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Dan Margolies

@danmargolies.bsky.social
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Historian thinking about música del coronavirus, conjunto, bees, huapangos, cultural sustainability & submerged land. danmargolies.com

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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 16h
This is an essential read
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
He talked about Peale for years as one of his big three influences: his dad, Roy Cohn, and Peale. An unholy trinity of greed, grift, and vanity.
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Military Pigeons @militarypigeons.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
British Royal Air Force instructions for preparing pigeons for air dropping, 1919 (courtesy of the National Archives, Kew)
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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#OneHitWondered @onehitwondered.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The week of October 12, 1959, Richmond, Virginia late-’50s rockabilly outfit The Rock-A-Teens earned US #OneHitWonder honors when their rockabilly/proto-garage rockin’ “Woo-Hoo” entered the US #Billboard #Top40 at #40. The single spent 9 weeks on the chart, peaking at #16. #OneHitWondered #MusicSky
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The Rock-A-Teens - Woo-Hoo
YouTube video by OneHitWondered
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You have to work pretty hard to be as corrupt as Ken Paxton. I say this with almost a kind of admiration. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Lawless president violates court order. Just say it like that. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump blew past deadline to halt running taxpayer-funded campaign-style ads
A coalition of nonprofits had sued, calling the ads “propaganda.” The president has said campaign funds would be used to pay for the commercials going forward.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also it’s time for the news to stop treating this administration’s racist war against Somalis as “Trump being Trump.” They targeted Minneapolis because they hate an ethnic group here, and now they’re targeting the most prominent political figure in that group with thinly rationalized state violence.
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Quality line
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Even if the goal is strategic retreat from overseas positions, this is not the way: destroying material, morale, & credibility, hurting friends & helping enemies, all while killing your world-leading research ecosystem. This is what you get when you purge expertise & experience from decision-making.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Illegally detaining and brutalizing a racial minority until they agree to flee the country” isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s ethnic cleansing. There’s no legal standard here - these people meet the standard! What differentiates them is not their legal status but their race and color.
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
...so far
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.
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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The start of the Obama admin is as far from today as the first Gulf War was for them. The start of the Clinton admin is as far from today as the last days of Eisenhower were for them. The start of the Reagan admin is as far from today as the Berlin Olympics were for them.
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
By now all y'all know that Buck Owens was a Texan, but did you know that in 1963 Merle Haggard played bass in Buck's band? Here's a 1963 photo of L-R: Wayne Stone, Don Rich, Buck Owens, Jay McDonald, and Merle Haggard. Merle gave Buck the idea to call his backing band the Buckaroos. Pretty great!
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A list of 250-year-old things that Trump has destroyed in 2026 1. The Grandmother Tree 2. The United States of America
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good ideas but not strident enough. It's going to take entirely new leadership
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The number is much higher than 500, but this is what the reporters could definitively prove in this excellent report. An appalling abuse of power and a clear sign of the deaththroes of the republic
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The further Putinisation of America. Strategic assets used to project power must be withdrawn due to strategic incompetence in an unnecessary war of choice. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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US withdraws all bomber aircraft from UK airbase
The United States confirmed on Sunday that it has withdrawn all B-1 bombers from the British airbase of RAF Fairford, with officials telling US media that the move was linked to "new threats."A statem...
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
botched executions of prisoners aren't all that rare, even if each is uniquely horrifying deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/b...
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Botched Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DC
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truly can't relay just how fucking unacceptable it is to see gaggles of troops standing around in DC
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More terrorist attacks from terrorist Russia as they bomb a hospital in Kyiv and the Science Academy Every single day Russia carries out mass terrorist attacks across Ukraine
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Michael A. Lewis @michaelalewis10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The question of how UBI would be integrated into the current social policy landscape doesn’t come up that often. Economist Soomi Lee addresses it here: usbig.net/simplicity-a... @gisele600.bsky.social @scottsantens.com @karlwiderquist.bsky.social @murfmensch.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Simplicity and Complexity of Basic Income – USBIG
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen
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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas.
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Watch Body Cam of Man Arrested for Just Cussing at a County Meeting
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas.
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Enough with the "Republicans are starting to break with Trump" stories. The second any of them win reelection they'll all snap back into line. Toadies, crooks, and insurrectionists don't actually change, even if they're cynical enough to posture otherwise during an election.
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some useful trivia for you: Hubert Humphrey wrote the liner notes for Tommy James and the Shondells' Crimson and Clover album in 1968.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pretty significant news, especially getting a preliminary injunction in a state like Alabama. Comes from the lawsuit filed by Leonardo Garcia Venegas, the U.S. citizen and Alabama resident detained three times by immigration agents. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he say...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On Sep 11 in Alamo, Texas, Luis Ochoa and another teen stopped to film ICE agents during a vehicle stop near a school. Agents pulled one from their car, struck him, used pepper spray, and detained them for 8 hrs even after they proved their citizenship, one ICE agent stating, 'I don’t give a damn.'
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Mother of teen detained in viral Alamo ICE arrest video deported
The mother of a 17-year-old detained by ICE in a viral Alamo, Texas incident has been deported to Mexico, raising concerns among legal experts about potential retaliation for speaking out.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just finished @lkatfield.bsky.social's superb _Furious Minds_. Nuanced & engaged deep exploration of the post-liberalism, theocratic lunacy, and (in a great and accurate phrasing) the "Schmittian filth" of the Trumpist intellectuals who are laboring to destroy democracy here.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/09/2026
come to america, do it all the legal way, and then have ICE shoot you through your back window as they try to execute an extrajudicial arrest
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The US will soon have the world's only triumphal arch whose features were driven by litigation strategy.
At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 20/09/2026
A good compilation of footage showing how the overnight and early morning attack on the Moscow region unfolded, including moments of impact. #Russia
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
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ACLU @aclu.org · 19/09/2026
Rubén Salazar was renowned for his hard-hitting journalism about the Mexican-American community. While reporting on 1970’s National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War, he was killed when a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy launched a tear gas projectile into the crowd and struck him in the head.
Black and white photo of Ruben Salazar in a shirt and tie, with the words "Latine Heritage Month" above him. Below him it says "Photography Credit: Los Angeles Times." A quote reads: "'They don't want the press to rock the boat. And I think the press's obligation is to rock the boat." – Ruben Salazar. Trailblazing journalist, killed by law enforcement while covering the Chicano Moratorium." ACLU logo. Vibrant and colorful background and border.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So Trump caves after creating a crisis that was massively costly to key US alliances, and will declare victory for, and lie about the scope of, a “deal” that enshrines the status quo ante but leaves what were good faith relations laden with distrust & resentments. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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U.S. and Denmark Reach Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says
The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon.
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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The internet has justified its existence for the day
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