Alex Schmidt

Alex Schmidt

@alexschmidty.bsky.social

alexschmidty.com listen to "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating" (a great podcast) every week!

1,604 Followers 182 Following 344 Posts Joined May 2023
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happy 251st anniversary to the most important speech of the American Revolution 🇺🇸 #History #PatrickHenry TikTok video by Alex Schmidt

happy 251st anniversary to the most important speech of the American Revolution 🇺🇸 www.tiktok.com/t/ZThvwS9Nw/

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IT APPROACHES

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i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

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I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

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the grandfather of the atomic bomb also revolutionized speed bumps 🚗 #history #science @SecretlyIncrediblyFascinating TikTok video by Alex Schmidt

the grandfather of the atomic bomb also revolutionized speed bumps 🚗 www.tiktok.com/t/ZThvVGaU5/

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Nice!

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3 days ago
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Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

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Conservatives are always going on and on about "political correctness" and how those woke libs can never straightforwardly call a thing a thing, and then when it comes to war all they can talk in is goofy HR euphemisms

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I really hate how much politics and media coverage is just journalists pretending to not understand what's actually being said and done by people in power.

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and that’s more common than I’d realized before researching! Super cool

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a screenshot of the music video Planet of the Bass, it has a man in a white outfit and angel wings, a woman in a robe and a crown, the caption reads "Women are my favorite guy"

happy international women's day to all my international women

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3 days ago
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a French 19 year old changed world history by purchasing a boat 🇫🇷⚓️ #Lafayette #AmericanRevolution #thisdayinhistory TikTok video by Alex Schmidt

a French 19 year old changed world history by purchasing a boat 🇫🇷⚓️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZThvfjtxu/

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4 days ago

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

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Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

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This week I guested on Secretly Incredibly Fascinating with @alexschmidty.bsky.social to talk about one of my favorite topics ever. How off the wall crazy Jim Thorpe’s life was! Listen to it wherever you find your podcasts and if you want more cool Thorpe facts, pre order my book! It’s full of ‘em!

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ICE's terror did not start with Noem and won't end now that she is gone. The whole agency continues to act with impunity, attacking the press, and silencing dissent. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

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US ICE arrested journalist in Nashville without arrest warrant, her lawyers say A reporter working for local news outlet Nashville Noticias was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Nashville without ​a warrant, an emergency petition filed by her attorneys i...

Estefany Maria Rodriguez Flores, a journalist from Nashville, was unlawfully arrested by ICE without a warrant. She must be released.

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UPDATE: Sunny, a U.S. citizen, is on her way home after being shipped across state lines overnight.

How the hell did this happen?

Press conference tomorrow at Broadview, where we will hear Sunny’s side of the story. More details soon.

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We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.

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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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SIX YEARS OF HOTDOOOOOOG!!!!

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In the current internet landscape, 6 years means that 1-900-HOTDOG qualifies as an "elder internet statesman".

Which is fucking stupid. And amazing. And stupid. And pizza. And I want it stick around.

Sign up for more.

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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes

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it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

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1 week ago

I didn't grow up with any Native American traditions beyond a knowledge of Penobscot and Mi'kmaq ancestry. But some Native stories, like the latest Secretly Incredibly Fascinating about Jim Thorpe, with @alexschmidty.bsky.social and @joeytainment.bsky.social, hit in a nostalgic way I can't explain.

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Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 267, Six Million Dollar Man vs. Bigfoot with Alex Schmidt YouTube video by 1-900-HOTDOG

You can also find a ragtag team of humans, machines, and cryptids on our YouTube channel! They're always there, but this week so are @seanbaby.bsky.social , @brockway.bsky.social, and @alexschmidty.bsky.social. youtu.be/zjDIfiYXM-8

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Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 267, Six Million Dollar Man vs. Bigfoot with Alex Schmidt Seanbaby and Brockway invite Secretly Incredibly Fascinating Alex Schmidt on the podcast for an endurance challenge. Three comedians, one bigfoot, five episodes of the Six Million Dollar Man. You do t

@seanbaby.bsky.social , @brockway.bsky.social, @alexschmidty.bsky.social, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Bigfoot are all in the Dogg zZone today. on.soundcloud.com/tTC6Hz9G1Spo...

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