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Dan Kruger

@therealdfk.bsky.social
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Writing/Editing formerly for WSJ, BBG and Forbes when it was just a magazine. Allergic to penicillin, hater of raisins.

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Kate @kateretired.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Feeling overwhelmed by world events? Find a dog, any dog. 😂🥹❤️
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m a former in-house lawyer for Harvard. During my recent role as DEI Director at UCLA, I fixated my AuDHD brain on digesting, analyzing and memorizing Project 2025. Since then, unfortunately every one of my political predictions has come to pass. P2025 is 55% complete. The last 1/2 is terrifying.
project2025.observer
Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After the first plane hit and before the second hit, I was on the F train from 4th Ave to Carroll St., a short elevated section in Brooklyn. The conductor made an announcement about it. On the train we all thought it was a small private plane that had gone off course or something like that.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Godson
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It also reminds me of the money Trump raised in Iowa during the 2016 primaries that he said he was giving to veterans but which David Fahrenholt then at the Washington Post showed had not been given to veterans and that Trump probably kept. That was 17 lifetimes ago…
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This story about highway guardrails -- yes, highway guardrails -- by @charlesbethea.bsky.social is amazing. It's got tragedy, redemption, and an all-too uncommon bit of successful public policymaking for the public good. I highly recommend it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail
In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I wish that before Dolly Parton signed off that had some inkling of just how much she was loved and how much she meant to so many people.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
genuinely cannot imagine anything like this ever happening again.
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Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all.Donald J. Trump
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Very sad to report that Dolly Parton, one of the greatest Country singers, and far beyond, EVER, has just passed away. This is a true loss for millions of people. There has never been anyone like her, and never will. In her honor, I am lowering the American flag throughout the United States for a one week period beginning tonight at 6:00PM. Rest in Peace, Dolly! The World loves you. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I literally lol’ed. My second thought was, did he think Bessent was sending in troops the first time?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Fox was the first network to call Arizona in 2020 and withstood a lot of pressure to walk back the call but didn’t.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The second one looks like the portrait Tony Soprano threw in the trash
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
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Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
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mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
the very first episode of Mary in America is OUT NOW! it's a conversation with the world's greatest Al Roth, about -- his fave, and actually mine too -- "repugnant markets." kidneys! drugs! sex work! this chat has it all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lEU...
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Organs, Sex Work, and Drugs: A Nobel Economist on Why Banning Things Can Backfire
YouTube video by Mary in America
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/05/2026
The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.
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Missing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery Website
When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won’t find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it’s website despite being interred there and…
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bari Weiss’s ace reporter spent a month on this “story.” Bari also held back a 60 Minutes story on ICE because of reasons. Funny how that works
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“Let’s look at how some nonwhite urban residents who voted Clinton-Biden-Harris are feeling about things these days,” said no assigning editor ever. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These rural voters agree.
Democrats are trying to cast Trump as the leader of an administration losing touch with an anxious public as the Iran war pushes the price of gas and other goods higher. These voters in rural Colorado...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
What could possibly go wrong???
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I miss Gawker. I miss the Village Voice.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My DC people: have you seen this cat wtop.com/local/2026/0...
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DC man looking for lost service cat who accompanies him during cancer treatments - WTOP News
A Southwest D.C. man battling cancer is searching for his missing service cat, who vanished during a furniture removal. Greedy, his companion during hospital treatments, is still missing, and a reward...
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Molotov Cockatiel Games (Bill) @molotovcockatiel.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I hate sharing stuff from the bad place but goddam that’s funny.
William Sherman in a Knicks jersey being retweeted on the Knicks beating Atlanta in the NBA playoffs.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Maria shockingly failed to remind viewers that America was not attacked by terrorists during Biden’s presidency. Does Kash think otherwise?
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
And James Comer spent two whole years to get a "gotcha" car loan from Joe Biden to his brother Jim. What an abomination...
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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Senator Wyden can’t say it plainly without losing his security clearance, but this raises the alarm that Kash & crew have decided they can illegally surveil Americans without a warrant.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
They texted it to @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The message this sends is that if you plan violent acts on behalf of President Trump, he will do everything in his power to make sure you see no consequences.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ann Coulter: 'Every single Trump advisor is now - off the record - telling the @nytimes they were opposed Netanyahu's argument for the Iran war. 

THAT'S how well the war is going.

Ratcliffe: "Farcical."

Rubio: “It’s bullshit”

Caine: "Standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell."

Wiles: against "being dragged into another war in the Middle East."

Cheung: "How would they explain away eight months of insisting that Iranian nuclear facilities had been totally obliterated?"'
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NeuroFellaMD 📚🎃👻🧛‍♀️ @melissaf.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Omfg 🫡 youtu.be/kp341eRus3M?...
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NO KINGS. Bruce Springsteen, Portland Oregon, 2026 Apr.03 - Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour
YouTube video by toddrichert
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them, and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain. www.ms.now/news/trump-c...
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Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds
The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Clearly deserving of a larger canvas to do her magic. Can’t wait to see what she does with CNN
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Funny thing though: Democrats wanted to end the filibuster to expand and protect voting rights while Republicans want to prevent certain people from voting. But you don’t get that nuance from this post.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Trump worried about the Deep State, so he created the Derp State in its place, a government run by morons who think they’re the smartest people. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to the Derp State
The dumbest president, surrounded by the dumbest people, making the dumbest mistakes.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This guy says on the one hand that Russia would never have attacked Ukraine on his watch yet he’s saying Iran was preparing to take on the entire Middle East on his watch. Hmmm
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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DOJ docs, FBI interview, raise new questions about Epstein's "suicide"
Notes from an FBI interview indicate that prison guards discussed "cover-up"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
> @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...
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Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell
As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Big Uncle Junior vibes right now
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...
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Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk
The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.
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Dan Kruger @therealdfk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Has Jamie Raskin seen this?
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