Craig Danz
@craigdanz.bsky.social
Seattleite. Here for politics, sports, volunteering, YIMBY shit and transportation
I do my best work in the alt-text. Big meaty thumbs prone to typos. Replies with Frinkiac memes.
I do my best work in the alt-text. Big meaty thumbs prone to typos. Replies with Frinkiac memes.
More importantly than it wouldn’t work: they made their choice. Not just the reactionaries but mainstream media and other elites. They shrug off Musk and our crisis and prop that platform up. It will hurt all of us but they chose it and we can’t save them from the crash out.
People are losing their minds on Twitter and becoming more trick lazy, sloppy and radicalised because the libs are not there to argue against and challenge. Come back.
December 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
More importantly than it wouldn’t work: they made their choice. Not just the reactionaries but mainstream media and other elites. They shrug off Musk and our crisis and prop that platform up. It will hurt all of us but they chose it and we can’t save them from the crash out.
[5yo daughter on speaker phone with aunt]
Masi - “Have you been good this year?”
Kid - “I don’t even know but SANTA CLAUS IS NOT REAL.”
Masi - “Have you been good this year?”
Kid - “I don’t even know but SANTA CLAUS IS NOT REAL.”
December 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
[5yo daughter on speaker phone with aunt]
Masi - “Have you been good this year?”
Kid - “I don’t even know but SANTA CLAUS IS NOT REAL.”
Masi - “Have you been good this year?”
Kid - “I don’t even know but SANTA CLAUS IS NOT REAL.”
Seahawks Bluesky simultaneously believes this team is irredeemably incompetent while also super bowl favorites.
December 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Seahawks Bluesky simultaneously believes this team is irredeemably incompetent while also super bowl favorites.
[Because OKC lost]
I love the NBA cup. Clearly the players bring their best - it is nice to have meaningful games so early in the season. By the time the playoffs roll around the teams look completely different. I like seeing who is the best as constituted initially for the beginning of the season.
I love the NBA cup. Clearly the players bring their best - it is nice to have meaningful games so early in the season. By the time the playoffs roll around the teams look completely different. I like seeing who is the best as constituted initially for the beginning of the season.
December 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
[Because OKC lost]
I love the NBA cup. Clearly the players bring their best - it is nice to have meaningful games so early in the season. By the time the playoffs roll around the teams look completely different. I like seeing who is the best as constituted initially for the beginning of the season.
I love the NBA cup. Clearly the players bring their best - it is nice to have meaningful games so early in the season. By the time the playoffs roll around the teams look completely different. I like seeing who is the best as constituted initially for the beginning of the season.
There is certain cohort of older white men that hear of a situation that is complicated or multifaceted and simply can’t help themselves from offering the civil war as an example of something that didn’t have just one cause.
Eagerly volunteering the worst possible example every time.
Eagerly volunteering the worst possible example every time.
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There is certain cohort of older white men that hear of a situation that is complicated or multifaceted and simply can’t help themselves from offering the civil war as an example of something that didn’t have just one cause.
Eagerly volunteering the worst possible example every time.
Eagerly volunteering the worst possible example every time.
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Bluesky user the same age as LeBron: I once again hurt myself on the toilet
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Bluesky user the same age as LeBron: I once again hurt myself on the toilet
I’m illiterate and the sound on my phone is broken but I’m pretty sure this is a tutorial about managing a light rain.
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I’m illiterate and the sound on my phone is broken but I’m pretty sure this is a tutorial about managing a light rain.
No way. Indiana HAS TO be paying its players.
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
No way. Indiana HAS TO be paying its players.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
This is a narrow and irrelevant point. Crisises don’t need to manifest nationwide to matter. The crisis is in 2-3 dozen major metros. But - critically - the problems there spill out to the region. Not primarily as housing issues rather as a slew of urban needs being foisted upon rural communities.
