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USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author. Dog dad. Professional napper. Bottled at the source. www.robertswartwood.com

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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 3h
Jeez, you know how I'm getting close to finishing this new book? Just wrote 2,700 words in a single sitting. LET'S GET THIS MOTHER DONE!
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 10h
Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h
The immutable, unnamed American law of The Dumbest Thing That Can Happen Will Happen dictates that the Democrats will win the House handily, as projected, and take the Senate 51-49, making John Fetterman the most powerful flesh husk in America for the next 24 months.
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 10h
Excellent
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'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed' Renewed For Season 2 By Apple TV
Apple TV announced Wednesday that it has renewed dark comedy thriller 'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed' for a second season.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12h
Fox News has given less than 2 minutes of airtime to Monday's report that Ken Paxton had partied overseas with two fugitives from U.S. justice amid their multi-day fixation on James Talarico’s temporary absence from the campaign trail due to illness. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News: Where Ken Paxton partying with fugitives is much less interesting than James Talarico getting the flu
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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 12h
The first sentence, on its own, would be a great headline. The second sentence somehow makes the story sound boring.
NYT headline: "A TikTok Tarot Card Reader Accused Me of Murder. My Life Turned Upside Down."
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13h
Very revealing moment for the press here. The unstated premise of this question is they cannot understand how Democrats are different from Republicans. That Democrats are capable of abstract, critical thought, and Republicans just use their mouths to reflexively echo.
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 13h
This is witch hunt shit. We're just running anything by a Black author we don't like through AI until we get a hit and then not even bothering to investigate if it's a false positive, just running straight to @theatlantic.com This kind of behavior is more destructive to literature than AI itself.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14h
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The Good Place: Jason Mendoza's Bad Place Realization
Alt: The Good Place: Jason Mendoza's Bad Place Realization
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h
ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah, heartbreaking. Had no idea he was robbed by his tax guy - I don't know how often this happens to celebrities but it seems to be a lot!
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 16h
This is mad. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h
theonion.com/man-who-drin...
Business Insider: AI
Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancerThe Onion in 2013: Man Who Drinks 5 Diet Cokes Per Day Hoping Doctors Working On Cure For Whatever He’s Getting
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17h
Seems Musk is helping Putin, too.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19h
Hi there is currently no ethical way to use genAI. Hope this helps.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
mike collins just said in the debate that america has great health care and it will get even better with AI 🤡
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Group cheered as woman was sexually assaulted at University of Chicago frat house, police report says. From @sophiesherry.bsky.social and Rosemary Sobol, via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/1...
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Group cheered as woman was sexually assaulted at University of Chicago frat house, police report says
The 21-year-old woman told police the assault happened during a party at the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, according to the report. Her account was backed up by two friends, who stated they intervened by ba...
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
But —
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/10/2026
The Vatican says surgery confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer and the lower lobe of his right lung was removed.
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Vatican says the pope has lung cancer and the lower lobe of his right lung was removed
Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer and had the lower lobe of his right lung removed, the Vatican announced Tuesday. The surgery confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma.
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And, no lie, the special where Theo had his meltdown is called … I’M DOING FINE
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It does appear the "data center eliminated Nazi and otherwise fuckface bots" narrative is basically wishcasting, it does show you how popular getting rid of this shit would broadly be, and that maybe a smart person should run on it.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Everything so on the nose these days
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Editor's note: In letters sent after the Oct. 8 U.S.
Senate debate between Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers, most writers either viewed the debate as a wash, or believed El-Sayed was the winner. We strive to present a fair reflection of reader sentiment when publishing letters to the editor, but the two letters from readers who considered Rogers the winner contained racial and ethnic slurs - as well as demonstrably false claims about El-Sayed - and thus did not meet our standards for publication.
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New BAYWATCH looks just as ridiculous as we hoped. Like, the dude could have ran around the woman sunscreenjng but had to jump over her for some reason. youtu.be/JQWt7PVOe1Q?...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/10/2026
Professional Republicans hate us.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026
Yes, the way it works is that you can get a statewide poll conducted in 12 hours, that's a real thing that can happen.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.
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Meg Gardiner @meggardiner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Me, editing my thriller: Is this villain too cartoonish? Ken Paxton:
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Nice
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Keri Russell Recalls “Having Sex All the Time” With Matthew Rhys on ‘The Americans’ Set
The couple met while filming the FX period spy drama, which ran from 2013 to 2018.
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So the dumb AI can’t determine a book’s title for spam emails but we’re expected to trust it with our health and major life decisions? Sure, Jan.
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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
National Coming Out Day was yesterday, Mr. President
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
So they’re torturing this guy.
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nobody has a higher high IQ than our High IQ President who also happens to fall for fake celebrity quotes that he eagerly posts on his Special Big Boy Social Media Site
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Trump posts a made-up quote from Denzel Washington praising him
The actor’s team confirmed that the quote is fabricated.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Seems bad that the security services are being used to persecute opposition leaders
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is no known portrait of Columbus that was composed during his lifetime; everything that has come down to us is posthumous. So there’s no way to know whether he looked like Nurse Ratched clutching a sil-pat baking sheet in a short sleeved housecoat or not.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Anybody who does this deserves the outcome
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Now having seen Digger I find the bad and ambivalent reviews utterly depressing. It's so good it's like a 2025 movie, a year of great, weird films. I wonder if the response is like that to Don't Look Up--which was funny and smart and very good. Digger is Brazil to Don't Look Up's Dr Strangelove.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.
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Robert Swartwood @robertswartwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sure, it’s only major bestsellers, but still! #costco
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Meg Gardiner @meggardiner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
People gonna people. At a convention's awards ceremony, a blogger approached & informed me—plus my family & dozens of others nearby—that my writing had gone off the rails & degenerated into unreadable horror. While I was standing there with a writing award in my hands.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Australopithecus 3 million years ago:
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