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Ashley C. Ford

@smashfizzle.bsky.social
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Author of bestselling memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER. I deserve it all. linktr.ee/SmashFizzle

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h
New York AG Letitia James’ office will reportedly probe Cornell University’s handling of gang rape allegations made by a former student
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Letitia James' Office To Review Cornell's Handling Of Rape Allegations: CNN
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This was about Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates, but it could be about Symone Sanders, Eugene Daniels, and Hasan Piker too. It's. A. Loop.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We are stuck in a loop.
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Kristen V. Brown @kristenvbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The ovaries don't just shut down after menopause. They keep changing—and may take on new roles as they age. But are those changes protective, harmful, or both? Scientists are only beginning to find out. My latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/ovary-...
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The Ovary Is Surprisingly Active After Menopause. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why
A growing body of research is putting the ovary in a new light, not as an egg factory with an expiration date, but as an organ that shapes women’s health long after the fertile years have passed.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: Director of White House Press Operations states in a declaration that access was restored and press passes available before 10 a.m. after a brief process of locating physical passes and restoring access this morning. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DECLARATION OF MICAH STOPPERICH
I, Micah Stopperich, declare under penalty of perjury pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746 as
follows:
1. I am the Director of White House Press Operations.
2. This declaration has been prepared in connection with litigation in Cable News Network, Inc. v. Trump, No. 1:26-cv-3287 (D.D.C.).
3. The information contained in this declaration is based on my personal knowledge or on
information made available to me.
4. On September 24, 2026, White House Operations were notified at 7:10 am to restore access to affected reporters by turning on their hard badges.
5. White House Operations began the process of reinstating badges at 7:25 am.
6. United States Secret Service indicated that badges were back on at 9:07 am. United States Secret Service also began locating confiscated badges.
7. Confiscated badges were delivered to White House Operations at 9:45 am.
8. The White House press team dropped badges at the entry gate for members of the press to pick up around 9:55 am.
9. United States Secret Service has represented that press passes that were turned on were
available for pick up at the press gate as soon as they were delivered.
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.
Mical Fropord
Micah Stopperich
Executed on September 24, 2026 at Washington, D.C.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My sister said her four month old keeps pulling her hair because he’s bald and jealous 🤣 He’s not even bald though, my guy got mad curls!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
*blinks* “More than 150 employees at the cloud services giant Digital Ocean protested last year after its CEO explained in an all-hands meeting that his former mentor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which he said shows how employees can work together despite holding different beliefs.”
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I swear to god my imagination just came back online after like…several months.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the attention to Flock has exploded in recent weeks in April, bolts published an article on the length that a Wisconsin town went through to get Flock to take down its cameras — including covering them in trash bags. what the mayor told us:
"“The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product,” Diaz said. “They were never really selling to us in the first place. What they are doing is selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.”"
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026
did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume
A young woman in a Garfield inspired outfit with a Garfield headdressThe young woman from the first photo is holding a lasagna that says “lasagna my love language”missinteenusa Tonight, Indiana is going Garfield!
My state costume celebrates one of Indiana's most iconic creations-Garfield, created by fellow Hoosier Jim Davis.
Born in Marion and raised in Fairmount, Davis turned an orange cat with a big personality into a character recognized and loved around the world.
But this costume represents more than a famous Hoosier.
The hand-painted comic panels on my skirt share messages inspired by my initiative, Captivating Confidence:
"Our differences are what make us beautiful."
"If we don't have love, we have nothing."
"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."
To me, true confidence is found in embracing what makes each of us different and recognizing that our greatest beauty comes from within. I am so excited to bring a little Hoosier humor, creativity and confidence to the Miss Teen USA stage tonight!
This one-of-a-kind costume was inspired by my vision and brought to life by Indianapolis-based costume designer, Jess West. @jesswestcostumes
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My husband hates where he grew up. He has a great family who we’re close to, but the suburban town he was raised in? Hate. Since we’ve been together he’s lost five friends, or former friends, to suicide and addiction. And those are just his friends. He can name thirty he knew from his school days.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Finding it harder and harder to find romance novels I enjoy because apparently y’all think it’s romantic to fall in love with someone who was kinda mean to you at first. I do not.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I don’t hate anything the way I hate Slack. May I never download that app again 🙏🏾
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is heartbreaking... www.yahoo.com/news/science...
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Woman Horrified to Find 29 Dead Sharks During Her Morning Walk on the Beach
An expert theorized that the sharks may have been stranded due to changing tides
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I love Libib!
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My goodness please *listen* to this extremely wholesome story
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We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."
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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I can go to bed now 🥰
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained a coaching guide that Flock surveillance gives to police about “how to speak to city councils about public safety technology.” It encourages police to “own the narrative before someone else does” by championing the technology before citizens can oppose it.
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‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the concrete effects of Virginia restoring voting rights Friday boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...
One of these people, Quadaire Patterson, who lives in Henrico and was released from incarceration in 2024, was refreshing that page and hoping to see himself marked as restored.

