Gary Schroth

Getting random likes on this constitution post from weeks ago. Always relevant!!!

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Too many pieces of rustic pottery, you say?

(Bought these at a neighborhood association auction last week which, let’s acknowledge, is Peak BlueSky).

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Pretty shocking actually…never thought about “big wellness”!

Our DOJ is a joke, literally as outrageous as a really bad SNL skit.

Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.

This is fu*king outrageous!

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.

apnews.com/article/utah...

How Do Americans View Childhood Vaccines, Vaccine Research and Policy? A majority of Americans say childhood vaccines are effective at preventing illness, but slightly fewer are confident that the vaccine schedule is safe.

As @mcbazacophd.bsky.social and I said years ago, if we politicize public health and vaccines we are toast …. And now there is data proving this. Tragic.

www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.

The Salt Lake Tribune, which went from for-profit to non-profit 6 years ago, is about to drop its paywall. "The Tribune cannot afford to limit who has access to independent and trusted news."

Meanwhile, it just launched a new newspaper in southern Utah.

www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11...

Trump is a global issue, because the economy, the environment and peace are global issues.

We Canadians cannot afford to ignore what our friends below the 49th are going through.

I’ve been using a 2007 iPod to listen to music while I work lately and it’s been GREAT, so great that occasionally getting my eardrums exploded by a song I downloaded from Limewire in high school is almost worth it

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

HBD to The Great Neil Young! 👑

University of California Faculty Win Block on Trump Defunding The Trump administration was ordered by a judge to stop freezing or threatening to withhold federal grant funds to the University of California as part of a nationwide pressure campaign to impose a raft of policy changes on elite colleges.

The Trump administration was ordered by a judge to stop freezing or threatening to withhold federal grant funds to schools in the University of California system as part of a campaign to impose policy changes on elite colleges

Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering Gates wrote a new 17-page memo hoping to have an impact on next month’s United Nations climate change conference in Brazil. He’s urging world leaders to ask whether the little money designated for cli...

Curbing CO₂ emissions is the best way to reduce large-scale human suffering.

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech

"If tonight teaches us anything, it's that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we've paid a mighty price. Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party, and too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they’ve been left behind."

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger taking a selfie together

Good morning to these future governors!

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Tonight, when a Democratic Socialist becomes the next mayor of NYC, rather than falling for the scare tactics of the rich folks & establishment pols who fear affordability, people-based government, I hope most Dems say "What can we learn from this? How can this help us evolve and win going forward?"

watching election night without dread is so cool... remember how this feels folks

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown

Being on the wrong side of history...in real time!

And these AI tools sound so SURE of themselves too!

"I have a simple recommendation for anyone who has problems with America," Langone said. "Why don't you leave?" He's "sick and tired of people bitching and complaining."

How about the 99.9% of us who are tired of billionaires bitching and complaining and constantly trying to buy elections!?!?