@robertswartz.bsky.social
Born in the Mon Valley. Studied architecture, still love it. Work in advertising, live in Brooklyn. Pragmatic Progressive who knows we'll get there someday. Moonlight as servant to Gracie the cat.
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Amen
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Amen
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A spokesman for the Department of the Defense insists that Secretary Hegseth tried to contact the survivors on the Venezuelan boat by Signal chat several times before firing the second missile.
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A spokesman for the Department of the Defense insists that Secretary Hegseth tried to contact the survivors on the Venezuelan boat by Signal chat several times before firing the second missile.
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Kavanaugh stops.
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Kavanaugh stops.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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A new video captures masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles swarming the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew before hauling her away. There’s no way this was random.
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A new video captures masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles swarming the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew before hauling her away. There’s no way this was random.
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This is what I thought too.
If the first boat is a legit target, and you're picking up evidence of comms with a second that's close enough to rescue them, then the second would be a legit target too.
Of course, neither are legit targets.
If the first boat is a legit target, and you're picking up evidence of comms with a second that's close enough to rescue them, then the second would be a legit target too.
Of course, neither are legit targets.
Ok, let’s suppose these two survivors are actually drug dealers.
And they’re calling a new boat to come pick up them and the floating cocaine.
Why wouldn’t you wait til the second boat arrives and kill those bad guys, too?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
And they’re calling a new boat to come pick up them and the floating cocaine.
Why wouldn’t you wait til the second boat arrives and kill those bad guys, too?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is what I thought too.
If the first boat is a legit target, and you're picking up evidence of comms with a second that's close enough to rescue them, then the second would be a legit target too.
Of course, neither are legit targets.
If the first boat is a legit target, and you're picking up evidence of comms with a second that's close enough to rescue them, then the second would be a legit target too.
Of course, neither are legit targets.
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The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information. n.pr/4oyViHW
'New York Times' sues Pentagon over media restrictions
The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The Times accuses Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of violating its constitutional rights with a press policy that, the paper says, deprives the public of access to critical national security information. n.pr/4oyViHW
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Shocking to see Stefanik, Greene, and Mace figure out they're disposable to MAGA. It's almost as if they lent their being to a movement that doesn't even recognize their humanity.
Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson
Female lawmakers in the House GOP conference have had some high-profile splits with leadership in recent weeks. Some are heading for the exits.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Shocking to see Stefanik, Greene, and Mace figure out they're disposable to MAGA. It's almost as if they lent their being to a movement that doesn't even recognize their humanity.
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Just a straight up Klan rant at this point. His ability to control his impulses is declining by the day.
Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Just a straight up Klan rant at this point. His ability to control his impulses is declining by the day.
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Around 90% of Somalis in Minnesota are US citizens. Republicans call them "illegals" because they aren't white.
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Around 90% of Somalis in Minnesota are US citizens. Republicans call them "illegals" because they aren't white.
Welcome to today's episode of tautology and the pull quote.
Waabi founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun explains to Fast Company what differentiates the self-driving truck company's simulators from the competition. "We built something very different," she says. f-st.co/20ufWNh
Here's how Waabi teaches self-driving trucks to navigate safely
Waabi's simulators, says founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun, expose the vehicle's full stack to many different situations.
f-st.co
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Welcome to today's episode of tautology and the pull quote.
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It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
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It’s just open white supremacy at this point.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It’s just open white supremacy at this point.
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"And if not, definitely, 2027. And we expect 2028 to be a killer year. 2029, perhaps a little dip. 2030—gangbusters, and just you wait until 2031. You can take that to the bank."
HANNITY: What does that mean for people at all that maybe still aren't feeling the impact of the economic policies?
BESSENT: I think 2026 is gonna be a great year
BESSENT: I think 2026 is gonna be a great year
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"And if not, definitely, 2027. And we expect 2028 to be a killer year. 2029, perhaps a little dip. 2030—gangbusters, and just you wait until 2031. You can take that to the bank."
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12 former @fda.gov commissioners from both parties just went on the record in @nejm.org calling Vinay Prasad’s vaccine framework a threat to public health. They bring more than 3 decades of leadership at the agency, and it is hard to think of a more forceful warning. 🧵
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2517497"It
December 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
12 former @fda.gov commissioners from both parties just went on the record in @nejm.org calling Vinay Prasad’s vaccine framework a threat to public health. They bring more than 3 decades of leadership at the agency, and it is hard to think of a more forceful warning. 🧵
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
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Ishmael clinging to Queequeg’s floating coffin was still actively trying to kill Moby Dick, says subordinate white whale
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Ishmael clinging to Queequeg’s floating coffin was still actively trying to kill Moby Dick, says subordinate white whale
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Two things:
1) How can people floating in open water continue a drug run? Swim a thousand miles towing a crate?
2) More importantly, drugs are not weapons, and a drug run is not a national security threat, especially not an immediate one to the world's most powerful navy.
1) How can people floating in open water continue a drug run? Swim a thousand miles towing a crate?
2) More importantly, drugs are not weapons, and a drug run is not a national security threat, especially not an immediate one to the world's most powerful navy.
A top admiral is expected to tell lawmakers tomorrow that he and his legal adviser concluded that the two survivors of a boat strike in September were attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Two things:
1) How can people floating in open water continue a drug run? Swim a thousand miles towing a crate?
2) More importantly, drugs are not weapons, and a drug run is not a national security threat, especially not an immediate one to the world's most powerful navy.
1) How can people floating in open water continue a drug run? Swim a thousand miles towing a crate?
2) More importantly, drugs are not weapons, and a drug run is not a national security threat, especially not an immediate one to the world's most powerful navy.
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Rats gnawing on the necrotic tissue of a dying empire
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Rats gnawing on the necrotic tissue of a dying empire
I think he's banking all these awful people so it won't seem so bad when J.D. pardons him.
President Donald Trump has pardoned longtime sports and entertainment executive Tim Leiweke after he was criminally charged in July with bid-rigging related to the development of an arena at the University of Texas
Ex-Oak View CEO Leiweke Pardoned by Trump in Bid-Rigging Case
President Donald Trump pardoned longtime sports and entertainment executive Tim Leiweke after he was criminally charged in July with bid-rigging related to the development of an arena at the University of Texas.
bloom.bg
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I think he's banking all these awful people so it won't seem so bad when J.D. pardons him.
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I have been canceled and de-platformed for my political beliefs. Learn the full story in my feature-length essay in The Free Press, my interview on 60 Minutes, my chat/cooking demo on CBS Mornings, and my lecture series at the University of Austin.
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I have been canceled and de-platformed for my political beliefs. Learn the full story in my feature-length essay in The Free Press, my interview on 60 Minutes, my chat/cooking demo on CBS Mornings, and my lecture series at the University of Austin.
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Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”
So now everybody has an advent calendar?
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
So now everybody has an advent calendar?
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this is my #1 advice to grad students: anyone can reproduce jargon; the bigger flex is being able to make the argument in straightforward prose. clarity is indicative of deep thought and engagement. even chatGPT can write word salad.
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
this is my #1 advice to grad students: anyone can reproduce jargon; the bigger flex is being able to make the argument in straightforward prose. clarity is indicative of deep thought and engagement. even chatGPT can write word salad.