Joël Swift

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

#squirrel 🐿️

Diagram for a Summer Procedure

10 minute sketch: Corvallis

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

ICE vehicle getting towed at St John's hospital (Oxnard, CA) ✊🏽

UTAH… this is not a game…

Scenes from U of Oregon and OSU

Mike Pence: “Mr. Trump’s proposed tariffs would be the largest peacetime tax hike in American history, harming consumers and driving inflation…Instead of punishing free nations, we should rally them—uniting the democratic world in trade agreements that isolate China, not Europe & our Pacific allies”

Elizabeth Warren asks Jeff Bezos if he got any favors for his ‘subservience’ to Trump Warren has some questions for Bezos.

Amazon had plans to show customers how much Trump tariffs are raising prices.

Then Bezos got on the phone with Trump and reversed course.

What happened in that call? I'm pressing for answers.

🚨BREAKING: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, are stepping down, CBS News reports

Logo for Altspaceforce - Resistance JEDI

JEDI:
Justice
Equity
Diversity
Inclusion

This is the way. Only the Sith are against the ways of the JEDI.

Some sketches

Echoes

Stem cells to treat Parkinson's? Two small studies hint at success Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.

Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.

Abcès Males the Heart Grow Fondue (2013)

Fixing a Hole in my Heart...

Abcès Makes the Heart Grow Fondue (2013).

Mostly gratitude to my dear Susan Lewis Swift who kept pushing to find the answer and simultaneously took on the heavy lifting and support, as she is known to do without a flinch.

I had a bad feeling so went in for some tests

There were Free Four disturbances in my right kidney

Chasing the source of the hole in my heart

It felt like kidney stones again but the triangular structures in my right kidney emanated from gobs spit out of the hole in my heart.

Four for lunar eclipse

Life imitates Fantasy

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

A card reads: "These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." A long list of words follows, including: biologically female; biologically male; BIPOC; Black; breastfeed + people; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; commercial sex worker; community diversity; community equity; confirmation bias; cultural competence; cultural differences; cultural heritage; cultural sensitivity; culturally appropriate; culturally responsive; DEI; equity; feminism; genders.

Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tariff trouble? Nebraska companies, farmers trapped in middle of brewing trade war The recent Trump administration tariffs imposed on that country means that the animal feed company will now pay more for a feed additive for pigs and chickens, a product that can lead to healthier ani...

Nebraska is going to get crushed between Tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget and it looks like at least a 200m shortfall this year. BEFORE tariff impacts.

And Nebraska Republicans here ! Curious what you think

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Who will be Rei and Beck?