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BSmitty

@bsmittybsky.bsky.social
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Dad, runner (26.2 x 6), left-leaning moderate, sweatpants wearer, yard mower, walker of the dog, bit manipulator, #dukedad, #novadad, #vt

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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Exciting!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/04/2026
Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering. Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/01/2026
"If you witnessed something disturbing, please understand that witnessing is not evidence. Evidence is what exists after it has been reviewed by the people who require it not to exist."
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A Message from Your Federal Overlords
“Even as videos emerged that contradicted the government’s account, the Trump administration was in a race to control the narrative around the kill...
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Reading Nuclear War : A Scenario, and I have to say, I find the clockwork precision of nuclear Armageddon calming compared to the insanity and idiocy of the real one. ⚛️ www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-...
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
Nuclear War: A Scenario [Jacobsen, Annie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nuclear War: A Scenario
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James Acton @nuclear-jim.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The administration has argued that the destruction of Iran's uranium metal production lines at Isfahan will set its nuclear-weapon program back by "years." At Arms Control Wonk, I argue it may not even set Tehran back by months. www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1220...
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Guest Post: Sorry, Mr. Secretary, producing uranium metal isn’t particularly difficult
This guest post is by Dr. James M. Acton Central to the Trump administration’s case for the effectiveness of its air strikes on Iran is the destruction of [...]
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Amid the horror of the Holocaust and hiding from the Nazis, does Anne Frank's focus on angst, isolation, fear and loneliness resonate today?
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thousands of Americans moved their families abroad to work for USAID. They lived and worked in poor, undeveloped, and dangerous countries to improve people's lives. MAGA called them evil and wanted to "put these people in trauma" (Russell Vought, OMB Director) www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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USAID Kids "When you traumatize our parents you traumatize us too"
YouTube video by Friends of USAID
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I went down a brief reddit rabbit hole in r/spiders and now every other post in my feed is bug-related.
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Mmmm galactic burrito.
galaktoboureko
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
AARP advising us to carry burner phones on vacation so US Customs can’t find anything to use against us on return. That’s where we are, apparently.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 12/02/2025
What can I do to fight this coup? “We will succeed because millions of people do a couple things well, not because one person does a million things.” [choosedemocracy.us]
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What can I do to fight this coup?
If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The entire USAID website is down now.
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Achievement unlocked.
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I’d like to coin the term ‘follow tapper’, as in an account that follows you and then unfollows shortly after just to get in your notifications.
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
European starling. First sighting!
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A cardinal and a house finch scared off by a blue jay.
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
6 miler this morning in the chilly NoVA air. Finally had to break out a long sleeve shirt. #running
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ok, this is pretty funny. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction
The satirical newspaper plans to shutter Jones’ InfoWars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
You know he's saving MTG for something. FBI Director?
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
How do we think the Trump admin will affect the near term EV landscape? I'm in the market for a new car and am debating between ICE, EV, and hybrid. I suspect EV tax breaks will go away, but I don't qualify for them anyway. I'm not buying a Tesla.
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BSmitty @bsmittybsky.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
So what do we think the chances are that Trump follows through with his blanket tariffs concept of a plan? Will business leaders change his mind? Should I move up some big purchases?
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