Tom Schmit
@tomschmit.bsky.social
I live in Viesīte, Latvia but lived and grew up in Buffalo, NY.
My partner and I founded the Latvian Dyslexia Association, and I write and edit for a big ass American IT company.
Politically, I am a bit to the left of most Americans.
My partner and I founded the Latvian Dyslexia Association, and I write and edit for a big ass American IT company.
Politically, I am a bit to the left of most Americans.
Same person, two pardons. Fraud.
Yeah. He gives a shit about fraud.
Yeah. He gives a shit about fraud.
January 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Same person, two pardons. Fraud.
Yeah. He gives a shit about fraud.
Yeah. He gives a shit about fraud.
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HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "100% of rental demand in California and New York is because of illegal immigration"
January 12, 2026 at 4:38 PM
HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "100% of rental demand in California and New York is because of illegal immigration"
Here's the really weird thing to me...I admit that I have only a rudimentary grasp of physics and geometry, but, if it were me, and I WANTED to hit the Ross, I would have turned to the LEFT (toward him) rather than RIGHT (away from him.
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Here's the really weird thing to me...I admit that I have only a rudimentary grasp of physics and geometry, but, if it were me, and I WANTED to hit the Ross, I would have turned to the LEFT (toward him) rather than RIGHT (away from him.
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We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
Renee Good was a kind, gentle, and engaged person. She was killed by ICE. We have to trust the system to justly determine culpability, but nothing excuses her death. Nothing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Victim in ICE Shooting Is Remembered for Her Kindness
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Renee Good was a kind, gentle, and engaged person. She was killed by ICE. We have to trust the system to justly determine culpability, but nothing excuses her death. Nothing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Are we on the way to just being the neighborhood bully?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSR...
Bonus Episode: How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela? (With Anne Applebaum) | The David Frum Show
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Are we on the way to just being the neighborhood bully?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSR...
And there you have it....
Yes, she got a Nobel prize,
but, no, trump says she can't govern.
Translation, "she can't be trusted to line trump's pockets."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Yes, she got a Nobel prize,
but, no, trump says she can't govern.
Translation, "she can't be trusted to line trump's pockets."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Trump says Venezuelan opposition leader doesn't have the 'respect' to govern after Maduro ousted
Venezuelans are reacting to the U.S. operation early Saturday that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
abcnews.go.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:36 AM
And there you have it....
Yes, she got a Nobel prize,
but, no, trump says she can't govern.
Translation, "she can't be trusted to line trump's pockets."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Yes, she got a Nobel prize,
but, no, trump says she can't govern.
Translation, "she can't be trusted to line trump's pockets."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
"The Iraqi people would welcome a U.S. invasion force as liberators from President Saddam Hussein, not conquerors, although it is unclear how long American soldiers would have to stay in Iraq after removing its leader, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday."
Circles?
www.mrt.com/news/article...
Circles?
www.mrt.com/news/article...
Cheney: Iraqi People Will Welcome U.S.
Associated Press Writer
www.mrt.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 AM
"The Iraqi people would welcome a U.S. invasion force as liberators from President Saddam Hussein, not conquerors, although it is unclear how long American soldiers would have to stay in Iraq after removing its leader, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday."
Circles?
www.mrt.com/news/article...
Circles?
www.mrt.com/news/article...
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Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
2017. Extraordinarily prescient and challenging.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0I...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0I...
Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture 2017: Timothy Snyder
YouTube video by Fonds DOTS
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
2017. Extraordinarily prescient and challenging.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0I...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0I...
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She had no illusions about the good old days
Recalling McCarthy-era blacklisting:
“When people come up to me & say, ‘Wish we had wonderful 🇺🇸shows like we used to in the ’50s,’
I say: ‘Let me tell you who wrote those scripts.’ They were good 🇺🇸s & they were in jail”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/a...
Recalling McCarthy-era blacklisting:
“When people come up to me & say, ‘Wish we had wonderful 🇺🇸shows like we used to in the ’50s,’
I say: ‘Let me tell you who wrote those scripts.’ They were good 🇺🇸s & they were in jail”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/a...
June Lockhart, Beloved Television Mother, Dies at 100
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
She had no illusions about the good old days
Recalling McCarthy-era blacklisting:
“When people come up to me & say, ‘Wish we had wonderful 🇺🇸shows like we used to in the ’50s,’
I say: ‘Let me tell you who wrote those scripts.’ They were good 🇺🇸s & they were in jail”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/a...
Recalling McCarthy-era blacklisting:
“When people come up to me & say, ‘Wish we had wonderful 🇺🇸shows like we used to in the ’50s,’
I say: ‘Let me tell you who wrote those scripts.’ They were good 🇺🇸s & they were in jail”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/a...
This is EXACTLY what my friends in Ukraine do for me and the world.
Humanity in the face of evil.
Humanity in the face of evil.
October 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This is EXACTLY what my friends in Ukraine do for me and the world.
Humanity in the face of evil.
Humanity in the face of evil.
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Listen please
substack.com/@precariousi...
substack.com/@precariousi...
