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Dan Larsen

@danlarsen34.bsky.social
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I’m a writer, content creator, and political organizer with over a decade of experience working on progressive causes and campaigns. Former candidate for WI State Assembly: substack.com/@danlarsen34?utm_campa…

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's only been two games, but I see Spurs are doing Spurs things again...
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The vast majority of people in this state, regardless of who you are or where you live, strongly oppose data centers. Tom Tiffany is lying about his position and attitude on this to be clear, but David has a real weakness on this issue that's already being exploited. This needs to change.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you're a Democratic campaign embracing anti-trans messaging and talking points, you deserve to lose. Democrats cannot credibly claim to stand for values like equality for all people if they're going to throw trans people or anyone else under the bus like this.
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Francesca Hong 홍윤정 @francescahongwi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
Q: Were you prepared for pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as too extreme for Wisconsin? HONG: What's extreme is Rep. Tiffany has voted against interests of Wisconsinites over & over. What's extreme is that he's an election denier & continues to protect pedophiles
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026
man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane
nbc: fallen troops return homeabc: honoring america's fallen soldierscbs: trump oversees dignified transfer of US soldiersfox: saluting the fallen; president trump attends dignified transfer ceremony
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wasn't that familiar with Ryan Grim from before 2025, but holy fucking shit is he a garbage human being. Not only is he slandering an SA victim now, this dude has said other abhorrent and unacceptable shit like claiming that cis white men are the real victims in American society 3 weeks ago!
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I will never understand why so many people pushed this fucking idiot for Senate. He had SO many red flags in his background. Everyone involved in this situation, including Schumer and the DSCC pushing another objectively terrible candidate in Janet Mills, ought to reckon with this mess.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
Gorsuch literally says as much as this in his Slaughter concurrence. He calls this the Constitution as originally intended.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is an absolutely fire take. As someone who went to law school and has a bachelor's in history, I can attest to this. This is especially true regarding the blatantly fascist and corrupt Supreme Court majority that we have now.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 27/06/2026
He's missing a lot here but another thing he's missing is that there's a reason why DSA organizing builds on itself: The policies are popular.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Coming from the most corrupt Administration in American history, this is an honor I'll treasure forever.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is absolutely worth your time. What an absolute trainwreck this situation was over the past three seasons where all parties bear responsibility for what ultimately just happened.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse case
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 08/06/2026
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Student: “So Elon Musk is a trillionaire?”
Me: “Yup.”
Student: “How did he get that much money?”
Me: “Well, he doesn’t really have a trillion dollars cash. He just owns a lot of stock in companies that are valued at a trillion dollars.”
Student: “So those companies make huge profits?”
Me: “Oh gosh no. They all lose billions of dollars a year. All of them. Huge losses.”

The Economist headline: “Gen Z Mysteriously Hates Capitalism and No One Can Figure Out Why.”
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/06/2026
a post of mine from november 13, 2024:

one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
That was legitimately the worst hit I think I've seen in the 25 years that I've been a NASCAR fan. Christopher Bell literally destroyed the safer barrier there. That would have been a fatal accident 25 years ago. Thank goodness for the safety evolutions we've seen.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
@rdtopp.bsky.social Since were discussing this in the Gyrostep discord this morning, I wanted to get your thoughts on this fake trade proposal for Skubal. I personally wouldn't do this and suspect you'd say the same? x.com/i/status/206...
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Ryan on X: "Would you do this? https://t.co/Tz8Y2BHKzi" / X
Would you do this? https://t.co/Tz8Y2BHKzi
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I had the great fortune of discovering these awesome people through a prop hunt collab stream they did with @theonlyryann.bsky.social last year. They are wildly entertaining and amazing people. I cannot recommend @watchgirlsplay.bsky.social enough. Congrats on the 11 year anniversary!
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...
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The Age of No Innocence
What if all you knew was extremist politics? Welcome to being young in America.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Arsenal are the clear favorites to win the title once again after these past two results. I think Man City is going to absolutely regret the chances they threw away at Burnley a few weeks ago if this goes to Goal Difference.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is both the coolest and most dangerous celebration that I've ever seen a driver do. Carson Hocevar is a ton of fun. This is just the first of what I think will be many wins for him in his NASCAR career.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026
OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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"In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
(looks directly at camera)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I think people should respond this way any time they are asked this question bsky.app/profile/dipl...
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 08/04/2026
The Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race beat the polls by 13 percentage points. This follows an underestimation of Democrats in the 2025 statewide elections in Virginia and New Jersey. It's reasonable to question whether RV generic ballot polls are also underestimating Democrats
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Chris Taylor is going to win this race and it might be by an even larger statewide margin that Janet won by in 2023.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
There are a surprising number of people in politics + media who don't understand that nuclear launch authority rests solely with POTUS. Trump doesn't need clearance from Congress or the courts. Even preemptively. All that stands between him and nuclear war are military refusing to follow his orders.
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