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@robertswartz.bsky.social

Born in the Mon Valley. Studied architecture, still love it. Work in advertising, live in Brooklyn. Pragmatic Progressive who knows we'll get there someday. Moonlight as servant to Gracie the cat.

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AOC in a congressional hearing room

AOC in a congressional hearing room

#AOC: “What makes the leadership of this moment so crucial, is about trust and cooperation — we will need to work together and as a team in order to usher our country through this very dark time.”

AOC laying the groundwork for her Senate run — time to put #Schumer out to pasture

11.11.2025 20:32 — 👍 6810    🔁 1225    💬 245    📌 75
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Your employees showed up to work today after eight weeks of work from home. But that one file has been sitting on their desk in the US House of Representatives the whole time. The file marked Epstein.

12.11.2025 06:02 — 👍 472    🔁 160    💬 8    📌 1

DoorDash actually reported that everyday prices are growing, and wages are beginning to drop.

See how easy it is to manipulate the data?

12.11.2025 01:57 — 👍 73    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 0
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HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down

QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?

HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals

11.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 3844    🔁 1035    💬 656    📌 275
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🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025.

Let’s compare, shall we:

In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.

From steady climb to sudden slide.

11.11.2025 14:52 — 👍 5070    🔁 2509    💬 230    📌 138

I've never really watched his show, but that really moved me.

12.11.2025 08:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Jimmy Kimmel Remembers His Best Friend and Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel Remembers His Best Friend and Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III

Jimmy Kimmel’s eulogy for his lifelong best friend and band leader Cleto Escobedo is beautiful on every level. Showing the gutting emotion so many men suppress and knowing just when to bring comfort through laughter when the grief overwhelms. youtu.be/0xlVAr6JZ9A?...

12.11.2025 07:11 — 👍 222    🔁 39    💬 8    📌 2

It would have been nice if Jones (or The Daily Beast) pointed out that while diversity may be our nation's strength, & that's a lovely sentiment to embrace, Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl has nothing to do with immigration because HE'S NOT AN IMMIGRANT.

12.11.2025 07:10 — 👍 107    🔁 30    💬 0    📌 0

Enough already.

12.11.2025 07:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@bsky.app last week my DMs were cut off. Moderation said I could not be trusted.

Hours later, you said it was a mistake.

Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.)

Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?

12.11.2025 07:02 — 👍 239    🔁 69    💬 5    📌 12
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A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

11.11.2025 21:19 — 👍 9398    🔁 3384    💬 242    📌 101

Well that doesn't look good.

12.11.2025 04:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

+ We've had enough of the Kennedys already.

12.11.2025 04:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Former Marion police chief at center of newspaper raid appears in court on felony obstruction charge
YouTube video by KSHB 41 Former Marion police chief at center of newspaper raid appears in court on felony obstruction charge

Yes, but also he was separately charged for obstruction of justice for deleting text messages. Set to go to trial in February. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGm...

12.11.2025 04:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Repackage this with some necessary additions and call it the 21st Century Bill of Rights.

12.11.2025 04:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.

Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.

11.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 2720    🔁 624    💬 76    📌 10
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

11.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 4607    🔁 618    💬 304    📌 469

Economic genius has thoughts. What cabinet position will he take?

12.11.2025 00:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I believe there is still a criminal case against the city police chief who was behind this gross miscarriage of justice.

12.11.2025 00:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The benefit of spending my first ten years in a Mon Valley steel town, across the street from the house my grandfather's parents built in 1919 - home of the after mentioned furnace.

12.11.2025 00:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

10 year-old mind! @!#% auto-correct.

I was looking at those albums on his porch one summer day and someone set off fireworks, which really gave me a start.

12.11.2025 00:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My grandfather got to talking across the no-mans land of the walkway between our houses, and realized at one point in the summer of 1918 they were basically across from each other. Blew my 10 year-old man.

He'd been a combat photographer and had his albums. Lots of crashed planes.

12.11.2025 00:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very familiar. My grandfather was a second-generation German-American. I still have a newspaper clipping of the letter he wrote his pastor, the Reverend Gustav Schmidt of the German Evangelical Protestant Church after he was shot.

In '75 a WWI German vet moved next to us. And one night he and 1/2

12.11.2025 00:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dick Durbin et al. FU.

12.11.2025 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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McGovern: Republicans are literally subsidizing an entirely different country instead of keeping families in North Carolina or Minnesota or Texas or Indiana from going bankrupt if they face emergency hospital bills.

12.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 2426    🔁 687    💬 28    📌 7
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McGovern: He says food prices are way down. That's coming from a guy dines on caviar at mar-a-lago. He's never shopped for groceries a day in his life. He doesn't have to pick between plastic or paper.

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McGovern: You don't even have a health care plan. You been promising one for over a decade and we've never seen it, because it doesn't exist.

12.11.2025 00:08 — 👍 7464    🔁 2150    💬 162    📌 71

Of course someone will hire him. I mean, he didn't take a knee.

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McGovern: He would rather appeal to the highest court in the land to starve people than simply provide them with the food assistance that he is legally obligated to do. That is the Republican policy position. We will give you your food if you let us take away your health care.

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My grandfather was drafted into the AEF in 1917. Served in the Muse-Argonne where he was shot through the arm by a machine gun bullet on day one, which may well have saved his life. Came home and burned his uniform in the coal furnace. I still have his dog tag to remember what war is really like.

12.11.2025 00:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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