Jeff Swift
@swyphd.bsky.social
DEI hire, PhD in digital media and democracy. Rural Utahn. Amateur welder.
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Trump & Hegseth are building “safe spaces” for themselves away from real reporters- just like the Kremlin! Read @sbg1 who covered Russia: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump’s Dream Palace of Puffery
The Pentagon’s ban on real journalism looks to be a preview of where the White House is headed.
www.newyorker.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Trump & Hegseth are building “safe spaces” for themselves away from real reporters- just like the Kremlin! Read @sbg1 who covered Russia: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Chicago being Chicago
Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
October 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Chicago being Chicago
Want to know a key hallmark of a weak leader? They invent fake scary problems to get support for their unpopular policies:
✅ Immigrants and refugees
✅ Trans people using bathrooms and playing sports
✅ Books
✅ “Antifa”
✅ Public radio
Every new made up boogeyman is more evidence of their weakness
✅ Immigrants and refugees
✅ Trans people using bathrooms and playing sports
✅ Books
✅ “Antifa”
✅ Public radio
Every new made up boogeyman is more evidence of their weakness
October 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Want to know a key hallmark of a weak leader? They invent fake scary problems to get support for their unpopular policies:
✅ Immigrants and refugees
✅ Trans people using bathrooms and playing sports
✅ Books
✅ “Antifa”
✅ Public radio
Every new made up boogeyman is more evidence of their weakness
✅ Immigrants and refugees
✅ Trans people using bathrooms and playing sports
✅ Books
✅ “Antifa”
✅ Public radio
Every new made up boogeyman is more evidence of their weakness
Portlands protesters showing the rest of us one way to successfully stand up to Trump: treat him like the weak joke he is.
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Portlands protesters showing the rest of us one way to successfully stand up to Trump: treat him like the weak joke he is.
Idolize weak leaders like Putin, Xi, and Erdogan long enough you’re going to start acting like them.
Weak. Scared. Sad.
Weak. Scared. Sad.
New York Attorney General Letitia James’s indictment is a clear example of political retaliation by the Trump administration.
Read our analysis: protectdemocracy.org/work/retalia...
Read our analysis: protectdemocracy.org/work/retalia...
October 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Idolize weak leaders like Putin, Xi, and Erdogan long enough you’re going to start acting like them.
Weak. Scared. Sad.
Weak. Scared. Sad.
Have you heard the one about how trans people are supposedly taking over girls’ sports? Here’s a back-and-forth conversation you can share with people repeating that falsehood/misunderstanding/lie:
jeffswift.medium.com/a-conversati... #trans
jeffswift.medium.com/a-conversati... #trans
A conversation about trans participation in sports
A good faith discussion
jeffswift.medium.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Have you heard the one about how trans people are supposedly taking over girls’ sports? Here’s a back-and-forth conversation you can share with people repeating that falsehood/misunderstanding/lie:
jeffswift.medium.com/a-conversati... #trans
jeffswift.medium.com/a-conversati... #trans
Okay Republicans, let's compromise: we agree to cut Medicaid and just replace it with Medicare for All.
Now will you reopen the government?
Now will you reopen the government?
October 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Okay Republicans, let's compromise: we agree to cut Medicaid and just replace it with Medicare for All.
Now will you reopen the government?
Now will you reopen the government?
When Hasan Piker was commenting on the conversation between @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @aoc.bsky.social yesterday he dropped this gem: "I think paywalling healthcare is one of the most evil things that this administration has actively defended."
That's so good. Paywalling healthcare.
That's so good. Paywalling healthcare.
October 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
When Hasan Piker was commenting on the conversation between @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @aoc.bsky.social yesterday he dropped this gem: "I think paywalling healthcare is one of the most evil things that this administration has actively defended."
That's so good. Paywalling healthcare.
That's so good. Paywalling healthcare.
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Advertisers and data brokers use some pretty shady tactics to track you. Take back your privacy by disabling ad tracking on your phone in a few taps. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... #OptOutOctober
October 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Advertisers and data brokers use some pretty shady tactics to track you. Take back your privacy by disabling ad tracking on your phone in a few taps. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... #OptOutOctober
Politicians can either lead or follow. Leaders are Senators like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Rand Paul. They stand up for what they believe in and use their pulpit to win over supporters. Other Senators are followers. If the winds of change blow to the right, they'll dive right.
October 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Politicians can either lead or follow. Leaders are Senators like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Rand Paul. They stand up for what they believe in and use their pulpit to win over supporters. Other Senators are followers. If the winds of change blow to the right, they'll dive right.
If you’ve ever walked across a street outside the white lines of a legal crosswalk, you’ve broken the law as much as most undocumented immigrants.
US Immigration Policy is All About Money
Cui Bono — who benefits — is the real question
jeffswift.medium.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you’ve ever walked across a street outside the white lines of a legal crosswalk, you’ve broken the law as much as most undocumented immigrants.
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@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social wrote what remains the definitive profile of Russel Vought last year. He's going to try and use the shut down to further his dream of an imperial Christian presidency and "traumatizing" federal workers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The bureaucrat who could make Trump's authoritarian dreams real
Russ Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights.
www.motherjones.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social wrote what remains the definitive profile of Russel Vought last year. He's going to try and use the shut down to further his dream of an imperial Christian presidency and "traumatizing" federal workers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This. The question we have to ask is who benefits from this system? Who makes their money off access to a permanent precarious group of workers forced to live in the shadows and work in abusive conditions and at low wages?
