Kent Strumpell
@kentstrumpell.bsky.social
Founder and managing director, Strumpellvation Design Labs and Appliance Repair
Venezuela: Soon to be Trump’s Ukraine?
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Venezuela: Soon to be Trump’s Ukraine?
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Trump has attacked and undermined vital nonpartisan data, including:
-BLS monthly jobs numbers
-DC crime statistics
-EPA emissions database
-NOAA & National Weather Service forecasting
Like every dictator, Trump knows the major enemy of tyrants is an educated public.
-BLS monthly jobs numbers
-DC crime statistics
-EPA emissions database
-NOAA & National Weather Service forecasting
Like every dictator, Trump knows the major enemy of tyrants is an educated public.
August 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Trump has attacked and undermined vital nonpartisan data, including:
-BLS monthly jobs numbers
-DC crime statistics
-EPA emissions database
-NOAA & National Weather Service forecasting
Like every dictator, Trump knows the major enemy of tyrants is an educated public.
-BLS monthly jobs numbers
-DC crime statistics
-EPA emissions database
-NOAA & National Weather Service forecasting
Like every dictator, Trump knows the major enemy of tyrants is an educated public.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Letting a great opportunity go to waste.
California gov. Newsom, LA mayor Bass.
5,000 burned homes could be built better, walkable, proximity, all ages and SOFT DENSITY.
Mayor prohibited duplexes, triplexes or fourplexes.
NOT powerful NIMBYs; it's gutless politicians!
Planetizen bit.ly/47goXQV
California gov. Newsom, LA mayor Bass.
5,000 burned homes could be built better, walkable, proximity, all ages and SOFT DENSITY.
Mayor prohibited duplexes, triplexes or fourplexes.
NOT powerful NIMBYs; it's gutless politicians!
Planetizen bit.ly/47goXQV
August 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Letting a great opportunity go to waste.
California gov. Newsom, LA mayor Bass.
5,000 burned homes could be built better, walkable, proximity, all ages and SOFT DENSITY.
Mayor prohibited duplexes, triplexes or fourplexes.
NOT powerful NIMBYs; it's gutless politicians!
Planetizen bit.ly/47goXQV
California gov. Newsom, LA mayor Bass.
5,000 burned homes could be built better, walkable, proximity, all ages and SOFT DENSITY.
Mayor prohibited duplexes, triplexes or fourplexes.
NOT powerful NIMBYs; it's gutless politicians!
Planetizen bit.ly/47goXQV
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ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost.
Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank.
The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship.
Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.
Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank.
The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship.
Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.
July 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost.
Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank.
The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship.
Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.
Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank.
The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship.
Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.
Stay aware of what the other hand is doing while Trump tries to distract us with his latest stunts. Recall the Musk/Doge fiasco that has dismantled critical government infrastructure, the firing of inspectors general, serial defiance of the Constitution,etc, etc
June 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Stay aware of what the other hand is doing while Trump tries to distract us with his latest stunts. Recall the Musk/Doge fiasco that has dismantled critical government infrastructure, the firing of inspectors general, serial defiance of the Constitution,etc, etc
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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
June 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.
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This is how I would like the Australian government to think. Spent on effective #ClimateAction and save in #energy costs, #disaster relief, #AgedCare and #health before we count the costs of loss of #biodiversity.
#auspol
#auspol
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This is how I would like the Australian government to think. Spent on effective #ClimateAction and save in #energy costs, #disaster relief, #AgedCare and #health before we count the costs of loss of #biodiversity.
#auspol
#auspol
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It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block / X
HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block
x.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
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Yes. Shared leadership is the way to wise decisions for the future.
April 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Yes. Shared leadership is the way to wise decisions for the future.
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New Boiling Point podcast! This week my guest is NRDC's @carterrubin.com. We talk public transit, housing and California's opportunity to build climate-friendly cities — and why it's been so hard to overcome the political obstacles to doing so. Listen in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Traffic, Trains and Trade-Offs
Podcast Episode · Boiling Point · 04/17/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New Boiling Point podcast! This week my guest is NRDC's @carterrubin.com. We talk public transit, housing and California's opportunity to build climate-friendly cities — and why it's been so hard to overcome the political obstacles to doing so. Listen in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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Agreed. Limiting choices is “social engineering”. Expanding choices = freedom.
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
March 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Agreed. Limiting choices is “social engineering”. Expanding choices = freedom.
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Car advocates are right to worry that once you build cities for people instead of cars, those people will stop voting for the interests of the car industry.
BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Car advocates are right to worry that once you build cities for people instead of cars, those people will stop voting for the interests of the car industry.
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Do you want America’s rivers to look like this?
Trump does. His EPA is ripping away protections that keep our water clean, air safe, and communities healthy — all to make his billionaire buddies even richer.
Trump does. His EPA is ripping away protections that keep our water clean, air safe, and communities healthy — all to make his billionaire buddies even richer.
March 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Do you want America’s rivers to look like this?
Trump does. His EPA is ripping away protections that keep our water clean, air safe, and communities healthy — all to make his billionaire buddies even richer.
Trump does. His EPA is ripping away protections that keep our water clean, air safe, and communities healthy — all to make his billionaire buddies even richer.
Trump/Musk are clearly attempting a coup: an illegal seizure of power. Their authoritarian tactics reflect an admission that their extremist goals are bankrupt and unable to withstand constitutionallly required processes or common sense. They must be defied.
February 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trump/Musk are clearly attempting a coup: an illegal seizure of power. Their authoritarian tactics reflect an admission that their extremist goals are bankrupt and unable to withstand constitutionallly required processes or common sense. They must be defied.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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This has always been Trump’s, Elon’s and the GOP’s intention. The end of fair and free elections in the Unites States.
SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.
Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED
wrd.cm
February 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This has always been Trump’s, Elon’s and the GOP’s intention. The end of fair and free elections in the Unites States.
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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I know there have been a fair number of conflicting dates, so, let's organize and settle on February 28th to start.
Market Blackout. No buying. No major retailers. No Amazon.
For one day, we grind consumerism to a halt. (And with a little planning, this shouldn't be hard.)
Let's do it.
Market Blackout. No buying. No major retailers. No Amazon.
For one day, we grind consumerism to a halt. (And with a little planning, this shouldn't be hard.)
Let's do it.
February 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I know there have been a fair number of conflicting dates, so, let's organize and settle on February 28th to start.
Market Blackout. No buying. No major retailers. No Amazon.
For one day, we grind consumerism to a halt. (And with a little planning, this shouldn't be hard.)
Let's do it.
Market Blackout. No buying. No major retailers. No Amazon.
For one day, we grind consumerism to a halt. (And with a little planning, this shouldn't be hard.)
Let's do it.
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We know you can do this one. Democracy dies in the darkness. Thursday, February 13, at 8 PM your time, turn off all the lights and TVs visible from the outside. #3E #LightsOut
February 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
We know you can do this one. Democracy dies in the darkness. Thursday, February 13, at 8 PM your time, turn off all the lights and TVs visible from the outside. #3E #LightsOut
Eventually, the MAGA initiative to disparage and demonize DEI programs will be futile. Our country is without a doubt diverse. Equity has been part of American life for generations. And inclusion programs have been taking hold for years, in small and large ways that can’t be stifled by edict.
February 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Eventually, the MAGA initiative to disparage and demonize DEI programs will be futile. Our country is without a doubt diverse. Equity has been part of American life for generations. And inclusion programs have been taking hold for years, in small and large ways that can’t be stifled by edict.
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I oversaw global health programs at @USAID.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.
February 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I oversaw global health programs at @USAID.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.
They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.
What insanity and cruelty to break that.