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Daniel Harper

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One half of the I Don't Speak German podcast. I follow white nationalist assholes so you don't have to. He/him.

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 9d

In which @socialistdogmom.bsky.social and I actually feel sorry for one of the worst people on the Internet, Chris "The Crying Nazi" Cantwell.

This may be the last time I ever cover him on IDSG. We'll see.

Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 9d

NEW IDSG: The Final Cantwell. @danielharper.bsky.social talks with very special guest @socialistdogmom.bsky.social about Christopher 'the Crying Nazi' Cantwell's recent strange, sad adventures. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/136-the-fina...

I Don't Speak German: 136: The Final Cantwell, with Molly Conger

Daniel welcomes very special guest Molly Conger of Weird Little Guys (and much renown besides) for the mother of all Cantwell news installments. Much Content Warning.   Molly's bluesky: Wei...

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

But if you're waiting for someone who we can vote for and bring liberation to everyone, you're asking a judge to read Marx.

It's not going to happen.

Liberation takes more work than that.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

And that's why electoral politics is harm reduction and not liberation.

I think there's a limiting principle on harm reduction - that is, some even "reduced" harm is still way too much harm (like, for example, genocide).

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17h

Thread, which illustrates nicely why I'm having that "hey uhhhh did the dissolution of the Union just kind of happen just now" feeling the last few days

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 1d

I'm the back-of-the-house tutor in the prison’s food technology and hospitality vocational class. Here's why it's the most coveted job in the Michigan prison system.

The Most Coveted Job in the Michigan Prison System

As a chef tutor in prison, I teach people how to handle food safely, and how to cook and bake. It has lots of perks, but the pay is still abysmal.

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Sraars @sraars.comrades.social · 16h

Lead dweeb: “Did ya get those antifa propaganda pictures like I asked?”

Assistant dweeb: “Sure did boss. All masked up and everything. Just like you asked.”

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Farrell Destination: Bloodlines @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 17h

We’re through the Doors of Perception/Wardrobe here, people.

Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 17h

To be honest "Lewis and Huxley worked together on the grassy knoll" is not nearly as absurd as plenty of crackpot theories I've heard over the years.

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 17h

To be honest "Lewis and Huxley worked together on the grassy knoll" is not nearly as absurd as plenty of crackpot theories I've heard over the years.

Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 17h

That's what They want you to think.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18h

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21h

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 17h

Not quite the same thing, but CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22, 1963 -- the day JFK was assassinated. Lewis himself lost consciousness less than an hour before the gunshot in Dealey Plaza.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19h

it's so funny to see right wing media claim these are the guys ISIS nicknamed "the Crusaders" as if the bulk of the killing in that war wasn't a mix of Iraqis from Baghdad, Kurds from northern Iraq and Syria, and shitloads of airstrikes.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 5d

This is how "The Free Press" came to be.

Now, Bari Weiss is about to be the editor in chief of CBS news.

Until we make anti-trans political agitation unprofitable, trans people will never be safe.

#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 22d

"The Free Press" by Bari Weiss, first became a major publication when they laundered the "whistleblower" complaints of Jamie Reed, who lied about the practices of the pediatric gender clinic at the University of Washington in St Louis and led to AG Missouri Bailey trying to ban all trans healthcare.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 27

Netanyahu shared a video from Olivia Reingold arguing that it doesn’t count as starvation if the kids in Gaza had preexisting conditions

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

I'm never ever gonna forget all the furrowed browed corporatist Charlie Kirk hagiography and sportsball halftime memoriams for a race baiting brigading zealot

Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 19h

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa, Leading to Death Threats for Him and His Family
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Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

if i were in the room with these guys this is one of those times when i'd say "ok so, is your plan to have the military stage a coup to oust you from government? like, is that the goal? cause you're doing a very good job if so"

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 1d

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me.

It’s horrifying that the person running the US Homeland Security Twitter uses — and clearly knows — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram.

It says everything about where we are.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Throw in the "taco truck on every corner" that we were threatened with back in 2016, and it would be paradise.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 1d

Landlords saying a building needs to be cleared because it has been taken over by "tren de aragua" serves a dual purpose. It's a secret handshake between landlords and the government, asking to get some poors cleared out. And it seeds propaganda for the coming war on Venezuela

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 1d

Is it an issue that a major right-wing news commentator has to temper her criticisms of three major figures, further to her right on many issues, who are being more or less openly antisemitic? Yes, it is.

Normies, of course, are much more concerned with college kids saying "Free Palestine."

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 1d

Megyn Kelly Knows Which Way the Winds Are Blowing

Megyn Kelly knows which way the winds are blowing.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 1d

It's always leopards and faces with these people.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I have just never understood this type of person at all

"I am going to make common cause with people who view me as subhuman for lower tax rates"

what part of "view me as subhuman" do you not get and what do you think will happen when those people no longer have to make common cause with anyone

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 2d

You're probably making decisions now that you don't know you're making, and you should at least have a sense of what those might be.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 2d

We're closer to the beginning of this than we are to the end.

Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 2d

And we should understand the costs of the fight, and the costs of delaying the fight. mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/08/14/i...

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2d

You work hard as a journalist. You lead with empathy, and you sweat details. You operate in good faith. You believe in honesty and truth. You get yelled at by the president of the United States. You worry that you'll get laid off. Again and again.

And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million

Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”

www.wsj.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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