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@sisyph.us
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Erik Schwartz. Author of THE LEVERAGE, a political thriller about Hoover's files, Cohn's recordings, Epstein's cameras, and the woman who runs the archive now. Out Dec 1. The history in it is real: theleveragebook.net/register. Bath, Maine.

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Erik @sisyph.us · 5h
THE LEVERAGE is a novel built partly from the documented record, and the seam between the two is meant to be visible. The history in it is real. Where a real person speaks, the words are theirs. Everything load-bearing is logged, with its source, at theleveragebook.net/register
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The Leverage — Source Register
The documented record behind The Leverage: events, dates, words, and primary sources — with reported, transposed, and invented material flagged as such.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 10/10/2026
I kind of think that the current generation of F1 cars have not been adequately tested in wet conditions.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 06/10/2026
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dear Maine Democrats -- Here's your new commercial. You're welcome.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 25/09/2026
I just picked all the apples from our trees before the nor'easter picks them for me. I guess I will make pie.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 16/09/2026
There are about 100,000 polling locations in the US. There are fewer than 15,000 FBI agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Kash Patel Suggests FBI Agents Could Go to Election Polling Sites
Federal law prohibits armed federal officers or military personnel from being deployed to polling stations.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 14/09/2026
I have updated both the manuscript and the Source Register to incorporate the Dallas loyalty oath. theleveragebook.net/register/ youtu.be/Mqo71euxd_4?...
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Trump Makes Convention Attendees Take Voting Pledge | WSJ News
YouTube video by WSJ News
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Erik @sisyph.us · 12/09/2026
Michael Cohen, timing, and why I have chosen to publish independently open.substack.com/pub/thelever...
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Michael Cohen, timing, and why I have chosen to publish independently
The Leverage is a novel.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 06/09/2026
Hoover, Angleton, and Philby. open.substack.com/pub/thelever...
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The Cases of Spoiled Wine
A research note behind a scene in The Leverage.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 27/08/2026
THE LEVERAGE is a speculative political thriller about the quietest institution in American politics — from Hoover's files to Epstein's cameras, and the operator running today's version from inside the government. Research and excerpts on my Substack: read.theleveragebook.net?r=8js2rj&utm...
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The Leverage's Substack | Substack
Notes, schedules, and information about my forthcoming novel The Leverage. Click to read The Leverage's Substack, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 06/08/2026
"Mr. Trump announced in December that he expected two of the ships to be constructed over the next two and a half years." Tell me you know nothing about shipbuilding. It take 6 years to build an Arleigh Burke and they've already built about 75 of them. Yay BIW. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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Cost of Trump’s Namesake Warships Likely to Rise by 50 Percent or More
President Trump’s goal of building a “golden fleet” of 15 battleships could cost $275 billion, according to a government estimate.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 22/07/2026
I'm not sure why everyone is all bent out of shape about Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy and no one is saying anything about Zendaya as Athena. Helen of Troy and Athena are half sisters with unusual birth stories (Zeus is the father of both). Zeus clearly does not father white children.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 22/07/2026
Remind me where most of the 9/11 hijackers were from... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/u...
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Saudis Reach Deal With U.S. That Could Let Them Enrich Nuclear Fuel
U.S. lawmakers and Israeli officials have expressed opposition to such a plan, to be announced Wednesday, fearing that the kingdom could use a civilian nuclear project to develop nuclear weapons.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 07/07/2026
ETTD USMNT
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Erik @sisyph.us · 02/07/2026
Happy Little Round Top day! Bayonets!
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Erik @sisyph.us · 30/06/2026
So are school districts going to hire genital inspectors for high school athletes?
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Erik @sisyph.us · 30/06/2026
What I really don’t get reading Thomas and Gorsuch dissent is how dual citizenship is permitted (like 4 of 5 of Trump's children and two of his three spouses)..
