Dan Shafer
Founder of The Recombobulation Area. Political Editor, Civic Media. 18x Milwaukee Press Club award winner. Exhausted Dad. BUCKS FAN.
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- NEW: The Recombobulation Area won SIX AWARDS at the Milwaukee Press Club awards dinner on Friday, including GOLD for @angelalang8.bsky.social and five awards for me. This is the most awards our publication has won in a single year. Grateful. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/the-recomb...
- Reposted by Dan ShaferThis is The Last Supper now.
- "The upcoming weeks...are ones of existential risk for American healthcare." NEW from @crulge.urinal.club at The Recombobulation Area: Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/without-me...
- Reposted by Dan ShaferI have thoughts:
- NEW from @millbot.bsky.social: Gov. Evers' creative use of Wisconsin's unique partial veto power may have done something worth supporting (funding public schools), but should any governor have this power? Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/we-should-...
- NEW from @millbot.bsky.social: Gov. Evers' creative use of Wisconsin's unique partial veto power may have done something worth supporting (funding public schools), but should any governor have this power? Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/we-should-...
- Thanks so much for coming!
- Recombobulation live in living color with @danshafer.bsky.social and @civicmedia.us. Subscribe today to help sustain journalism that holds power to account nationally right down home to your neighborhood: www.therecombobulationarea.news
- Reposted by Dan ShaferSee you all there!
- Join us from 5-7 p.m. If you're a paid subscriber, your first drink is on us. That's right. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/event-toni...
- Reposted by Dan ShaferHope to see you there!
- Join us from 5-7 p.m. If you're a paid subscriber, your first drink is on us. That's right. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/event-toni...
- Join us from 5-7 p.m. If you're a paid subscriber, your first drink is on us. That's right. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/event-toni...
- TOMORROW: Come hang out at Third Space in Milwaukee for our Community Happy Hour. In person recombobulation, folks! www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/one-week-a...
- Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Steph Curry each won second wave titles in their 30s. You think Giannis Antetokounmpo has more in common with those guys or the other free agency team-jumpers?
- NEW today at The Recombobulation Area: "Once again, Gov. Evers has requested state investment for child care in the state budget. Will the third time be the charm? Or will Joint Finance Committee Republicans block it yet again?" Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wisconsins...
- Help her out, folks
- ONE WEEK AWAY: Join us May 1 for our Community Happy Hour at Third Space Brewing! All are welcome, and if you're a paid subscriber, your first round is on us! BE THERE! Details here: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/one-week-a...
- Feels a little weird to be on the other side of a story, but journalism fellow Jess Miller wrote a story about me and my work at The Recombobulation Area.
- In the last decade, the rise of social media and digital publishing services such as Substack have made it easier than ever for journalists to go independent. Fellow Jess Miller writes about @danshafer.bsky.social's The Recombulation Area and the ethics of working as an independent journalist.
- Reposted by Dan ShaferIt me!
- Very excited for @civicmedia.us's revamped morning show, "Mornings with Pat Kreitlow," now 6-9 a.m. Congrats, @patkreitlow.bsky.social!
- Very excited for @civicmedia.us's revamped morning show, "Mornings with Pat Kreitlow," now 6-9 a.m. Congrats, @patkreitlow.bsky.social!
- Very exciting stuff happening, folks!
- NEWS: @civicmedia.us is launching a revamped weekday lineup on 11 News/Talk stations across Wisconsin Get all of the details here: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/civic-medi...
- NEWS: @civicmedia.us is launching a revamped weekday lineup on 11 News/Talk stations across Wisconsin Get all of the details here: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/civic-medi...
- NEW from @emtseffos.bsky.social: Defund, discredit, dismantle: The GOP’s quiet war on Wisconsin’s public schools Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wisconsins...
- Reposted by Dan ShaferAs Milwaukee schools face a lead crises, the CDC's lead poisoning response team has been eliminated under the Trump administration. Listen to @maggiedaunshow.bsky.social and @danshafer.bsky.social discuss what happens when critical health protections disappear. youtu.be/N7ZZCLVBppc
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- Folks, you've got ONE MORE DAY to subscribe with our biggest sale of the year. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/extended-s...
- Reposted by Dan ShaferWhat we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Thank you so much @garrettbucks.bsky.social!
