Kyle Swenson
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staff writer @washingtonpost covering inequality // author GOOD KIDS, BAD CITY, available now. @PicadorUSA// [email protected]
Washington, DC via Cleveland
Joined July 2010
NYTimes book review. Surreal. By 25, I had been laid off twice. Rejected from every job/internship/j school. Lesson here: keep grinding away
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RT @miriamskitchen: “The removal of our unhoused neighbors from public spaces without offering them stable housing first is not the solutio….
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RT @washingtonpost: “Nobody’s telling us anything”: The Trump administration’s increased law enforcement efforts in D.C. have led to federa….
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As the Trump administration begins to clear encampments, many homeless individuals told The Post they had few options for places to go.
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RT @KatieTarrant_: Front page of @washingtonpost today on how the surge in federal law enforcement presence is already visible on the stree….
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If you want to understand Trump's push on D.C.'s homeless population, and how the Right has weaponized the response to homelessness, please read this story of mine from a few years ago for the @washingtonpost
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Missouri in 2022 adopted legislation from the Cicero Institute that outlawed camping on state property, among other things. Cities felt the effects soon after.
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RT @DanLamothe: D.C.'s falling violent crime stats, as seen in a new @washingtonpost graphic. There's no denying the city had a spike in vi….
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RT @DanLamothe: SCOOP: Defense Secretary Hegseth’s use of polygraph tests to hunt for people leaking info to the news media was stopped at….
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RT @SarahLongwell25: “When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related….
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Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect...
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Hero stuff.
Stephen Colbert says CBS made one mistake in its decision to cancel the Late Show: "They left me alive. And now, for the next ten months, the gloves are off." →
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Rock n roll.
Oasis concerts are safe for cheaters, according to Liam Gallagher. "Don’t worry, we don’t got any of that Coldplay snidey fucking camera shit." .
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RT @byHeatherLong: NEW: How can we improve economic journalism?. My take: We have tons of coverage of markets and the Fed. In contrast, we….
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RT @anaceballos_: NEW: The @MiamiHerald has obtained a list of hundreds of people detained or scheduled to be at Alligator Alcatraz. The g….
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The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.
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RT @JohnWoodrowCox: My latest, from Camp Mystic: The story of one teenage counselor's extraordinary courage amid so much loss. Deeply grat….
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As the Texas floodwaters rushed into their Camp Mystic cabins, the teen counselors braved the unknown.
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RT @peterbakernyt: Just want to take a minute to mark a huge moment in DC. The legendary @danbalz is retiring from full-time work at the @w….
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RT @anaceballos_: NEW: The calls from Alligator Alcatraz’s first detainees brought distressing news: Toilets that didn’t flush. Temperature….
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Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.
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Even if. you ideologically oppose the program and want to shrink SNAP. This doesn't make sense.
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As someone who has reported a lot on SNAP and efforts to defund the emergency food system, I've been scratching my head all day about error rate part of bill. I figured I was misreading/needed more sleep.
the Senate-passed version of the Big Beautiful Bill has a wacky SNAP cut provision, rewritten to win over Lisa Murkowski, that appears to give states an incentive make MORE erroneous SNAP payments instead of fewer. House members are literally laughing at it.
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