Dan Cloak
@dancloak.bsky.social
Writer, MFA candidate at SFSU, civil and environmental engineer, sometime community organizer, philosopher.
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Whew. The racism started within hour of Rep Jasmine Crockett announcing her senate run.. it was so bad her competitor, Talirico, had to issue a reminder to his base to stop being so fucking racist..
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Whew. The racism started within hour of Rep Jasmine Crockett announcing her senate run.. it was so bad her competitor, Talirico, had to issue a reminder to his base to stop being so fucking racist..
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Several Republican members of Congress have said that they are retiring to spend more time with other people's children.
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Several Republican members of Congress have said that they are retiring to spend more time with other people's children.
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"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
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After voting to give billionaires tax breaks and making health care more expensive, Derrick Van Orden has refused to hold a town hall to talk to the voters he works for in a face-to-face conversation. So, I'm heading to Wisconsin to help give the people he's supposed to represent a voice.
Pete Buttigieg to campaign against Derrick Van Orden in La Crosse
Buttigieg, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2020, is characterizing the event as a response to the Trump administration's policies.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
After voting to give billionaires tax breaks and making health care more expensive, Derrick Van Orden has refused to hold a town hall to talk to the voters he works for in a face-to-face conversation. So, I'm heading to Wisconsin to help give the people he's supposed to represent a voice.
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Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise.
2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%
2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%
2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%
2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."
Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.
Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.
October 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."
Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.
Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.
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If you come for my people, you come through me.
October 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you come for my people, you come through me.
Note to fascists: Grief is not a performance.
September 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Note to fascists: Grief is not a performance.
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Things are so bad white people noticed.
September 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Things are so bad white people noticed.
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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Man, I'm a leftist. I pray for the day of the end of the American hegemony
But you're 1,000% correct about how there is good ways and bad ways to go about unwinding this.
And we are picking the "fascist lashing out" path that was a.... Let's go with "inferior track record"
But you're 1,000% correct about how there is good ways and bad ways to go about unwinding this.
And we are picking the "fascist lashing out" path that was a.... Let's go with "inferior track record"
September 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Man, I'm a leftist. I pray for the day of the end of the American hegemony
But you're 1,000% correct about how there is good ways and bad ways to go about unwinding this.
And we are picking the "fascist lashing out" path that was a.... Let's go with "inferior track record"
But you're 1,000% correct about how there is good ways and bad ways to go about unwinding this.
And we are picking the "fascist lashing out" path that was a.... Let's go with "inferior track record"
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If our capitalist system has resulted in a concerted effort by fascist billionaires, pedophilic politicians, and war criminals to destroy democracy and replace it with white supremacist, religious nationalist totalitarianism, then our system is rotten to the core, and maybe it’s time we redesign it.
September 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
If our capitalist system has resulted in a concerted effort by fascist billionaires, pedophilic politicians, and war criminals to destroy democracy and replace it with white supremacist, religious nationalist totalitarianism, then our system is rotten to the core, and maybe it’s time we redesign it.
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i love this journey for everyone involved — adams, who’ll spiral into the ground; cuomo, who’ll be further humiliated; and mamdani, who’ll cook them both over an open fire
“Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar. I am the only one who can beat Mamdani,” NYC Mayor Eric Adams says, stating he intends to stay in the race
September 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
i love this journey for everyone involved — adams, who’ll spiral into the ground; cuomo, who’ll be further humiliated; and mamdani, who’ll cook them both over an open fire
Ever notice how Confederates are all about valuing their so-called heritage, but when you talk about reparations, they're all like: "It wasn't me, why should I pay?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ever notice how Confederates are all about valuing their so-called heritage, but when you talk about reparations, they're all like: "It wasn't me, why should I pay?"
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In a book draft I once referred to Dobson as "America's foremost advocate of child abuse," which he was (see "Dare to Discipline"), but the publisher made me take it out.
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89
August 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In a book draft I once referred to Dobson as "America's foremost advocate of child abuse," which he was (see "Dare to Discipline"), but the publisher made me take it out.
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It's funny how many people make "matcha" part of their identity when they are really talking about sweet treats and milk drinks where you can't taste the matcha at all.
August 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's funny how many people make "matcha" part of their identity when they are really talking about sweet treats and milk drinks where you can't taste the matcha at all.
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Yet again, my 3 year old is braver (and more rational) than a white adult male Senator. It should be shamefully embarrassing to say anything like this in public.
August 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Yet again, my 3 year old is braver (and more rational) than a white adult male Senator. It should be shamefully embarrassing to say anything like this in public.
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From last week: Why it's good news that Dem WH 2028 is already underway and proceeding normally. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/its-2028-a...
For those paying very close attention, the invisible primary for 2028 started the day after the 2024 election, but this is further evidence it's in full swing
July 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
From last week: Why it's good news that Dem WH 2028 is already underway and proceeding normally. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/its-2028-a...
Cuomo and Adams to split the NYC shameless creep vote.
July 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Cuomo and Adams to split the NYC shameless creep vote.
1/ The real “bunker buster” is aimed at peace itself, and international law. If leaders fail to emphatically condemn this unprovoked “pre-emptive” attack (today they are failing), then the future world will follow the age-old credo of “might makes right.”
June 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
1/ The real “bunker buster” is aimed at peace itself, and international law. If leaders fail to emphatically condemn this unprovoked “pre-emptive” attack (today they are failing), then the future world will follow the age-old credo of “might makes right.”
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BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.
June 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.
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What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?
June 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?
Wondering if there is a way to strengthen the fusiform gyrus via exercise #neuroscience
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Brain mechanisms that distinguish imagination from reality discovered
Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new study led by UCL researchers.
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June 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Wondering if there is a way to strengthen the fusiform gyrus via exercise #neuroscience
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