Stefan Bauschmid
@stef202.bsky.social
25+ year 🇦🇹 expat in WDC 🇺🇸.
Make Studio Baltimore / Dischord Records
Make Studio Baltimore / Dischord Records
Cotton remains my favorite "Southern-Ivy-League-Educated-Political-Dimwit" pet peeve. Tens of people will be devastated once he disappears.
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Cotton remains my favorite "Southern-Ivy-League-Educated-Political-Dimwit" pet peeve. Tens of people will be devastated once he disappears.
To add on top of all this, a freak who feels the need to exert extra revenge on everybody else after having grown up as the son of an electrician and a teacher (epitaph-worthy hardship). Divorced (presumably due to being an insufferable human) and looking 15 years older as par of the course.
There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
To add on top of all this, a freak who feels the need to exert extra revenge on everybody else after having grown up as the son of an electrician and a teacher (epitaph-worthy hardship). Divorced (presumably due to being an insufferable human) and looking 15 years older as par of the course.
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Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.
September 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.
Having lived/worked in the US for almost as long as her (although not a single day with questionable immigration status), I believe my grasp of the English language and its pronunciation is, uhm, a little more advanced than this.
I might have also come up with a better speech (writer).
I might have also come up with a better speech (writer).
Melania Trump is hosting a White House AI event right now where she is talking about "first generation humanoids"
September 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Having lived/worked in the US for almost as long as her (although not a single day with questionable immigration status), I believe my grasp of the English language and its pronunciation is, uhm, a little more advanced than this.
I might have also come up with a better speech (writer).
I might have also come up with a better speech (writer).
If stupidity/ignorance, even if performative, gave someone velocity, Maria Bartiromo, after asking this question, would have had to pump the brakes going uphill.
Maria Bartiromo to Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "You've got all these projects which are not necessarily projects that you can rely on. I mean, is the wind blowing? Is the sun shining? And yet hundreds of millions of dollars were going at these projects."
September 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If stupidity/ignorance, even if performative, gave someone velocity, Maria Bartiromo, after asking this question, would have had to pump the brakes going uphill.
I loved that my Desert Storm veteran neighbor Mitchel took his Harley out today, blasted Go-go on the system and honked at me riding by as I mowed the lawn.
May 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I loved that my Desert Storm veteran neighbor Mitchel took his Harley out today, blasted Go-go on the system and honked at me riding by as I mowed the lawn.
Nobody knows if/when the world will come to its senses again, but I'd be very much into the idea of doing a trip from Nome, AK to Chukotka, RU, setting my watch 20 hours ahead after a short-ish flight, and not experiencing any touristy bullshit in the process.
May 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Nobody knows if/when the world will come to its senses again, but I'd be very much into the idea of doing a trip from Nome, AK to Chukotka, RU, setting my watch 20 hours ahead after a short-ish flight, and not experiencing any touristy bullshit in the process.
Good to know that supporting and advancing artists with disabilities doesn’t reflect “the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President”.
May 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Good to know that supporting and advancing artists with disabilities doesn’t reflect “the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President”.
And that's how you move on from a conspiracy theorist.
To a drunk conspiracy theorist.
To a drunk conspiracy theorist.
May 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
And that's how you move on from a conspiracy theorist.
To a drunk conspiracy theorist.
To a drunk conspiracy theorist.
It's an experience when you encounter somebody who is incapable of ever feeling any embarrassment, but really should 90% of the time.
Markwayne Mullin: "Let's have Riker & Alcatraz both open. So we got east coast & west coast both covered, & put our most notorious criminals in them so people understand we're a nation of laws again, unlike under Biden... I don't believe in keeping them comfortable. I want them to regret the crime"
May 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It's an experience when you encounter somebody who is incapable of ever feeling any embarrassment, but really should 90% of the time.
As a former (and still spiritual) neighbor of Germany who is very well aware of his own country’s past, I trust JD and Marco will get themselves new assholes ripped for villainously batting for the AfD.
May (God or) the German government find a fun way at some point.
May (God or) the German government find a fun way at some point.
May 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
As a former (and still spiritual) neighbor of Germany who is very well aware of his own country’s past, I trust JD and Marco will get themselves new assholes ripped for villainously batting for the AfD.
