Dan Steffen

Dan Steffen

@dansteffen.bsky.social

he/him Interested in antifascism, intellectual history, cinema, trek My ongoing archival documentary project, Great Again: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11277701 My profile on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/nx5l "The moving posset stands still." -Heraclitus

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i think it's good that You Can See Everything is prompting people to question the truth and ethics of documentary filmmaking and i really hope that everyone goes further and applies that same skepticism to literally every documentary ever made 💞

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Just the president cheering on his crowd as they physically assault a woman

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"

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I closed my trade imbalance with the grocery store, now I just eat the money I would have spent there.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"

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It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

Michael McKee@mckonomy.bsky.social

Well, that took longer than I thought, but he hath spoken:

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I know I am not the median voter. But when I watch Trump performances like the one we just endured in North Carolina, I can't escape the feeling that our problems go much deeper than "affordability" and we're whistling past the graveyard if we reduce our politics to that issue.

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ICYMI, I wrote about how the three biggest names in American conspiracism in 2001 - Art Bell, Bill Cooper, and Alex Jones - reacted in real time to the 9/11 attacks, spinning out speculation and rage to baffled listeners all day. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/on-9-11...

talkingpointsmemo.comOn 9/11, Talk Radio Hosts Kickstarted Our Current Era of Paranoia and ConspiraciesIn Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how...

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Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social

"The bigger problem, Lulu, frankly, is not any kind of political influence. The problem was the incompetence.." Scott Pelley talked to @lulugn.bsky.social about "the Bari Weiss era and his last days at 60 Minutes:" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

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“Is trump racist” is an actual debate people have

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "They're all crooks. The Somalians. What they've done to Minnesota. The Somalians. They're crooked as hell. They're all crooks."

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As Jabba the Hutt's son I'm often gatekept from progressive spaces due to preconceived notions about my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the reasonable concerns my presence would raise, and I'm working every day to unlearn the harmful attitudes instilled in me on my father's pleasure barge.

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“Yeah so we’re actually invading Pakistan soon! Nobody is supposed to know that, pretty cool, right?” said Patel, spilling his Don Julio as the bottle girl feigned interest in his long, rambling story.

theonion.comBottle Girl Nods As Kash Patel Screams State Secrets In EarWASHINGTON—Smiling vacantly while the FBI director rattled off classified information over thumping EDM music, local bottle girl Tanya Page reportedly nodded along early Friday morning as Kash Patel s...

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I'll say it again: everything you need to know about Trump is visible & evident on the surface. You can understand him entirely, without remainder, within 30 seconds of hearing him talk. He's perfectly transparent, perfectly consistent, utterly without depth or mystery. Which means ...