Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.social🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 123123385251
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026And the 'don't like book learnin' crowd is going to want to dismiss that, but of course a modern society runs on having engineers, accountants, doctors, scientists, *state departments* who treat the dry matter of their expertise with meticulous seriousness. It demands that approach! 454846
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As an aside, I think one of the essential skills being trained in college that the 'college is for training workers' paradigm devalues to its peril is the ability and willingness to treat dry, academic matters as serious and worth getting right, rather than dismissing them. 4868112
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Higher Education is not just about training workers, but also about training citizen leaders and good citizenship in part means thinking that the details matter, that getting them right matters, because it impacts some of your fellow citizens. "It only matters if job" is poison to citizenship. 6577106
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialJohn Jackson @jpj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is a profound misunderstanding of academic freedom. Unlike free speech academic freedom is based on the judgment of experts that some ideas are worthless and should not be represented in the academy. This has been the case since the invention of the idea of academic freedom. 414439
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialdioiioib.bsky.social @dioiioib.bsky.social · 23/08/2026America is a country uniquely built on contrarianism and confusing "freedom" with "throwing a tantrum" 21049
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialJess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Regarding made-up cursing & swear words in tv & movies--look, don't waste your time trying to think up sweary-sounding words. Just hire someone from Ireland as your Obscenity Coordinator. 3248062
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 23/07/2026This is Nymeria. She is demonstrating the rare compact zoomies. Ideal for situations where you don't have much room, but still must zoom. 13/10 (TT: ouruntamedtale) 162101871165
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/06/2026Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...nytimes.comPolice Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration 12620341025
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/01/2026My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up. 581111260
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/05/2026wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like 194116302196
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 19/04/2026It's National Library Week. Make sure that if you're sharing National Library Week images you include alt text because the library is for EVERYONE. If people don't know what your image is, especially if it contains text, your post is not for everyone. Guidance: www.perkins.org/resource/how... 111354
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialJenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 14/04/2026fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world 6249551326
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026A very happy fuck all fascists day today and every day and thank you to Hungary for giving us all hope 470598
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 10/04/2026“In our survey of American dietary habits, we were alarmed to find that the vast majority of respondents reported eating fewer than two bees in an average day,” said the wheezing health and human services secretary theonion.comSwollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough BeesWASHINGTON—After manually prying his eyelids open to read from a report he had prepared on the matter, a badly swollen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave a speech Tuesday in which he warned that Americans were not eating enough bees. “In our survey of American ... 2083673
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialSaffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Saffron caught in golden hour like she scheduled it herself ☀️ Majestic floof? Activated. Tail? Flawless. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky 19129287
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialDan @dantheman710.bsky.social · 02/04/2026They're just showing off a different style of digging. 1278755
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/03/2026one thing that frustrates me quite a bit about modern opinion-writing is that hardly anyone tries to argue with a particular person or a specific argument. it's all gesturing towards people saying something. take this piece for example. setting aside the merits of the argument, who is the target?theargumentmag.comThe liberal case for voter IDThe SAVE Act is a bad bill, but voter ID is a good idea 1172937280
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Send ICE agents to Iran. They want to beat up and shoot people? They can try their skills there, and see if they work as well in that environment. 1252427581
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and Ibis, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago! Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology 7481150
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialMeanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This meme hurts because it’s familiar. In 2022, Ukraine asked to “close the skies” and heard “we can’t.” Now the Gulf is on fire—and suddenly “closing the skies” sounds possible. Air defense isn’t about geography. It’s about political will. Share if you’re tired of double standards. 413852
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Operation Epstein Fury is the most sophisticated military operation in the history of the United States. by Pete Hegseth 612827577
swampsparrow.bsky.social @swampsparrow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026There is going to be a lot of MAGA rage. 😂😂😂 000
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/02/2026For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find... 3778132051
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialJon Duffy @joncduffy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...latimes.comContributor: If you don’t understand why people protest, you don’t understand service or sacrificeThe people standing against ICE in the streets of Minneapolis are not seeking recognition or reward. They are neighbors who decided that silence was the greater risk. 0113
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialBilly Brooksher @mrbrooksher.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The other thing (coming from someone in a RED area) is that rank-and-file R voters dismiss protests as "outside agitators bussed in by Soros" or whatever. Seeing their neighbors peacefully protesting makes it harder to maintain that lie. 0575
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I AM VINDICATED AND JOYFUL (also this gives fuel to @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social and my longstanding conversation about whether or not dinosaurs would have been kosher for shabbos dinner but) (tweet TWEEET) 17529124
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Happy 3 year anniversary to this post 12882481923
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialHarley Winfrey @harleywinfrey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Reposting for the 🪶 feed. Perfect timing for this week's weather! 1123
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know. 275175095159
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialalexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025wow really helpful, thank you new york times 4459641615
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/01/2026It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death. 4054111507
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialBrandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Spotted: 529391
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones. 7494506111545
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 07/01/2026This is Chilli. He can go from zero to sixty in a matter of seconds. Uses this extraordinary ability to say good morning very promptly. 14/10 (IG: chilli.thegreyhound) 614014386
swampsparrow.bsky.social @swampsparrow.bsky.social · 05/01/2026A psalm for the first Sunday in January. Psalm 109:8-19 ... 8 May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership. 9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. 110
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialSaffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Unexpected gray tabby kitten ornament activated. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme 1351474
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/12/2025My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be." 342228386
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/12/2025We wear the crucifix to humbly affirm a core conviction: the righteousness of torturing the innocent. by Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt 251863320
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/11/2025Autocorrect has become our worst enema. 329124512470
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Prediction: Speaker Mike Johnson will not have seen the Epstein story as he is busy opening up the Government and doing the work that the American People and God sent him to do. 1940356
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialZack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 24/10/2025I think that the next step in the civil resistance campaign to Trump should be inflicting punishment on elites and institutions who cave. They need to understand that there are costs to compliance 451353306
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialDave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!! 774224699902
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialSt. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 19/10/2025Undeterred by rain, the protesters held signs and marched across downtown St. Louis, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and the Metro East.stltoday.comThousands protest Trump in 'No Kings' rallies across rainy St. Louis regionUndeterred by rain, the protesters held signs and marched across downtown St. Louis, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and the Metro East. 0193
Reposted by @swampsparrow.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings 22918840128617
swampsparrow.bsky.social @swampsparrow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025US government accounts blocked; trolls starved. 000