Liz Swain
@blondemomof2or3.bsky.social
Mom, wife, tolerater of SOME nonsense
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7 democrats made this bill pass.
If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.
If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.
NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207
7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez
One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez
One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 PM
7 democrats made this bill pass.
If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.
If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.
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PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it
January 18, 2026 at 5:53 PM
PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it
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"The “terrorists” and “Antifa” that the Trump Administration speaks of ─ aka, neighborhood groups organizing to peacefully and legally support their neighbors ─ instead generally have three goals:"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
January 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
"The “terrorists” and “Antifa” that the Trump Administration speaks of ─ aka, neighborhood groups organizing to peacefully and legally support their neighbors ─ instead generally have three goals:"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
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Every time I see this man, I wish all the more ardently that we were subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. I have never shipped a man harder with The Hague.
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Every time I see this man, I wish all the more ardently that we were subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. I have never shipped a man harder with The Hague.
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Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland.
This is mad king shit.
This is mad king shit.
January 17, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland.
This is mad king shit.
This is mad king shit.
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Precisely the reason he and the others were pardoned, to provide the vanguard for an extrajudicial goon squad (with others hired by ICE as totally unqualified applicants to do a bit of the ultraviolence)
Minneapolis authorities and neighborhood groups are bracing for a demonstration Saturday led by a right-wing provocateur who was among the pardoned Jan. 6 rioters.
Minneapolis braces for march called by pardoned Jan. 6 rioter
A rally organized by a provocateur known for incendiary rhetoric is planned, while counterprotests are also expected. Officials are urging calm.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Precisely the reason he and the others were pardoned, to provide the vanguard for an extrajudicial goon squad (with others hired by ICE as totally unqualified applicants to do a bit of the ultraviolence)
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The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.
January 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.
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The onus so far is entirely on the frightened and unfunded public to organize perfectly peaceful resistance and outlast an ad hoc army of thousands of untrained bigots pulling from a well of near unlimited taxpayer finances?
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The onus so far is entirely on the frightened and unfunded public to organize perfectly peaceful resistance and outlast an ad hoc army of thousands of untrained bigots pulling from a well of near unlimited taxpayer finances?
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Popularized in neo-Nazi spaces, the track features lines about reclaiming “our home” by “blood or sweat,” language often used in white nationalist calls for race war. interc.pt/45dH4W2
January 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Popularized in neo-Nazi spaces, the track features lines about reclaiming “our home” by “blood or sweat,” language often used in white nationalist calls for race war. interc.pt/45dH4W2
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fascists are sniveling cowards. it's a necessary qualification for being on their side: you have to be a coward
you’re a fucking grown ass man putting a 16 year old kid in handcuffs and then you steal his phone and sell it to a vending machine? what in the entire fuck is wrong you?
January 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM
fascists are sniveling cowards. it's a necessary qualification for being on their side: you have to be a coward
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A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
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I know character limits probably forced Aaron to cut this part off, but listen to the rest of the clip as well.
“In conclusion, as we liberate our country from this cultural scourge…”
They’re ramping up the thinly-veiled neo-fascist rhetoric.
“In conclusion, as we liberate our country from this cultural scourge…”
They’re ramping up the thinly-veiled neo-fascist rhetoric.
Trump: "One of the reasons they're doing these fake riots-- I mean they're just terrible. It's so fake. 'Shame! Shame! Shame!' You see the woman. It's all practiced. They take hotel rooms and they all practice together. It's a whole scam. We're finding out who's funding all this stuff too."
January 13, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I know character limits probably forced Aaron to cut this part off, but listen to the rest of the clip as well.
“In conclusion, as we liberate our country from this cultural scourge…”
They’re ramping up the thinly-veiled neo-fascist rhetoric.
“In conclusion, as we liberate our country from this cultural scourge…”
They’re ramping up the thinly-veiled neo-fascist rhetoric.
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/
January 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/
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The citizens of Minneapolis sound united.
Self-proclaimed, “right-leaning” eyewitness…
Self-proclaimed, “right-leaning” eyewitness…
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
The citizens of Minneapolis sound united.
Self-proclaimed, “right-leaning” eyewitness…
Self-proclaimed, “right-leaning” eyewitness…
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.
January 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.
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*Well, that extensive screed is hard to beat for frank and lucid
“WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest traces the last five years from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either.
The year of technoligarchy
In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.
www.citationneeded.news
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
*Well, that extensive screed is hard to beat for frank and lucid
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they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.