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Tom Swadley

@tomswadley.bsky.social
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USAF Vet 1969-73. Dad, , husband, grandfather and friend to all. Blue Dot in Red NE TN, Boston Celtics fan ☘️💚. Irish trad musician since 1997. ETSU grad in 1977 and 1982 Master’s of City Management. Long career in local government. Hiking 💪

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Arlene Kirsch ❌👑 Love America peacefully @arliek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please SHARE @indivisiblejackson.bsky.social‬ @benkown.bsky.social‬ @bev-aka-mrsweasley.bsky.social‬ @clarks-indivisible.bsky.social‬ @murf-ind.bsky.social‬ @vftmseviercounty.bsky.social‬ @bluedot-tn.bsky.social‬ @tomswadley.bsky.social‬ @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social‬ @smasco.bsky.social‬
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Sally 🌻 @mamasallysocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#DogDayTuesday
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Cheryl's Tribute to Dolly Parton Starter Pack #31 Dolly Parton was a relentless advocate for women and equality. Her generosity is seen through the Imagination Library, donating books and millions for good causes. Dolly was an absolute trailblazer and will be sorely missed. go.bsky.app/5smHfcP
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Jimi Hendrix - The Star Spangled Banner [ National Anthem ] ( Live at Woodstock 1969 )
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Today is just another Saturday to me as long as the would be tyrant is in the White House It’s gonna take another event to get me celebrating. When that happens , sign me up for fireworks and flag waving
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Trying to understand Trump’s actions in this war is like trying to understand why your 2 yr old spilled a bunch of liquids on your expensive rug. There’s no rhyme or reason to it and in both situations a juvenile mind is at work 🤷‍♂️
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
He’s quite insane In any other world except the one controlled by the spineless GOP , he would be impeached.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS BRISTOL” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS BRISTOL · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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Matt Dery @deryspeaks.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Post it in the bulletin board. You may never see it again!
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Arlene Kirsch ❌👑 Love America peacefully @arliek.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
📣 Tennesseans!! You all know what to do! @indivisiblejackson.bsky.social @benkown.bsky.social‬ @bev-aka-mrsweasley.bsky.social‬ @clarks-indivisible.bsky.social‬ @murf-ind.bsky.social‬ @vftmseviercounty.bsky.social‬ @bluedot-tn.bsky.social‬ @tomswadley.bsky.social‬ @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social‬
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Raskin tears Kristi Noem a new one: "Apparently when your blankie was left on one of the govt jets and not transported to the new one, your special govt employee, Corey Lewandowski, chivalrously stepped forward to fight the pilot -- mid air!"
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Here in Tennessee, unfortunately, we have our share of morons in our legislature. Cruelty is their only weapon.
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Joe Newberry @joenewberry.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
If someone doesn't want you to watch something, you definitely need to watch it.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I saved them before they were deleted.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The country I grew up in in the 1950’s and 60’s is gone as this Administration continues to destroy the US Constitution. My fear is that it is gone forever! Unless drastic action is taken to reverse these abuses then all hope is gone.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
January 24, 2026
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January 24, 2026
This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
As I stated in earlier posts, their very first instinct is to lie and then begin the coverup. They can’t help themselves. Video evidence from different angles to the contrary. They are very evil people running this agency and the government. They will be stopped and face their consequences.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
There are felons , drug addicts and incompetents running the government. These people show total disregard for the constitution, the rule of law and our democracy. They show no moral character and the GOP in Congress doesn’t have a spine. They must be stopped People are getting killed.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
On this day, 01/14/1969 I was sworn into the U.S. Air Force in Knoxville , TN an event that would change my life forever. I rode down the day before on a Greyhound bus from Johnson City. I was 19 yrs old and very immature. My 4 yrs was the best thing to ever happen to me my self confidence grew !
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Late. But Strataday and Bugera tube amp day too
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Farewell Bob. 💔
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/01/2026
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
After a very questionable shooting by a government agent their first instinct is to lie. Every. Single. Time. Then the mechanisms begin to enable the coverup. The closing of the ranks , the refusals to provide information. Etc etc. but like every other crime by this admin. Truth comes
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Garcia uses his opening statement during Comer's Minnesota fraud hearing to point out that "some of the worst fraud and corruption is actually found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" and that the administration is punishing innocent kids
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
January 6, 2021 was a stain on our country. I was born in 1949, never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine a POTUS, inciting a riot on Congress to stop the peaceful transfer of power I saw what I saw on tv that day. He escaped conviction. But his day of reckoning is coming. And so is his party
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Fox’s Martha Maccallum: “100,000 Americans die of overdoses - most of those drugs coming from Venezuela and other places…” Rep Jason Crow: “That’s actually not true. The majority of those deaths come from Meth and Fentanyl, almost none of that comes from Venezuela.”
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Continued my First Day Hike streak to 5 years. It was a short hike and frosty weather. But at least I kept the streak going for another year. 🤟
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Most people on New Year’s Eve Getting ready to party. Me, searching YouTube for playing slide in standard tuning tutorials. Lol.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Wishing each of you a very Happy New Year in 2026 and hoping for a great year for our country. I’ve been blessed in 2025. I underwent double cataract surgery back in the Spring and now I have perfect distance vision for the first time in my 76 yrs on the planet. ❤️🤟
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
December 27, 2025
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December 27, 2025
Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Steve Cropper, Booker T.
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
All I can say for Trump and his ilk is a quote from Ned Stark “Winter is Coming”
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Wishing each of you who follow me on here a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving if you celebrate it. These are troubled times for our country and we can use some good things to happen. Also a salute to our military serving overseas. I spent 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972 away from my folks while in USAF
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Shit is getting real in DC, I’m getting the same vibes I got when I was watching the Watergate Hearings right I got out of the USAF in early 1973.
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a bucket of popcorn and then
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a bucket of popcorn and then
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Wishing a very good Veterans Day to all of my fellow vets on here! Thanks to each of you for your sacrifice and service to our country. Salute 🫡 ❤️
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The GOP is doing what my old dad called “ whistling past the graveyard”.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A brave young woman asks JD Vance: “When you talk about too many immigrants here, when did you guys decide that number? Why did you sell us a dream? You gave us the path and now tell us we don't belong here? Why do you have to be Christian to be American?” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DQapzQi...
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Beauty here at home. Didn’t have to climb up in the mountains. ❤️👏
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
#Trumpsmellslikeshit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2025
"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2025
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones: "In New Hampshire we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, we have never done that, and you are just wrong."
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Lawrence O’Donnell is ripping Trump a new one tonight on MSNBC. Brutal takedown of Trump’s speech today at the gathering of military leaders at Quantico This is as aggressive as any media figure has ever been with Trump. He got in a few barbs at Whiskey Pete too.
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Arlene Kirsch ❌👑 Love America peacefully @arliek.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
📣 Tennesseans, you know what to do! @indivisiblejackson.bsky.social‬ @benkown.bsky.social‬ @bev-aka-mrsweasley.bsky.social‬ @clarks-indivisible.bsky.social‬ @murf-ind.bsky.social‬ @vftmseviercounty.bsky.social‬ @bluedot-tn.bsky.social‬ @tomswadley.bsky.social‬ @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social‬
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name - 1993
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Not that they care , but public officials like Trump, Mace and Patel, should keep their mouths shut until they know all of the facts about an event. I learned that a long time ago when I was an appointed official in SC and TN. But they just had to own the Libs. Now they look like dumbasses. 😂
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Tom Swadley @tomswadley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Abingdon” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Abingdon · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Please watch this video. Repost it. Record and post just like this guy did.
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