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Travis Swicegood
@tswicegood.com
· Feb 1
Stephen Dubner’s sign off of Freakonomics Podcast is rolling around in my head tonight.
Take care of yourselves. And if you can, somebody else too.
Take care of yourselves. And if you can, somebody else too.
“Execute Operation Mar-a-Lago…”
Couldn’t have seen this coming.
Couldn’t have seen this coming.
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Execute Operation Mar-a-Lago…”
Couldn’t have seen this coming.
Couldn’t have seen this coming.
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huh, what a weird coincidence
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
huh, what a weird coincidence
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Read to your kids 📖
No kids? Read to your friends’ kids.
No friends with kids? Make a friend—preferably one who comes with kids to expedite the operation—and start reading!
It is imperative that children are read to ☝️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReadToKids
No kids? Read to your friends’ kids.
No friends with kids? Make a friend—preferably one who comes with kids to expedite the operation—and start reading!
It is imperative that children are read to ☝️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReadToKids
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read to your kids 📖
No kids? Read to your friends’ kids.
No friends with kids? Make a friend—preferably one who comes with kids to expedite the operation—and start reading!
It is imperative that children are read to ☝️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReadToKids
No kids? Read to your friends’ kids.
No friends with kids? Make a friend—preferably one who comes with kids to expedite the operation—and start reading!
It is imperative that children are read to ☝️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReadToKids
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that this happened at a healthcare event is just A+, no notes
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
that this happened at a healthcare event is just A+, no notes
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Big news: Sunlight Research Center is joining MuckRock! Together, we're creating a capacity- building engine, expanding tools, training and hands-on support for local investigative reporting.
#InvestigativeReporting #LocalNews #LocalJournalism
#InvestigativeReporting #LocalNews #LocalJournalism
October 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Big news: Sunlight Research Center is joining MuckRock! Together, we're creating a capacity- building engine, expanding tools, training and hands-on support for local investigative reporting.
#InvestigativeReporting #LocalNews #LocalJournalism
#InvestigativeReporting #LocalNews #LocalJournalism
It’s awesome to see @muckrock.com and @sunlightresearch.bsky.social come together!
the nonprofit news and government transparency org @muckrock.com is teaming up with an investigation desk that self-describes as "the George Santos prevention program.”
good news for the many local newsrooms that have lost their research desks 🌞 www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/rebu...
good news for the many local newsrooms that have lost their research desks 🌞 www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/rebu...
Rebuilding the research desk in local newsrooms
A merger between MuckRock and Sunlight Research Center will help slimmed-down newsrooms investigate local governments, public officials, and more.
www.niemanlab.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It’s awesome to see @muckrock.com and @sunlightresearch.bsky.social come together!
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Are we surprised a guy whose son monitors his porn activity thinks seeing a bunch of naked people is threatening?
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Are we surprised a guy whose son monitors his porn activity thinks seeing a bunch of naked people is threatening?
I am so stoked for this book.
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I am so stoked for this book.
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“I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS” is the greatest clickbait book title ever (it’s not about what you think, although the history is highly relevant)
October 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS” is the greatest clickbait book title ever (it’s not about what you think, although the history is highly relevant)
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Resistance has many fronts.
One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness
Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
October 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Resistance has many fronts.
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I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.
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Democracy dies in a political consultant's messaging strategy.
someone got the dumb memo www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Democracy dies in a political consultant's messaging strategy.
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Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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That is not a No and they know it.
Ingraham: They said you took $50,000 in cash in a bag from an undercover FBI agent…
Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.
Homan: I did nothing criminal or illegal.
September 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
That is not a No and they know it.
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I really appreciate this video.
September 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I really appreciate this video.
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We all saw this.
“We” === the demographics that are currently being attacked and oppressed now.
Many dismissed us as over exaggerating or too sensitive. We were called too emotional and over reacting. Told to calm down. Told we were being bias.
Some other demographics are waking up. Slowly.
“We” === the demographics that are currently being attacked and oppressed now.
Many dismissed us as over exaggerating or too sensitive. We were called too emotional and over reacting. Told to calm down. Told we were being bias.
Some other demographics are waking up. Slowly.
This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers. Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin.
A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.
September 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We all saw this.
“We” === the demographics that are currently being attacked and oppressed now.
Many dismissed us as over exaggerating or too sensitive. We were called too emotional and over reacting. Told to calm down. Told we were being bias.
Some other demographics are waking up. Slowly.
“We” === the demographics that are currently being attacked and oppressed now.
Many dismissed us as over exaggerating or too sensitive. We were called too emotional and over reacting. Told to calm down. Told we were being bias.
Some other demographics are waking up. Slowly.
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1. Wow.
2. Shows how the US has zero perspective of history, which explains a great deal
2. Shows how the US has zero perspective of history, which explains a great deal
Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
September 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
1. Wow.
2. Shows how the US has zero perspective of history, which explains a great deal
2. Shows how the US has zero perspective of history, which explains a great deal
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I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.
September 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.
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Terrifying day. The downstream consequences could be scary too. Of the many reasons not to tweet gleefully about Kirk getting shot (also: it's morally wrong), a big one is you don't want to give these people any more ammo in their fight to shut down two-party competition in America
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Terrifying day. The downstream consequences could be scary too. Of the many reasons not to tweet gleefully about Kirk getting shot (also: it's morally wrong), a big one is you don't want to give these people any more ammo in their fight to shut down two-party competition in America
👇👇👇
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
👇👇👇
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i’ve said it a million times before: videos should not autoplay by default on any social media site
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
i’ve said it a million times before: videos should not autoplay by default on any social media site
The lack of fireworks is the giveaway.
i’ll let you guess
September 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The lack of fireworks is the giveaway.
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Together we’re advancing Agentic Tech: systems that put people, not algorithms, at the center. Where transparency and ownership are built in, and technology expands human choice rather than erodes it.
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Together we’re advancing Agentic Tech: systems that put people, not algorithms, at the center. Where transparency and ownership are built in, and technology expands human choice rather than erodes it.
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Over the past few years, I’ve had the good fortune to find a community of like-minded technologists working to make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape—one in which we risk becoming subservient to the very tools we’ve built.
agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...
agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...
A quiet movement is forming: entrepreneurs building for human agency — not just agents’ sake.
Read our invitation to join the discussion around building truly agentic tech: products that preserve human agency.
agentictech.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Over the past few years, I’ve had the good fortune to find a community of like-minded technologists working to make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape—one in which we risk becoming subservient to the very tools we’ve built.
agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...
agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...
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Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.