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Don

@oltmannd.bsky.social
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Retired RR guy. Data geek. Train nerd. Occasional optimist. Mechanical Engineer by education and essence.

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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 5h
Owning a chunk of Intel, et. al.. What do we call that?
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 5h
Hey! Here's a thought! Maybe leave athletes alone and let their sport's governing body do the governing. Why are you involved, JD?
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 13h
Dunning-Kruger Man really doesn't know how industry works.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nah, they have a lot of others to get thru. Let him twist in the wind a while.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He could have gone with, " Who needs road salt when you can't afford to drive?" Both/and!
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Or... "who needs road salt when you can't afford to drive?"
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Marr and Allen are two of my heros from the pandemic. When everyone thought it was droplets and 6' was "safe", they knew it was airborn like smoke and the solution was ventilation and filtration. They pushed to get others to understand and made themselves available on Twitter for the rest of us.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dunning-Kruger health care.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Because vaccines are well tested and shown to be effective. Shingles cases dropping among people who got chickenpox vaccine, data shows The virus that causes chickenpox can reactivate during adulthood, causing the painful, itchy rash known as shingles.
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Shingles cases dropping among people who got chickenpox vaccine, data shows
The virus that causes chickenpox can reactivate during adulthood, causing the painful, itchy rash known as shingles.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just plain asleep. When you're in the clown car, it doesn't matter who's at the wheel.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's called collusion. He has trouble with that word.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unclear. Does he believe this is a problem or a model to emulate?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why won’t network evening news broadcasts show their audience video of Trump dozing off during press events in the Oval Office in the middle of the day while people are talking, as he’s done dozens and dozen of times? Is that not newsworthy? Is it impolite? Will you lose access?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Trump’s malevolence and psychosis will be on full display right after the midterms. We’ve been here before in Nov 2020, and here we go again. The national nightmare of Trump refusing to accept defeat and dragging the country through lies, conspiracies and drama begins again.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We the People want none of this.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Then they might agree to some measures to lock down that from happening again? That's the catch 22.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's the straight line to, "There's no one more trivial than you, Tom." How'd you do?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your regular reminder -- yes, I'm going to keep on with this -- that Republicans in Congress are just fine with everything he's doing.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes. It will be time to stop the bleeding.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Took a bullet"? Show me the scar!
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kinda like industry did with child labor...
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't think he can close his mouth, even...
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's an advanced level of Dunning-Kruger!
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Roughly $10 per household per day.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Correction: it’s not that he misunderstands it. It’s that he doesn’t understand it at all.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
LOL -- Fox News ticks through all of Ken Paxton's scandals with on air graphics during an interview with Ken Paxton and Bret Baier says, "there's a long list here"
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
...and that's the GOOD news...
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Miss Ivonne 🌊 @missivonne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The explanation by @radiofreetom.bsky.social of why Canada lives rent-free in #PresidentDunce's head is a must-read. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
theatlantic.com
Why Trump Has It Out for Canada
When the president is frustrated, he lashes out at friends harder than he does enemies.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You know things have gone completely off the rails when @atrupar.com is ready to break out the tequila at 4:10 PM just to survive the RNC stream. If you’d like to fund his coping mechanism today: ☕ buymeacoffee.com/atrupar Venmo: @atrupar
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Aaron Rupar
Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter. Your support makes my work possible, including all the clipping I do across my social media channels.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump could have made the ceremony with 9/11 first responders today about the many heroes who died attempting to rescue people and others who risked their lives & long term health. But instead, he created a fictitious event featuring himself, who did nothing, as the hero of 9/11.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well, that is fewer words than "doesn't apply to cable", for starters...
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why, oh why, are we trying to blame or credit Reagan for this or that. He was a mixed bag, not a genius or a villain.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Long after Trump and Rubio are out of office, maybe. This will never happen while these people are in power. The only thing Trump/Rubio have to offer the people of Venezuela is perpetuation of the Maduro regime and pillaged oil.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I was convinced that Iraq was pursuing WMDs by Colin Powells speech to UN. He is a high character guy in my opinion and I believed he was telling what he believed to be true. I think going to war was not a great idea, etc., but I still don't think we ginned up the reason.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dunning-Kruger Administration
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
...and what next? Putting new staples in the stapler?
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Dunning-Kruger Administration.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sure. All of them lie a bit about things. And I couldn't stand it when I was a 20-30 something, so I always voted 3rd party. Until I started voting for the least-worst...who usually lost.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They would take the Swiss deal because it's what we had (pretty darn close) until court killed individual mandate part of Obamacare. The big difference is the Swiss deal is better regulated and cheaper.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Clean like clean coal!
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Swiss system is private, costs 2/3 of ours, is universal. Basic insurance is required, regulated, non-profit.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Completely don't get. Just visited his library. I was not a fan of his, yet the contrast between his values and beliefs and where we are now was sobering and made me very sad.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Absolutely yes.
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Don @oltmannd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Of course, if all the gulf refineries were going, Russia wouldn't matter.
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