May (God or) the German government find a fun way at some point.
May (God or) the German government find a fun way at some point.
This manchild does not appear to have matured much since the Real World Boston.
Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
April 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This manchild does not appear to have matured much since the Real World Boston.
Its "Average-white-guy-accidentally-in-US-Government-thinking-of-himself-as-an-alpha-male-while-being-incredibly-dumb" time.
April 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Its "Average-white-guy-accidentally-in-US-Government-thinking-of-himself-as-an-alpha-male-while-being-incredibly-dumb" time.
What a waste of an N-3B Parka.
March 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
What a waste of an N-3B Parka.
Plus, I swear, Cotton looks like a MAGA Mr. Bean in this one.
March 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Plus, I swear, Cotton looks like a MAGA Mr. Bean in this one.
My recent 53rd birthday has almost exactly halved my life between EU (AUT) and the US.
And before I draw my last breath, I hope that they will grow to be close and even better allies again under the guidance of future US leaders.
And before I draw my last breath, I hope that they will grow to be close and even better allies again under the guidance of future US leaders.
March 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My recent 53rd birthday has almost exactly halved my life between EU (AUT) and the US.
And before I draw my last breath, I hope that they will grow to be close and even better allies again under the guidance of future US leaders.
And before I draw my last breath, I hope that they will grow to be close and even better allies again under the guidance of future US leaders.
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Timeline cleanse 🌞
March 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Timeline cleanse 🌞
It was always clear Djokovic is a jerkwad with a messianic victim complex, the other one doesn’t know that testosterone is a steroid.
March 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It was always clear Djokovic is a jerkwad with a messianic victim complex, the other one doesn’t know that testosterone is a steroid.
Related to this, I recall an interesting experience sharing Sir Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance with some of my friends after certain events in 2017, and being showered with rather irate "The US doesn't need to consider silly stuff like that" type reactions.
we believe we are special and we simply are not
March 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Related to this, I recall an interesting experience sharing Sir Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance with some of my friends after certain events in 2017, and being showered with rather irate "The US doesn't need to consider silly stuff like that" type reactions.
I admit that, prior to reentering after a trip to Austria at BWI last WED, I thought about that, in a country of 340,000,000, my last name is, by all indications, astoundingly unique. I am a greencard holder, and who knows, maybe Global Entry was a good thing for me to have that day.
If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.
March 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I admit that, prior to reentering after a trip to Austria at BWI last WED, I thought about that, in a country of 340,000,000, my last name is, by all indications, astoundingly unique. I am a greencard holder, and who knows, maybe Global Entry was a good thing for me to have that day.
I watched this while spending a week with family across the ocean. Among a few things, the tear she reportedly shed at the end of Barry O.'s farewell visit especially did it for me.
March 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I watched this while spending a week with family across the ocean. Among a few things, the tear she reportedly shed at the end of Barry O.'s farewell visit especially did it for me.
Went all the way from DC to Upper Austria to help with some school walk chaperoning.
March 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Went all the way from DC to Upper Austria to help with some school walk chaperoning.
A second one for good measure. My regular one is presumably arriving a day too late, so the official at the consular office and I laughed about it.
Public service makes a difference in people‘s lives, and I have deep respect for the folks doing it across the Atlantic.
Public service makes a difference in people‘s lives, and I have deep respect for the folks doing it across the Atlantic.
March 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A second one for good measure. My regular one is presumably arriving a day too late, so the official at the consular office and I laughed about it.
Public service makes a difference in people‘s lives, and I have deep respect for the folks doing it across the Atlantic.
Public service makes a difference in people‘s lives, and I have deep respect for the folks doing it across the Atlantic.
Word.
I do Costco anyway
March 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Word.
"However you define 'woke,' anti-woke means being a cunt who wants to indulge bigots." --Steve Albini.
It's really not that hard to [continue to] be fair and decent to others on a personal level.
It's really not that hard to [continue to] be fair and decent to others on a personal level.
March 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"However you define 'woke,' anti-woke means being a cunt who wants to indulge bigots." --Steve Albini.
It's really not that hard to [continue to] be fair and decent to others on a personal level.
It's really not that hard to [continue to] be fair and decent to others on a personal level.