Old Swim Dad
@oldswimdad.bsky.social
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Raleigh NC. Swim and Theatre dad. Two dogs. Fiery red-head wife.
UVA94. Blue Dog Dem. Minority voter. I love live music and Tamiya RC cars.
King Crimson-Grateful Dead-Pavement-Morphine-Tool
Raleigh NC. Swim and Theatre dad. Two dogs. Fiery red-head wife.
UVA94. Blue Dog Dem. Minority voter. I love live music and Tamiya RC cars.
King Crimson-Grateful Dead-Pavement-Morphine-Tool
Not that I’m complaining…. But why are a bunch of people following me now??? Did I get added to a List or something???
December 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Not that I’m complaining…. But why are a bunch of people following me now??? Did I get added to a List or something???
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December 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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This Pope slaps
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This Pope slaps
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The Republican Party changed not on account of Bush, but on account of Fox: the creation of an ever-expanding media bubble that conservatives could opt to live inside, where their every fantasy was indulged as true. This bubble was created as an instrument of movement conservatism, but consumed it.
Like virtually everyone else , Will forgets that Trump in fact ran for president prior to 2016, and barely registered. In fact what happened in between that the Republican Party fundamentally changed and most of that is on account of Bush.
December 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Republican Party changed not on account of Bush, but on account of Fox: the creation of an ever-expanding media bubble that conservatives could opt to live inside, where their every fantasy was indulged as true. This bubble was created as an instrument of movement conservatism, but consumed it.
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Whatever you think of it, the conservatism of the pre-Trump GOP required beliefs. Trump said “You need not believe anything. Luxuriate in your basest hatreds and resentments forever. No thinking required, just the endless catharsis of grievance, as long as you also celebrate my name, my person.”
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Whatever you think of it, the conservatism of the pre-Trump GOP required beliefs. Trump said “You need not believe anything. Luxuriate in your basest hatreds and resentments forever. No thinking required, just the endless catharsis of grievance, as long as you also celebrate my name, my person.”
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Nine-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Oleksandra Paskal wins bronze.
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Nine-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Oleksandra Paskal wins bronze.
What a doucheowitz…
Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids?
Seems relevant now.
Seems relevant now.
December 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What a doucheowitz…
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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
Last two bowls of Count Chocula for the year. We will have to wait until next Halloween to get more.
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Last two bowls of Count Chocula for the year. We will have to wait until next Halloween to get more.
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1/ Just weeks after a Democrat was elected governor of NC in 2024 by an overwhelming margin, the state’s GOP-controlled legislature set out to strip him of powers.
What happened next illuminates the breakdown in the separation of powers throughout the nation.
THREAD 👇
tinyurl.com/y3v6np59
What happened next illuminates the breakdown in the separation of powers throughout the nation.
THREAD 👇
tinyurl.com/y3v6np59
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it fina...
tinyurl.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
1/ Just weeks after a Democrat was elected governor of NC in 2024 by an overwhelming margin, the state’s GOP-controlled legislature set out to strip him of powers.
What happened next illuminates the breakdown in the separation of powers throughout the nation.
THREAD 👇
tinyurl.com/y3v6np59
What happened next illuminates the breakdown in the separation of powers throughout the nation.
THREAD 👇
tinyurl.com/y3v6np59
“Raid!
I bend down
Poke a double decker on a llama
Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Trigger a blastoplast, ramshackle laker recedes
I start to run
It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard
And I knew my time had come”
youtu.be/Xf55Fq8gWBw?...
I bend down
Poke a double decker on a llama
Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Trigger a blastoplast, ramshackle laker recedes
I start to run
It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard
And I knew my time had come”
youtu.be/Xf55Fq8gWBw?...
December 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“Raid!
I bend down
Poke a double decker on a llama
Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Trigger a blastoplast, ramshackle laker recedes
I start to run
It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard
And I knew my time had come”
youtu.be/Xf55Fq8gWBw?...
I bend down
Poke a double decker on a llama
Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Trigger a blastoplast, ramshackle laker recedes
I start to run
It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard
And I knew my time had come”
youtu.be/Xf55Fq8gWBw?...
