Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 51mIt’s not a good feeling to be approaching an election, knowing that literally anything can happen — including the end of American democracy. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 14hThe two most ubiquitous lies on YouTube are “The deleted scene that explains everything” and “So-and-so finally confirms that the rumors about so-and-so are true.” Is there some rule that requires that all social media outlets must eventually devolve into unadulterated crap? 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 21hWe used to have journalists. Now we have openly corrupt, self-serving, know-nothing "influencers." 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Justice Department misspells the word "north." Nuff said. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I see the Weather Channel is showing a map that includes something called "the Gulf of America." Trump should have gone whole hog and renamed it "the Gulf of Trump." Corporate America is always happy to crawl to him. The real Gulf of Trump is, however, between his ears. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump has announced his own "Super Intelligence Force." The jokes just write themselves at this point. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As someone else noted, “It's so weird how our grandfathers stormed Normandy Beach and killed Nazis without ever having their testosterone tested by a guy with his own makeup studio.” 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As author Robert P. Jones put it, “If don’t want to live in a place where we have a thuggish police force that’s kidnapping people off the street in masks and killing US citizens in the streets, now’s the time to speak up.” 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My late friend Max Ibanez "Some of us have lived in authoritarian states before, people get used to it after a while. But it does take people taking to the streets to oust a full-blown totalitarian state. Things will appear bleak because the GOP is 'all in' in the destruction of democracy.” 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Poor Sen. Schmitt. Republicans have contempt for science, education and facts, so they have a hard time handling them. Blatant lies are more their speed. 001
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Conservatism has long been a stalking horse for fascism, and the old nag has finally arrived at its destination. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ever notice how Republicans never miss an opportunity to tell you how good slaves had it? And that's because Republicans are evil now. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Conservatism has long been a stalking horse for fascism, and now it has arrived at its destination. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Donald Trump already tried to overthrow one democratic election in plain sight, and went unpunished for it. He won’t hesitate to do it again. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026As someone else observed, we are living in a joyless landscape of pollution, war and inflation, watching the mega-rich get richer and richer and they want to convince us "socialism" is scary? 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Like all arrogant men of extremely limited knowledge, Donald Trump is good at wrecking things he cannot possibly rebuild 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I've known for a long time that Trump is pure evil. What's still hard to swallow is that so many Americans want pure evil to run the United States. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As a friend quipped, "Imagine how much gas would cost if Trump hadn't won the war!" 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sean Doolittle said the problem with having a masked secret police force kidnapping people and disappearing them in a web of for-profit prisons, or executing innocent people on the street with total impunity, isn’t that they’re "untrained." It’s that it exists at all. 000
Reposted by Dan HagenJay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is what we’re dealing with. 877216185495
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I really have no idea what to expect from this election that’s coming up in 56 days, or if there will even be one in any real sense of the term. What a strange era we’re living in. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Unfortunately, to maintain their false balance, corporate media journalists believe they must overstate the dangers posed by a strawman “left,” and underestimate the terrorism that is planned by the real-life fascist right. In fact, their only allegiance should be to the factual truth. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I see our poor Secretary of War Crimes is getting a lot of criticism. Well, if you can't trust a well-oiled Fox News hack, whom can you trust? 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Trump thinks he can lie his way out of anything. He thinks he can batter reality senseless with lies, and so far, he's been right. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Trump always pretended to be against war, but I knew he’d eventually sink us into new unwinnable ones. Fascists can never resist militarism and warmongering. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026John Stoehr: "It's been said that launching an illegal war without authority and without any help, then losing it, is Donald Trump's singular act of crazy." 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As someone else said, the candidates being called ‘too far left’ right now are basically campaigning on health care, housing, higher wages and not being bought by corporations. Terrifying stuff, apparently. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The Washington Post says Blanche will have a "tough job" as attorney general. No, his job won't be tough, Blanche just has to ignore the rule of law and all the Trump administration's crimes and prosecute whatever innocent people Trump wants him to persecute. Piece of cake. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A country firing off endless missiles in a war no one but the unhinged leader wanted. It's a fireworks show celebrating national madness. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Only one president has been clueless enough to let Israel trick him into the quagmire of a war on Iran. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Trump has never met a fact he couldn't bulldoze under with bunkum. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026You know, I remember when we used to have these things called "reporters" who would try to find out what happened if a United States senator disappeared. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026An 84-year-old senator has been MIA for 40 days. Remember, the American people have the right to know NOTHING about their rulers. It's like living under the old Kremlin. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Knowing what we know about his attention span, his decision-making process, his willed ignorance of history, his refusal to read briefing papers and his habit of responding to the last thing he saw on Fox News or Newsmax, we have plenty of reason to be worried here." — Michael Tomasky 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026As someone else observed, booing Donald Trump is the closest thing we have to a national anthem for the world. 001
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A friend just remarked on how close Trump's address was to Andy Griffith's final ranting and raving speech in "A Face in the Crowd." 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026As someone else said, “The most successful trick the elites ever pulled was making ‘poor’ a personality flaw instead of a systemic result. We live in a world where a guy who inherited $100 million calls a teacher ‘lazy’ because they can't afford rent. And half of you believe him.” 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Sen. Chris Murphy: "ICE has shot and killed 10 people since Trump came back into office. Two more in the last week. In addition, 50 people have died in ICE detention. ICE has become a killing machine. We cannot let this feel normal." 001
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Trump WANTS his masked secret police to murder people with impunity. That establishes his dictatorship. And it has nothing to do with immigration. That's merely the excuse. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Gee, who could ever have guessed we might have problems with Trump giving his masked secret police the power to murder people on the streets? 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Nothing about this McConnell situation adds up. But the news media seems eager to swallow it without question. 001
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026As someone else said, “We are not obligated to mourn our oppressors. In fact, we must remember who they truly were and resist sanitizing their record.” 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026As Paul Rudnick observed of Lindsey Graham, "His moral emptiness was all he had; he couldn't afford any forms of honesty." 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026So we're "commies" again, are we? Name calling is all the Republicans have got. The actual policies benefit only the rich, and hurt ordinary Americans. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Even the Nazis wouldn't let their murderous storm troopers wear masks. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026America 2026, where we can't get the truth anymore about whether a prominent U.S. senator is alive, brain-dead or dead-dead. 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026As Hunter Biden said, “People have been convinced to confuse authenticity with audacity. The audacity of Trump. The audacity to lie in your face. The audacity to say things that are mean and cruel. The audacity to say he's 6'3, 225 pounds when he's 5'11 and 380..” 010
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026“Around our house, my wife and I, we try not to say his name. He knows nothing, he reads nothing, he listens to no one. Nothing he says is clever or smart. Him, the people around him, his crooked friends: each day brings a new embarrassment.” — John Grisham 000
Dan Hagen @danuhagen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Trump always pretended to be against war, but I knew he'd eventually sink us into new unwinnable ones. Fascists can never resist militarism and warmongering. 000