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Tom G

@sweezysarmy.bsky.social
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Books, Film, Sounds, NYC-DSA, Fulham FC / Ajax Mostly I just drift

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Don Cherry interviewed by Ben Sidran for NPR, November 30, 1986 many gems in here & he even plays a bit
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Don Cherry Interviewed by Ben Sidran for NPR
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"America will never be a communist country" well yeah not with that attitude
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
80/ My Phantoms, Gwendoline Riley Outstanding debut and my intro to Riley. Now I’ll play catch up. Moving and real depiction of a mother and daughter’s fraught relationship.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 29/09/2026
A beautiful story about a woman whose life ended far, far too soon.
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Central Park Was Her Home and Her Studio. She Was Killed There. (Gift Article)
Francis Lee Rogers painted birds in the park, her home for decades. She was found dead on Sunday, beaten and stabbed, shaking a community of friends and collectors of her art.
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
79/ 48Kg, Batool Abu Akleen Devastating collection by a young Palestinian poet. Most, if not all, of the poems were written when she was a teen, which is both remarkable and deeply upsetting.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've got a piece in the NYT today about how collective joy — participatory, youthful, anti-corporate — can defeat Trumpism and transform America www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion | Young Democrats Are Putting the Party Back in Politics. It’s Working. (Gift Article)
Fun, free events communicate a larger goal: that everyday people should be able to afford a joyful life.
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here’s Avila Chevalier on why she’s at this demonstration:
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
kids today will never know the joys of reading about a record, making a note, hunting for years, finally finding it and then hearing it for the first time
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
77/ Elegy for Pangaea, Mark Leidner Funny and wise. Parenting, capitalism, Tetris. Cool collection of poems from a new to me poet. Most excellent.
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
76/ Barn 8, Deb Olin Unferth Really lovely, fun and ultimately profound book.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026
That Fucking Newspaper is trying to make “the mayor has a comms team” into a watergate level scandal
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
there's zero chance that stephens has read one sentence of the Disappearers he just fears looking ridiculous after his paper ran the most effusive piece about it a couple of weeks ago
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
there are good and complicated reasons "quality of life" issues became the domain of the right, but the left's great failure since the '70s has been operating under the assumption that results matter less than righteous intent, despite arguing for a material politics
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
75/ May We Feed the King, Rebecca Perry Really fantastic. Filled with a strange kind of mystery. Finished and wanted to read again. Historical fiction in the loosest sense, but more an investigation into how history is crafted.
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lmfao
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections.
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Shame that the guy who tried to forge a reputation as a fighter is now a mouthpiece for the casinos
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reminder: I’m a street walking cheetah, with a heart full of napalm.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026
nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's not the worst thing in the big WSJ story about John Fetterman's pioneeringly large Kyrsten Sinema turn, but him going out of his way to hang out one-on-one with Bruce Pearl is in itself disqualifying for high office.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Israeli leaders keep on openly admitting a series of war crimes that international analysts keep being told are libelous to state.
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
71/ Bury Your Dead, Ana Paula Maia Violence and death so permeate the work of Ana Paula Maia that it’s both matter of fact and at times absurd. I do love her books, including this one, which even seems to possess a glimpse of light that I don’t recall from previous work I’ve read. Brazilian Gothic!
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
69/ The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien Truly bizarre comic surreal-nightmare. One of the stranger books I’ve ever read.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/08/2026
This is a great example of why Jeffries is not the man for the moment, and a bad choice to be Speaker. Instead of hitting the unity notes that Dems are doing well in Michigan and Wisconsin, he’s obsessing about local NYC politics because he’s afraid of losing power and it’s hurting Dems nationally.
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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving"
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
65/ Country of Lords, Kim Phillips-Fein Excellent, concise (and incomplete) history of the losers, conmen, & authoritarians who’ve peppered US history & whose primary goal was to argue for and maintain inequality, whether along racial, gender, or class lines. Plenty of these freaks among us now!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.
Zohran with a 69% approval to 24% approval, highest favorably for a New York Mayor since LaGuardia announced the free candy and handjobs for all program.WSJ: Mamdani’s Honeymoon With New York is Over
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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It’s a sad indictment of the media that a billionaire can compare a 5% wealth tax to the Soviet Union in an interview with the NYT and the NYT journalist does not laugh in their face and write it up as an insight into the mind of somebody who has lost touch with reality
"I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don't want California to end up in the same place," he told the New York Times in a statement in April.
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Tim @timzhu.io · 12/08/2026
if he doesn't take your breath away the way an 18k vote drop from Brown County takes Steve Kornacki's breath away then he's not worth it!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/08/2026
I've been saying this. if the Very Serious Centrists are getting dogwalked by DSA radicals with almost no money, they have no business claiming to be the most electable ones
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 11/08/2026
NEW: NYC-DSA is 60% white, 14% Hispanic, 10% Asian and 9% Black, according to internal demographic data. News outlets have routinely suggested that DSA is 85% white, based on a 2021 demographic survey. But new data shows DSA has become more racially diverse, especially in NYC.
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NYC-DSA is 60% white, internal survey says
But the newest members of the Democratic Socialists of America are (slightly) more racially diverse.
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Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com · 10/08/2026
Amazon's dangerous subcontractor model lets them avoid responsibility for rampant labor abuses. Democratic socialists have the solution. @tiffanycaban.bsky.social's Delivery Protection Act, endorsed by @mayor.nyc.gov, sets critical labor standards and makes us all safer. Pass the DPA!
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The ADL has a website dedicated to attacking Mamdani staffers—including my friend Waleed Shahid. The ADL is applying a level of scrutiny to him they aren’t applying to literal neo-Nazis working in the federal government. Waleed has a Jewish wife and child. The ADL is a disgrace.
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We expect the Mamdani administration to uphold a simple, non-negotiable standard: no one with a history of antisemitism or hostility toward Jews, Zionists, Israelis or Jewish institutions should be ap...
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
this guy
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
August 9th: Happy Richard Nixon Resignation Day. When there were consequences for corrupt, criminal presidents.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/08/2026
bisexual thoughts should be okay for Christians because Jesus had a girlfriend who washed his feet and then got nailed by a bunch of men
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I wish I could have the luxury and privilege to look at the world right now and think, “Hasan Piker is the problem here.”
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Tom G @sweezysarmy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
64/ Dooneen, Keith Ridgway Strange but brilliant but strange. Not entirely sure what I just read but I liked it!
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