C. Denby Swanson
@cdenbyswanson.bsky.social
Writer. Foster-adopt family. Nonprofit leader. Autism mom. Neurodivergence & disability advocate.
Celebrating the holiday season in the Baroque tradition because I am baaaaaahhhhh-ROKE.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Celebrating the holiday season in the Baroque tradition because I am baaaaaahhhhh-ROKE.
Today is the day Mark Kelly became president.
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Today is the day Mark Kelly became president.
I grated zucchini into my banana bread and I am pretty sure that makes it a salad.
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I grated zucchini into my banana bread and I am pretty sure that makes it a salad.
The aide to a Republican congressman from New Jersey “faked being the victim of what she claimed was a politically motivated slashing in July, a narrative that quickly unraveled when investigators found spare zip ties in her Maserati.”
America is just one big reality tv show at this point.
America is just one big reality tv show at this point.
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The aide to a Republican congressman from New Jersey “faked being the victim of what she claimed was a politically motivated slashing in July, a narrative that quickly unraveled when investigators found spare zip ties in her Maserati.”
America is just one big reality tv show at this point.
America is just one big reality tv show at this point.
Fingers crossed that the judge’s ruling in case is 473 pages of memes of Robert Downey Jr rolling his eyes followed by the words, “Dismissed because it’s all bullshit.”
The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Fingers crossed that the judge’s ruling in case is 473 pages of memes of Robert Downey Jr rolling his eyes followed by the words, “Dismissed because it’s all bullshit.”
There will be two options for women with ectopic, dangerous, or otherwise unsurvivable pregnancies: 1) die; 2) terminate the pregnancy and pay the ENTIRE COST out of pocket, even with insurance. (And still potentially die.)
Democrats blinked. Again. Six weeks into a GOP-made shutdown, they folded without securing ACA subsidies. Republicans saw the collapse coming and instantly pivoted to abortion. Now they're trying to extend Hyde to private insurance.
My latest:
My latest:
Democrats Picked an Insurance Fight They Weren't Willing to Win. Now Abortion Is On the Line—Again (Opinion)
Congressional Democrats face a new dilemma: Vote against affordable health care, or accept a nationwide rollback of abortion coverage.
rewirenewsgroup.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
There will be two options for women with ectopic, dangerous, or otherwise unsurvivable pregnancies: 1) die; 2) terminate the pregnancy and pay the ENTIRE COST out of pocket, even with insurance. (And still potentially die.)
Annual performance review results in operational strategic goal of “don’t kill your critics with a chainsaw.”
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Annual performance review results in operational strategic goal of “don’t kill your critics with a chainsaw.”
Me: Look at this beautiful cake I made. Them: It’s 10pm.
Me: i know. I blended a blood orange into one layer of batter and an avocado into the other.
Them: Why are you making a cake at 10pm?
Me: Because I have a deadline.
Me: i know. I blended a blood orange into one layer of batter and an avocado into the other.
Them: Why are you making a cake at 10pm?
Me: Because I have a deadline.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Me: Look at this beautiful cake I made. Them: It’s 10pm.
Me: i know. I blended a blood orange into one layer of batter and an avocado into the other.
Them: Why are you making a cake at 10pm?
Me: Because I have a deadline.
Me: i know. I blended a blood orange into one layer of batter and an avocado into the other.
Them: Why are you making a cake at 10pm?
Me: Because I have a deadline.
It has started: I opened a cabinet to retrieve a water glass and found the container of apple juice that went missing from my fridge yesterday.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It has started: I opened a cabinet to retrieve a water glass and found the container of apple juice that went missing from my fridge yesterday.
Implied horse head on the pillow
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Implied horse head on the pillow
Incredible photo of a man in the Oval
Office suffering a medical event.
And behind him, a man who fainted.
Office suffering a medical event.
And behind him, a man who fainted.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Incredible photo of a man in the Oval
Office suffering a medical event.
And behind him, a man who fainted.
Office suffering a medical event.
And behind him, a man who fainted.
Hear me out: a reboot of the McConaughey/Hathaway space movie but with Tessa Thompson & John Boyega, called How Interstellar Got Its Groove Back.
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Hear me out: a reboot of the McConaughey/Hathaway space movie but with Tessa Thompson & John Boyega, called How Interstellar Got Its Groove Back.
Reposted by C. Denby Swanson
Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.
November 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.
America goddamn.
“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.
theintercept.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
America goddamn.
13yo: There are 3 branches of government. Executive. Legislative. Judgical.
Me: Judgical, The Musical
13yo: What
Me: What
Me: …
Me: It’s a theater joke but now I think I have my next project.
Me: Judgical, The Musical
13yo: What
Me: What
Me: …
Me: It’s a theater joke but now I think I have my next project.
October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
13yo: There are 3 branches of government. Executive. Legislative. Judgical.
Me: Judgical, The Musical
13yo: What
Me: What
Me: …
Me: It’s a theater joke but now I think I have my next project.
Me: Judgical, The Musical
13yo: What
Me: What
Me: …
Me: It’s a theater joke but now I think I have my next project.
