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Dan Holt

@danielsholt.bsky.social
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Historian of one half of the legislative branch. All opinions are mine alone, of course.

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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Definitely not enough discussion of effect of every drive starting at the 35 yard line.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gonna run for office on the platform of banning insurance company advertising.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't even understand what they think the fraud is. The subsidies? The subsidies get used to pay ACA premiums right? Or at least a subscriber is paying out of pocket for premiums and getting some cash back in subsidies? They aren't coming out in the black then.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why if a poll comes in at 52-38 does it get reported as a 14 point lead? If it swings 7 points it becomes a tie. Who ever is losing doesn't need to gain 14 points, so shouldn't it be characterized as a 7 point lead?
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My daughter and her boyfriend freaking out and listening to my 90s CD collection...so proud.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's too bad that the island of the autobots was cut from Nolan's The Odyssey.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You don't really appreciate good quarterbacking until you watch the awfulness of Jameis Winston. #giants
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I hate the Chiefs, but that is game over
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Mets deserved that. #alonso
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Palmer should have caught that ball and sat on the one yard line rather than score the TD. #bills
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Michael Jordan Jumpman logo on baseball equipment is dumb and Aaron Judge should be embarrassed to wear it.
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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
actually, @danielsholt.bsky.social are doing a UVa History #apsa2026 takeover - he's discussing the future of congressional historical scholarship at 2:00
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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you are at #apsa2026 @americalabs.org, @mollyereynolds.bsky.social, and Ruth Bloch Rubin are having a roundtable discussion of intraparty factions in Congress at noon - Marriott Salon A. Timely, given Dem House leadership is already taking swings at DSA-aligned members (right hashtag this time)
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I've only heard of 3 of them, and I only know who Druski is because one day I was like "According to T-Mobile ad people I should know who that guy is" and finally looked him up.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is the best soccer game Ive ever seen.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Why can't soccer be this cool all the time?
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In grad school a friend was the subject of a NY Times trend piece simply because the reporter was his friend and was like "hey, what is something that you do that I can write about?" I think about this often.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.
prospect.org
What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
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Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
nytimes.com
A Founder’s Previously Unknown Attempt to Avert the Revolutionary War
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
To mark 40 years of the Senate on C-SPAN, a blog post on the winding path to televised gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate.
senate.gov
U.S. Senate: Lights! Camera! Action! The Senate Televised
Lights! Camera! Action! The Senate Televised
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Which side is captive to "radical gender ideology" again?
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I watched a lot of Knicks games with my dad growing up...he took me to the Garden to see the Knicks of Ewing, Starks, Oakley. He would have thoroughly enjoyed this championship.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Not to downplay the current situation, but Mao Zedong would like a word.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The CSPAN reporter does not realize she is currently live on Youtube and it is cracking me up.
youtube.com
Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Very sad news in the history world.
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David M. P. Freund @mpeterf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Ok, here's a quick readers' guide: 1) "that's how foundational technologies evolve"; electricity is a technology with practical application, while Bitcoin is a ledger entry created by a computer system; it's essentially an accounting device hard wired to a digital ecosystem continued below. . . .
youtube.com
The New Rules of Bitcoin
YouTube video by Atlantic Re:think
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
June 2 will mark 40 years of television coverage of the Senate. To mark the occasion CSPAN has put together a collection of memorable moments from the Senate floor. www.c-spantest.org/senate-timel...
c-spantest.org
Senate History Highlights
Notable moments from Senate history captured on C-SPAN2
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
One more time, I wrote about Google’s plan to kill off its own search function. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
sfgate.com
Google hates you
"The repercussions of Google's pivot to AI will be vast and horrid."
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Alguna Surf
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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I just posted the bill text, hearings, witness statements, etc for the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee for FY 2027, will go back eventually to 2013. Usually on GitHub but trying something new americalabs.org/legislative-... #congress
americalabs.org
Legislative Branch Appropriations Documents
A complete collection of congressional records of the appropriations process for the Legislative Branch Subcommittee beginning with FY2027
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I think it's about time that we include Mark Hamill's performance in Guys and Dolls as Star Wars canon.
Image of Mark Hamill's character from the Simpsons, with top hat and light saber, when he played Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Reporter from the movie Elf, with text stating I guess we'll never know what occurred at this year's WHCA dinner.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Don't forget about the Mammoth Loaf of 1804. www.history.com/this-day-in-...
history.com
President Jefferson presented with a “mammoth loaf” of bread | March 26, 1804 | HISTORY
On March 26, 1804, President Thomas Jefferson attends a public party at the Senate and leads a diverse crowd in consu...
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Does anyone know what these 8 wars are that Trump thinks/claims he stopped?
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
How some on this site thinks an impeachment works and will block you for suggesting otherwise.
youtu.be
Animal House-Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga!
YouTube video by russlander227
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The logical end point of journalism as stenography. "There are people who think a thing..." becomes "news."
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The official replays in this tournament really grinds some of these games to a halt. They have to speed this stuff up.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Middle age guy watching NCAA tournament: "that's a foul," "that's a travel," "terrible no call," "another travel"....
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Bartender and sales clerk for an automotive supply company. Grandmothers were garment worker and secretary at a university.
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Matt Glassman @mattglassman312.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Once upon a time, today was important. On the old congressional calendar, lame ducks, and the fallibility of the Founders. open.substack.com/pub/mattglas...
open.substack.com
Once upon a time, today was important
My go-to piece of evidence for the fallibility of the Founders
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Does the bronze medal winner in hockey always skip the medal ceremony?
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This one with alt text. Sorry for forgetting that.
Image of Batman in front of surveillance screens from Dark Knight Rises, with text that says "I swear I'll only use it to find dogs." Below is image of Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) staring back at him.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Chris Collinsworth barely able to suppress his contempt for this game.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Damn. Bad Bunny killed that.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Someone at the Supreme Court Historical Society thought it was a good idea to let me discuss with distinguished professor Robert Post and society president Jim Duff the 1925 Judges Bill that gave the Sup Ct control over it's docket. It was a great conversation! Take a listen.
youtu.be
Virtual Lecture: The "Judges’ Bill" — How the Judiciary Act of 1925 Reshaped the Supreme Court
YouTube video by Supreme Court Historical Society
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Hot take: I found The Conversation to be boring and difficult to sit through even before the advent of cell phones.
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
The conversation (not) - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Well here’s a real pick me up: You know what Kids Today have trouble sitting through, in a college class on films? Akira Mizuta Lippit, a cinema and media-studies professor at the University of Southe...
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
When I was in grad school at UVa a Black woman who was a candidate for student gov't president was assaulted in a racially-motivated attack. During a party at my house, a student (who had not been invited) said the attack was staged. I immediately threw him out of my house. It was very satisfying.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
As clear a.sign as any that Pegula and Beane have no real plan to get the Bills over the hump.
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If McDermott just had Allen take a knee at the end of the first half on Saturday the Bills win and he probably keeps his job.
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