Dan Mishkin
@danmishkin.bsky.social
Freelance writer (self-unemployed); Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival; husband, father, zayde
OK, this is terrific! Love these people!
Goddamn, these people are beautiful. What beautiful people. It makes me cry.
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
OK, this is terrific! Love these people!
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Goddamn, these people are beautiful. What beautiful people. It makes me cry.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Goddamn, these people are beautiful. What beautiful people. It makes me cry.
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This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
@shannonhale.bsky.social I wanted to reach out to you about a kids comics event I help run in Ann Arbor Michigan that we'd love to have you and Dean headline. Could you please write me at [email protected] to discuss?
tinyurl.com/A2CAF10th
tinyurl.com/A2CAF10th
A2CAF: Celebrating 10 Years of The Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival
The Ann Arbor Comic Arts festival is not only an amazing gathering of artists and content creators in Ann Arbor Michigan every year, it's one of the few small…
tinyurl.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
@shannonhale.bsky.social I wanted to reach out to you about a kids comics event I help run in Ann Arbor Michigan that we'd love to have you and Dean headline. Could you please write me at [email protected] to discuss?
tinyurl.com/A2CAF10th
tinyurl.com/A2CAF10th
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They lie and lie.
China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Leavitt: "President Trump convinced President Xi to continue purchasing again American soybeans, which is something China wasn't doing under the last administration because they had no respect for President Biden or the country at the time."
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
They lie and lie.
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The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
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This. I don't think I've ever made a "best of" list, and I've never gotten an Eisner, Harvey, or Ringo. But those are entirely different things than making important work that people care about. You keep plugging away, and at some point you look behind you and see that maybe you did after all.
gentle reminder that just because something you made didn't make a "best of" "year end" list doesn't mean you didn't make anything important in 2025
December 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This. I don't think I've ever made a "best of" list, and I've never gotten an Eisner, Harvey, or Ringo. But those are entirely different things than making important work that people care about. You keep plugging away, and at some point you look behind you and see that maybe you did after all.
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Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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The only time Article 5 of the NATO Treaty was invoked was to defend us, not for us to defend Europe. European soldiers and civilians died fighting with us and working next to us in Afghanistan. Europe was not attacked on September 11, 2001.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The only time Article 5 of the NATO Treaty was invoked was to defend us, not for us to defend Europe. European soldiers and civilians died fighting with us and working next to us in Afghanistan. Europe was not attacked on September 11, 2001.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
(OK, this is me, but if I had easily accessible photos from back then, it would have been my dad with my children.)
(OK, this is me, but if I had easily accessible photos from back then, it would have been my dad with my children.)
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
(OK, this is me, but if I had easily accessible photos from back then, it would have been my dad with my children.)
(OK, this is me, but if I had easily accessible photos from back then, it would have been my dad with my children.)
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This is just full North Korea stuff. Amazing.
December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is just full North Korea stuff. Amazing.
Right on! (As I used to say but haven't had much opportunity to until reading this.)
No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage.
When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Right on! (As I used to say but haven't had much opportunity to until reading this.)
A snapshot of the current state of the Republican Party, as seen through members' beliefs in conspiracy theories per Manhattan Institute poll. h/t @mjtoma.bsky.social
(FWIW, I'm agnostic on the COVID lab leak theory and believe we need better defenses against lab leaks & natural transmission.)
(FWIW, I'm agnostic on the COVID lab leak theory and believe we need better defenses against lab leaks & natural transmission.)
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A snapshot of the current state of the Republican Party, as seen through members' beliefs in conspiracy theories per Manhattan Institute poll. h/t @mjtoma.bsky.social
(FWIW, I'm agnostic on the COVID lab leak theory and believe we need better defenses against lab leaks & natural transmission.)
(FWIW, I'm agnostic on the COVID lab leak theory and believe we need better defenses against lab leaks & natural transmission.)
Ksgan's dissent is blistering.
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Ksgan's dissent is blistering.
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
Five things Democratic senators must stand behind or face primary challenges:
—End the filibuster
—Reform the Supreme Court
—Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
—Outlaw extreme gerrymandering
—Change vague laws that a corrupt president can use to accrue more power
(But read the full article)
—End the filibuster
—Reform the Supreme Court
—Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
—Outlaw extreme gerrymandering
—Change vague laws that a corrupt president can use to accrue more power
(But read the full article)
2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview—Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Five things Democratic senators must stand behind or face primary challenges:
—End the filibuster
—Reform the Supreme Court
—Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
—Outlaw extreme gerrymandering
—Change vague laws that a corrupt president can use to accrue more power
(But read the full article)
—End the filibuster
—Reform the Supreme Court
—Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
—Outlaw extreme gerrymandering
—Change vague laws that a corrupt president can use to accrue more power
(But read the full article)
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@raskin.house.gov: "President Trump directed CBS to edit his own interview after suing the network for editing his opponent’s interview, and CBS complied with his requests and omitted its anchor’s questions about President Trump’s pardons." @poynterinstitute.bsky.social mailchi.mp/poynter/top-...
Top Democrat files complaint over '60 Minutes' interview with President Trump
Jamie Raskin wrote to CBS's ombudsman, a role created in an agreement with FCC during Paramount merger to address 'media bias'.
mailchi.mp
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@raskin.house.gov: "President Trump directed CBS to edit his own interview after suing the network for editing his opponent’s interview, and CBS complied with his requests and omitted its anchor’s questions about President Trump’s pardons." @poynterinstitute.bsky.social mailchi.mp/poynter/top-...
I'm pretty sure the president wishes *he* was the one who invented the Ponzi scheme just so people would call it the "Trump scheme" for decades to come. (gift article)
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm pretty sure the president wishes *he* was the one who invented the Ponzi scheme just so people would call it the "Trump scheme" for decades to come. (gift article)
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
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This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
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Fellow publishers are taking financial damage from unpaid bills from library distributor Baker & Taylor, who are closing down.
About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Fellow publishers are taking financial damage from unpaid bills from library distributor Baker & Taylor, who are closing down.
About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…