Schmidtier

@schmidtier.bsky.social

Working-class writer and leftist—forklift certified.

It is crazy to say this about the Argentinean team. They're not babies. They might be soft like babies. They might cry like babies. They might even throw little tantrums if they don't get their way. But they're full-ass adults. And their coach should talk to them, actually.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2w ago

I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????

The reason "the Left" celebrates the death of their opposition is because the Left is opposed to murder. So when a despicable little miscreant, who never met a war he didn't like or a school in the Middle East that he didn't want to see turned into rubble, we celebrate the off chance it helps.

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

Steinbeck's Red Pony might just be one of the most devastating things I've ever read, but it's going to take me a while to really define why. What I'll never be able to do is recommend it highly enough or explain just how wrong the Goodreads rating is.

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

"All around is anger, automatic guns Is death in large numbers No respect for women or our little ones I tried talking to Jesus But He just put me on hold Said He'd been swamped by calls this week And He could not shake his cold" - Colin Hay (Beautiful World)