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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I kind of think that the current generation of F1 cars have not been adequately tested in wet conditions.

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear Maine Democrats -- Here's your new commercial. You're welcome.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just picked all the apples from our trees before the nor'easter picks them for me. I guess I will make pie.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have updated both the manuscript and the Source Register to incorporate the Dallas loyalty oath. theleveragebook.net/register/ youtu.be/Mqo71euxd_4?...

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Trump Makes Convention Attendees Take Voting Pledge | WSJ News

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Michael Cohen, timing, and why I have chosen to publish independently open.substack.com/pub/thelever...

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Michael Cohen, timing, and why I have chosen to publish independently

The Leverage is a novel.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

THE LEVERAGE is a speculative political thriller about the quietest institution in American politics — from Hoover's files to Epstein's cameras, and the operator running today's version from inside the government. Research and excerpts on my Substack: read.theleveragebook.net?r=8js2rj&utm...

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The Leverage's Substack | Substack

Notes, schedules, and information about my forthcoming novel The Leverage. Click to read The Leverage's Substack, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Mr. Trump announced in December that he expected two of the ships to be constructed over the next two and a half years." Tell me you know nothing about shipbuilding. It take 6 years to build an Arleigh Burke and they've already built about 75 of them. Yay BIW. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

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Cost of Trump’s Namesake Warships Likely to Rise by 50 Percent or More

President Trump’s goal of building a “golden fleet” of 15 battleships could cost $275 billion, according to a government estimate.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm not sure why everyone is all bent out of shape about Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy and no one is saying anything about Zendaya as Athena. Helen of Troy and Athena are half sisters with unusual birth stories (Zeus is the father of both). Zeus clearly does not father white children.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy Little Round Top day! Bayonets!

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So are school districts going to hire genital inspectors for high school athletes?

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

What I really don’t get reading Thomas and Gorsuch dissent is how dual citizenship is permitted (like 4 of 5 of Trump's children and two of his three spouses)..

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

How the fuck was the 14th amendment a 5-4 vote? Time to read the dissents. Also, as a Maine resident, fuck Susan Collins.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Warsh is really truly fucked. Why does ANYONE accept a job in this administration? The really boggling one is Markwayne Mullin who gave a up a super safe senate seat that he could hold for 30 years for a job that he'll likely get fired from in 18 months.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In other news, some of the blondes on Fox News are not real blondes.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A lot of Christians in Texas are now going to have to decide if being Christian is more important than being Republicans. This will be interesting. The debates will be insane.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/05/2026

shoutout to jared polis

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hunter Biden was prosecuted under the Biden administration. Would Hunter be eligible? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Consider $1.7 Billion Fund to Compensate Allies

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hey, look over here instead! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

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Pentagon Releases Files on U.F.O.s

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Janet Mills just dropped out of the Maine senate primary.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The 25th amendment commission is a clever way to get around the idea that the cabinet won't try and remove him. But either way, to make it stick, the 25th amendment needs 67% of both the house and the senate to confirm it. Otherwise the president just writes a letter and he is back in office.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Is Trump setting the stage to force the NFL to allow him to buy an NFL team? He has tried repeatedly to buy an NFL team and the league has always rebuffed him. Is he now using the DOJ to give him the leverage of an antitrust case? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The fact that the ballroom is being built with donations (cash and in kind) makes it 100X worse. It is just straight up patronage now. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

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White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Art of the Deal? The Iranians just ate him for breakfast.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's snowing in midcoast Maine. Dear mother nature... Fuck off, we're done.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Is it odd that a colonel was flying as a WSO on a combat mission?

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This photo reminds me of both 9/11 and a scene from the movie Airplane.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Watching Ollie North sitting on TV talking about how the Iranians should not have missiles after Ollie North sold the Iranians missiles for years... I look forward to the return of irony.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I bet he heckles the justices.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The fact that the ballroom is privately funded makes it vastly worse. It makes overt a patronage system in the United States.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The edge cases here are difficult. Let's say the prompt given to AI is "make a naked image of a sexual nature of an 18 year old woman who has underdeveloped secondary sexual characteristics". Is that child porn? It's creation overtly defines it as not. But it is likely indistinguishable from porn

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In the history of the world a government demanding a list of Jews has never gone wrong. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

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Judge Is Skeptical of Penn’s Argument Against Trump Demand for List of Jews

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

If the Iranian military has the opportunity to wipe out a 3,500 person MEU at the cost of losing 50,000 of their own soldiers, they would do it in a hot second. Winning a ground war against an enemy who is willing to take significant casualties is exactly the recipe for quagmire.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It is really ironic that bombing the Isfahan Mountain complex last year has made it monumentally more difficult for a special operations team to go into Iran and capture their Uranium now.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A bunch of ICE agents who are getting paid while standing around the airport looking at long lines and watching TSA agents work, but not get paid, is pretty much the Trump presidency in a nutshell. The TSA people must be thrilled about all this.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“Tom Homan is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Well, after all, Mexico paid for the wall...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Lawyers for accused DNC/RNC pipe-bomb planter Brian Cole Jr. move to dismiss charges against him, saying his alleged conduct night before Jan. 6 should be covered by Trump's pardon of crimes "related to" events at Capitol the next day. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Man charged with planting bombs near the Capitol claims he’s covered by Trump pardon

Attorneys for Brian Cole Jr. argue he’s included in the broad clemency president granted for Jan. 6-related offenses.

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Erik @erikschwartz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Or maybe he's just bullshitting and making up stories. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

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Trump Claims an Ex-President Confided His Regrets on Iran. But Who?

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