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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

@schwarz.bsky.social
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☀️ Pro-Naked Mole Rat, anti-everything else ☀️

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My guess is that if the longest-serving Democratic Speaker of the House had been a convicted child molester, Republicans might mention it from time to time. By contrast the Democrats have always been committed to a discreet silence about Dennis Hastert:
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing I've learned in life is that whenever someone says "What you have to understand about [some group] is that they're [some description]," the description always applies to all humans everywhere. This from the WSJ is a real classic of this genre: wsj.com/opinion/reve...
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a great piece by Michael Lewis about the damage done by Gavin Kliger and the other youthful idiots of the Khmer Doge www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington
When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America is not much of a democracy but we still all bear responsibility for the Minab school massacre. The fact we allowed sociopaths to do this kind of thing, and with no consequences, demonstrates that there's something deeply wrong with us. www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...
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Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This in-depth article from @dropsitenews.com about the Minab school massacre is so horrifying and upsetting it took me three hours to read. I had to stop a few times to go walk around the block. www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...
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Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho... from @dropsitenews.com
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Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The review of Naza by Gal Beckerman in the Atlantic reminds me of a previous article by him, from which I learned that I and all my friends who lived in lower Manhattan in 2001 did not exist
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 29/09/2026
I wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one really cared. theintercept.com/2026/09/28/a...
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AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care
The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DNA testing showed 30 years ago that *a* Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. But holdouts desperately claimed it wasn't Thomas. Now DNA from a lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair cut on his deathbed proves it was him: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
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Did Thomas Jefferson Father Sally Hemings' Children? After More Than a Decade of Research, the Answer Is Finally Firmly in Hand
A lock of hair, advances in genetic science and a community of descendants all contributed to solving an American mystery
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everyone on earth should see Naza — except Palestinians, who are excused for having to live it and having told the world this was happening for the past 3 and/or 80 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBR...
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NAZA - official trailer
YouTube video by The Guardian
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I agree it seems like that must be true but people are complicated
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One reason I'm skeptical that Elon Musk will save free speech in America is his bitter, lifelong hatred of free speech www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am surprised to hear myself saying "Wow, Sylvester Stallone is a genuinely interesting and thoughtful human being" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/m...
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Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean. (Gift Article)
The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ho hum, just the Israeli government violating the fundamental rationale for Israel's existence www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-09-28/ty-article/.premium/israel-freezes-aliyah-of-two-jewish-protective-presence-activists/000001a0-e38d-db4b-a7a5-f3fffde00000
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The older I get the more I enjoy life's simple pleasures, such as rehydrating chickpeas in an instant pot
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
all literature is stink lines coming off the alphabet
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My main question about life is whether the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. So far all signs point to yes.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember when the Obama administration drove Aaron Swartz to suicide because he broke into a website in order to share information with people? Sam Altman's done far worse & the government's probably going to give him billions of dollars: patreon.com/BeatThePress... by @deanbaker13.bsky.social
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If AI Is Crashing, the Story Should be Jail In, Not Bail Out patreon.com/BeatThePress... by @deanbaker13.bsky.social
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If AI Is Crashing, the Story Should be Jail In, Not Bail Out | Dean Baker
If AI Is Crashing, the Story Should be Jail In, Not Bail Out by Dean Baker on Patreon. Join Dean Baker's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A simple way to improve AI safety is to enforce the law. If Sam Altman knows that he will be treated like a drunk driver after an accident if his AI causes serious damage, he will be much more careful deanbaker22.substack.com/p/sam-altman...
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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences
People need to face consequences for criminal negligence
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An underrated grotesque film moment is in Return of the King when the One Ring floats briefly on crusty burned bits of Gollum before sinking into the molten hot lava
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It seems there's no certainty about why it works, only guesses.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My experience is that eating two kiwis before bed does, weirdly enough, make you sleep longer and more deeply: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uref...
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Kiwifruit for Insomnia
YouTube video by NutritionFacts.org
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The "stupid or lying?" question is a challenging one in most cases with most pundits, but I think he's an exception — he's pretty smart and well-informed and so it's usually that he's lying.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
USDA Replaces Food Stamps With One Giant Rutabaga To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Matthew Ygelsias knows very well that Medicare for All would cost less than our current healthcare system, and so there's no reason to worry about how to "pay" for it. But sometimes he just pretends to be stupid. bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Nitro 🐻‍❄️ 🔜 NFC @es.nitrobear.gay · 06/08/2026
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Meme-ing Our Way Through the Era of Ultra-Violence currentaffairs.org/news/meme-in... by @eliseswain.bsky.social in @currentaffairs.bsky.social
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Meme-ing Our Way Through the Era of Ultra-Violence
Dark jokes about 9/11 distract us from a real reckoning with U.S. foreign policy and the horrors of the Global War on Terror.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
25 years ago today, Barbara Lee cast the House’s love vote against the Afghanistan AUMF, to this day perhaps the most courageous act I have ever seen an elected official perform.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There's been some progress in the past 25 years on the right — here we see this guy acknowledging that al Qaeda attacked the US on 9/11 over our foreign policy, rather than pretending they "hate us for our freedom" or whatever
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
25 years ago at this time I was sitting on the stoop of my building on W. 11th St. with my neighbors, talking and drinking disgusting wine coolers. If you’d told me the US was about to kill four million people, I would have thought: Yes, that sounds about right.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Viet Cong dug **250 miles** of tunnels to hide in, rather than using that money to develop their own country. Tells you everything you need to know about them.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When the NYT spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu on 9/11, he answered a question that hadn't been asked: "Will the United States blame Israel?" — illustrating that he was well aware al Qaeda was motivated by US support for Israeli policies & was anxious about it archive.is/4ABKA#select...
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, a NYT reporter asked Bibi Netanyahu what that morning's terrorist attacks meant for US-Israeli relations. Netanyahu replied, "It's very good." The reporter later revealed (not in the NYT) that Netanyahu said this "with startling enthusiasm." archive.is/4ABKA#select...
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, the NY Times asked Benjamin Netanyahu what the terrorist attacks meant for US-Israeli relations. At that moment it was believed that up to 10,000 Americans had just died. Netanyahu replied "It's very good." www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/u...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tweet from Jacy Catlin (@ieatanddrink):

