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Posts by Carl Atiya Swanson

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

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Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley with an energetic presentation in favor of saving HCMC and in favor zero waste. It's an uphill climb against the death and trash lobbies.

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I started a podcast where the first ad was for “Pepsi Prebiotic Cola” and just WTF are we doing here?

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The Senate GOP is selling out America’s public lands to foreign mining.

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Gonna start a band called Chaotic Food and only have restaurant influencers post about it.

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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

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Glückwunsch @wesburdine.bsky.social und @blackhartstp.com!

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I love that Minneapolis is a town where a room full of people will sit in absolute silence while someone tunes their banjo in front of a projection of a flower before playing a song about trumpeter swans.

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The Governor’s Supplemental Budget Has One Transit Line Item. It’s a Cut. Walz is looking to cut transit funding again — while ignoring a billion-dollar annual highway maintenance crisis stemming from the fourth-largest road network in the country.

Great idea to cut transit funding right at the outbreak of a prolonged oil shortage. Minnesota lawmakers should do precisely the opposite of what Walz is proposing. streets.mn/2026/04/07/t...

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A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

God help us.

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The breads are risen, they are risen indeed.

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"Is there any sense of decency left in you?" The question that hangs over our age.

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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there has to be something deeply wrong in your soul to be able to say "idk if this is a genocide and an apartheid state actually"

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RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted Who could have possibly predicted this, besides everyone?

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people."
www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

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Ina Garten Brings In Intimacy Coordinator For Shot With Fresh Lemon Tart

Ina Garten Brings In Intimacy Coordinator For Shot With Fresh Lemon Tart

Ina Garten Brings In Intimacy Coordinator For Shot With Fresh Lemon Tart theonion.com/ina-garten-brings-in-int...

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“Proceeds Will Go To…: A Brief Guide to Selling Art and Merch to Raise Money for Direct Support and Mutual Aid, which is available to download for free…”

Great resource at www.birchwoodpalace.com/pdfs

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You know someone who deeply loved those books, who read them over and over, who cosplayed as Harry and Hermione and "Steampunk Hermione," who identified as a Ravenclaw and quietly fantasized about how maybe it was real and a Hogwarts Letter would someday arrive? MY TRANS KID.

Fuck you, JKR.

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In the words of the great Frederick Douglass about the cult of Robert E. Lee, “is it it not about time that this bombastic laudation of the rebel chief should cease?”

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Testified in the Senate Jobs Committee today on behalf of small business relief and the importance of trusted partners in getting funding out. We’re working on $100m in small business relief grants, contact your electeds to support here: mstr.app/0fb743ce-116...

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Who needs therapy when you can complain about the same minor inconvenience to six friends at different times until you are sick of your own bullshit and suck it up?

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It was my contribution to participatory democracy to be in the Give Ilhan a Gundam walking subcaucus.

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Walked through my neighborhood, from Nicollet & 36th down to Cedar, and back on 35th. Documenting the people’s messages to ICE, the handmade rage, sorrow, and solidarity. Collective memory is important. The Winter of 2026 will live on.

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Front of a dairy queen walk up shop that is open

Front of a dairy queen walk up shop that is open

🚨🍦 ATTN South Minneapolis: 38th street Dairy Queen is open! 🚨🍦

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Every single sentence of these two passages gets worse. But if this opinion piece was just "Anders Folk is a partner at Jones Day," that would be enough to make him my enemy.

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Monday - Send more troops
Tuesday - Say we’re ending war
Wednesday - Send more troops
Thursday - Say ending war
Friday - Send more troops
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf

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If you want a delightful slice of life, come to Nickelodeon Universe on Eid, with all the families dressed up and going on rides. Also a lovely reminder that kids are kids are kids.

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The printmaking studio puts up a solid team.

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