Eric Schmeltzer
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Eric Schmeltzer
@ericschmeltzer.com
· Feb 4
Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.
Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.
Making this my pinned post.
Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.
Making this my pinned post.
Not claiming this is the Holocaust. But the pattern: agents calmly taking a targeted community's labor in a normal setting, then flipping to coercion, echoes early Nazi persecution: Jewish businesses as stages for intimidation, then expropriation, raids, mass arrests.
A sick perverted power dynamic
A sick perverted power dynamic
January 16, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Not claiming this is the Holocaust. But the pattern: agents calmly taking a targeted community's labor in a normal setting, then flipping to coercion, echoes early Nazi persecution: Jewish businesses as stages for intimidation, then expropriation, raids, mass arrests.
A sick perverted power dynamic
A sick perverted power dynamic
This is fucked up on a million levels.
January 16, 2026 at 2:49 AM
This is fucked up on a million levels.
In all seriousness, as much as they toss the term around against Democrats, THIS is actually some Soviet era shit! I swear, I'd run ads on this if I were Dems.
Starvation for glory of most powerful leader.
Starvation for glory of most powerful leader.
Enjoy your MAHA-approved affordable dinner during the Golden Age. It’s your patriotic duty to ration and fight inflation for Dear Leader. The nation is counting on you.
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
In all seriousness, as much as they toss the term around against Democrats, THIS is actually some Soviet era shit! I swear, I'd run ads on this if I were Dems.
Starvation for glory of most powerful leader.
Starvation for glory of most powerful leader.
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Enjoy your MAHA-approved affordable dinner during the Golden Age. It’s your patriotic duty to ration and fight inflation for Dear Leader. The nation is counting on you.
January 16, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Enjoy your MAHA-approved affordable dinner during the Golden Age. It’s your patriotic duty to ration and fight inflation for Dear Leader. The nation is counting on you.
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It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.
January 16, 2026 at 12:29 AM
It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.
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We lost a lot of great Americans in the oceans, skies and battlefields of WWII, stopping regimes that did this.
January 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
We lost a lot of great Americans in the oceans, skies and battlefields of WWII, stopping regimes that did this.
Not the main point here by a long shot, but this isn't going to help with skyrocketing costs of housing.
ICE IN LOS ANGELES
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Not the main point here by a long shot, but this isn't going to help with skyrocketing costs of housing.
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ICE IN LOS ANGELES
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
January 16, 2026 at 1:15 AM
ICE IN LOS ANGELES
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
Wednesday, ICE rolled up in an unmarked truck and turned LA into a rooftop chase scene.
Construction workers, jumping buildings, agents climbing ladders, all to terrorize people trying to do a day’s work.
No arrests. Just fear. Just risk. Just trauma.
I would love — love — to poll the question: "Should Native Americans (also sometimes called "Indians") be deported as part of ICE's efforts?"
I would kill to see the party ID/ideology breakdown to that question.
I would kill to see the party ID/ideology breakdown to that question.
January 16, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I would love — love — to poll the question: "Should Native Americans (also sometimes called "Indians") be deported as part of ICE's efforts?"
I would kill to see the party ID/ideology breakdown to that question.
I would kill to see the party ID/ideology breakdown to that question.
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His 6 month old stopped breathing!
HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING!
A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside!
His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!
HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING!
A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside!
His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!
January 15, 2026 at 9:19 AM
His 6 month old stopped breathing!
HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING!
A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside!
His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!
HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING!
A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside!
His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!
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Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities
This is exactly the opposite.
Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
This is exactly the opposite.
Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
January 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities
This is exactly the opposite.
Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
This is exactly the opposite.
Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
Yeah, hate to inform everyone that they're plugging AI into the Pentagon's classified system. I'm sure it'll be ok.
January 16, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Yeah, hate to inform everyone that they're plugging AI into the Pentagon's classified system. I'm sure it'll be ok.
Bruh. Why not just post the address where the identity thieves can grab the info.
turns out a significant amount of americans want to live in a dystopian police state
January 16, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Bruh. Why not just post the address where the identity thieves can grab the info.
