Asawin Suebsaeng

Asawin Suebsaeng

@swin24.bsky.social

senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House

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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

nobody buys this

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social

You really need to work hard to be the most obsequious member of Trump’s cabinet — by, for instance, eating lunch at Cheesecake Factory and alerting Fox Business, so they can interview you in defense of Obama’s joke about the White House decor. Well done Secretary Bessent! Your move, Doug Burgum!

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David S. Bernstein
@dbernstein.bsky.social

Replying to @dbernstein.bsky.social

… Also, not to be too nerdy and pedantic, but in the interview Bessent said that Obama’s library looks like “Darth Vader’s tomb,” when obviously Vader’s body was burned at the end of ROTJ, and the proper comparison is with Darth Vader’s Fortress on Mustafar.

Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

People may as well hold him to it

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

JEFFRIES: “.. we’re going to hold him accountable in the same way that we held Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem accountable. .. And Pete Hegseth needs to be pushed aside by the president, or we’re going to have to deal with that situation if he is not.” www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Zeteo
@zeteo.com

Trump's closing midterms message? Gas and ass. Good luck, America.

Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

Tbf he’s quoting all his rich Republican friends who are in or sometimes to have go to dc and they’re all gigantic pussies

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."

Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

I’ve had to deal with these people and some wouldn’t step outside during the summer of 2020 because of the protests and rioting and sometimes they’d text me this while I was standing in the middle of it

Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

why would u ever take the Americans even marginally seriously

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social

This is really getting out of hand. Not just the ethnic cleansing but the fact the federal govt talks like this to the entire world x.com/ICEgov/statu...

x.comU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) on XFake & Gay! Moussa Diawara, the Malian national featured in this shockingly poorly researched @60Minutes report, now faces allegations of immigration FRAUD after his asylum application surfaced, revealing that he claimed to be a HOMOSEXUAL man who feared persecution in Mali. Read more ⬇️
Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

This is really getting out of hand. Not just the ethnic cleansing but the fact the federal govt talks like this to the entire world x.com/ICEgov/statu...

x.comU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) on XFake & Gay! Moussa Diawara, the Malian national featured in this shockingly poorly researched @60Minutes report, now faces allegations of immigration FRAUD after his asylum application surfaced, revealing that he claimed to be a HOMOSEXUAL man who feared persecution in Mali. Read more ⬇️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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Joe Sudbay
@joesudbay.bsky.social

“ICE Detains Deal Middle School Baseball Coach” (also coached at Jackson-Reed High School and Woodson High School) "On 19 October 2026, Amaury was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after his citizenship case was denied" www.popville.com/2026/10/ice-...

popville.com“ICE Detains Deal Middle School Baseball Coach” (also coached at Jackson-Reed High School and Woodson High School) - PoPvillePlease find the fundraiser for Coach A here. "Dear PoPville, On Monday, October 19, DC area baseball coach Amaury Monsalve was taken into custody by ICE after his citizenship case was denied. Amaury, ...

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Jodi Jacobson
@jljacobson.bsky.social

Replying to @swin24.bsky.social

As someone else said, in a truly free and fair election, no one has to panic about having a “plan” to vote. You just vote.

Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

If they actually want to get thru the next two years, there’s not really another choice

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

newrepublic.comTrump’s Vile Prosecution of Ilhan Omar Is About to Run Into a WallIf they retake the House, Democrats will have plenty of ways to act against Trump’s corrupt prosecutions. Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin say they’re going to use them.

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@GottaLaff
@gottalaff.bsky.social

"Overwhelmingly, these sources said that what was most unsettling to them was that for many months, they’ve been wargaming & meticulously planning how to defend their upcoming elections from Trump in ways that mirror how they’d plan to protect elections from a foreign adversary, not the pres of US"

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social

zeteo.com/p/inside-dem...

zeteo.comTrump Wants To Steal the Midterms – But the Dems Actually Have A Plan To Fight Back'Start the Steal,' Part 3: Democrats, election officials, and activist groups talk with Zeteo about how they’re planning to defend the midterms from ICE agents at the polls, ballot seizures, and more.
Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

It is atrocious we have to operate under this constant credible and explicit threat from one political party, the fact we keep calling it a “free and fair election” needs some light revising

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

Yes. My median scenario is Trump rants, it becomes their talking point, DOJ probably files some more junk suits like these, but then not much else happens. There's real risk of worse, some full push to go insane on Jan 3, but more likely it doesn't get that far, and also that would still fail.

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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

All the millions of tax dollars spent creating a structure to combat these trump-led onslaughts is a dollar that could have conceivably gone to something else and money that should not have to be spent in the first place and it would be completely irresponsible at this point to *not* spend those…

Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

It is atrocious we have to operate under this constant credible and explicit threat from one political party, the fact we keep calling it a “free and fair election” needs some light revising

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

Yes. My median scenario is Trump rants, it becomes their talking point, DOJ probably files some more junk suits like these, but then not much else happens. There's real risk of worse, some full push to go insane on Jan 3, but more likely it doesn't get that far, and also that would still fail.

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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

ms.nowHouse Judiciary Democrats release 50-page report on Trump’s alleged involvement in Epstein filesThe report — issued just eight days before the election — makes multiple, uncorroborated allegations against the president while also detailing discrepancies in his statements about Epstein.
Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

Even if you’re a business owner or a church leader who is voting for him why would you want to deal with the social media hate, flood of bad reviews, phone calls, customer complaints, or protesters

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social

New tonight from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/venues-sta...

zeteo.comVenues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

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Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

Replying to @brunodias.dev

What this situation actually is, is that it's on YOU people to fucking not disappoint in November to hopefully perhaps undercut the Trump state department's ongoing campaign to turn Latin America into a far-right circus side show.

Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

Just rewatched the opening shots of the new CARRIE; and this is supposed to be a small town; doesn’t it look like a suburb near like Boston or something? Look at the aerial shot during the fires, am I wrong to think that’s too much light and infrastructure to be a “small town”