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Jeff Schult

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"My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known." -- Nikos, to Schmendrick. The Last Unicorn Author, journalist, techie Fantasy/scifi, great books #Connecticut

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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 11/08/2026
Today's a great day to vote for Connecticut's next governor. #joshelliott FTW.
Man holding Josh Elliott for governor sign. Aug. 11, 2026.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 16/06/2026
New tenant inna basemint. Question: If he bites me do I get mad superhuman power tool skillz ...
Bigass spider on a Ryobi lithium 40V battery.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 16/04/2026
@Nytimes.com "White House Declines to Offer Congress an Estimate of Iran War Cost" The word is "refuses." Or work in "stonewalls." It wasn't a fucking party invitation.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 12/04/2026
I know I can get no support for the idea that our president should be chosen using a lottery system, but the fact remains that it would have gotten us a better result than we got in two of the last three elections.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 05/04/2026
Five books to get to know me: #Booksky 1. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle 2. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte 3. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson 4. The Once and Future King, T.H. White 5. The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 05/04/2026
As soon as he's gone, his name and likeness come off everything. For the same reason that we get rid of statues of Jefferson Davis. And Cesar Chavez, for that matter.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 02/04/2026
Imagine Trump being so weird as to fire Pam Bondi today just to upstage the Pittsburgh Pirates promoting Konnor Griffin to the big leagues.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 28/03/2026
The overthrow of the Trump regime is going too slowly for my taste but as I look around, I gotta say this for us: It is the most photographed revolution ever.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 26/03/2026
If only women voted we would have elected no Republican presidents since 1988. Fun fact.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 26/03/2026
So polls now indicate young men, and men in general, are turning against Trump. Great. But I don't trust them. I don't mean the polls, I mean men. They're flighty, fickle and emotional. Everyone knows that.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 26/03/2026
Oh, look! There's a new trivia game to play on the New York Times web site!
Who is the Latest Iranian Commander Targeted by Israel? Headline at NYTimes.com.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 22/03/2026
... A horror-parody of "The Wizard of Oz," with Donald Trump playing the title role as both a very bad wizard and a very bad man. Kristi Noem as The Wicked Witch. I.C.E. agents as flying monkeys. Elizabeth Warren as Glinda. You, you, you. And me. We're munchkins. Who will be our Dorothy?
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 20/03/2026
Stop calling it defense spending. It's offense funding.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 15/03/2026
I long for the days when one might reasonably sigh and say "America. At least we try to do the right thing, sometimes."
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 08/03/2026
I think the Palestinians should have their own state, and I am willing to give them Oklahoma.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 06/03/2026
I assume that when Trump says Noem will be part of "Shield of America" it means she will be melted down and used as nose cone material for Air Force One
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 05/03/2026
I vote for #DonaldTrump ... as the Season One "Big Bad" in an all-new Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 19/02/2026
Anyone think Trump is LESS guilty than former Prince Andrew? Didn't think so.
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Athena Gabriel ❌👑 @athenagabriel.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
It’s the Voter EXTERMINATION Act Words matter
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 06/02/2026
If you use any so-called A.I. -- Try this prompt: "In our interactions, could you be more pessimistic and more like Marvin, the robot in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?" Changed my life, a little.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 19/01/2026
This post serves as official notice that when I die I want my bones used as Halloween lawn ornaments.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 18/01/2026
I plan to be doing a lot of writing in 2026. Some not-so-serious. Some pretty serious. Some for other people who are out there, really trying. Like this: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Josh Elliot for Governor in Connecticut. Really.
Ahem. (Tap, Tap) (Clears throat) Is this thing … on? OK, OK. I’ve been looking around, and it seems to me that the Connecticut microphone here at DailyKos has been … off, or broken for a while. I know...
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Michelle Ku Is For You @michelleku4u.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Newtown’s #ICEOutForGood Rally. Let’s say her name: Renee Nicole Good & rise together. For Renee, there were · No charges. · No trial. · No justice. Just a bullet through a windshield. #newtownct #connecticut #democracy #democrats
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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 09/01/2026
This video from someone else’s camera was sent to a right wing website. It doesnt show the shooting itself… but you can heat him shoot her, see her car drive into the pole… And you can hear him call her a FUCKING BITCH right after he murders her. x.com/AlphaNews/st...
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Alpha News on X: "BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis https://t.co/p2wks0zew0" / X
BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis https://t.co/p2wks0zew0
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Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is what broke me: her own words. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 07/01/2026
Here we go!! Join Michelle, every step of the way to November! @ctdems.bsky.social
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 06/01/2026
EVERYBODY who cares about our country, the rule of law and Democracy -- follow @michelleku4u.bsky.social ... We're launching her campaign to oust a GOP state rep in November -- 106th District CT. We love her here in Newtown, and we're going to win! #KuIsForYou #CTDems #Newtown #SandyHook
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 03/01/2026
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. We're finally there.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 03/01/2026
The Venezuela thing probably means Greenland and Canada can breathe easy, for now.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 03/01/2026
How come no one ever invades OUR country and snatches OUR corrupt president?
