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Danielle Swiontek

@daniellesw.bsky.social

Historian, community college instructor, mom of ND kids, swimmer, yogi, romance novel reader, fascism fighter, political junkie

created October 9, 2024

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Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

They were chucking things out of an upstairs window over the weekend.

2/9/2025, 9:36:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Our MTD runs special booster busses but you have to pay the fare.

2/9/2025, 2:22:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. And then he turned around and politicized vaccines and masking. zero logic.

1/9/2025, 7:10:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

He wasn’t born in the US, so he can’t be president.

1/9/2025, 3:46:56 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder who they are lining up to be Vance’s VP. Because I can’t see Vance keeping the cult together.

1/9/2025, 3:42:22 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil ages you.

1/9/2025, 1:36:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

He had a heart transplant.

1/9/2025, 3:02:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Heyer is super problematic, but she writes dogs REALLY well.

31/8/2025, 7:07:22 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s clearly ill and in cognitive decline. they are letting him redecorate the WH to give him something to do

31/8/2025, 6:51:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

The only solution is to burn down the house and rebuild. I don’t make the rules.

31/8/2025, 2:44:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

The NG is spreading mulch in DC. Total waste of time and $$

31/8/2025, 2:21:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Why do journalists accept the weak premises coming out of the WH?

31/8/2025, 2:19:15 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I think the 9th Circuit covers California entirely

30/8/2025, 2:12:34 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. He’s been suing cities and counties to force them to build more housing and provide more shelters. Idk what else you should do.

30/8/2025, 12:49:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Headline misses: “Newsom on Friday announced the creation of a statewide task force aimed at dismantling homeless encampments…and expanding access to shelter and services.” We have had many fires in our area due to homeless camps. It’s not safe for anyone. Newsom has pressured cities to do more.

30/8/2025, 12:48:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social)

National Guard in DC youtu.be/ngMJIoaBYCQ

29/8/2025, 10:35:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Or, you know, we could restrict access to guns…

29/8/2025, 7:34:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

That was a real Hollywood movie with Diane Keaton. These are Hallmark movies that smell like cinnamon and nutmeg.

29/8/2025, 4:06:39 PM | 31 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I take some pleasure in the fact that he’s entirely alone in the White House. Melania’s not there. None of his kids or grandkids. He’s just rambling around with secret service and medical attendants trailing after him. He watches FOX News and stews in his grievances.

29/8/2025, 4:05:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. They are strongly asserting things that aren’t true and they don’t know how the government works.

28/8/2025, 1:23:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what I had to do when I got detention in high school.

27/8/2025, 9:29:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. I remember doing the arm hang thing.

20/8/2025, 7:55:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s quite literally contributing to the housing crisis in CA.

17/8/2025, 3:24:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

The House was sent home early on recess by Johnson. They would be doing nothing if they had remained in DC.

17/8/2025, 2:10:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Even dogs can’t eat an all-meat diet.

17/8/2025, 2:03:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, this abc7.com/post/federal...

17/8/2025, 1:57:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Not me, who used to touch mercury when we dropped a thermometer on the floor and it broke.

16/8/2025, 9:41:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Agree. They have to maintain two households, and DC is expensive. Regulating big tech needs to be there.

16/8/2025, 1:52:36 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

She is fabulous!

16/8/2025, 1:48:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe McLaughlin should go visit one of the concentration camps Noem runs and then report back.

15/8/2025, 5:03:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Based on the Census. Plus the electoral college.

15/8/2025, 4:50:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

The 3/5s clause was entirely about the census. It gave slave states more reps in the House and the electoral college. Hence, the majority of presidents prior to the Civil War were pro-slavery and appointed a pro-slavery SCOTUS. Abolitionists weren’t really wrong about a “slave power conspiracy.”

15/8/2025, 4:49:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Newsom is at his best when he’s fighting

15/8/2025, 4:40:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

“Little baby stairs” is sending me.

15/8/2025, 4:39:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

A+ trolling

15/8/2025, 4:35:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Thomas provided a list in his concurring opinion in Dobbs. They will absolutely overturn Obergefell. Loving v. Virginia might be safe — at least until Thomas retires from the bench.

12/8/2025, 3:14:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. They have law degrees, CPAs, Ph.D.s. They aren’t beat cops. Total waste of everyone’s time and money.

12/8/2025, 3:08:29 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it legal to live in your office? I’m sure the House office buildings are not zoned for that.

12/8/2025, 2:59:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Hopefully we can easily remove it.

10/8/2025, 4:06:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn’t this a Hatch Act violation? Not that corruption matters anymore.

9/8/2025, 9:32:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Zero credit. I have a Ph.D. in US history.

9/8/2025, 9:13:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

FDR forced Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor? That’s some real revisionist history right there.

8/8/2025, 2:36:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Crystal Fleming クリスタル (@alwaystheself.bsky.social) reposted

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7/8/2025, 7:18:30 PM | 113 111 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Has she been on Twitter/X? Cuz there are lots of Nazis over there.

7/8/2025, 6:13:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Are we living in an episode of Despicable Me?

5/8/2025, 7:04:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Come meet my ASD son who will only eat one specific brand of potato chips, milk, yogurt, OJ… and a few other things. Should I just not feed him?

5/8/2025, 5:44:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Thomas made a list in his concurring opinion in Dobbs. No one should be surprised.

5/8/2025, 5:39:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

W is a war criminal.

5/8/2025, 2:47:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s bizarre.

4/8/2025, 8:58:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I had to give up once I hit the em-dash.

4/8/2025, 1:26:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Guess what Alan? Pedophiles are not a protected class.

3/8/2025, 1:36:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

The penguin exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo is amazing.

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2/8/2025, 3:59:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

But eggs were expensive. It’s so painful to see what could have been.

