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Bill Schultheiss

@schlthss.bsky.social
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Transportation Engineer. Hopeful for a better future where we take the climate crisis seriously, regulate wealth inequality, and create a truly equitable and democratic society.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Historian of Reconstruction here I have been sating that for quite some time! Glad it’s getting a full public hearing now!
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
12/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said. One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇
Sen. Susan Collins, wearing a blue suit and red shirt, stands in front of a 3D-printed boat while holding a broken champagne bottle during a publicity event. The boat has the University of Maine logo and is emblazoned with the text "3Dirigo." Behind Collins are a group of applauding people, including a woman holding a Guinness World Records plaque.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I feel like @propublica.org is the only news organization truly working to protect our democracy. THANK YOU! You should banner #DemocracyDiesInDarkness with pride unlike the other one!
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
my theory about Broken Windows was always that the problem was correct (the windows are broken) but the *solution* was wrong (beat up the guys who broke them). bsky.app/profile/oluf...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At what point does he demand a statue of himself on top of this?
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Worth noting that Robert Kraft's spouse is one of the appointees to Trump's sham Kennedy Center board, so the two of them together are doing a helluva number on the national performing arts scene right now
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
White conservative mediocrity affirmative action doing its thing
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I could not have summed up this election better than this: “this is a contrast election between common sense and crazy” - Republican Speaker Mike Johnson. September 13, 2026
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the underrated parts of this election cycle is finding out what huge pieces of shit formerly safe elected officials are because they're finally vulnerable enough to get raked over the coals
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Make no mistake: There's no way you can tell the truth about the Confederate Memorial and think it belongs in a US military cemetery. So they decided to stop telling truth.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The OG traffic circle! The watering hole in town square- Bellows Falls Vermont
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It gets worse when you remember that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war started. So we’re spending $40B and people are dying on both sides to return to the status quo from January. Everything is socialism unless it’s money for killing people in pointless forever wars.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s wild to live in a country where Conservative jurisprudence claims the President has a constitutional right to be corrupt while the citizens do not have a right to clean drinking water. AMERICAN GREATNESS!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yeah, man, it's really irresponsible of countries to get involved in wars that screw up oil-producing regions, I hope they had a good reason for that, we'd never do anything like that, no sir.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Trump is the perfect avatar of the shitty kid who took the ball home because he was losing the game.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026
Remember when FDNY so vigorously opposed congestion pricing that the union representing New York City’s emergency response teams directed its members to transfer out of Midtown and Lower Manhattan before the toll came into effect? local2507.com/fdny-and-ems...
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FDNY and EMS union calls for members to leave congestion pricing zone – Local 2507
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Since 9/11, we have endlessly put everyone in the military on a pedestal of worship as heroes for protecting Democracy above everyone else in our society. Troops now occupy US cities and we are “hoping” they won’t follow orders to placate Trump and his fascist enablers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
why would any agency abide an injunction knowing there is a decent chance the supreme court will lift it because the president is a special birthday boy? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“What the disclosure reveals is that the Postal Service has designed a system that is intended to fail.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In January many were scolded for calling Bovino a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer. Greg today is proudly proclaiming he was leading a war against 100 million people in our country to “save our species”
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As perfect an encapsulation of the Right Wing mindset as I’ve seen in a minute. People who have enjoyed incredible privilege and coasted to unearned wealth and power in a system rigged for them and still convinced they are persecuted heroes battling a system that’s out to destroy them.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This Court is a menace to democracy.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No one has done more to undermine the military than the entire Republican Party under Donal Trump.
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Look Both Ways with David & Wes @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the new episode, @davidzipper.bsky.social noted that the US is so uniquely bad at road safety that the OECD now calculates global crash trends without including US data. That prevents America's struggles from overshadowing other countries' progress.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/08/2026
Trusting the Republicans more on the economy at this point is like trusting Sean Combs to be your babysitter. trib.al/nMWrpwk
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At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP
A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Democracy Dies in Darkness amiright @washingtonpost.com ?
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One thing about speeding that many drivers refuse to accept: In urban and suburban environments, speeding doesn't even get you somewhere significantly faster. You are just getting to your next red light or highway choke point faster. You are endangering other people for almost no upside.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is an incredible essay. Well worth your time to read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 16/08/2026
If you won’t dismantle a secret police force that spits on the Constitution and terrorizes and murders your voters, I’m not sure what good you are as a political party.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Conservatives were never opposed to an authoritarian surveillance state. They were just opposed to it applying to them.
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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Buy America” as currently constructed is not helping America. If we want to rebuild US transit equipment manufacturing of high quality products at scale it will take levels of private & public sector investment that is not currently on offer.
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The most gullible, easy to manipulate man to ever be elected President. TWICE American Exceptionalism indeed
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Bill Schultheiss @schlthss.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our society will arrest teenagers who evade 2 dollar transit fares while we let the rich absolutely rip off society billions of dollars #RiggedSystem #ClassWarFare
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Look, The New York Times can't report on *everything* Yes, yes, this Republican congressman urged a military-backed coup to overthrow an election. But did you know that a gubernatorial candidate said she didn't like Thanksgiving? You can't cover it all. It's all about priorities, people.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
He is announcing that he is not the president of the entire United States. Just the states that like him. Beyond abnormal.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hmm what’s wrong with Republicans? I guess get medical advice for your children from a pedophile rather than a pediatrician kind of people?
Trump walking into a dressing room
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
(pausing as I nail up the Ten Commandments in a classroom) "They shouldn't be forcing their religion on schoolchildren!"
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