Dan Rosenbaum
@brooklyndan.bsky.social
Ex(?)-journo, copywriter, content marketer, singer, husband, dad. Probably in reverse order of importance.
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Yes. But to put it another way…
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Yes. But to put it another way…
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Literally none of the economic issues we face are due to undocumented immigrants.
Meanwhile, this is verbatim Nazi propaganda being pushed out by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The Trump regime is a fully fascist regime. They're not attempting to hide it in any capacity. This is who they are.
Meanwhile, this is verbatim Nazi propaganda being pushed out by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The Trump regime is a fully fascist regime. They're not attempting to hide it in any capacity. This is who they are.
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Literally none of the economic issues we face are due to undocumented immigrants.
Meanwhile, this is verbatim Nazi propaganda being pushed out by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The Trump regime is a fully fascist regime. They're not attempting to hide it in any capacity. This is who they are.
Meanwhile, this is verbatim Nazi propaganda being pushed out by the US Dept of Homeland Security.
The Trump regime is a fully fascist regime. They're not attempting to hide it in any capacity. This is who they are.
There are not enough or sufficient diminutives in the English language to express the degree of my surprise to this news.
Nevada regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of nearly 800 environmental violations in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.”
By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler
By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project
Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”
www.propublica.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There are not enough or sufficient diminutives in the English language to express the degree of my surprise to this news.
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Me, too.
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Me, too.
Anyone who’s shocked by the fate of the East Wing must be unfamiliar with the fate of New York’s Bonwit Teller building and how Trump Tower got built. Destroying historical buildings and ignoring the preservation law is literally the oldest play in this guy’s book.
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Anyone who’s shocked by the fate of the East Wing must be unfamiliar with the fate of New York’s Bonwit Teller building and how Trump Tower got built. Destroying historical buildings and ignoring the preservation law is literally the oldest play in this guy’s book.
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving
September 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving
So I have things in common with mosquitos, after all.
Beer drinkers were 44% more attractive to mosquitoes than people who had abstained for at least 12 hours, cannabis users were 35% more attractive, and those who had slept with someone else the night before were 46% more attractive, new research finds. https://scim.ag/3Vk5rMw
Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes?
Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees
scim.ag
September 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
So I have things in common with mosquitos, after all.
My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Holmdel, NJ; it's a former Bell Labs facility, where there were major advances in solid-state transistor technology, and where Arno Penzias and team more or less confirmed the existence of the Big Bang.
September 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Holmdel, NJ; it's a former Bell Labs facility, where there were major advances in solid-state transistor technology, and where Arno Penzias and team more or less confirmed the existence of the Big Bang.
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.
September 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.
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So I invented a new word: “plagiarism”. It means “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.”
September 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
So I invented a new word: “plagiarism”. It means “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.”
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OK this wins the Internet for the year
August 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
OK this wins the Internet for the year
Or, in other words, “editorial services.”
August 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Or, in other words, “editorial services.”
This is also true of writing for a more general readership
The key to good legal writing is clarity. Exceptional clarity persuades. Unclarity sows doubt.
Not key? Originality. Humor. Cleverness. A distinctive voice. Torrents of peripheral legal authority. Demonstrations of opposing counsel’s stupidity and bad faith.
Edit for clarity.
Not key? Originality. Humor. Cleverness. A distinctive voice. Torrents of peripheral legal authority. Demonstrations of opposing counsel’s stupidity and bad faith.
Edit for clarity.
July 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A neat sentence in the WSJ review of the new Smurfs movie. Byline Kyle Smith:
"When I first encountered them on Saturday-morning television as a kid, the Smurfs cartoons struck me as inane, inert and innocuous, and the passage of 40-plus years has not made them seem any more ane, ert, or nocuous."
"When I first encountered them on Saturday-morning television as a kid, the Smurfs cartoons struck me as inane, inert and innocuous, and the passage of 40-plus years has not made them seem any more ane, ert, or nocuous."
July 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A neat sentence in the WSJ review of the new Smurfs movie. Byline Kyle Smith:
"When I first encountered them on Saturday-morning television as a kid, the Smurfs cartoons struck me as inane, inert and innocuous, and the passage of 40-plus years has not made them seem any more ane, ert, or nocuous."
"When I first encountered them on Saturday-morning television as a kid, the Smurfs cartoons struck me as inane, inert and innocuous, and the passage of 40-plus years has not made them seem any more ane, ert, or nocuous."
For anyone surprised by CBS cancelling Colbert, I have two words:
Smothers Brothers
The bravery of the news division has never been shared by the entertainment programmers.
Smothers Brothers
The bravery of the news division has never been shared by the entertainment programmers.
July 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
For anyone surprised by CBS cancelling Colbert, I have two words:
Smothers Brothers
The bravery of the news division has never been shared by the entertainment programmers.
Smothers Brothers
The bravery of the news division has never been shared by the entertainment programmers.
This is odd. I thought he wrote it in a Starbucks.
TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle
What'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
July 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is odd. I thought he wrote it in a Starbucks.
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Roses are red,
Countries have borders…
Countries have borders…
July 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Roses are red,
Countries have borders…
Countries have borders…
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no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
Kings County? Sure.
Kings Highway? OK.
Kings Plaza Mall? If you must.
Otherwise? Hell no!
Kings Highway? OK.
Kings Plaza Mall? If you must.
Otherwise? Hell no!
June 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Kings County? Sure.
Kings Highway? OK.
Kings Plaza Mall? If you must.
Otherwise? Hell no!
Kings Highway? OK.
Kings Plaza Mall? If you must.
Otherwise? Hell no!
I don’t care what Sean Duffy says. In New York, *everyone* takes the subway.
June 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I don’t care what Sean Duffy says. In New York, *everyone* takes the subway.