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
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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Skarsgard quote of the episode is “I don’t cry, I throw up” which I relate to
Stellan Skarsgård’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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January 16, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Skarsgard quote of the episode is “I don’t cry, I throw up” which I relate to
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Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
January 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
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In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.
January 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984
Vance: "She was trying to ram this guy with her car, he shot back, he defended himself, he's already been seriously wounded in operations before. And everybody that is repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis, you should be ashamed of yourselves"
January 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984
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Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
January 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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God what a pathetic hostage video.
Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 AM
God what a pathetic hostage video.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Official on Venezuela War: “Following the Old, Failed Scripts”
“America is a rogue state,” the defense official said, calling Trump a “tyrant.” The official added: “It feels like the end of the Republic in Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith”
theintercept.com/2026/01/05/t...
“America is a rogue state,” the defense official said, calling Trump a “tyrant.” The official added: “It feels like the end of the Republic in Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith”
theintercept.com/2026/01/05/t...
Pentagon Official on Venezuela War: “Following the Old, Failed Scripts”
Trump’s Venezuela war represents the latest in a line of failed regime-change wars — and attack on the rules-based order.
theintercept.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:38 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Official on Venezuela War: “Following the Old, Failed Scripts”
“America is a rogue state,” the defense official said, calling Trump a “tyrant.” The official added: “It feels like the end of the Republic in Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith”
theintercept.com/2026/01/05/t...
“America is a rogue state,” the defense official said, calling Trump a “tyrant.” The official added: “It feels like the end of the Republic in Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith”
theintercept.com/2026/01/05/t...
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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"we're gonna do the inaguration in that building"
December 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
"we're gonna do the inaguration in that building"
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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I remember when she landed! I’d just come from Pilates with Gwyneth and her pal, Rick Caruso, and was in my Tesla having an Erewhon smoothie when Bob at Disney called about a citywide party for Bari because that’s the intentional kindness that all 3.88 million Angelenos show to cast-out New Yorkers!
Bari Weiss’s move to L.A. was essential to her reinvention. If New Yorkers had cast her out under a hail of jeers, Angelenos embraced Weiss for a variety of reasons, not least because, in this industry town, journalists are exotic animals.
Bari Weiss In Wonderland
Her exile in Hollywood paved the way for a triumphant return to New York.
nymag.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I remember when she landed! I’d just come from Pilates with Gwyneth and her pal, Rick Caruso, and was in my Tesla having an Erewhon smoothie when Bob at Disney called about a citywide party for Bari because that’s the intentional kindness that all 3.88 million Angelenos show to cast-out New Yorkers!
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One must imagine Sisyphus rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' (What!)
Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' (Uh!)
Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' (Uh!)
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One must imagine Sisyphus rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' (What!)
Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' (Uh!)
Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' (Uh!)
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Black people only make up 13% of the population and yet are responsible for >50% of white popular culture
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Black people only make up 13% of the population and yet are responsible for >50% of white popular culture
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This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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mods are asleep post regime censored content
December 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
mods are asleep post regime censored content
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CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
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this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life
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Booting up my Strange Days VR device and selecting the cartridge labeled "smoking a camel light"
December 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Booting up my Strange Days VR device and selecting the cartridge labeled "smoking a camel light"
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Scully: There's a cheeto in the dang white house
Mulder: *throws her some files* ever heard of Jeffrey Epstein
Mulder: *throws her some files* ever heard of Jeffrey Epstein
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scully: There's a cheeto in the dang white house
Mulder: *throws her some files* ever heard of Jeffrey Epstein
Mulder: *throws her some files* ever heard of Jeffrey Epstein
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It’s funny that outside academic philosophy, if someone says they’re into metaphysics, it means they probably believe they have supernatural powers, but inside it means they probably spend all their time trying to figure out what sort of thing a table is
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It’s funny that outside academic philosophy, if someone says they’re into metaphysics, it means they probably believe they have supernatural powers, but inside it means they probably spend all their time trying to figure out what sort of thing a table is