Dull Swain
@dullswain.bsky.social
Retired pedant in PA. Pro Democracy, BLM, pro Ukraine. 📎📎🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦📎📎
. . . a small unsightly root . . .
Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the
DULL SWAIN
Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.
— Milton, “Comus”
. . . a small unsightly root . . .
Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the
DULL SWAIN
Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.
— Milton, “Comus”
Apologies for not recognizing @citizencohn.bsky.social and @thebulwark.bsky.social
Fine, eye-opening report and analysis. You begin to understand how they might try to get the cuts they’re looking for. Call your representatives!
www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...
www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...
Health Insurance for Millions Is Now on the Chopping Block
Republicans’ very quiet, very serious effort to go after Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
www.thebulwark.com
April 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Apologies for not recognizing @citizencohn.bsky.social and @thebulwark.bsky.social
Fine, eye-opening report and analysis. You begin to understand how they might try to get the cuts they’re looking for. Call your representatives!
www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...
www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...
Health Insurance for Millions Is Now on the Chopping Block
Republicans’ very quiet, very serious effort to go after Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
www.thebulwark.com
April 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Fine, eye-opening report and analysis. You begin to understand how they might try to get the cuts they’re looking for. Call your representatives!
www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...
www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...
Thanks to Jared Bernstein for putting this in his newsletter.
www.cbpp.org/charts/trump... Trump Administration Combination of Tax Cuts, Program Cuts, and Tariffs Would Hurt Most Families Across the U.S.
www.cbpp.org/charts/trump... Trump Administration Combination of Tax Cuts, Program Cuts, and Tariffs Would Hurt Most Families Across the U.S.
Trump Administration Combination of Tax Cuts, Program Cuts, and Tariffs Would Hurt Most Families Across the U.S. | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
www.cbpp.org
April 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thanks to Jared Bernstein for putting this in his newsletter.
www.cbpp.org/charts/trump... Trump Administration Combination of Tax Cuts, Program Cuts, and Tariffs Would Hurt Most Families Across the U.S.
www.cbpp.org/charts/trump... Trump Administration Combination of Tax Cuts, Program Cuts, and Tariffs Would Hurt Most Families Across the U.S.
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Trump kills foreign aid that could keep people alive and spends money on self-glorification and golf. That is so...on brand.
April 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Trump kills foreign aid that could keep people alive and spends money on self-glorification and golf. That is so...on brand.
CRUELTY THEATER -
Coming Attractions
Coming Attractions
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Coming Attractions
Coming Attractions
CRUELTY THEATER
Trump’s changes to Social Security will slash 7,000 jobs, shut down offices, and make folks jump through hoops to get what they’ve already earned. Seniors, disabled people, and rural communities—y’all are the target. This is not efficiency, it’s straight-up cruelty.
March 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
CRUELTY THEATER
CRUELTY THEATER
My latest story: The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations. The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary RFK Jr. www.propublica.org/article/meas...
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
www.propublica.org
March 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
CRUELTY THEATER
CRUELTY THEATER:
coming attractions!
coming attractions!
Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety and effectiveness that have been in place for decades..."
“Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety and effectiveness that have been in place for decades..."
Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’
Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
CRUELTY THEATER:
coming attractions!
coming attractions!
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Now is exactly THE WRONG TIME, NYT, to run the "Well, actually, maybe colleges were too woke" op-ed. What the hell is wrong with you?🤦♂️🤦♂️
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Opinion | Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves
To rebuild trust and resist interference, universities must look within.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Now is exactly THE WRONG TIME, NYT, to run the "Well, actually, maybe colleges were too woke" op-ed. What the hell is wrong with you?🤦♂️🤦♂️
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
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Elon Musk is trying to buy his own Supreme Court Justice in Tuesday's election in Wisconsin! We need to crush him! My article explains more on that race and Florida's special elections for Congress this Tuesday. Let's win these!! deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/we-just-wo...
