Dan Mitchell
@danmitchell.bsky.social
Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born.
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Not only excessive and gratuitous force, it absolutely does not work for the ostensible purpose. They love using it punitively to feel badass and because they can get away with it, but it only makes the situation worse even if you are properly trying to disperse a for-real riot.
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
www.propublica.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Not only excessive and gratuitous force, it absolutely does not work for the ostensible purpose. They love using it punitively to feel badass and because they can get away with it, but it only makes the situation worse even if you are properly trying to disperse a for-real riot.
Interestingly, "Return to Tribalism" is the name of a never-released Kraftwerk album.
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 3, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Interestingly, "Return to Tribalism" is the name of a never-released Kraftwerk album.
So much of everything is like this. Hiring a shameless health grifter to yammer about nonsense on a historically prestigious news network is OK, as long as he never said gross, idiotic stuff in emails to a known child molester.
So that's the baseline now. Until it's lowered next week.
So that's the baseline now. Until it's lowered next week.
February 3, 2026 at 4:57 AM
So much of everything is like this. Hiring a shameless health grifter to yammer about nonsense on a historically prestigious news network is OK, as long as he never said gross, idiotic stuff in emails to a known child molester.
So that's the baseline now. Until it's lowered next week.
So that's the baseline now. Until it's lowered next week.
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Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
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“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.
These are their stories:
These are their stories:
What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids
Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack
www.thehandbasket.co
February 3, 2026 at 2:08 AM
“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
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People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.
February 3, 2026 at 1:52 AM
People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.
Denigration of humanity -- or, more precisely, humanness -- is everywhere. Newsrooms, IT departments, marketing departments, consultancies, certain academic areas, C-suites, social media. Everywhere you look, people are trying to remove as much humanness as they can from all human endeavor.
why do these rich men hate humanity (and crucially, themselves) so much
February 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Denigration of humanity -- or, more precisely, humanness -- is everywhere. Newsrooms, IT departments, marketing departments, consultancies, certain academic areas, C-suites, social media. Everywhere you look, people are trying to remove as much humanness as they can from all human endeavor.
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we’ve known Chomsky was a piece of shit since he tried to downplay and deny the Khmer Rouge genocide back in the 70s, but I’m glad more people are *finally* figuring this out
February 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
we’ve known Chomsky was a piece of shit since he tried to downplay and deny the Khmer Rouge genocide back in the 70s, but I’m glad more people are *finally* figuring this out
I’ve always thought that Wolff looks and acts like he could be sitting in an enormous gothic chair with gargoyles carved into it and casually snacking from a bowl of freeze-dried infant parts.
WOLFF: “.. if the American public knew the real nature of Donald Trump’s long relationship with Jeffery Epstein, they would turn away in horror and revulsion. So sue me. Let’s sue each other. I have nothing to hide, Mr. President, but you surely do.”
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February 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I’ve always thought that Wolff looks and acts like he could be sitting in an enormous gothic chair with gargoyles carved into it and casually snacking from a bowl of freeze-dried infant parts.
A bunch of people including Thiel and Tucker Carlson are scheming the elevate Vance into the presidency. If Trump dies mysteriously, I would suspect them before anyone else.
The bad news: they have vast amounts of money and power. The good news: nearly everyone hates Vance and always will.
The bad news: they have vast amounts of money and power. The good news: nearly everyone hates Vance and always will.
Let's remember that Peter Thiel bankrolled JDVance's run for Senate to the tune of $15,000,000.
February 3, 2026 at 12:53 AM
A bunch of people including Thiel and Tucker Carlson are scheming the elevate Vance into the presidency. If Trump dies mysteriously, I would suspect them before anyone else.
The bad news: they have vast amounts of money and power. The good news: nearly everyone hates Vance and always will.
The bad news: they have vast amounts of money and power. The good news: nearly everyone hates Vance and always will.
I just started reading a nonfiction book, and in the second chapter, the author avers that Richard Nixon had been governor of California. Now I’m going to be way more wary about the rest of the book if I finish it at all.
February 3, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I just started reading a nonfiction book, and in the second chapter, the author avers that Richard Nixon had been governor of California. Now I’m going to be way more wary about the rest of the book if I finish it at all.
But they were so much more mindlessly enraged on the Internet! They must be more effective!
But a lot of people who have spent many years in other kinds of activism - activism that is generally far less effective than our networks have been - seem horrified that Minnesota moms and college students stumbled on a new model. They are rushing to assert themselves as the “true” organizers.
February 2, 2026 at 11:56 PM
But they were so much more mindlessly enraged on the Internet! They must be more effective!
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The extent to which all of this is about one guy's psychological inability to admit he lost a contest will never stop breaking my brain. Perhaps a good lesson is that it's important to teach your kids how to lose—maybe even giving awards just for playing to show that not losing isn't everything.
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The extent to which all of this is about one guy's psychological inability to admit he lost a contest will never stop breaking my brain. Perhaps a good lesson is that it's important to teach your kids how to lose—maybe even giving awards just for playing to show that not losing isn't everything.
When I read the first two words of this post, I thought, just for a half a second, that it might be a commentary on this dude's head.
"The head of the Nashville Electric System prioritized DEI initiatives" -- Rep. David Kustoff found a way to blame Black people and women for power outages in Tennessee
February 2, 2026 at 10:20 PM
When I read the first two words of this post, I thought, just for a half a second, that it might be a commentary on this dude's head.
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Conservative Defends Child Molesters In Case He Becomes Child Molester Someday https://theonion.com/conservative-defends-child-molesters-in-case-he-becomes-child-molester-someday/
February 2, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Conservative Defends Child Molesters In Case He Becomes Child Molester Someday https://theonion.com/conservative-defends-child-molesters-in-case-he-becomes-child-molester-someday/
The irony being that the country is over.
SEN. BERNIE MORENO: Not to be hyperbolic, but if you hadn't been elected the auto industry in American would be over
TRUMP: The country would be over. The country would be over!
MORENO: Well. But the auto industry would've been gone first
TRUMP: The country would be over. The country would be over!
MORENO: Well. But the auto industry would've been gone first
February 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The irony being that the country is over.
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For the record: the person who is described as the "mastermind" of the fraud is a white woman.
February 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
For the record: the person who is described as the "mastermind" of the fraud is a white woman.
We are told that they are like this because we say they are like this.
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
www.nrtoday.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
We are told that they are like this because we say they are like this.
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SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology"
The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders:
www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...
The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders:
www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...
HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants
Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”
www.wired.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:04 PM
SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology"
The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders:
www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...
The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders:
www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...
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I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
February 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
And, not unrelated: they’re fucking illiterate.
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
And, not unrelated: they’re fucking illiterate.
Are there any good examinations out there of how ID requirements affect voting, and particularly the differences between R and D turnout?
Donalds: "Not only are we gonna stand behind ICE as they do their job of deporting criminal illegal aliens, but we're also gonna protect franchise of voting by requiring a voter ID. You need an ID to go stay in a hotel, open bank account, get on a plane. You should be able to show ID when you vote."
February 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Are there any good examinations out there of how ID requirements affect voting, and particularly the differences between R and D turnout?