KC (@precariousillusiuon)
GOP motto: If you can't win, cheat.
Update: This was posted from a Substack member.
That’s N.C. Democrat Senator Michael Garrett, And He’s Speaking The Absolute Truth!
God Bless This Man!
Ever...
substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Listen please
substack.com/@precariousi...
substack.com/@precariousi...
Here's the absurdity:
"When Democrats did decide to shut down the government".
How does a minority party decide this? The majority in the relevant branches has the power. Not the minority.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
"When Democrats did decide to shut down the government".
How does a minority party decide this? The majority in the relevant branches has the power. Not the minority.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Opinion | The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Here's the absurdity:
"When Democrats did decide to shut down the government".
How does a minority party decide this? The majority in the relevant branches has the power. Not the minority.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
"When Democrats did decide to shut down the government".
How does a minority party decide this? The majority in the relevant branches has the power. Not the minority.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Everything that he does becomes a combination of action and metaphor. The decision to rip down the entire east wing of the Whitehouse (our house) is action and metaphor.
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Everything that he does becomes a combination of action and metaphor. The decision to rip down the entire east wing of the Whitehouse (our house) is action and metaphor.
Ladies and Gentlemen!
The next Attorney General of the USA!
The next Attorney General of the USA!
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen!
The next Attorney General of the USA!
The next Attorney General of the USA!
The chef's kiss of a 'fuck you' would be if Marco Rubio is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The chef's kiss of a 'fuck you' would be if Marco Rubio is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
#latvia
Waiting for members of Saeima to start demanding that Yamaha suspend sales of motorcycles in LV.
eng.lsm.lv/article/soci...
Waiting for members of Saeima to start demanding that Yamaha suspend sales of motorcycles in LV.
eng.lsm.lv/article/soci...
Drunk motorcycle rider kills child in Latvia
A child was killed in a crash caused by a drunken motorcyclist in Tukums municipality on Wednesday, the State Police (VP) said.
eng.lsm.lv
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
#latvia
Waiting for members of Saeima to start demanding that Yamaha suspend sales of motorcycles in LV.
eng.lsm.lv/article/soci...
Waiting for members of Saeima to start demanding that Yamaha suspend sales of motorcycles in LV.
eng.lsm.lv/article/soci...
NONE of these mentioned in the magic NPSM-7.
I wonder why...real head scratcher.
I wonder why...real head scratcher.
October 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
NONE of these mentioned in the magic NPSM-7.
I wonder why...real head scratcher.
I wonder why...real head scratcher.
If you don't know about NSPM-7, you should.
They frame it as being about (the as yet undefined) domestic terrorism, but it is about intimidating trump's opposition.
The Comey and James indictments are just the first shots across the bow.
kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs
They frame it as being about (the as yet undefined) domestic terrorism, but it is about intimidating trump's opposition.
The Comey and James indictments are just the first shots across the bow.
kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
kenklippenstein.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
If you don't know about NSPM-7, you should.
They frame it as being about (the as yet undefined) domestic terrorism, but it is about intimidating trump's opposition.
The Comey and James indictments are just the first shots across the bow.
kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs
They frame it as being about (the as yet undefined) domestic terrorism, but it is about intimidating trump's opposition.
The Comey and James indictments are just the first shots across the bow.
kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs
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Ken's explainer about NSPM-7:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
October 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Ken's explainer about NSPM-7:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
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The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity
From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.
www.qasimrashid.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Atlantic—one of the most prolific corporate media outlets in America—attacked me, my values, & my advocacy. And they got most everything wrong.
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
Here is my rebuttal. I doubt they’ll issue a retraction, but my receipts are undeniable. Please share and boost.❤️✊🏽
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...
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Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff.
Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.
When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.
Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.
When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.
"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing
October 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff.
Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.
When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.
Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.
When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.
15 drones + an unknown number of missiles either went over or fell on Chortkiv in Ternopils oblast Ukraine.
Imagine the sleepless, fear filled night. And then to get up and try and lead a normal life.
Fuck russia.
Imagine the sleepless, fear filled night. And then to get up and try and lead a normal life.
Fuck russia.
October 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
15 drones + an unknown number of missiles either went over or fell on Chortkiv in Ternopils oblast Ukraine.
Imagine the sleepless, fear filled night. And then to get up and try and lead a normal life.
Fuck russia.
Imagine the sleepless, fear filled night. And then to get up and try and lead a normal life.
Fuck russia.
My sympathy for the military monolith (as seen listening to Hegseth and trump) is limited.
That this happens under the command of this 'professional' military is immoral.
Oh...and spare me the "you don't understand how tough it is."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
That this happens under the command of this 'professional' military is immoral.
Oh...and spare me the "you don't understand how tough it is."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
Did a Green Beret Unit Commit One of the Worst U.S. War Crimes in Decades?
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
My sympathy for the military monolith (as seen listening to Hegseth and trump) is limited.
That this happens under the command of this 'professional' military is immoral.
Oh...and spare me the "you don't understand how tough it is."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
That this happens under the command of this 'professional' military is immoral.
Oh...and spare me the "you don't understand how tough it is."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...