Reposted by Emmett SwaratBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Republicans pulled an all-nighter to: -strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans -take food assistance away from 3 million Americans -eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids -send energy costs soaring -add $3.3 trillion to national debt -raise health care premiums for seniors 29659182376 5.9K
Reposted by Emmett SwaratMark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 22/06/2025What am I worried about? -Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East -cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration) -Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs) -Allied assistance (we’ll need that now) -Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI) 43189782641 9K
Reposted by Emmett SwaratIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally? 481144593518 14.5K
Reposted by Emmett Swaratjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...apnews.comThe Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fallThe Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ... 546192896917 19.3K
Reposted by Emmett SwaratShek @dameshek.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Brock Purdy is good at playing QB like Brock Purdy...but not every good QB should be asked to play like Brock Purdy. youtube.com/watch?v=jbZM... 083 8
Reposted by Emmett SwaratMachine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 19/04/2025We could have been talking about $25K down payment assistance for new homeowners in a thriving economy right now, but here we are. 342159343146 15.9K
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Reposted by Emmett SwaratAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025List of countries not subjected to tariffs: Russia Belarus North Korea Cuba They apparently took the time to impose tariffs on several uninhabited islands, so the omissions are extra noteworthy. If you spot others please flag! 303104703707 10.5K
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Emmett Swarat @emmettswarat.bsky.social · 02/04/2025media.tenor.coma man wearing a yellow nike shirt says that 's what we like to seeALT: a man wearing a yellow nike shirt says that 's what we like to see 020 2
Reposted by Emmett SwaratIan Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Officially official.azcardinals.comCardinals Bring Back Calais CampbellVeteran lineman returns to team that drafted him 41669 166
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Emmett Swarat @emmettswarat.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Watching the A’s broadcast makes me appreciate Kruk, Kuip, Fleming, Miller, and Pence soooooo much more. 010 1
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Reposted by Emmett SwaratElliott Lusztig @elliottlusztig.bsky.social · 30/03/2025This is what happened with Medvedev and Putin. I'm sure that example is pure coincidence... 22510 25
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Reposted by Emmett Swaratutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 29/03/2025This week: - social security website is down - admin is mass emailing demands for self deportation after scanning social media and detecting political activity - admin is destroying all upper edu funding as we know it - threatening Greenland & Canada - black-bagging legal residents - bombing Yemen 401193314 1.2K
Reposted by Emmett SwaratGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I know I shouldn't be surprised but it is incredible how swiftly abortion was pushed out of the political conversation the minute the election was over 2476466992 6.5K
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Reposted by Emmett SwaratBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025The Trump administration is preparing to fire every single worker at the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.cbsnews.comRFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources sayMuch of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy. 34629091114 2.9K
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Reposted by Emmett SwaratWIRED @wired.com · 26/03/2025SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.wired.comMike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List PublicA WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it. 1021246748605 24.7K
Reposted by Emmett SwaratThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/03/2025It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration. 15463518213074 35.2K
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Reposted by Emmett SwaratProPublica @propublica.org · 26/03/2025ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen. By @vernalcoleman.bsky.socialpropub.liUnder Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal BoundariesConfrontations with judges are grabbing attention, but more quietly a pattern of questionable arrests shows the extent to which the administration is willing to test norms and laws. 50883410 883
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Reposted by Emmett SwaratThe Real Truther @therealtruther.bsky.social · 26/03/2025BREAKING: Anti-vaccine researcher David Geier has been chosen by RFK, Jr. to lead the government study on vaccines & autism. Both Geier & his father have have published papers claiming vaccines increase risk of autism. Geier was charged for practicing medicine without a license in May 2011.washingtonpost.comVaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autismA long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism. 41404148 404
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