Reposted by Dan KaufmanBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I can't wait for this book. It's going to be so good. 1175
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Some exciting news! Thrilled to be working with @marinerbooks.bsky.social. 181
Reposted by Dan KaufmanThe Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This morning on the show: @dankaufman70.bsky.social talked about the data center backlash in Wisconsin and beyond, and how it's influencing the midterm races. wnyc.org/browse/shows...wnyc.orgData Center Opposition in Wisconsin, and Beyond | WNYCJournalist and author Dan Kaufman, reports on the movement against data centers in Wisconsin. 031
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I will be on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social on @wnyc.org at 10 am today to talk about my latest @newyorker.com piece on data centers and the Wisconsin's governor's race. You can stream it here. wnyc.org/home 100
Reposted by Dan Kaufmanchali @chalipittman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Very cool to be quoted in the @newyorker.com on data centers, thank you @dankaufman70.bsky.social for letting me rant about brownfields and metonymy. 🔮 0103
Reposted by Dan KaufmanThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/08/2026As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comCould Data Centers Swing an Election in Wisconsin?As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion. 1377
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I have a new piece in @newyorker.com about the Wisconsin governor's race and the growing movement against A.I. data centers. Deepest thanks to all the people who shared their insights with me and to the stellar editorial staff at the magazine. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comCould Data Centers Swing an Election in Wisconsin?As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion. 172
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 10/08/2026With the Wisconsin governor’s race heating up now seems like a particularly good moment to pick up a copy of THE FALL OF WISCONSIN (@wwnorton.com) and brush up on the state’s fascinating, intense, and vibrant political history that is resonating so fiercely today. 131
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 17/07/2026My @newyorker.com dispatch on the Stop the Steal movement in Wisconsin from a few years ago, which appears to be relevant again. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comWill Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult?Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond. 000
Reposted by Dan KaufmanJake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I first learned about Chris Taylor in Dan Kaufman’s excellent book “The Fall of Wisconsin” which I reviewed for LARB in 2018. Glad to see her and the WI Dems make this comeback. lareviewofbooks.org/article/past... 084
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Chris Taylor, who won a landslide victory in last night's Wisconsin State Supreme Court election, was a key protagonist in THE FALL OF WISCONSIN. Then a state legislator, I was struck by Chris's openness, candor, and determination to expose ALEC's influence on Wisconsin's politics. 020
Reposted by Dan KaufmanLois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The historic background for Trump's attacks on and demands of Spain's current government in Spain is the US Right's longtime love affair with Franco's fascism's, despite or due to his murderous brutality, a fan club spearheaded by William F. Buckley. More here: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.com‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan KaufmanAs Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews. 053
Reposted by Dan KaufmanTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 08/02/2026Inside the emergency of the Federalist Union Network (or FUN), which is filling in gaps in public sector union organizing and strategizing that have accumulated over decades. Plus, how influx of ICE workers is changing federal unions. From @dankaufman70.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...nytimes.com‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers 093
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Print will always rule, My latest piece, about the Trump Administration's war on federal workers and the growing resistance to those attacks, in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. 000
Reposted by Dan KaufmanRick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Best part of this, by the great @dankaufman70.bsky.social, transcends its specific, and also crucial, subject matter: how timorous institutionalist in the anti-Trump coalition get challenged by young people (here, a caucus called "FUN"!) itching for a fight. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...nytimes.com‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers 0248
Reposted by Dan KaufmanSebastiaan Faber @sebasfaber.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Regreso, en excelente compañía, a las páginas de @lamarea.com en el dossier de #lamarea110 sobre obreros de ultraderecha. Hablo con @dankaufman70.bsky.social, experto en la historia del mundo sindical de EEUU. www.lamarea.com/2026/01/28/l...lamarea.com¿Y por qué, hijo, quieres ser un fascista? | lamarea.comEl último dossier de ‘La Marea’ está dedicado a los obreros de ultraderecha. ¿Quiénes son? ¿Cómo entender y frenar su ascenso? 067
Reposted by Dan KaufmanKristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.comtheverge.comI grew up with Alex PrettiThe kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend. 496171906829
Reposted by Dan KaufmanTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026"In his second term, President Trump has cut more than 300,000 federal employees and stripped more than a million workers of their collective-bargaining rights." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...nytimes.com‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers 7459241
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I have a new piece in The New York Times Magazine about the Trump Administration's war on federal unions and a new group of labor activists who are organizing to fight back. Deepest thanks to all the people who shared their time and insights with me. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...nytimes.com‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers 251
Reposted by Dan KaufmanJorge Tamames @jorgetamames.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Highly recommend this piece by @dankaufman70.bsky.social. It speaks to both Spain's past and the US' present. Required reading for my (mostly American) students of comparative Spanish politics. 0148