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 01/01/2026
The Pentagon's OWN AI says: War Crimes. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
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Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 23/12/2025
So I was wondering how people in other countries refer to the American president. Russia: “Американский цирк” – “American circus” (used metonymically) Chinese (Mandarin) 川建国 (Chuān Jiànguó) – “Trump Builds the Nation” (heavy sarcasm; meme implying he helps China by harming the U.S.) ...
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CTLook @ctlook.com · 23/12/2025
The first Executive Order of the next administration is that Trump's name comes off everything but the Epstein files.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 23/12/2025
I WASN'T BEING FUNNY WHEN I SSAID THAT THERE WOULD EVENTUALLY BE DOLLAR MOVIE NIGHTS AT THE KENNEDY CENTER.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 06/12/2025
Apparently, this is how it's done when the Secretary of Defense is NOT yelling at you to murder people. 20,000-pound cocaine seizure by Coast Guard breaks 18-year-old record - CBS News share.google/6CUOXl1D0euF...
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20,000-pound cocaine seizure by Coast Guard breaks 18-year-old record
Video shows Coast Guard vehicles pursuing a go-fast vessel that appeared to have multiple people aboard.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 08/11/2025
This critique of dealing with the media in general and the New York Times in particular is A. Better written than almost anything the NYT puts out and B. Spot-on and utterly damning. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 06/11/2025
My Fist of Resistance is back at home after three months of lighting the way to the door of Democratic headquarters in Newtown CT. I offer to loan it to @repjahanahayes.bsky.social for midterms, if she wants! It is clearly doing its job. We swept on Tuesday, won every race. @ctdems.bsky.social
Resistance fist neon sign at home.Resistance fist neon sign at work.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 04/11/2025
I am reminded today that I once looked at Dick Cheney and thought "Well, that's about as fascist as you can get in America and still get elected." So naive.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 03/11/2025
I saw Bruce Springsteen at the very beginning of his career, before "Born to Run." And I saw him on Broadway a couple of years ago. Nothing in between. Not a fanatic, in other words. Saw the movie yesterday. It's good, better than the reviews. It's not about the music though.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 01/11/2025
I always wanted more from Obama. But being disappointed in a president is so much better than being horrified by one.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 31/10/2025
BREAKING NEWS WASHINGTON, DC -- President Donald Trump has agreed to accept the 2025 Darwin Award on behalf of the United States, the first time the coveted prize has been bestowed upon an entire nation. #TrumpDarwin #DarwinUS
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 30/10/2025
Do people who make more than $1M a year know what they sound like when they complain about maybe having their taxes go up 2 percent? Mamdani NYC mayor bid: Billionaires spend big to boost Cuomo share.google/KiyNeZpfuzeZ...
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Billionaires are spending big to stop Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral bid
Bill Ackman, Ronald Lauder, William Lauder, Barry Diller and Dan Loeb have all made large donations to stop Mamdani. So have several non-New Yorkers.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 29/10/2025
I'm going to. Starting now. Vote for Mayor Z!!
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 27/10/2025
"Billionaires back Cuomo with huge donations" while government shutdown halts food benefits in NYC probably is not a great closing argument for Andrew.
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 20/10/2025
My anti-FAshion statement.
"I voted early" sticker on patched blue jeans.
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dawn of the debb @handle.invalid · 18/10/2025
well, my autopsy came back negative. what does that mean
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 09/10/2025
Even if this is a false positive -- #AVG and #Avast have some explaining to do. Because when software starts flagging political/academic material as malicious, it is VERY GODDAMNED SUSPICIOUS.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
POWERLESS is at last a book! The story of a storekeeper trying to carve out a little freedom in the West Coast People's Democratic Republic, and of the WCPDR trying to carve out a little in a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist world. www.amazon.com/Powerless-Ha...
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Powerless
Powerless [Turtledove, Harry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Powerless
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 05/09/2025
WHY are they putting Trump in 2028 presidential polling? If he's still president then it will NOT be because he won an election. currently.att.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Poll: Gavin Newsom leads 2028 Democratic primary field, edges out Trump in head-to-head matchup
A new Yahoo/YouGov poll puts Newsom at the front of the Democratic Party's 2028 presidential primary pack, with 21% of registered Democratic voters and registered voters who lean Democratic now pickin...
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Jeff Schult @tftb.com · 01/09/2025
Taking photos this morning at the #NewtownCT 63rd Labor Day parade. You may recognize, marching/strolling ... Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, Treasurer Erick Russell, Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz. More in the alt text.
I was taking pictures and videos at the Newtown Labor Day Parade this morning for the Democratic Town Committee. Felt like old times, back on a newspaper beat ... 
Out of 100-plus photos, 30-some were worth looking at and if it was back in the day and I was the editor picking shots for the front page, I probably would have gone with this one.
"Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, Treasurer Erick Russell, Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz enjoy their march in the 63rd Newtown Labor Day Parade."
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