Drive_swiftly
@driveswiftly.bsky.social
Maybe it's time to move into the woods... but I'll give it a shot over here first. Aspirational hiker and bad runner, politics and data nerd, beer enthusiast and carb disposal.
Holy shit
“Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
February 3, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Still having a very hard time understanding how cameras are going to be the thing that stops what we all saw happen on camera from multiple angles
#BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said that all federal immigration officers in Minneapolis will begin wearing body cameras while in the field.
thehill.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Still having a very hard time understanding how cameras are going to be the thing that stops what we all saw happen on camera from multiple angles
Not just one country...
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Not just one country...
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I have not seen Republicans this anti gun since Ronald Reagan panicked and legislated gun control when the Black Panthers exercised their 2nd Amendment rights.
February 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I have not seen Republicans this anti gun since Ronald Reagan panicked and legislated gun control when the Black Panthers exercised their 2nd Amendment rights.
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I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
February 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
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i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
Apollo chief Marc Rowan consulted Epstein on firm’s tax affairs
New files reveal extensive talks between disgraced financier and key decision makers at US private capital firm
www.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
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I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 AM
I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
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Mandelson leaked No 10 documents to Epstein - who then helped him pursue a $4m job
The latest: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/02/m...
The latest: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/02/m...
Mandelson leaked No 10 documents to Epstein; sought $4m job
New emails show Peter Mandelson leaked confidential No 10 documents to Jeffrey Epstein, who later helped him pursue a $4m job.
buff.ly
February 2, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Mandelson leaked No 10 documents to Epstein - who then helped him pursue a $4m job
The latest: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/02/m...
The latest: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/02/m...
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Someone highlighted this on x - it it is mandelson confirming the mother of all insider information when he was business secretary. One of those "if he shouldn't be in prison for this, a lot of people should explain why" things, true even if it wasn't epstein
February 2, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Someone highlighted this on x - it it is mandelson confirming the mother of all insider information when he was business secretary. One of those "if he shouldn't be in prison for this, a lot of people should explain why" things, true even if it wasn't epstein
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Amon Bundy being anti-Trump is yet another sign that “has any real principles at all” is increasingly the most salient dividing line in politics.
February 2, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Amon Bundy being anti-Trump is yet another sign that “has any real principles at all” is increasingly the most salient dividing line in politics.
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(1) Long 🧵 Time.
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
February 1, 2026 at 9:13 PM
(1) Long 🧵 Time.
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
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Clipse win their first Grammy as the Kendrick Lamar collab "Chains & Whips" wins Best Rap Performance
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stereogum.com/2487089/gram...
February 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Clipse win their first Grammy as the Kendrick Lamar collab "Chains & Whips" wins Best Rap Performance
stereogum.com/2487089/gram...
stereogum.com/2487089/gram...
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JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
We all OK canceling every tech bro who attended the meeting Epstein convened "titled Money" in 2012? Gates, Andreeson, Page, Brin, Bezos, Schmidt, Thiel.... it's a who's who of the same people eating dinner with Trump now.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM
We all OK canceling every tech bro who attended the meeting Epstein convened "titled Money" in 2012? Gates, Andreeson, Page, Brin, Bezos, Schmidt, Thiel.... it's a who's who of the same people eating dinner with Trump now.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Ex-Prince Andrew tried to make this same argument. Everyone who went to pedophile island was a mega-rich elite who easily could, and in most cases probably also did, independently procure victims and commit sex crimes without Epstein's help if they wanted.
"I can be a pedophile all on my own" is not the flex he thinks it is.
February 1, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Ex-Prince Andrew tried to make this same argument. Everyone who went to pedophile island was a mega-rich elite who easily could, and in most cases probably also did, independently procure victims and commit sex crimes without Epstein's help if they wanted.
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Congratulations to my friend and our newest State Senator from Tarrant County, Taylor Rehmet! I met Taylor years ago through labor organizing.
Don’t tell us what can’t be done in Texas. When we show up #TexasTough, we change the game. Today we proved what we’ve known all along: Texas is in play.
Don’t tell us what can’t be done in Texas. When we show up #TexasTough, we change the game. Today we proved what we’ve known all along: Texas is in play.
February 1, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Congratulations to my friend and our newest State Senator from Tarrant County, Taylor Rehmet! I met Taylor years ago through labor organizing.
Don’t tell us what can’t be done in Texas. When we show up #TexasTough, we change the game. Today we proved what we’ve known all along: Texas is in play.
Don’t tell us what can’t be done in Texas. When we show up #TexasTough, we change the game. Today we proved what we’ve known all along: Texas is in play.
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Gawker was sued out of existence by billionaires who didn't want to be investigated by really good journalists who had the perfect rolodexes to get dirt on a pervert cabal and maybe upend their whole new world order. It isn't a scandal sheet you dope.
Gawker is dead because it did not color inside the lines of the Constitution while doing the things that made people want Gawker dead. 🤷♂️ Lots of other scandal sheets are still around because they did that better.
February 1, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Gawker was sued out of existence by billionaires who didn't want to be investigated by really good journalists who had the perfect rolodexes to get dirt on a pervert cabal and maybe upend their whole new world order. It isn't a scandal sheet you dope.
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This is Brett Ratner, the director of the new Melania movie, pictured lecherously groping an unidentified young girl alongside Jeffrey Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 11:50 PM
This is Brett Ratner, the director of the new Melania movie, pictured lecherously groping an unidentified young girl alongside Jeffrey Epstein.
The number of mentions of Soon Yi and Woody Allen in the Epstein files is... woooof. Can we fully cancel them both forever??
February 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
The number of mentions of Soon Yi and Woody Allen in the Epstein files is... woooof. Can we fully cancel them both forever??
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Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.
How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
January 31, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.
How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
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Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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WOW WOW WOW Mayor Mamdani names Stanley Richards as the new head of Dept of Corrections. Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails.
Richards is currently the president/CEO of the Fortune Society, a leading nonprofit that assists incarcerated/ formerly incarcerated
Richards is currently the president/CEO of the Fortune Society, a leading nonprofit that assists incarcerated/ formerly incarcerated
January 31, 2026 at 10:14 PM
WOW WOW WOW Mayor Mamdani names Stanley Richards as the new head of Dept of Corrections. Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails.
Richards is currently the president/CEO of the Fortune Society, a leading nonprofit that assists incarcerated/ formerly incarcerated
Richards is currently the president/CEO of the Fortune Society, a leading nonprofit that assists incarcerated/ formerly incarcerated
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In a bizarre coincidence, Barr also as AG oversaw the federal Bureau of Prisons, where Epstein, um, died
January 31, 2026 at 10:21 PM
In a bizarre coincidence, Barr also as AG oversaw the federal Bureau of Prisons, where Epstein, um, died