Gary Swartz
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Support for core American principles such as “innocent until proven guilty” and due process is deeper and more widespread than the 2024 election suggests. Only a subset of Trump voters really wanted to overthrow Constitutional democracy. Some were naive, fantasizing, or duped.
Keep pushing on this.
Keep pushing on this.
Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.”
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.
April 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Support for core American principles such as “innocent until proven guilty” and due process is deeper and more widespread than the 2024 election suggests. Only a subset of Trump voters really wanted to overthrow Constitutional democracy. Some were naive, fantasizing, or duped.
Keep pushing on this.
Keep pushing on this.
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The real Donald Trump betrays the imaginary Donald Trump again www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/04/the-...
The real Donald Trump betrays the imaginary Donald Trump again - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Once again we see the fruits of American elites taking Trump neither seriously nor literally: "this worse than the worst-case scenario" might be the perfect encapsulation of the failure of imagination...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The real Donald Trump betrays the imaginary Donald Trump again www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/04/the-...
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holy shit, you weren't even slightly exaggerating. The quivering lip, the stumbling over words. He's really about to have a breakdown. www.youtube.com/shorts/n4BoB...
Bessent urges against retaliation, says “wait and see” on talks #shorts #bessent #trumptariffs
YouTube video by Bloomberg Television
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April 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
holy shit, you weren't even slightly exaggerating. The quivering lip, the stumbling over words. He's really about to have a breakdown. www.youtube.com/shorts/n4BoB...
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They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
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March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025
From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
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Dear Democrats:
📌83-year-old Bernie Sanders has been barnstorming through the Midwest drawing huge crowds taking on the Nazi shit coming out of the Republican Party, and fighting for the rights and benefits WE EARNED.
📌Get a fucking clue, get in the fight, out of D.C., or not another dime.
📌83-year-old Bernie Sanders has been barnstorming through the Midwest drawing huge crowds taking on the Nazi shit coming out of the Republican Party, and fighting for the rights and benefits WE EARNED.
📌Get a fucking clue, get in the fight, out of D.C., or not another dime.
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Dear Democrats:
📌83-year-old Bernie Sanders has been barnstorming through the Midwest drawing huge crowds taking on the Nazi shit coming out of the Republican Party, and fighting for the rights and benefits WE EARNED.
📌Get a fucking clue, get in the fight, out of D.C., or not another dime.
📌83-year-old Bernie Sanders has been barnstorming through the Midwest drawing huge crowds taking on the Nazi shit coming out of the Republican Party, and fighting for the rights and benefits WE EARNED.
📌Get a fucking clue, get in the fight, out of D.C., or not another dime.
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Elon is poisioning your food
USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula
USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.
www.reuters.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Elon is poisioning your food
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The US was the sole UN member state to vote NO on a resolution declaring an International Day of Hope
March 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The US was the sole UN member state to vote NO on a resolution declaring an International Day of Hope
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AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.
March 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.
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I think about this headline all of the time.
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think about this headline all of the time.
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting
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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting
Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, made comments against a MAGA plaque proposed for installation at the Central Library, then approached the dais and was arrested.
www.latimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting
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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
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(📢) This is an ASK ME ANYTHING (AMA) post—my first one in over a year, I think.
Ask me any question, on any topic, and I will answer it honestly.
(The only rule here is that you have to retweet this post before you ask your question, so that there will be at least _some_ audience for the answers.)
Ask me any question, on any topic, and I will answer it honestly.
(The only rule here is that you have to retweet this post before you ask your question, so that there will be at least _some_ audience for the answers.)
February 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
(📢) This is an ASK ME ANYTHING (AMA) post—my first one in over a year, I think.
Ask me any question, on any topic, and I will answer it honestly.
(The only rule here is that you have to retweet this post before you ask your question, so that there will be at least _some_ audience for the answers.)
Ask me any question, on any topic, and I will answer it honestly.
(The only rule here is that you have to retweet this post before you ask your question, so that there will be at least _some_ audience for the answers.)
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Trump on the EU possibly banning food imports from the US: "I don't mind. Let them do it. Let them do it."
February 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump on the EU possibly banning food imports from the US: "I don't mind. Let them do it. Let them do it."
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Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
February 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
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Many Democrats are saying that if Kathy Hochul fires Eric Adams, they may be forced to do the unthinkable: vote for her in the next Democratic primary.
February 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Many Democrats are saying that if Kathy Hochul fires Eric Adams, they may be forced to do the unthinkable: vote for her in the next Democratic primary.
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Holy shit, that is an incredible resignation letter.
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
February 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Holy shit, that is an incredible resignation letter.
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I have not and will never forgive all those nice sensible people back in 2016 imploring us to calm down because “even if Trump gets elected, it’s not like it’ll really impact OUR lives.”
Pure American dodo-bird thought. And now, here we are.
Pure American dodo-bird thought. And now, here we are.
But I think for most of our lives, if you are a white person (particularly a middle class white person) in the US, politics was something on the margins for you. So always the voice of shitheads telling you "there's no difference deep down". Albeit with some big losses like Roe v. Wade.
Oops.
Oops.
February 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I have not and will never forgive all those nice sensible people back in 2016 imploring us to calm down because “even if Trump gets elected, it’s not like it’ll really impact OUR lives.”
Pure American dodo-bird thought. And now, here we are.
Pure American dodo-bird thought. And now, here we are.
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I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too | Jessie Cole
I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too | Jessie Cole
Sometimes a branch grows so low and bushy that it blocks access to my room. I diligently cut it back
* More summer essentials
In the late 1970s when my parents built the house I still live in, there was no forest. The property was a disused cow…
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too | Jessie Cole
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This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by *explicit contrast* with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.
![Office of the Attorney General
Washington, D. C. 20530
February 5, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES
FROM:
SUBJECT:
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
GENERAL POLICY REGARDING ZEALOUS ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES'
"[E]xecutive Power." More broadly, attorneys are expected to zealously advance, protect, and defend their client's interests. Department of Justice attorneys have signed up for a job that requires zealously advocating for the United States.
The responsibilities of Department of Justice attorneys include not only aggressively enforcing criminal and civil laws enacted by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions against legal challenges on behalf of the United States. The discretion afforded Department attorneys entrusted with those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election.
When Department of Justice attorneys, for example, refuse to advance good-faith arguments by declining to appear in court or sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers. It is therefore the policy of the Department of Justice that any attorney who because of their personal political views or judgments declines to sign a brief or appear in court, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Department's mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination, consistent with applicable law.
' This guidance is not intended to, does not, and may not be relied upon to create, any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2tqoxl4zx7iuyh3rhbhdwv3/bafkreic4hwhm45xtfe5w2yb3y27ye4zw72ch2l2jydx3avbn6yxwllwbqi@jpeg)
February 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by *explicit contrast* with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.
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