I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition)

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition)

@daninthebox.bsky.social

OIF Marine veteran that just wants love, peace and happiness from here on out. Mildly obsessed with my dog Freya, because she is the best puppers ever.

1.9K followers810 following7.1K posts

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted

Off the charts Trump family corruption. Kushner got Billions of foreign funds, while spearheading foreign policy. And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn

Prepping for the Billy Strings Halloween concert next week. Just realized how filters make people look sooo different. Original (right) versus “hero” filter (left). Pretty dramatic. I love the ripple it added to the flag. Also, it changed the loss in my eyes to determination. *sigh* Jacket fits!

Cookies with Raisins Cookies bring joy, A fat kid’s delight. You’ve had a bad day? Warm cookies make right. The anticipation, Warm-baked deliverance. But something is off, A cruel dalliance. Why create something with love, Then hide the deceit? A cookie with raisins? The baker needs beat.

I’m Irish, I did a poem. Title: Open a Window They say a door closes and a window opens Why is life a house Maybe we need a new floor plan Perhaps we plant some trees Live with the Bigfeet We lost the plot We are all so educated The aura of our self importance is stifling Somebody open a window

And never has there been all of the institutions, that are specifically charged with checking his power, beholden to an oath to the Constitution, willing to deliberately ignore that oath in the defense of an obvious criminal. A simple following of the money tells us why. We are completely betrayed.

This post is unavailable.

In 2024, trans folks, a segment of the population. that accounts for less than 1%, was the target of more than 70% of the GOP’s adds. Just ask why. Hate & emotional appeal worked, and so they are going right back to it. We need to stop pretending our populace is smart and change the narrative.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

Also, the billionaires funding this tech aren’t using it to better society. They are using it to replace the very white collar workers who made them billionaires. Rather than crediting them and rewardimg them for making them wealthy, they seek to replace them for further wealth.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

This vile man, convicted of multiple felonies, accused of horrific rapes and crimes, hated by multiple members of his family, saying this. I hate him, the people that enable him, and the society that created him, but I still believe we can and must be better, but we must end the disinformation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted

Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted

I would like to see the end of the term "vaccine skeptic," to be replaced by "reality denier." These so-called skeptics are actually the most gullible rubes on the planet when it comes to conspiracy nonsense and tech-bro slop; the only thing that makes them skeptical is peer-reviewed evidence.

I was drunk last weekend. We were laughing at a guy who asked who would last longer, Katie Zacharia or this banana. A Kalshi commercial came on. We hate that Kalshi exists, but with the drinks and us knowing she would not last a Scaramucci, bets were made. Today, we made money. Deleting Kalshi now.

It isn’t that I hate everyone that voted for Trump, I just know based on that fact I have nothing in common with them, either intellectually or morally, so I do my best to avoid them for my own mental well being. Plus, anyone who supports Trump at this point can’t be reasoned with using facts.

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted

Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

It has always been obvious to anyone with eyes and ears that Trump is 100% in Putin’s pocket. He doesn’t hide it.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Seeing two of your favorite authors hang out triggers all sorts of childhood comic book crossover nostalgia.

Kevin Hearne@kevinhearne.bsky.social

The next book: BIRDING WITH CHUCK. We went out to the swamps & saw a lot of critters! We will share pics soonish Also if you are in Ottawa you should come see @chuckwendig.bsky.social and me and all the other writer peeps at Can-Con at the Brookstreet Hotel this weekend—vendors room is open to all

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted

You know the polling is bad when they’re already rolling out the “it was rigged!” shtick three weeks before elections.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The Department of Justice is suing the top election officials in California and Los Angeles County, claiming they were planning to count ballots from more than 20,000 alleged noncitizens in next month’s midterm elections.

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted

New in PN: Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization "With early voting underway, Omar got agents at her door at 6am, when her 14-year-old was inside, over a theory cooked up on an anonymous message board. Republicans never objected to weaponizing the DOJ. They just wanted custody of the weapon."

publicnotice.coRepublicans learn to love DOJ weaponizationJust kidding, they always love it when they’re holding the weapon.

“But we would eat Kraft Dinner, and you would eat Kraft Dinner, and everybody I ever bumped into for the rest of my life would eat Kraft Dinner, but we'd have it catered (that's right). We'd have it catered by fancy French people with white shirts.” Barenaked Ladies 3:17-20

Hoarse Whisperer@therealhoarse.bsky.social

While it is technically true that we wouldn’t *have to* eat Kraft Dinners if we had a million dollars, we still would. Barenaked Ladies 3:16

Brilliant commercial and what the Dems in power have not been doing for the last decade.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Richard, a Georgia truck driver and three-time Trump voter, has finally caught on. He says he’s voting for Ossoff after Trump’s war sent diesel costs soaring. “It pisses me off. We just want someone in office who’ll stand up for us.”

I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.