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@robertswartz

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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The only thing this dude is capable of doing that would warrant a deposition is a kegger gone wild at SAE.

13.03.2026 07:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Canadian Club! Yes that was a big one, too. They had a long running scavenger hunt ad campaign where they hid cases in exotic places around the world. No idea if anyone every found any of them.

13.03.2026 05:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This war is being helmed by people who think German Wehrmacht was the best in the world, and it shows.

13.03.2026 05:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On top of everything else, the only thing this jerk looks old enough to be in a depo is an SAE kegger gone wrong.

13.03.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I listened to a talk by John Kuhn awhile ago and he made the point in the Q+A that Admirals' staffs were necessarily much smaller than their Army counterparts, so it's efficiency across the board.

13.03.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Making the dinner announcement at Davos

12.03.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 3600 πŸ” 388 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 12

Seagram's Crown Royal was a thing. And wildly so in Japan. When I lived in Amsterdam, there was a Japanese restaurant with a shelf for Japanese regulars' tagged Crown Royal bottles.

13.03.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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13.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

I think there's a genuine problem with some young people looking at influencer culture and believing that they should be living like that and something's wrong (either with them or society) if they're not. (And a lot of that influencer culture is guys living with five roommates in Dubai in reality!)

13.03.2026 02:46 πŸ‘ 333 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0

Karp always delivers, he can't help himself and rants openly about Palantir's bloodlust and war-profiteering. He's been doing this for years. Anyone who speaks seriously about Palantir should be shunned. They are what Karp says they are.

13.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 2284 πŸ” 572 πŸ’¬ 76 πŸ“Œ 14

Interesting how all the right-wing and pro-Israel accounts here remain obsessed about Mamdani and his wife but barely a peep about the Manhattan Institute poll that revealed a majority of young Republicans are Holocaust deniers and love Nick Fuentes, who praises Hitler and is an open anti-semite.

13.03.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 937 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 3

Can we all admit Chris Murphy is a pretty great communicator? He's been in action from the start fighting for democracy with words, and he's good at using them. He's done far more than Newsom has. Let's give the man some respect and attention.

13.03.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 453 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 3

It's a horrible time to be in the military, taking orders from people who don't understand how anything works, ignore the experts who do, and have no qualms about sending our young troops to die for the aggrandizement of Dear Leader.

Trump was warned about the Strait, he just ignored the warnings.

13.03.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 276 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2

Dude, your interpretation is exactly the opposite of what I just said, so there's no use continuing this conversation. Bye.

13.03.2026 03:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Israeli military has dropped charges against soldiers who were on camera raping a Palestinian detainee.

@premthakker.bsky.social explains, the whole story is even worse.

13.03.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 269 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10

We literally killed Iran’s leader

12.03.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 2058 πŸ” 300 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It was a general election. There were two viable options. You don't get to blame the result on 75 million people who bothered to vote against Trump returning.

And you have no idea what else I did in the last election, or every election since 1984 besides vote.

13.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a β€œcontrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

13.03.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 3170 πŸ” 1004 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 37
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Talarico on Trumpworld's "short term pain" talking point: "I'd like them to tell that to the parents of the American troops who have lost their lives. That is not short term pain. That is pain that will last forever ... no one asked for this."

13.03.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 8466 πŸ” 2336 πŸ’¬ 168 πŸ“Œ 68
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I remember he went one time for the cameras while campaigning and tossed a $100 bill to a lady in the checkout to show what a generous guy he was to help buy her groceries.

13.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 5195 πŸ” 966 πŸ’¬ 328 πŸ“Œ 43
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Trump DOJ prosecuted election tech firm to fuel 2020 election lies, filing alleges Smartmatic says the Trump DOJ launched a politically motivated prosecution designed to promote election denial and punish the company for defending the integrity of the 2020 election.

In a new filing, voting technology company Smartmatic accused the DOJ of launching a politically motivated prosecution against it to promote Trump’s 2020 election lies and punish it for defending election integrity.

The company asked a federal court to dismiss a criminal indictment against it.

12.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 289 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

Ah, Spring is literally a week away, yet I see we're still roasting old chestnuts.

13.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which begs the question of why they need UFC training in the first place.

13.03.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is all Walter Huss stuff? Those archives are going to be eye-opening.

13.03.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And didn't have the investment / banking barrier.

12.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well I voted for her. A bunch of people who should have known better didn't. How's that working out for them?

12.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The disastrous ones or earlier versions? In either case, much more expensive than a minesweeper, especially in that kind of chokepoint.

12.03.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My Dad worked in the food ingredients industry and did a lot of work in Iowa. The wife of a client worked as a test cook for Amanda. They still have her cookbook somewhere, but yeah no one uses a microwave for most of the stuff they imagined.

12.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Since the US Navy no longer has dedicated minesweepers, who does that task?

12.03.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

So ticket sales are bad.

12.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0