Mike Zwick
@fezzwick.bsky.social
Lucky husband of Hafsa, father to 7 great kids and owner of a Good Dog. Pretty avid gamer as well
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Mike Zwick
@fezzwick.bsky.social
· Apr 9
AFAIK, I've played about 50 RPG systems: Dungeons & Dragons 1st-5.5 editions, Gamma World 1st and 2nd Editions, Mothership, Alien, Mutant Year Zero, Hyperborea, Call of Catthulhu, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Shadow of the Weird Wizard, Star Wars d20, Star Wars Saga, Star Wars (FFG),
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This is what makes me crazy.
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
utterly incapable of grace
December 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This is what makes me crazy.
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Now the boss owns 177 homes, and workers still can't pay rent.
December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Now the boss owns 177 homes, and workers still can't pay rent.
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oh look a real unemployment problem
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM
US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November
The unemployment rate for two U.S. groups that are often the most vulnerable to job loss in a softening economy - Blacks and teenagers - surged to the highest levels in more than four years in November, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
reut.rs
December 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
oh look a real unemployment problem
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People are going to die
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
People are going to die
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Wow.
Stephen Miller's cousin unloads on him:
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wow.
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If you give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair and don’t know whether or not you are on or off the record - then you are not qualified to be a chief of staff.
Speaking as a chief of staff.
Speaking as a chief of staff.
December 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If you give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair and don’t know whether or not you are on or off the record - then you are not qualified to be a chief of staff.
Speaking as a chief of staff.
Speaking as a chief of staff.
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Sherrone Moore is a terrible husband (quoting my mom: his wife is pretty, what the hell was he thinking?) and absolutely abused his position of power. His career and income stream is (rightfully) over for rest of his life at 39.
If the woman he was involved with is who they say, she is over 30 yo
If the woman he was involved with is who they say, she is over 30 yo
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Sherrone Moore is a terrible husband (quoting my mom: his wife is pretty, what the hell was he thinking?) and absolutely abused his position of power. His career and income stream is (rightfully) over for rest of his life at 39.
If the woman he was involved with is who they say, she is over 30 yo
If the woman he was involved with is who they say, she is over 30 yo
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Just reflecting that a bunch of men who literally raped #children are still out there running the freaking world right now.
Just infuriating.
Just infuriating.
December 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Just reflecting that a bunch of men who literally raped #children are still out there running the freaking world right now.
Just infuriating.
Just infuriating.
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“You don’t really kind of grasp the scale of what’s going on until you see it in person,” he said.
Great piece and great writing @hunterw.bsky.social
Great piece and great writing @hunterw.bsky.social
As part of our TPM series on the realities of mass deportation in New York, I spent a lot of time over these past few months in ICE court.
Here is what I saw.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
Here is what I saw.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“You don’t really kind of grasp the scale of what’s going on until you see it in person,” he said.
Great piece and great writing @hunterw.bsky.social
Great piece and great writing @hunterw.bsky.social
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"Trump Is Already Discussing Preemptive Pardons For His Lawless Administration"
The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
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The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
Read/share/subscribe:
Trump Is Already Discussing Preemptive Pardons For His Lawless Administration
The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
zeteo.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Trump Is Already Discussing Preemptive Pardons For His Lawless Administration"
The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
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The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
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The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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Is Texas' crypto industry draining the grid?
Report: Texas crypto mines gobble more power than two major cities combined
Is Texas' crypto industry draining the grid?
bit.ly
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Is Texas' crypto industry draining the grid?
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UPDATE: I've heard from Jose's family. He's apparently been transferred to an ICE detention center in TX, but it's been days since they've been able to speak with him.
He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.
He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.
You can hear Jose scream in excruciating pain as an ICE vehicle runs over his foot while he's being detained.
His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing.
He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.
His family says Jose is a good man, with no criminal record, who works in roofing.
He needs to be released from detention to receive appropriate medical care.
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
UPDATE: I've heard from Jose's family. He's apparently been transferred to an ICE detention center in TX, but it's been days since they've been able to speak with him.
He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.
He needs medical care and to be able to speak with his family and lawyer. This obscene cruelty helps no one.
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The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.
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I'd like to think this is the final blow for a narcissist with a 30% hit rate as a director who has exercised a stranglehold over culture my whole life. Probably not though!
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'd like to think this is the final blow for a narcissist with a 30% hit rate as a director who has exercised a stranglehold over culture my whole life. Probably not though!
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Honestly if these standards of lawyering are permitted it will no longer rightly be called a “profession.”
A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
December 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Honestly if these standards of lawyering are permitted it will no longer rightly be called a “profession.”
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DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin sent me a statement denying there is an ICE "detention center" at 26 Federal Plaza.
There are dozens of affidavits and videos showing harsh detention conditions there. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
There are dozens of affidavits and videos showing harsh detention conditions there. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin sent me a statement denying there is an ICE "detention center" at 26 Federal Plaza.
There are dozens of affidavits and videos showing harsh detention conditions there. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
There are dozens of affidavits and videos showing harsh detention conditions there. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...
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plz repost Kelly's post below!
***IMPORTANT THREAD*****
If you are anywhere near York County, South Carolina, PLEASE show up to their board meeting tomorrow. It is, of course and intentionally, at NOON tomorrow at For Mill Library.
Here's York County Library's background, yes, still ongoing: bookriot.com/whats-happen...
If you are anywhere near York County, South Carolina, PLEASE show up to their board meeting tomorrow. It is, of course and intentionally, at NOON tomorrow at For Mill Library.
Here's York County Library's background, yes, still ongoing: bookriot.com/whats-happen...
What's Happening in York County Library (SC) Should Be A Wakeup Call
Poor recording keeping, debates over what was or was not said and voted on, and special interests plague more than just this library system.
bookriot.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
plz repost Kelly's post below!
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soft music. is it time to have that talk with grandpa?
Q: “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd.”
Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.”
Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”
Trump: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.”
Trump on Dec. 3: “Whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem.”
December 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
soft music. is it time to have that talk with grandpa?
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NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
NEW: A new congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica reporting has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces her campaign for U.S. Senate for Texas with an ad that uses Trump’s own words against her.
December 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces her campaign for U.S. Senate for Texas with an ad that uses Trump’s own words against her.
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Thread, long but very worth it.
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Thread, long but very worth it.
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A review by Mother Jones and the Project On Government Oversight shows that a number of Tom Homan’s former clients from his time in the private sector have been awarded lucrative border and immigration-related contracts during the second Trump administration.
Border czar’s former clients cash in on Trump’s immigration crackdown
“So we’ve been trying to get access to Tom Homan…”
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A review by Mother Jones and the Project On Government Oversight shows that a number of Tom Homan’s former clients from his time in the private sector have been awarded lucrative border and immigration-related contracts during the second Trump administration.
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring - defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring - defector.com/the-conserva...