Dan Berger
@dnbrgr.bsky.social
Writer of words, hater of prisons
Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM: THE LONG HISTORY OF BLACK POWER THROUGH ONE FAMILY’S JOURNEY, plus other things.
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM: THE LONG HISTORY OF BLACK POWER THROUGH ONE FAMILY’S JOURNEY, plus other things.
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
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Holy shit.
Christian Smalls reports there have been multiple sabotage attempts on the freedom flotilla ship Handala, including a tank of *acid* that was delivered to them instead of water for the showers and kitchen which burned two crew members.
Christian Smalls reports there have been multiple sabotage attempts on the freedom flotilla ship Handala, including a tank of *acid* that was delivered to them instead of water for the showers and kitchen which burned two crew members.
July 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Holy shit.
Christian Smalls reports there have been multiple sabotage attempts on the freedom flotilla ship Handala, including a tank of *acid* that was delivered to them instead of water for the showers and kitchen which burned two crew members.
Christian Smalls reports there have been multiple sabotage attempts on the freedom flotilla ship Handala, including a tank of *acid* that was delivered to them instead of water for the showers and kitchen which burned two crew members.
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The US Defense Department using Musk's pro-Hitler AI to run important US defense operations is so much more serious of a concern about antisemitism in the US than anything that is happening on college campuses.
July 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The US Defense Department using Musk's pro-Hitler AI to run important US defense operations is so much more serious of a concern about antisemitism in the US than anything that is happening on college campuses.
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I cannot think of anything more compellingly negative to say about the capitalist class that they aren't saying loudly about themselves via their attempt to close ranks around Adams and Cuomo
Breaking News: A former police commissioner sued Eric Adams, claiming the New York City mayor and others ran the NYPD as a criminal enterprise. The lawsuit is the fifth time in two weeks that Adams' Police Department has been accused of wrongdoing by a former top official.
Ex-Commissioner Sues, Saying Adams Ran N.Y.P.D. as a Criminal Enterprise
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I cannot think of anything more compellingly negative to say about the capitalist class that they aren't saying loudly about themselves via their attempt to close ranks around Adams and Cuomo
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Public education is public health.
"Public education has many virtues, the chief one being providing the tools of learning at no cost to families. But another of its traits is the way it breaks down homogeny, forcing children to be in a community with others unlike them."
"Public education has many virtues, the chief one being providing the tools of learning at no cost to families. But another of its traits is the way it breaks down homogeny, forcing children to be in a community with others unlike them."
why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Who Benefits from Destroying the Department of Education
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the Department of Education, firing...
buttondown.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Public education is public health.
"Public education has many virtues, the chief one being providing the tools of learning at no cost to families. But another of its traits is the way it breaks down homogeny, forcing children to be in a community with others unlike them."
"Public education has many virtues, the chief one being providing the tools of learning at no cost to families. But another of its traits is the way it breaks down homogeny, forcing children to be in a community with others unlike them."
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this has one purpose: to rile up the people who already hate mamdani. and if greenblatt's rhetoric leads to actual violence against mamdani/his supporters/muslim new yorkers the way he falsely claims mamdani's views harm jewish new yorkers, greenblatt won't give a single solitary shit.
ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt wrote an op-ed about Zohran Mamdani for fucking FOX NEWS 🫠
www.foxnews.com/opinion/zohr...
www.foxnews.com/opinion/zohr...
Will Zohran Mamdani protect all New Yorkers? He owes the Jewish community an answer
With antisemitic incidents in New York at all-time highs, mayoral candidates including Mamdani face scrutiny over their plans to ensure Jewish safety in the city.
www.foxnews.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
this has one purpose: to rile up the people who already hate mamdani. and if greenblatt's rhetoric leads to actual violence against mamdani/his supporters/muslim new yorkers the way he falsely claims mamdani's views harm jewish new yorkers, greenblatt won't give a single solitary shit.
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On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
[Painting of a family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreifufhjor4i5ijjyh2cuswhmtmoybnr7rzjg3pdi6ow3udhtbuxhnu@jpeg)
![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
[Painting of a German family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreidjr6b3w65abp2xtc5qax7rxhupvocfkvdvh23gfwlrnr7f555nmu@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
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There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say
Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible
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The FDA is going to stop testing milk for pathogens like I DON'T KNOW, BIRD FLU????
These people are actively trying to kill us. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
These people are actively trying to kill us. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The FDA is going to stop testing milk for pathogens like I DON'T KNOW, BIRD FLU????