We just won big in Pennsylvania—now let’s win Tuesday in Wisconsin and Florida!
Time to start taking our country back!
deanobeidallah.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Hopefully whatever these 4 soldiers were doing before they were killed was not mentioned in a Signal chat. apnews.com/article/lith...
4 American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have died, NATO leader says
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, but that he does not yet know the details.
apnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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If you need another reason, here it is! Frustrate Elon Musk’s plan. Support Judge Susan Crawford for WI Supreme Court!
March 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
If you need another reason, here it is! Frustrate Elon Musk’s plan. Support Judge Susan Crawford for WI Supreme Court!
Support Judge Susan Crawford for WI Supreme Court!
Grateful for the overwhelming support in Milwaukee tonight.
Get out and vote early, Wisconsin!
Get out and vote early, Wisconsin!
March 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Support Judge Susan Crawford for WI Supreme Court!
👇 At a minimum, this!👇
Hegseth needs to go under oath before Congress ASAP. Republicans need to at least try to pretend to put country over party for once.
March 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
👇 At a minimum, this!👇
THIS! An excellent question.
Pete Hegseth would not be Sec of Def without @RogerWicker. He had the power to stop the nomination.
So, will Senator Wicker call for an investigation of the most serious national security breach in modern times? Or just look the other way? Party or country?
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
So, will Senator Wicker call for an investigation of the most serious national security breach in modern times? Or just look the other way? Party or country?
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
THIS! An excellent question.
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Pete Hegseth would not be Sec of Def without @RogerWicker. He had the power to stop the nomination.
So, will Senator Wicker call for an investigation of the most serious national security breach in modern times? Or just look the other way? Party or country?
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
So, will Senator Wicker call for an investigation of the most serious national security breach in modern times? Or just look the other way? Party or country?
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Pete Hegseth would not be Sec of Def without @RogerWicker. He had the power to stop the nomination.
So, will Senator Wicker call for an investigation of the most serious national security breach in modern times? Or just look the other way? Party or country?
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
So, will Senator Wicker call for an investigation of the most serious national security breach in modern times? Or just look the other way? Party or country?
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Special elections in Florida (April 1) and New York (June?) could give the House majority to Democrats! Donate now to Gay Valimont, Josh Weil, and Blake Gendebien!
And please support Judge Susan Crawford for WI state supreme court. All are on ActBlue.
And please support Judge Susan Crawford for WI state supreme court. All are on ActBlue.
March 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Special elections in Florida (April 1) and New York (June?) could give the House majority to Democrats! Donate now to Gay Valimont, Josh Weil, and Blake Gendebien!
And please support Judge Susan Crawford for WI state supreme court. All are on ActBlue.
And please support Judge Susan Crawford for WI state supreme court. All are on ActBlue.
In today’s environment, with Doge destroying our government and FOTUS flying immigrants to Central America, imagine the impact if just one House seat flipped from R to D. Of course these are long shots, but there’s no more important work we can do today! Go to ActBlue and give whatever help you can
Lots of references here to 2026, but what about NOW? Special elections in Florida (April 1) and New York (June?) could give the House majority to Democrats! Donate now to Gay Valimont, Josh Weil, and Blake Gendebien! 1/2
March 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
In today’s environment, with Doge destroying our government and FOTUS flying immigrants to Central America, imagine the impact if just one House seat flipped from R to D. Of course these are long shots, but there’s no more important work we can do today! Go to ActBlue and give whatever help you can
Lots of references here to 2026, but what about NOW? Special elections in Florida (April 1) and New York (June?) could give the House majority to Democrats! Donate now to Gay Valimont, Josh Weil, and Blake Gendebien! 1/2
March 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Lots of references here to 2026, but what about NOW? Special elections in Florida (April 1) and New York (June?) could give the House majority to Democrats! Donate now to Gay Valimont, Josh Weil, and Blake Gendebien! 1/2