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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s totally Disneyland: clean, efficient, great rides, enormously expensive.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not only stunningly beautiful, but they have vending machines with locally made cheese.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 1d

Fall in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland 📷

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 6d

Great, thanks!

Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 7d

Yep, it’s real! It’s a viewpoint at ETH.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 7d

Hello Zürich. Delighted to be spending my sabbatical at @ethz.ch. In related news, this feed will be featuring Swiss landscape photos for the next eight months. 🏔️

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Kurt Taylor Gaubatz @kurttg.bsky.social · 12d

Russia's hybrid attacks on NATO would seem the obvious test case for this fearsome new strategic doctrine.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Hegseth: "Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. To our enemies, FAFO."

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 14d

Splish, splash… 🪶

A yellowish bird with wings spread over bubbling water.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 14d

This is the kind of thing you only used to say out loud in your secret volcanic lair while stroking a cat. When did it become acceptable to openly brag about this vision for the world?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 15d

Yes, that’s Pepper. She’s spicy.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 15d

#caturday

A tortoise shell cat on a slate stone step

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 15d

This is hilarious and a testament to how much meaning can be conveyed by subtle facial expressions.

youtu.be/TRREsyFgO6w?...

“A bad escalator and a bad teleprompter” — Trump implies UN sabotaged him, while he saved millions.

YouTube video by Diaper Diplomacy

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 16d

Inviting pundits to give "talks" is just not what professors/departments do. Some schools have "institutes of politics" that do this, like @gupolitics.bsky.social at Georgetown, which invites conservatives regularly. Departments invite scholars for talks, and I rarely know their personal politics.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16d

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 16d

Esp this one:🙄

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 16d

Holding aside the issue of money, there's a lot of blurring of "association" and "causation" here by two well-trained scientists who certainly know the difference.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 19d

Harvard Dean Was Paid $150,000 as an Expert Witness in Tylenol Lawsuits

www.nytimes.com

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 17d

Mr. President, we must not allow a kitchen cabinet gap!

(They’re very unsightly)

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 17d

Who knew that having robust bathroom vanity production capabilities is crucial to national security?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 17d

Trump: ‘We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products, starting October 1st, 2025. Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture. The reason for this is the large scale “FLOODING” of these products

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 18d

CHOTINER: So you were something of a big shot?
OZYMANDIAS: Oh, yeah. King of kings.
C: Bet you were pretty intimidating.
O: Sure, had it all. Frown, wrinkled lip, sneer of cold command.
C: Uh huh.
O: Look on my Works and despair!
C: All I see is two vast and trunkless legs of stone…
O: Well, yeah.

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Dennis Goris @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 20d

#RFKjr

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 19d

Even making the generous assumption that the goal was to spread the aid burden more evenly, there were ways to make the transition less deadly. Instead, they took a sledgehammer to USAID, canceled previously awarded contracts, and cut the rug out from under NGOs without warning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you standing by your comment that no one has died because of the aid cuts? Are all those aid organizations lying?

RUBIO: They died because England didn't give enough money or Canada didn't give more or China didn't. Let's blame the other countries that don't do any foreign aid.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 19d

"Ha ha, my LLM hallucinated some gibberish. No, wait..."

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 20d

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 20d

Because of their complete capitulation to Trump, today's Republicans have become the party of slandering a multinational corporation with anti-science lies when that company has, in fact, helped millions of people. That was a choice by Republicans to do that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Trump: "With Tylenol -- don't take it. Don't take it!"

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 21d

I stand corrected!

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 21d

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin

Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

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