- The Recombobulation Area by @danshafer.bsky.social is my favorite local news source and TODAY THEY ARE HAVING THEIR BIG ANNUAL SALE!! Feel good! Support local journalism! But also get a bargain! What’s more Midwestern than that??? open.substack.com/pub/recombob...
- Tell me when you see it…
- Today is the day to UPGRADE TO PAID at The Recombobulation Area. We've grown by thousands of subscribers in recent months, and you're not going to get a better deal than the one we're offering now. Also I visited The Boat. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/upgrade-to...
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- Reposted by Dan ShaferBREAKING: @benwikler.bsky.social announces he won't seek reelection as @wisdems.bsky.social Chair when his term ends in June. @maggiedaunshow.bsky.social and @danshafer.bsky.social analyze what this transition means for Wisconsin. youtu.be/iFQqGYcaeH4
- JUST IN: @benwikler.bsky.social announces he will NOT run for re-election as the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
- NEW from @jlemonsk.bsky.social: "Let Wisconsin Republican losses be a lesson for the country: gerrymandering is a cancer. It may secure power in the short term — but in the long run, it rots your party from the inside." Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/gerrymande...
- FOLKS, it's that time. Milwaukee Day beckons. That's right, our biggest sale of the year is just days away. And we're throwing a shindig at Third Space Brewing to celebrate. Subscribe and the first drink is on us. Civic Media will be there to give away Brewers tickets, too. Let’s recombobulate.
- . @ericgenrich.bsky.social's maxims for the future of the Democratic Party: - Support people, not systems - Be indignant of injustice - Act boldly www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/guest-colu...
- About to join @pattivasquez.bsky.social on @heartlandsignal.bsky.social / @wcpt820am.bsky.social with updates from the Wisconsin political universe. Tune in!
- Reposted by Dan ShaferThis is probably one of the best articles I've read....maybe this year? Kudos @danshafer.bsky.social and to the guest columnist here, Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich. Implementing a lot of what he talks about here would be hard work but it would improve things greatly. Give this one a read for sure!
- “What do you want for this country? Is it an authoritarian oligarchy or a populist democracy?” NEW GUEST COLUMN from the Mayor of Titletown, Eric Genrich, on where the Democratic Party should go from here. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/guest-colu...
- “What do you want for this country? Is it an authoritarian oligarchy or a populist democracy?” NEW GUEST COLUMN from the Mayor of Titletown, Eric Genrich, on where the Democratic Party should go from here. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/guest-colu...
- That's pretty good
- Reposted by Dan ShaferOh my god we need footage and a full setlist
- Election Night anecdote from Civic Media's Melissa Kaye: Brad Schimel's band was playing "Zombie" by The Cranberries as results became official and Schimel got the news he had lost. I also wrote about how it's good that he conceded that night: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/10-takeawa...
- Reposted by Dan ShaferIf the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
- Reposted by Dan ShaferWhat Trump and everyone else call “deportations” to El Salvador’s CECOT torture/slave-labor prison operate much more like extraordinary renditions in the War on Terror. And they show Trump routing around the ways the courts imposed the barest sense of law upon Guantanamo.
- Election Night anecdote from Civic Media's Melissa Kaye: Brad Schimel's band was playing "Zombie" by The Cranberries as results became official and Schimel got the news he had lost. I also wrote about how it's good that he conceded that night: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/10-takeawa...
- People with these takes should follow @civicmedia.us.
- Reposted by Dan Shafer"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school
- The Racine County results are especially interesting. A Dem-aligned candidate hasn't carried the county in a statewide race since Tammy Baldwin in 2018. Dan Kelly even won there twice.
- Where are the Trump-Crawford counties in Wisconsin? - The Driftless Region - Fox Valley / Green Bay - Racine / Kenosha These are where Wisconsin elections are won and lost. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/10-takeawa...
- Where are the Trump-Crawford counties in Wisconsin? - The Driftless Region - Fox Valley / Green Bay - Racine / Kenosha These are where Wisconsin elections are won and lost. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/10-takeawa...
- I’ll take it!
- NEW: Wisconsin voters delivered a shot heard round the world in the Spring Election. My 10 takeaways of the results of this extraordinary race — the Elon Effect, state implications, the superintendent election, so much more. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/10-takeawa...
