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Joe Schmutzler

@joeschmutzler.bsky.social
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I work in energy management and volunteer with Spark Northwest, promoting equity in the renewable transition.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE
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Bruce F. Singer @drawnandquartered.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@cartoonmovement.com you may appreciate my cartoon today…
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The global economy and trillions of dollars of investment depend on this technology
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Bill Murray in Ghostbusters saying it's true this man has no dick
JOIN. ICE. GOV
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
USPS PRO TIP: To make sure your mail-in ballot, tax return or legal document gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office and ask for a manual postmark at the counter in person
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Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off
Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 17/10/2025
Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2025
One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 21/09/2025
If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.
A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
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P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 11/09/2025
It isn't difficult to despise violence and the atmosphere of encouraging it more than one hates Charlie Kirk individually - especially as the former still lives and isn't mortal. But in God's name, who asked you to turn "non-celebration" into mourning? ...
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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 12/08/2025
I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity. It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Democratic leaders—who represent the vast majority of American Jews, yet orient their politics around defensively fending off bad-faith accusations of antisemitism—need to have the backs of actual Jews here, and attack this relentlessly. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-r...
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Trump Rails Against ‘Shylocks And Bad People’ In Iowa Speech
President Donald Trump employed a term often used as a slur against...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In a country characterized by the rule of law, some regulation of immigration is a legitimate function of government. In a lawless, expressly bigoted, and expressly corrupt regime, it is not. Download IceBlock and defy this administration.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
David Huerta, President of California's largest union, was assaulted and detained Friday by ICE. Now the @aflcio.org, the biggest confederation of unions in America made up of nearly 15 million active and retired workers, is calling on members to protest on his behalf.
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Once again I am calling for Democrats to introduce legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names, as well as a requirement for ICE and DHS agents to present proof that there is enough danger present to be masked to a judge when they get their warrant.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
O’BRIEN: “.. Trump once told me that he admired John Gotti, the notorious mobster, because Gotti never backed down, never flinched or wept in a courtroom, and gave everyone who opposed him the evil eye. That’s how Trump sees himself. Anything but a chicken.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
hi i’d really love to interview people about how the new house gop reconciliation bill will impact renewables development have a sec today to chat? hit my line: jael@heatmap.news #greensky #energysky #climatesky
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 07/05/2025
“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.) [kottke.org]
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WWII Vet Crushes a Tesla With a Sherman Tank
In this video, 98-year-old British WWII veteran Ken Turner demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. Here’s what Turner had to say before getting down to business: I’m old enough to have seen fascism the first time arou
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Joe Schmutzler @joeschmutzler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I just spent a few hours in the ER today with my daughter due to an infection in her glands, Possibly due to dental work. We'll see many more like this if municipalities follow suit.
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm not kidding that any Dem who wants to run in 2028 should get out ahead of this and loudly say if El Salvador puts American citizens in Trump's gulag we'll fucking invade.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/03/2025
The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 26/02/2025
I officially challenge all of Wisconsin’s Congressional Republicans to defend their vote to slash Medicaid and cut taxes for the ultra-rich. Let’s do it in a town hall format for maximum transparency!
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I remember thinking this in Trump 1.0. Kamala Harris (or somebody) should name some SHADOW SECRETARIES right now. They should have well maintained websites. Press conferences, speeches, etc.
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Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...
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We got a DOGE staff list. From a McKinsey alum to a former Clarence Thomas clerk, here are the workers powering Elon Musk's cost-cutting squad.
A list of White House DOGE staffers shows about 30 young tech, finance, and legal professionals remaking the federal government.
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Stephanie LaTour @stephanielatour.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
TODAY Sunday at 3:00: Protest TODAY (Sunday) outside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) bldg., where Musk & his cyber-thugs have seized control of the computers. 1900 E Street NW (corner of E and 19th Sts.), Wash. DC. Please spread the word to folks in DC.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“Today, ICE agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant. One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned."
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Joe Schmutzler @joeschmutzler.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
From 2018
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 14/01/2025
Republicans’ new bill to ban trans girls from playing sports doesn't actually protect women; instead it opens the door for schools to investigate all female students’ bodies. It's disgusting and invasive, and we shouldn't be wasting our time on this hateful legislation.
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Republicans' New Invasive Bill
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Joe Schmutzler @joeschmutzler.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Another way AI is causing problems that it isn't paying for. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
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Joe Schmutzler @joeschmutzler.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
RFK Jr - an oily grifter who is responsible for the death of innocent children
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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A graph in NEJM showing 3 groups: unvaccinated against HPV, vaccinated at age 17-30, and vaccinated <17. On the x axis is Age (yrs) and the y axis is incidence of cervical cancer per 1,000 persons. There is a clear difference between incidence of cervical cancer among the unvaccinated group and vaccinated groups.
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
when something like this happens - and so many of them do - reporters are on the lookout for "congressman slams" stories. we can wail and whine all we want about media priorities but we have to live in the world we have. so give them the "slams" story they want. and keep giving it to them.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In the bargaining stage of grief, some Democrats — from the Pod Save crew to Jared Polis — are wondering if it's time to indulge conspiracy theorists instead of holding the line on the truth. The answer is "hell no." Here's why. www.salon.com/2024/11/27/n...
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No, progressives should not embrace conspiracy theories to win elections
RFK and Joe Rogan fans won't like Democrats better if they join the war on empirical reality
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Here’s the thing about the mandate: only 4% of voters felt positively about Project 2025. Trump’s policy agenda is extremely unpopular. It’s important for Democrats to repeat this over and over.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I don’t think should even get into the debate as to whether trans people deserve to be in bathrooms. It is a given. We should be going after them, on the offense, and pointing out how they are doing this while they fight every attempt to actually protect women from sexual abuse and rape.
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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“They don’t care about the law.” That’s not how the law works. Every single inch they win should be expensive and exhausting to them, not abandoned freely.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10/11/2024
I switched sides 3 years later after realizing that Republicans were dominated by religious extremists. My prescription remains the same: media investment is the only path to public persuasion. Here's the old essay if you'd like to see where 2024 got started
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There We Went Again - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Most observers of the 2008 presidential campaign -- even including some liberals after the fact -- were shocked and appalled by the media's pro-Barack Obama
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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
If you agree, then get on your email, fax, phone, letter train w/ everyone you can gather and start asking for special sessions, multi-city/state coordination, bills written and ready when the next regular session begins and every other avenue you can imagine because waiting around won't get shit
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
now that I’ve had a few days to process the election, I think my reaction is: let blue states cook no more of this “our infrastructure project needs 80 studies” and refusal to build housing. it’s time to turn the blue states/cities into a utopia and advertising point for dems
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/11/2024
Pennsylvania! Here we go! Pretty sure this is to try to hold Casey's Senate seat. Sign up here for ballot curing! www.mobilize.us/2024pavictor...
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Post-Election Ballot Cure Phonebank · 2024 PA Victory
Come make calls to help cure ballots in PA! Cure in Pennsylvania continues until November 12. There are several races with razor thin margins - making these calls could make the difference.
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Emma Curtis @emmacurtis.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
We’re all hurting. I don’t have all the answers. But I know that things won’t be this bleak forever. I ran against a MAGA incumbent in a “safe red” district in KY as a progressive, openly queer, 28-year-old trans woman. And I won. Please, don’t let your heartbreak turn into apathy or cynicism 💙
Emma holds a microphone as she delivers her victory speech.Emma speaks to the crowd and news cameras at an election night watch party.Emma covers her mouth, crying after receiving the news that she won. She’s standing next to two white men looking over her shoulder at the election results. Emma hugs her campaign manager moments after her race was called.
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