@ritaswartz.bsky.social

Writer (fiction, nonfiction, poetry); lover of compassion, justice, truth, and freedom.

12,895 Followers 4,334 Following 2,043 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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DOGE staffer had ‘God-level’ Social Security access and expected Trump’s pardon, whistleblower says (The Independent) A former employee with the so-called Department of Government Efficiencyallegedly claimed he tapped into two sensitive Social Security Administration databas...

Hold TRUMP and MUSK accountable.

Read "DOGE staffer had ‘God-level’ Social Security access and expected Trump’s pardon, whistleblower says" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-7jDf3Oo0/v...

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Police in Britain Repeatedly Declined to Investigate Epstein. Why?

Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police interviewed Virginia Giuffre 3 times after her lawyers handed them a dossier of evidence saying that she was trafficked to UK by Epstein and Maxwell, and made her have sex with Prince Andrew

But they did not launch an investigation
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

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The same company behind Alligator Alcatraz was just paid $313 million to build another one in Surprise, Arizona.

I’m fighting to get the answers the community deserves.

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The Fall of Roe v. Wade: A Cautionary Tale There will be a tendency to look back on the Trump ascendency as a sudden and inexplicable breach in the democratic order.

The Fall of Roe v. Wade: A Cautionary Tale
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Rep. Stansbury: What’s hiding at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch? YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

Zorro Ranch, Epstein update

youtube.com/shorts/V71Es...

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A top biotech VC quietly helped Epstein’s ‘great friend’ make a comeback Boris Nikolic’s career looked to be in tatters after his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein came to light in 2019. But he has quietly made a comeback, with some help from a top biotech VC.

www.statnews.com/2026/03/11/e...

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LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ?

TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged

LANDERS: It wasn't though

TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know?

LANDERS: Your own AG said it

TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter

LANDERS: Where's the evidence?

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If you lost your job because of DOGE, this will enrage you.

They built a whole-ass crusade around “DEI,” then sent a staffer into a deposition who couldn’t even define it.

Justin Fox’s and his assignment was to help flag grants for elimination based on a term he struggled to explain under oath. 🥴

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Former Deputy ICE Barbie Wastes Millions On Vehicles That Can't Be Used The level of incompetence of the Trump administration can never be exaggerated. @MrScarce
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Incompetence at the level of Treason

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"...because I just don't know enough about it..."

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Cartoon by
Dave Granlund

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“You have to understand that if [Kremniy-El] were to suddenly disappear today, a whole range of military products would cease to exist.”

— Oleg Dantsev, CEO of Kremniy-El, a microelectronics plant in Bryansk, before it was destroyed by Ukrainians.

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Crude Hits $100 Per Barrel Again As Strategic Oil Reserve Release Plan Fails To Calm Iran War Fears A coordinated global effort to release 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves worldwide failed to ease fears about supply disruptions caused by the Iran war.

A coordinated global effort to release 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves worldwide failed to ease fears about supply disruptions caused by the Iran war.

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Protect trailless areas on the White Mountain National Forest - Wilderness Watch Wilderness Watch is concerned about the Forest Service’s (FS) proposal to amend its Forest Plan in regards to wilderness trail management on the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) in New Hampshire ...

See why we're concerned about the Forest Service’s proposal to amend its Forest Plan in regards to wilderness trail management on the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire and Maine.

wildernesswatch.org/protect-trai...

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Excerpt from Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life, selected letters translated and edited by Professor Robert Spaethling. Genius and charisma begets jealousy

Last night’s reading: music as an expression and vital channel to communicate- Mozart describes the great importance of an engaged audience to him and the need to feel understood through his music. Also, how genius and charisma begets perennial jealousy and struggle.He knows there may be subterfuge.

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went to the ER for chest pain. spent 5hrs there total. eventually got a bed. dr comes in then before he’s done asking me questions he’s paged to another room. then i wait an hour til a nurse comes in to discharge me. i hate america, i hate this healthcare system, and i hate men.

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Starbucks 'failing it's hometown' as it shuts five more stores Starbucks is facing backlash from the union representing its organized stores after the company announced that four of the five shops it plans to close are unionized.

4 out of 5 Starbucks shops closing in Seattle are unionized. "...Starbucks shut roughly 400 stores across the US last year – including 59 unionized locations. ....The company announced last week it is opening a new corporate office in Nashville..." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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The Kyiv Independent
March 10

Ukraine deploys interceptor drones, experts to protect US bases in Jordan Zelensky
says.

Ukraine’s expertise is the finest in the world. They hope to gain some kind of positive response from the United States in helping them.

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Anthropic’s Lawsuit Should Absolutely Destroy the Pentagon in Court But make no mistake: The company is not one of the good guys.

Yay, Anthropic!

Sue the Pentagon's ass off!

"Trying to crush a business because the government doesn’t like what the business does is a textbook violation of the First Amendment."

From @elienyc.bsky.social

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Cartoon by
Robert Ariail

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Meet the Americans withholding their federal income tax to protest against Trump Some US taxpayers are refusing to pay the federal government amid ICE surges, the war with Iran and more

Sympathetic to the idea, but would love to see an expert analysis of legal pros/cons!!!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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We are LIVE for Booster 19 testing!!

YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/live/_JgjY3T...

While you wait, a real-time compilation of engine bay testing earlier today:

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This from Facebook:

I've heard whispers and rumors but nothing definitive...

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Tell Your Senators: Oppose Markwayne Mullin for DHS Secretary Contact Congress today!

🔥 URGENT: Block Mullin’s DHS nomination—his extremism threatens everything America is supposed to stand for! Tell Senators to OPPOSE this unhinged pick:

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DOJ switched positions on Kentucky’s voter rolls, making farce of its own lawsuit Kentucky’s lawyers highlighted the federal government’s reversal in a new filing asking the federal district court to dismiss the DOJ’s lawsuit.

This one is kinda amazing.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The DOJ is running a sham investigation re the murder of Alex Pretti. They assigned the case to an *employment discrimination lawyer*.

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"Trump's $3 billion gift to Russia"

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