Reposted by Josh SmithCoraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫 81764490
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2026(1/46) Car Talk: With Martok Episode: The Next Generation Calls In HOST: Martok CALLERS: Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, Data, Worf, Geordi La Forge, Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, Reg Barclay, Ro Laren, Q 100
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2026(1/51) Car Talk: With Martok A DS9-Themed Call-In Show Set in the Modern Day HOST: Martok CALLERS: DS9 characters, one at a time [OPENING THEME] SFX: A burst of Klingon opera smashed into cheerful public-radio banjo. A car horn bleats twice. Someone yells in triumph. 131
Reposted by Josh SmithAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids. 292122664
Reposted by Josh SmithAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20/01/2026Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy 773436630
Reposted by Josh SmithAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/01/2026The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel. 139100161760
Reposted by Josh SmithJocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods 13768521842
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Anyone who has studied what the US Government did to the Hmong people should be both horrified and unsurprised. 000
Reposted by Josh SmithAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025My very strong suspicion is that the left/right axis and the fight/don't-fight axis are in the process of unlinking, and that the fight/don't-fight split is emerging as the core struggle in the Democratic Party. 642278391
Reposted by Josh SmithColin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/12/2025CHOTINER: So you're delivering toys to *all* the good boys and girls? SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice. CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself? 219327
Reposted by Josh SmithAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22/12/2025It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans. 392311743
Reposted by Josh Smithderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics. 1434412797
Reposted by Josh Smithkia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 21/11/2025My favorite piece of content today. 327102252293
Reposted by Josh SmithEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT. 543207839
Reposted by Josh SmithPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/11/2025This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it. But most people won't believe that for several good reasons. /1 762924786
Reposted by Josh SmithMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/11/2025lmao this is incredible, strong contender for one of the least useful charts ever made you could do this with anything, draw a straight trend line plus one exponentially up and one exponentially down average baseball fastball pitch speed in 2050: 0mph, 105mph, or 1000000mph 2555784
Reposted by Josh SmithAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 03/11/2025this might be the funniest possible way they could have characterized it 913638
Reposted by Josh SmithGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/11/2025This quote continues to rattle me to my core: "So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them." That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection: 422206900
Reposted by Josh SmithThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/10/2025BREAKING: Over 460 people were reportedly killed at a hospital in western Darfur that was taken by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO chief says.bit.lySudan's paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents saySudan's paramilitary forces have killed hundreds, including patients in a hospital, after seizing el-Fasher city in Darfur. 13227142
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025@dansavage.bsky.social “They're about the economic destruction of tariffs, but they are also really about how much will we let a president get away with?” Kaine asked. “Do my colleagues have a gag reflex or not, in terms of powers that constitutionally are handed to Congress?”apple.newsSenate Republicans deal Trump a rare rebuke on trade with vote against Brazil tariffs — NPRFive Republicans joined with Democrats on a vote to end the national emergency that President Trump has declared as the basis for sweeping tariffs on Brazil. 000
Reposted by Josh SmithBryan V. @filsderod.bsky.social · 27/10/2025I don't understand why nobody ask : Would you like to run against Obama? 17785119
Reposted by Josh SmithAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/10/2025New in PN: The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far "Dismissal is probably the best result for the government, since it would spare the DOJ having its dirty laundry aired in court before getting spanked for having brought such a garbage case. But even so, it'd be very, very funny."publicnotice.coThe 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so farWelcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan! 17440881201
Reposted by Josh SmithGregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025NEWS: Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans issued an order today meant to prevent immigration arrests -- "civil arrest" -- for individuals attending court proceedings in Cook County. 011647
Reposted by Josh SmithUnmasking Terror @unmaskingterror.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Fitzgerald vs that insurance lawyer lady is 92 Dream Team vs Angola. 413113
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2025@goingmedieval.bsky.social I’m very interested in the history of medieval record keeping. Are there any books that you personally recommend? I already have “From Memory to Written Record” by M.T. Clanchy, and it’s great, and I need more of it! 000
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We can end the trade war overnight by getting Trump to levy a 25% tariff on all berries purchased for - but never eaten by - any toddler. 010
Reposted by Josh SmithPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 29/07/2025I think it is underrated that the magic glass boxes we carry in our pockets can be recharged by sticking them to a magnet for a while. 2049216
Reposted by Josh SmithOscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today. 2741331079
Reposted by Josh SmithPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be. 6015601353
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2025I would love to have enough knowledge so that I could confidently ask at least one insightful question of anybody I ever meet, regardless of their background or our shared commonalities. 000
Reposted by Josh SmithC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Canonically, there are 14 AIR BUD films before next year's AIR BUD RETURNS. The last of the AIR BUDDIES films, SUPER BUDDIES, reveals the pups all have superpowers now. This means exactly what you're thinking AIR BUD RETURNS is here to set up AIR BUD: ENDGAME, the climax of the cinematic universe! 1837863
Reposted by Josh SmithBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025You know what’s always shady? Orbs. You try to get me to look into an orb, that’s an instant block. 1012411
Reposted by Josh SmithWallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Hello there 8100185
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2025@scotusplaces.bsky.social Interesting that lawyers in the Trump administration used “(cleaned up)” in the legal advice they accidentally filed with the court. Is this standard practice now? 010
Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Every argument has a fatally weak link: “They don't want anything handed to them. They just don't want it handed to anyone else at their expense.” “Handing people something” is not zero sum. And handing something to some people does not active harm others. 030