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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lol
Graph showing Space X stock price down from its high of $225.64 to $131.11, with it down further in aftermarket trading
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Michelle, 45, Md., Latina, Republican, construction administration
I feel foolish. In a family full of Democrats, I really stood my ground twice to defend my stance. I feel like time and time again, all of the things that they pointed out would happen have ended up happening. And I looked dumb as hell
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The Guardian leads with the unedited post, the WSJ links to the "harshly worded" post, the NYTimes doesn't mention it at all
Trump uses abusive language in new post threatening Iranian infrastructure
In a follow-up post on Truth Social, Trump has used abusive language to call on Iran to let ships through the Strait of Hormuz, and threatened to further attack Iranian energy and transport infrastructure.
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The Political Scene | The New Yorker: A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan open.spotify.com/episode/3RAL...
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a conversation about the pressures facing American democracy, the security of elections, and how these domestic tensions interact with the collapse of international norms. Nearly a decade after his prescient 2016 column for the Washington Post, “This is How Fascism Comes to America,” Kagan contends that the U.S. has moved beyond the warning and into a full democratic crisis. “There is no chance in the world that Donald Trump is gonna allow himself to lose in the 2026 elections, because that will be the end of his ability to wield total power in the United States,” Kagan says.
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I live in eastern Oregon and can confirm I was not entirely serious about Ammon Bundy joining the resistance
A supporter of Ammon Bundy, Eric Parker, in a sniper position, aiming at federal BLM agents with absolutely zero consequences whatsoever
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Sorry for the clip show! Have no fears, we've got stories for years!
Homer jumping a shark
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Townes Van Zandt
Rear View Mirror
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Priorities!
"Gov. Ron DeSantis and some other Florida Republicans have painted the higher subsidies as a boon for insurance companies at the expense of taxpayers, suggesting that the comprehensive coverage provided by Obamacare plans is not worth the cost.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that permanently extending the enhanced subsidies would cost the federal government nearly $350 billion over the next 10 years.""President Trump late Sunday defended Argentina as his administration is looking to secure $40 billion in financial assistance for the country.

“Argentina’s fighting for its life, young lady, you don’t know anything about it,” Trump told a reporter on Air Force One in response to a question. “They’re fighting for their life. Nothing’s benefiting Argentina.”"
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Some of those confrontations have led to scuffles and fistfights, prompting arrests by the Portland police. Sortor was among those arrested, after he tried to force his way through a protest encampment on a sidewalk near the Ice facility, and was involved in a scuffle over an American flag. Sortor had previously taken the flag from a protester who was burning it.

The charges against Sortor were later dropped after an outcry in the conservative media prompted the head of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, Harmeet Dhillon, to threaten an investigation of the Portland police bureau over supposed anti-conservative bias.

The two women Sortor was arrested for fighting with still face charges.
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🤞
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Well the middle-income white version has already been written
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“Oh, there’s Dr. Phil,” Mr. Trump said. “Look at Dr. Phil. You’re looking good, Phil. This is a hell of a situation, isn’t it, huh?”
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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JP Smiley @jpsmiley.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Two cats on a mantle
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