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Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Trump Governs Like He Won’t Be Around for the Consequences
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Trump Governs Like He Won’t Be Around for the Consequences

Trump governs by instant gratification, state violence, and the systematic erasure of the future

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January 9, 2026 at 5:12 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

“You gonna murder someone else? You can’t kill us all, Nazis.”
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“You gonna murder someone else? You can’t kill us all, Nazis.”

Renee Good is dead, and she shouldn’t be.

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January 9, 2026 at 4:38 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Two Stories, One Body in the Snow
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Two Stories, One Body in the Snow

The killing of Rene Nicole Good, the federal lie that followed, and the violence used to enforce it

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January 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

gee bluesky opens immediately
te facebok goves me the spinning beachball of death

January 9, 2026 at 3:30 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

On Renee Nicole Good
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On Renee Nicole Good

What gets lost when power rushes to justify itself is the ordinary truth of a life.

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January 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

January 6, 2026
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January 6, 2026

“They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J.

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January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

January 5, 2026 (Monday)
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January 5, 2026 (Monday)

Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.

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January 7, 2026 at 2:06 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

A Coup Without Consequences
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A Coup Without Consequences

Five years after January 6, Trump governs as if accountability never mattered, because it didn’t

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January 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

The Week Ahead
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The Week Ahead

January 4, 2026

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January 5, 2026 at 5:36 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Chaos Is the Policy
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Chaos Is the Policy

Trump’s Venezuela strike, the erosion of trust, and the quiet reordering of global power

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January 4, 2026 at 4:06 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

January 2, 2026
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January 2, 2026

Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station in Manhattan, New York Attorney General Letitia James swore Zohran Mamdani into office as may...

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January 4, 2026 at 3:49 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Thug World
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Thug World

A new world order?

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January 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

It’s Been a Long Time Coming
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It’s Been a Long Time Coming

Jack Smith finally talked...and he had a lot to say

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January 3, 2026 at 3:24 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Maximal Disruption, Minimal Results
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Maximal Disruption, Minimal Results

Why Elon Musk’s Washington experiment collapsed, Tesla’s sales are sagging, and hype can’t replace competence

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January 1, 2026 at 4:27 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Five ways to make more than a billion dollars
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Five ways to make more than a billion dollars

None have anything to do with “free market” capitalism

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December 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Sunday thought: The reckoning
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Sunday thought: The reckoning

Friends,

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December 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Impulse Is Not a Foreign Policy
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... ..., letting them know their music mattered, that it was seen, and that it carried its own kind of power. In a moment when authority feels untethered from restraint, that kind of grounded courage is its own form of resistance.

Impulse Is Not a Foreign Policy

Epstein pressure, sectarian strikes, and a White House losing control of the process.

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December 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

December 26, 2025
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December 26, 2025

On Tuesday, December 23, the U.S.

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December 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM

Dan Sallberg

@dann-0.bsky.social

Annie Lennox
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“Music is the language of the soul, it’s the language of the intellect, it’s the language of aspiration, beauty, pain...human emotion.”
A perfect final thought to end the year.
Happy birthday Ms. Lennox, and Happy New Year to all!