Tim Swan
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The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
I grew up thinking America was the greatest country on earth. In just 5 years of Donald Trump, I question whether we were ever even good. It's truly distressing.
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 AM
I grew up thinking America was the greatest country on earth. In just 5 years of Donald Trump, I question whether we were ever even good. It's truly distressing.
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So, if I'm reading this right:
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
Federal prosecutors quit in protest over lack of investigation into ICE shooting
Six lawyers from US attorney’s office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ’s civil rights division
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
So, if I'm reading this right:
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
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At the rate we're going, Larry Ellison is going to have Paramount Pictures put out a prestige drama about the valiant officers who tracked down Anne Frank
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
At the rate we're going, Larry Ellison is going to have Paramount Pictures put out a prestige drama about the valiant officers who tracked down Anne Frank
As Drumpf becomes increasingly deranged let's not forget that we wouldn't be here if not for Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court. They enabled this.
January 9, 2026 at 12:23 PM
As Drumpf becomes increasingly deranged let's not forget that we wouldn't be here if not for Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court. They enabled this.
The Trump administration depends on stupid and ill-informed people.
January 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
The Trump administration depends on stupid and ill-informed people.
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This story needs to be everywhere. Every news outlet every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse. Shout it at your neighbors. Scream it at your colleagues. This is murder.
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
January 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
This story needs to be everywhere. Every news outlet every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse. Shout it at your neighbors. Scream it at your colleagues. This is murder.
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“I’m tempted to close by denouncing Trump’s hubris. But hubris implies a certain grandeur of purpose. Trump has no great ambitions to shape a better world or a better hemisphere. With him, it’s all boasting and bullying and lying, greed and narcissism and vanity.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-and...
www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-and...
The Danger and Foolishness of Trump’s Foreign Policy
There are no grand designs, just vanity and vindictiveness.
www.thebulwark.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
“I’m tempted to close by denouncing Trump’s hubris. But hubris implies a certain grandeur of purpose. Trump has no great ambitions to shape a better world or a better hemisphere. With him, it’s all boasting and bullying and lying, greed and narcissism and vanity.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-and...
www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-and...
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the 6% is the WaPo editorial board
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
the 6% is the WaPo editorial board
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Republicans control literally every lever of federal power right now.
JD Vance: "If you miss Charlie Kirk…do you promise to take the country back from the people who took his life?"
December 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Republicans control literally every lever of federal power right now.
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Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
December 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
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This would be an excellent moment for politicians to stop demonizing universities.
I also thought about this possibility the moment I heard about the MIT thing
December 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This would be an excellent moment for politicians to stop demonizing universities.
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FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
My latest in @thenation.com
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
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A million times spot on.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A million times spot on.
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In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...
The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
Unless they completely shut down next year’s election the writing is on the wall—the American people hate the MAGA agenda. The Republican party is going to get destroyed next year. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a Republican official and realize that you have bet on the wrong horse.
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Unless they completely shut down next year’s election the writing is on the wall—the American people hate the MAGA agenda. The Republican party is going to get destroyed next year. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a Republican official and realize that you have bet on the wrong horse.
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Trump didn't send armed agents to the Chicago area to quell violence. He sent them there to cause violence.
10/31/25🧊neo-nazis attacking Americans-2 blocks from Evanston Township HS🇺🇸🤬
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Trump didn't send armed agents to the Chicago area to quell violence. He sent them there to cause violence.
"Yes, the Nobel committee awarded the peace prize to a woman trying to bring peace to her nation, not to the screeching orange anger orb summarily blowing up fishing boats off the coast of it. Imagine that."
www.wonkette.com/p/maga-world...
www.wonkette.com/p/maga-world...
MAGA World Can't Believe Sturgeon-Humping Norwegians Didn't Give Nobel Prize To Heroic Peacemaker Donald Trump
Do they give Nobels for whining? He certainly has a shot at that.
www.wonkette.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"Yes, the Nobel committee awarded the peace prize to a woman trying to bring peace to her nation, not to the screeching orange anger orb summarily blowing up fishing boats off the coast of it. Imagine that."
www.wonkette.com/p/maga-world...
www.wonkette.com/p/maga-world...
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It’s Hamas
It’s antifa
It’s Soros
It’s terrorism
It’s…
It’s…
It’s Americans who will be peacefully marching with signs and supporting democracy—and don’t want a King.
#WeAreTheMajority
And they know it.
It’s antifa
It’s Soros
It’s terrorism
It’s…
It’s…
It’s Americans who will be peacefully marching with signs and supporting democracy—and don’t want a King.
#WeAreTheMajority
And they know it.
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It’s Hamas
It’s antifa
It’s Soros
It’s terrorism
It’s…
It’s…
It’s Americans who will be peacefully marching with signs and supporting democracy—and don’t want a King.
#WeAreTheMajority
And they know it.
It’s antifa
It’s Soros
It’s terrorism
It’s…
It’s…
It’s Americans who will be peacefully marching with signs and supporting democracy—and don’t want a King.
#WeAreTheMajority
And they know it.