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Jan Schmidt
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Horrendous speller, Retired NH State Representative, Retired Nashua City Alderman, Married to Atlant. We both love cooking, traveling, and books, which makes for a lovely life. I just wish the world was in better shape…
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YOUR FAVORITE WRITER (ME!) IS BACK WITH A NEW POST IN WHICH I RIP DONNY "A NEW ONE" FOR HIS DISGUSTING DESPOT PLAYDATE WITH A WAR CRIMINAL. SAD! PEOPLE ARE SAYING SIR! SIR! HOW DO YOU WRITE SO WELL. JEFF TIEDRICH (AGAIN, ME!) IS AMAZING!
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE POST. THE LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/41BPy7u
August 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C. are protesting the pedophile president and his Nazi ICE Gestapo. 🙌💪👏👊🇺🇸👇
August 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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August 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
.stand around in full combat gear *OUTSIDE OF A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR'S NEWS CONFERENCE* in a suburb of Los Angeles."“
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference.

This is what rising fascism looks like.
August 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
And he lied…

All stories about him need to end with this simple phrase
August 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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America is on the wrong path.

Hopefully we can find our way.

The way towards diversity, equality, empathy, inclusion, generosity, fairness, kindness, progress, love, intelligence, and democracy.

We must never give up hope.
August 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Georgia, you’ve already got Marjorie Taylor Greene. Elect Mike Collins too and we’re gonna need a border around the whole damn state. The guy can’t even spell “Georgia” in his own ad, writes “Georiga.”

'Georiga': Embarassing typo in Mike Collins Senate ad rumble.com/v6wt3x6-geor...
'Georiga': Embarassing typo in Mike Collins Senate ad
via Mike Collins
rumble.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This is the story of my life...when I told my Mother I was going to run for Governor of NH in 1991 she told me I could not because I would embarrass the family. It has been a struggle to be perceived as an equal and it turns out equality is a threat
July 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The Senate Budget Bill is a Unmitigated Disaster #ABlueView🧵1/3

New CBO estimates of the Senate version is it throws:
1) 11.8 million off Medicaid & the ACA; 1 million MORE THAN the House bill - tinyurl.com/3rxhh5hb
2) 3 million off SNAP/food stamps - tinyurl.com/2fhfhu6v
June 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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You know the bar is lower than low when they’re congratulating the Secretary of Defense for not leaking military secrets.
June 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
We knew this.
Well, some of us did, maybe all of us could have if there was still "journalism" in America.
June 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.
June 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Thinking is difficult.

That’s why Republicans created MAGA.

Happy Father’s Day to all dads, and a very special shoutout to all foster, adoptive and stepdads, like America’s founding father George Washington! 🦅 🇺🇸
June 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This was passed in NH just last week, no oversight, fund managed by a private company taking 10% off the top, no one knows where all the money goes - but some... will make you furious.
Tucked inside the House GOP tax bill? A massive national voucher program. $5B/year in tax credits to subsidize private & religious schools—$20B over 4 years. Public money, zero oversight.

A backdoor defund of public education masked as “choice.”
Hands Off Public Schools
June 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A.

via @swholocron.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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This little light of mine.
June 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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As a Marine once stationed at 29 Palms, I can’t imagine being sent to do this in an American city. I figured we would be here if there was a second Trump admin, but I didn’t think it would be this soon. Sadly, it’s only going to get worse.
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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U.S. Correspondent Lauren Tomasi has been caught in the crossfire as the LAPD fired rubber bullets at protesters in Los Angeles.

via @9newsaus.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Like you I am focused on Los Angeles.

But we better learn to multitask. Because we need to also stay focused on this: Trump turned over the staffing, funding & inner workings of our federal agencies to a man who attacked his Treasury Secy & who he tells us is a drug addict.
June 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful.

Then Trump brought the chaos.

He is responsible.
June 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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We live in a country where the wealthiest person openly mocks a first-time political candidate for suggesting that everyone should have access to affordable healthcare—after he’s spent the last four months making sure thousands of children in less affluent countries starve to death.
June 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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ICYMI, new piece/thread from me:
If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier than You Think
Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how screw over poor and working people more effectively.
newrepublic.com
June 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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It is WILD to me that we just uncritically accept the people who control the news cycle acting as though things disappearing from the news is just somehow a magical thing that they have no say in
I do not understand this tendency among journalists to reduce every political event to a prediction about whether it will be a lasting news cycle. On the merits, we have a billionaire who helped a fascist get into power and now believes he can dictate policy. That matters! A lot!
Anyway I remain convinced that much of the attention is gawking/schadenfreude. There’s still a bigass bill that could leave ~11m uninsured. There’s possibly illegal tariffs.

Point being this news cycle will pass and we’ll all talk soon about stuff that matters more. Yaaaaaaay.
June 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
"Foundation for Women Warriors"
Found on Facebook,

81 years ago, Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history—D-Day. It marked the beginning of the end of Nazi occupation in Europe.
June 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM