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Scott Russell Smith

@scottcole73.bsky.social
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Scott Smith is the author of “On Compost: A Year in the Life of a Suburban Garden."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Duckula Flow does not change his name for Halloween @georgelang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is great and necessary reading, and a strong argument for NYT and other legacy media to hire new public editors.
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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My god, what a travesty!
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every clip I've caught of this Hegseth speech is batshit insane. What a delusional moron. Impeach his ass now, before he gets more Americans killed.
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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How far we have fallen.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/09/2026
The Cornell 7 case is particularly infuriating because I truly cannot imagine seeing your friends talk about raping a drugged girl in your groupchat and just sit there and do nothing. All 57 of them should have their lives tore to shreds.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The most bizarre thing about this idiotic, embarrassing line of questioning by Eric Schmitt is that it’s totally irrelevant Even if Jack Smith went to a basketball game in Atlanta-he didn’t-there isn’t even a scintilla of proof that he met, much less conspired with Fani Willis 35 days
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s always been my view that she should run for Senate. She can handily win and keep this seat. And she’d be the right hand a democratic president needed and a legendary lioness of the senate besides. She’s shown real talent as a legislator & the caucus respects her.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“So ‘remigrations’ are understood as part of a civilizational rescue mission of sorts: Masses of human civilizational contaminants are rounded up, expelled from the West, and dumped outside our charmed hemisphere, into that geographic mass that Trump calls ‘shithole countries’” This is a must-read
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
67 years ago today, on September 21, 1959, The Dave Brubeck Quartet released ‘Take Five.' Enjoy your evening…
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Dave Brubeck - Take Five
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Boykin: The Republicans control the entire government. They control the white house. They control the house. They control the senate. They control six of the nine seats on the supreme court. If you're not happy with the way the country is running America, blame the Republicans.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I tire of these parasites. They do everything in their power to destroy the democratic governance and regulatory systems of the countries that enabled them to grow rich, but they always come running when it's time to foist the costs of their reckless decisions onto taxpayers. See also: SV Bank.
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'd go further: at this point, the NYT and other mainstream journalistic outlets -- given their business-related need to continuously ship both-sides polarization porn -- are doing way more than El-Sayed is to keep Piker relevant and make him a more influential figure than he otherwise might be
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I find a surprising number of people who classify themselves on the left in politics simply WILL NOT countenance the idea that people can be bad--by choice. It's a very strange and dangerous naïveté. I don't understand how people can reach adulthood and not have understood badness.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm not a psychologist, but I know shunning and stigmatization works, even to depose world leaders. We've been so busy worshipping "wealth creators" that we've created a cadre of psychopaths and elevated them to unimaginable power.
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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
100 percent, @ebharrington.bsky.social. Shocking but true, and you see such me-above-all behavior in everything from speeding around stopped school buses to basic tax dodges to backing whatever local NIMBY issue that affects them in any personal or even psychological way. Rules for thee, not for me
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Come on this is ridiculous.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Insanity. Thanks again, Trump voters. Every day you curse us with a brand new dose of corruption, incompetence and stupidity.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/09/2026
We watched social media become the Wild West and waited for legislation that never really came. We can’t repeat that with AI. We need guardrails. Congress is finally debating safeguards, including stronger oversight and a human-controlled “kill switch.” Jeffries is calling for urgent action…
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Shutting down a memorial to an assassinated president because you can't slap your name on it ranks with the most empty, floppy dictator shit of all time. Ferdinand Marcos would tell you to get a grip.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
to some degree the entire Trump phenomenon, from his self-inculcated celebrity status to his absurd 2015-16 candidacy to his two disastrous administrations, has been a media failure
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📌Listen to me, you incompetent MSM morons: Trump is lying about where he was, and what he did on 9/11. This would be gross if he was a drunk loudmouth at the end of some bar, but he's the President of the United States and it's appalling. Your job is to hold him to account. FUCKING DO IT ALREADY
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree: This is truly unhinged behavior from the President of the United States.

And I don’t want to hear “oh, it’s just Trump being Trump” or that he’s “trolling.” Enough. None of this is normal or okay.

Republicans cannot keep shrugging this off. Congress, the Cabinet, and everyone around him has a responsibility to stop enabling this dangerous behavior and start asking whether he is fit to hold this office.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
Trump posts a map depicting the US conquering the entirety of North America
cap of Trump TS post showing an American flag with "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" over all of North America
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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hissy fit from @nytimes.com
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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 31/08/2026
I have a lot of thoughts on this NYT piece on bike lanes. It adopts the framing that they are part of the culture wars, instead of simply a tool in the multi-tool transportation planning toolbox. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Do D.E.I. Bike Paths Exist? The Trump Administration Says Yes.
The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.”
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 01/09/2026
i do believe that there may be some haitian immigrants who would like a word with you
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At some point those of us in the pro-democracy movement need to stop worrying about Donald Trump and Republicans attacking us over false claims of voter fraud. Instead we need to take steps to protect and expand voting rights and let Trump call us names.
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Conor 📎❤️ #LaraCroft ❤️ #TombRaider ️❤️ #TombRaider30 ❤️ #gaming ❤️ @conormcl2026.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1915–1973 was an American gospel singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known as the Godmother of Rock and Roll. Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, she blended traditional gospel with jazz and blues rhythms and was renowned for her virtuosity on the electric guitar. #BlackExcellence
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
extremely curious about exact the degree to which the president is fully encased in a slop-generated alternate reality
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I warned of it *on her show* a decade ago! It was wildly controversial at the time, though it obviously should not have been. Shameful it took people so long to catch on: many lives could have been spared.
Kendzior on Joy Reid Show Nov 27 2016 warning that Trump will strip the US down for parts and build a kleptocracy.
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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Don’t blame you. I’m so sorry and hope someday soon we’ll be through this and you’ll forgive us for this MAGAmadness
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/08/2026
This dude is losing his mind. Can’t win a war but obsesses in AI like the unhinged boomer he is
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton was they type of Christian that Christian Nationalists only *pretend* to be. Unlike Christian Nationalists, she didn't browbeat us with how CHRISTIAN she was. She just lived her life doing things that Jesus asked her to do, like heal the sick, help the children, and care for the poor.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Supreme Court is not being obtuse. They're being evil. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Supreme Court Is Helping Trump Rig the Midterms
Trump’s order limiting mail-in voting is patently unconstitutional—but that didn’t stop the court from giving it the green light.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026
This is so bizarre. A politician telling you her vision for America is that you’ll have to work when you’re sick and die young, orphaning your kids. Please vote for @drannieandrews.com
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/08/2026
I vaguely recall that when AOC barely, briefly stumbled in a way less problematic fashion about a question on Taiwan... the media made a huge story about it for weeks, with the GOP egging it on. Now it's "why ask an elected official about Taiwan, that's silly."
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