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Josh Smith

@jtsmith.bsky.social
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Lawyer. Chess player. Hip hop fan. I try to be intellectually curious. I believe questions are the best way to both understand others beliefs and advocate for my own.

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Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I choose to believe this is in honor of Ken White.
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Got 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! ✨💫
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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
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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.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Great 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.
MS. LE: I have to go back and pulling teeth to get things fixed. And it took a long time. For a long time the ICE agency is work under the Immigration Court, and they have their own policy and procedures. To get my back-home colleagues up to date that Federal Court is not the same as how Immigration Court operate, it took a long, long, long time and many order to show cause to explain and let them know that, Come on, if you guys don't fix it, I'm going to quit and you are going to be dragging yourself into court. I have to say that too in front of that in order to get it fixed.I did put in my resignation from the job too, but they couldn't find a replacement. So I gave them a specific time and -- to get it done. If they don't, then by all mean, I'm going to walk out. And before I walk out, I was able to release another individual, a juvenile. That kind of like a step -- like a barrier. Like, Wait, Julie, stop. You need to go back and get more people out. That's why I'm still here. I am here just trying to make sure that the agency understand how important it is to comply with all the court orders, which they have not done in the past or currently. I am here as a bridge and a liaison between the one that in jail, because if I walk out -- sometime I wish you would just hold me in contempt, Your Honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep. I work days and nightjust because people still in there.

And, yes, procedure in place right now sucks. I'm
trying to fix it. As you can see the e-mail that I sent to
you, it has been improving, a great improvement.

And last night I had to stay up until 2:35 a.m.
just to get this documents ready for you. It's a -- I can't
say it's a waste of my time, but I could have sent so many
more e-mail and get so many more people get ready to be
released. And I am here with you, Your Honor. What do you
want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am
trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what
you need.THE COURT: All right. So I hear your frustrations and comments about the job. My question is: Are you expressing those to the others who are -- MS. LE: I do. THE COURT: -- just a minute -- the others within the DOJ or ICE or DHS who have the role of carrying out the Court's orders that require immediate release? How is this frustration getting translated? MS. LE: I write an e-mail with big, bold font. I CC Ms. Voss in it, and I said, here's what it fail and we need to fix it. You can't just have people sitting in jail and drag me into court and explain to the Court why the system fail. And if they can't help me, then I am not here -- I'm not meant for this job. And to be honest, Your Honor, I did put for a request to be transferred back, but no one were willing to come here to stand in front of you to explain and/or to help to improve the system.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20/01/2026
Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The 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.
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
As 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
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Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Anyone who has studied what the US Government did to the Hmong people should be both horrified and unsurprised.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
My 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.
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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
CHOTINER: 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?
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22/12/2025
It 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.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A 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.
Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear.

As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.”

Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ."

Attached are two images.

Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids”

Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”
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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 21/11/2025
My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes
› millennials 20h
serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with
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was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Bellingcat’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.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This 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
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
lmao 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
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
this might be the funniest possible way they could have characterized it
Dunn’s lawyers have claimed the case is “selective and vindictive prosecution,” arguing he was singled out for prosecution “not because of the nature of his alleged conduct — throwing a soft object that caused no injury — but because his outspoken, viral critique of the current administration’s policing and immigration policies made him a political target.”

Federal prosecutors opposed Dunn’s lawyers’ motion to dismiss the charge, writing that Dunn was “recorded throwing a sandwich at a federal officer [highlighted text] at point-blank range [end of highlighted text].”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This 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:
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/10/2025
BREAKING: Over 460 people were reportedly killed at a hospital in western Darfur that was taken by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO chief says.
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Sudan's paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents say
Sudan's paramilitary forces have killed hundreds, including patients in a hospital, after seizing el-Fasher city in Darfur.
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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?”
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Senate Republicans deal Trump a rare rebuke on trade with vote against Brazil tariffs — NPR
Five 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.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Dominos meme
White Sox fan forced to accept Cubs jersey

Assyrian bishops refuse to condemn Nestorius's 431 challenge to the use of the title Theotokos ('Bearer of God'") for Mary.
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Bryan V. @filsderod.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I don't understand why nobody ask : Would you like to run against Obama?
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Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Jon and Ponch are outgunned…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/10/2025
New 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."
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The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far
Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
NEWS: 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.
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Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I AM SPARTACUS!
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Unmasking Terror @unmaskingterror.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fitzgerald vs that insurance lawyer lady is 92 Dream Team vs Angola.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Homer at the Bat episode of the Simpsons: team of baseball players says 
"That's impossible. No one
 can give more than 100%."
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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!
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Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We 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.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/07/2025
I 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.
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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.
Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by
U.S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story, (2) In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his 60-year-old song sampled. His response to the request to use the song was
"As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" [21
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be.
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Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
One of my favorites…
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Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I 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.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Canonically, 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!
Still from SUPER BUDDIES, five Golden Retriever pups dressed up as superheroes and OMGSOFUCKINGCUTEWTFPromotional still from Air Bud Returns - the silhouette of a Golden Retriever standing on a basketball, flanked by the orange and blue light scheme familiar to anyone who has ever seen a Star Wars or Superhero movie poster. Coincidence? No. Endgame confirmed!
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
You know what’s always shady? Orbs. You try to get me to look into an orb, that’s an instant block.
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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Hello there
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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?
Quote from recent legal advice to Secretary of Transportation using the reference “cleaned up”
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Josh Smith @jtsmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Every 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.
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