Adam J Schmidt

The founder of Cheesecake Factory belongs to Sufism Reoriented, the New Agey cult of Meher Baba (one of the namesakes of "Baba O'Riley"). The cult is basically funded in the U.S. by Cheesecake Factory money. This is a perfect institution for conservative Christians to latch on to, no notes.

What if we kissed at the Greensboro Cheesecake Factory

We've got one week to #GetSchmidtDone and flip Maryland's 31st district. Help us retire a leader of the Maryland Freedom Caucus and close ally of Andy Harris. www.voteheidischmidt.com

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

An Arab chemist won the Nobel Prize literally last year. RFK is not only a bigot, he's a stupid ignorant one. (Remember, this is the dude who claimed COVID was engineered to spare Jews and Asians.)

Huh. Lived in DC for 25 years. Ate in lots of 'fancy ' restaurants but strangely never witnessed this. One exception: my local pizza joint, Comet, got shot up by a conspiracy-addled dude who thought Hilary Clinton was trafficing kids in the (non-existent) basement. Dude was surely a Trump voter.

I know we are all inured, but this is an appalling and unacceptable thing for a US president to say about another country's election.

#Zelensky: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocking the delivery of #Patriot air defense interceptors from #NATO members to Ukraine US must give permission for the transfer of Patriots Hegseth and his Undersecretary of State Elbridge Colby have previously blocked US supplies #Ukraine #TrumpRussia

Well fuck me. Hadn't realized we'd gone this far down the rabbit hole.

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

Iowa voters may disagree on immigration, taxes, and the economy, but government surveillance is drawing opposition from across the political spectrum.

🇷🇸 Serbia: Vucic concedes defeat. Turnout was estimated at around 70%. This was the highest since 2000. Vucic blamed the defeat on independent media, unnamed European countries and the “American deep state”. Thousands of people came out to celebrate in Belgrade.

Don't forget the Cheesecake Factory owner built a cult compound to last for 700 years in order to welcome the return of Meher Baba, the Sufism Reoriented guru and inspiration for the song "Baba O'Reilly" The House Of Worship The Cheesecake Factory Built | The FADER share.google/HcHXc1OXPeg8...

Great for parents who ship their kids off to boarding school? I guess? 😐

cool, cool

Did not have that on my bingo card.

Exactly It’s almost like you’d know where to go even before Google Maps. Where should we go with our 12 person group? The Factory? Where is it? Oh it’s at that mall on the outskirts of town.

Honored to be made a "coastal elite" because I think the more than two centuries in which the White House wasn't a gaudy monstrosity was not in fact an insult to ordinary working people

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

evening! Hegseth wants to be appointed to Blackburn’s Senate seat. anyone have any guesses as to why?

This is a disgrace, and it directly impacts our military readiness. Some 1,300 Navy family members were evacuated from Bahrain during the Iran war. Months later, families are still displaced, separated from loved ones, struggling financially, and waiting for answers. #SupportTheTroops 🧵

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

They're fucking contract soldiers! They all voluntarily signed a dotted line. Russian law bars Putin from sending conscripts into foreign combat zones! He didn't even have the balls to send conscripts to fight in Kursk...RUSSIAN TERRITORY... that's why he brought in the North Koreans.

The Heritage Foundation adviser who recruited 12 bishops to pray over Trump in the Oval Office claimed a Ph.D. from an Italian university that doesn’t grant doctorates. His listed bachelor’s school is a high school. A Vatican official called the meeting an insult to Pope Leo XIV.

Old soviet joke: A man walks into a shop and looks around in some confusion. "You have no ice cream?" he asks the clerk. "No, comrade," she replies. "Here we have no bread. No ice cream is the shop next door"

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

Simply imagine a Lockheed, Boeing or other prime defense contractor - out of nowhere, no communication - implementing some terms of service or term in a contract they think they have without reaching out first to say we think you are violating this. As a result we will nerf your crucial technology.

nooo!!! oats are already so expensive

*taps jar*

"The Intercept!"

Too good bsky.app/profile/adam...

Have they committed that many acts that require pardons? 🧐

Obama: "You got the defense sec who is like a laser focused on important matters like the jawline & testosterone level of our troops, and livestreaming executions because that's how he thinks you cultivate that manly warrior spirit. How much time do you think this man spends in front of the mirror?"

This is an obscenity in a sacred space.

Thousands of kilometres away, deep into Siberia: Russian industry has almost nowhere to hide any more. Ukrainian strike systems will go wherever is needed to bring the war home to the aggressor state and degrade its industrial capabilities.

Good question

Donald Trump ignores history. He thinks he can buy a peace deal from Putin. But Vladimir Putin is already worth 100 times Donald Trump’s wealth. He doesn’t need or want a deal. The only thing Putin wants is the total capitulation of Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

My take at Cato on why DOJ's lawsuit against Alaska is borderline frivolous, abusive, contemptuous of federalism and more. "In the aftermath of the 2020 election, courts made clear that they would not allow meritless litigation to steal an election. They may soon have to make that clear again."

The WSJ has published an editorial defending the DOJ's abusive lawsuit seeking to block certification of an Alaska Senate winner. It's... really something.

@walterolson.bsky.social on Maryland's Question 3, I thought I'd read at one point that it reverses a court ruling to restore the previous status quo? Policy questions of gerrymandering aside, is that accurate?

Follow this money! My God this is so corrupt. We shouldn't allow Russia's blood money in US energy developments. Is Alaska just for sale now?! 👀

So I guess it's not only his Nazi son-in-law with a history of unhinged, offensive, violent statements. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-c...