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Susan Swartz

@beadmomsw.bsky.social
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Mother of Aaron, Noah & Ben. Knitter, spinner, beader, crocheter. NCF 1972 #EqualityForAll #BLM #LGBTQIA #ProChoice #Ukraine 🇮🇱🌊🌈

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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
13 years. RIP my darling boy.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
FYI :“Destruction of federal property is a federal crime. 18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines the crime as willfully injuring or committing any depredation against U.S. government property. If the damage exceeds $1k it is a felony with a fine, up to ten years in prison or both.” Awaiting law enforcement.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251002-...
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You shouldn’t be charged more based on who you are
ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing!
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Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) @boldprogressives.org · 21/07/2025
Over 130K people have already signed the petition telling @cbsnews.com and @paramountpictures.bsky.social "Save the Late Show!" Help us get to 150K. Add your name and share with friends --> act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petit...
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SIGN THE PETITION: Don't Cancel Colbert!
To save Stephen Colbert's voice in our national debate, CBS needs to see public pushback RIGHT AWAY. SIGN THE PETITION TO CBS ON THIS PAGE.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
You know, with his love of all things golden, you’d think 47 would at least be aware of The Golden Rule!
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Penguins Against Trump @penguinsagainstdt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What are you gonna do, deport us? We’ve been dealing with ICE for centuries.
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Joey Blue @jp262.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
In other words, he fully intends to be President for Life and for the White House to be his retirement home. Thanks for nothing to the people who couldn’t take an hour out of their lives to vote!…
NBC News headline screenshot saying Trump won’t rule out running for a third term.
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Yay! Great job Elliott Peters! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
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Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump (Gift Article)
The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.
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Must love 🐶 @rojorurba002.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
As Attorney General, Brad Schimel sued to overturn the #AffordableCareAct and take away healthcare from Wisconsin families. If elected to the WI Supreme Court, we can't trust him to side with Wisconsinites over wealthy insurance and drug companies. Vote for Susan Crawford.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Oy! Felon47 is “authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL.” As if things weren’t already bad enough!
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This woman needs to be fired immediately!
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Seems important!
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
www.artnews.com/list/art-new... Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz, Image Atlas, 2012
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Defending Works Left on the Cutting Room Floor of Our ‘Best Artworks of the 21st Century’ List
See the editors of ARTnews and Art in America's picks for what missed our list of the best artworks of the 21st century.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is great! youtu.be/8peiLVFsLdw
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We Will Survive
YouTube video by Jesse McFaul
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Unbelievable!
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/02/2025
i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
A full audit of DNC consulting contracts will begin on Day One if I’m chair. If you donate to Democrats, you should trust that your money will be spent in a way that reflects our values and path to victory. Let’s inspire millions to chip in by fighting to win and ending grift.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
So true.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
12 years. RIP my darling boy.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I know he has no conscience and probably no soul, but do you think sometimes, lying all alone late at night, he might think to himself, “I can’t believe I got away with that?”
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
(Moving my memorials over here from X) 11 years, 11 months. RIP my darling boy.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just received 3 emails from Vimeo On Demand stating that “The Internet’s Own Boy—The Story of Aaron Swartz” Is being removed from Vimeo On Demand. I would like to assume that it will still be available for free on YouTube, but don’t know for sure.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yes, he can! (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...
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Opinion | If Anyone Can Save the Democrats, It’s Ben Wikler (Gift Article)
This Wisconsinite is the obvious choice for D.N.C. chair.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
@noahkahan made the @nytimes.com! (In an oblique way): (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
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Noah Kahan’s Family Is Helping Lead an Effort to Save a Store in His Vermont Hometown (Gift Article)
The hit singer Noah Kahan grew up frequenting Coburns’ General Store and has called it “the heart” of his hometown. His mother is helping lead an effort to save it.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/11/2024
If you voted for a billionaire you’re not on the side of the working class you dumb fuck.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Excited for @benwikler.bsky.social !!! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/u...
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Who Might Be the Next Chair of the Democratic Party? (Gift Article)
The current leader of the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison, won’t seek re-election. His successor will need to revive a distressed party.
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Jen Rubin (WaPo) makes a pitch for WI Dem Party chair Ben Wikler as DNC chair. “I know of no other contender who has mastered online communication and organizing, and who can enlist influencers to reach apolitical voters, all critical tasks among the many necessary to innovate a moribund party.”
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners. I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette. Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
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BlueSky for Beginners
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This entire new administration is a joke…and not a good one.
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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 🔜 NFC @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
What makes Bluesky better : the timeline does NOT Auto-refresh!
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Matt Gaetz as AG!? IS THIS A JOKE?!
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Susan Swartz @beadmomsw.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
We’re releasing the files for O’Reilly’s Open Government book
A #PDFtribute to Aaron Swartz.