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A good mother trusts a onetime junkie who looks like he’s rotting and sounds like a 1922 jalopy trying to start on a cold morning.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM
A good mother trusts a onetime junkie who looks like he’s rotting and sounds like a 1922 jalopy trying to start on a cold morning.
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Interesting. In response to Raskin asking DOJ whether any J6ers are being recruited by ICE, Tricia McLaughlin accuses Raskin of painting law enforcement as villains. Does she agree that J6ers are villains?
I asked the US Dept of Homeland Security about Rep. Jamie Raskin's inquiry into whether pardoned Jan 6 rioters are now working for ICE
Below is Tricia McLaughlin's response.
The statement does not specifically answer if any Jan 6 rioters are... working for ICE ===>
Below is Tricia McLaughlin's response.
The statement does not specifically answer if any Jan 6 rioters are... working for ICE ===>
January 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Interesting. In response to Raskin asking DOJ whether any J6ers are being recruited by ICE, Tricia McLaughlin accuses Raskin of painting law enforcement as villains. Does she agree that J6ers are villains?
And I sure would love to see Dem leaders out there saying we've entered the "Papers please" stage of fascism. Don't sugarcoat it.
January 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
And I sure would love to see Dem leaders out there saying we've entered the "Papers please" stage of fascism. Don't sugarcoat it.
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Warning: Reports indicate immigration checkpoints along major interstates in Oklahoma, with Interstate 40 most impacted.
January 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Warning: Reports indicate immigration checkpoints along major interstates in Oklahoma, with Interstate 40 most impacted.
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The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.
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Notice he’s not going after red states with large undocumented populations. This is an intentional campaign terror against his political opponents.
NEW: Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next,' according to a senior White House official.
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Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’
The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.
www.wired.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Notice he’s not going after red states with large undocumented populations. This is an intentional campaign terror against his political opponents.
JUST TRAGIC. They leave behind a wife and kids, following the verbal assault
January 15, 2026 at 9:16 PM
JUST TRAGIC. They leave behind a wife and kids, following the verbal assault
I'll vote for whatever Democrat vows to never use the phrase, "This is not who we are."
I mean, it kinda is now, and that has to change.... which is the point!
I mean, it kinda is now, and that has to change.... which is the point!
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
I'll vote for whatever Democrat vows to never use the phrase, "This is not who we are."
I mean, it kinda is now, and that has to change.... which is the point!
I mean, it kinda is now, and that has to change.... which is the point!
We all know gov bureaucracy can be a pain in the ass. Minnesota has a lot of it at its disposal to fight using Trump's ROE.
For instance, an objective rubric for road repair, prioritizing any drastic increase in use of roads? Well, suddenly, roads to ICE facilities get closed off for repair.
For instance, an objective rubric for road repair, prioritizing any drastic increase in use of roads? Well, suddenly, roads to ICE facilities get closed off for repair.
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
We all know gov bureaucracy can be a pain in the ass. Minnesota has a lot of it at its disposal to fight using Trump's ROE.
For instance, an objective rubric for road repair, prioritizing any drastic increase in use of roads? Well, suddenly, roads to ICE facilities get closed off for repair.
For instance, an objective rubric for road repair, prioritizing any drastic increase in use of roads? Well, suddenly, roads to ICE facilities get closed off for repair.
I just thought, "Well, hell of a day, time to clock out."
The clock says 11:28am.
The clock says 11:28am.
January 15, 2026 at 7:32 PM
I just thought, "Well, hell of a day, time to clock out."
The clock says 11:28am.
The clock says 11:28am.
A good thread, but also as someone who's worked on the Act, what SHOULD happen under a responsible government is not what WILL happen under this one (and SCOTUS). So yes in THEORY (Marge) troops don't supplant cops. In practice? Broad orders to stop anything interfering w Feds ops feels like it
So with everything happening in Minnesota, I feel like some people need an explanation of what the Insurrection Act is and isn't, along with martial law (which isn't the same and is very nebulous) from someone who knows what they're talking about. Buckle up.
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
A good thread, but also as someone who's worked on the Act, what SHOULD happen under a responsible government is not what WILL happen under this one (and SCOTUS). So yes in THEORY (Marge) troops don't supplant cops. In practice? Broad orders to stop anything interfering w Feds ops feels like it