These people are actively trying to kill us. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
These people are actively trying to kill us. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Everyone associated with trump is some sort of mutant nazi sex offender and those are just the ones you know about. Imagine the state of the ones they decide are actually too unnerving to be public-facing
July 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Everyone associated with trump is some sort of mutant nazi sex offender and those are just the ones you know about. Imagine the state of the ones they decide are actually too unnerving to be public-facing
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Mahmoud Khalil today filed a claim detailing the harm he has suffered as a result of his politically motivated arrest and detention. The claim is a precursor to a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, which he will bring under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
July 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Mahmoud Khalil today filed a claim detailing the harm he has suffered as a result of his politically motivated arrest and detention. The claim is a precursor to a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, which he will bring under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
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I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court
The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
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Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment
Precursor to a lawsuit also claims the Palestinian activist was maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump's budget increases Pentagon's budget to $1 trillion. The Pentagon is already the biggest institutional consumer of fossil fuels on earth, and this budget will push its emissions to a level on par with Ethiopia. New analysis from me and Lorah Steichen at @cplusc.bsky.social
The $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget Will Make Emissions Higher Than the Entire Country of Ethiopia
By Patrick Bigger and Lorah Steichen
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Trump's budget increases Pentagon's budget to $1 trillion. The Pentagon is already the biggest institutional consumer of fossil fuels on earth, and this budget will push its emissions to a level on par with Ethiopia. New analysis from me and Lorah Steichen at @cplusc.bsky.social
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Give it a read, and plz subscribe:
July 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Give it a read, and plz subscribe:
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it’s easy to just say “they’re conservatives” and be done with it, but my best read is that Sulzberger et al are in fact moderate Democrats who believe that the left is responsible for the rise of Trump, and they believe that beating the left back and defeating Trump are a singular project
July 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
it’s easy to just say “they’re conservatives” and be done with it, but my best read is that Sulzberger et al are in fact moderate Democrats who believe that the left is responsible for the rise of Trump, and they believe that beating the left back and defeating Trump are a singular project
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"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.
Detainees being held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz' describe conditions at Everglades facility
Florida still has not released the number of people being detained at what they call “Alligator Alcatraz” – but for the first time, we’re hearing from several men who are being held inside the facilit...
www.nbcmiami.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.
A likable person who has everyday people excited to meet him and vote for him because they make them hopeful about politics? No wonder the Democratic Party is trying to destroy him!
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A likable person who has everyday people excited to meet him and vote for him because they make them hopeful about politics? No wonder the Democratic Party is trying to destroy him!
A blatantly nativist regime, working to remove legal status of immigrants to justify the state-terror apparatus of detention and expulsion
NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people
Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
July 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A blatantly nativist regime, working to remove legal status of immigrants to justify the state-terror apparatus of detention and expulsion
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This is the worst possible framing of the past few months. It's fascism, a stacked court, a compliant and spineless Congress, an international mess on the economic side, and an illegal bombing. But sure, a "winning streak." @nytimes.com doing NY Times thing.
July 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is the worst possible framing of the past few months. It's fascism, a stacked court, a compliant and spineless Congress, an international mess on the economic side, and an illegal bombing. But sure, a "winning streak." @nytimes.com doing NY Times thing.
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ICYMI: A survey of the week’s horrors, and El Salvador’s ‘state of exception’ as a model for MAGA fascism — featuring my translations @elfaro.net on prison conditions under the Bukele dictatorship.
'America' is a Death Cult
On the week's unending horrors and the transnational 'state of exception'
open.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
ICYMI: A survey of the week’s horrors, and El Salvador’s ‘state of exception’ as a model for MAGA fascism — featuring my translations @elfaro.net on prison conditions under the Bukele dictatorship.
Not a good sign when the “paper of record” is worried about being scooped by a racist propagandist
Short list of things wrong: This is not a scoop; who gives a fuck about scoops in the year of our lord 2025; it's not possible to be scooped by Christopher Rufo because he is not a legitimate journalist; you can't be scooped on a non-story; factual is below the floor, newsworthy is the floor.
Times pushed ahead to avoid being scooped on Mamdani Columbia story
July 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Not a good sign when the “paper of record” is worried about being scooped by a racist propagandist
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trump’s big beautiful bill is designed to family annihilate the united states
My FYP is video after video of pre-med students explaining how the big bill’s student loan cap will make it impossible for them to afford med school. Experts were already predicting a doctor shortage to the tune of 86k by 2036. This will make it exponentially worst. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hFxfBL/
The government just ended my ability to even apply to medical school, it’s no longer an option because private student loans would lead to absolute financial ruin. All of my work for the past 5-8 year...
TikTok video by Lauren Steiner, MS
www.tiktok.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
trump’s big beautiful bill is designed to family annihilate the united states
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Israel is blocking the entry of baby formula into Gaza. Why do you think that is? What is it about baby formula that’s so special, so important, that it ends up on Israel’s list of restrictions and confiscations? Is it a dual-use item? NO. So what is it then? What is it?
July 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Israel is blocking the entry of baby formula into Gaza. Why do you think that is? What is it about baby formula that’s so special, so important, that it ends up on Israel’s list of restrictions and confiscations? Is it a dual-use item? NO. So what is it then? What is it?
This line, like so many in that execrable book, perfectly captures Schumer: it uses too-awkward-to-be-true prose to make a too-reprehensible-to-be-believed point
July 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This line, like so many in that execrable book, perfectly captures Schumer: it uses too-awkward-to-be-true prose to make a too-reprehensible-to-be-believed point