Dan L
@notthatberlioz.bsky.social
Former philosophy student, free jazzer, tea and coffee drinker. Freedom lover.
“I have seen that is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man.” - Vasily Grossman
“I have seen that is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man.” - Vasily Grossman
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"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball.
The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about.
Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.
The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about.
Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.
And, you can also change the narrative yourself, by leading the public. Public pressure absolutely moves politicians. Sitting around waiting for others to take this seriously is failing. Making something the story and making the public care about it is the job of a politician.
IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball.
The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about.
Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.
The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about.
Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.
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this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear
After a boutique on South Street received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for selling breast binders for gender-affirming care, the region’s transgender community worries about the potential wider impacts.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/health/passi...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/health/passi...
January 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM
this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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the default, cringe pose of "I must support Tough Military Action because I am Tough" is both morally wrong and bad politics
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
the default, cringe pose of "I must support Tough Military Action because I am Tough" is both morally wrong and bad politics
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These are the real victims of Trump's unending crimes, as always its everyday people.
The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion.
This is the aftermath in one area
This is the aftermath in one area
January 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM
These are the real victims of Trump's unending crimes, as always its everyday people.
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What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
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We killed and rendered Venezuelan civilians homeless so Donald Trump could post a Fortunate Son-backed fancam and feel happy about it.
January 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We killed and rendered Venezuelan civilians homeless so Donald Trump could post a Fortunate Son-backed fancam and feel happy about it.
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Trump's chief contribution to American politics is revealing that you don't need a respectable veneer for evil, corrupt behavior. You can rob the bank, say you did it because you like money and you'll do it again, and challenge anyone to stop you
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Trump's chief contribution to American politics is revealing that you don't need a respectable veneer for evil, corrupt behavior. You can rob the bank, say you did it because you like money and you'll do it again, and challenge anyone to stop you
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If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.
January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.
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What amazes me is how quickly people are losing either the confidence or the willingness to complete basic human tasks.
The parents of the first baby born in 2026 in this county outside Baltimore got their name ideas from ChatGPT. Hudson Oakley Winkler.
www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/01/c...
www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/01/c...
ChatGPT named Carroll County’s first-born baby in 2026
The first baby born in Carroll County in 2026 was named with help from ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot.
www.baltimoresun.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
What amazes me is how quickly people are losing either the confidence or the willingness to complete basic human tasks.
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This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about
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Obsessed with this juxtaposition
January 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Obsessed with this juxtaposition
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Corporate media consolidation was on full display at CBS this week.
CBS 60 Minutes Censorship Rings Another Alarm, Warning of Corporate Media’s Threat to Democracy
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
News organizations cannot function under corrupt corporate control, answering to billionaire bosses and politicians. When that happens, democracy dies, and dictators r...
www.democracynow.org
December 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Corporate media consolidation was on full display at CBS this week.
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For ICE to do this on Christmas Eve—especially as part of an administration that postures as godly—is particularly cruel. trib.al/loxXKOw
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For ICE to do this on Christmas Eve—especially as part of an administration that postures as godly—is particularly cruel. trib.al/loxXKOw
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
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Trump lied about religious violence in Nigeria and now he's firing missiles into the country. To nothing but a collective shrug from the world
December 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Trump lied about religious violence in Nigeria and now he's firing missiles into the country. To nothing but a collective shrug from the world
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The Plot to Enslave America
TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
December 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Plot to Enslave America
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
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i don’t think i’ll ever get over how we’re sending people to torture prison camps in el salvador STILL and those in charge of CBS want us to pretend it’s an old story that’s been resolved. people are still being tortured!
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
i don’t think i’ll ever get over how we’re sending people to torture prison camps in el salvador STILL and those in charge of CBS want us to pretend it’s an old story that’s been resolved. people are still being tortured!
“The Free Press”
CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday didn’t air a planned story on Trump administration deportations of immigrants to El Salvador, pulling it only hours before airtime at the direction of new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
https://to.pbs.org/3NdOJxd
https://to.pbs.org/3NdOJxd
CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes piece on Trump deportation policy hours before air
Weiss said in a statement that holding stories that aren't ready, because they lack context or are missing critical voices, happen every day in newsrooms.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“The Free Press”