Robyn Swirling
@rswirling.bsky.social
Abortion, abolition, those sorts of things. Free DC.
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Robyn Swirling
@rswirling.bsky.social
· Aug 19
There is a LOT of filming going on and reporting out where feds and ICE are in DC. I know everyone means to be helpful when sharing that information, so I encourage everyone to get up to speed on the SALUTE method, which allows us to share info that is precise and doesn’t sow more fear.
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They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
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"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
“A Congressman raped a destitute 17 year old who had turned to sex work to pay for healthcare necessities”
Weird how so many writers at the New York Times, of all places, seemingly never took one single English class.
Weird how so many writers at the New York Times, of all places, seemingly never took one single English class.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“A Congressman raped a destitute 17 year old who had turned to sex work to pay for healthcare necessities”
Weird how so many writers at the New York Times, of all places, seemingly never took one single English class.
Weird how so many writers at the New York Times, of all places, seemingly never took one single English class.
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… I need this account until I have a job and off site network
So I can’t say what I want to say
So I’ll say , this is why I dislike the “media literacy” discussions
part of the reason people can’t understand is that media is purposely trying to weasel word them
So I can’t say what I want to say
So I’ll say , this is why I dislike the “media literacy” discussions
part of the reason people can’t understand is that media is purposely trying to weasel word them
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
… I need this account until I have a job and off site network
So I can’t say what I want to say
So I’ll say , this is why I dislike the “media literacy” discussions
part of the reason people can’t understand is that media is purposely trying to weasel word them
So I can’t say what I want to say
So I’ll say , this is why I dislike the “media literacy” discussions
part of the reason people can’t understand is that media is purposely trying to weasel word them
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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This is academic censorship, full stop.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is academic censorship, full stop.
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Moral clarity is good but the left is bad so moral clarity is bad. Got it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Moral clarity is good but the left is bad so moral clarity is bad. Got it.
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"Joining us to talk about the latest Jeffrey Epstein disclosures is former host of MSNBC's Hardball and noted creep himself, Chris Matthews. Chris, welcome back."
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"Joining us to talk about the latest Jeffrey Epstein disclosures is former host of MSNBC's Hardball and noted creep himself, Chris Matthews. Chris, welcome back."
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Clearly, Bowser thinks this inside look at how she handled Trump vindicates her approach...but if we get new videos every day of ICE patrolling with MPD to deport people, is it having the effect she hoped?
Not helping that she gets defensive about it at every turn:
Not helping that she gets defensive about it at every turn:
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Clearly, Bowser thinks this inside look at how she handled Trump vindicates her approach...but if we get new videos every day of ICE patrolling with MPD to deport people, is it having the effect she hoped?
Not helping that she gets defensive about it at every turn:
Not helping that she gets defensive about it at every turn:
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The Epstein stuff, and by extension the Gaetz stuff, always gets me worked up because it tends to bring up a variety of overlapping issues that people don't know how to speak about with nuance even though these men, themselves, are obviously bad in a very unnuanced way.
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Epstein stuff, and by extension the Gaetz stuff, always gets me worked up because it tends to bring up a variety of overlapping issues that people don't know how to speak about with nuance even though these men, themselves, are obviously bad in a very unnuanced way.
They’re not obsessed with demonizing medicine, they’re obsessed with women’s suffering
why the fuck are these freaks so obsessed with demonizing bog-standard over the counter drugs
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
They’re not obsessed with demonizing medicine, they’re obsessed with women’s suffering
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This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen
Terrific book that unfortunately remains evergreen.
ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
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there’s never a bad time to hit Trump over his corruption and abuses of power, but now is a *great* time to do it, and it needs to be blunt and repetitive
yeah this shit is going to take time to break containment
and/but: I think the approval numbers and economic facts we’re seeing are putting Trump in real danger of eating-crackers territory where it’s going to be easier than it used to be for bad stuff to stick to him
and/but: I think the approval numbers and economic facts we’re seeing are putting Trump in real danger of eating-crackers territory where it’s going to be easier than it used to be for bad stuff to stick to him
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
there’s never a bad time to hit Trump over his corruption and abuses of power, but now is a *great* time to do it, and it needs to be blunt and repetitive
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huh, weird, it’s almost as though the thing where social justice movements such as metoo become uncool and déclassé just as they’re on the verge of gaining real currency & causing real change were a process that benefits the wealthy and corrupt already in power and perhaps is even engineered by them
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
huh, weird, it’s almost as though the thing where social justice movements such as metoo become uncool and déclassé just as they’re on the verge of gaining real currency & causing real change were a process that benefits the wealthy and corrupt already in power and perhaps is even engineered by them
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never been jealous of the ICC before
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
never been jealous of the ICC before
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Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Some of these people are lawyers; the rest are intimately (phrasing) familiar with courtrooms and lawyers in their professional lives. They didn't put this stuff in writing because they're naive or ignorant; they did it because they have no fear of consequences. None at all.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Some of these people are lawyers; the rest are intimately (phrasing) familiar with courtrooms and lawyers in their professional lives. They didn't put this stuff in writing because they're naive or ignorant; they did it because they have no fear of consequences. None at all.
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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This is one of the weirder bits of fundamentalist rhetoric. There's an school of thought in several churches including some old Catholic ones that women are supposed to suffer because of Eve. I am not telling you it makes sense. I am telling you he's parroting a line that is a giant warning sign
JD Vance is working for Big Menstrual Cramps and maybe that's not even a joke
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is one of the weirder bits of fundamentalist rhetoric. There's an school of thought in several churches including some old Catholic ones that women are supposed to suffer because of Eve. I am not telling you it makes sense. I am telling you he's parroting a line that is a giant warning sign
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Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!