Alex Schmidt
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Alex Schmidt
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Ah yes, the Kavanaugh stop. A brief law enforcement encounter that lasts a mere *checks notes* 25 days.
The Department of Homeland Security released a Maryland woman who was held for 25 days despite evidence that her lawyers say proves she was born in the United States and is a citizen.
After 25 days, ICE releases Maryland woman who says she is a U.S. citizen
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was detained in December despite her legal team’s claims that she was born in the United States.
wapo.st
January 8, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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So just to recap:

ICE killed someone in Minneapolis today. It is, so far, the city's only murder of 2026.

ICE also harassed people at local daycare centers and a high school

The president and cabinet members then spread clear, horrifying lies about the victim, the events, and the city in general
January 8, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
@scottjohnson.zip another survivors like you can play instead of vampire survivors!
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November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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“Hey why don’t you invest billions of dollars in a factory here, and every four years we’ll flip a coin and maybe a posse of mouthbreathing thugs will throw hoods over your employees’ heads and fly them to a foreign prison”
September 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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For the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @jamisonfoser.bsky.social about how mainstream journalists are manufacturing consent for Trump’s occupation of American cities:
No, Trump Isn't Cracking Down on Crime. Plus, How Ukrainians Tell Their Story of the War. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
President Trump is preparing to send the National Guard to cities across the country. On this week’s On the Media, what the press is missing about the president’s so-called “crackdown...
www.wnycstudios.org
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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It is criminal what the US has done to its children through car culture. They go from supervised activity to car to supervised activity to car ... no wayfinding, no autonomy, no agency, no risk, no sense of adventure or surprise. We're raising helpless, emotionally fragile computer kids.
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it.
Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators

Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators

DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover
August 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Everyone who thinks that voters are responding to their own lived experience needs to explain this graph.
August 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Why are all of my work rectangles also my fuck around rectangles. These should be different rectangles.
July 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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AC is SO MUCH EASIER to decarbonize than heating...we're already like halfway to carbon free AC in the US, while heat is like 10% of the way there.
July 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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There's something darkly amusing about the fact that, in a political atmosphere rife with paranoid xenophobia about China, the GOP is passing a big high-profile bill that amounts to *total surrender to China*.
Sobering piece in @nytimes.com compares China's advances in clean energy to the U.S.'s retrenchment in fossil fuels. Hard to read at a moment when the U.S. is giving up on a more affordable, healthier, and more sustainable future.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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July 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."
June 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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“pulled”? what in the name of merriam webster is this
June 22, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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In contrast, I love everything about this. 🔌💡 🔌🚗
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Shows up!

Brooke reflects on America’s culture of political violence

@awprokop.bsky.social on the hawks and isolationists vying for Trump’s ear

@micahloewinger.bsky.social w/ the story of a campus newspaper that went to war with its school admin and won
MAGA Divides Over Iran. Plus, Inside the Crackdown on Student Journalists | On the Media | WNYC Studios
President Donald Trump says he’ll decide whether or not to attack Iran within the next two weeks. On this week’s On the Media, hear why the right is split on what the president should...
www.wnycstudios.org
June 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...
NBC's Jacob Soboroff reports from the Los Angeles protests as law enforcement fires flash bangs
NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff was reporting on the ground in Los Angeles when law enforcement started using crowd control tactics against protesters, including firing flash bangs. Soboroff spe...
www.msnbc.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible
June 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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The retweet by @jaketapper.bsky.social -- who plays "objective reporter" when it suits him -- is just too perfect. The one opinion he thinks it is ok to show off in public is: "the right of free assembly is unworkable."
"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.
June 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM