Adam J Schmidt

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

Marco couldn't translate for him? Also does the 2024 change to the kickoff rule still count as new? 🧐

He should have turned off Kid Rock and tuned into Bad Bunny.

ICYMI:

Elon Musk Y @elonmusk X.com For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

Levels of ketamine never before ingested

give me the ferments
and free my soul
I’m only eatin yogurt
at the super bowl
I’m RFK

Screenshot of WaPo Editorial Board piece on Texas redistricting.

Screenshot of WaPo Editorial Board pieces on Maryland and Virginia redistricting.

Compare how Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Editorial Board treated Republican redistricting in Texas and Democrat redistricting in Maryland and Virginia.

2024 Puerto Rican status referendum - Wikipedia

Puerto Rico should have had the opportunity to become a state a long time ago. Maybe they would help combat some of this. It's what the population seems to want after all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Pu...

I hear what you're saying though -- I just wish it were called out explicitly as racism instead of getting folded into the larger political debate about immigration.

Right, but he's not an immigrant. Puerto Ricans have been US citizens for over 100 years! Any confusion on that point just highlights ignorance and racism and/or xenophobia based on culture and language. Which is terrible, and I think it's worth calling out as distinct from an "immigration divide."

This is insane.

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

Does an American citizen performing at the Super bowl really "illustrate the nation's immigration divide" though? 🧐

John Brown's Body - Wikipedia

Don't forget the song! Same tune as the Battle Hymn of the Republic, was one of many lyrics floating around the Army during the Civil War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Br...

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

The way reactions come over is terrible!

RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%.

This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.

They were just working out a few kinks.

Final results in the Louisiana #HD60 (Trump+13) special election:

Chasity Martinez (D)- 62%
Brad Daigle (R)- 38%

Martinez holds this Trump+13 seat for the Democrats and puts in a nearly 40 point overperformance from 2024 in the process

For us GWU kids it was Watergate liquor.

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy!

When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship.

There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.

“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.

But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

CIA terminates its World Factbook | CNN After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on Feb...

I'm irrationally angry about this one -- at least they had fun with the headline

www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/u...

So they're not denying that he's racist? 🧐

At this point it'd probably be the least surprising revelation.

the man who owns Palantir, a key contractor to the US intelligence community. Under US law, Thiel, as a holder of high level security clearances, was required to report this contact to USG. It does not appear he did so.

Who are these staffers up in the middle of the night posting like they’re high on meth?

Exclusive | Justice Department Casts Wide Net on Netflix’s Business Practices in Merger Probe As it probes bids for Warner, the department is asking if the streamer has engaged in conduct that could make it a monopoly.

Welcome to the world of selective enforcement, a hallmark of autocratic and hybrid governments. It doesn't matter if the underlying investigation has validity. Because the probe is not about the rule of law, but rather the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of allies of the regime.

Here is the video of Hakeem Jeffries saying "fuck Donald Trump" for posting that racist video of the Obamas. (originally from his official Instagram account) www.instagram.com/reel/DUbeoy5...

“Trump may be racist but you’re fat” isn’t the sick burn whatever moron runs the GOP account thinks it is