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Mike Schwartz

@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social

Dad to kids, dogs, and cats. Don’t want to bother with Nazis, impersonators, or other trolls? Try my curated moderation list. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pea3cwe3o2uml2rib6aiemt6/lists/3lbavg4pxxd2e

created February 19, 2024

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Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

I will be hyper-consolable.

1/9/2025, 10:29:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All smiles of course.

1/9/2025, 10:20:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We were down there yesterday. Had terrific pizza at Spacca Napoli with our daughter, saw thousands converging on Soldier Field for a concert, and finished the day off as usual by barely escaping the menacing hordes with our lives.

1/9/2025, 10:17:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

What about “Please tell me Trump is dead.”

30/8/2025, 10:23:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Deathwishing?

30/8/2025, 10:21:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

There probably is a conservative community here. But does it matter? Conservative online communities are everywhere. BlueSky offers people like me the ability to have a social media resource that isn't riddled (for me) with the worst of conservatism.

29/8/2025, 6:06:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Fucking ICE cowards.

29/8/2025, 5:03:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glasses?

28/8/2025, 4:38:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can hear the purring.

28/8/2025, 4:36:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only mode Democrats should be in is regime-ending.

28/8/2025, 4:32:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck yeah

27/8/2025, 11:02:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The disaster will not be silenced.

27/8/2025, 11:00:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will you be leading a first-ever for The Atlantic cooking class?

27/8/2025, 8:04:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They don't want to lose the instruments that they believe secure their own tyranny.

27/8/2025, 7:55:46 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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They sold the statue to the county, which is going to put it elsewhere in the county and the local Lost Causers are still whining about "erasing" their "history".

27/8/2025, 7:34:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd like to think both lead to Hell, so when Trump is sitting there taking turns blowing Satan with Rush Limbaugh, he can wonder about the other choice for eternity.

27/8/2025, 6:34:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

More often than not, prayers are answered by people doing the right thing. As a nation we have continually failed our children on this front.

27/8/2025, 5:56:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wonder how the guards' duty pay compares to the fired custodial workers?

27/8/2025, 3:23:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's Trump's model for stimulus -- with the poison gas of course.

27/8/2025, 3:15:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 3:13:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

...fick trump

27/8/2025, 3:05:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta nominate Tim Calhoun if you want to bring in the wayward Dixie Democrats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaem...

27/8/2025, 2:44:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They are too busy trying to figure out why their approval rating is so low!

27/8/2025, 2:40:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The world's largest wind producer is pissed off that he can't sell it.

26/8/2025, 5:35:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

The common attribute of everything Trump and MAGA thinks is excellent is complete and utter mediocrity. There is no hill too mundane to die on.

26/8/2025, 3:40:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hopefully here, and soon.

Saddam Hussein about to grow a noose around his neck.
26/8/2025, 3:28:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

🎯

26/8/2025, 3:13:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

"I'm a real boy" energy through and through from this orange dumbshit.

26/8/2025, 3:12:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He doesn't exist in my blue sky.

25/8/2025, 9:17:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My response would have been two words, but that's why Pritzker is Governor and not me.

25/8/2025, 9:13:05 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

My dogs are 40 up on Trump.

25/8/2025, 9:08:32 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

He can use it like Herschel Walker used his.

25/8/2025, 3:54:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would you burn art?

25/8/2025, 3:53:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

What if you wipe your ass with a Trump flag?

25/8/2025, 3:50:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Conservatives are staunchly opposed to actual conservation.

25/8/2025, 3:03:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta have that buyer's market for labor to make the oligarchs happier.

25/8/2025, 3:00:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Obvious follow-up about the Tate brothers wasn't asked.

25/8/2025, 2:57:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Right? I can't fathom a person who doesn't want to just tell that flaming asshole to fuck right off and keep fucking off.

25/8/2025, 2:56:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I almost called an ambulance just thinking about trying to do that with my feet.

25/8/2025, 2:54:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Does Grassley realize that he's being neutered by the people he wants to "set up for success"?

25/8/2025, 2:52:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

These fascist fuckers are absolutely relentless.

25/8/2025, 2:45:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He can have shitty makeup… it’s a free country. I just hope he succumbs soon.

23/8/2025, 11:46:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Your job is being threatened by the rapid advances in Real Stupidity.

23/8/2025, 10:23:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is when they are covering up the President being a rapist of minors.

22/8/2025, 8:46:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

EWB

22/8/2025, 8:43:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Strange but true!

22/8/2025, 8:41:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's going to look like it was showered in gold.

22/8/2025, 4:42:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm begging him to go to Hell.

22/8/2025, 4:40:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

People who would also say Hitler Was Right About Everything.

22/8/2025, 4:26:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not buying this argument. If someone intends to kill another and does it by a process that is not the fastest way to achieve that person's death to conceal their intent, it is still a homicide. Nations can behave the same way.

