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They were chucking things out of an upstairs window over the weekend.
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They were chucking things out of an upstairs window over the weekend.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Our MTD runs special booster busses but you have to pay the fare.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. And then he turned around and politicized vaccines and masking. zero logic.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
He wasn’t born in the US, so he can’t be president.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Evil ages you.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
He had a heart transplant.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Heyer is super problematic, but she writes dogs REALLY well.
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
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
The only solution is to burn down the house and rebuild. I don’t make the rules.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
The NG is spreading mulch in DC. Total waste of time and $$
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do journalists accept the weak premises coming out of the WH?
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the 9th Circuit covers California entirely
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.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social)
National Guard in DC youtu.be/ngMJIoaBYCQ
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Or, you know, we could restrict access to guns…
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.
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.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what I had to do when I got detention in high school.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. I remember doing the arm hang thing.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s quite literally contributing to the housing crisis in CA.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Even dogs can’t eat an all-meat diet.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, this abc7.com/post/federal...
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.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
She is fabulous!
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe McLaughlin should go visit one of the concentration camps Noem runs and then report back.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Based on the Census. Plus the electoral college.
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.”
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Newsom is at his best when he’s fighting
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
“Little baby stairs” is sending me.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
A+ trolling
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.
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.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Hopefully we can easily remove it.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn’t this a Hatch Act violation? Not that corruption matters anymore.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Zero credit. I have a Ph.D. in US history.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
FDR forced Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor? That’s some real revisionist history right there.
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Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Has she been on Twitter/X? Cuz there are lots of Nazis over there.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Are we living in an episode of Despicable Me?
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?
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Thomas made a list in his concurring opinion in Dobbs. No one should be surprised.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
W is a war criminal.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s bizarre.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
I had to give up once I hit the em-dash.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Guess what Alan? Pedophiles are not a protected class.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
The penguin exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo is amazing.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
But eggs were expensive. It’s so painful to see what could have been.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that was the Secret Service not the FBI, but the point remains.
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Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m still mad that he sued Gawker out of existence. I loved Jezebel.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
IT people everywhere: DO NOT SHARE YOUR PASSWORD WITH ANYONE.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Please do not copy us.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. Please let us go.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
We are number 4. :-)
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”
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?
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in California and I’m so excited for him. We need more leaders like this.
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.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Cuz fuck the kids of military personnel who have to move constantly during important developmental years.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
File for impeachment when Dems are in power and can actually move forward with it.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
The GOP did. It’s their albatross.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes she did. I don’t think the Alaska exemption made it into the bill.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Legal to rape your wife until 1992.
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.)
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re spot on.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Everything is very specific to the assignment.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Lots of primary sources!
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. :-)
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.
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...
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs laid it all out.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
52413 I’m not a monster.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
He is so evil.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
I was much fatigued.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s deranged.
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
In theory, it’s “rendition,” but that assumes due process. This is fascist kidnapping I guess.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
People really don’t understand how our government works.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, ICE is being glitter bombed. 🤷♀️
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.
Danielle Swiontek (@daniellesw.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess reality is triggering. 🤷♀️