Dan Berger

@dnbrgr.bsky.social

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Writer of words, hater of prisons Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & other things. PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA coming March 2027: www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org

NYT headline: “As Trump goes after universities, students are now on the chopping block”
NYT: “10 columnists and writers rate what mattered in trump’s first full month” over a scatterplot chart measuring negative to positive impact and less to more consequential. “DEI” and “trans issues” are at or near “positive impact, less consequential.” The most consequential is “Ukraine,” the most negative is “Eric Adams case.”
NYT email: “Super Bowl ads, ranked from first to worst”
NYT email: “no brown shoes with blue pants? Our fashion critic weighs in”
NYT email: “for you: what did Ye’s wife wear to the Grammys? Not much”
Obituary for OJ Simpson describing his release from incarceration says “Long before the city woke up on a fall morning in 2017, Trump walked out of Lovelock Correctional Center outside Reno, a free man for the first time in 9 years.”
A ribbon reading “This is how change happens” in multicolored letters over a bright blue background with some puffy clouds and a series of brightly colored concentric circles reading “our actions are working/ they are not enough” “nothing we do is sufficient/ everything we do matters” “we must be strategic/ we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously” “time is of the essence/ we have to act for the long haul”
A ribbon reading “this is how change happens” is centered over a drawing of a bright blue sky with overlapping circles reading “our actions are working, they are not enough; nothing we do is sufficient, everything we do matters; we must be strategic, we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously; time is of the essence, we have to act for the long haul”
Screenshot of database showing that my book Captive Nation was used to train AI bots
King Charles cavalier spaniel in a glass door frame looking forlorn at being separated from the person taking the picture (me)