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Scott Swanson
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Can't believe Cade's on my team man 🥹
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
God I hate Chelsea
God I hate Newcastle
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Michigan really is just the coolest state huh
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Someone get a Cade Cunningham chant going in Ford Field eh
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thom Yorke really fires up the ol’ recollection machine for me though. The way he sang in the 90s especially, so lively and warbly and strangled and dramatic. Taut and electric. Almost physical. Like you can hang memories off it.
thewhitepine.substack.com/p/where-i-en...
Where I end and you begin
A photocopy of a photocopy
thewhitepine.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Liverpool look terrible
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Embarrassing and shameful
NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war

-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"

www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It all blurs together but for some reason the random meaningless memories come to the surface just as often as the good ones and the bad ones. thewhitepine.substack.com/p/that-joke-...
That joke isn't funny anymore
When was the last time you laughed on the internet?
thewhitepine.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Is Saka hurt??
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New post about fall, the Gaslight Anthem and ICE in our town. thewhitepine.substack.com/p/when-the-m...
When the man comes around
If a clod be washed away by the sea
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October 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Heartbreaking: AirPods dead at the gym
October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On Trump, norms, and Rome Guys (me). thewhitepine.substack.com/p/as-the-fla...
As the flames rose to her Roman nose
I don’t want to have to think about this shit every single day!
thewhitepine.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Still thinking about the American Girl needle drop in One Battle After Another 🥹
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
God I hate Newcastle
September 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
These little epochs often emerge quickly but this one seemed to strike especially fast. As if he woke up one day able to tell the difference between an Airbus 330 and a Boeing 767. Talking about T-tails and curved wing tips. Thrust and vertical stabilizers.
September 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Reposted by Scott Swanson
now we have to be mad about jimmy fucking kimmel? that makes me even more mad. I’m here at the barricades alongside karl rove, john yoo, bret stephens and bill kristol and we’re drawing the line at jimmy kimmel? seriously i hate this whole era
September 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I do not care for the Cleveland Guardians
September 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
September 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Biden's arrogance is a huge part of why we're here. The guy sucks and he always has.
September 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Scott Swanson
Two major lithium ion battery fires in two weeks. The first destroyed our car, the second our house. We had a very weird summer. thewhitepine.substack.com/p/you-might-...
September 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Two major lithium ion battery fires in two weeks. The first destroyed our car, the second our house. We had a very weird summer. thewhitepine.substack.com/p/you-might-...
September 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I remember watching this live. A real life-changer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Qm...
Radiohead - "Karma Police" (1997) | David Letterman
YouTube video by Letterman
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Got hacked but I am back to declare that this account is now a Liquid Mike stan account. Marquette's finest! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTxg...
Liquid Mike - K2 Official Music Video
YouTube video by Liquidmikeband
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August 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Evaluate honestly the number of Dem candidates, at any level in any state, who are using terms like "birthing person" or "heteronormative" to the number using phrases like "bipartisan solutions" or "reaching across the aisle" and tell me which language is tin-eared and alienating to normal people.
Scoop: Third Way is circulating a memo, shared first with @playbookdc, featuring a new blacklist of words Dems shouldn’t use.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...
August 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM