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Dan Mishkin

@danmishkin.bsky.social
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Freelance writer (self-unemployed); Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival; husband, father, zayde

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Shaun Manning @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you can’t say “abduction” and “rendition,” at least don’t go along with the official, propagandistic framing.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just deleted a post with a fake Stephen Miller quote. But this is 100% real: This morning Donald Trump said the following at the UN. "The terrorist regime is behaving badly, not because they are strong and confident, but because they are weak and desperate." Again, Everything Is Projection.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 16/09/2026
tfw you're so unpopular that people are disgusted by your attempt to bribe them
Screenshot of a tweet by the "Political Polls" account, dated 15 September 2026. It reads: "New - $5,000 Trump dividend. Oppose 63%. Approve 17%. Ipsos - A - 9/14"
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But far more importantly, the voters make no appearance whatsoever in Justice Alito’s reasoning. He, like the government, does not dispute that using the rule in 2026 would disenfranchise millions of our most vulnerable people. He doesn’t care. It’s despicable and antidemocratic.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We keep telling Ukraine to bow down to Putin, rewarding Russia for its aggression, but they just won’t, explained corrupt non-govt US representative Jared Kushner. It’s very frustrating, he said, I really expected to get paid by now. Asked what Russia must give up for peace, Kushner had no comment.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026
“Humanity has never faced a more deadly carrier of disease and bacteria than children, and their total removal is a massive medical breakthrough and a milestone in the management of illness in this country,” — Jane Christiansen, CDC spokesperson
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CDC Successfully Eradicates Children
ATLANTA—Hailing its success as a major victory for the public health and safety of all Americans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday that it had successfully eradicated ch...
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes, I remember exactly zero reporting of this story at the time. But Trump has to be at the center of everything or it didn't happen.
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labour Day. Solidarity. (art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social)
A pro-labour poster, with text at top 'The Labor Movement! The folks that brought you ...'  Underneath are stylized drawings of people of various ages, genders, and ethnicities holding signs reading 'overtime pay', 'living wage laws', 'parental leave', 'civil rights', 'domestic partner benefits', social security, child labour laws, paid vacations, pension benefits, OSHA, grievance procedures, workplace power, health benefits, workers comp, minimum wage, farm labor rights, unemployment insurance, the weekend.

Below is a quote: 'Power concedes nothing without a demand.  It never did and it never will' - Frederick Douglass.
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is sadly hilarious
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Conservatives on the Supreme Court have been diluting Americans’ votes for decades. Let’s dilute theirs. Expand the court in 2029.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
It’s impossible to calculate how much of what I’ve been able to accomplish is because of women like Gloria Steinem. Rest in power. www.npr.org/2026/09/03/n...
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Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92
At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We have heard directly from within the Pentagon of good officers - “the ones you’d want to go to war with” - swept out on pretext, or no pretext.
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Now that Trump has renamed one of the Great Lakes, we’ll need a new mnemonic for Lakes Superior, Huron, America, Michigan and Erie. How about SHAME?
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"The new inflation has been caused in part by the rise in the price of oil as a result of Iran. It's been caused by all the spending on artificial intelligence." And "some of it is attributable to tariffs." Sen. Kennedy (R-LA), by telling the truth, makes the case against his party in the midterms.
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Kennedy on The Sunday Briefing: Democrats and the media are utterly and unspeakably wrong about Iran
YouTube video by Senator John Kennedy
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
How Trump’s economic threats to Iran sound in the Middle East: I’m afraid of escalation. Don’t worry about a ground invasion, and maybe not even about more bombing. I failed, but admitting it is embarrassing, and I think this makes me sound tough. So you should let me twist in the wind some more.
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Whaddya know. Here's a terrific teen Blue Devil by the talented and (publishers take note) fast @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social!
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you, Biden!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This shouldn't be happening to them or anyone else, but the fact is they were fine with it happening to other people as long it did not happen to them, and the same is true of tens of millions of other voters. It certainly says something about the American electorate bsky.app/profile/brad...
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
They think about penises more than most gay men. They think about the genitals of children more than most pedophiles. They imagine sexual assault more than most rapists. Transphobes are just deeply sick people.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/08/2026
Let kids MAKE MISTAKES. Let kids LEARN PROCESS. Let kids STRUGGLE with writing & drawing, figure out what they think & see, figure out how to turn it into words & art with their own minds & hands. When you push "A.i." on them, you're telling them to quit. That only PRODUCT matters, not process.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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Shaun Manning @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is not in any way how “law enforcement” works
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you don't know about the GOP senate candidate here in Michigan, this ad does a great job of introducing him. Go, Abdul!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/08/2026
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just read "Amelia Shadows and the New Head Ghost" by @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social and loved it! I may be decades older than the target audience, but anyone who appreciates comics will be taken by his design sense and visual storytelling skills. Now I've got to find the rest of the series!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/08/2026
Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/07/2026
Claude I need a perfect quote by Trump that show's his inability to understand basic concepts. Claude:
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Haley Stevens ads that show up in my mailbox are all ad hominem attacks. Abdul El-Sayed's are about policy.
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The Democratic Establishment Is Running Scared in Michigan
The Senate primary could be a window into what the 2028 presidential contest will be like—vicious, endless, with the establishment candidates conspicuously avoiding policy.
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Studies demonstrate that misinformation continues to influence a subject’s memory, inferences, and decision-making processes even after they have explicitly acknowledged and accepted a factual correction or retraction." The lies work.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The pattern is unmistakable: *Nobody died from USAID cuts. *Nobody killed by ICE is innocent. *No Muslim in the UK can escape the charge of being a rapist or a murderer. *No Somali in Minnesota is there legitimately by definition. And so on: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
From @gregsargent.bsky.social + @polphilpod.bsky.social: In his explosive interview with The Economist, Elon Musk inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism. trib.al/q2TKEmu
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The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids
In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Here's what the mainstream Dem candidate here in Michigan, running on her supposed electability, is saying about her primary opponent, Abdul El-Sayed.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
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Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/07/2026
Nope. No, you haven’t.
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u/Dazzling-Major-5620 • 13h
ChatGPT not letting you emulate specific authors anymore
Prompting
Join
I've been writing my book for several months now, paid for a more advanced model. Took a break. Came back.
Now Ms. GPT says she can't generate content in the style of specific authors. My prompts were soooo specific and I got exactly what I wanted out of them. For example,
'rewrite in the literary style of 'author here' with abundant dialogue and detail avoiding staccato prose. That was my go-to. Or 'please write and flesh out in the style of
'author' etc. they tightened the ropes. I have no idea how to get around this other than maybe feed it prose I already edited that's technically mine? Fuck.
& Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is just shameful.
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Dan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I don't get how some people look at this always poised and articulate politician and dismiss her as a lightweight. (Well, I guess I can think of reasons that have to do with them and not her. )
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
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Washington Week with The Atlantic @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"There's a series of institutions that have been created, going back decades actually, that are designed to prevent foreign interference and other interference, and actually the Trump administration [has] pretty systematically dismantled them," said @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2026
Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/07/2026
Dang, 220 million voter files stolen by China starting in 2020? Who was president back then, it sounds like he must have sucked ass
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Gary K. Wolf •  
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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