Jeff Swift
@swyphd.bsky.social
DEI hire, PhD in digital media and democracy. Rural Utahn. Amateur welder.
“Trans people don’t transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and to be ourselves,” Ms Thomas told Good Morning America. “Transition to get an advantage is not something that factors into our decisions.”
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“Trans people don’t transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and to be ourselves,” Ms Thomas told Good Morning America. “Transition to get an advantage is not something that factors into our decisions.”
“iIs there any evidence that people are transitioning in order to win? Like, is there a pipeline of teenage boys going through HRT and dominating women’s collegiate sports just to take home a trophy a couple times?”
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“iIs there any evidence that people are transitioning in order to win? Like, is there a pipeline of teenage boys going through HRT and dominating women’s collegiate sports just to take home a trophy a couple times?”
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.
If we get rid of birthright citizenship, that means we've either got to only apply it moving forward, or we've got to trace it all the way back, right?
Anyone who was born in America ever to two people who weren't citizens of America. So the USA turns into a nation with no citizens.
Anyone who was born in America ever to two people who weren't citizens of America. So the USA turns into a nation with no citizens.
February 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If we get rid of birthright citizenship, that means we've either got to only apply it moving forward, or we've got to trace it all the way back, right?
Anyone who was born in America ever to two people who weren't citizens of America. So the USA turns into a nation with no citizens.
Anyone who was born in America ever to two people who weren't citizens of America. So the USA turns into a nation with no citizens.
Mass deportation is bad policy for so many reasons. It is morally reprehensible and also logically baseless. But it's not even good at what it claims to do, which is law and order:
open.substack.com/pub/jeffreys...
open.substack.com/pub/jeffreys...
February 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Mass deportation is bad policy for so many reasons. It is morally reprehensible and also logically baseless. But it's not even good at what it claims to do, which is law and order:
open.substack.com/pub/jeffreys...
open.substack.com/pub/jeffreys...
Now flip to page 238 in your textbooks to the section about when the world’s richest man took some computers into the US treasury building and single-handedly destroyed an incredibly efficient and well loved international agency just to silence an investigation into one of his many corporations.
February 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Now flip to page 238 in your textbooks to the section about when the world’s richest man took some computers into the US treasury building and single-handedly destroyed an incredibly efficient and well loved international agency just to silence an investigation into one of his many corporations.
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power, Jane McAlevey
January 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power, Jane McAlevey
People Power Change, Marshall Ganz
January 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
People Power Change, Marshall Ganz
Rules for Revolutionaries, Becky Bond and Zach Exley
January 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Rules for Revolutionaries, Becky Bond and Zach Exley
How Organizations Develop Activists, @hahrie.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
How Organizations Develop Activists, @hahrie.bsky.social
Politics is for Power, Eitan Hersh
January 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Politics is for Power, Eitan Hersh
Books that provide a roadmap for resistance and building community power. A thread:
Small Acts of Resistance, Steve Crenshaw and John Jackson.
Small Acts of Resistance, Steve Crenshaw and John Jackson.
January 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Books that provide a roadmap for resistance and building community power. A thread:
Small Acts of Resistance, Steve Crenshaw and John Jackson.
Small Acts of Resistance, Steve Crenshaw and John Jackson.
I wrote this to address the inaccurate claim that under Biden the border wasn’t “secure.”
open.substack.com/pub/jeffreys...
#immigration #deportations #securetheborder
open.substack.com/pub/jeffreys...
#immigration #deportations #securetheborder
January 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I wrote this to address the inaccurate claim that under Biden the border wasn’t “secure.”
open.substack.com/pub/jeffreys...
#immigration #deportations #securetheborder
open.substack.com/pub/jeffreys...
#immigration #deportations #securetheborder
Why are we okay with workplace dictatorships? Shouldn’t democracy extend to the place workers spend most of their waking hours?
January 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Why are we okay with workplace dictatorships? Shouldn’t democracy extend to the place workers spend most of their waking hours?