Alex Schmidt
@alexschmidty.bsky.social
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listen to "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating" (a great podcast) every week!
listen to "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating" (a great podcast) every week!
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J6 prosecutor: “It’s more maddening than it is anything else. I spent years of my life watching the events of that day unfold in front of me again and again and again. I spoke with dozens and dozens of people who were there that day and who are still dealing with the trauma.”
Five years after Jan. 6, Trump is rewriting the narrative around the Capitol siege
More actions are expected, including possible payments to compensate Jan. 6 defendants, as the White House launches a webpage dedicated to Trump's claims.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:45 AM
J6 prosecutor: “It’s more maddening than it is anything else. I spent years of my life watching the events of that day unfold in front of me again and again and again. I spoke with dozens and dozens of people who were there that day and who are still dealing with the trauma.”
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trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.
January 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.
I’m a big fan of @parkermolloy.com ‘s writing. Check out “The Present Age”, it’s clear-eyed and great: open.substack.com/pub/readtpa?...
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January 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I’m a big fan of @parkermolloy.com ‘s writing. Check out “The Present Age”, it’s clear-eyed and great: open.substack.com/pub/readtpa?...
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“The sky is blue, the Earth is round, and Jan. 6 was a historically violent day that will forever be a stain on this country’s history. Political convenience does not change the facts.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Five years after Jan. 6, Trump is rewriting the narrative around the Capitol siege
The president is expected to take more actions this year, including possible payments to compensate Jan. 6 defendants.
www.nbcnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:33 PM
“The sky is blue, the Earth is round, and Jan. 6 was a historically violent day that will forever be a stain on this country’s history. Political convenience does not change the facts.”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Some really great work from NPR and @tomdreisbach.bsky.social here: apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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January 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Some really great work from NPR and @tomdreisbach.bsky.social here: apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
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I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
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I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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It feels like too many people have the mindset that "I can act however I like as long as I'm right" and if anyone doesn't listen because you're being too much of a jerk, it's their fault for being too stupid and emotional to look at the substance of your argument
I think a lot of people have this mindset of “well my politics are very clearly correct so me being a jerk all the time reads as this cool little flourish” when in reality that flourish actually makes you look kinda stupid and makes the uninitiated question those politics to begin with
December 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It feels like too many people have the mindset that "I can act however I like as long as I'm right" and if anyone doesn't listen because you're being too much of a jerk, it's their fault for being too stupid and emotional to look at the substance of your argument
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Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
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These days, when your @maximumfun.org newsletter arrives & the subject line starts with "Trans lives" & this is the first article
You know you're supporting a group of good people. (While getting great pod like @greatesttrek.com & @flophousepodcast.com )
You know you're supporting a group of good people. (While getting great pod like @greatesttrek.com & @flophousepodcast.com )
December 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
These days, when your @maximumfun.org newsletter arrives & the subject line starts with "Trans lives" & this is the first article
You know you're supporting a group of good people. (While getting great pod like @greatesttrek.com & @flophousepodcast.com )
You know you're supporting a group of good people. (While getting great pod like @greatesttrek.com & @flophousepodcast.com )
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when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal
U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity. n.pr/4pNYnVN
U.S. regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss
U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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In case you were looking for it
this can of Spam is in the Mariana Trench 🌊 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrGMfaxS/
this can of Spam is in the Mariana Trench 🌊 #science #food @SecretlyIncrediblyFascinating
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December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In case you were looking for it
this can of Spam is in the Mariana Trench 🌊 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrGMfaxS/
this can of Spam is in the Mariana Trench 🌊 #science #food @SecretlyIncrediblyFascinating
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December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
this can of Spam is in the Mariana Trench 🌊 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrGMfaxS/
I love 🇮🇸ICELAND🇮🇸 and I super love the @eurovangelists.com podcast. It’s one of my favorite shows (and I don’t even follow Eurovision!)
We’ve caught the Christmas spirit at Eurovangelists, so @alexschmidty.bsky.social of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating joins us to talk about Icelandic Christmas covers of other countries’ pop hits. It’s a long-standing tradition that’s yielded some great holiday tunes!
maximumfun.org/episodes/eur...
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Episode 98: Hark, The Icelandic Angels Sing! | Maximum Fun
The Eurovangelists take a look at Icelandic Christmas covers of songs orginally written for Eurovision.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I love 🇮🇸ICELAND🇮🇸 and I super love the @eurovangelists.com podcast. It’s one of my favorite shows (and I don’t even follow Eurovision!)
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We’ve caught the Christmas spirit at Eurovangelists, so @alexschmidty.bsky.social of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating joins us to talk about Icelandic Christmas covers of other countries’ pop hits. It’s a long-standing tradition that’s yielded some great holiday tunes!
maximumfun.org/episodes/eur...
maximumfun.org/episodes/eur...
Episode 98: Hark, The Icelandic Angels Sing! | Maximum Fun
The Eurovangelists take a look at Icelandic Christmas covers of songs orginally written for Eurovision.
maximumfun.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We’ve caught the Christmas spirit at Eurovangelists, so @alexschmidty.bsky.social of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating joins us to talk about Icelandic Christmas covers of other countries’ pop hits. It’s a long-standing tradition that’s yielded some great holiday tunes!
maximumfun.org/episodes/eur...
maximumfun.org/episodes/eur...
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We were dead and now we're the hottest country in the world, the first country—quite frankly the only country—where a box of breakfast cereal costs $11. We're saying Merry Christmas, and also the r-slur, and we're getting back to saying "gay" so it means "stupid" again. Grown-ups are doing it now,
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
We were dead and now we're the hottest country in the world, the first country—quite frankly the only country—where a box of breakfast cereal costs $11. We're saying Merry Christmas, and also the r-slur, and we're getting back to saying "gay" so it means "stupid" again. Grown-ups are doing it now,
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this is completely delusional
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
this is completely delusional
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Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.
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Dean Browning's one was gold, too.
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Dean Browning's one was gold, too.
Désireé Clary became queen of Sweden by rejecting Napoleon 👑 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrg3jnak/
Désireé Clary became queen of Sweden by jilting Napoleon 👑 #history #womeninhistory
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December 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Désireé Clary became queen of Sweden by rejecting Napoleon 👑 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrg3jnak/