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Rich Swinton

@ricosuavejd.bsky.social
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Here for the politics. Staying for the nicer vibes. I'm very crass.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10h
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3h
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 1h
Speechless.
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Joan McRobbie @joanmcrobbie.bsky.social · 2h
@normornstein.bsky.social warns that once Dems win they have to act fast or face backlash from the base. His list of priorities is excellent.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h
Michael Tracey actually staking out a pro-Epstein position (and this is far from the only recent example) is a sign the screenwriters are getting lazy.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 6h
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h
The Washington Post editorial page is now indistinguishable from a garbage right wing blog. Right down to the shitty writing. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | The Supreme Court takes up climate change — and much more
Colorado cannot be allowed to govern emissions in every other state.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h
Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 3h
We can't secure a fucking RAF airfield some sabotage teams? Sounds like Russian levels of incompetency.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 3h
This is essential. But has everyone in DC forgotten that Trump has a veto for the next two years? That word does not appear here once. The next two years have to be about getting everything lined up for 2029. And not overpromising deliverables in the meantime. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s opponents are planning efforts to reverse his changes to presidency
As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
This is now a standard part of Trump's campaign stump, a direct threat to voters: if you elect Democrats, I won't send you FEMA money, and I may take away your Medicare and Medicaid, too. These transcripts will be useful for litigation to follow.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18h
It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”
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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 10h
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 6h
They can't let go of Texas. It's completely demoralizing.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
He’s never going to give this one up, even if the Trump regime claims they got everything they wanted.
Trump’s Truth Social account posts a n image id himself peering over some mountains with the words: Hello, Greenland!
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 11h
This trucker didn't do right by him because he knowingly voted for the people that said they'd do this
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h
Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h
AP: The Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested a 20-year-old US Marine stationed at the Futenma Air Station on suspicion of killing a 39-year-old local woman at a hotel in Naha, Okinawa’s capital city, and taking her wallet and backpack in the early hours of Saturday.
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 13h
😂 Really leaning into her Ivanka phase.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h
The talking points have been handed down from the White House to paint the bad polling numbers as a psyop.
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 14h
A good example of how these guys are idiots but they just press what they believe (or might be paid to believe) Ending it with "Right" is such loser nonsense
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14h
Oh hell yes directly into my veins.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h
The shorter Kushner: you're wasting your time with all these exposés about my dealings with the Russians, Serbians, Albanians, Bosnians, Saudis, Emiratis and Qataris. I can do as I like, and I can evoke the power and authority of the US when I do it. I will never face accountability. In fact, I
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 14h
He tells himself this to justify all the terrible garbage he allows
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 17h
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The community note says it all.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Doxxing your most racist loyalist because you missed Hannity because you thought it was 8 but it was actually 9.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I watched this ad and it’s amazing. Doesn’t even use his name. The very clear almost explicit subtext is: my dudes, if I can suck it up and vote for this lying sack of shit, you can too, okay?
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thegrovedigger.bsky.social @thegrovedigger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump, the Epstein president, is disappearing kids. Republicans in Congress pay for it with our money, our taxes.
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Oatsie @alexcsinger86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine if President Obama had flown around the country with a substitute wife because Michelle hated his guts. The media would have filed impeachment papers themselves
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
imagine this being Keitel's last film and final legacy
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
Trump: My Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premium ... This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless 'Slush Fund' that has only been used by Dumocrats ... "
Trump: "I am pleased to announce that my Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, which we have already reduced by significant amounts. This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless 'Slush Fund' that has only been used by Dumocrats in Congress to pay for the Waste, Fraud, and Abuse for their Special Interest friends, and drive up Healthcare costs. We are finally using this Fund, along with my Most Favored Nations Deals, to substantially LOWER costs for our Seniors. I pledged to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security, which were on the verge of RUIN by Joe Biden, who foolishly and maliciously let tens of millions of Illegal Aliens into our Country, and we are doing just that for America’s Seniors. This is separate from the equally substantial Refund 'Checks' we are sending to One Million Americans who were overcharged for their Unaffordable Care Act plans by Joe Biden.

Because I delivered on this very important issue for the American People, they can also rest assured the highly popular $5,000 Trump Dividend will be distributed to every U.S. Citizen if, and when, the Republicans win the Midterm Elections! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ouch.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/10/2026
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Trump diverts Ukraine aid to authoritarian countries in Latin America
Trump has repeatedly acted to boost like-minded and authoritarian leaders across Latin America using funds allocated for the European defense against Putin
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
reporter basically asked him: do you have any morals And Durant just was like: Me? Nah
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maine voters: I enjoy getting absolutely WRECKED
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Read this thread
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
The Holei Sea Arch at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park collapsed into the ocean around the same time a tropical storm hit the Big Island in September, the National Park Service said.
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The Holei Sea Arch, a Centuries-Old Hawaii Wonder, Crumbles Into the Pacific
A tropical storm was moving through the area when the 90-foot lava rock formation disintegrated, the National Park Service said.
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 02/10/2026
“Remigration Report” look these guys are all nazis
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Got a weird one for you guys tonight www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon's fans erect 50-foot statue outside his company town
A studio promising "art so epic it will raise the birthrate" gifted a huge bronze Prometheus to Musk's Starbase.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So much is just so wrong.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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