Nicholas Sarwark
@sarwark.org
Self determination advocate.
Keeping Phoenix families on the road with Consolidated Auto Sales & Service, educating civic leaders with the Libertarian Policy Foundation, providing affordable self-defense with the Altor.
https://nsarwark.substack.com/
Keeping Phoenix families on the road with Consolidated Auto Sales & Service, educating civic leaders with the Libertarian Policy Foundation, providing affordable self-defense with the Altor.
https://nsarwark.substack.com/
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Nicholas Sarwark
@sarwark.org
· Nov 12
We are entering a deep recession brought on by Donald Trump's lawless policies as we go into Thanksgiving and Christmas.
You can stretch your money by shopping at thrift shops and yard sales and eBay for household tools and holiday gifts.
Used goods are already imported and avoid the tariffs.
You can stretch your money by shopping at thrift shops and yard sales and eBay for household tools and holiday gifts.
Used goods are already imported and avoid the tariffs.
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"America was great because it had people like Sinatra and Martin in it!"
Oh, he's so close to getting it.
Oh, he's so close to getting it.
December 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"America was great because it had people like Sinatra and Martin in it!"
Oh, he's so close to getting it.
Oh, he's so close to getting it.
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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this is a good response to In Covid's Wake
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
Restrictions had unequal impacts, but the pandemic itself did too. - Boston Review
Adam Kucharski responds to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.
www.bostonreview.net
December 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
this is a good response to In Covid's Wake
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
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The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.
this is a good response to In Covid's Wake
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
Restrictions had unequal impacts, but the pandemic itself did too. - Boston Review
Adam Kucharski responds to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.
www.bostonreview.net
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.
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The first gender reassignment surgery was performed in 1951, and I know several people on the autism spectrum born in the 1950s to 1970s.
December 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The first gender reassignment surgery was performed in 1951, and I know several people on the autism spectrum born in the 1950s to 1970s.
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“In our nation’s current battle between the forces of light & darkness…we all have a role to play. We can speak out for, vote and fight for, a better & more compassionate country. Or we can witness as the house divided is brought down by the worst among us.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/the-contin...
www.americaamerica.news/p/the-contin...
The Continuing Need for Compassion
At all times, America benefits from compassionate leadership
www.americaamerica.news
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“In our nation’s current battle between the forces of light & darkness…we all have a role to play. We can speak out for, vote and fight for, a better & more compassionate country. Or we can witness as the house divided is brought down by the worst among us.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/the-contin...
www.americaamerica.news/p/the-contin...
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As it happens this is exactly the argument of a bunch of angry white dudes who seethe with fury because I have had a very successful 20 year career in mainstream science fiction publishing and they haven't. It's an intriguing hypothesis and I wish them joy with it.
You’re so woke you’re probably no longer a ‘real’ white man.
It happens to the best of us.
It happens to the best of us.
December 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
As it happens this is exactly the argument of a bunch of angry white dudes who seethe with fury because I have had a very successful 20 year career in mainstream science fiction publishing and they haven't. It's an intriguing hypothesis and I wish them joy with it.
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Congratulations to Senile Satan. The lowest rated Kennedy Center Honors in history.
www.thedailybeast.com//donald-trump-humiliated-as-he-scores-lowest-kennedy-center-honors-ratings-ever/?via=ios
www.thedailybeast.com//donald-trump-humiliated-as-he-scores-lowest-kennedy-center-honors-ratings-ever/?via=ios
Trump Humiliated as He Scores Lowest Kennedy Center Ratings Ever
Trump had boasted that “just about everybody” in America requested he host the Kennedy Center Honors.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Congratulations to Senile Satan. The lowest rated Kennedy Center Honors in history.
www.thedailybeast.com//donald-trump-humiliated-as-he-scores-lowest-kennedy-center-honors-ratings-ever/?via=ios
www.thedailybeast.com//donald-trump-humiliated-as-he-scores-lowest-kennedy-center-honors-ratings-ever/?via=ios
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This site is *extremely* sensitive to blocking the worst accounts. You need to have someone go and block anyone who's polluting your feed with abuse (blocking aggressive sycophancy or general crankiness also recommended).
