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Filmmaker & activist; Antifa, if by that you mean peaceful anti-fascist believer in justice, free speech & democracy. Working on experimental/animated film autobio of my imagination. Central NJ. No grifters/porn/crypto. Be kind.

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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 27/09/2026
Will Bunch is why I subscribe to the Philly Inquirer. Here he calls out the media for (once again) sane washing Trump, in probably the most egregious case of all – his profoundly and dangerously unhinged speech to the UN last week. It's a 5-alarm fire folks. But you wouldn't know it reading the NYT.
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump seeks to label Democrats as communists, but he was the one who rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping and kissed his ass. He is clearly Putin’s comrade and buying government stakes in private companies, so why aren’t more people calling out this bullshit? #ComradeTrump
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 23/09/2026
This is madness. If the leader of any other country had threatened to “annihilate" another country (Iran and its people) or to declare that “to the victor belong the spoils” (Venezuela and its oil), he would have been shouted off the stage. Headlines everywhere would condemn him as a pariah. (1/2)
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Trump Threatens Annihilation in Iran in UN Speech and Lays Out Winner-Takes-All Vision (Gift Article)
President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump family has major business interests in the Balkans. So I asked two nominees to be ambassadors to the region if they would use their embassy to push Trump family deals. Watch this for their answers. Just chilling.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 19/09/2026
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Support Balcony Solar - Brightside
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 18/09/2026
Oh FFS. Impeach this loon before he kills us all by chasing ridiculous conspiracy theories while ignoring real threats.
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RFK, Jr. ‘looking at chemtrails,’ a debunked conspiracy theory | CNN
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing intense scrutiny after announcing that his agency is officially investigating “chemtrails”. While scientists emphasize that the line...
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 18/09/2026
@reprileyny.bsky.social you were one of a handful of Democrats voting against impeaching Trump. Why?
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 05/09/2026
“Steinem made my life better. Yes, my life as a cis hetero male. I couldn’t have my career and my life without the professional women I’ve learned from, worked with, and worked for.” — Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social Ditto.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 04/09/2026
Obviously this coyote didn't bother with any goofy products from Acme to snare his prey. (gift article from The New York Times).
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Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie (Gift Article)
Here’s some bad news: Sometimes the coyote does win.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
📌FUN FACT: Canada's 27-mile Welland Canal is a vital shipping passage with eight locks entirely in Ontario that connects Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, carrying roughly $26.3 BILLION IN U.S. TRADE. I have seen this referred to elsewhere as the Strait of Our Moose. 🇨🇦
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 28/08/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Join the Third Act Data Centers listserv. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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Join the Third Act Data Centers listserv
Big tech polluters are trying to force data center builds everywhere across the country, and we're learning together how to FIGHT BACK against them. We've created a google group for Third Actors to sh...
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 22/08/2026
Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious organizingmythoughts.org/woke-what-le...
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Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious
Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 20/08/2026
Campaign consultants prosper by convincing politicians that the path to victory is to raise a boatload of money and spend it on ... campaign consultants (and expensive TV ads from which the consultants get a big cut). And raising megabucks means kowtowing to moneyed interests. BS said Angie Nixon.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 19/08/2026
The real danger that insurgents pose to the Democratic establishment is not their embrace of progressive policies. It's that they're able to win with grassroots organizing, rather than depending on massively expensive ad campaigns. The establishment *wants* money to matter more than people.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/08/2026
The Democratic party leadership fighting harder against the DSA than they do against Trump really says something. These people gotta go, man
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 10/08/2026
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Progress Fall Panel 2026 — Sick of Red Tape: Medicaid Work Requirements in New Jersey. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/progr...
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Progress Fall Panel 2026 — Sick of Red Tape: Medicaid Work Requirements in New Jersey
A parent working two part-time jobs. A person with a chronic illness who cannot work full-time. What happens when a state ties their health care to paperwork? New Jersey is about to find out. Under t...
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 03/08/2026
I used to think that Trump was doing Putin’s bidding. But he may as well be working for Xi. He sure as hell isn’t working for the American people. Trump is such a total disgrace. Predictable but still, WTF? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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How China Won the Iran War
Trump has shattered American power, and Beijing is picking up the pieces
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 03/08/2026
The stench surrounding Trump and his MAGA cult is intolerable share.inquirer.com/WRaGSG?utm_s...
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The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch
In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 28/07/2026
Why people are finally beginning to hate American-style capitalism, Part 923 open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
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Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math
Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 24/07/2026
God answered my prayers. Unfortunately the answer was “No he’s not dead yet.” F*ck.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 23/07/2026
Any article about Trump's US /Saudi nuclear deal that doesn't dig into the corrupt Kushner connections with MBS is failing. Follow the goddamned money.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump has disbanded the foreign influence task force in the FBI… All while he claims foreign influence in our own elections. Actions. Speak. Louder. Than. Words. 😎✨
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 17/07/2026
Speaking out for justice is great. SINGING out is even better. Please join us on Sunday 8/16 (NEW DATE). Very casual, drop in at any point. 120 East State (120EastState.org) is a nonprofit project turning the former Presbyterian church in Trenton NJ into a community/cultural center open to all.
A flyer featuring a central photo of a small group of young people sitting around several guitar players and making music, decorated with graphics of musical notes as well as red, white & blue fireworks.

