Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
senior political correspondent @ Zeteo // contributing writer @ Rolling Stone // co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ // adjunct professor @ University of Cincinnati // volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul // “a deranged hack,” according to the Trump White House
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It’s hard to describe to normal people the years and years of work that was scrapped over all of this.
February 18, 2026 at 7:50 PM
It’s hard to describe to normal people the years and years of work that was scrapped over all of this.
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this is how trade policy gets made now. not through economic/natsec reports or cost-benefit analyses, but through backdoor ballroom "donations" and cable-news pleas www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
Fox's Brian Kilmeade pleads with Trump to drop tariffs on clothing
www.mediamatters.org
February 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM
this is how trade policy gets made now. not through economic/natsec reports or cost-benefit analyses, but through backdoor ballroom "donations" and cable-news pleas www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Looks like we’re getting a Big Balls sequel
February 18, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Looks like we’re getting a Big Balls sequel
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1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
February 18, 2026 at 11:09 PM
1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)
Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:10 PM
"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
“I would take a bullet for you” is thrown around a lot but reflecting on the past few months and to just talk about one place, it’s nice to see how much evidence there is that Minnesota is full of those people, and that they’re not talking about family, they’re talking about strangers
February 18, 2026 at 6:46 PM
“I would take a bullet for you” is thrown around a lot but reflecting on the past few months and to just talk about one place, it’s nice to see how much evidence there is that Minnesota is full of those people, and that they’re not talking about family, they’re talking about strangers
One reason why I don’t really call much of anything a “distraction” anymore is because the attitude of cruelty and self obsession that the literal president took towards Rob Reiner’s family when the couples’ bodies weren’t even cold yet is the exact policy posture he and his party take towards your…
February 18, 2026 at 6:42 PM
One reason why I don’t really call much of anything a “distraction” anymore is because the attitude of cruelty and self obsession that the literal president took towards Rob Reiner’s family when the couples’ bodies weren’t even cold yet is the exact policy posture he and his party take towards your…
I can’t get over how funny it was that the corporate titans in the Minneapolis area didn’t say shit until the very second they saw that the public backlash was so strong and that even Trump was starting to signal he was gonna be easing up (even tho the easing is primarily Fake) that they felt…
February 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I can’t get over how funny it was that the corporate titans in the Minneapolis area didn’t say shit until the very second they saw that the public backlash was so strong and that even Trump was starting to signal he was gonna be easing up (even tho the easing is primarily Fake) that they felt…
That, and whining. Republicans love to accuse media and activists they don’t like as “whiners.” Constantly. But all the right does is whine
I find it frustrating that the left has been characterized as more prone to scolding when the right’s entire culture is built on an openly insidious kind of scolding
February 18, 2026 at 4:05 PM
That, and whining. Republicans love to accuse media and activists they don’t like as “whiners.” Constantly. But all the right does is whine
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Lara Trump Teases President Has UFO ‘Speech’ Ready and Waiting After Obama Admits Aliens Are ‘Real’
Lara Trump Teases President Has UFO ‘Speech’ Ready and Waiting After Obama Admits Aliens Are ‘Real’
Lara Trump revealed her father-in-law President Donald Trump has a speech he's ready to give at the "right time" on extraterrestrial life.
The post Lara Trump Teases President Has UFO ‘Speech’ Ready and Waiting After Obama Admits Aliens Are ‘Real’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
February 18, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Lara Trump Teases President Has UFO ‘Speech’ Ready and Waiting After Obama Admits Aliens Are ‘Real’
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I don't know how I missed this, but now that I've read it you have to, too.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I don't know how I missed this, but now that I've read it you have to, too.
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WTAF? What did I just read @swin24.bsky.social?
This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
WTAF? What did I just read @swin24.bsky.social?
This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
This. Cannot. Be. Real? Can it? 🤢 open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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"The US secretary of state delivered what can only be described as a 22-minute ode to empire. A love letter to conquest and colonialism. A proud defense of the west’s territorial expansion."
My Guardian column on Marco Rubio's disturbing "MEGA" speech in Munich at the weekend.
My Guardian column on Marco Rubio's disturbing "MEGA" speech in Munich at the weekend.
Forget Maga. Welcome to Mega: Make Empire Great Again | Mehdi Hasan
Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is great
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February 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
"The US secretary of state delivered what can only be described as a 22-minute ode to empire. A love letter to conquest and colonialism. A proud defense of the west’s territorial expansion."
My Guardian column on Marco Rubio's disturbing "MEGA" speech in Munich at the weekend.
My Guardian column on Marco Rubio's disturbing "MEGA" speech in Munich at the weekend.
Song of the day youtu.be/LT8dW7bGuuM?...
Purple Rain - Prince (Blues Cover) ft. Miche Braden
YouTube video by PostmodernJukebox
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February 18, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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I think the moment I knew as opposed to thought that Josh Shapiro was woefully misreading the moment and not built for it is last year when he was on bill maher and that raging imbecile from newsweek asked him if he thought what Biden admin did was weaponization against Trump and he just said both…
February 18, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I think the moment I knew as opposed to thought that Josh Shapiro was woefully misreading the moment and not built for it is last year when he was on bill maher and that raging imbecile from newsweek asked him if he thought what Biden admin did was weaponization against Trump and he just said both…
Trump DOJ lawyers
February 18, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Trump DOJ lawyers
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lol, it’s a lot easier to form a tenants union when everyone in the building is in the same group chat
MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
February 18, 2026 at 3:03 AM
lol, it’s a lot easier to form a tenants union when everyone in the building is in the same group chat
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Hahaha
February 18, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Hahaha
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Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
February 18, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
New:
newrepublic.com/article/2066...
“Obama built the cages” is my favorite trump talking point because the right’s only objection is he did not build nearly enough of them, put way too few kids in them, and that they were somehow too clean and comfortable and that sporadic access to basic healthcare and lawyers happened sometimes
February 18, 2026 at 4:39 AM
“Obama built the cages” is my favorite trump talking point because the right’s only objection is he did not build nearly enough of them, put way too few kids in them, and that they were somehow too clean and comfortable and that sporadic access to basic healthcare and lawyers happened sometimes
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"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:09 PM
"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"
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“At bottom, majority support for a path to legalization for longtime residents is an expression of support for a deeper notion: that they have become part of our communities and now have some sort of claim to staying.”
This is interesting. In other words, Minneapolis is producing an overall strengthening of the social contract, including towards the undocumented. That's a stark rebuttal to MAGA theory, which holds that the silent majority agrees that foreign invaders threaten national social cohesion
February 17, 2026 at 5:42 PM
“At bottom, majority support for a path to legalization for longtime residents is an expression of support for a deeper notion: that they have become part of our communities and now have some sort of claim to staying.”