What, precisely, is the crisis? When will it be resolved? People have been talking about housing crises since the 80s. I agree that there’s a long-run upward drift in housing costs; I agree some high-cost metros have real issues. But what are we seeing right now that’s a nationwide crisis?
Stancil being a housing crisis denier is the darnedest thing
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This is a narrow and irrelevant point. Crisises don’t need to manifest nationwide to matter. The crisis is in 2-3 dozen major metros. But - critically - the problems there spill out to the region. Not primarily as housing issues rather as a slew of urban needs being foisted upon rural communities.
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Pope Leo needs a present…
a young boy is sitting next to a man in a blue shirt .
Alt: Scene from Liar Liar where his son opens a birthday gift jim carey’s assistant bought and exclaims “baseball stuff!”
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Pope Leo needs a present…
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
I feel this in my bones yet I believe it plausible we eventually make it through to a more productive and better information ecosystem. A ubiquitous and pervasive Internet has been around only about 30 years - barely a blip historically. We need a completely new set of institutions and practices.
don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I feel this in my bones yet I believe it plausible we eventually make it through to a more productive and better information ecosystem. A ubiquitous and pervasive Internet has been around only about 30 years - barely a blip historically. We need a completely new set of institutions and practices.
There are anti-trans people that claim they are simply sick of hearing about trans issues all the time but this path all but guarantees you will never escape it. Assigned birth gender need not be even mentioned in 99.99% of sport - scrutinizing it at every level is a weird way to talk about it less
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There are anti-trans people that claim they are simply sick of hearing about trans issues all the time but this path all but guarantees you will never escape it. Assigned birth gender need not be even mentioned in 99.99% of sport - scrutinizing it at every level is a weird way to talk about it less
This recent period of the racist patriarchy lashing out and attempting to reassert itself only proves how wrong centrists are in their core criticism of the left: “They are over reacting.”
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This recent period of the racist patriarchy lashing out and attempting to reassert itself only proves how wrong centrists are in their core criticism of the left: “They are over reacting.”
Ken Burns truthfully finds the American Revolution dull as shit. Dragged his feet on doing it but eventually got cornered. He borrowed himself time. But since sweet death decided to spare him until now, they eventually found a way to make him do it.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Ken Burns truthfully finds the American Revolution dull as shit. Dragged his feet on doing it but eventually got cornered. He borrowed himself time. But since sweet death decided to spare him until now, they eventually found a way to make him do it.
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Every Olivia Nuzzi piece:
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Every Olivia Nuzzi piece:
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He's on a mission from God.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
He's on a mission from God.
Katie Wilson now has some breathing room with a 1,300 vote lead. Haven’t seen yet but hopefully that is more than the number of ballots left to be cured.
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Katie Wilson now has some breathing room with a 1,300 vote lead. Haven’t seen yet but hopefully that is more than the number of ballots left to be cured.
Can I just say, I hate “Bitter Chrysalis” as the title of the serious book in Pluribus?
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Can I just say, I hate “Bitter Chrysalis” as the title of the serious book in Pluribus?
Seattle people of Bluesky. 100 votes is the current difference. Cure those Katie Wilson ballots! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Seattle people of Bluesky. 100 votes is the current difference. Cure those Katie Wilson ballots! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
People aren’t actually mad about the shut down. They are mad the one fight erupting ended.
Next to no one protesting at no kings, held during a government shutdown, ostensibly because of healthcare, had signs about the shutdown or HC.
Nothing would have been good enough. We want our country back.
Next to no one protesting at no kings, held during a government shutdown, ostensibly because of healthcare, had signs about the shutdown or HC.
Nothing would have been good enough. We want our country back.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
People aren’t actually mad about the shut down. They are mad the one fight erupting ended.
Next to no one protesting at no kings, held during a government shutdown, ostensibly because of healthcare, had signs about the shutdown or HC.
Nothing would have been good enough. We want our country back.
Next to no one protesting at no kings, held during a government shutdown, ostensibly because of healthcare, had signs about the shutdown or HC.
Nothing would have been good enough. We want our country back.