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Dan Berger

@dnbrgr.bsky.social

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Author of PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA (March 2027), STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & more Doing things with Washington Prison History Project. There’s still time to crowd surf www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Always scan the bookshelves of tv shows, kids! I was watching The Lowdown last night and saw a copy of my first book, Outlaws of America, peaking over Ethan Hawke’s shoulder! Really hoping it plays a part in the show’s unfolding mystery.

Ethan Hawke in the Lowdown stares off camera in front of bookshelves. I circled in purple where my book Outlaws of America is on the shelf.

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Page proofs are innnnnnnn!! Book coming your way March 9, 2027

Screen shot of a PDF reading “PRISON: Incarceration and the Making of America by Dan Berger, Basic Books”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Without denying the severity of the attacks now underway, I’d say students have been on the chopping block for a long time—including the thousands of students arrested and dozens facing expulsion or even deportation for the offense of protesting genocide

NYT headline: “As Trump goes after universities, students are now on the chopping block”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This chart from the NYT opinion page is an obscenity. Climate policy is unmentioned, the ongoing coup which has seen 200,000+ people fired is presented as less consequential than Ukraine policy, and the active re-segregation of the workforce is both positive & inconsequential.

NYT: “10 columnists and writers rate what mattered in trump’s first full month” over a scatterplot chart measuring negative to positive impact and less to more consequential. “DEI” and “trans issues” are at or near “positive impact, less consequential.” The most consequential is “Ukraine,” the most negative is “Eric Adams case.”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Ongoing constitutional crises, ranked from first to worst

NYT email: “Super Bowl ads, ranked from first to worst”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Ok, now do brown shirts

NYT email: “no brown shoes with blue pants? Our fashion critic weighs in”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This woman’s Grammys dress 🤝 my faith in the NYT to meet the moment “Not much”

NYT email: “for you: what did Ye’s wife wear to the Grammys? Not much”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

LAT with quite the typo in its obituary for OJ Simpson

Obituary for OJ Simpson describing his release from incarceration says “Long before the city woke up on a fall morning in 2017, Trump walked out of Lovelock Correctional Center outside Reno, a free man for the first time in 9 years.”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

With a poster (by @laurachowfun.bsky.social) to boot!

A ribbon reading “This is how change happens” in multicolored letters over a bright blue background with some puffy clouds and a series of brightly colored concentric circles reading “our actions are working/ they are not enough” “nothing we do is sufficient/ everything we do matters” “we must be strategic/ we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously” “time is of the essence/ we have to act for the long haul”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

I posted something on Twitter yesterday that @prisonculture.bsky.social liked enough to suggest it be made into a poster and @laurachowfun.bsky.social was talented enough to do. I am so excited to share it—and you can too: bit.ly/ChangeArt

A ribbon reading “this is how change happens” is centered over a drawing of a bright blue sky with overlapping circles reading “our actions are working, they are not enough; nothing we do is sufficient, everything we do matters; we must be strategic, we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously; time is of the essence, we have to act for the long haul”

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Updated to add: one of the books banned by Ohio DOC, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, was also used without my knowledge/ consent to train AI bots www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Screenshot of database showing that my book Captive Nation was used to train AI bots

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Is this the first?

King Charles cavalier spaniel in a glass door frame looking forlorn at being separated from the person taking the picture (me)

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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 03/06/2023

The fight against #CopCity requires our support. I’ve got three copies of #StayedOnFreedom to give away to anyone who makes a donation of $25 or more (preferably more!) to @atlanta_press, @ATLSolFund, or @CommunityMvt. Send me the receipt, your address, & if you want it signed!

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