robert l schmidt

Architect / Urban Designer / Pro Cycling Enthusiast

[Tracy ❤️🎶💫 @nunyabizz6773]

Chicago
"Feelin' Stronger Everyday"
From 1973 studio session
I leave you today with this great tune! 💫
Enjoy! ✌️😎
#RockOn 🎸🎹🥁🎶🔥🔥

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1982, Robin Williams did a routine as the American Flag for the Norman Lear produced tv special "I Love Liberty" created to bridge political divides - and it's one of the greatest pieces you'll see 🇺🇸

[Tour de France™ @LeTour]

😎 Top 184

#TDF2026

[Chris Froome @chrisfroome]

Hello from Barcelona 🇪🇸 Back at @LeTour 🇫🇷 #skodawelovecycling

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker
drops a NUKE on Donald Trump:

“It really is ironic…on the eve of the 250th anniversary of our country, a man sits in the WH who is everything that the founders feared … An uncontrollable, narcissistic, authoritarian president who acts like a king.

[Hy Bender @hybender]

Coolest use of a drone

[robert l schmidt @bob_5555]

@lucxsronald Thank you for writing all the text & gathering the photos. It is great to have a nice comprehensive summary; it is very much appreciated.....
Enjoy the Tour!!

[robert l schmidt @bob_5555]

@cshimala Must be practicing for the Chicago WNBR.....
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[Craig Shimala @cshimala]

I wasn’t expecting to see a full moon today🫣 Northerly Island Park in Chicago.

[Bordeaux Métropole @BxMetro]

Avez-vous repéré l’affiche bordelaise du @LeTour 2026 ? Elle s’installe petit à petit dans Bordeaux et la Métropole 🚴

🎨L’illustration est signée Marlene Roumegoux, illustratrice bordelaise.
#TDF2026

[Beefeater Bend🎶🍻 @tdfbeefeaters]

5 wks to go until Beefeater Bend 2026!

📣 Bring a Beer Crate (with beer in) 📣

If you’re coming to Beefeater Bend for stage 19 of @LeTour, bring a beer crate..

A NEW song ‘Lege Krattenwals’ has been added to our playlist which requires crowd involvement🎶

We’ve got ours 🍻

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

The Mississippi River and its tributaries

[robert l schmidt @bob_5555]

@wyntonmarsalis @chicagosymphony Really loved your afternoon concert w/CSO today (Friday). Saw you at Jazz à Vienne in the Roman Amphitheatre about 25-30 years ago. It was cool that night & you didn't arrive until about midnight! Much more comfortable in Chgo Symphony Hall today!!

[Adam Nathaniel Furman @adamnfurman]

It isnt well known, but the Monadnock building, Chicago’s masonry skyscraper (still the tallest load-bearing brick or masonry building ever constructed) was intended 2 be constructed from a polychromatic gradient of bricks from deep brown at the base, 2 bright yellow at its crown

[Cycling on TNT Sports @cyclingontnt]

Right behind their rider! 🩷

The support in Glyngøre is unreal for Jonas Vingegaard 👏🇩🇰

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear just DESTROYED Trump's entire economic performance in only 60 seconds — and he's 100% right.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear just did an interview where he delivered the most brutally efficient takedown of Trump's economic record you'll hear from any Democrat in office right now — and he did it simply by taking Trump at his word.

"The president finally said something that was true," Beshear said. "He said he does not care about the financial situation of the American people. And you know what? The way he governs shows it."’

That's the whole ballgame right there.

"The Trump economy is a failure," Beshear said flatly. And he then proved it point by point.

Trump's tariffs? "Americans have paid 90% of them. It's been a tax by the president that has made everything cost more." Not China. Not foreign manufacturers. You — every time you buy groceries, clothes, or appliances.

Then there's the war with Iran — a conflict Beshear notes that Trump "alone chose to go into" — which "has skyrocketed the price of not just gasoline, but diesel, making everything more expensive. Every good we ship across the country now costs more." That's not abstract economic theory. That's every truck on every highway carrying every product to every store in America.

"Going to see your family if you got to take a plane trip costs a lot more," Beshear continued. And when Americans desperately need relief on housing costs, Trump won't lift a finger — because, as Beshear points out, Trump says "we're not working hard enough."

And when parents worry about affording basic goods for their kids? Trump's answer, per Beshear, is that "our kids have too many toys."

This is the man Republicans told us was a business genius. The dealmaker. The guy who promised to make everything cheaper on day one.

Beshear's closing line says it all: "At least he said something true. He doesn't care about the American people."

Democrats should be saying exactly this, in exactly these terms, every single day between now and November.

Please like and share hare this everywhere to spread Gov. Beshear's insight.

[Chicago History ™️ @Chicago_History]

Were you ever here?

4474 N. Harlem Avenue in Norridge, the old Maurice Lenell Cookie Jar & Factory.

#ChicagoHistory 🍪