Danny Rubin
@dannyrubin.bsky.social
If it wasn’t for bad faith, this administration wouldn’t have any faith at all.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe invented rock and roll.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe invented rock and roll.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Name a woman you consider a genius
December 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Yep. It's there. The press corps that she lies to every day is going to throw her such a shower!
Why is this currently on the front page of nytimes.com? (For me, at least. Placement might be different for you...)
December 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Yep. It's there. The press corps that she lies to every day is going to throw her such a shower!
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
He’s basically saying he relates to, and wants to be, the villain.
No idea what telly Lord Sewell is watching, because I can't think of a single show with this plotline let alone it being something that is inescapable for young white men who subsequently now face a crisis of masculinity drawing them to the far right?? 🙃
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
He’s basically saying he relates to, and wants to be, the villain.
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This bit from Smith is crucial. The people most surprised & dismayed by the behavior of Republican senators? Democratic senators.
No one understands the contemporary right *less* than Dems embedded in DC institutions.
No one understands the contemporary right *less* than Dems embedded in DC institutions.
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This bit from Smith is crucial. The people most surprised & dismayed by the behavior of Republican senators? Democratic senators.
No one understands the contemporary right *less* than Dems embedded in DC institutions.
No one understands the contemporary right *less* than Dems embedded in DC institutions.
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It tells you so much about people on Wall Street and Silicon Valley that Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" and Fincher's "The Social Network" inspired people to work IN those fields, rather than against them.
December 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It tells you so much about people on Wall Street and Silicon Valley that Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" and Fincher's "The Social Network" inspired people to work IN those fields, rather than against them.
Franks Black Cherry Wishniak no longer exists and we’re all a little worse off. 🔔
Every state in the United States has a disgusting soda that only they know about and that’s kind of beautiful
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Franks Black Cherry Wishniak no longer exists and we’re all a little worse off. 🔔
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Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
What possible use could there be to adding these two bozos to that conversation? More gangster gong show? Just what Ukraine needs, right? So shaming for U.S.
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Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern
FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have met with Ukraine’s top delegate amid a U.S. pressure campaign on Kyiv to trade land for peace.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hi Senator. Glad you're posting to Bluesky. But kinda weird that you're trying to kill Section 230 at the same time which would make it very difficult for Bluesky to exist. Maybe think through that a bit more carefully?
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Put aside that it isn't actually all that horrible to say such a thing, he actually didn't say that. Why are people incapable of taking on someone's words as they actually exist?
Here's what he actually said on the right
Here's what he actually said on the right
![If I were 20 years old, born into Gaza, a giant open-air jail ... if my father is a fisherman and he goes too far out into the sea, he might get shot by somebody inside of Israeli boats ... if my mother picks the olive trees and she gets too close to the wall, she might be shot ... if my little sister has cancer and she needs treatment because there are no facilities to do that in Gaza and I don't get the right permit, she might die ... if I grow up under that oppression, and that poverty ... when the wall comes down lon October 7], am I also strong enough, or even constructed in such a way where I say: "This is too far"?
I don't know that I am. I don't know that I am. I don't know that I am. I just wish we had room to work through that, you know what I mean? And to think about that and
to talk about that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqum5tumv7b6dw5fp/bafkreih5bnm3maheoeaeob722bzljt6fjbcaytw7xkmgsoppxmht4ddtam@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Put aside that it isn't actually all that horrible to say such a thing, he actually didn't say that. Why are people incapable of taking on someone's words as they actually exist?
Here's what he actually said on the right
Here's what he actually said on the right
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VC firm Andreessen Horowitz hired Daniel Penny for choking a black man to death on the New York subway
To recap:
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
December 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz hired Daniel Penny for choking a black man to death on the New York subway
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A newly elected Pennsylvania sheriff vows to end an ICE contract, telling Bolts, “What I can do is prevent the 17 deputies who were trained to be de facto ICE agents from doing that work.”
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE
A populous swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A newly elected Pennsylvania sheriff vows to end an ICE contract, telling Bolts, “What I can do is prevent the 17 deputies who were trained to be de facto ICE agents from doing that work.”
Movie you have watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Stars Trek or Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Pixar animation.
December 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Movie you have watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Stars Trek or Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Pixar animation.
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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Is your pension fund fueling fascism?
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Is your pension fund fueling fascism?
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
Wanna do something about it?
Join this call on December 8 to find out how you can help stop pouring public funds into tech fascist coffers.
👉 www.stopfundingbillionaires.org
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
Just a reminder that The Leftovers is a post-Thanksgiving TV show.
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Just a reminder that The Leftovers is a post-Thanksgiving TV show.
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There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another
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Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Enjoying Columbo, an endlessly rewatchable series. Falk's sly timing raises the level of every scene, as in "Blueprint for Murder," where he questions the arrogant architect, drops an incriminating fact, then reaches in his coat pocket and asks, "Ya want half a candy bar?"
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Enjoying Columbo, an endlessly rewatchable series. Falk's sly timing raises the level of every scene, as in "Blueprint for Murder," where he questions the arrogant architect, drops an incriminating fact, then reaches in his coat pocket and asks, "Ya want half a candy bar?"