Would you flush a $20 bill down the toilet? Of course not. Yet you're doing it every time you flush 4 $5 bills down the toilet. I'll explain
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I bought this sign a few years later at the going out of business sale of a locally owned restaurant in, I think, North Haven CT.
metal sign with stick-on lettering reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE/"GOD BLESS AMERICA"
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today is the 25th anniversary of an enormous opportunity theintercept.com/2015/09/11/t...
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An “Enormous Opportunity”: A Short, Awful 9/11 Quiz
For regular people, terrorism and wars are tragedies. For our leaders — in every country — they’re something very different.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Washington post correction:
Thursday, December 3, 2009
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump's proposal of $5,000 checks for every American would cost $1.7 trillion. On the other hand, a RAND study found that since 1975 the top 10% squeezed a cumulative $79 trillion out of the bottom 90%, so they've got the bux. www.rand.org/pubs/working...
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Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023
The author extends the results of prior work on the income gap between the bottom 90 percent of workers in 2023 and what they would have earned with an even growth rate from 1975 to 2023. These worker...
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My guess is that AI is potentially dangerous in many ways. On the other hand, I just asked several different chatbots to find the quote where Ahmed Chalabi said Iraq was worse off under the US than Saddam. They all denied he said this & then grumpily asked what my source was. Maybe we have time.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's interesting to see a former top Biden aide explain "No amount of public support in polling or public protest will influence how or when those in power drastically change Israel policy" — ie, he's just straight up saying the US is not a democracy. x.com/MichaelLaRos...
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks to Sally Gold & Nina Agrawal for this article & the Mamdani administration for releasing these documents. I was living below 14th St. on 9/11. My unique & wonderful upstairs neighbor Josh later died of leukemia at 54 & I got melanoma (hopefully cured). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality (Gift Article)
The Mamdani administration released more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hunter Biden's announcement of his new memecoin illustrates how the entire US elite sees Americans as docile sheep to be sheared. But of course we haven't given them much reason to think otherwise.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It seems like Cole might be talking about raising the tax rate and the cap, it's unclear
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As Hitler said, "If these people had defeated us, Heaven have mercy!"
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