Daniel C Schmidt

"Who I am to judge?" is the lowest form of fence-sitting

Allergy season is making sound podcasters even sillier

"My packs (PACs?) would get all mad…" – Guy outside a gym in Columbia Heights, DC @heardindc.bsky.social

Wer schreibt 1 Essay/Verriss/Reportage (bitte, bitte keine Śtïlkrîtīk) über mäćhtïgê Männer und ihre peinlichen Energiephilosophie-Ärmbändchen?

Wenn der Wahltag schon das Herz belastet, wie geht das dann erst zu, wenn die anfangen, Politik zu machen 🫠

A New Discovery Sheds Light on Malcolm X’s Journey to Islam The civil rights leader’s lone poem, written from prison, reveals his love of language — and his quest for truth

NEW: Behind prison walls, Malcolm X developed his mind and his faith, honing his love for language. It was a formative time, best understood by considering what he read and appreciating what he wrote. newlinesmag.com/essays/a-new...

Meine Tante hatte mal 1 Kollegen, der Fickeisen mit Nachnamen hieß. Leben, es bleibt einfach das Härteste.

Amerikas Turbokapitalismus hat Elon Musk, den Machtmenschen, erschaffen und ihm Einfluss geschenkt. Jetzt sind alle ganz überrascht, was er damit anstellt 🫠

Me when my mum let me dress myself for school but said, "Wait, here, you need to wear a hat"

Me when my mum let me dress myself for school but said, "Wait, here, you need to wear a hat"

Ich habe das Gefühl, dass Europa immer noch auf Anstand setzt u d das auch erwartet hat, während Trump, Vance & Co den geopolitischen Mittelfinger ausfahren. Dann ist die Empörung post-MSC groß, aber Trump hat in der Zeit der "Aufarbeitung" dieser Vance-Rede schon wieder 3 neue Fakten geschaffen

Seltsam, weiß er nicht, was das Wort bedeutet? Weder das eine (Vance-Rede) noch das andere (schlechter Stand der Demokratie) ist: ein Skandal. Naja, meine Meinung.

Seid Ihr noch mit Leuten befreundet, die hier "yours truly" statt "ich" schreiben?

"The President can fire whoever he wants," Marjorie Taylor Greene says

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) talks about "at least five Inspectors General who were looking into Elon Musk‘s companies were fired by the Trump-Musk administration", mentions millions Musk makes from Government contracts on a daily basis

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) is the first member who doesn‘t bother with the witnesses but rants about Musk for 5min he gets: "He is leading a power grab", "his staffers, some teenagers, are unqualified and problematic"

Ranking member Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) needs to agree: Yes, fraud and waste bad, let‘s work together, improve the situation, but: "We can‘t pretend this is a normal hearing." She calls Musk‘s work "recklessly, illegally wrecking the federal bureaucracy"

The problem Democrats are facing becomes apparent right away:
Well, who likes waste and fraud… so what could possibly be wrong with DOGE and its mission?
Of course the real issue here, dismantling a political system in a full-on assault of the federal bureaucracy, is not addressed here

It‘s not a time for political theater or partisan attacks, she says, and praises Trump and Elon Musk for their work.

1st DOGE Subcommittee hearing has started, it’s titled "The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud" and chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene. In her opening statement she says that US is "36 trillion in debt – this is not a DEM or REP problem, this is an American problem"

Best TV show 23/24, by a mile. It‘s all you ever need to watch to ûńdërštåńd the USA

Feld-oh-Mat. Danke, das war sehr hilfreich für mich.

Ja aber wann kommen endlich meine Wahlunterlagen an, Deutsche Post / USPS??

Wann crowdfunding oder Aufstand der Anständigen für lustige, originelle, hintersinnige Zeichner in deutschen Zeitungen?

Ist das nicht auch 1 der Probleme: Migration lang und breit debattieren, Gipfelhier Gipfelda, laberlaber, anstatt dass mal irgendwas passiert, das Integration nahe kommt?

Journalism and reporting still have such bad PR, how many films/shows have I watched where a newspaper guy turns up (without notepad/pen or recording device) and complicates the plot by being malicious / sensationalist for the sake of it?!?

Pic of the (former) US Presidents at Jimmy Carter‘s funeral in DC

Sure, a few years have gone by for most of them. Still remarkable how the US presidency ages you… unless you‘re Donald Trump

Bitch please, "has a nice ring to it". So does "convicted felon", I guess?

Komische Debatte, werd ich nie kapieren. "Ich muss malochen, er nicht, weil krank, wird aber trotzdem bezahlt, ja dann: nein, alles Schmarotzer."
… bist Du dann selbst mal krank bist, dann geht das Gejaule los

Zuckerberg said, this move had worked on X, to justify the step Meta is taking, as if X has not turned into a cesspool of rightwing misinformation and conspiracies