nicole swann

Writer. History nerd. Lord of the sewing machine. RTs ≠ endorsements. Views are my own.

[blue @bluewmist]

I keep a rolling Notes doc called "Good things are always happening to me" and update it whenever I realize a good thing totally just happened to me. Good things are always happening to us.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

[David @schaalfan]

Amy Poehler gave this interview 8 years ago and it’s sadly all still relevant.

[Dr. NSPM-7 Whoa🔻🌺 @dasmadchengyal]

dude said, "this is exactly the shit I was talking about." lol

[A.J. Perez @byajperez]

Eric Trump trying to squeeze UFC Hall of Famer/broadcaster Dan Cormier for inside info is disgusting. @danawhite has to be pleased members of the Trump family think UFC is fixed. Cormier deleted the tweet (below) within a couple minutes.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

A 19-year-old college student quietly turns down a job interview, stupidly telling the company it's because he doesn't want to work for a Jew.

Within two days:

-- The billionaire founder of one of the world's most powerful corporations (Palantir) demands that the company release his the student's to the world. The company instantly complies.

-- National media trumpet the incident and spread the student's name and face all over the place.

-- A senior Trump DOJ official repeatedly urges the public to notify him if that student is ever hired anywhere in the future, promising to use his office to keep the student permanently unemployable.

Adults with large, influential platforms -- pundits, media types, even elected officials -- right here on X routinely say things as bad as, and often much worse than, pretty much every other group you can think of without facing a single consequence let alone a completely unhinged coordinated campaign of very powerful people to run their lives forever:

[Kanye East @FuckedUpYogis]

Dude he literally running New York like the average joe in a movie who gets elected into office as a gag and then fixes everything simply because he is not a politician and an earnest regular guy.

[Matt Brown @maattttbrown]

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly

[Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah]

dumbest shit imaginable happening there and it's so cool man, what a great city

[Amity @amitylee13]

Byron Donalds speaks about the importance of education in front of a misspelled sign. You can’t make this shit up.

[Lei Gong @gonglei89]

If you only have time to read one explainer for the current state of global political economy make sure this is the one. You won’t find a more succinct encapsulation for the fulcrum of economic and political forces shaping our contemporary condition in the 21st century.

[Zoldyck @Michealkaiser_]

This is what a holocaust looks like.

[Olivia// MAMA (1:22) ☽̶☾ @octobersoo]

Amazing things are happening in America right now 😭 #WorldCup

[Queen Chimerazilla ☭🐾 @Qveen_Potato]

Didn't y'all get mad at Michelle Obama for having a vegetable garden

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

We took Erin Brockovich's map of every data center in America. Then we laid the nation's aquifers on top of it.

We noticed they're not building data centers where the land is cheap. They're building them where the water is.

Farmers near these facilities say their livestock have stopped falling pregnant. Residents say the humming never stops.

And the projects arrive under NDAs, so most towns don't know until the ground is already broken.

The question isn’t where they’re building anymore. It’s why they’re building where they’re building. Tonight, we think we can answer that question.

We’ve been covering the data center issue in great detail on this broadcast, and for good reason. It’s a serious problem in America and worldwide, and it’s one that is uniting people from all sides of the political aisle because, guess what, whether you are a conservative or a liberal, you have human rights that enable you to have access to basic survival needs like water, which was given to us by God, not by the state or Big Tech, by the way.

Erin Brockovich joined the data center fight recently. She launched a site including a map that shows data centers either completed, under construction, planned, or community reported, likely due to all those pesky NDAs in place stopping us from knowing they’re coming to our area. But the public isn’t stupid.

So Maria thought she’d do something a little bit different. She created a series of maps using Erin Brockovich’s data center data, then superimposed aquifer maps onto those maps, then superimposed smart city locations onto those maps. What Maria found was pretty mind-blowing and, she says, lends credence to her theory that those in charge are purposely making rural areas unlivable for the purpose of pushing people into smart cities, where they will be under constant surveillance and on a short leash.

[Katie Campione @katie_campione]

Glad to see Vanity Fair backing its reporter with this one and shame on Unwell Network for trying to belittle a young reporter into dropping a story. This alone is pretty telling.

[Interesting World @_fluxfeeds]

An artist creates a striking symmetrical artwork on a café window using both hands simultaneously. The level of coordination is incredible.

📹Victoria Boissonnas

[Brunette @mimizima_]

2026 is so stupid I can’t believe we get to watch the myth of Narcissus play out in real time on our handheld devices

[Someone’s Disaffected Niece @Someones_Niece]

“THE PRESIDENT LOVES THIS WORD!!!” I’m crying 😭😭