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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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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely agree with you on this, especially when there isn't a good way to properly reward the 1 seeds in the current expanded format. I don't think it would be practical to start the one seed in the LCS, right?
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm very thankful that the fielding errors didn't have a bigger impact on the series given how tight every single game was. For as unlucky as the Brewers hitters were, I think you could argue the other way about the errors.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At least it feels that way and the Brewers won the series last night. Lol. Imagine if we were having to get ready for a game 5 right now...
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For the record: I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this thing is close and finishes much closer than whatever the national environment will be. GOP is bombing mailboxes and the airwaves, and Crowley is really struggling to break through in any meaningful way.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Plus, polling has become so difficult to do that I would caution anyone looking at them to take them with a massive grain of salt given that every pollster has to rely heavily on modeling at this point to get their results.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not to mention, it should be blatantly obvious to people that this is the case with how Elon has messed around with Grok throughout the past year plus.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It would be the most fun outcome all around and I hope that it happens
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Otherwise, like with "immigration" or "crime, the only voters I ever ran into who brought it up as a negative were people already voting for Republicans
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Especially now. I had one experience out of the thousands of doors I knocked in 2022-23 in Ozaukee, WI where I ran into an older man who had been a lifelong Dem (he and his wife even held parties at their house) who flipped because of this issue. That's it. If they switched, they already did so.
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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 · 09/09/2026
You and @ohhaimar.bsky.social were amazing at PaxWest this past weekend. Your jokes and humor were great! I hope y'all had fun.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I've been struggling with that too, but mine is related to having an iron deficiency that is likely being caused by Celiac or a gluten allergy that I didn't know I had until a few weeks ago. Rest is also key, so I wouldn't be so hard on yourself. You've been killing it Maddie!
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the Democratic Party continues down this path, they're going to outflanked in 2028 by JD Vance or Tucker Carlson on this issue, both of which I suspect may run on an openly antisemitic platform if they think that will win them the election. This is really dark.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This would take the cake for the most bizarre transfer I've seen City make in a LONG time. I know City need a second forward with Marmoush departing, but why him?
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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 · 18/08/2026
Exactly. I know we all have concerns about the viability of the offense right now going into the post-season, but that shouldn't take away from people's enjoyment of what this team is still achieving and is capable of on the field. They may not be a "perfect" team, but they can absolutely win a WS
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Let's not kid ourselves. If anyone is getting all of their picks taken away like what was being discussed with the Clippers, it will be done to the Bucks for this contract. lol. We all must Gary the Flame!
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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
Totally understandable to feel that way, but you've got this! You've done it before, except now you've got an amazing group of colleagues and friends to help you.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As Parker lays out later in this thread, there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that doing this even persuades a single voter who cares about this issue either. Why in the fuck are Democratic campaigns in top-tier races choosing to bring up Republican issues ON THEIR OWN AND ADOPT THEIR POSITION?
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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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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If she sticks to her strengths as a communicator and focuses on the issues that people care about over the remainder of the race, I am confident that she can win. The thing that threatens to derail that is if people, including some electeds and donors, refuse to support her/continue attacking IMO
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Her name ID is at 45% right now and she hasn't even been up aggressively with ads yet. The party, in theory, should be able to jump in right away and help prevent a 2022 repeat where the GOP defines her first. I would caution reading too much into the Marquette poll.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tiffany has been running ads unopposed for months now (pretty much since January between TV and streaming). Most Dems only went up on TV within the past week or two, with Fran just going up now. It will be a race for Fran to define herself before Tiffany/GOP does it for her like Mandela 2022.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I wouldn't read much into the head-to-head findings at this point. As I suspected would be the case, the lack of name ID among the field renders those results pretty much useless at this point. Tiffany is at 71% name ID. Mandela is at 60%. Fran is at only 45%. Sara was at 35%. Rest 21% or less.
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
And, we're only getting started with both of these...
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Plus, this entire discourse overlooks that the Republicans/Trump have literally called Democrats, including Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi, "communists" throughout the past 16 years. The GOP has already been doing the "far-left" caricature of Dems. The "centrists" have fucking agency here! lol
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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
By complaining about this so loudly and so publicly, they are also raising the salience of DSA in a way that wouldn't be happening if it were just the right-wing ecosystem saying this stuff. This same dynamic has happened several times before (2024 and Immigration, 2020 and BLM, etc..).
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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
There is no space for these people on the left. Period. You are not a "progressive" or on the left if you believe in and are perpetuating the same racist and misogynistic narratives that we see on the far-right.
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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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Dan Larsen @danlarsen34.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It feels like when you get hit in the face by the heat coming from your oven when you first walk outside.
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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 · 26/06/2026
The narrative after this game is fucking absurd and frankly reminds me of the kind of insane coverage that the England national team had to deal with at the past 3-4 World Cups prior to this. Who knew losing a literally meaningless group stage game at the death was the end of the world? lol
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