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@leswam.bsky.social
@swamcircles on twitter, but like…fuck Elon
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US politics becomes much easier to process when you accept that the establishment Democrats do not want to win anything and are not there to be an opposition. That's why young progressives and less conservative Dems trying to work through the party get attacked until they compromise and conform.
June 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
US politics becomes much easier to process when you accept that the establishment Democrats do not want to win anything and are not there to be an opposition. That's why young progressives and less conservative Dems trying to work through the party get attacked until they compromise and conform.
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"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor"
hot damn
hot damn
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor"
hot damn
hot damn
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Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it
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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
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Man I don’t want to get conspiratorial but a thought I can’t shake is that just like we can’t trust that people presenting themselves as law enforcement *are* law enforcement, can we trust that a violent person who’s said to have been impersonating law enforcement *isn’t* law enforcement?
June 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Man I don’t want to get conspiratorial but a thought I can’t shake is that just like we can’t trust that people presenting themselves as law enforcement *are* law enforcement, can we trust that a violent person who’s said to have been impersonating law enforcement *isn’t* law enforcement?
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“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? … The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.” –TJ, 1787
Two weeks ago I did a thread on how the Founding Fathers declared independence from the crown for behaving literally the same way as the Trump administration.
It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.
It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.
I just re-read the full Declaration of Independence. It's the most illuminating and depressing thing I've read in a while. Highly recommend folks give it a read.
Many — if not most — of the complaints levied against King George are indistinguishable from those brought against President Trump today.
Many — if not most — of the complaints levied against King George are indistinguishable from those brought against President Trump today.
April 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? … The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.” –TJ, 1787
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“The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual are now acknoleged to be the only legitimate objects of government. Modern times have the signal advantage too of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit, government by the people.” –TJ, 1823.
The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.
If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.
April 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual are now acknoleged to be the only legitimate objects of government. Modern times have the signal advantage too of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit, government by the people.” –TJ, 1823.
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It is a genuine emergency and a guaranteed catastrophe that this man commands the entire public health apparatus of the U.S. Government.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It is a genuine emergency and a guaranteed catastrophe that this man commands the entire public health apparatus of the U.S. Government.
this all really is no joke.
RIP to this guy
RIP to this guy
I found out last night that one of my neighbors died a few weeks ago.
He was forced into early retirement by DOGE & the stress of having to get all the right paperwork back to them on a short & inconsistent time line spiked his BP so much he had a stroke & fucking died.
DOGE killed my neighbor.
He was forced into early retirement by DOGE & the stress of having to get all the right paperwork back to them on a short & inconsistent time line spiked his BP so much he had a stroke & fucking died.
DOGE killed my neighbor.
April 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
this all really is no joke.
RIP to this guy
RIP to this guy
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… (*gulp*)
CDC source:
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.
They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
… (*gulp*)
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The ultimate power of any court is in its coercive orders - and a machinery to readily enforce those orders.
But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left.
That’s it: game over.
Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.
But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left.
That’s it: game over.
Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.
JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington says she's concerned that the White House is still implementing the spending freeze that she and a Rhode Island judge have ordered temporarily halted.
Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.
Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.
February 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The ultimate power of any court is in its coercive orders - and a machinery to readily enforce those orders.
But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left.
That’s it: game over.
Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.
But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left.
That’s it: game over.
Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.
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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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We're in the midst of a thick entanglement of backlashes: against racial and gender progress in the U.S., by unreconstructed white supremacists against the end of colonial domination, and by tech plutocrats backlash against people calling them out for their unaccountable shit.
Joshua Steinman was in the 1st Trump admin. Tech billionaire Peter Thiel backs Steinman’s company, Galvinick, via Founders Fund. Yesterday, Steinman wrote, “Nobody wants to talk about this, but the # of men one wld need to take South Africa right now is embarrassingly small.” He cc’d Erik Prince. 1/
February 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We're in the midst of a thick entanglement of backlashes: against racial and gender progress in the U.S., by unreconstructed white supremacists against the end of colonial domination, and by tech plutocrats backlash against people calling them out for their unaccountable shit.
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Hey here’s one more fucked up thing: Elon Musk is still an active recipient of government contracts at the same fucking time that he is taking control of vast swathes of the government.
February 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Hey here’s one more fucked up thing: Elon Musk is still an active recipient of government contracts at the same fucking time that he is taking control of vast swathes of the government.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?
January 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?
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Sums up the current state of the US politics
November 15, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Sums up the current state of the US politics
So, here we go again.
Another new void.
Another new void.
November 15, 2024 at 5:52 AM
So, here we go again.
Another new void.
Another new void.