22/8/2025, 4:24:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well we know he doesn't have classified documents in his bathroom, because that's not a crime under this Administration.

22/8/2025, 3:56:16 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

The prequisites are “any of”, not “all of”.

21/8/2025, 10:55:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Can you imagine being Dan Bongino and having to look at that face in the mirror every day?

20/8/2025, 3:31:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

If you've ever had a Grok conversation I think this is probably fair.

20/8/2025, 3:24:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump should go lecture Germany (or send his stooge JV Dunce) about not being so negative about the Third Reich.

20/8/2025, 3:21:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She hasn't figured out that it's not just his views that make him (and most of MAGA) repugnant. It's his intellectual bad faith that should condemn him to the abyss of anonymity.

20/8/2025, 3:20:21 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

He also doesn't understand how stupidity works.

20/8/2025, 3:15:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And a coffee mug.

20/8/2025, 3:12:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

SHIRT PLEASE

20/8/2025, 3:10:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

They've realized that AI can regurgitate more efficiently than they can, so they're coming up with original content.

20/8/2025, 3:09:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

What a douche.

20/8/2025, 3:06:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The joy of her faith just shines through as she talks about her admiration for the anti-Christ and his afterlife coup ambitions.

19/8/2025, 7:19:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So THAT's what Elon Musk calls his penis. The Lafufu.

19/8/2025, 7:13:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My Ranger wasn't nearly that dumb.

19/8/2025, 5:36:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He loves that golden color. Especially to be showered with it.

19/8/2025, 5:31:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How much in utero alcohol does one have to consume to get eyes that far apart?

19/8/2025, 5:30:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wonder who Trump trafficked to him.

19/8/2025, 4:19:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey hey -- their houses didn't necessarily vote with them!

18/8/2025, 4:16:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/8/2025, 11:47:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ted being Ted does not make him wrong about Bork. Hypocrites can be and often are correct.

15/8/2025, 11:42:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

You would be wrong about my answer then.

14/8/2025, 9:54:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Trump wasn't such a wanna-be tough guy who really only wants his narcissistic supply, the only deal he'd present to Putin would be a letter telling him to get out of Ukraine, thank you for your attention to this matter.

14/8/2025, 5:40:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're going to send that guy to Jared.

14/8/2025, 5:38:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These guys are flying their Dunning-Kruger flags about cities that they know nothing about. Not that James Comer knows much about anything.

14/8/2025, 5:30:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Schwartz (@itsmikeschwartz.bsky.social) reply parent

“He is a visual person” sounds just like how one might describe a racist.

12/8/2025, 12:11:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shirt please.

11/8/2025, 10:26:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's not a resignation?

11/8/2025, 10:24:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was the place I was most surprised to find artifacts that were from the collection of Phil Collins.

11/8/2025, 9:52:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The plaintiff appears to be ... aggrieved of anyone who has sex for purposes other than producing more giant-foreheaded offspring.

11/8/2025, 9:50:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Here I thought I might not have heard The Good News.

11/8/2025, 9:46:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can't stand that fucking song.

11/8/2025, 6:21:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They always look exactly like what you think they will look like. He's got that "not allowed within 1000 ft of a school" look down pat.

11/8/2025, 6:13:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Doesn't the modern reading of 2A enshrine that shot (under the right circumstances) in our Constitution?

11/8/2025, 6:07:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because the regime is politically aligned with the shooter.

11/8/2025, 5:56:28 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This thing is layers and layers of complete existential hilarity that will cause our doom.

8/8/2025, 7:36:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TIL Jimmy Carrer served his 26-year term in reverse.

8/8/2025, 7:30:52 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Certainly!

8/8/2025, 7:24:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have that pretty much down pat.

8/8/2025, 3:49:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't forget 2.5 - Importer, middlemen, and retailer mark the tariff up.

8/8/2025, 3:48:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ken Paxton looks like he was incubated face-first in a frying pan.

8/8/2025, 2:45:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meritocracy in the current American sense and mediocrity are synonyms.

8/8/2025, 2:42:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The meritocracy is remarkably inbred.

8/8/2025, 11:15:27 AM | 34 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Illinois dares Texas to come and take them.

8/8/2025, 3:36:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've seen parking garages with more character.

7/8/2025, 7:48:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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we pitch a big tent.

7/8/2025, 5:53:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Especially the fringe, because they represent the most imaginative out-of-the-box conservative school of thought.

7/8/2025, 5:51:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Accountability is always for thee.

7/8/2025, 4:25:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Blocking is forgiveness of all future trespasses.

7/8/2025, 4:23:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or they could just read their Bluesky posts.

7/8/2025, 4:11:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately the Turd Reich is not in similar death throes.

6/8/2025, 10:00:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view