Schnipp'sQuips
@schnippquips.bsky.social
Dad, Mets fan, Cornell alum, ink-stained wretch, night stalker, sleepwalker, failed poet. Suddenly a CNBC Pro editor. Opinions mine alone/RTs unendorsed.
Ya gotta shake your head and laugh.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Ya gotta shake your head and laugh.
@wbgojazz.bsky.social, a public jazz station in Newark, NJ, just played an entire ad for eBay. Not an underwriting card. An actual ad, indistinguishable from commercial radio.
I hope @wbgojazz.bsky.social makes a lot of $$$ from this decision. It makes me less, not more willing to donate.
I hope @wbgojazz.bsky.social makes a lot of $$$ from this decision. It makes me less, not more willing to donate.
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
@wbgojazz.bsky.social, a public jazz station in Newark, NJ, just played an entire ad for eBay. Not an underwriting card. An actual ad, indistinguishable from commercial radio.
I hope @wbgojazz.bsky.social makes a lot of $$$ from this decision. It makes me less, not more willing to donate.
I hope @wbgojazz.bsky.social makes a lot of $$$ from this decision. It makes me less, not more willing to donate.
ICE Arrests Harvard Professor Charged for Shooting a Pellet Gun www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
"This man is married to a Jewish woman and has Jewish children, and it’s absolutely nothing to do with targeting the Jewish community.” -- The rabbi of the synagogue
"This man is married to a Jewish woman and has Jewish children, and it’s absolutely nothing to do with targeting the Jewish community.” -- The rabbi of the synagogue
ICE Arrests Harvard Professor Charged for Shooting a Pellet Gun
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ICE Arrests Harvard Professor Charged for Shooting a Pellet Gun www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
"This man is married to a Jewish woman and has Jewish children, and it’s absolutely nothing to do with targeting the Jewish community.” -- The rabbi of the synagogue
"This man is married to a Jewish woman and has Jewish children, and it’s absolutely nothing to do with targeting the Jewish community.” -- The rabbi of the synagogue
Yay. What we need is less science.
CDC VACCINE ADVISERS VOTE TO DROP UNIVERSAL RECOMMENDATION FOR HEPATITIS B VACCINE AT BIRTH
CDC VACCINE ADVISERS VOTE TO DROP UNIVERSAL RECOMMENDATION FOR HEPATITIS B VACCINE AT BIRTH
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Yay. What we need is less science.
CDC VACCINE ADVISERS VOTE TO DROP UNIVERSAL RECOMMENDATION FOR HEPATITIS B VACCINE AT BIRTH
CDC VACCINE ADVISERS VOTE TO DROP UNIVERSAL RECOMMENDATION FOR HEPATITIS B VACCINE AT BIRTH
"The Nuremberg Trials were a verdict on an entire system of thought that considered certain groups of human beings as less than human, as 'enemies' to be eliminated without trial or mercy." -- Click by Pimm Fox
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The Nuremberg Trials were a verdict on an entire system of thought that considered certain groups of human beings as less than human, as 'enemies' to be eliminated without trial or mercy." -- Click by Pimm Fox
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When Trump calls Somalis “garbage,” I respond: how many Somalis are in the Epstein files?
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
When Trump calls Somalis “garbage,” I respond: how many Somalis are in the Epstein files?
Not following U.S. policy vis a vis “narco-terrorism” and drug interdiction and protecting the citizenry here.
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Not following U.S. policy vis a vis “narco-terrorism” and drug interdiction and protecting the citizenry here.
Wow. I guess this scarf is old. Really old.
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Wow. I guess this scarf is old. Really old.
Now you too are free to run for elected office and after the votes are tallied ask the Secretary of State to "find" 12,000 ballots for you, in order to overturn the outcome -- AND IT'S ALL LEGAL!
Go ahead. Tell 'em Georgia sent ya.
Go ahead. Tell 'em Georgia sent ya.
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Now you too are free to run for elected office and after the votes are tallied ask the Secretary of State to "find" 12,000 ballots for you, in order to overturn the outcome -- AND IT'S ALL LEGAL!
Go ahead. Tell 'em Georgia sent ya.
Go ahead. Tell 'em Georgia sent ya.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
"The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video."
