Dan Preston
@danpreston.com
Filmmaker & activist; Antifa, if by that you mean peaceful anti-fascist believer in justice, free speech & democracy. Working on experimental/animated film autobio of my imagination. Central NJ. No grifters/porn/crypto. Be kind.
Trump seeks to label Democrats as communists, but he was the one who rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping and kissed his ass. He is clearly Putin’s comrade and buying government stakes in private companies, so why aren’t more people calling out this bullshit? #ComradeTrump
This is madness. If the leader of any other country had threatened to “annihilate" another country (Iran and its people) or to declare that “to the victor belong the spoils” (Venezuela and its oil), he would have been shouted off the stage. Headlines everywhere would condemn him as a pariah. (1/2)
Trump Threatens Annihilation in Iran in UN Speech and Lays Out Winner-Takes-All Vision (Gift Article)
President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations.
nytimes.com
The Trump family has major business interests in the Balkans. So I asked two nominees to be ambassadors to the region if they would use their embassy to push Trump family deals. Watch this for their answers. Just chilling.
Oh FFS. Impeach this loon before he kills us all by chasing ridiculous conspiracy theories while ignoring real threats.
RFK, Jr. ‘looking at chemtrails,’ a debunked conspiracy theory | CNN
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing intense scrutiny after announcing that his agency is officially investigating “chemtrails”. While scientists emphasize that the line...
cnn.com
@reprileyny.bsky.social you were one of a handful of Democrats voting against impeaching Trump. Why?
“Steinem made my life better. Yes, my life as a cis hetero male. I couldn’t have my career and my life without the professional women I’ve learned from, worked with, and worked for.” — Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social Ditto.
Obviously this coyote didn't bother with any goofy products from Acme to snare his prey. (gift article from The New York Times).
Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie (Gift Article)
Here’s some bad news: Sometimes the coyote does win.
nytimes.com
📌FUN FACT: Canada's 27-mile Welland Canal is a vital shipping passage with eight locks entirely in Ontario that connects Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, carrying roughly $26.3 BILLION IN U.S. TRADE. I have seen this referred to elsewhere as the Strait of Our Moose. 🇨🇦
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Join the Third Act Data Centers listserv. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
Join the Third Act Data Centers listserv
Big tech polluters are trying to force data center builds everywhere across the country, and we're learning together how to FIGHT BACK against them. We've created a google group for Third Actors to sh...
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Campaign consultants prosper by convincing politicians that the path to victory is to raise a boatload of money and spend it on ... campaign consultants (and expensive TV ads from which the consultants get a big cut). And raising megabucks means kowtowing to moneyed interests. BS said Angie Nixon.
The real danger that insurgents pose to the Democratic establishment is not their embrace of progressive policies. It's that they're able to win with grassroots organizing, rather than depending on massively expensive ad campaigns. The establishment *wants* money to matter more than people.
The Democratic party leadership fighting harder against the DSA than they do against Trump really says something. These people gotta go, man
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Progress Fall Panel 2026 — Sick of Red Tape: Medicaid Work Requirements in New Jersey. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/progr...
Progress Fall Panel 2026 — Sick of Red Tape: Medicaid Work Requirements in New Jersey
A parent working two part-time jobs. A person with a chronic illness who cannot work full-time. What happens when a state ties their health care to paperwork? New Jersey is about to find out. Under t...
actionnetwork.org
I used to think that Trump was doing Putin’s bidding. But he may as well be working for Xi. He sure as hell isn’t working for the American people. Trump is such a total disgrace. Predictable but still, WTF? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
How China Won the Iran War
Trump has shattered American power, and Beijing is picking up the pieces
open.substack.com
The stench surrounding Trump and his MAGA cult is intolerable share.inquirer.com/WRaGSG?utm_s...
The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch
In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.
share.inquirer.com
Why people are finally beginning to hate American-style capitalism, Part 923 open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math
Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.
open.substack.com
God answered my prayers. Unfortunately the answer was “No he’s not dead yet.” F*ck.
Any article about Trump's US /Saudi nuclear deal that doesn't dig into the corrupt Kushner connections with MBS is failing. Follow the goddamned money.
Trump has disbanded the foreign influence task force in the FBI… All while he claims foreign influence in our own elections. Actions. Speak. Louder. Than. Words. 😎✨
Speaking out for justice is great. SINGING out is even better. Please join us on Sunday 8/16 (NEW DATE). Very casual, drop in at any point. 120 East State (120EastState.org) is a nonprofit project turning the former Presbyterian church in Trenton NJ into a community/cultural center open to all.
Everything Trump does is based on 3 simple desires. No need to make it complicated. He’s greedy. He wants attention. And he wants to stay out of jail. open.substack.com/pub/timkreid...
The Arbogast Fallacy
An Alternative Explanation for "Sanewashing"
open.substack.com
i don’t have much to say. the platner video is just a lot of self-victimization with zero accountability. real conspiratorial ideas of who is working against him. glad he’s dropping out. good riddance.
Democratic moderates are constantly deluding themselves that you can cross a chasm in incremental small steps and then finding themselves smashed on the rocks below. And then doing the same thing over and over again.
You Can't Solve Half a Problem
The moderate's delusion.
open.substack.com
A good way to start the 4th: with Veterans Against Fascism in Philadelphia this morning.
Trump is turning DC into a toxic waste dump. The movie Idiocracy is a how-to guide for this administration, not a cautionary tale.
Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
'Yet Mr. Trump mocked [MBS] in public during the war. In March, Mr. Trump talked in disparaging terms about how ... the prince had underestimated him and his administration. “He didn’t think he’d be kissing my ass,” Mr. Trump said at an investment forum in Miami that Saudi Arabia had organized.'
How the Iran War Ignited a Clash Between Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince
nytimes.com
Even Repubs know that everything Trump & his minions touch turns to sh*t: Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told reporters ... “My guess is, based on [Pulte's] past experience, it’s just going to be another hot, steaming pile of DOGE s—,” ... adding that he believes Putle is an “incompetent sycophant.”
Firings underway at Office of Director of National Intelligence, source says
President Donald Trump called for the “downsizing of the office” after appointing Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence this month.
ms.now
