Dan Mitchell
@danmitchell.bsky.social
Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born.
This is what appears in my head when I read these rich assholes' sub-literate emails.
January 31, 2026 at 5:48 AM
This is what appears in my head when I read these rich assholes' sub-literate emails.
"Balance." Jah help me.
Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague
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January 31, 2026 at 5:43 AM
"Balance." Jah help me.
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Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
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Subject: E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Title: Xbox LIVE - E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Xbox LIVE
E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Dear Xbox LIVE member,
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January 31, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
A Sartrean play, maybe.
Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
January 31, 2026 at 2:59 AM
A Sartrean play, maybe.
Kinda weird that Musk is all over these files given that brief moment when he declared they would spell the end of Trump.
January 31, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Kinda weird that Musk is all over these files given that brief moment when he declared they would spell the end of Trump.
Worst improv setup ever. Or best, maybe.
Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
January 31, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Worst improv setup ever. Or best, maybe.
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this is what’s happening everywhere they go in force
ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been
we are going to win
ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been
we are going to win
January 31, 2026 at 2:15 AM
this is what’s happening everywhere they go in force
ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been
we are going to win
ordinary people will not be cowed the same way elite society has been
we are going to win
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Tom Morello live in Minneapolis
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Tom Morello live in Minneapolis
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It must be said that what TAMU is doing goes far, far beyond any state or federal legal requirement.
The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. n.pr/4teQwmw
Texas A&M University cancels programs in women's and gender studies
The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
n.pr
January 30, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It must be said that what TAMU is doing goes far, far beyond any state or federal legal requirement.
Looking forward to this one. I'm more convinced every day that reactionary-centrist thinking, which dominates the media and is widespread throughout the population, is more responsible for our predicament than MAGA is. MAGA alone would not have put Trump in office twice.
It's a social pathology.
It's a social pathology.
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
All about "reactionary centrism"
Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Looking forward to this one. I'm more convinced every day that reactionary-centrist thinking, which dominates the media and is widespread throughout the population, is more responsible for our predicament than MAGA is. MAGA alone would not have put Trump in office twice.
It's a social pathology.
It's a social pathology.
Brooks: “Why are people so obsessed the Epstein?”
Shortly thereafter: Brooks shown having partied with Epstein
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: “Hire that man!”
Shortly thereafter: Brooks shown having partied with Epstein
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: “Hire that man!”
Seems like a good question for David Brooks's new employers to ask is whether he wound up taking this plane ride.
www.justice.gov
January 30, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Brooks: “Why are people so obsessed the Epstein?”
Shortly thereafter: Brooks shown having partied with Epstein
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: “Hire that man!”
Shortly thereafter: Brooks shown having partied with Epstein
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: “Hire that man!”
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The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
Questions have been raised, people! To the ramparts! To the ramparts!
January 30, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Questions have been raised, people! To the ramparts! To the ramparts!
The first thing I thought of when I saw this news this morning was the fact that Lemon no longer works for a big news organization. So this way, Trump gets to jail a big name in cable news without having to deal with an actual cable outlet or any big companies. And this might also be in play:
Trump didn't arrest journalists from corporate outlets, and that's a key point bc it gives those corporate outlets an excuse to minimize the abuse of power without feeling like they're abandoning their own.
If that's how they handle it, the regime has already succeeded in compromising the press.
If that's how they handle it, the regime has already succeeded in compromising the press.
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 PM
The first thing I thought of when I saw this news this morning was the fact that Lemon no longer works for a big news organization. So this way, Trump gets to jail a big name in cable news without having to deal with an actual cable outlet or any big companies. And this might also be in play:
Even before we started learning about the suicides, etc., when I tried ChatGPT after it launched, the tone creeped me out. It answered "you're absolutely right" to everything, including the bases of my questions. I was asking, not stating. It also did that every time I told it it was wrong.
January 30, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Even before we started learning about the suicides, etc., when I tried ChatGPT after it launched, the tone creeped me out. It answered "you're absolutely right" to everything, including the bases of my questions. I was asking, not stating. It also did that every time I told it it was wrong.
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Can’t wait to see what Mike Johnson hasn’t looked into this week.
January 30, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Can’t wait to see what Mike Johnson hasn’t looked into this week.
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So ... I hope this is right. Because detaining citizens is part of how they are terrorizing us.
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no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
January 30, 2026 at 4:42 AM
So ... I hope this is right. Because detaining citizens is part of how they are terrorizing us.
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Scott Bessent’s War on Christmas.
Scott Bessent on Trump Accounts: "Rather than giving a toy for a birthday or holiday, they can contribute to these accounts"
January 30, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Scott Bessent’s War on Christmas.
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Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
Trend reporting has convinced me that there have never been any trends.
A severe bout of nostalgia is spreading in America, but it’s not for the postwar prosperity of the 1950s. Everyone’s yearning for a return to the simple days of 2016. 🔗 on.wsj.com/46fia8L
January 30, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Trend reporting has convinced me that there have never been any trends.
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Tom Nichols u up?
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Tom Nichols u up?
“I will not support this defense bill unless the administration halts all nuclear attacks on American cities.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
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January 30, 2026 at 2:08 AM
“I will not support this defense bill unless the administration halts all nuclear attacks on American cities.”
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If Melania’s movie died any harder, Trump would bury it on a golf course
January 30, 2026 at 2:04 AM
If Melania’s movie died any harder, Trump would bury it on a golf course
There’s a weirdly large number of dudes (it’s all dudes) who ostentatiously declare their liberalness, but who are clearly center-right. It’s a strange phenomenon. I guess it has to do with the fact that nearly all conservatives are fascists now, but it’s still wrong. Words mean things.
January 30, 2026 at 2:06 AM
There’s a weirdly large number of dudes (it’s all dudes) who ostentatiously declare their liberalness, but who are clearly center-right. It’s a strange phenomenon. I guess it has to do with the fact that nearly all conservatives are fascists now, but it’s still wrong. Words mean things.