Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/09/2025I'm going to try following Governor Cox’s advice to log off, touch grass, hug the people I love, and focus on doing good in my community. So for now, if you want to connect, reach me via phone, text, or email. I'll be spending more time offline. Hit me up in real life to grab coffee or a beer! 040
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/09/2025I disagree with most everything Utah Governor Spencer Cox says, but on one thing we do agree: social media companies are conflict entrepreneurs that have hacked our brains, addicted us to outrage, and turned us against each other, all to generate profit. 121
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/09/2025Worst of all, it's breaking our brains and corroding our humanity. For me, the benefits of social media no longer justify the cost. 120
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/09/2025What's online isn't real life. The algorithms amplify the loudest, most extreme voices because outrage drives engagement (and profit). There's so much fake discourse, with anonymous accounts and bots spinning up disinformation and trying to create alternative realities. 110
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/09/2025I've decided to take a break from social media. I'll leave my accounts active for now, but I'm deleting the apps and choosing to stay away for awhile. 110
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 08/09/2025Related data point: Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the United States. 130
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 28/08/2025There are more guns in the United States than anywhere else and more mass murders, too, so maybe, “How could this happen?” isn’t the right question 🤷♂️ 030
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 25/08/2025I graduated with a degree in mathematics, so I'm pretty good at this stuff. $100 drug. 50% off = $50. 75% off = $25. 90% off = $10. 100% off = $0. The president keeps saying he's going to reduce drug prices by 1500%. Can someone do that math for me? 130
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 15/08/2025For too long, Democrats have defended the rules while Republicans smashed them. It’s time to start fighting fire with fire. This is a great article.nytimes.comHow the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight 050
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 14/08/2025Not the biggest Newsom fan here but this is right on. 010
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Netroots Nation @netrootsnation.bsky.social · 07/08/2025"Are we thermostats or are we thermometers?!" asks @keithellison.bsky.social. Instead of bending to transphobia "it is not a good idea to sell out your base. If you want to redeem yourself come up with a story that is inclusive and doesn't feed into rightwing scapegoating." #NN25youtube.com291_fightingbackYouTube video by Netroots Nation 12810
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈taylr @taylordahlin.com · 18/07/2025ranked choice voting question from aurin chowdhury, asks each candidate say what they admire in each other and why the other 2 should be on our ballots too, starting with dewayne davis on jazz hampton and omar fateh @dewayneforminneapolis.com 111730
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Trump's agenda is getting destroyed among independents 13011
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 02/07/2025This is a must-watch. It’s Mamdani explaining how Democrats can win back voters they’ve lost—and how he pulled it off last week. Tl;dr: Listen to voters, fight for them, and give them something to be FOR, not just talking about what they should be AGAINST. 070
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 01/07/2025This is true, if you don't think poor people count as human beings. 010
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/06/2025I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget 235139243279
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Viktor Orban tried to ban the Budapest Pride parade. He got the biggest one yet. Steve Hendrix reports from the Hungarian capital www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... 151019227
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 28/06/2025Minnesota. Go see Cabaret at the Guthrie before the Administration cancels theater. It’s absolutely chilling. 040
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Adam S. Hersh, Ph.D. @ahecon.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Gross indeed. The Democrats now smearing Mamdani are the same Democrats who did nothing to stop Trump's return to power and are doing nothing now to oppose his rampant corruption and authoritarian power grab. 28710
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 26/06/202516 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 137,000 people in Minnesota. Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it. 021
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 25/06/2025We should be so lucky! (Screenshot from www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...) 010
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world. 375180693
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want. 194175223331
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/06/2025It’s true we don’t have a “vaccine” for HIV, but we *do* have an injectable long-lasting HIV prevention drug that was supported by NIH research dollars and approved by the FDA literally days ago. So stupid to back off on vaccine research when we’ve made so many promising breakthroughs recently. 834874
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for. 10876951618
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 22/06/2025“We’re not members of the factinista. We go straight from the gut.”youtu.beGut feelings - more popular each dayYouTube video by gambelputty 000
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 22/06/2025This is how you speak about God when speaking of God authentically is completely foreign to you. 030
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 19/06/2025“Ideological flexibility,” or what some might call “extreme hypocrisy.” But what else is new. 030
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 19/06/2025I held it together at tonight’s vigil until the brass ensemble from the Minnesota Orchestra started playing Amazing Grace and the crowd spontaneously joined in singing 💔 It was good to be with others tonight, lighting candles, sharing hugs, and petting golden retrievers. 414813
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 18/06/2025This administration is literally in favor of LGBTQ dying. 181
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/06/2025I don’t really know why I’m posting this thread, except to say that I want to be better, and maybe you’re reading this and it resonates with you, too. Join me in working on resisting the horrors of these political times without losing our own humanity? 020
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/06/2025I’m trying to pay attention to how that internal violence becomes contempt, which prevents me from seeing another person’s humanity. The same violence I oppose starts to take hold of me and eats away at my spirit. 120
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/06/2025I’ve been noticing how quickly internal violence creeps into my heart. Usually it’s after reading a headline or quote that makes my blood boil. Which happens pretty much every time I look at my phone. 120
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/06/2025Earlier this year, my pastors attended a Kingian nonviolence training. They came back and began to share new ideas with the congregation, and one Kingian principle has been sitting with me ever since: “Avoid internal violence of spirit as well as external physical violence.” 142
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 15/06/2025This is misinformation. We don’t declare a party when we register to vote here in Minnesota. You should delete this post. 000
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 14/06/2025She never backed off her commitment to us. And for that I will always be grateful. 449981
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Lindsay Bacher @lindsayinmpls.bsky.social · 14/06/2025When I think about Melissa Hortman, I think about this list. Rest in power. 332598
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 14/06/2025Take a few minutes to watch this interview with Republican former Rep. Pat Garofalo as he reflects on the loss of his friend Melissa Hortman. His vulnerability is a reminder of the humanity and compassion we all need to reclaim in our public life. youtu.be/G1LkMsduWMw?...youtu.beMinnesota Rep. Hortman killing: She should be 'celebrated and honored'YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul 032
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 14/06/2025This is a great post capturing the critical role Speaker Hortman played in engineering the 2023 Minnesota miracle. 011
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Two children have lost their mom and dad. A family has lost its daughter. I have lost a dear friend. Minnesota has lost a passionate leader. 11025
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/06/2025Speaker Hortman was a bold and brave leader who made hard decisions and fought for the people of Minnesota every single day. She and her husband Mark did not deserve to die. My heart goes out to their children. 131144337
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 13/06/2025Life is hard! Call someone this afternoon who you know could use it and let them know you care. 010
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 09/06/2025This quote captures the empty Christianity of so Republicans perfectly: “The role of the church – the role of people of faith – is to care for our neighbors. Yes,” said Rep. Isaac Schultz, R-Elmdale Township, during the House floor debate. “But not in this instance, specifically.” 410749
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 07/06/2025We grabbed dinner last night at Taco Taxi and tasty pastries afterward at Panadería San Miguel. 10/10 would recommend. 1282
Reposted by Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈DeWayne Davis @handle.invalid · 05/06/2025It's been a bit over 48 hours since the Federal raid in South, and I'm still struck by the impact that such a large, armed presence has had on our community. Impact matters, especially given the fear that our immigrant communities are facing from this Federal administration. 512434
Javen Swanson 🏳️🌈 @javenswanson.com · 05/06/2025"It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one." Rest in peace, Walter Brueggemann. 000