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B Smith

@hopesndreams.bsky.social
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I work with refugees. Historian. I believe in humanitarian action, in helping others, in making society better for the most marginalized. Jewish folks are welcomed. Zionists are not.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump-backing Ellisons are the #1 🇺🇸 supporters of the IDF Now they control all of this Are Y’all paying attention?
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@stnairport.bsky.social delaying the flight so much that trains no longer arrive from the arriving airport and an hour before we're supposed to take off still doesn't have a gate and says to "relax". How does one relax when you've given no information and trains will no longer be running?
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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Stefano Bazzoli @stefanobaz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Il #2ottobre 1950 usciva la prima striscia dei Peanuts. Qui la mia preferita👇
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"No Jewish person in NYC is responsible for actions of Israel... critique of genocide is not antisemitic... we need a politics of humanity, not just at home but for people we're bombing." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells Theo Von the genocide must stop & Bibi should be arrested
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You're gonna need a bigger chart
Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/10/2026
JD Vance thinks that Americans are too worried about the “little things” ahead of midterms—like gas prices, debt, Immigration and Customs Enforcement killings, and war. trib.al/S4r2ZeY
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Vance Says People Are Too Focused on “Little Things” Ahead of Midterms
You know, like being able to afford gas and groceries.
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It would be would cool if people didn't drive absolute tanks at unreasonable speeds down the street and one might not even need to do this. Make streets smaller and people *will* slow down and pay more attention
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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sonic stacey @zodiacsquirrel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve been hair twirling since I was as a kid and since being diagnosed as AuDHD I realize it’s my most prominent and longstanding stim. 😬 I don’t have any advice, I’ve never been able to stop. 😩
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They only leave when it directly affects them. The pedophilia, rape, racism and fascism are perks for them.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This very much makes it significantly LESS amiable environment for travelers.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 02/10/2026
One time I tried to report to the police at my university that two guys had been talking about assaulting a woman in front of me and when I went to write a statement the cops put me in a room with an autographed picture of Donald Trump
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That FlyDubai situation seems... weird. Off in some way I can't fully put my finger on
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Sam Carana @samcarana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Record high sea surface temperature of 29.89°C in the Niño 3.4 region on September 30, 2026, an anomaly of +3.33°C from 1982-2010, highest anomaly on record, and 4.14°C higher than the 25.75°C on January 9, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/09/will...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
86% of Americans want the release of the Epstein Files. 86%!!! How come more elected officials aren't talking about this ahead of midterms? thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Khanna: Epstein files should be one of Democrats’ ‘highest priorities’ if congressional control changes
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Monday the government’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be one of the “highest priorities” for Democrats if they retake contr…
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital punishment is wrong. The “Justice” system often gets it wrong. Subramanyam Vedam spent over four decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The FBI withheld exculpatory evidence. He was finally released in 2025 and immediately grabbed by ICE. There’s no “justice” to be found:
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Wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years, Pennsylvania man now faces deportation by ICE
Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam was freed from prison after being wrongfully convicted for a 1980 murder.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Right, it's not that I disagree that some of the people sentenced to execution are monsters -- many of them are! -- it's that I disagree that we all should be monsters too.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 2026 was yet another exceptionally warm month in London. An average temperature of 18.7C at LHR which is +2.8C above 1991-2020 climatology only behind 2023. These temps would be v near normal in July and August but the 30-year baseline is much trailing behind the rapidly warming climate.
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 01/10/2026
Lyft agrees to pay $272.5 million over driver misclassification in California’s largest-ever wage-and-hour settlement. missionlocal.org/2026/10/lyft...
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Lyft to pay $272.5 million in California's largest-ever wage theft settlement
Lyft to pay what San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu called “the largest wage and hour settlement in California history.”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
look, if the pentagon wants IT security then they have to do what the rest of us do: hire trans furries who go to renfest don't ask me why, idk, i just know that data is insecure until sanctified by the holy aura of someone who checks at least one of those boxes. it's part of god's plan.
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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She specifically asked for a firing squad for exactly this reason. Everything about it is horrific
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And Dems didn't push even remotely hard or fast enough to do a single fucjing thing about it. So, here we are.
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NOTE: these positions are now CENTER in the US...
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — US Supreme Court allows Tennessee execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Samuel Alito has recused himself from a Supreme Court climate case, after ethics watchdogs uncovered his fossil fuel stockholdings. Instead of relying on the justices to occasionally do the right thing, we need Congress to enact real SCOTUS reform.
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How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is really great. And he doesn't emphasize it but the *stopping* everything is vital here. If she said that while people kept doing their stuff, it wouldn't have worked. The stopping, pausing, is vital in this, too
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somalis are a huge portion of our big truck drivers and often owner operators. And the women open a variety of small businesses, too. Somalis ass so much wealth to this country
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you make a map and the top of it is not north YOU NEED TO INDICATE THAT OMG
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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ƬӇЄ ƝƛMЄ ƇƛƝƝƠƬ ƁЄ ƁԼƛƝƘ @correct.technical.li · 29/09/2026
I don't want self driving cars or LED headlights. I want two different horn options. One that says "hey there, i'm not mad at you but just so you know, the light is green & and another one that says "WHO GAVE YOU A LICENSE YOU TRAFFIC HAZARD ON WHEELS MENACE TO SOCIETY MOTHERFORKER”
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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NPR @npr.org · 30/09/2026
Disabled kids make up the largest group in foster care. They have the worst outcomes. They stay in foster care longest. They're the most likely to die. n.pr/4hkqJ8q
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Foster care often fails kids with disabilities. Consider these cases
Disabled kids make up the largest group in foster care. They have the worst outcomes. They stay in foster care longest. They're the most likely to die.
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🦋Fiona McGee🦋🚫👑🐈🐈‍⬛ @judymccarthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Iran is doing more to improve climate related activities of us normies more than just about anyone else
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