is gross" is intriguing. Remember that the principal justification for redactions is protecting the victims. Here it would be important to pursue the question of why this was redacted and whether the victim will consent to revealing what lies beneath.
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Redaction immediately following "Trump is gross" is intriguing. Remember that the principal justification for redactions is protecting the victims. Here it would be important to pursue the question of why this was redacted and whether the victim will consent to revealing what lies beneath.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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The far right in America today: a quick primer. #Politics #Democracy
September 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The far right in America today: a quick primer. #Politics #Democracy
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Well don't I feel stupid
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well don't I feel stupid
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What a difference a day makes
September 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What a difference a day makes
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this is really fuckin wild
September 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
this is really fuckin wild
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In a world where exposing criminality is just a tool to be wielded for enemies, then an argument about Bill Clinton makes sense.
In a world where wrongdoing should be exposed on all sides without fear or favor...bring it on. It makes for a better regime to live under.
In a world where wrongdoing should be exposed on all sides without fear or favor...bring it on. It makes for a better regime to live under.
GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In a world where exposing criminality is just a tool to be wielded for enemies, then an argument about Bill Clinton makes sense.
In a world where wrongdoing should be exposed on all sides without fear or favor...bring it on. It makes for a better regime to live under.
In a world where wrongdoing should be exposed on all sides without fear or favor...bring it on. It makes for a better regime to live under.
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
September 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
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🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
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A metaphor for where we are as a country: obsessed with deporting immigrants, no matter what the resulting damage to American society.
August 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A metaphor for where we are as a country: obsessed with deporting immigrants, no matter what the resulting damage to American society.
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Sandwich guy escapes indictment due to jury nullification!
August 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sandwich guy escapes indictment due to jury nullification!
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I got around to reading this closely and it's an easy education in how David Shor rigs things. The tested messaging on deploying the National Guard is actually shit - so they lead you to conclude that the *focus* is shit, instead of the fact that the test message is (deliberately) shit
This memo is being sent to Democratic leaders/elites,
arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...
arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...
www.dropbox.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I got around to reading this closely and it's an easy education in how David Shor rigs things. The tested messaging on deploying the National Guard is actually shit - so they lead you to conclude that the *focus* is shit, instead of the fact that the test message is (deliberately) shit
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But the way US politics works is, if white people get upset about something loud enough, long enough, it is deemed a problem to be solved, whether or not any evidence shows up. This is key: their complaining, in & of itself, becomes the evidence that there's a problem. It's a closed loop.
August 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
But the way US politics works is, if white people get upset about something loud enough, long enough, it is deemed a problem to be solved, whether or not any evidence shows up. This is key: their complaining, in & of itself, becomes the evidence that there's a problem. It's a closed loop.
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No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
Putin is COMING TO THE UNITED STATES? Even by Trump 2.0 standards, this is beyond belief. U.S. diplomacy is dead.
Trump says he will meet with Putin in Alaska a week from today.
August 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
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The template is, the right drives this dumb shit into the conversation, the reactionary centrists take the baton and push it into mainstream media, and then everyone asks, "why are Dems focusing on this stuff?"
They aren't, you credulous fucking dipshits! They didn't do this!
They aren't, you credulous fucking dipshits! They didn't do this!
August 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The template is, the right drives this dumb shit into the conversation, the reactionary centrists take the baton and push it into mainstream media, and then everyone asks, "why are Dems focusing on this stuff?"
They aren't, you credulous fucking dipshits! They didn't do this!
They aren't, you credulous fucking dipshits! They didn't do this!
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It's really key to understand this: ***they don't need actual backlash of any substance or scale to run this cycle***. All they need is a few random comments, which they can always find, which means that you can basically run this cycle at will. You don't need libs to play along at all!
August 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's really key to understand this: ***they don't need actual backlash of any substance or scale to run this cycle***. All they need is a few random comments, which they can always find, which means that you can basically run this cycle at will. You don't need libs to play along at all!
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So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
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It is remarkable and astonishing that the entire apparatus of the Republican party -- the entire organization and every single person who is part of it -- has been converted into a cover-up operation to protect a single pedophile rapist.
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
August 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It is remarkable and astonishing that the entire apparatus of the Republican party -- the entire organization and every single person who is part of it -- has been converted into a cover-up operation to protect a single pedophile rapist.
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
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"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."
July 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."
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article takes a while to reveal they torrented all this porno to get their tracker ratios up so they could download pirated books
July 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
article takes a while to reveal they torrented all this porno to get their tracker ratios up so they could download pirated books