Pete Kotz
@petekotz.bsky.social
Still searching for my redeeming quality, which got lost at the airport in 2019.
Trump World's galaxy of incompetents don't realize we rely on Arab and Indian doctors to keep our health system running. Who would have thought that mean little pricks would be so slow on the uptake?
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H-1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Trump World's galaxy of incompetents don't realize we rely on Arab and Indian doctors to keep our health system running. Who would have thought that mean little pricks would be so slow on the uptake?
Norway would like a word with us.
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Norway would like a word with us.
Donald Trump is the most expensive 3-year-old boy on the planet.
Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself
Donald Trump’s administration is using at least $1 billion in taxpayer money and every resource it can to flatter the president.
www.rollingstone.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Donald Trump is the most expensive 3-year-old boy on the planet.
You'd think that by the 178th time Donald Trump pardons a Ponzi scheme asshole, a corporate swindler, or absolves a giant company of its crimes, the master race would begin to notice a recurring motif.
Trump Administration Waives $11 Million Southwest Airlines Fine
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
You'd think that by the 178th time Donald Trump pardons a Ponzi scheme asshole, a corporate swindler, or absolves a giant company of its crimes, the master race would begin to notice a recurring motif.
Gavin Newsom would be a terrible nominee, but he's a top shelf smart ass.
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Gavin Newsom would be a terrible nominee, but he's a top shelf smart ass.
Maybe we shouldn't be such dicks to Canada. They'll probably be our new landlord by springtime.
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“The Canadian dollar is poised to gain more ground against the greenback as the latest labor trends signals firming momentum in the economy at a time when the U...
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“The Canadian dollar is poised to gain more ground against the greenback as the latest labor trends signals firming momentum in the economy at a time when the US is seeing the opposite....
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December 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Maybe we shouldn't be such dicks to Canada. They'll probably be our new landlord by springtime.
I heard that Pete Hegseth can't be fired because he's the go-to guy for roofies in the White House.
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I heard that Pete Hegseth can't be fired because he's the go-to guy for roofies in the White House.
When you're supposed to be a crime-ridden hellhole, this is embarrassing. It's like Minnesota isn't even trying.
Survey ranks Minnesota as eighth-safest state in America
WalletHub ranks Minnesota as the 8th safest state in America, based on crime levels, road deaths, occupational fatalities and natural disasters.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When you're supposed to be a crime-ridden hellhole, this is embarrassing. It's like Minnesota isn't even trying.
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Trump wants to make Medicare just as shitty as regular health care by using AI to reject patients' treatments. The more they reject, the more private companies get paid.
Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers • Ohio Capital Journal
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trump wants to make Medicare just as shitty as regular health care by using AI to reject patients' treatments. The more they reject, the more private companies get paid.
It should be no surprise that Donald Trump has come out of the closet as pro rape.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
It should be no surprise that Donald Trump has come out of the closet as pro rape.
Yet another country that's way smarter than us.
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yet another country that's way smarter than us.
Even within the fine art of competitive ass kissing, one must always do due diligence on the asses before commencing with the kissing.
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Even within the fine art of competitive ass kissing, one must always do due diligence on the asses before commencing with the kissing.
Educational fact of the day.
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Educational fact of the day.
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Do you think we have hot guys, boutique shopping, quirky coffee shops, and huge winter festivals when the median salary here is $29k a year?
Small-Town Mayor Is Done with Visitors Looking for Love at Christmas Time
Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year, we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the ho...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Do you think we have hot guys, boutique shopping, quirky coffee shops, and huge winter festivals when the median salary here is $29k a year?
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This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"
Alternative headline: "Old Man Who Yells at the Sky Now in Charge of Your Child's Health"
Breaking news: Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary RFK Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots are behind the rise of allergies and autoimmune disorders.
RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Alternative headline: "Old Man Who Yells at the Sky Now in Charge of Your Child's Health"
The most pathetic part of MAGA is its competitive callousness. At this moment, hundreds of people around D.C. are trying to conjure new forms of performative murder to one up Megyn Kelly.
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The most pathetic part of MAGA is its competitive callousness. At this moment, hundreds of people around D.C. are trying to conjure new forms of performative murder to one up Megyn Kelly.
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When crypto was invented Netflix was a snail-mail DVD subscription service, and the average internet download speed was about 7 mbps.
If I ask you what is crypto good for and you tell me it is still "too early to tell" and that I should give the technology time to develop I might slap you.
If I ask you what is crypto good for and you tell me it is still "too early to tell" and that I should give the technology time to develop I might slap you.
December 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When crypto was invented Netflix was a snail-mail DVD subscription service, and the average internet download speed was about 7 mbps.
If I ask you what is crypto good for and you tell me it is still "too early to tell" and that I should give the technology time to develop I might slap you.
If I ask you what is crypto good for and you tell me it is still "too early to tell" and that I should give the technology time to develop I might slap you.
As it turns out, the Courtroom Barbies rejected for Fox weekend time slots don't make for successful attorneys general.
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
As it turns out, the Courtroom Barbies rejected for Fox weekend time slots don't make for successful attorneys general.
The beauty of MAGA is that you never need evidence. Not for voter fraud. Or Obamacare fraud. Or the dangers of vaccines. Or widespread immigrant criminality. Or anything else. You just say it enough until it becomes prevailing fact.
Brooke Rollins has made a case for sweeping changes to food aid programs by claiming USDA has uncovered "massive fraud." But she and USDA haven't provided the underlying data or any evidence. n.pr/4paRygE
The agriculture secretary says SNAP changes are coming. Here's what we know
Brooke Rollins has made a case for sweeping changes to food aid programs by claiming USDA has uncovered "massive fraud." But she and USDA haven't provided the underlying data or any evidence.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The beauty of MAGA is that you never need evidence. Not for voter fraud. Or Obamacare fraud. Or the dangers of vaccines. Or widespread immigrant criminality. Or anything else. You just say it enough until it becomes prevailing fact.
Say what you will about ICE, but it's fueling a golden era of protest.
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Say what you will about ICE, but it's fueling a golden era of protest.