Reposted by Dan KaufmanMarcia Caton Campbell @mcc51.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Never a better time than NOW for Wisconsinites (and everybody else) to read The Fall of Wisconsin—to understand how we’ve landed where we are *and* for solid, inspiring reminders in the early chapters of how it once was and could be again. 🙏🏻 to @dankaufman70.bsky.social for this brilliant book. 021
Reposted by Dan KaufmanArturo Sarukhan @ambarturosarukhan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Con los intentos de la extrema derecha en EEUU, España y Latinoamérica de lavarle la cara y la reputación al dictador fascista Francisco Franco, esta reseña en @nybooks.com vuelve a subrayar la brutalidad, intolerancia y el antisemitismo de su dictadura. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.com‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan KaufmanAs Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews. 011
Reposted by Dan KaufmanRick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.com‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan KaufmanAs Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews. 8299104
Reposted by Dan KaufmanThe New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 23/11/2025“In Spain, the effort to revive Franco’s reputation has been accompanied by ostentatious philosemitism…. This blend of philosemitism and antisemitism has also become a feature of the Trump administration.” —@dankaufman70.bsky.social nybooks.com‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan KaufmanAs Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews. 1156
Reposted by Dan KaufmanThe New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 20/11/2025“Franco’s regime…was far more hospitable to fascist refugees than it ever was to Jewish ones. Despite this history, or perhaps because of it, Franco’s reputation continues to grow on the American far right.” —@dankaufman70.bsky.social nybooks.com‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan KaufmanAs Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews. 064
Reposted by Dan KaufmanPaul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 18/11/2025You have to register to read this for free, but it's worth it; a detailed rundown on that idol of MAGA, General Francisco Franco, and his devotion to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and his acolytes' stated desire for mass prole deaths. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.com‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan KaufmanAs Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews. 43918
Reposted by Dan KaufmanJo-Marie Burt @jomaburt.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Excellent essay on Franco’s fascist Spain, which many on the right today are looking to for inspiration www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.com‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan KaufmanAs Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews. 0138
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Ah, the beauty of print...My latest piece, a wide-ranging essay about a remarkable book by the historian Paul Preston, in the new issue of @nybooks.com. . . . 1204
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I have an essay in @nybooks.com about a compelling new book by Paul Preston, a masterful British historian of 20th- century Spain. Deepest thanks to the remarkable editorial staff at the Review for all their help. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.com‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan KaufmanAs Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews. 0168
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 22/06/2025With the upcoming Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, and the widespread anxiety over #ZohranMamdani's candidacy, it's worth noting Milwaukee was governed remarkably well for forty years by pragmatic and visionary Socialist mayors. #sewersocialism. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The City Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Would Have Loved to Live In (Published 2019) 031
Reposted by Dan KaufmanDave R, photographer @daverphotog.bsky.social · 19/06/2025This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil 378212714102
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Reposting this @newyorker.com piece I wrote in light of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...newyorker.comReconciliation at My Lai 000
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Today is election day in Wisconsin. Here's my @newyorker.com piece on the the race for an open #WisconsinSupremeCourt seat, which is by far the most expensive judicial election in American history and a proxy battle over Trump and Musk's agenda. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comWhy Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda. 000
Reposted by Dan KaufmanGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 31/03/2025“‘80% of our canvassing interactions are about Musk,’ Matt Mareno, the chair of the Waukesha County Democratic Party, told me. The county is heavily Republican, but Mareno said that many ppl have expressed frustration that Musk is … not accountable to anyone.’” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comWhy Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda. 28732
Reposted by Dan KaufmanThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 31/03/2025The race for an open seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court “is now a proxy battle for whether the American government at every level can be bought by oligarchs,” Ben Wikler, the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, said.newyorker.comWhy Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda. 21491168
Reposted by Dan KaufmanW. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com · 31/03/2025Dan Kaufman's THE FALL OF WISCONSIN is a deeply reported account of how the state was turned into a laboratory for national conservatives bent on remaking the country. Read Kaufman's latest on tomorrow's Wisconsin Supreme Court election. wwnorton.com/books/the-fa... www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...wwnorton.comThe Fall of WisconsinNational bestseller<br /><br /> 'Masterful.' —Jane Mayer, best-selling author of <em>Dark Money</em>, The Fall of Wisconsin, The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of ... 022
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I wrote a piece about tomorrow's crucial #Wisconsin Supreme Court election for @newyorker.com. Deepest thanks to all the people who shared their insights with me and to the phenomenal editorial staff at the magazine. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comWhy Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda. 022
Reposted by Dan KaufmanMatt Weiland @mattweiland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Gifts for those following or seeking to understand the stakes of the vital Wisconsin Supreme Court race... cc @dankaufman70.bsky.social 032