@davidswanson.bsky.social
New Yorker, Scotsman, editor, writer, map and archive nerd Politics, culture, and sandwiches at https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
"Suspect number one is Area Meth User/Idiot Burglar, who will shortly discover that these things are not very easy to fence except in the literal sense of fencing. Suspect number two is a neonazi who’s been mad at me for years."
@swordsjew.bsky.social on the mysterious theft of her swords
ok ok i wrote about it
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"Suspect number one is Area Meth User/Idiot Burglar, who will shortly discover that these things are not very easy to fence except in the literal sense of fencing. Suspect number two is a neonazi who’s been mad at me for years."
@swordsjew.bsky.social on the mysterious theft of her swords
totally lost my focus on sandwiches this week, so i wrote up a comprehensive list of theories about how and why ten broadswords were stolen from my house and possible sequelae incl. a clifftop duel with a beautiful thief
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Talia wrote about her love of swords for one of our first newsletters.
You should subscribe for more sword content, and to help Talia replace her collection
a decorative elaborate wall display of five swords
a denuded wall where only hooks are
so someone broke into my apartment at night and stole all of my swords and im kind of. in shock
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@swordsjew.bsky.social wrote about our decision to leave substack last year
25.02.2025 19:46 — 👍 62 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0Taylor: I had a six-figure income Substack until late 2023. I moved it first to Beehiiv then, because I didn't care for it, then to Ghost in late 2024. Each time the new site handled migration with no subscriber falloff and no income interruption. You are operating on bad information. Just move.
30.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 520 🔁 77 💬 6 📌 9if any U.S. music/culture editors are awake right now: we just lost Ozzy Goddamn Osbourne, and I’m currently a two-hour train ride from Birmingham, went to my first Ozzfest in 2004, and have been writing about heavy metal professionally for 20+ years.
just saying!!!!
The Oval Office
A screenshot from Alibaba
A comparison of the photo from the Oval Office and an item on Alibaba.
The Oval Office
Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.
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The Sword & The Sandwich is starting a book club!!! We are gonna be reading All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes, about a trans man on a polar expedition in the aftermath of World War I. I'm so excited to get iced into this book with yall!! buttondown.com/theswordandt...
21.07.2025 17:20 — 👍 125 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 3here is a direct link to become a paid subscriber:
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why you should consider becoming a paid subscriber to my newsletter:
1. support two journalists (me and @davidswanson.bsky.social) for the price of 1 latte per month
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today's sandwich column reveals my deepest, darkest food opinion secret
go ahead, pillory me; i probably deserve it
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in which i write about the panuozzo sandwich,
and finally show my hand, revealing that i, too, have Food Opinions
and this one is a deep dark secret:
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"Public school isn't perfect, but it's public; it ensures that children can't be hidden away and deprived of an education.... Homeschooling, under the lax laws of the United States, is designed to erase that accountability—and render children invisible."
— @swordsjew.bsky.social
"The idea of Gutfeld calling someone else an asshole angered the gods so much that Gutfeld! went black. A few minutes later, the feed was re-established and all that remained was an ass print on Gutfeld’s chair. Fox cut to a commercial for reverse mortgages."
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why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
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"Public school isn't perfect, but it's public; it ensures that children can't be hidden away and deprived of an education.... Homeschooling, under the lax laws of the United States, is designed to erase that accountability—and render children invisible."
— @swordsjew.bsky.social
"Of all the sandwiches in the world, few can lay claim to have given name and embodiment to a moment of hedonism in a culture overladen with violent ideals. Fewer can lay claim to a moment of white-hot international trendiness, however brief."
@swordsjew.bsky.social on this week's notable sandwich
i wrote about paninis,
so easy to overlook, but which spawned a 1980s italian youth subculture called the paninari
and which was once the trendiest sandwich on both sides of the atlantic
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me: oh god i have to write about paninis. how unspeakably dull
me after five seconds of research: you WHAT. what?!
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"Of all the sandwiches in the world, few can lay claim to have given name and embodiment to a moment of hedonism in a culture overladen with violent ideals. Fewer can lay claim to a moment of white-hot international trendiness, however brief."
@swordsjew.bsky.social on this week's notable sandwich
a notable sandwich
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Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
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As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)
10.07.2025 18:49 — 👍 3545 🔁 778 💬 91 📌 177i work really hard on this newsletter, so does my editor @davidswanson.bsky.social, it's our primary income, we are not on Substack or owned by a billionaire, and you can subscribe here paid or free (paid gets 2 extra pieces a month!) buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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yesterday, i got mild heatstroke and couldn't stop thinking about the great curses of Deuteronomy
so i wrote out a fever dream of curses and defiance, of the storm and the heat, of hatred and indifference
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"I take the parts of my birthright I choose—the stiff-necked resistance, the perpetual fearful wariness, the knowledge of the curses—and reject the rest, obedience and passivity, nation and border. I will stand for my city and the people in it."
— @swordsjew.bsky.social
