Ruven Schwartz
@ruvenschwartz.bsky.social
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The American people want the Epstein Files, not Greenland.
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The American people want the Epstein Files, not Greenland.
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Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
www.propublica.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
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Today, it’s not your vote that determines whether the government brutalizes you or sends officers to your door. It’s your neighbors’ vote.
If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.
In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.
In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Today, it’s not your vote that determines whether the government brutalizes you or sends officers to your door. It’s your neighbors’ vote.
If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.
In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.
In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
Watching Chairman Powell’s video response to Trump reminded me of George Bailey telling Mr Potter that what galled him was not being able to get hold of the Bailey Savings & Loan
January 13, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Watching Chairman Powell’s video response to Trump reminded me of George Bailey telling Mr Potter that what galled him was not being able to get hold of the Bailey Savings & Loan
A typical Sunday morning — Bubka on squirrel patrol while Austin guards the sectional
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
A typical Sunday morning — Bubka on squirrel patrol while Austin guards the sectional
How’s your morning?
January 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
How’s your morning?
A good day is a day with a second cup before 6am
Good morning
Good morning
December 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A good day is a day with a second cup before 6am
Good morning
Good morning
forward.com/opinion/7914... Forward Association #TodaysReading — silence is complicity because it CAN happen here
The Israel news we don’t hear – and the forces that silence us
There are layers of truth that we can unearth if we acknowledge them, but silence makes pain invisible and threatens us.
forward.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
forward.com/opinion/7914... Forward Association #TodaysReading — silence is complicity because it CAN happen here
Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation
Trump is not that deep. He demands loyalty and unthinking obedience. Anyone interfering with that loyalty and unthinking obedience in any way is a traitor. That is all.
Reminder: If Trump believed even for one minute his orders to the military were always going to be lawful, he would’ve endorsed the PSA from democratic lawmakers, not threatened to have them arrested and executed.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Trump is not that deep. He demands loyalty and unthinking obedience. Anyone interfering with that loyalty and unthinking obedience in any way is a traitor. That is all.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This quote below is from Tom Murton, who was hired in the 1960s to reform Arkansas' worst prison. The governor fired him less than a year later after he started excavating unmarked graves of murdered inmates and inviting national media to write about it. Ended up running a duck farm.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This quote below is from Tom Murton, who was hired in the 1960s to reform Arkansas' worst prison. The governor fired him less than a year later after he started excavating unmarked graves of murdered inmates and inviting national media to write about it. Ended up running a duck farm.
#TodaysReading is from The Atlantic, President Piggy, by Sophie Gilbert, an excerpt:
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
#TodaysReading is from The Atlantic, President Piggy, by Sophie Gilbert, an excerpt:
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Check out Piggy’s “hot” economy.
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Check out Piggy’s “hot” economy.
#TodaysReading is from A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman. Survival of the fittest operates at the most sensitive levels.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#TodaysReading is from A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman. Survival of the fittest operates at the most sensitive levels.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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#TodaysReading is from p.93 of the Granta paperback The Torch in my Ear, by Elias Canetti, 1981 Nobel Laureate, talking with a man famous for being a great public speaker
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
#TodaysReading is from p.93 of the Granta paperback The Torch in my Ear, by Elias Canetti, 1981 Nobel Laureate, talking with a man famous for being a great public speaker
#TodaysReading, page 32 of A Natural History of the Senses, by Diane Ackerman. Turns out ACHOO is an acronym for a syndrome that results in a sneeze. Gotta respect a solid acronym.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
#TodaysReading, page 32 of A Natural History of the Senses, by Diane Ackerman. Turns out ACHOO is an acronym for a syndrome that results in a sneeze. Gotta respect a solid acronym.
@thenewrepublic.bsky.social channels @theonion.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@thenewrepublic.bsky.social channels @theonion.com
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November 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#TodaysReading: Krakatoa, by Simon Winchester, p85, celebrates scientific evidence that the earth moves, a theory in dispute before this data was gathered. Magnetized basalt rocks “frozen” in Tertiary times, some thirty million years earlier, were used to prove tectonic plates exist.
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#TodaysReading: Krakatoa, by Simon Winchester, p85, celebrates scientific evidence that the earth moves, a theory in dispute before this data was gathered. Magnetized basalt rocks “frozen” in Tertiary times, some thirty million years earlier, were used to prove tectonic plates exist.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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October 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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