The text reads:

NEW DATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 16   | 3:00PM - 4:30PM

120 East State Street
Summer 2026 Events
SINGING FREEDOM:
SING-ALONG FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

NEW DATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 16   | 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Free event - all welcome!

Join 120 East State and friends as we sing your all time favorites and learn new songs of hope and community - in the spirit of building our nation.

Come early and explore the Visitor Zone -- doors open 1:00pm!

Free parking - enter at GPS 109 E. Hanover Street, Trenton, NJ 08608

www.120eaststate.org TRENTON, NJ 
@120eaststate
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 12/07/2026
Everything Trump does is based on 3 simple desires. No need to make it complicated. He’s greedy. He wants attention. And he wants to stay out of jail. open.substack.com/pub/timkreid...
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The Arbogast Fallacy
An Alternative Explanation for "Sanewashing"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
i don’t have much to say. the platner video is just a lot of self-victimization with zero accountability. real conspiratorial ideas of who is working against him. glad he’s dropping out. good riddance.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 06/07/2026
Democratic moderates are constantly deluding themselves that you can cross a chasm in incremental small steps and then finding themselves smashed on the rocks below. And then doing the same thing over and over again.
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You Can't Solve Half a Problem
The moderate's delusion.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 04/07/2026
A good way to start the 4th: with Veterans Against Fascism in Philadelphia this morning.
Man holding protest sign showing a photo of WWII-era Navy officer. Text reads: MY DAD WAS ANTIFAscist. SO AM I!
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 03/07/2026
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Anarchist calisthenics
“Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking.”
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 02/07/2026
Trump is turning DC into a toxic waste dump. The movie Idiocracy is a how-to guide for this administration, not a cautionary tale.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 02/07/2026
'Yet Mr. Trump mocked [MBS] in public during the war. In March, Mr. Trump talked in disparaging terms about how ... the prince had underestimated him and his administration. “He didn’t think he’d be kissing my ass,” Mr. Trump said at an investment forum in Miami that Saudi Arabia had organized.'
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How the Iran War Ignited a Clash Between Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 23/06/2026
Even Repubs know that everything Trump & his minions touch turns to sh*t: Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told reporters ... “My guess is, based on [Pulte's] past experience, it’s just going to be another hot, steaming pile of DOGE s—,” ... adding that he believes Putle is an “incompetent sycophant.”
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Firings underway at Office of Director of National Intelligence, source says
President Donald Trump called for the “downsizing of the office” after appointing Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence this month.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
you are the company you keep. if you’re still on X, you are a part of that community. there is no separating yourself and claiming a higher purpose. your presence is tacit support for the worst people in the world.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 08/06/2026
Playing it safe results in blandness — in movies or any other endeavor. Why Do Most New Movies Look Meh? www.nytimes.com/video/movies...
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Video: Why Do Most New Movies Look Meh?
Jessica M. Goldstein, an arts and culture reporter, inspects why movies today look different than they did 20 years ago.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 04/06/2026
I'm attending “Indivisible Princeton First Fridays at Four - Donation Week and Sidewalk Vigil for Delaney Hall” - sign up now to join.
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Indivisible Princeton First Fridays at Four - Donation Week and Sidewalk Vigil for Delaney Hall · Mobilize
Indivisible Princeton gathers each month on the First Friday at Four here in Princeton, NJ to stand up and defend communities of compassion, peace, democracy, and the rule of law. These smaller visibi...
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 02/06/2026
The destruction is the point.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 01/06/2026
NJ State riot police storming the streets around Delaney Hall in Newark are "de-escalating" the situation, according to Gov Sherrill and her attorney general. Sounds as enlightened as "we had to destroy the village in order to save it."
