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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦

@thomasswords.bsky.social

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Race, gender, and class traitor I block antisemites and Zionists alike. Tiocfaidh ár lá. Saoirse Don Phalaistín.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · Apr 11

I’m willing to ally with any liberal, centrist, or fellow leftist willing to fight fascism, but I can ✊never✊ trust or respect you if you were silent as Joe Biden funded the Gaza genocide.

As always:

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 12h

Veep more like creep amirite

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 13h

Canada is a wild place

Map of Canada divided into four zones of roughly equal population, each marked by a different color. The yellow zone covers nearly all of northern and central Canada, including most of the western provinces and territories. The purple zone runs along the southern border of British Columbia, Alberta, and part of Saskatchewan. The green zone covers southern Ontario and part of Quebec, including Toronto and Ottawa. The red zone covers the easternmost part of Quebec and the Maritime provinces. A legend shows population counts for each zone, all around 8.6 million people. Source: National Statistical Agency, 2015.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 13h

Like the Democratic Party, for example

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 13h

I’m a Gen Xer. Can confirm.

Half the boys in my class were Jasons.

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 13h

Mazel tov!

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 13h

Those youthful conservatives were practicing politics the right way

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 14h

Just go easy. I’d hate to see another soul lost to an herbal tea habit.

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 15h

What’s that—your pals all left you after you denied a genocide?

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 16h

Olivia Reingold is the Graham Linehan of Zionists lol

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

a person too narcissistic and egotistical to engage in self-reflection and who has also surrounded themselves with people who will indulge their worst qualities, many such cases.

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

started / going

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
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Updated October 15, 2025

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 17h

Donated!

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 20h

Remarkable. This piece, written by Jake Tapper, helps construct a pretext for Israel to resume full-scale operations in Gaza.

Zero mention of the *multiple* attacks by Israeli forces over the past few days.

Instead, he writes, “But so far, the tenuous ceasefire has held.”

CNN @cnn.com · 20h

Trump tells CNN that Israeli forces could resume fighting in Gaza "as soon as I say the word" if Hamas won't uphold ceasefire deal https://cnn.it/4qdKot3

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 17h

imagine pretending to be a serious political commentator while using the word "Trantifa"

also, can a word be a neologism if it's that stupid?

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 19h

In which Michael answers the age-old question: Peter Thiel and Satan—separated at birth?

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 19h

I see it differently. For me, a telescope is just a sniper rifle for weaklings.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 19h

I just ended a 30 minute meeting in 10 minutes.

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 20h

There are now two competing definitions of antisemitism, with the traditional hatred of Jews now being crowded out by people who prefer to protect Israel from criticism.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 1d

Why does Donald Trump say my name that way?

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 22h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 21h

I remember how racist 🔵liberals🔵 were about Iraqis (among other groups) in the early 2000s, so I’m sure anyone who was a conservative back then heard her share of nasty stuff, even if she’s having memory lapses now.

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 21h

Fascists of a feather…

Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, burnout is caused by a lack of corporate surveillance

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Thomas Swords 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @thomasswords.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a great show. Jennifer Welch is really making waves because she looks like, and basically is, a wine mom, but has solidly left-wing politics.