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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Most people don't even know that seniors can get Medicaid. They think we're all in Medicare 🙄

Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Once this morning and once this evening I googled tariffs and clicked the news on Google. Six pages of results none of which were Fox. Maybe it's the algorithm but....

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Not as much as the Pentagon does 🙄

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I don't know why I bother to get on here. I don't know if I can handle three years and 10.5 more months of being assaulted with the fall of our democracy every single freaking day.

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Your Author Platform with Jon Friedl, Ph.D. @handle.invalid · 18/02/2025

As an example of great community, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently supported her community by educating them on their rights with a guide and webinars to undocumented immigrants. Are YOU leading YOUR community from the front? What are you doing to support your community? youtube.com/shorts/7ldZq...

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Your Author Platform with Jon Friedl, Ph.D. @handle.invalid · 16/02/2025

I made a pivot for my business when I heard Heather Richardson Cox speak with Jon Stewart on his podcast shortly after Donald Trump was elected President. Build a community and take care of it. #resistance youtube.com/shorts/MV43R...

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 17/02/2025

I believe Tolkien said it best

“Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.”

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

They're all traitors in my opinion.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I thought that might be the case 😁😂

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Your head is rather big and then your body tapers down and becomes smaller at the feet. Am I the only one seeing that?

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Looks like a chubby chickadee to me but I'm not real good with birds

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What the heck kind of AI craziness is this?

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I see your Mabel and I raise you a Schatzie

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Sadly the rest of us are going to find out too

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

How long before they go the way of Venezuela and just start making judges you don't agree with them "disappear" ?? 🤬😡

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Interestingly enough I used to do that for MPs on a NATO missile site in Germany. 😁

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sadly, just like the world questioned why we had criminal candidate on the ballot, our system of checks & balances didn't consider this kind of coup so there's no recourse except by filing lawsuits

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Is she really this clueless? Does the GOP really think that we're okay with or that it's just okay for some rando to reset the entire government without checks and balances? 🤬😡🤦🤷

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sadly, just like the world questioned why we had criminal candidate on the ballot, our system of checks & balances didn't consider this kind of coup so there's no recourse except by filing lawsuits

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sadly, just like the world questioned why we had criminal candidate on the ballot, our system of checks & balances didn't consider this kind of coup so there's no recourse except by filing lawsuits

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

just like the world questioned why we had criminal candidate on the ballot, our system of checks & balances didn't consider this kind of coup so there's no recourse except by filing lawsuits

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

just like the world questioned why we had criminal candidate on the ballot, our system of checks & balances didn't consider this kind of coup so there's no recourse except by filing lawsuits

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The fact is they have the money & the power to end anyone who would dare try to defraud or take advantage of them so it's not a concern for them. They don't care what happens to us.

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The fact is they have the money & the power to end anyone who would dare try to defraud or take advantage of them so it's not a concern for them. They don't care what happens to us.

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Your Author Platform with Jon Friedl, Ph.D. @handle.invalid · 08/02/2025

Visit my YouTube live stream at 4 PM Pacific TODAY for how authors can make the most out of joining Bluesky youtube.com/live/K4MCGqn...

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Cue a tragic story about a mom who thought she was doing the right thing, but maims or loses a child, THEN wants to warn all the other moms that they should vaccinate. 🙄🙄🤷🤦

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/02/2025

Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’ Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

But he can't be the only one. We need to expose them all!!

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

And effectively, CMS is probably a very small percentage of the United States budget especially in comparison to the department of defense

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Robert Reich: This is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans: It’s a coup. As Trump talks about taking over Gaza (“beautiful shoreline”), Greenland (“great minerals”), Panama (“very strategic”), and making Canada the 51st state, the media has gone ape-shite wild. Meanwhile, Trump’s goons…

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Robert Reich: This is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans

It’s a coup. As Trump talks about taking over Gaza (“beautiful shoreline”), Greenland (“great minerals”), Panama (“very strategic”), and making Canada the 51st state, the media has gone ape-shite wild. Meanwhile, Trump’s goons are taking over the…

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

the only silver lining I can see in this is it's illegal as far as I know is it's illegal to balance Bill Medicaid patients for services so go ahead and get your services if they let you & send Elon the bill

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The courts are no longer effective

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I swear they're glorified kindergarteners

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@hcrichardson.bsky.social I knew it was going to be bad but I have to admit I'm Shell shocked by this letter from Heather Cox Richardson today because it lays out in no uncertain terms that we are experiencing a coup of the United States government. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3...

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February 3, 2025

I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Why do these people think that employees of any company or executive office have the option to not attend training without losing their jobs? They are so divorced from reality it's sickening

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