by Laurel Ruma | @laurelatoreilly | +Laurel Ruma | January 18, 2013
I’ve read many eloquent eulogies from people who knew Aaron Swartz better than I did, but he was also a Foo and contributor to Open Government. So, we’re doing our part at O’Reilly Media to honor Aaron by posting the Open Government book files for free for anyone to download, read and share.

The files are posted on the O’Reilly Media GitHub account as PDF, Mobi, and EPUB files for now. There is a movement on the Internet (#PDFtribute) to memorialize Aaron by posting research and other material for the world to access, and we’re glad to be able to do this.
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DontMakeMoi @dontmakemoi.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
I'll never forget Carl Malamud's powerful eulogy of Aaron. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VllJ...
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Aaron Swartz Memorial - Carl Malamud
Carl Malamud - Public.Resource.Org
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
RIP Aaron Swartz who as programmer helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons; and the Markdown format. "When he tried to liberate data from an academic website, US authorities responded with $1m fine and 35 years in jail. Then he took his own life."
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Aaron Swartz: hacker, genius… martyr?
Aaron Swartz campaigned for a free and open internet. But after he fell foul of US authorities, he took his own life. His former girlfriend tells Elizabeth Day of her anger at his treatment
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Whenever I download a free article from JSTOR, I think about all the people who tried to throw Aaron Swartz into prison for decades for trying to make JSTOR content free.
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CivicsNotCynics @handle.invalid · 16/02/2024
If you haven't learned about the life of Aaron Swartz, *what are you doing?* Everybody needs to know this story
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz : Brian Knappenberger : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews...
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💉💉💉Kumara📎Republic↙️↙️↙️ @kumararepublic.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
To name just a few: Cory Doctorow CGP Grey Nick Hanauer Jaron Lanier Thomas Piketty Dan Price Aaron Swartz Vivek Wadhwa
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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
Screenshot of article text: “Brown’s work brought him into contact with many of the transparency movement’s leading lights. With Aaron Swartz, Brown investigated “persona management” programs that they said would allow government agencies to operate hordes of fake identities on social platforms; this was years before “bots” became the subject of public concern. With national-security reporter Michael Hastings, he developed a pipeline into mainstream media, helping get Anonymous stories in front of readers of publications like BuzzFeed. “He had a curiosity in what people were doing,” says Maggie Mayhem, an activist for sex-worker rights and reproductive justice. ‘He was able to curate just a fascinating network of people.’”
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Aaron Swartz would not be pleased.
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Dave Lauer @dlauer.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Ok this is so fucked up - every article about Reddit's IPO lists Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman as the co-founders, completely ignoring the fact that Aaron Swartz was a co-founder. NPR has no excuse here either: www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Anonsee Storyweaver 🕸️ @anons.ee · 27/02/2024
“JSTOR is now available free of charge in 1,000 correctional facilities worldwide, benefiting more than 500,000 incarcerated individuals.” Holy shit given that a lot of prisons refuse to let prisoners access a lot of books/materials, this is fucking amazing about.jstor.org/news/jstor-a...
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News

JSTOR is now available in 1,000 prisons
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
remember when aaron swartz was convicted of 35 yrs in prison and $1M in fines for downloading JSTOR articles under a guest MIT email and the refusal on behalf of the prosecution to consider any type of agreement caused him to take his own life bc i do. all this information should be free.
announcement from JSTOR: JSTOR is now available in 1,000 prisons.
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