Swamp Mariner
@swampmariner.bsky.social
Pissed off pro-democracy citizen
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Absolutely lawless. The people against the creation of DHS were right. The people saying abolish ice so long ago were right. The people saying it now are right. Any elected official who is unwilling to commit to that should be pilloried out of office.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Absolutely lawless. The people against the creation of DHS were right. The people saying abolish ice so long ago were right. The people saying it now are right. Any elected official who is unwilling to commit to that should be pilloried out of office.
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Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
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everyone who was mad about Trump's "dictator on day one" promise in 2024 has been fully vindicated. and if you were part of the crowd saying it was trump derangement syndrome to take him seriously i don't think we can fully trust your judgment about where his 2nd term is headed
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
everyone who was mad about Trump's "dictator on day one" promise in 2024 has been fully vindicated. and if you were part of the crowd saying it was trump derangement syndrome to take him seriously i don't think we can fully trust your judgment about where his 2nd term is headed
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the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.
Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
WARNER: It used to take 5 to 6 months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach
KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait
WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts
KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait
WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts
January 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.
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Seeing people do "here's the savvy take on how and why the US should acquire Greenland" and just feeling so *embarrassed* for them. Have some dignity. You don't need to be an apologist for the world's dumbest autocrat, you're not somehow sophisticated for seeing The Smart Play on imperial vainglory.
January 11, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Seeing people do "here's the savvy take on how and why the US should acquire Greenland" and just feeling so *embarrassed* for them. Have some dignity. You don't need to be an apologist for the world's dumbest autocrat, you're not somehow sophisticated for seeing The Smart Play on imperial vainglory.
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/2 (4) Also they know that praising a murderer enrages and horrifies decent people and (5) they hate and resent decent people because they are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture and they know it
January 8, 2026 at 2:07 AM
/2 (4) Also they know that praising a murderer enrages and horrifies decent people and (5) they hate and resent decent people because they are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture and they know it
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abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point
January 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point
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Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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But underlying it, the reason it's not just him muttering about it from time to time, is all the people around him ideologically hate the idea that we should be friends and allies with other liberal democracies. Because they hate and want to destroy liberal democracy, full stop. Here and globally.
January 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
But underlying it, the reason it's not just him muttering about it from time to time, is all the people around him ideologically hate the idea that we should be friends and allies with other liberal democracies. Because they hate and want to destroy liberal democracy, full stop. Here and globally.
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
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Further ironies in the new War Powers report for the Venezuela invasion.
"Maduro unlawfully refused to peacefully cede power after
Venezuelans voted him out of office in the most recent
election." 6/n
"Maduro unlawfully refused to peacefully cede power after
Venezuelans voted him out of office in the most recent
election." 6/n
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Further ironies in the new War Powers report for the Venezuela invasion.
"Maduro unlawfully refused to peacefully cede power after
Venezuelans voted him out of office in the most recent
election." 6/n
"Maduro unlawfully refused to peacefully cede power after
Venezuelans voted him out of office in the most recent
election." 6/n
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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Perhaps I can help this research effort.
1. Origins of TDS lie in revulsion at a dangerous bigot coming to power.
2. Manifestations of TDS include joining others to resist Trump’s authoritarian efforts.
3. Effects of TDS are an enlivening of the intellect snd a sharpening of the conscience.
1. Origins of TDS lie in revulsion at a dangerous bigot coming to power.
2. Manifestations of TDS include joining others to resist Trump’s authoritarian efforts.
3. Effects of TDS are an enlivening of the intellect snd a sharpening of the conscience.
Shamp’s Senate Bill 1070 would direct the #Arizona Dept of Health Services to conduct or support research to “advance the understanding of Trump Derangement Syndrome, including its origins, manifestations and long-term effects on individuals, communities and public discourse.”
Arizona lawmaker wants state to study ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
What, your heart isn't bursting with love for the commander in chief? Are you feeling OK?
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Perhaps I can help this research effort.
