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Swell & Swale

@swellandswale.bsky.social
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Existing somewhere between the high ground and the low ground | Advocate for democracy | Exploring how history shapes today’s politics | Big believer in the power of informed citizens

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Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑 @lafayetteindivisible.com · 31/07/2025
#Indiana, 🌊💪🌽 we're here, we're blue, we're #Hoosiers. Get used to it! If this describes you,you'll want to follow the new(ish) NWI -focused podcast, bluerbythelake.substack.com, which complements the Bloomington-based @hoosleft.us Recent episode on LGBTQ-inclusive religion is aMAZing.
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Bluer by the Lake | Substack
Northwest Indiana's only blue-focused podcast. Click to read Bluer by the Lake, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 02/07/2025
"After Kneecap and Palestine Action, Bob Vylan were the villains of this week’s outrage cycle. Their sin was to hold a mirror to a society that weeps over words but winks at slaughter. Here’s to the cowards in suits and newsrooms who’d rather police lyrics than confront their own complicity."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Has anyone asked Stephen Miller whether he thinks Marco Rubio belongs in this country? I would be very curious how he answers
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I am the KFC drumstick to the arm.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/06/2025
I was one of those men who couldn’t stop talking. Here’s how I learned to shut up and listen
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I was one of those men who couldn’t stop talking. Here’s how I learned to shut up and listen
After realising how much I interrupted other people, I decided I needed to make a drastic change. Here’s how starting to listen changed my relationships – and made me happier
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Lynda..Hopeful Human🇦🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 🐨🦘✌️🦉🦉 @hopefulhuman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
wtf?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
When Joseph Lister began advocating germ theory in the 19th century, his critics ridiculed him. One man would walk into the operating theatre, slam the door, and say: "There, Mr. Lister's germs can't get in!" Never thought when I was writing THE BUTCHERING ART that we'd be backsliding into the past.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I had planned to add a crowd to my parade cartoon but ran out of time. Guess I didn't need to anyway.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
General Shawn Harris is a great friend and a true patriot. He just got up and running on Bluesky. Help him from the ground up. Every single voter he brings out in his campaign is going to be a critical vote for Jon Ossoff as well. Let’s compete in every corner of this country.
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 09/06/2025
LAPD assisted by the Huntington Beach Police just came in full force firing munitions and with Horse support. Someone was trampled. Another has a serious head injury.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
@kaitlancollins.bsky.social discusses how she avoids falling into Trump’s rhetorical traps and avoids the bait.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
If any marginalized group has to fight for equal rights…then our systems and laws are NOT equal. Read that again. Take all the time you need.
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 03/06/2025
Good Taco Tuesday, friends! May everyone's Tuesday be fabulous, and the margaritas be endless!! Enjoy the laugh to get the day started right! #SheShed
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Lil A 🐴💙 @lilatheofficial.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Lauren Boebert’s worst nightmare? A Navy Admiral with a spine. Eileen Laubacher is running in CO-04 to take her seat She’s at 770 followers on Bluesky. Let’s boost her past 1,000 and show we are DEMOCRACY! Follow: @eileenforco.bsky.social #CO04 #FireBoebert #LaubacherForCongress
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Need to speak with someone at DHS urgently. If that’s you or someone you know, I’m marisakabas.04 on Signal or email mkwrites4000@proton.me
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
love this from @mollyjongfast.bsky.social (and doesn't hurt that she's smacking down chris matthews)
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The "secret".
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Look who’s here!
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Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
These silly liberals whining about coffee tariffs like we don’t produce a shit ton of meth domestically. Anything is a light morning stimulant if you’re not a total pussy about it
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/04/2025
The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words "America’s astonishing act of self-harm" on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Dark Pence is back.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Uihlein family must have interesting holidays.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For my latest, I wrote about my HHS RIF tracking doc and why it felt important to cut through the fog of terror to capture the data:
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Tracking the HHS April Fools’ Massacre
The Handbasket has created a document to capture the destruction.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Jim Banks calling anyone a clown is pretty rich. #hoosiersky @demhoosiers.bsky.social @indianacapitalchronicle.com
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
FFS! Andrys, a gay 23 year old makeup artist among the so-called "Venezuelan gang members" kidnapped and sent to a maximum security El Salvadoran prison by Trump admin even after a U.S. judge forbid the transfer!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The two Democratic commissioners at the FTC said they were illegally fired by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Exclusive: Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC, sources say
President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.
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Wendy Edelberg @wendyedelberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Business surveys are showing the negative effects of Trump's lurching tariff policy and resulting uncertainty. From February to March, the percentage of businesses surveyed by Philly Fed that expected to increase cap ex fell from about 40% to 20%. Literally the largest decline in series history.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Head strong. Head gone.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New from me at Cato: in its demands that Columbia surrender its academic and administrative independence to federal overseers, the Trump administration has violated one law after another. And there's every reason to think it's planning to roll out the same game plan to other universities. /1
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What Can the Feds Legally Demand of Columbia University?
The Trump administration is using the threat of a funding cutoff to demand sweeping changes at Columbia University, including a drastic overhaul of its system of student discipline, and the putting of...
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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“In 2011, Mel Gibson pleaded guilty to battering his former romantic partner, who reported he hit her while holding their baby & broke her teeth. Shortly after I informed the deputy attorney general’s staff that I could not recommend rearming this particular bully, I received my termination notice.”
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Trump's Lawyers Fired Me After I Refused to Let Mel Gibson Have Guns
After Donald Trump’s personal lawyers took over the Justice Department, they fired Liz Oyer. She writes about how Trump’s DOJ is silencing dissent.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is an important datapoint
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
ah yes, the party that constantly claims to be about protecting kids. kids sent off to be adopted out by the people who killed their parents.
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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My 80-year old and 78-year old mother and father rely on social security. This guy wants them to go get jobs? This isn’t leadership. It isn’t America first. They’re trying to screw veterans AND the elderly. It’s all a con.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is the gold standard measure of atmospheric carbon, the one you see in almost every chart that tracks emissions.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The next time that someone aligned with the current administration blusters about how they support free speech, post this list of words federal agencies are being told to avoid using. Heaven forbid you use the word "injustice." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump (Gift Article)
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
For those trying to keep up… All of the Trump Administration’s Major Moves in the First 47 Days www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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All of the Trump Administration’s Major Moves in the First 100 Days (Gift Article)
The New York Times is tracking the actions and significant statements of President Trump and his administration during the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Atomic bombs are woke.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Has a more loathsome pice of shit ever existed? www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
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Swell & Swale @swellandswale.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is going on in Indiana, too. As we speak. If you care public education, please take the time to read this. davidpepper.substack.com/p/special-re...
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Special Report: A Case Study in Destroying Public Schools....
....And a Preview of (Federal) Things to Come
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Just making sure everyone sees what the former Social Security chief told CNBC on Saturday: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...
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Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began sending individuals monthly benefits more than eight decades ago.

But the recent actions at the U.S. Social Security Administration by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are putting monthly benefit checks for more than 72.5 million Americans at risk, former commissioner and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley told CNBC.com.

“Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley said. “I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.”

Ahead of any interruption in benefits, “people should start saving now,” O’Malley said.
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