james "jim" schmotzer

Book release 2 weeks from today!
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Musak Coffee shop musak drones on Doing battle with the humming Refrigerator, clanking of dishes And cars outside accelerating, Slashin...

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Book release CRASH COURSE, 101 Stories, Each 101 Words or Less

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October 2025 check-in my monthly list & 6 word reviews (short list, crazy busy month)

October list a bit early, enjoy... jimschmotzer.substack.com/p/october-20...

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

Keep in mind that ICE now has a budget larger than every military in the world except the US and Chinese militaries.

Things are going to get much worse. I'm not saying this to create fear, it's fact.

The administration is at war with Americans.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

love my Portland, my home town, be strong friends.

September 2025 check-in my monthly list & 6 word reviews

September and summer in the rear view, time for a new list jimschmotzer.substack.com/p/september-...

🚨 BREAKING: James Comey posts a video statement following his indictment

"My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump...But I'm not afraid. And I hope you're not either...And I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith."

For Kyle From August to December Or January when we’re lucky Sunshine and sound breeze Fold into the fickle autumn That vacillates between ...

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School meals could drive economic growth and food system transformation School meals, provided for free by governments around the world, could be used to curb global hunger and promote a sustainable global food system, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

“School meals, provided for free by governments around the world, could be used to curb global hunger and promote a sustainable global food system, finds a new study by UCL researchers” (I had a small hand in this report; we have a longer follow-up RE Swedish example) www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

memories of childhood in the 50's & 60's Portland, real Portland (eastside version)

A little something different: jimschmotzer.substack.com/p/memories-o...

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There is nothing more American than refusing to bow down to authoritarianism, standing in solidarity with communities who have been targeted, and fighting to protect the foundations of our Democracy.

August 2025 check-in my monthly list & 6 word reviews

goodbye August, hello new list: jimschmotzer.substack.com/p/august-202...

Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this:

“I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”.

It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.

Bellingham reading, all welcome.

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if sandwiches are outlawed, only outlaws will have sandwiches

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony.

Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Sixty years ago today, Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law - securing health care for millions and saving countless lives. As GOP politicians try to tear them down, it's up to us to protect and expand these programs for Americans who rely on them today and for future generations.

July 2025 check-in my monthly list & 6 word reviews

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the sickness runs deep

Yes!! I say enough!!