Nicholas Sarwark
@sarwark.org
Self determination advocate.
Keeping Phoenix families on the road with Consolidated Auto Sales & Service, educating civic leaders with the Libertarian Policy Foundation, providing affordable self-defense with the Altor.
https://nsarwark.substack.com/
Keeping Phoenix families on the road with Consolidated Auto Sales & Service, educating civic leaders with the Libertarian Policy Foundation, providing affordable self-defense with the Altor.
https://nsarwark.substack.com/
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We are entering a deep recession brought on by Donald Trump's lawless policies as we go into Thanksgiving and Christmas.
You can stretch your money by shopping at thrift shops and yard sales and eBay for household tools and holiday gifts.
Used goods are already imported and avoid the tariffs.
You can stretch your money by shopping at thrift shops and yard sales and eBay for household tools and holiday gifts.
Used goods are already imported and avoid the tariffs.
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Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
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So does the non-ideological 38%, that values affordability above all else, actually vote?
If they did, then it's difficult to imagine they'd vote republican given the gop's punitive economic policies & the 38%'s priorities from this word frequency distribution.
If they did, then it's difficult to imagine they'd vote republican given the gop's punitive economic policies & the 38%'s priorities from this word frequency distribution.
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
So does the non-ideological 38%, that values affordability above all else, actually vote?
If they did, then it's difficult to imagine they'd vote republican given the gop's punitive economic policies & the 38%'s priorities from this word frequency distribution.
If they did, then it's difficult to imagine they'd vote republican given the gop's punitive economic policies & the 38%'s priorities from this word frequency distribution.
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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 12:12 AM
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
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In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
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It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
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Patio11 recently did a post and podcast on it on how this is a US peculiarity and a racket www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/the...
The $4,000 insurance policy designed to never pay out
Most Americans will transact property multiple times over their lives, paying thousands in title insurance each time. Here's what you're actually paying for.
www.complexsystemspodcast.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Patio11 recently did a post and podcast on it on how this is a US peculiarity and a racket www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/the...
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On page 2 of this, reading about 5 millenia of governments keeping track of land-ownership details, and muttering to myself, “100s of billions in AI Capex in America, and I still need to get effing title insurance!%*#??!”
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
On page 2 of this, reading about 5 millenia of governments keeping track of land-ownership details, and muttering to myself, “100s of billions in AI Capex in America, and I still need to get effing title insurance!%*#??!”
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RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
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Just absurd, wallet inspector victim-level credulity here. Humiliating and shameful.
RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Note the language in second photo.
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Just absurd, wallet inspector victim-level credulity here. Humiliating and shameful.
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We partnered with @pablo.show to investigate Riley Gaines' rise to MAGA stardom. @msjpauly.bsky.social dug up docs that reveal the right-wing funders behind her ascent and spoke to puzzled teammates who wonder what happened to her.
Read ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
Watch/listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUl...
Read ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
Watch/listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUl...
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We partnered with @pablo.show to investigate Riley Gaines' rise to MAGA stardom. @msjpauly.bsky.social dug up docs that reveal the right-wing funders behind her ascent and spoke to puzzled teammates who wonder what happened to her.
Read ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
Watch/listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUl...
Read ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
Watch/listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUl...
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For perspective, the last time a majority of white people voted for a Democratic candidate for president was in 1964 for Lyndon Johnson.
Generic Ballot Polling Among White Voters:
🔵 Democrats: 50%
🔴 Republicans: 46%
Marist / Nov 13, 2025
🔵 Democrats: 50%
🔴 Republicans: 46%
Marist / Nov 13, 2025
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
For perspective, the last time a majority of white people voted for a Democratic candidate for president was in 1964 for Lyndon Johnson.
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Huckabee Held Meeting at U.S. Embassy With American Who Spied for Israel
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Then it turned out - Israel being a small place - that a good friend's cousin had married him when he was in prison. (The opinion of the rest of the family was that this was crazy and he was a shit.)
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Then it turned out - Israel being a small place - that a good friend's cousin had married him when he was in prison. (The opinion of the rest of the family was that this was crazy and he was a shit.)