The writers on our last season of America need to reel it back in now. Play the crises that you’ve ALREADY ESTABLISHED. Just because you don’t know how to end the scene doesn’t mean you throw everything at the wall.
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The writers on our last season of America need to reel it back in now. Play the crises that you’ve ALREADY ESTABLISHED. Just because you don’t know how to end the scene doesn’t mean you throw everything at the wall.
Reposted by C. Denby Swanson
I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
I’m a point person for my neighborhood’s grocery-gathering project. Neighbor just dropped off an entire office box of canned goods - the quality kinds! We’ll have one-pot meal ziplock bags for families and supplies for food banks. #snap #foodinsecurity #community
October 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I’m a point person for my neighborhood’s grocery-gathering project. Neighbor just dropped off an entire office box of canned goods - the quality kinds! We’ll have one-pot meal ziplock bags for families and supplies for food banks. #snap #foodinsecurity #community
WAPO: Democracy dies in darkness.
Also WAPO: It’s us. We are darkness.
Also WAPO: It’s us. We are darkness.
The Washington Post editorial section hit rock bottom and just kept digging.
October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
WAPO: Democracy dies in darkness.
Also WAPO: It’s us. We are darkness.
Also WAPO: It’s us. We are darkness.
Lifeguard 1: You going into sales?
Lifeguard 2: Nah. I wanted Navy SEALS. But now phys therapy.
LG1: Dude.
LG2: Like, athletes. Not, like, old people.
LG1: Yeah. By the time they tear a muscle that late in life they already have a lot of issues.
LG2: I just don’t want crabby people.
Lifeguard 2: Nah. I wanted Navy SEALS. But now phys therapy.
LG1: Dude.
LG2: Like, athletes. Not, like, old people.
LG1: Yeah. By the time they tear a muscle that late in life they already have a lot of issues.
LG2: I just don’t want crabby people.
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Lifeguard 1: You going into sales?
Lifeguard 2: Nah. I wanted Navy SEALS. But now phys therapy.
LG1: Dude.
LG2: Like, athletes. Not, like, old people.
LG1: Yeah. By the time they tear a muscle that late in life they already have a lot of issues.
LG2: I just don’t want crabby people.
Lifeguard 2: Nah. I wanted Navy SEALS. But now phys therapy.
LG1: Dude.
LG2: Like, athletes. Not, like, old people.
LG1: Yeah. By the time they tear a muscle that late in life they already have a lot of issues.
LG2: I just don’t want crabby people.
Pre-ACA, my doctors refused to diagnose my endometriosis because it would have made me uninsurable. By the time the ACA passed, my fertility was toast. My son has Medicaid thru an adoption subsidy, but TX refuses to expand so there are limited providers who take it. We NEED healthcare access.
like yeah sure the ACA was far from perfect (although “expansion of the welfare state was hard fought but woefully incomplete” is basically the history of american social policy), but it is difficult to overstate how important the Medicaid expansion has been to expanding health care access
October 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Pre-ACA, my doctors refused to diagnose my endometriosis because it would have made me uninsurable. By the time the ACA passed, my fertility was toast. My son has Medicaid thru an adoption subsidy, but TX refuses to expand so there are limited providers who take it. We NEED healthcare access.
#NoKings Austin tagging in.
Massive crowd at the Texas State Capitol despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s activation of the National Guard.
Massive crowd at the Texas State Capitol despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s activation of the National Guard.
October 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nurse: Hello, Primary Care Docyor’s office.
Me: I have a new insurance policy and now need a referral from Primary Doctor, so that I can see my glaucoma specialist.
Nurse: Is your policy still through your employer?
Me: No, it’s through the ACA.
Nurse: What is the ACA?
Me: I have a new insurance policy and now need a referral from Primary Doctor, so that I can see my glaucoma specialist.
Nurse: Is your policy still through your employer?
Me: No, it’s through the ACA.
Nurse: What is the ACA?
October 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Nurse: Hello, Primary Care Docyor’s office.
Me: I have a new insurance policy and now need a referral from Primary Doctor, so that I can see my glaucoma specialist.
Nurse: Is your policy still through your employer?
Me: No, it’s through the ACA.
Nurse: What is the ACA?
Me: I have a new insurance policy and now need a referral from Primary Doctor, so that I can see my glaucoma specialist.
Nurse: Is your policy still through your employer?
Me: No, it’s through the ACA.
Nurse: What is the ACA?
It’s infrastructure week! Er… except the opposite. It’s EndFrastructure Week.
Trump has frozen or canceled $28B in funding for infrastructure projects in Democratic congressional districts.
Meanwhile, representatives of those districts are fighting to extend ACA subsidies — more than half of which go to people in GOP-held districts.
Remember this.
Meanwhile, representatives of those districts are fighting to extend ACA subsidies — more than half of which go to people in GOP-held districts.
Remember this.
October 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It’s infrastructure week! Er… except the opposite. It’s EndFrastructure Week.
The “emergency naked bike ride” in Portland today proves that not all heroes wear capes.
October 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The “emergency naked bike ride” in Portland today proves that not all heroes wear capes.