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Matt Swessinger

@swessdawg.bsky.social
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Minnesota public defender, wealth redistributor, Hawkeye, and all around renaissance man

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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Star Trek: TNG The Wire GoT The Shield True Detective Slow Horses The Office (UK) The Americans Breaking Bad The Leftovers Lost Justified Mr. Show The West Wing Andor
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
@mikehlas.bsky.social Has Iowa ever played a Big Ten team in the NCAA men's tournament?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This much is clear: Stephen Miller is in charge. They've shipped off Bovino, they're hanging Noem out to dry, Trump is using slightly conciliatory language...and Miller is still running a blitzkrieg in Minnesota. He, not Trump, is in charge. And he is the one Democrats should fight to remove.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/01/2026
I want these fuckers prosecuted. I will not vote for a candidate who shies away from this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026
we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 27/10/2025
If Sun-, Mon-, or Tues- the -day do be, The game is on Peacock or perhaps N- and/or ABC; If Wednesday has come round again, 'Tis wise to check ESPN; Yet if it be long weekend time, Search Disney's sports verticals, but first try searching Prime
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
@foxworthshow.bsky.social It should be called a take-measuring contest.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
An effective response would be, "Dana, I know you're not that stupid."
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Presdent Pritzker's first bill signing will be for the DC Statehood Act.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Rest in Peace, Ryno.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
There was lead in the gasoline and, therefore, the air.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
THIS is the day Donald Trump finally became president.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Indistinguishable from Nazi rhetoric
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A photo of about a half-dozen people, several of whom are clearly children, one of whom has his hands toes behind his back with a zip tie.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
AI can save you a lot of time if you need a bunch of information summarized and it's not important to you whether the summary is accurate
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It really tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party that they can't go after Trump for the most blatant corruption scandal in the history of the presidency because some of them are in bed with the same corruption coin guys.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Gemini, make a photo of Trump as the Pope sitting on a toilet grimacing.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Portrait of Henry VIII
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Donald Trump is lying to you.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Coming to terms with the fact that there's not going to be a sustained popular backlash to Trumpism until we've gone through some shit.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
When it comes to policy, he really is just an idiot.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I wish the press would make it crystal clear that declaring this trade war is the stupidest thing any US president has ever done.
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Trump Imposes Steep Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China: Live Updates
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Yuck
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The only time I'd ever go for two would be to tie if there's a chance I wouldn't get the ball back.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Congress please kill Facebook next!
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
@drewmagary.bsky.social Who are we Vikings rooting for tonight?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
People have been noting this juxtaposition: we’re talking about American citizens who are caught in a dangerous situation not of their making *in both cases*. And yet both the tone and policy are quite different.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
A perfect album that came out the year I turned 21
Album art to The Strokes' album "Is This It"
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
NYT making it sound like Labour barely won.
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Len Damico @lendami.co · 05/07/2024
kamala takes the stage as the presumptive nominee to the organ riff from “not like us.” the crowd goes wild when she says “our opponent, the certified lover boy? certified pedophile”
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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Stolen from a colleague…
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
I am ready to believe this.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/11/2023
In favor of a ceasefire: Democratic voters 80% House Democrats 8% Republican voters 56% House Republicans 0% All voters 66% All House members 4% Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social
Most voters want a ceasefire, but hardly anyone in Congress supports one. This chart shows the percent in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza. Among Democratic voters, 80 percent; House Democrats, 8 percent. Republican voters, 56 percent; House Republicans, 0 percent. All voters, 66 percent; all House members, 4 percent. Data comes from House Resolution 786 and an October 20, 2023 poll from Data for Progress. More at stephensemler.substack.com
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
“it would be unfair to prosecute Trump in every state where he committed a crime” is a perfect op-ed take. if these people got even a small taste of how the justice system treats poor people they would perish
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
If the WaPo is suggesting an abandoning the dual sovereignty exception to the DJ clause then I'm on board.
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Matt Swessinger @swessdawg.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
TIL
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