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so a couple of notes on this. a) everybody in US intelligence I've ever talked to about this *despises* Pollard, b) although he tried to portray himself as devoted to Israel, he was casting around to sell secrets to other people, including the South Africans, for cash.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
so a couple of notes on this. a) everybody in US intelligence I've ever talked to about this *despises* Pollard, b) although he tried to portray himself as devoted to Israel, he was casting around to sell secrets to other people, including the South Africans, for cash.
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Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.
Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
This article is devastating.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.
Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.
Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
This article is devastating.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.
Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
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People are like "how come so many people are on ADHD meds when no one used to be on drugs" and my gosh watch one single episode of Mad Men please
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
People are like "how come so many people are on ADHD meds when no one used to be on drugs" and my gosh watch one single episode of Mad Men please
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after experimenting for a while I have to say the “followers only” reply setting is absolutely worth it
I still get nonsense; at this account size that’s pretty unavoidable
what I get less of is open hostility, surprisingly few people are willing to follow you in order to leave a rude reply
I still get nonsense; at this account size that’s pretty unavoidable
what I get less of is open hostility, surprisingly few people are willing to follow you in order to leave a rude reply
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
after experimenting for a while I have to say the “followers only” reply setting is absolutely worth it
I still get nonsense; at this account size that’s pretty unavoidable
what I get less of is open hostility, surprisingly few people are willing to follow you in order to leave a rude reply
I still get nonsense; at this account size that’s pretty unavoidable
what I get less of is open hostility, surprisingly few people are willing to follow you in order to leave a rude reply
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Its very funny to me that the day a right wing capitalist president suggested executing the opposing party, all the centrists on here decided to spend 10 hours shrieking about hallucinated internet communists
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Its very funny to me that the day a right wing capitalist president suggested executing the opposing party, all the centrists on here decided to spend 10 hours shrieking about hallucinated internet communists
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If you're interested in this topic you can watch this interview I did on Substack or read this (co)author's book: The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony asharangappa.substack.com/p/class-48-h...
Class 48. Harnessing a Common Identity to Promote Democracy
Is there a way to get people to identify with the traits that unite, rather than divide us to change their thinking and behave in our collective interests?
asharangappa.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If you're interested in this topic you can watch this interview I did on Substack or read this (co)author's book: The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony asharangappa.substack.com/p/class-48-h...
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Trump and Hegesth need people to be mindless zombies, only follow the orders that their given, not think more holistically about them. So literally anything that might cause someone to question: Is this order aligned with my oath? is a huge threat. To them, "treason" (which it's not) /END
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Trump and Hegesth need people to be mindless zombies, only follow the orders that their given, not think more holistically about them. So literally anything that might cause someone to question: Is this order aligned with my oath? is a huge threat. To them, "treason" (which it's not) /END
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What the ad does is remind servicemembers of their duty/loyalty to the Constitution, not to the person giving them orders. It is a subtle reorientation of their duty to higher principles. But for Trump and Hegseth, this is a problem 4/
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
What the ad does is remind servicemembers of their duty/loyalty to the Constitution, not to the person giving them orders. It is a subtle reorientation of their duty to higher principles. But for Trump and Hegseth, this is a problem 4/
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Studies show, for example, that triggering someone's "civic" identity can help them evaluate information more objectively. So someone who is fiercely political actually has the capacity to be more impartial once they are empaneled on a jury and see themselves as a "juror" 3/
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Studies show, for example, that triggering someone's "civic" identity can help them evaluate information more objectively. So someone who is fiercely political actually has the capacity to be more impartial once they are empaneled on a jury and see themselves as a "juror" 3/
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So, for instance, I am a mom, a lawyer, a professor, a woman, a child of immigrants, among many identities I have. Depending on which on is triggered, I may interpret and evaluate the same situation in different ways -- in other words, the lens through which I see the world can change 2/
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
So, for instance, I am a mom, a lawyer, a professor, a woman, a child of immigrants, among many identities I have. Depending on which on is triggered, I may interpret and evaluate the same situation in different ways -- in other words, the lens through which I see the world can change 2/