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Dan Cloak

@dancloak.bsky.social
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Writer, civil and environmental engineer, sometime community organizer, philosopher.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 21/09/2026
Mom! The nerds are using the word "qualia" again!
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2strong2silence.bsky.social @2strong2silence.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I mean I’m trying to see where this person is wrong.
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The lesson is that populism is bullshit. It appeals to anti-intellectual resentments and fantasized markers of individual authenticity. Genuine working-class politics are exhibited in collective struggle and personal sacrifice for the cause.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I thought the right couldn’t breathe in masks
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ididntvote4him-0.bsky.social @ididntvote4him-0.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Now it's Schrodinger's algae...
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stu of the living dead @rinbcage.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This isn't the right time for anachronisms
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I, for one, will forgive her for apologizing.
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Justice Sotomayor apologizes for “inappropriate” remarks about Justice Kavanaugh
Just over one week after lobbing pointed personal criticism at Justice Brett Kavanaugh for his concurring opinion in a decision by the Supreme Court that lifted restrictions on immigration stops […]
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
car companies should revive their classic designs as electric vehicles with modern safety standards
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2strong2silence.bsky.social @2strong2silence.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Dear America: Hope you’re watching your country burn to the ground. See this is what happens when there is no DEI. Congratulations you’ve finally got your wish, nothing but white men in charge. Own all of this. The blame is yours & yours alone. Don’t ask us to fix shit.
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Megan Frampton 🤷🏻‍♀️ @meganf.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Libraries are one of the best creations in all human history”—my daughter just now but also anyone who reads.
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
There is no excuse for soldiers or sailors participating in the war on Iran. They have the option to do the right thing and refuse. The personal consequences imposed by the US military for refusal can’t be as bad as the moral consequences of participating in a mass murder.
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Why isn’t this at the top of Iran reportage?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Jeffrey Epstein’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
White people are wholly ill-equipped to oppose, much less halt and reverse all the horrors we’re witnessing daily. To be clear, they have the power to stop this but lack the ability to think and act collectively, like all other race’s of people can.
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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/01/2026
No one writes like @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The strange bruise on Donald Trump’s hand raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
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Miss Lizzy @misslizzy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Whether it’s Donald Trump turning American cities into occupied police states or Joe Biden fixing our nation’s crumbling infrastructure and trains, people on both sides of the aisle feel like they don’t recognize their own country when the other party is in power.
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Donna Barr @donnabarr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If Insurrection is declared, all you vetsuckers who believed our military was "fighting for freedom" or "defending our country" are going to get to see right here how they act in other countries.
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Delusive Eye Stalk @krietzsche.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Here is the better angle.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Note that some of the fraud in MN was discovered by HHS IG, and HHS and SBA IGs were fired at a time when GOP was celebrating the latter predicting he'd find $200B more COVID related fraud. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...
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Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse - emptywheel
The lawsuit by eight of the Inspectors General Trump fired on his fourth day on the job -- who claim they've identified $183.5 billion in potential waste, fraud, and abuse during their tenure as IGs -...
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Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
And keep in mind that U.S. oil companies' assets in Venezuela were nationalized by a centrist pro-U.S. government in the 1970s and, via international arbitration, Venezuela paid them billions of dollars in compensation.
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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Trump supporters are the people who think being cruel makes them smart and being wrong makes them brave.
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Well, this certainly exposes the Venezuelan right for what it really is. Any legitimacy they seemed to have is gone forever. They are and will forever be tools of a hated colonial power.
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Maybe the best thing to come out of 2025 is the death of any illusion about the integrity of corporate-owned media.
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
David Brooks at an Epstein party. That's not news; what's news is how David Brooks shamelessly defends the Epstein class. My thoughts at www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Something is happening here and you don't know what it is, do you David Brooks?
The Guardian reports that David Brooks was at a Epstein party in 2011—three years after Epstein pled guilty to soliciting a minor. This is dog-bites-man. Not news. Is there really anyone out there who...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Whew. The racism started within hour of Rep Jasmine Crockett announcing her senate run.. it was so bad her competitor, Talirico, had to issue a reminder to his base to stop being so fucking racist..
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Several Republican members of Congress have said that they are retiring to spend more time with other people's children.
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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 07/11/2025
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." "That's correct."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
After voting to give billionaires tax breaks and making health care more expensive, Derrick Van Orden has refused to hold a town hall to talk to the voters he works for in a face-to-face conversation. So, I'm heading to Wisconsin to help give the people he's supposed to represent a voice.
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Pete Buttigieg to campaign against Derrick Van Orden in La Crosse
Buttigieg, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2020, is characterizing the event as a response to the Trump administration's policies.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear." Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/10/2025
If you come for my people, you come through me.
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Note to fascists: Grief is not a performance.
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Things are so bad white people noticed.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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Vivienne (formerly BillThePony) @billthepony.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Man, I'm a leftist. I pray for the day of the end of the American hegemony But you're 1,000% correct about how there is good ways and bad ways to go about unwinding this. And we are picking the "fascist lashing out" path that was a.... Let's go with "inferior track record"
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
If our capitalist system has resulted in a concerted effort by fascist billionaires, pedophilic politicians, and war criminals to destroy democracy and replace it with white supremacist, religious nationalist totalitarianism, then our system is rotten to the core, and maybe it’s time we redesign it.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
i love this journey for everyone involved — adams, who’ll spiral into the ground; cuomo, who’ll be further humiliated; and mamdani, who’ll cook them both over an open fire
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ever notice how Confederates are all about valuing their so-called heritage, but when you talk about reparations, they're all like: "It wasn't me, why should I pay?"
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
In a book draft I once referred to Dobson as "America's foremost advocate of child abuse," which he was (see "Dare to Discipline"), but the publisher made me take it out.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It's funny how many people make "matcha" part of their identity when they are really talking about sweet treats and milk drinks where you can't taste the matcha at all.
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 02/08/2025
Yet again, my 3 year old is braver (and more rational) than a white adult male Senator. It should be shamefully embarrassing to say anything like this in public.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
From last week: Why it's good news that Dem WH 2028 is already underway and proceeding normally. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/its-2028-a...
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Cuomo and Adams to split the NYC shameless creep vote.
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Dan Cloak @dancloak.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
1/ The real “bunker buster” is aimed at peace itself, and international law. If leaders fail to emphatically condemn this unprovoked “pre-emptive” attack (today they are failing), then the future world will follow the age-old credo of “might makes right.”
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.
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