“He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long he must wait
Once more for a simple twist of fate”
youtu.be/-CVziimn4vU?...
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long he must wait
Once more for a simple twist of fate”
youtu.be/-CVziimn4vU?...
December 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
“He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long he must wait
Once more for a simple twist of fate”
youtu.be/-CVziimn4vU?...
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long he must wait
Once more for a simple twist of fate”
youtu.be/-CVziimn4vU?...
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According to Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's favorability has fallen by 150% since January.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
According to Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's favorability has fallen by 150% since January.
Remember when the maga lefties were trying to get us to hate on Jeffries???
Good times…
Good times…
Leader Jeffries’ waiting game pays off
He refused to support 1-year extension...held firm on 3...GOP moderates forced to move in his direction when Johnson refused to allow vote
“As Leader Jeffries has said all along, this is the only real plan on the table”
www.wdio.com/ap-top-news/...
He refused to support 1-year extension...held firm on 3...GOP moderates forced to move in his direction when Johnson refused to allow vote
“As Leader Jeffries has said all along, this is the only real plan on the table”
www.wdio.com/ap-top-news/...
Speaker Johnson was ready to move on from ACA subsidies. But his members had other plans
Speaker Mike Johnson has stayed on message that a Republican health care package will help all Americans and not just those on Affordable Care Act plans. But the rest of his party has not. Four Republ...
www.wdio.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Remember when the maga lefties were trying to get us to hate on Jeffries???
Good times…
Good times…
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If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.
Bluesky users need to boost the posts of our too few elected Democrats more than they do.
Bluesky users need to boost the posts of our too few elected Democrats more than they do.
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.
Bluesky users need to boost the posts of our too few elected Democrats more than they do.
Bluesky users need to boost the posts of our too few elected Democrats more than they do.
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And here are some baby goats.
December 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
And here are some baby goats.
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Prices aren’t coming down and you may be imprisoned for having the wrong complexion and they will be inspecting your child’s genitals but at least the elites will be able to dine in the Trump Ballroom and watch shows at the Trump-Kennedy Center
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Prices aren’t coming down and you may be imprisoned for having the wrong complexion and they will be inspecting your child’s genitals but at least the elites will be able to dine in the Trump Ballroom and watch shows at the Trump-Kennedy Center
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Crazy how Trump is flailing, Epstein files are coming out, the economy is going to shit, and Republicans are defecting and the first thing his admin does is pivot to attacking trans people. It's all they know. Just distract everyone from what's important by attacking a vulnerable minority group.
December 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Crazy how Trump is flailing, Epstein files are coming out, the economy is going to shit, and Republicans are defecting and the first thing his admin does is pivot to attacking trans people. It's all they know. Just distract everyone from what's important by attacking a vulnerable minority group.
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In neighboring Virginia, the state minimum wage today is $12.40 - a full 70% higher than here in North Carolina.
When their lawmakers began raising the wage a few years ago, the big corporate lobby squealed that it would destroy jobs and make Virginia workers worse-off.
But it never happened.
When their lawmakers began raising the wage a few years ago, the big corporate lobby squealed that it would destroy jobs and make Virginia workers worse-off.
But it never happened.
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In neighboring Virginia, the state minimum wage today is $12.40 - a full 70% higher than here in North Carolina.
When their lawmakers began raising the wage a few years ago, the big corporate lobby squealed that it would destroy jobs and make Virginia workers worse-off.
But it never happened.
When their lawmakers began raising the wage a few years ago, the big corporate lobby squealed that it would destroy jobs and make Virginia workers worse-off.
But it never happened.
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From the "every vote counts" file: The Morehead City mayoral race came down to one vote, but because two people were improperly turned away from the polls, the state has ordered a new election in March: www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol
New election ordered in NC city where mayoral race came down to one vote
The final Election Day tally in Morehead City showed City Councilman Lee Anthony Stiles defeating longtime Mayor Jerry Jones by just one vote — out of more than 1,500 votes cast.
www.wunc.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
From the "every vote counts" file: The Morehead City mayoral race came down to one vote, but because two people were improperly turned away from the polls, the state has ordered a new election in March: www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol