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Owen

@owen-swallow.bsky.social
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Writer at Colorado Times Recorder

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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
... like the book or the recent animated adaptation because that changes what that "..." means by a significant amount
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anyway there have been major breakthroughs in agrivoltaic and green energy integration recently that's cool ig
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I've been thinking a lot about how the systems of #surveillance we have are emerging. At one point, it would've been inconceivable that we'd see people justifying our newfound lack of privacy. #ai #flock #surveillance
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A Next Stage of a Surveillance State
The rise of AI-assisted security cameras as an apparatus of law enforcement leads to the direct infringement of our civil rights
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fr can we not talk crap on Rocky Horror? I think people don't understand how revolutionary it was to depict a "cross-dresser" on screen at the time and it was the queer awakening for many a trans person of that generation before we really had the terminology we do today
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
sorry if I seem weird and intense now, it’s because I’m now weird and intense
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
American politics is strange is all imma say
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
thecontinentaldivide.substack.com/p/scientific...
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Scientific Data Does Not Back the Stances of Those Opposed to Transgender Healthcare
No matter how many times anti-gender activists try to claim it
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anyway, I'm looking into slum landlords in the East Denver metro area. Anyone got some info to dish? I'm writing w the Sentinel Colorado and we are covering the state of low income housing in Aurora specifically. Hit me up! #Denver #Colorado #Aurora
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Is that Jeff Hunt from the "hit radio show" Jeff and Bill ? The one whose audience is solely people who agree with them? Who would have thought these propagandists would take issue w people criticizing their preferred candidate 🫠
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm on day whatever of asking Americans to stop treating politics like stan culture
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Bro...
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There's a scene in the first season of The Great where Aunt Elizabeth stops a carriage and gets out and screams after seeing russian soldiers dying on the battlefield and there are times when I look at the news when that is like... my base reaction
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Two tweets from Twitter user in which they call for a boycott of The Odyssey and then follow it up with a tweet two weeks later in which they say: “nvm it was a good movie.”
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Elizabeth Dunaway @lizdunaway.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The wonderful @margaret.bsky.social carved herself a little nook in a local B&N I visited recently. It was lovely to see. Also finally got myself Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, which will be nice
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My dumb ass heard "Nancy Grace Roman Telescope" and for some reason thought it was the Nancy Grace telescope Like I really thought "Nancy Grace wasn't Roman... and why are we naming telescopes after her" ... Nancy Roman was a nasa scientist -_-
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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 16/07/2026
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Hudson Town Hall during Wednesday’s Town Council meeting to oppose a plan to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Hudson, which is located about 30 minutes northeast of Denver.
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'Moral Stain:' Community Members Urge Rural Town Council To Oppose ICE Jail
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Hudson Town Hall during Wednesday’s Town Council meeting to oppose a plan to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Huds...
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Agreed
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You will find no argument w me, I feel your pain
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Oh you seem to be misinterpreting my point, it's not that these fundamentalists are "normal", but they are, unfortunately, a reality in many parts of this country We can push towards tolerance and I am firmly aware of the paradox, but me not liking fundamentalists won't change they fact they exist
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I don't mean to "um actually", but I have 100% met religious conservatives who are so fundamentalist that they think this is also the devil's work
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Not to be dramatic, but I'd die for Truman
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I'm pissed off, anyway, read my substack
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When the Government Decides Speech is a Crime
The harsh and blatantly politically motivated sentencing of protestors in Texas marks a new era of democratic backsliding
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
As a freelance journalist and aspiring career journalist, I really appreciate you taking the time and trusting your audience enough on this
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Happy pride to the super bisexuals
Fox News segment with Supergirl movie clip labeled super bisexual. Subtitle says: supergirl movie desperate to keep Hollywood woke.
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#rainbowcapitalism
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The Rise and Fall of Rainbow Capitalism
The danger isn't that corporations never cared.
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Pretends to be shocked
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It creates the appearance that news outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, etc. have it out for Platner. The level of media scrutiny he had experienced is almost to level of a presidential candidate which is unusual at this stage
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EditorDavePerry @editordaveperry.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
'The interpretation that we have as a community is that the courts will use anything they can to ensure that the system does not afford accountability when there is a Black life involved' sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora... #AuroraCO #ElijahMcClain #PoliceReform #COpolitics
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Aurora Black community leaders demand city reaffirm's convictions in Elijah McClain case - Sentinel Colorado
"The interpretation that we have as a community is that the courts will use anything they can to ensure that the system does not afford accountability when there is a Black life involved."