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Delaney Hall protesters arrested as riot police storm streets. Chaos continues as curfew begins.
The immigration jail in Newark has been ground zero for anti-ICE protesters for about a week now.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...
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The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 01/06/2026
I'm attending Cooper River Indivisible's event, “Gov. Sherrill--WE WANT ANSWERS!!” - sign up now to join me!
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Gov. Sherrill--WE WANT ANSWERS!! · Cooper River Indivisible
WE ARE HEADING TO MIKIE SHERRILL'S OFFICE -- to demand that she answer for the mess that she has made. And to tell her to: -Stop spreading MAGA propaganda and start helping our detainee friends! -S...
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 01/06/2026
Mikie Sherrill is betraying us by deploying NJ state police as ICE-defending goons. WTF. This is not what I voted for.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 30/05/2026
Hey New York Times how about you wake TF up?
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Shut down Delaney Hall and abolish ICE.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 29/05/2026
Delaney Hall is an atrocity; Migrant detainees separated from loved ones amid clashes between ICE agents, protesters newjerseymonitor.com/2026/05/28/m... #iceout
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Migrant detainees separated from loved ones amid clashes between ICE agents, protesters • New Jersey Monitor
Families of Delaney Hall detainees said they have not been able to visit their loved ones behind bars since unrest began last week.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/05/2026
What's happening at Delaney Hall should be major news with 24/7 coverage. People have been linking arms and protesting for 6 days straight. Don't let the regime bury this story. ALL EYES ON DELANEY.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 27/05/2026
The negative impact of data centers knows no borders. This one on the PA side of the Delaware River would spread most of its harm downwind across to NJ communities. www.tapinto.net/towns/borden...
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Assemblyman Singh Holding Emergency Town Hall to Address Potential Falls Twp., PA Data Center
FLORENCE, NJ — One of Bordentown
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 26/05/2026
For those of you outside of NJ: Senator Kim's father is struggling with Alzheimer's and the Senator could have easily stayed with his family yesterday without criticism. But, this is who he is.
Two pictures of Senator Kim - picking up trash after Jan 6th and standing between armed ICE and his constituents.  Caption: Can't believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years. We need more of this from our electeds.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 21/05/2026
Who writes these corruption-washing headlines? The article has some solid content but the headline makes it seem like Trump is a passive, sad little boy. Trump’s Government Moves to Spare an Unhappy Taxpayer Named Trump
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Trump’s Government Moves to Spare an Unhappy Taxpayer Named Trump
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 15/05/2026
At Trenton state house Saturday 5/16, 3-4:30 Indivisible's event, “Nat’l Day of Voting Action: All Roads Lead to the South” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Nat’l Day of Voting Action: All Roads Lead to the South · Mobilize
Come out and use your voice to stand up against the GOP’s efforts to dismantle our voting rights. Not only has SCOTUS ruled in favor of racial gerrymandering, women’s rights are also threatened by the...
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 12/05/2026
When Dems retake Congress and the Presidency, they need to move aggressively and powerfully to revamp SCOTUS and voting rights and hold the corrupt Trump regime accountable, no holding back. Otherwise we’ll soon return to where we are today and go down even deeper.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 11/05/2026
Food for thought.
Piece of notebook paper with message “ANY THING HELPS” with a smile drawing
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 07/05/2026
Urge Democrats to Fiercely Oppose the New GOP Effort to Shovel Billions More Dollars to ICE and Border Patrol
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Urge Democrats to Fiercely Oppose the New GOP Effort to Shovel Billions More Dollars to ICE and Border Patrol
After keeping the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shut down for months because they refuse to enact the ICE and Border Patrol reforms that Americans overwhelmingly want, Republicans are now usin...
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