Heidi Schmidt

Content Creator @KCTV5, former FOX4 Crime Files podcast writer travel Jayhawks, Chiefs, Royals Fanatic

[Heidi Schmidt @HeidisView]

@Kenneth_Walker9 We’ve got you covered!

[Joel Goldberg @goldbergkc]

Look at Bobby Witt Jr fly! Royals 1st inside the park homer since 2023. Junior had that one too

[Kansas City Royals @Royals]

Seven was ZOOMING.

Home to home in 14.13 seconds. 🤯

[Tom Pelissero @TomPelissero]

Former Kansas QB Jalon Daniels is signing with the Bucs on a deal that includes a $247,000 base salary guarantee and $25,000 signing bonus, source said.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

In case you missed it, Pete Hegseth stood at the Pentagon yesterday and compared journalists to the Pharisees who plotted to kill Jesus, likening the administration’s actions to those of Christ.

Let that sink in, and let’s be clear about who Pete Hegseth actually is.

A former weekend TV host with no senior command experience, promoted over generals who spent decades in uniform.

A man who faced documented allegations of drunkenness on the job.

A man who ran details of a government war plan through an unclassified group chat and added a reporter to it by mistake.

A man who, this week, quoted a monologue from Pulp Fiction at a Pentagon prayer service and passed it off as scripture.

The job of a Defense Secretary is to keep Americans safe and tell them the truth. Not to play preacher or to cast reporters as villains in a Bible story while Americans are still in harm’s way. Not to dress up a controversial war in religious costume so nobody asks hard questions.

All of this happened on the same week the President posted an AI image of himself in a Christ-like healing pose, then claimed he thought it was him as a doctor.

You do not have to be a Christian to see this for what it is.

Hegseth is a man without qualifications, managing a war poorly, using faith as a shield.

He is wholly unfit. He should have never been confirmed. He should resign.

[Heidi Schmidt @HeidisView]

@MoTorChaser Hey Austin! We’d like to use this picture on KCTV5 in Kansas City.
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[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

I read somewhere that being an American right now is like riding in the backseat of a car with a drunk driver, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

[Anonymous @YourAnonOne]

The farthest pot of Nutella in the history of humanity

[Heidi Schmidt @HeidisView]

In case ANYONE is still wondering, this is not normal behavior

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

Oh boy.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

An Easter morning message from President Donald Trump

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s kids buy into drone companies

Trump cancels existing drone contracts

Trump’s kids’ companies get military contracts

Trump starts wars

Trump’s kids’ try to sell their drones to the countries being attacked because of Trump’s wars

👉🏻 This is what corruption looks like.

[Jennifer Jenkins @Jenkins4Florida]

The U.S. was the ONLY country to vote against a UN women’s rights measure.

Only country.
Against women.

That’s the post.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

We are nearly 20 minutes into Hegseth’s Iran War briefing and he still hasn’t acknowledged the death of 4 Americans in the KC-135 incident.

Instead he’s lecturing the press about fake news headlines.

Absolute clown show.

[Heidi Schmidt @HeidisView]

Read this again.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[CNN @CNN]

Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter. CNN's Evan Perez reports.

Tap the link to read more: https://t.co/ppjwUglhGH

[Eric @EricG1247]

Her friend started a company 8 days ago and she gave them $143 million government contract.

Republicans are literally robbing US in broad daylight.

[Heidi Schmidt @HeidisView]

Hey @ACLU and @LWVSSMC if true looks like you may have more lawsuits on your hands

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Texas has thrown thousands of voters, many who are women and democrat, off the voter rolls and then when they go to re-register they place a waiting period on these voters, meaning that they couldn’t even vote in the midterms. @AshleyDCan

[Heidi Schmidt @HeidisView]

How have I never seen this?? 🤯

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

The Lou Holtz newspaper trick has been stuck in my head for more than a decade. Blows my mind every time.

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

The Lou Holtz newspaper trick has been stuck in my head for more than a decade. Blows my mind every time.

[Heidi Schmidt @HeidisView]

Ummmmmmm ….

[Nature Vid @naturevid2]

Rubio: "Let me explain to you guys, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics"

MAGA church 👇