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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This article needs comments and interaction on the Times site. The Times could break this story wide open if it did some NYT-grade work to corroborate the sources & materials ProPublica used to write their article. Both the corruption and the cover-up are ground-shaking if proven. Get to work, NYT.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Incredible clarity and incredible common sense, Rachel. The founders are spinning in their graves right now. 250 years ago the need for freedom of the press was so obvious that it went into the First Amendment. The press holds the government accountable. Trump and the GOP loathe accountability.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Giving a wedding party is pretty common. I remember when I did it for someone who was not a member of my family and lived in another country. Never.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's almost like that's what they told the asset to do.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Diplomats from nations with histories many times longer than the history of the US would tire of dealing with a two bit real estate lawyer? How could that happen?

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are blessed. Blaha is even better at radio than TV, although he is a gem at both. I do miss Ernie, Bruce Martyn, Ufer and Brandstatter.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If this was the America we all deserve: "FBI Warns Women Not to Trust Any ICE Agents Willing to Date Them"

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Don't look at that man behind the curtain!"

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yow. My sympathies. That's nasty. How is anybody supposed to get any sleep tonight?

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It slices, it dices, it makes incredible Julienne fries!

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

But Wait! NOW how much would you pay?... A gallon.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'd say one political party. They could have abandoned him years ago. Impeached him after January 6. Denied his ability to serve in 2024. This dysfunction is systemic.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day. Labor is the armature over which America is sculpted. If you make it, grow it, cook it, nurse 'em, teach, protect or doctor them, clean it, sell it, bottle or keg it, pick it, process it, deliver it, build it, package it, serve it or put it out if it's burning: Happy Labor Day.

Man on a ladder at the top of a cherry tree, picking cherries, with a smudge of cherry juice on his face.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Great Italian. The only place in Detroit where no one ever got their car stolen. Where else would Frank have gone? I don't remember a time when it was not there. Looks like they painted a flag over the word "Cafe" on the awning.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What restaurant? Amore da Roma Cafe?

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I had never really considered that hoping Godzilla would attack Washington DC would be something I was actually down with, but here we are.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Moscow and Kiev hate each other? Goodness. When did this begin? Oh. Wait. About 900 years ago.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's just part of an endless stream of New Stupidity.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

JD Vance is a cross between a Cabbage Patch Kid and the Pillsbury Dough Boy, with a beard.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Once they are gone, they are gone forever.” Uh, no. They were introduced to the island from the mainland, and they can be reintroduced in the future. If for some reason that made sense. Immigrants have alternately been screwing up and then trying to fix North American ecosystems for centuries.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Stalingrad. That's on the shores of Lake America in Pennsylvania, no?

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How long will it be before this happens in Alaska, Patagonia or the Canadian Rockies? It's here, people.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The most critical scientists who made a success of the Manhattan Project had all (wisely) fled from fascist Europe. And here we are.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Like the concept, but how did Lake Michigan get into this? It's the only Great Lake that Canada does not border.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is that a real poncho, or is that a Sears poncho?

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks for the little jolt of Sunday morning joy.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The tragic truth is that 90% of Americans are totally unaware of this history, how it impacted America then, and how it may impact America now. There is a lot Moscow wants us to forget (say, Klaus Fuchs, anyone?), and Americans are very obliging.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As much as I love you, and I do appreciate everything you do, Barb, this piece is a repetition of all of the things so many of us already know. It is past time to stop re-identifying the problem and instead to start planning the solution.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What? Predatory, hate-filled misogyny masquerading as supposedly helpful technology? Who could ever have envisioned that such a thing could happen? Hang on. Let me turn the Sarcasmatron down. Had it set on "11."

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Who obtained these letters, and how?

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Seems very peculiar that these are seeing the light of day.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Couldn't she just take some off the wall?

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I do not frequent Starbucks. For that matter, I don't buy Albacore tuna, either. But Kroger jam crosses a line.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That took me while, too. In Michigan, we have no tax on food. Move here.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

American "abandoned" rail because the oil and automotive industries demanded it.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

And you cheaped out on the tuna and the jelly.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

He is, and has always been the Bull$#!t President. All Bull$#!t, all day, all night, in stereo.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our modern Edith Wilson. You can make your own mind up on whether Donald's impairments are the match of Woodrow's, but it feels like a toss-up to me.

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" Santayana

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Ken D. Schramm @compleatmeadmaker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Trump and the GOP are trying like hell to disrupt America's trust in our most valuable institutions: A free and deeply investigative press. The CDC. Elections. The CPB, FBI, FEMA. NOAA. Congress itself. SCOTUS. Fear-mongering and undermining these institutions to replace them with authoritarianism.

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