-- Senator Elissa Slotkin, former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA
-- Senator Elissa Slotkin, former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video."
-- Senator Elissa Slotkin, former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA
-- Senator Elissa Slotkin, former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA
The apparent strategy in Nov. 2025 is to just kill off MAGA voters, although it's unclear how that game plan wins you more votes.
NB: "The nation’s top public health agency currently has no permanent director, and Abraham would essentially be running the agency."
NB: "The nation’s top public health agency currently has no permanent director, and Abraham would essentially be running the agency."
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The apparent strategy in Nov. 2025 is to just kill off MAGA voters, although it's unclear how that game plan wins you more votes.
NB: "The nation’s top public health agency currently has no permanent director, and Abraham would essentially be running the agency."
NB: "The nation’s top public health agency currently has no permanent director, and Abraham would essentially be running the agency."
I have bad news for America. Prices don't come down.
The best you can hope for is that they stabilize at a higher level (stop rising) and your income grows to catch up and, if you're lucky, surpass the prevailing price level. No one anywhere is lowering prices.
The best you can hope for is that they stabilize at a higher level (stop rising) and your income grows to catch up and, if you're lucky, surpass the prevailing price level. No one anywhere is lowering prices.
The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation
Workers are growing tired of an economy in which everything seems to get more expensive.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I have bad news for America. Prices don't come down.
The best you can hope for is that they stabilize at a higher level (stop rising) and your income grows to catch up and, if you're lucky, surpass the prevailing price level. No one anywhere is lowering prices.
The best you can hope for is that they stabilize at a higher level (stop rising) and your income grows to catch up and, if you're lucky, surpass the prevailing price level. No one anywhere is lowering prices.
"Of the more than one million people under Temporary Protected Status in the U.S. this year, 705 are from Somalia."
#CrueltyisthePoint
#CrueltyisthePoint
Trump Plans to End Immigration Protections for Some Somalis in Minnesota
President alleged Somali gangs are “terrorizing” people in the Midwestern state.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Of the more than one million people under Temporary Protected Status in the U.S. this year, 705 are from Somalia."
#CrueltyisthePoint
#CrueltyisthePoint
“At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America.”
(Spoiler alert: This won’t end well.)
(Spoiler alert: This won’t end well.)
Opinion | The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America.”
(Spoiler alert: This won’t end well.)
(Spoiler alert: This won’t end well.)
USA! USA! USA!
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
USA! USA! USA!
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
USA! USA! USA!
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
USA! USA! USA!
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Saw Bernard Bailyn on on Burns' et al's The American Revolutionlast night and thought, "Is he still with us? He must be ancient."
Died in the summer of 2020, age 97.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard...
The torch has been passed. I know longer recognize any of the prominent (living) historians!
Died in the summer of 2020, age 97.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard...
The torch has been passed. I know longer recognize any of the prominent (living) historians!
Bernard Bailyn - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Saw Bernard Bailyn on on Burns' et al's The American Revolutionlast night and thought, "Is he still with us? He must be ancient."
Died in the summer of 2020, age 97.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard...
The torch has been passed. I know longer recognize any of the prominent (living) historians!
Died in the summer of 2020, age 97.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard...
The torch has been passed. I know longer recognize any of the prominent (living) historians!
“America First” didn’t work out too well then either,
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“America First” didn’t work out too well then either,
The President and CEO of USAA has a few choices words to the Commander in Chief who desecrated Arlington National Cemetery with a partisan, narcissistic campaign rally on #VeteransDay today.
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The President and CEO of USAA has a few choices words to the Commander in Chief who desecrated Arlington National Cemetery with a partisan, narcissistic campaign rally on #VeteransDay today.
I had a brief rainbow on my ceiling earlier. Never saw it before. It was like Stonehenge!
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I had a brief rainbow on my ceiling earlier. Never saw it before. It was like Stonehenge!
How would he know how much anything costs, much less a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread or a monthly insurance premium? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Dismisses Affordability Concerns, Insists Prices Are Coming Down
The president said the notion that the GOP performed poorly in the recent elections because of the cost of living is a Democratic “con job.”
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
How would he know how much anything costs, much less a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread or a monthly insurance premium? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...