Leila Ryland Swain
@wvriver.bsky.social
Author, Psychologist, cat lover. Lives in Charlottesville VA. Progressive, Indivisible worker, musician. Love Old Time music and baritone ukes.
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That’s where the scotus should but their big boy & big girl panties on and rule the entirety of the legislation unconstitutional.
May 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That’s where the scotus should but their big boy & big girl panties on and rule the entirety of the legislation unconstitutional.
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Atlantic Magazine sent out its One Story to subscribers today. One guess as to what it’s about? You got it - Jake Tapper and his fairy media dust about Biden. Why Jeffery Goldberg? I liked you til now.
May 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Atlantic Magazine sent out its One Story to subscribers today. One guess as to what it’s about? You got it - Jake Tapper and his fairy media dust about Biden. Why Jeffery Goldberg? I liked you til now.
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Atlantic magazine sent their One Story out to subscribers today - and guess what it’s about? Yeah - Jake Tapper’s book and false narrative about Biden. What’s the matter with Jeffrey Goldberg! Now I have to dump them too. And I will.
May 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Atlantic magazine sent their One Story out to subscribers today - and guess what it’s about? Yeah - Jake Tapper’s book and false narrative about Biden. What’s the matter with Jeffrey Goldberg! Now I have to dump them too. And I will.
A lot of folks want to know why certain media sites are picking up on the trashing of Joe Biden. You’d think Tapper’s book was the hottest rag to hit the market and there was no other relevant news. WHY NOW is what we need to be asking. Are they bowing to the guy behind the orange makeup mask?
May 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A lot of folks want to know why certain media sites are picking up on the trashing of Joe Biden. You’d think Tapper’s book was the hottest rag to hit the market and there was no other relevant news. WHY NOW is what we need to be asking. Are they bowing to the guy behind the orange makeup mask?
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GOP Congressman McGuire from the 5th District of Virginia has a very gerrymandered district with Charlottesville, a progressive area, and the rest rural and MAGA. He refuses to show up in C’ville for a town hall.
April 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
GOP Congressman McGuire from the 5th District of Virginia has a very gerrymandered district with Charlottesville, a progressive area, and the rest rural and MAGA. He refuses to show up in C’ville for a town hall.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that Ossoff and Warnock’s Senate seats were stolen.
April 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that Ossoff and Warnock’s Senate seats were stolen.
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Just A Reminder Of What We Are Dealing With Daily….
April 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Just A Reminder Of What We Are Dealing With Daily….
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Supreme Court: We were ok with some form of feudalism. Full fledged fascism makes us nervous.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. Thomas, Alito dissent.
April 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Supreme Court: We were ok with some form of feudalism. Full fledged fascism makes us nervous.
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so as i understand it the president has driven an improvised fertilizer bomb directly into the foundation of global trade?
April 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
so as i understand it the president has driven an improvised fertilizer bomb directly into the foundation of global trade?
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it's like the U.S. is throwing a giant measles party
April 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
it's like the U.S. is throwing a giant measles party
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They love this “run the government like a business” canard coz it conjures images of efficiency and accountability.
The reality is, it’s about increasing profits for the few over the wellbeing of the many.
If the government operated the way a business does, the citizenry should rightfully revolt.
The reality is, it’s about increasing profits for the few over the wellbeing of the many.
If the government operated the way a business does, the citizenry should rightfully revolt.
March 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
They love this “run the government like a business” canard coz it conjures images of efficiency and accountability.
The reality is, it’s about increasing profits for the few over the wellbeing of the many.
If the government operated the way a business does, the citizenry should rightfully revolt.
The reality is, it’s about increasing profits for the few over the wellbeing of the many.
If the government operated the way a business does, the citizenry should rightfully revolt.
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If your plan is to keep your head down and hope it goes away, I can show you all of human history why it won’t work.
If it’s to capitulate and hope they ignore you, I can show you thousands of Trumpers who’ve already lost their jobs & savings.
Fighting back isn’t an option.
It’s the only option.
If it’s to capitulate and hope they ignore you, I can show you thousands of Trumpers who’ve already lost their jobs & savings.
Fighting back isn’t an option.
It’s the only option.
March 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If your plan is to keep your head down and hope it goes away, I can show you all of human history why it won’t work.
If it’s to capitulate and hope they ignore you, I can show you thousands of Trumpers who’ve already lost their jobs & savings.
Fighting back isn’t an option.
It’s the only option.
If it’s to capitulate and hope they ignore you, I can show you thousands of Trumpers who’ve already lost their jobs & savings.
Fighting back isn’t an option.
It’s the only option.
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It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.
March 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.
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When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.
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March 27, 2025
March 27, 2025
Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on ...
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March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
March 27, 2025
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Pulling Stefanik nom is a sign of GOP panic. If they think her R+20 district would be in play were she to leave, they realize they are in deep political peril re: 2026. As they are.
March 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Pulling Stefanik nom is a sign of GOP panic. If they think her R+20 district would be in play were she to leave, they realize they are in deep political peril re: 2026. As they are.
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Is she lying—or just too stupid to know the difference between the truth and the lies she’s been fed?
March 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Is she lying—or just too stupid to know the difference between the truth and the lies she’s been fed?
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March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025
From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
March 17, 2025
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Well that’s a headline I did not except to see. Ever.
March 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Well that’s a headline I did not except to see. Ever.