Swoletariat
@swoletariat.bsky.social
Market Socialist and industrial policy enthusiast, former protein alchemist.
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Imagine health insurance without corporations, what other nation wide body could possibly have the experience and the capacity to take over? Guess we'll never know.
Bessent on CNBC re: White House health care plans: "I'm not involved in the conversation. I know President Trump wants working Americans to keep more of their money, cut out the insurance companies, and we'll see. He's the president of solutions, and I'm sure that we will have a solution to this."
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Imagine health insurance without corporations, what other nation wide body could possibly have the experience and the capacity to take over? Guess we'll never know.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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People are going to die because of this.
They're shuttering ongoing studies and have no validated methods of replacing these kinds of experiments with an animal that's only sperated from us by 25 million years.
They're shuttering ongoing studies and have no validated methods of replacing these kinds of experiments with an animal that's only sperated from us by 25 million years.
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
People are going to die because of this.
They're shuttering ongoing studies and have no validated methods of replacing these kinds of experiments with an animal that's only sperated from us by 25 million years.
They're shuttering ongoing studies and have no validated methods of replacing these kinds of experiments with an animal that's only sperated from us by 25 million years.
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Wisconsin Rapids, I’m coming your way. I’ll be at Out of the Box Coffee on Thursday, December 4th.
Let’s hang!
facebook.com/events/12046...
Let’s hang!
facebook.com/events/12046...
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Wisconsin Rapids, I’m coming your way. I’ll be at Out of the Box Coffee on Thursday, December 4th.
Let’s hang!
facebook.com/events/12046...
Let’s hang!
facebook.com/events/12046...
Semafor trying to "Our plans are measured in centuries" meme their way into accepting a murderous oil cartel monarch. My God.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Semafor trying to "Our plans are measured in centuries" meme their way into accepting a murderous oil cartel monarch. My God.
She once criticized a course by "The New Consensus" on how state directed economies created abundance because it used the word 'abundance'. I can't believe people take her seriously.
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
She once criticized a course by "The New Consensus" on how state directed economies created abundance because it used the word 'abundance'. I can't believe people take her seriously.
The urban commons of suburbia?
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The urban commons of suburbia?
Say it with me now.
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Say it with me now.
We're going full "Banana Republic" on this one.
Salazar: "In Congress we've understood that China, we need to bring those jobs back. Maybe to the United States, but maybe near-shoring or rear-shoring. Maybe it's time to bring those jobs to Venezuela and to Chile and to Bolivia and to Central and South America. They happen to be in our back yard."
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We're going full "Banana Republic" on this one.
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Our next Open Our Healthcare Town Hall is going national – and we’re teaming up with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Got a question about the fight for guaranteed healthcare? Comment below.
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Our next Open Our Healthcare Town Hall is going national – and we’re teaming up with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Got a question about the fight for guaranteed healthcare? Comment below.
There's only one good option to replace Pelosi, and it's not Supervisor Chan.
www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
From the sanfrancisco community on Reddit: This is who Connie Chan is.
Explore this post and more from the sanfrancisco community
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November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There's only one good option to replace Pelosi, and it's not Supervisor Chan.
www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
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bring back graphs like this
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
bring back graphs like this
Oh you wanted healthcare? Best we can do is increase paperwork and funnel dumb money into the stock market.
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Oh you wanted healthcare? Best we can do is increase paperwork and funnel dumb money into the stock market.
Me prepping solutions by bapping at the reagent bottle instead of using a scoop.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Me prepping solutions by bapping at the reagent bottle instead of using a scoop.
San Francisco has some unbeatable views.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
San Francisco has some unbeatable views.
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Ok this is really interesting but also 1 big reason for govt to get into low-margin businesses is that private companies may choose locations/business models for them that maximize slim margins but don't maximize people's access to essential goods/services, see also: health care
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Ok this is really interesting but also 1 big reason for govt to get into low-margin businesses is that private companies may choose locations/business models for them that maximize slim margins but don't maximize people's access to essential goods/services, see also: health care
Claiming that populism is "Ackchually" against wonkish ideas is something you say when your main concern is upholding your own intellectual self perception.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Claiming that populism is "Ackchually" against wonkish ideas is something you say when your main concern is upholding your own intellectual self perception.
Sen. Slotkin's comfortability with imperialism abroad is why she can't be our spokesperson against fascism at home.
Sen. Slotkin said today—to my surprise—that she's unaware of any illegal orders *so far*.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wee...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wee...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Sen. Slotkin's comfortability with imperialism abroad is why she can't be our spokesperson against fascism at home.
Hey we know what we're doing out here. Now please excuse me as I drop this 20lb of frozen bird into a pot of boiling oil.
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hey we know what we're doing out here. Now please excuse me as I drop this 20lb of frozen bird into a pot of boiling oil.
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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history channel special interviewing octagenarian burger war vets:
"I was in company B14, they called us the 'quarter pounders', I remember that april, april '44, when we got to the first burger stand in that little french town" (black & white still of mcdonalds surrounded by military half tracks)
"I was in company B14, they called us the 'quarter pounders', I remember that april, april '44, when we got to the first burger stand in that little french town" (black & white still of mcdonalds surrounded by military half tracks)
November 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
history channel special interviewing octagenarian burger war vets:
"I was in company B14, they called us the 'quarter pounders', I remember that april, april '44, when we got to the first burger stand in that little french town" (black & white still of mcdonalds surrounded by military half tracks)
"I was in company B14, they called us the 'quarter pounders', I remember that april, april '44, when we got to the first burger stand in that little french town" (black & white still of mcdonalds surrounded by military half tracks)
What do white over 40 women see in this man???
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What do white over 40 women see in this man???
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"Money can't buy back all that time."
George Bell Served 24 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit. Now He’s Learning to Live Again.
After a quarter century behind bars, he was exonerated for the 1996 crime and received the largest payout ever from New York City. But money can’t buy back all that time.
www.esquire.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Money can't buy back all that time."
The only time I've seen lament over Black voter turnout was Cuomo supporters claiming that younger black voters needed to listen to "their elders" and other weird centrist nonsense based on some imagined claim on our communities political loyalty.
I just read a lament, re: the laborious, nettlesome burden of keeping Black voters motivated to turn out, that the Dem coalition relies “on placating a group that is 13% of the population.”
Just do the math, it went on — which makes one wonder: doesn’t “the math” involve counting to 50? Hello?
Just do the math, it went on — which makes one wonder: doesn’t “the math” involve counting to 50? Hello?
November 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The only time I've seen lament over Black voter turnout was Cuomo supporters claiming that younger black voters needed to listen to "their elders" and other weird centrist nonsense based on some imagined claim on our communities political loyalty.