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Elliot Smith

@elliotmarcsmith.bsky.social
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British journo, immigrant in Denmark | Skeggy boy | Fiction, dive bar enthusiast | Grimsby Town and Philly sports fan

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/09/2026
I'm just happy/sad/thankful/angry that the Strait is open/closed/partially open/mostly closed so that the tankers can/can't traverse through it I'm really tired of/happy about all the winning/mostly winning/some winning we're doing every day/week/month in the war/not war/conflict in Iran
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026
Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is how we routinely snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Watching formerly normal people's brains get cooked by propaganda in real time is one of the scarier aspects of this era
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Immensely proud of these folks at NASA. He's using them as a prop for his bullshit and they are in no way accommodating it. He'll likely respond to this by defunding NASA, calling them "not nice people."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Depraved
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The rules are always different for Democrats, in part because Democrats don’t have the spine to tell Republicans to fuck off.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“.. the latest example during the Iran conflict of the tension between what the Pentagon says is the need for operational security and the government’s obligation to inform the public about the conduct of the war ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This weekend, President Trump and his top aides will be guests at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, which theoretically honors the First Amendment. But you can't celebrate the First Amendment with a president who doesn't believe in it. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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You can’t celebrate the First Amendment with Donald Trump
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Excellent
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Paul Harper @paulharper.mu.social · 20/07/2026
So incredibly bored with all the outrage about policies that Burnham hasn't actually announced. How about you save your faux posturing for stuff that's actually happened?
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And still the one who has been convicted of 43 felonies and found liable by a jury of sexual assault is in the White House and controls the Senate and the House. This says a lot of very bad things about a lot of Americans.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump was first impeached after he tried to extort Zelensky. He wanted Ukraine to announce it was investigating Joe Biden It was a lie-cooked up by Putin. Trump knew it. So did members of Congress like Jim Jordan and Ron Johnson, plus Fox hosts like Hannity This is fraud There must be prosecutions
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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Donald Trump claimed he was going to defeat Iran and met with top generals from around the world. One general looked at all the military artifacts in Trump's office and said, "To a military veteran, all this is just a bunch of junk when it's owned by someone who's never set foot on a battlefield."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, had a history of “terrifying and violent” behavior. This is a feature, not a bug, of ICE’s new recruits.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You will never, ever see one single Democrat complain about being rejected by MAGA Republicans. It is only MAGA Republicans who complain about this because they're loser misfits.
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David Schwartz @davidschwartz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jon Ossoff is sounding the alarm: Trump is manufacturing a pretext for abusing federal power, giving cover to his allies in the states, and laying the groundwork to challenge election results. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Iran’s toll on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz was actually more reasonable than Trump’s proposed 20%, Richard Meade, the editor of shipping journal Lloyds List tells the BBC. While Lars Jensen, CEO of Vespucci Maritime, said Trump’s plan was unworkable.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you." "Are you OK?" "Help me! They shot me!’” "I was trying to stop" The last words of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero before they were murdered by ICE
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
(AP) — A federal judge said Monday that President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose” as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hard to put into words how big of an own-goal it is for the United States to normalize shipping tolls at all, much less tolls at 20%. It's the kind of thing that appeals to someone who has only ever known how to run short-term scams.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
You'd think the intelligence services having to raise the national terror threat level because of a surge in Nazi terrorism might have been a bigger story
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Witness tells Maine newspaper that the man ICE shot in the head this morning said "I tried to stop" as he was being pulled out of his SUV, then fell to the ground and died. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...
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Witness says Biddeford shooting victim told police ‘I tried to stop’
One resident says he heard the shots and saw as agents pulled the man out of the vehicle.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/07/2026
Reminder: Kash Patel wrote a children’s book where he cast himself as the heroic wizard who saves King Donald. That should’ve been the weirdest thing on his résumé, but it isn’t.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Heartbreaking. Each of these killings should result in a murder investigation. Federally, DOJ and ICE will do everything they can to execute a coverup -- and I'm saying this despite being a 25-year federal prosecutor with DOJ.
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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The criminal who funded Nigel Farage before his election made undisclosed donations to Reform UK in an apparent breach of electoral law. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... Latest from me and Insight
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George Cottrell failed to declare gifts to Reform office
The convicted fraudster nicknamed ‘Posh George’ used his own bank card to cover costs without the Electoral Commission knowing
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Elliot Smith @elliotmarcsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You just reposted me to instigate a pile-on I can't reply to, so I'll do so here. Nowhere in the above two sentences have I told you not to root for Norway (pointless now, anyway). It's clearly just a polite objection to "Trump-affiliated."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A severely mentally ill man has control of the launch codes for America's nuclear arsenal, but it doesn't seem that many people care.
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Elliot Smith @elliotmarcsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Don't tar the whole team with the brush of one guy too dense to follow what's going on in the US. We also have a player who singlehandedly forced the previous government to extend free meals to millions of hungry kids.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trump continues to try and gag journalists -- quite a hypocrisy for a man who ran on protecting the First Amendment. Silencing journalists is a move to fascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Elliot Smith @elliotmarcsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
After that performance, I never wanna hear another derogatory remark about Djed Spence ever again. Outstanding.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2026
This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.
1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Something has gone horribly wrong in a civilization that has trillionaires and homeless people
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Elliot Smith @elliotmarcsmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Well chuffed to see another short story brought to life in the Spring 2026 issue of Chariot Press Literary Journal. chariotpressjournal.com/2026/05/when...
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When the Clocks Hit Zero - Chariot Press
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story. If you didn't read it already, read it. Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If you don’t think this post is batshit crazy see your doctor ASAP
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.
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Elliot Smith @elliotmarcsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm sure "devout Catholic" JD Vance will have words to say about this...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ed Blake: This is the Alina Habba of ceasefires. We went into court for a parking ticket and left with a DUI
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Iran's 10 point plan seems to put them in a better position than they were in before the war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
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Bradly Mason @alsoacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If your president is brazenly announcing he plans to commit war crimes, you literally have to impeach him. Is this not obvious?
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Oh I do love this.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
NEW: Fulton County officials fighting for the return of 2020 election materials seized by the FBI asked a federal judge Tuesday to order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disclose details about its repeated attempts to obtain the county’s election records. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Fulton County alleges DOJ used  FBI raid to circumvent lawsuit, seize 2020 ballots
Before the FBI seized the county's 2020 election records, the DOJ sought them through demand letters and a lawsuit.
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