1. Origins of TDS lie in revulsion at a dangerous bigot coming to power.
2. Manifestations of TDS include joining others to resist Trump’s authoritarian efforts.
3. Effects of TDS are an enlivening of the intellect snd a sharpening of the conscience.
1. Origins of TDS lie in revulsion at a dangerous bigot coming to power.
2. Manifestations of TDS include joining others to resist Trump’s authoritarian efforts.
3. Effects of TDS are an enlivening of the intellect snd a sharpening of the conscience.
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Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional.
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional.
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
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There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
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That we just keep rolling along with pretending he's not manifestly non compos mentis will be studied by future generations as a kind of mass psychosis.
December 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
That we just keep rolling along with pretending he's not manifestly non compos mentis will be studied by future generations as a kind of mass psychosis.
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The difference is not cultural or moral or social. It’s that Australia is a democracy, with electoral, legislative, & judicial that translate the preferences of majorities into policy.
We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
December 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The difference is not cultural or moral or social. It’s that Australia is a democracy, with electoral, legislative, & judicial that translate the preferences of majorities into policy.
We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We, too, could have those, but we have to stop ignoring the problem:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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I sincerely hope that, if/when the Trump authoritarian attempt fails, the lesson that people draw is not that US democracy was never at risk. That would be replaying 2021, and as we have seen, the forces of authoritarianism will still be around for the foreseeable future.
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I sincerely hope that, if/when the Trump authoritarian attempt fails, the lesson that people draw is not that US democracy was never at risk. That would be replaying 2021, and as we have seen, the forces of authoritarianism will still be around for the foreseeable future.
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In other words, Americans should be ashamed that a migration flow so pathetically small compared to a population of over 300 million is being used to trick them into collaborating with the destruction of their own democratic norms and institutions
The story (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...) also lets people believe a million immigrants is a lot. It's not. In 2023 there were 32 million immigrants here who arrived in the last 26 years -- well over a million a year. A healthy level of immigration is probably higher than that.
December 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In other words, Americans should be ashamed that a migration flow so pathetically small compared to a population of over 300 million is being used to trick them into collaborating with the destruction of their own democratic norms and institutions
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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When ABC paid $15M to settle a lawsuit it would have won, it may have thought it bought peace with Trump.
Instead, it invited more bullying.
Yesterday, Trump called an ABC reporter ”insubordinate” and threatened ABC’s licenses. Today, more abuse.
You either fight Trump or he owns you.
Instead, it invited more bullying.
Yesterday, Trump called an ABC reporter ”insubordinate” and threatened ABC’s licenses. Today, more abuse.
You either fight Trump or he owns you.
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
When ABC paid $15M to settle a lawsuit it would have won, it may have thought it bought peace with Trump.
Instead, it invited more bullying.
Yesterday, Trump called an ABC reporter ”insubordinate” and threatened ABC’s licenses. Today, more abuse.
You either fight Trump or he owns you.
Instead, it invited more bullying.
Yesterday, Trump called an ABC reporter ”insubordinate” and threatened ABC’s licenses. Today, more abuse.
You either fight Trump or he owns you.
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Pam Bondi better be in prison and fined into penury when this is all over.
Law license? Can we PLEASE start talking about real consequences for elite lawlessness and attacks on the American republic?
Law license? Can we PLEASE start talking about real consequences for elite lawlessness and attacks on the American republic?
Pam Bondi will not have a license to practice law when this is all over. You can’t stay a bar member and agree to investigate only members of one political party for child sexual abuse but not members of the other. And, you can’t do it after previously saying no one else could be charged.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Pam Bondi better be in prison and fined into penury when this is all over.
Law license? Can we PLEASE start talking about real consequences for elite lawlessness and attacks on the American republic?
Law license? Can we PLEASE start talking about real consequences for elite lawlessness and attacks on the American republic?
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So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
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People really need to stop framing it is a question of getting more evidence. I mean, sure, that too. But we know. We all know. The president of the United States raped children. Say that. When they get mad at you for saying it, say it again and treat them like an idiot for pretending they doubt it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
People really need to stop framing it is a question of getting more evidence. I mean, sure, that too. But we know. We all know. The president of the United States raped children. Say that. When they get mad at you for saying it, say it again and treat them like an idiot for pretending they doubt it.