Dan Swain
@danswain.bsky.social
Lover of nature, literature, food, road bikes, cocktails, board games, can't look away from politics. Aerospace pays the bills.
We shouldn't call people who murder people "murderers" because it will upset the pro-murder class and make them go out and murder people.
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
We shouldn't call people who murder people "murderers" because it will upset the pro-murder class and make them go out and murder people.
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“A popular government without popular information…is but a prologue to farce or tragedy…Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.”
~James Madison, 1788.
Image: White House collection.
~James Madison, 1788.
Image: White House collection.
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“A popular government without popular information…is but a prologue to farce or tragedy…Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.”
~James Madison, 1788.
Image: White House collection.
~James Madison, 1788.
Image: White House collection.
Say what you will about Mike Pence - the man is principled, and he is a good faith actor. I agree with him some, and I would trust him to act rationally and in his beliefs about the interests of America on the points a out which we disagree. You don't have to vote for him to cheer this on.
A rift in MAGA has top Heritage Foundation officials leaving to join with Mike Pence
The exit of more than a dozen staffers follows turmoil at Heritage and the larger conservative movement over the role of right-wing influencers who've promoted antisemitic and other extremist ideas.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Say what you will about Mike Pence - the man is principled, and he is a good faith actor. I agree with him some, and I would trust him to act rationally and in his beliefs about the interests of America on the points a out which we disagree. You don't have to vote for him to cheer this on.
If the white house press office was writing these questions, would they be any different? Shame on Brennan for agreeing to be a mouthpiece for the Trump admin. @facethenation.bsky.social
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If the white house press office was writing these questions, would they be any different? Shame on Brennan for agreeing to be a mouthpiece for the Trump admin. @facethenation.bsky.social
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Like…it’s so easy!
"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." - George Washington in an address to Irish Immigrants in New York City, December 2, 1783
"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." - George Washington in an address to Irish Immigrants in New York City, December 2, 1783
December 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Like…it’s so easy!
"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." - George Washington in an address to Irish Immigrants in New York City, December 2, 1783
"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." - George Washington in an address to Irish Immigrants in New York City, December 2, 1783
There used to be a party for people like this. It would be better for America if there still was.
Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There used to be a party for people like this. It would be better for America if there still was.
Ghoulish stuff to cancel funding for work on birth defects because it emphasizes DEI. Next, HHS will cancel disease research because it focuses on sick people and ignores the healthy majority.
I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ghoulish stuff to cancel funding for work on birth defects because it emphasizes DEI. Next, HHS will cancel disease research because it focuses on sick people and ignores the healthy majority.
Just once, when Trump gets a question he doesn't like and asks "Who do you work for?" instead of saying "ABC," I wish one of them would say, "Never mind who pays me because what matters is I'm a member of the press and an American citizen and you work for me, so please answer the question."
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Just once, when Trump gets a question he doesn't like and asks "Who do you work for?" instead of saying "ABC," I wish one of them would say, "Never mind who pays me because what matters is I'm a member of the press and an American citizen and you work for me, so please answer the question."
"We're all trying to find the guy who did this" dot gif.
Trump says he’s asking Justice Department to investigate Epstein’s ties to slew of high-profile figures | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday he will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to many other high-profile figures, in an extraordinary step that...
www.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"We're all trying to find the guy who did this" dot gif.