Call me Ishmael
@schmedlap123.bsky.social
Twitter refugee. White male baby boomer who is not so proud of my peers. Love sports and many music genres. NIU grad
No Trump 🚫 No Bitcoin 🚫 MAGA trolls will be blocked
No Trump 🚫 No Bitcoin 🚫 MAGA trolls will be blocked
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look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls
Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private.
Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.
/ more for Canadians
Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.
/ more for Canadians
February 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls
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Trump started a Trade War over immigration & drug trafficking when he could have just backed last year's Bipartisan Border Bill -- the one negotiated by very conservative Republicans and supported by Border Patrol Agents
Trump doesn't really give a shit about drug trafficking, migrants, cops or you
Trump doesn't really give a shit about drug trafficking, migrants, cops or you
February 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Trump started a Trade War over immigration & drug trafficking when he could have just backed last year's Bipartisan Border Bill -- the one negotiated by very conservative Republicans and supported by Border Patrol Agents
Trump doesn't really give a shit about drug trafficking, migrants, cops or you
Trump doesn't really give a shit about drug trafficking, migrants, cops or you
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Eggs UP
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
February 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Eggs UP
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
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Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
January 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
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Trump's funding-freeze fiasco should demonstrate to Democrats that speaking loudly in unison is a pretty good way to set the media agenda and to alert voters that something is gravely amiss with his assaults on rule of law and constitutional governance:
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
January 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Trump's funding-freeze fiasco should demonstrate to Democrats that speaking loudly in unison is a pretty good way to set the media agenda and to alert voters that something is gravely amiss with his assaults on rule of law and constitutional governance:
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
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Trump & GOP's Project 2025 is a manifesto to control women & terrorize anyone who doesn't look like them, worship like them, or lives a lifestyle they deem unacceptable.
#ProudBlue #Project2025 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TheTurdReich #Felon47 #FOTUS #NotMyDictator #Resist
#ProudBlue #Project2025 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TheTurdReich #Felon47 #FOTUS #NotMyDictator #Resist
January 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Trump & GOP's Project 2025 is a manifesto to control women & terrorize anyone who doesn't look like them, worship like them, or lives a lifestyle they deem unacceptable.
#ProudBlue #Project2025 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TheTurdReich #Felon47 #FOTUS #NotMyDictator #Resist
#ProudBlue #Project2025 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TheTurdReich #Felon47 #FOTUS #NotMyDictator #Resist
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Only week one
Egg prices up
Coffee going up
Prescription prices up
Insulin from $35 back to $400
Farm and construction workers fleeing
Left WHO
Left climate accord
Wants to end FEMA
Pardoned 1500 felons
Stops foreign aid
We told you this would happen FAFO
Egg prices up
Coffee going up
Prescription prices up
Insulin from $35 back to $400
Farm and construction workers fleeing
Left WHO
Left climate accord
Wants to end FEMA
Pardoned 1500 felons
Stops foreign aid
We told you this would happen FAFO
January 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Only week one
Egg prices up
Coffee going up
Prescription prices up
Insulin from $35 back to $400
Farm and construction workers fleeing
Left WHO
Left climate accord
Wants to end FEMA
Pardoned 1500 felons
Stops foreign aid
We told you this would happen FAFO
Egg prices up
Coffee going up
Prescription prices up
Insulin from $35 back to $400
Farm and construction workers fleeing
Left WHO
Left climate accord
Wants to end FEMA
Pardoned 1500 felons
Stops foreign aid
We told you this would happen FAFO
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Which part of white supremacy did Latino and Black Republicans NOT understand? bsky.app/profile/mind...
Any connection between the thinking of a white woman who ran over a Black boy she thought was an "Islamic terrorist" and a Latina girl she thought was “Mexican”, and the racist rhetoric of a felon president must be coincidental.
Nothing to look at, move along folks. -GOP
#USDemocracy #DemVoice1
Nothing to look at, move along folks. -GOP
#USDemocracy #DemVoice1
January 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Which part of white supremacy did Latino and Black Republicans NOT understand? bsky.app/profile/mind...
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So just to summarize- Republicans and SCOTUS think that AR15s are perfectly fine, but TikTok is just too dangerous?
January 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So just to summarize- Republicans and SCOTUS think that AR15s are perfectly fine, but TikTok is just too dangerous?
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The U.S. government already knows how to be ruthless. Never forget that.
This photo of a man on a mountain of bison skulls has circulated for years. Biologist Victor Scheffer said it best: “Nature needs millions of years to create a species; man needs only a few dozen to destroy one.”
This photo of a man on a mountain of bison skulls has circulated for years. Biologist Victor Scheffer said it best: “Nature needs millions of years to create a species; man needs only a few dozen to destroy one.”
January 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The U.S. government already knows how to be ruthless. Never forget that.
This photo of a man on a mountain of bison skulls has circulated for years. Biologist Victor Scheffer said it best: “Nature needs millions of years to create a species; man needs only a few dozen to destroy one.”
