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Bob Smithwick

@bobleap.bsky.social
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Avid family historian with determination of a badger — currently focusing on US, Irish, and Jewish trees. smithwickfamily.org

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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 22h
But he is not a despot.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Disbar. Repeat.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Working on my 7x great-grandfather, Edward Fenn of Wallingford, CT. I have isolated a chr1 DNA marker and just need to recruit some Ancestry.com matches with English Fenns to join GEDmatch so I can triangulate. Easy, right? #genealogy #dna
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Edward and Mary (Thorpe) Fenn from Wallingford, CT are my 7x great-grandparents, and where Edward was from in Britain has been much debated in genealogy circles for over a century. I am hoping DNA triangulation can help answer that. #genealogy
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ahh. To be white, old, and amoral.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Picture a cruise ship sinks leaving you and others on a desert island, and one guy amasses “wealth” overnight by emptying all trees of their coconuts. Do you applaud his “business acumen” and starve or address the imbalance?
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No biggie. The app was as easy to delete as Google’s.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Did she write that herself or borrow it?
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 30/07/2026
Hey MAGA, America has spoken. They hate Trump.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The last time his people were invited to DC, they broke into the Capitol, threatened to hang Mike Pence, and smeared feces everywhere. Buckle up.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It makes me wonder how much winning we could all do if he weren’t spending our money like it’s Monopoly.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
To them, that and many other things.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
That happened to me recently too. I had tracked down someone related to a friend, and this person had a tree, even uploaded a photo of themself, and I guess they did not like me sending 2 follow-ups after they “read” and did not reply to my original. I, however, pounce on messages I receive.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
There’s a chance she was weaving a subtle but biting Trump dig into her comment with a take on “tu m’utilise”. Or, more likely her mouth was tired from things.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The curtains have been pulled back, and Alito is naked and without shame.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sage Cardamom Anise Nutmeg Dill Allspice Lavender
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A Ring doorbell video shows a Chattanooga police officer kicking the door and rushing into a burning building to save a mother and her two children. Rachel Blaylock can be heard screaming “There’s a fire!” as flames spread. She says Officer Eli Rogers didn’t hesitate. Original post
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Mostby
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
These people don’t trust lots of things: Democrats, scientists, doctors, universities, laws, vetted reporting, other adults’ ability to make choices — they do trust their guts, though.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
RonJon summons words from deep in his bum.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
He reminds me of the energy vampire (Mark Proksch) on What We Do in the Shadows.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
John Roberts wants a country run by white supremacist billionaires, who get to secretly spend as much as they want to install a dictator who can break the law whenever he wants.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
SCOTUS delivered on what they were paid for.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
You’ve got a little something on your chin, Jeff.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
News flash: he never was.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Will Trump now kidnap the Pope and install a pro-Trump Pope like he did with Venezuela's leader?!
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Just waiting for someone to post “Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?”, and he starts pushing buttons.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Really quite amazing, Steve. My favorite part: “All four marked uncertainties appropriately. All four used confidence ratings.” I love that you coached/guided this attitude — the biggest frustration I have from AI has been a lack of humility.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Because…Christianity.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Utilities are anything but.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I hope she got the plate number of that truck…
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The Geneva Conventions, specifically Additional Protocol I (1977), prohibit attacking, destroying, or rendering useless indispensable objects for the civilian population, including power generation plants and supplies.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Not an earthquake — just our forefathers rolling over in their graves.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
You know these people from team sports. You were embarrassed then too.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Does CBS do one of those year-end lookbacks on who of note died that year? Did they include themselves?
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Dead to me.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My tree has some Weinrebs from there.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
- How many different ways can you spell McLaughlin?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Top photo: Jeffrey Epstein’s living room. Suddenly, it all makes sense.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I have been lucky enough to do the same for my in-laws, and they reacted in opposite ways — one friended their new 2x cousin on FB and other would not reach out.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This guy needs to go back to whichever haystack he crawled out from under.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I would maybe slit my wrists if I had to listen to her daily.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
😳😳😳😳
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I promise to try to use President #Shit4Brain here on out.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Gandhi 2026.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Does he know a lot about avoiding indictments? Do tell more.
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Bob Smithwick @bobleap.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Since when does America love egomaniacs?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Are you worried things can’t get stupider? I assure you they can and will
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."
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