@cdeswanf.bsky.social
EngLit at Hampshire College, mag ed in DC, history at Duke, then book ed in NYC and DC. Currently Resident Historian at National Education Association. Woke as an entitled white boy is able to be. I’m here for your writing, so show me what you got.
Frogs together strong.🐸🐸🐸
10.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0"Research shows that democracy is an important precondition for peace," Nina Græger, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo said. "At a moment when authoritarianism is on the rise across the world, this award highlights the courage of those who defend freedom with ballots, not bullets."
10.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 80 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1Someone musta told him about the horses’ assess facing the traitor’s house.
10.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We will not let their ‘flood the zone’ tactics make us forget about Melissa, Mark, and Gilbert. Murdered by a magat. We will never forget.
09.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely read this…
09.10.2025 06:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Educators are teaching the American dream, and working to make students feel safe, welcome, and engaged. It’s time we stopped smearing & disrespecting them, and instead gave them the respect & resources they need to help kids soar. Thank you @CBSNews.com.
www.cbsnews.com/video/head-a...
A brilliant former colleague of mine with an important piece of journalism.
09.10.2025 02:52 — 👍 114 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 0They’re behaving as though they think a 1000 year reich is an actual thing.
08.10.2025 18:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Delegitimization through public mockery. Keep it up!
08.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0They’re behaving as though they think a 1000 year reich is actually a thing.
08.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
08.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 276 🔁 143 💬 36 📌 11They’re wearing fun socks!!! Head for the hills!!! Fear Fire Foes!!!
08.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maine is filled with camps. Surely someone younger than 60 lives in Maine.
08.10.2025 18:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I agree.
08.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe AOC lent him some of her peeps.
08.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How do we know he’s a “federal agent” and not just some asshole who couldn’t get any in high school? Seems like credit where maybe…
08.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She had prepared barbs.
08.10.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.
08.10.2025 03:59 — 👍 2269 🔁 860 💬 44 📌 122👀👀👀👀
08.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 15292 🔁 4495 💬 1900 📌 735Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."
08.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 1933 🔁 686 💬 46 📌 33Kamala Harris at Howard University!
07.10.2025 22:22 — 👍 446 🔁 75 💬 2 📌 2Thank goodness no one’s wearing fun socks because then we might get accused of mocking them.
08.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An entire administration using the Roy Cohn playbook. Never back down. Always scream bloody murder.
08.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s like what is now Britain’s 5th Century. Just ‘cause almost nothing’s extant doesn’t make it dark.
08.10.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Newly elected Congressmember Adelita Grijalva says she will provide the final vote needed for a petition that could force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Is that why Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in for the last two weeks?
08.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 322 🔁 117 💬 25 📌 10👇
08.10.2025 13:03 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Trump just threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if governors/judges act *lawfully* within the constitutional system in ways that displease him.
Miller's statements reveal their real position: Trump's power to invent pretexts for emergency actions is limitless.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.