1/8/2025, 6:21:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

So, regular people need to suffer more so billionaires get take breaks. I just don’t get it.

31/7/2025, 5:24:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I think that was the Secret Service not the FBI, but the point remains.

31/7/2025, 3:39:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Childhood's End🍁 (@childhoodsend.bsky.social) reposted

Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.

30/7/2025, 2:00:44 PM | 6924 2757 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Which, history tells us, leads to violent revolution. There’s a reason the French chopped off the heads of the aristocrats.

29/7/2025, 4:54:06 PM | 23 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Blaming Democrats when the GOP has spent the last 20 years obstructing progressive policies, stacking the courts, and weakening the rule of law is ridiculous and exhausting. The GOP is to blame.

27/7/2025, 3:23:01 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

We have earthquakes and the California Coastal Commission and a lot of our housing is AIRBNB, VRBO, and rich people with second or third homes.

27/7/2025, 2:03:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

The Washington Post did a follow up profile on all of Vick’s dogs years ago. It was really moving.

26/7/2025, 3:56:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

You missed the point. DJT wants to fire Powell and tarnish his reputation so he added the cost of a building completed 5 years ago to argue that the current Fed construction project is way over budget. But Powell called him on it.

26/7/2025, 3:43:47 PM | 33 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m still mad that he sued Gawker out of existence. I loved Jezebel.

24/7/2025, 4:09:00 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

IT people everywhere: DO NOT SHARE YOUR PASSWORD WITH ANYONE.

23/7/2025, 9:48:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Please do not copy us.

23/7/2025, 9:36:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I teach US history at a community college. I can explain complex things to my students in ways they can understand and can grasp the complexities. Idk what journalists are doing.

17/7/2025, 6:00:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. Please let us go.

14/7/2025, 9:39:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

We are number 4. :-)

14/7/2025, 9:38:35 AM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

@meidastouch.com Congressman @carbajal.house.gov is a Marine veteran. He knows what appropriate military force is. Also, it’s Carpinteria, with the accent on “ia”

11/7/2025, 4:14:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Fact check: Yuppies were baby boomers, so they are all aging and dying right now. Maybe with 3 roommates? Who knows?

8/7/2025, 6:34:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I live in California and I’m so excited for him. We need more leaders like this.

8/7/2025, 3:49:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Such a huge waste of money. We don’t need a police state in California. We are fine.

8/7/2025, 3:27:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Public health measures too, like modern sewage, garbage, clean water systems, cut down on certain types of epidemics.

6/7/2025, 2:35:45 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Cuz fuck the kids of military personnel who have to move constantly during important developmental years.

5/7/2025, 12:33:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

File for impeachment when Dems are in power and can actually move forward with it.

3/7/2025, 8:06:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

The GOP did. It’s their albatross.

3/7/2025, 7:52:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes she did. I don’t think the Alaska exemption made it into the bill.

2/7/2025, 5:50:59 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Legal to rape your wife until 1992.

30/6/2025, 3:01:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

If you know anything about US history, this isn’t surprising at all. All of this has been done before. You just need to look at the histories of people who are not straight, white men. (And yes a lot of WW suck and are wedded to white supremacist patriarchy.)

29/6/2025, 3:07:49 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re spot on.

29/6/2025, 4:55:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Or the dude in grad school who used lots of long words but actually said nothing because he was an idiot. Thiel made $$ off PayPal because they were the first to do it. Figuring out how to make payments online isn’t curing cancer.

29/6/2025, 4:53:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Everything is very specific to the assignment.

28/6/2025, 11:58:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I have weekly discussions where they have to incorporate 2 of 5 primary sources plus lecture and textbook. They have to complete a graphic organizer for each primary source before writing the discussion post. If you’ve completed the graphic organizers, you might as well just write the post.

28/6/2025, 11:57:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Lots of primary sources!

28/6/2025, 11:49:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

One student told me that it was more work to use ChatGPT than it was just to do my assignments. :-)

28/6/2025, 9:10:30 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Them: AI will summarize all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to read it. But it will hallucinate and invent stuff so you’ll need to verify all the citations and interpretations before you can trust the summary.

28/6/2025, 8:11:42 PM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Sotomayor says she sometimes cries in her chambers after these horrific decisions. www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/p...

28/6/2025, 3:35:09 PM | 16 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

He actually did not include Loving in his list of “wrongly decided” cases. Self-interest is his middle name.

27/6/2025, 6:52:51 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs laid it all out.

27/6/2025, 6:47:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

52413 I’m not a monster.

27/6/2025, 6:45:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

He is so evil.

25/6/2025, 4:03:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Waves were 8 feet, and the water is cold — about 60 degrees F. It would be very difficult to swim in those conditions. Idk if they were wearing life jackets. Most of the passengers were in their 70s.

25/6/2025, 4:02:51 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I was much fatigued.

25/6/2025, 3:57:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Boeing moved their production facilities to states with weak union laws to save $$. Turns out, unions were ensuring safety of planes and workers.

24/6/2025, 8:31:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s deranged.

24/6/2025, 2:08:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Rule of law relies on people believing in and following the law without a huge enforcement system. Once a lot of people in power start ignoring laws, the system starts to crumble.

24/6/2025, 2:08:02 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

In theory, it’s “rendition,” but that assumes due process. This is fascist kidnapping I guess.

23/6/2025, 4:18:07 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

People really don’t understand how our government works.

22/6/2025, 3:50:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, ICE is being glitter bombed. 🤷‍♀️

21/6/2025, 3:40:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

Even allowing secession wouldn’t have worked because the US and the Confederacy would have fought over the western territories.

18/6/2025, 7:27:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess reality is triggering. 🤷‍♀️

16/6/2025, 12:39:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view