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Considering that my feed has been overrun by Platner-based commentary, I thought I would deliver my own two-cents.
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Some thoughts I've been mulling over for the past week #americanpolitics #leftist #substack
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Blue Hairs and Bible Thumpers: The Time Honored Tradition of Political Caricaturization
Recently, New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart appeared at a Trump rally, and immediately after, a fake quote began to circulate.
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"We come to this place to loff, to cayr..."
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Like you think Spencer Pratt knows anything about how to reduce homelessness, poverty, or crisis intervention???? No, his pampered ass has been making money off our dwindling attention spans up in Beverly Hills since 2005
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"But this reality TV star who's job is to... sort of be problematic on trash TV said if we round up all the homeless we'd fix LA" shut up
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I am BEGGING conservatives and Americans more broadly to stop making your parasocial relationship with reality TV hacks everyone else's problem
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I wanted to insert my thoughts on the conversation around "advocacy journalism"
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Beyond Neutral
The politics of newsroom credibility and the lesson that legacy media still needs to learn
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Aurora Schools will be adopting new cell phone-free policy for middle schools, considering options high school
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HOLD THE PHONE: Aurora schools scrolling through student phone policies - Sentinel Colorado
"My students are more engaged and enabled to access learning without distraction."
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Am I now allowed to stay that pokemon legends ZA was bad?
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
You can tell when someone processing your CORA/FOIA request doesn't want to give you the information because they keep finding increasingly nonsensical reasons as to why it's taking longer
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The Sentinel in Aurora @sentinelcolorado.com · 22/04/2026
State panel OKs fracking near Aurora Reservoir despite staunch resident opposition 'Stay assured, however, that 350 Colorado will continue to work to stop the expansion of fracking in our Colorado' sbee.link/tqgbfvcu8r #Fracking #AuroraCO #NoPaywall #OilandGas
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State panel OKs fracking near Aurora Reservoir despite staunch resident opposition - Sentinel Colorado
Opponents of the plan said they would meet this week to decide what if any further action they would take to prevent the project
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
So which is it, can states regulate what types of treatment are legal even or not Supreme Court, I beg you to not make conflicting arguments based purely on ideology
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Noah @incontrastfilms.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
www.westword.com/arts-culture... @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social
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Alamo Drafthouse Push for QR Code-Ordering System Pushes Union Buttons
"This change is not a change that we enjoy or that we want...we understand the frustration."
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Look, I'm just tired of watching people get gunned down by police and them never facing any repercussions
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15/09/2025
so ICE murdered a father in cold blood from a routine traffic stop, we're murdering random Venezuelans in foreign waters, we're shackling S. Koreans for building the factories we need to keep the southern economy alive, and we have a majority party trying to tie passport status to political views
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"Kassaw touted that the Aurora facility employed a number of immigrants, like himself. However, Kassaw refused to speak to any of the numerous allegations of human rights abuses at the facility and by GEO Group on the whole." @coloradotimesrecorder.com
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Aurora City Councillor Says He's Proud to Work for Private Prison Group That Runs ICE Facility
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Aurora has long been a source of tension in the community. Recently, members of Colorado’s congressional delegation uncovered t...
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
And the kicker here, Third Way's philosophy of centrism is just as volatile a political tactic, McCaskill lost her seat, Tester his seat, Peltola, Tim Ryan, Shalala, I can go on and on If it was centrism that appealed to people, the far-right wouldn't be winning elections, but they are
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Democrats can listen to Third Way at their own peril, no amount of "appealing to the center" will get through to the people you think it will "Don't use "LGBTQ+", next you're going to say drop the T, which some democrats already are
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"We have to be careful about using grad school-ish language around voters" just sounds like a way of saying "we can't use big words around the poors"
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
If you think that using the term "food insecurity" or "lgbtqia" is what turned off "centrists" then I have news for you, they were never centrists and no they were not people who were reachable You can argue about democrats inability to do effective messaging, but get real
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Owen @owen-swallow.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Aurora City Councilor Amsalu Kassaw, who works for GEO Group which runs the #ICE detention center in Aurora, told me that he was proud that GEO treated inmates with dignity and respect. However, he declined to comment on the deaths at the facility attributed to neglect @coloradotimesrecorder.com
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