Kirk Swearingen (page 3)

Email: swearingenk@gmail.com

Kirk Swearingen is a poet and independent journalist. He is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, and his work has appeared in Delmar, MARGIE, Bloom, the American Journal of Poetry, Riverfront Times, Medium and Salon.

Red card, with the word "gaslighting" written in black, and burnt matches around it (Getty Images/Daniele Mezzadri)

Words of the year 2022: We were gaslit in goblin mode

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Roger Stone speaking during a press conference at Beths Burger Bar, across the street from the Conservative Political Action Conference, on Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Roger Stone is here to teach us a lesson — and it’s one we should have learned years ago

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Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (R) and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., are seen outside the Senate chamber on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Hang on, Republicans: Who are the real “elites,” anyway?

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Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans and the crisis of “manhood”: Who are the real sex-obsessed pervs in America?

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Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the Supreme Court’s “fauxriginalists” are warping the Constitution

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the Faith & Freedom Coalition June 17, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Seth Herald/Getty Images)

Donald J. Trump, meanest of mean girls: He so doesn’t want to be our friend anymore

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U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized for coronavirus. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

How many people died because Trump mocked mask-wearing? We’ll never know

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Antonin Scalia and Amy Coney Barrett (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Originalism” and other Supreme nonsense: How the right-wing justices rationalize mass murder

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Let’s talk about Tucker Carlson’s obsession with “legacy Americans”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Josh Hawley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No country for insurrectionists: Will the Republican traitors finally face the music?

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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis addresses attendees on day one of the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ron DeSantis’ war on “woke” Disney is really an attack on core American values

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U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) arrives as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Shalanda Young is testifying before the Senate Budget Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. Young is testifying on President Biden's budget request for fiscal Year 2023. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Rick Scott’s loony-tunes 11-point plan: Classic GOP projection, and a roadmap to theocracy

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A student holds up a sign against banning CRT as members of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Board meet in Placentia, California, on March 23, 2022. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Stealth school board candidates are everywhere: But “Stop the Steal” isn’t working for them

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A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia's most-watched evening news broadcast, holding up a poster which reads as "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine in Moscow on March 15, 2022. - As a news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an item about relations with Belarus, Marina Ovsyannikova, who wore a dark formal suit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English. (AFP via Getty Images)

Won’t someone, anyone stand up to protest Tucker Carlson, Putin’s biggest fanboy?

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"The People's Convoy" truck headed toward the Kremlin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A “Freedom Convoy” we can all support: Send the truckers to Russia!

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Vladimir Putin | South Carolina, Myrtle Beach RV Travel Park (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

NATO-shmato! Here’s the diplomatic solution: Red-state America can join Putin’s CSTO

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"Love Heals." Acrylic painting based on photograph of nurse couple at Tampa General Hospital, by Nicole Hubbard (Painting by Samantha Ramay)

My friend recently became a nurse — what timing, right?

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Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press conference took place just minutes after news networks announced that Joe Biden had won the presidency over Donald Trump after it was projected that he had won the state of Pennsylvania. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Boy, do we need a “deep state” now — but not the way the Trumpers mean it

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Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are we normalizing the “death of democracy” by talking about it so much? Definitely not

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Firefighters survey tornado damages in downtown Mayfield on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night leaving a large path of destruction and multiple fatalities. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Despite all the chaos and discord of 2021, Americans still need each other

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Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Federalist Society built this Supreme Court — but how did it get its dishonest name?

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Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd waves an American flag while the band performs onstage (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

What exactly has gone wrong in America? Frat boys, light beer or Skynyrd? IDK

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View of the Confederate memorial, with an added Confederate flag made out of flowers, Jasper, Alabama, 2010. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

White America’s “hidden wound” threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster speaks to a crowd during an election night party on Nov. 3, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Why has Republican rhetoric gotten so unhinged? It’s pure projection

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