I have blocked nearly 3600 accounts. You've barely crossed 200.
I have blocked nearly 3600 accounts. You've barely crossed 200.
No shock. This app has turned my mentions, and others, into mostly hate. But there are a few people worth connecting with
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
CRAZY how it's easier these days to have a real discussion on X, or threads, than on here.
December 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This site is *extremely* sensitive to blocking the worst accounts. You need to have someone go and block anyone who's polluting your feed with abuse (blocking aggressive sycophancy or general crankiness also recommended).
I have blocked nearly 3600 accounts. You've barely crossed 200.
I have blocked nearly 3600 accounts. You've barely crossed 200.
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
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“The press” helped lead us here, especially national.
Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.”
But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“The press” helped lead us here, especially national.
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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love when the “i’m all ears” types immediately develop a severe case of can’t read posts or look anything up-itis
It's so funny that a billionaire was on here *this week* being like, "Well if there are any *good ideas* on how to implement universal healthcare I would love to entertain them!" but also hasn't just uhh checked to see how every other country in the so-called developed world has done it in some form
December 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
love when the “i’m all ears” types immediately develop a severe case of can’t read posts or look anything up-itis
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Ongoing situation in Volgograd, Russia. Multiple explosions have been reported.
December 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Ongoing situation in Volgograd, Russia. Multiple explosions have been reported.
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that said a lot of this discussion is people talking past each other because cost savings are a different thing than universal coverage, united only by the necessity to reform our health care system to effect either
December 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
that said a lot of this discussion is people talking past each other because cost savings are a different thing than universal coverage, united only by the necessity to reform our health care system to effect either
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Every jaw in the room dropped. He had done the unthinkable. He had not only told them his beliefs, but he had done it with the equal degree of certainty that they had employed in telling him theirs. And there's this unspoken rule in America: Only Christians are allowed to do this.
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Every jaw in the room dropped. He had done the unthinkable. He had not only told them his beliefs, but he had done it with the equal degree of certainty that they had employed in telling him theirs. And there's this unspoken rule in America: Only Christians are allowed to do this.
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always after he explained what he believed as a Jew, he was barraged by emails from concerned students asking why he didn't believe Jesus was the son of God. And he said,
"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."
"Because he's not."
"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."
"Because he's not."
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
always after he explained what he believed as a Jew, he was barraged by emails from concerned students asking why he didn't believe Jesus was the son of God. And he said,
"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."
"Because he's not."
"Well there's a very simple answer to why I don't believe Jesus is the son of God."
"Because he's not."
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This is the key part. Only Christian Americans are allowed to confidently proclaim the truth of their beliefs, if anyone else does it they’re trying to “ram their beliefs down your throat.”
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is the key part. Only Christian Americans are allowed to confidently proclaim the truth of their beliefs, if anyone else does it they’re trying to “ram their beliefs down your throat.”
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Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
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This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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The purpose of government is to provide essential services to its citizens.
The purpose of a business is to generate a profit for its owners.
Saying government should be run like a business is an absurd notion.
The purpose of a business is to generate a profit for its owners.
Saying government should be run like a business is an absurd notion.
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The purpose of government is to provide essential services to its citizens.
The purpose of a business is to generate a profit for its owners.
Saying government should be run like a business is an absurd notion.
The purpose of a business is to generate a profit for its owners.
Saying government should be run like a business is an absurd notion.
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they put the postal service in the fucking constitution
it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
they put the postal service in the fucking constitution
it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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Thinking a little today about peace, goodwill, and the violence that resides in all of us. It’s a good day to recommit to those higher virtues
Enjoy my holiday essay for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
Enjoy my holiday essay for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
Merry Christmas, I Don’t Want to Fight: Trump’s White House UFC Event and the Politics of Violence
Donald Trump is seeking to elevate America’s most violent professional sport to an emblem of national identity.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thinking a little today about peace, goodwill, and the violence that resides in all of us. It’s a good day to recommit to those higher virtues
Enjoy my holiday essay for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...
Enjoy my holiday essay for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...