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Erik @sisyph.us · 30/06/2026
How the fuck was the 14th amendment a 5-4 vote? Time to read the dissents. Also, as a Maine resident, fuck Susan Collins.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Erik @sisyph.us · 17/06/2026
Warsh is really truly fucked. Why does ANYONE accept a job in this administration? The really boggling one is Markwayne Mullin who gave a up a super safe senate seat that he could hold for 30 years for a job that he'll likely get fired from in 18 months.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 03/06/2026
In other news, some of the blondes on Fox News are not real blondes.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 27/05/2026
A lot of Christians in Texas are now going to have to decide if being Christian is more important than being Republicans. This will be interesting. The debates will be insane.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 22/05/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/05/2026
shoutout to jared polis
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Erik @sisyph.us · 15/05/2026
Hunter Biden was prosecuted under the Biden administration. Would Hunter be eligible? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Consider $1.7 Billion Fund to Compensate Allies
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Erik @sisyph.us · 08/05/2026
Hey, look over here instead! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...
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Pentagon Releases Files on U.F.O.s
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Erik @sisyph.us · 30/04/2026
Janet Mills just dropped out of the Maine senate primary.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 21/04/2026
The 25th amendment commission is a clever way to get around the idea that the cabinet won't try and remove him. But either way, to make it stick, the 25th amendment needs 67% of both the house and the senate to confirm it. Otherwise the president just writes a letter and he is back in office.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 15/04/2026
Inherent contempt.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 09/04/2026
Is Trump setting the stage to force the NFL to allow him to buy an NFL team? He has tried repeatedly to buy an NFL team and the league has always rebuffed him. Is he now using the DOJ to give him the leverage of an antitrust case? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Erik @sisyph.us · 09/04/2026
The fact that the ballroom is being built with donations (cash and in kind) makes it 100X worse. It is just straight up patronage now. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...
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White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project
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Erik @sisyph.us · 08/04/2026
The Art of the Deal? The Iranians just ate him for breakfast.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 07/04/2026
Hey everyone. Good luck this evening. youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...
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Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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Erik @sisyph.us · 07/04/2026
It's snowing in midcoast Maine. Dear mother nature... Fuck off, we're done.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 07/04/2026
Is it odd that a colonel was flying as a WSO on a combat mission?
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Erik @sisyph.us · 04/04/2026
This photo reminds me of both 9/11 and a scene from the movie Airplane.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 03/04/2026
POWs change everything www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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U.S. fighter jet crashes in Iran; search launched for 2 crew members
It’s the first known loss of an American aircraft inside Iranian territory since the war began a month ago.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 02/04/2026
Watching Ollie North sitting on TV talking about how the Iranians should not have missiles after Ollie North sold the Iranians missiles for years... I look forward to the return of irony.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 02/04/2026
There is no plan.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 01/04/2026
I bet he heckles the justices.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 01/04/2026
The fact that the ballroom is privately funded makes it vastly worse. It makes overt a patronage system in the United States.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 31/03/2026
The edge cases here are difficult. Let's say the prompt given to AI is "make a naked image of a sexual nature of an 18 year old woman who has underdeveloped secondary sexual characteristics". Is that child porn? It's creation overtly defines it as not. But it is likely indistinguishable from porn
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Erik @sisyph.us · 30/03/2026
In the history of the world a government demanding a list of Jews has never gone wrong. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
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Judge Is Skeptical of Penn’s Argument Against Trump Demand for List of Jews
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Erik @sisyph.us · 30/03/2026
If the Iranian military has the opportunity to wipe out a 3,500 person MEU at the cost of losing 50,000 of their own soldiers, they would do it in a hot second. Winning a ground war against an enemy who is willing to take significant casualties is exactly the recipe for quagmire.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 26/03/2026
It is really ironic that bombing the Isfahan Mountain complex last year has made it monumentally more difficult for a special operations team to go into Iran and capture their Uranium now.
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Erik @sisyph.us · 24/03/2026
A bunch of ICE agents who are getting paid while standing around the airport looking at long lines and watching TSA agents work, but not get paid, is pretty much the Trump presidency in a nutshell. The TSA people must be thrilled about all this.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“Tom Homan is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
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Erik @sisyph.us · 20/03/2026
Well, after all, Mexico paid for the wall...
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Erik @sisyph.us · 17/03/2026
Of course he does...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Lawyers for accused DNC/RNC pipe-bomb planter Brian Cole Jr. move to dismiss charges against him, saying his alleged conduct night before Jan. 6 should be covered by Trump's pardon of crimes "related to" events at Capitol the next day. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Man charged with planting bombs near the Capitol claims he’s covered by Trump pardon
Attorneys for Brian Cole Jr. argue he’s included in the broad clemency president granted for Jan. 6-related offenses.
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