“I’m definitely aware of my inability to vote and to be able to affect my community in that way,” he said. “My being disenfranchised keeps me a few steps away from the freedom I was hoping when I was released.”
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
O’Neal helped purge me & all the other Black full-time staff columnists at the Post Opinion Section. I challenged his move to fire me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. And he testified against me in June. We are expecting an arbitration ruling soon. Convenient time for him to quit.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.
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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/07/2026
Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.
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Spotify's AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop
Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Charlotte Hawkins Brown's Palmer Memorial Institute is the only designated Black women’s history site in North Carolina. Thanks to an ambitious preservation and adaptive reuse plan, the campus will soon welcome learners again. Loved covering this project!
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Historic Black School at Heart of Development Plans in North Carolina Town
The Palmer Memorial Institute campus, once home to Charlotte Hawkins Brown, will continue to anchor Sedalia as the town grows.
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JT Cestkowski @jtcestkowski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
HAPPENING NOW Hundreds are in the streets right now in Madison, WI, after police earlier today shot and killed a Black man. The demonstrations have taken over the city’s downtown.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I said what I said.
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Opinion | Russell Vought should be impeached
The two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget has been two-timing Congress, making spending cuts that lawmakers rejected.
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The world may have moved on from Minneapolis but its immigrant community continues to struggle. We spoke to single mothers who hid from ICE for months, ran through their savings, and now can’t pay to renew their DACA applications. At least dozens are in this situation. 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...
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Single mothers lost months of income hiding from ICE — and now can’t afford to renew immigration papers
They survived ICE's takeover in Minneapolis. But now their DACA protections are set to expire, leaving dozens scrambling to afford hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain their legal status.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A masterpiece.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I’m so tired I resent the energy it takes to breathe.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
it’s always a good day when rapists are arrested for rape
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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you call Beira's Place, the rape shelter JK Rowling set up specifically so she could deny help to rape victims she suspects of being trans, your call is not confidential and may be listened to by JK Rowling, who may tweet to her audience of millions to ridicule you and express contempt for you.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 14/07/2026
NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.
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Man dies during immigration encounter in Florida, the third ICE-involved death in a week
Third ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash during joint agency operation. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my book! I never take it for granted 💜
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Helen of Troy, Lupita Nyongo sparkles in Christian Cowan for the London premiere of #theodysseymovie.
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social's StoryBoard Festival 2026 is quickly coming up (August 14th and 15th in Chicago!) and now’s a great time to get your tickets. Here’s what you can look forward to… 🧵 www.storystudiochicago.org/writers-fest...
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/06/2026
We need to recognize what happened to Scott Wiener at the San Francisco Trans Pride March as antisemitism, and finally purge this poison from left wing movements. A new opinion piece by Evan Urquhart, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Scott Wiener’s Viral Harassment is What Left Antisemitism Looks Like - Assigned Media
An opportunist at the Trans Pride March in Sanfrancisco harnassed suspicion and hatred of Jews for his own purposes.
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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
lawandcrime.com/crime/dad-be... Black girls deserve protection and care... When we are called fast. When we are called aggressive. When we are called angry...this is a result. Black girls are children. Black girls are human... 😢😢
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Dad beat 9-year-old daughter to death because she smirked at him: Police
Police said Anderson admitted that he spanked Joanna, then allegedly admitted to beating her with a belt that had a metal buckle.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My husband is trying to get me to baby-proof the house before my nephew comes over. My nephew will be two months old next week.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is exactly it.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I love my husband but sometimes I hate how attached I’ve allowed myself to become to another person. That’s the mental health stuff, I know, but I was so much more of a shark when I was emotionally isolated, and sometimes, I miss being that intense, even though it was killing me.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It’s interesting to perform or allow a kind of demonstration like those hats, then act offended at the idea that anyone would have questions about the intent and thoughtfulness of said demonstration. Why would you perform or allow an action like that, THEN decide you don’t want to talk about it?
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