This cuts through one of the biggest lies in immigration debates. Politicians often use “the right way” as a moral cudgel, but the truth is, the system has been intentionally broken for decades—slow-walked by Congress and manipulated for political gain.
October 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This. The question we have to ask is who benefits from this system? Who makes their money off access to a permanent precarious group of workers forced to live in the shadows and work in abusive conditions and at low wages?
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Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.
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Well, I'd like to see ol Zohran Mamdani wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Mamdani wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
*Mamdani wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
October 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Well, I'd like to see ol Zohran Mamdani wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Mamdani wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
*Mamdani wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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LISTEN: So appreciate @leahlitman.bsky.social, @profmmurray.bsky.social, & @kateshaw.bsky.social for allowing NYT columnist @jamellebouie.net & I to join them in a deep dive about the ongoing attempt to derail the promise of the 14th Amendment. Begins at min 57:00. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The Trump Administration's SCOTUS Winning Streak
Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · 09/29/2025 · 1h 59m
podcasts.apple.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
LISTEN: So appreciate @leahlitman.bsky.social, @profmmurray.bsky.social, & @kateshaw.bsky.social for allowing NYT columnist @jamellebouie.net & I to join them in a deep dive about the ongoing attempt to derail the promise of the 14th Amendment. Begins at min 57:00. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
We need fewer political hobbyists and more political actors. We need a way to do more than aggregate individual l actions. We need a way to build collective power. Here’s one idea:
www.canva.com/design/DAGfs...
www.canva.com/design/DAGfs...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
We need fewer political hobbyists and more political actors. We need a way to do more than aggregate individual l actions. We need a way to build collective power. Here’s one idea:
www.canva.com/design/DAGfs...
www.canva.com/design/DAGfs...
@cooperatives.bsky.social I’m looking into starting a cooperative activist group. I’d love any thoughts you might have: www.canva.com/design/DAGfs...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
@cooperatives.bsky.social I’m looking into starting a cooperative activist group. I’d love any thoughts you might have: www.canva.com/design/DAGfs...
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Cooperative Home Care Associates is a unionized worker co-op in NYC that empowers black/brown women with a say and a stake in their workplace. The business pays their workers more than other agencies in the city.
We need more businesses like this to address inequality and empower working people!
We need more businesses like this to address inequality and empower working people!
Cooperative Home Care Associates, a NYC worker co-op, pays workers about 20% more than other agencies in NYC while providing 401(k) plans and health insurance. The co-op offers free training to hundreds of unemployed and low-income women every year, providing tools for their economic empowerment.
About CHCA
Find dedicated, invested home care services in the Bronx. As a worker-owned agency, our caregivers take client care very seriously.
www.chcany.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Cooperative Home Care Associates is a unionized worker co-op in NYC that empowers black/brown women with a say and a stake in their workplace. The business pays their workers more than other agencies in the city.
We need more businesses like this to address inequality and empower working people!
We need more businesses like this to address inequality and empower working people!
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Like Scandinavian...but brown.
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Like Scandinavian...but brown.
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If anyone wants to learn more about socialism as a philosophy without all of the noise and misinformation, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed source and its entry on socialism is straightforward.
Make your own decisions about socialism, don't allow others to make it for you.
Make your own decisions about socialism, don't allow others to make it for you.
Socialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If anyone wants to learn more about socialism as a philosophy without all of the noise and misinformation, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed source and its entry on socialism is straightforward.
Make your own decisions about socialism, don't allow others to make it for you.
Make your own decisions about socialism, don't allow others to make it for you.
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Appreciate your honesty, @utahgop.bsky.social, surprising as it
is, about putting in writing that Republicans are begging for the most rigged and the least competitive map. Embarrassing.
is, about putting in writing that Republicans are begging for the most rigged and the least competitive map. Embarrassing.
October 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Appreciate your honesty, @utahgop.bsky.social, surprising as it
is, about putting in writing that Republicans are begging for the most rigged and the least competitive map. Embarrassing.
is, about putting in writing that Republicans are begging for the most rigged and the least competitive map. Embarrassing.
We need new methods of activism and collective action. What we’ve got hasn’t been working.
Just so we're clear, Americans are GROSSLY underreacting to what's being done to their country right now.
October 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We need new methods of activism and collective action. What we’ve got hasn’t been working.
A big tent party is great, but it should be a big tent we invite everyone in to by showing them we have what they want. This is what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is doing.
A party that stands for nothing isn’t a big tent. It’s an open air free for all.
A party that stands for nothing isn’t a big tent. It’s an open air free for all.
October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A big tent party is great, but it should be a big tent we invite everyone in to by showing them we have what they want. This is what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is doing.
A party that stands for nothing isn’t a big tent. It’s an open air free for all.
A party that stands for nothing isn’t a big tent. It’s an open air free for all.
This. If Dems don’t have Blue Dogs then they’ll never pass a new ACA.
So you’re telling me if we don’t let anti-choice Democrats into the fold we won’t get to pass more Heritage Foundation legislation? Bummer
So you’re telling me if we don’t let anti-choice Democrats into the fold we won’t get to pass more Heritage Foundation legislation? Bummer
The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems.
But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.
But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.
Democrats Are Already “Moderate.” It’s Not Working.
The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.
jacobin.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This. If Dems don’t have Blue Dogs then they’ll never pass a new ACA.
So you’re telling me if we don’t let anti-choice Democrats into the fold we won’t get to pass more Heritage Foundation legislation? Bummer
So you’re telling me if we don’t let anti-choice Democrats into the fold we won’t get to pass more Heritage Foundation legislation? Bummer