SwatKat Razor
@swatkatrazor.bsky.social
Rationalist, rugged indoorsman
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Must-read from AEI's brilliant Yuval Levin: Trump is personalizing presidential power but not changing laws, regulations, or even spending. Classic patrimonialism...it's all about him. status-quo-or-revolution.tiiny.co
Status Quo or Revolution?
status-quo-or-revolution.tiiny.co
October 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Must-read from AEI's brilliant Yuval Levin: Trump is personalizing presidential power but not changing laws, regulations, or even spending. Classic patrimonialism...it's all about him. status-quo-or-revolution.tiiny.co
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A US citizen & human rights defender identified as Rachel S. was abducted & beaten by ICE Trump regime forces in LA, then transported to the hospital and then a detention center, local rights defenders demand an investigation.
She is heard screaming: "Let me go! I am an American! I was born here!"
She is heard screaming: "Let me go! I am an American! I was born here!"
September 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A US citizen & human rights defender identified as Rachel S. was abducted & beaten by ICE Trump regime forces in LA, then transported to the hospital and then a detention center, local rights defenders demand an investigation.
She is heard screaming: "Let me go! I am an American! I was born here!"
She is heard screaming: "Let me go! I am an American! I was born here!"
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@sethcotlar.bsky.social, a real historian, takes on Prager U's "history" of the country. As I've heard it said on the internet, read it all. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/pragerus-t...
PragerU's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History
The outfit that's making historical content for Trump's White House and America's youth has a history of doing history that has a fairly loose relationship with the truth
sethcotlar.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
@sethcotlar.bsky.social, a real historian, takes on Prager U's "history" of the country. As I've heard it said on the internet, read it all. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/pragerus-t...
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An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers
June 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers
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Tomorrow is the big day. Our goal: to show the power of the 3.5% rule right here in the U.S. Over 100,000 coalition members and their families will be attending events across the country to help as needed.
June 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Tomorrow is the big day. Our goal: to show the power of the 3.5% rule right here in the U.S. Over 100,000 coalition members and their families will be attending events across the country to help as needed.
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Thank you @jamestalarico.bsky.social
Republicans want to do away with intellectual and critical thinking. They want to ban literary classics by hiding beyond their own personal feelings of being “offended”.
Republicans want to do away with intellectual and critical thinking. They want to ban literary classics by hiding beyond their own personal feelings of being “offended”.
BREAKING: Texas Republicans just passed a major book banning bill.
They say it’s about protecting kids from “filth.”
But when I questioned the bill author, he admitted that it could ban classics like Romeo and Juliet, Catcher in the Rye, and Lonesome Dove.
They say it’s about protecting kids from “filth.”
But when I questioned the bill author, he admitted that it could ban classics like Romeo and Juliet, Catcher in the Rye, and Lonesome Dove.
June 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Thank you @jamestalarico.bsky.social
Republicans want to do away with intellectual and critical thinking. They want to ban literary classics by hiding beyond their own personal feelings of being “offended”.
Republicans want to do away with intellectual and critical thinking. They want to ban literary classics by hiding beyond their own personal feelings of being “offended”.
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😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.”
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May 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.”
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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
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Having interacted with people of this ilk, I suspect the edgy ideas they only wanted to discuss in private were along the lines of "average people are monkeys who cannot be trusted with decisions about their own welfare in this world."
April 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Having interacted with people of this ilk, I suspect the edgy ideas they only wanted to discuss in private were along the lines of "average people are monkeys who cannot be trusted with decisions about their own welfare in this world."
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A list of importmanteaus (important + portmanteaus)…
Floor + wardrobe = floordrobe
Car + garbage = carbage
Meme + memories = meme-ories
Typo + hypochondriac = typochondriac
Drunk + uncle= drunkle
Pun + unintentional = punintentional
Shit + situation = shituation
Zombie + beavers = zombeavers
Floor + wardrobe = floordrobe
Car + garbage = carbage
Meme + memories = meme-ories
Typo + hypochondriac = typochondriac
Drunk + uncle= drunkle
Pun + unintentional = punintentional
Shit + situation = shituation
Zombie + beavers = zombeavers
April 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A list of importmanteaus (important + portmanteaus)…
Floor + wardrobe = floordrobe
Car + garbage = carbage
Meme + memories = meme-ories
Typo + hypochondriac = typochondriac
Drunk + uncle= drunkle
Pun + unintentional = punintentional
Shit + situation = shituation
Zombie + beavers = zombeavers
Floor + wardrobe = floordrobe
Car + garbage = carbage
Meme + memories = meme-ories
Typo + hypochondriac = typochondriac
Drunk + uncle= drunkle
Pun + unintentional = punintentional
Shit + situation = shituation
Zombie + beavers = zombeavers
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The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
April 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
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Oof, this needs a thread. Moin argues that (contra bluskey critics) we shouldn't hold back on criticizing the state of science because no matter what we say it'll be weaponized.
1) No one is actually arguing this
2) It *most certainly* matters.
1) No one is actually arguing this
2) It *most certainly* matters.
New post! Should we hold back criticisms of scientific practices for fear that they will be weaponized by political attacks on science? Absolutely not. We need to recognize the distinction between scientific arguments and ideological arguments. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/science-re...
Science Requires Scientists to be Critical of Science
These days, my primary motivation for engaging in projects is either irritation or spite.
getsyeducated.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oof, this needs a thread. Moin argues that (contra bluskey critics) we shouldn't hold back on criticizing the state of science because no matter what we say it'll be weaponized.
1) No one is actually arguing this
2) It *most certainly* matters.
1) No one is actually arguing this
2) It *most certainly* matters.
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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“Let my people goth.” - Emoses
April 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“Let my people goth.” - Emoses
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🚨Every word of this from AOC.
"If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.”
(🎥 NY1)
"If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.”
(🎥 NY1)
April 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚨Every word of this from AOC.
"If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.”
(🎥 NY1)
"If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.”
(🎥 NY1)
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And this:
Biden's efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing through the CHIPS and Science Act spurred a factory-building boom.
Factory construction hit its highest point in half a century, according to an August 2024 report by Moody’s Anaytics.
Biden's efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing through the CHIPS and Science Act spurred a factory-building boom.
Factory construction hit its highest point in half a century, according to an August 2024 report by Moody’s Anaytics.
April 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
And this:
Biden's efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing through the CHIPS and Science Act spurred a factory-building boom.
Factory construction hit its highest point in half a century, according to an August 2024 report by Moody’s Anaytics.
Biden's efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing through the CHIPS and Science Act spurred a factory-building boom.
Factory construction hit its highest point in half a century, according to an August 2024 report by Moody’s Anaytics.
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For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".
April 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".
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If you opened a factory yesterday, you can close it now.
April 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you opened a factory yesterday, you can close it now.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
April 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.