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swenson.bsky.social
Retired regional scientist & university lecturer. Runner, hiker, meanderer, antifascist, free-thinker, and sadly, too often an invasive species.
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“We are a one-party state. That is not democracy.” open.substack.com/pub/artculle...

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Ditto!

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Blink, blink, blink

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It is important to understand what a complete and unqualified failure Elon Musk and DOGE has been. (📸 Wall Street Journal)

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Yet another reminder that DOGE=DUD.

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“It is axiomatic that there is no education in the second kick of a mule.” But yet…. (Gift article) wapo.st/4jeroXt

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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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What today looks like to all those who bought the dip(shit) yesterday youtu.be/7-dUzkUAQfQ?...

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Provide what? is my stock response to that inane utterance

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Wheeeeee!

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Eat shit Summit Carbon Solutions

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“Where America failed was not in its relations with other countries, it was in not sharing the fruits of its victory broadly among its people. Becoming a Latin American country from the 1970s will not fix that.” wapo.st/4crpqk2

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Blink

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An insult to Edsels

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I'll take the under, thanks

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MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

submitted 7 days ago • 333 comments

Our government has gone INSANE.

submitted 8 days ago • 320 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 8 days ago • 1139 comments

Yup

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JFC! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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This is one of those days where I really miss Molly Ivins.

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My lord

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Oh, this is gonna make the rounds. 🤡 #PenguinTariff 🐧

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Elon Musk decided to turn a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin into a referendum on Elon Musk. You’ll never believe what happened next.

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

!!

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As usual, excellent: open.substack.com/pub/riverrac...

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Sorry, liberals, the United States is not an oligarchic democracy, it’s an oligarchic republic.

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💯 Fresh woodcut from my beloved artist Michael Kuch. Free download in comment below

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So much winning. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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DOGE=DUD

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lol #BoycottUSA

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Either way, farmers just love those Trump bucks. They actually came out way ahead after the 2018-2019 tariff shocks given the subsequent federal bailouts.

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Move fast and break things is what unsupervised toddlers do in the kitchen

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This!!

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Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.

submitted 16 days ago • 375 comments

Good that your university has leadership to amplify

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NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

submitted 17 days ago • 337 comments

Public service posting for central Iowans so inclined

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Gift: Noem’s disgusting photo op reviewed wapo.st/3DVVEqG

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Pathetic 💯🇵🇷

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

New post by Randy Evans: While Columbia University gave in to pressure from the government, Drake University (Iowa's largest private school) stood firm against the tide of federal and state mandates to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/03/27/d...

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Among oodles of other content, Apple News subscribers have access to The Atlantic.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 20 days ago • 1070 comments

Cartoon by @danboriscreates.bsky.social

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This Day in Labor History: March 25, 1911. 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. Let's talk about the horrors of the Triangle Fire, what changed, and what remains the same 114 years later (mostly it's all the same)

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Japanese warriors knew what to do in the face of dishonor: seppuku www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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