This photo of a man on a mountain of bison skulls has circulated for years. Biologist Victor Scheffer said it best: “Nature needs millions of years to create a species; man needs only a few dozen to destroy one.”
No odd capitalization. Normal grammar and spelling. No way he wrote this
December 30, 2024 at 10:41 PM
No odd capitalization. Normal grammar and spelling. No way he wrote this
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Undocumented workers pay nearly $100B year in state and federal taxes, including: "$25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022."
Amount of services received for the payroll taxes paid?
0
itep.org/undocumented...
Amount of services received for the payroll taxes paid?
0
itep.org/undocumented...
Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants
Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be...
itep.org
November 27, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Undocumented workers pay nearly $100B year in state and federal taxes, including: "$25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022."
Amount of services received for the payroll taxes paid?
0
itep.org/undocumented...
Amount of services received for the payroll taxes paid?
0
itep.org/undocumented...
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These workers will have to work without pay if the richest man shuts down the government before Christmas:
- TSA agents make less than $50K/yr
- National guards on active duty make $11K/yr
- FEMA staff make less than $62K/yr
- National Park Service staff make $78K.
#DemVoice1
- TSA agents make less than $50K/yr
- National guards on active duty make $11K/yr
- FEMA staff make less than $62K/yr
- National Park Service staff make $78K.
#DemVoice1
December 20, 2024 at 1:51 AM
These workers will have to work without pay if the richest man shuts down the government before Christmas:
- TSA agents make less than $50K/yr
- National guards on active duty make $11K/yr
- FEMA staff make less than $62K/yr
- National Park Service staff make $78K.
#DemVoice1
- TSA agents make less than $50K/yr
- National guards on active duty make $11K/yr
- FEMA staff make less than $62K/yr
- National Park Service staff make $78K.
#DemVoice1
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
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![The image is a tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) that reads:
“This is good, actually. She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading.
To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, it’s like giving someone an unplugged controller.”
Below her tweet is a quote tweet of CNBC (@CNBC), which states:
“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tapped to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as new DOGE subcommittee chair [link].”
The CNBC tweet is timestamped 14 hours ago from the time of the screenshot.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xjc7mkotpenvhh6ffewkdpyn/bafkreihbkmq5az3c2qm4ytifcvh25wj4mgjvdfnum47m3syzfedzthgflm@jpeg)
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Matt Gaetz is already doing the hard work removing criminal sex offenders from Trump's cabinet.
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Matt Gaetz is already doing the hard work removing criminal sex offenders from Trump's cabinet.
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These high childcare costs are pushing mothers not only out of the workforce but also--and maybe ironically--into political conservatism. Because moms pushed out of paid work often struggle with loss of identity. And because conservative Christian moms' groups often step in to fill that void. 1/🧵
Cost of child care for one child can be more than rent in some US counties blog.dol.gov/2024/11/19/n...
NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense
We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.
blog.dol.gov
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
These high childcare costs are pushing mothers not only out of the workforce but also--and maybe ironically--into political conservatism. Because moms pushed out of paid work often struggle with loss of identity. And because conservative Christian moms' groups often step in to fill that void. 1/🧵
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forgetting your headphones at home is the modern equivalent of leaving your sword behind in medieval times
November 18, 2024 at 4:58 AM
forgetting your headphones at home is the modern equivalent of leaving your sword behind in medieval times
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The emotional register that makes Trumpism work with many voters is very similar to the kayfabe that animates professional wrestling fandom. People can keep it somewhat at arms length because they know it's absurd and unserious, but also they can be intensely emotionally invested in it.
November 20, 2024 at 3:05 AM
The emotional register that makes Trumpism work with many voters is very similar to the kayfabe that animates professional wrestling fandom. People can keep it somewhat at arms length because they know it's absurd and unserious, but also they can be intensely emotionally invested in it.
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As we did in 2017, we’re going to find out a lot about some people and whether they really are who they pretend to be.
November 18, 2024 at 1:29 PM
As we did in 2017, we’re going to find out a lot about some people and whether they really are who they pretend to be.
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ICYMI: Democratic governors are vowing to fight Trump's plans for mass deportations.
But only 2 of 23 states led by Dem governors — Oregon and Illinois — have comprehensive state laws barring sheriffs + local law enforcement from assisting ICE. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
But only 2 of 23 states led by Dem governors — Oregon and Illinois — have comprehensive state laws barring sheriffs + local law enforcement from assisting ICE. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Dem Governors Are Vowing To Fight Trump’s Mass Deportations. Most Aren’t Prepared.
Only two states have meaningful safeguards barring the transfer of undocumented people to ICE. Expect "shock and awe," warned one former ICE official.
www.huffpost.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
ICYMI: Democratic governors are vowing to fight Trump's plans for mass deportations.
But only 2 of 23 states led by Dem governors — Oregon and Illinois — have comprehensive state laws barring sheriffs + local law enforcement from assisting ICE. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
But only 2 of 23 states led by Dem governors — Oregon and Illinois — have comprehensive state laws barring sheriffs + local law enforcement from assisting ICE. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...