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Ed Smith

@smithem66.bsky.social
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Mostly retired. Worked primarily in energy infrastructure development world. Most recently in pre- current- and post-conflict environments. Majority in private sector with 2+ years in DoS in Afghanistan and DC. USCG Lic Capt, Priv Pilot, Sailor & Cycler

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Silence Dogoode @silencedoogoode.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Senate tries to hold President to Act they passed to limit War making Said President yells at them like an angry toddler Senate immediately folds Lesson: The Senate sucks
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ahh, it must be another one of tRump’s surprise attacks www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Trump Threatens New Strikes on Iran, Says U.S. Will Seize Its Oil and Gas Markets
The president threatened to take over oil infrastructure including the key hub Kharg Island.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is why I truly hate Trump and all of his enablers (which includes the majority of Republicans in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Create a problem, solve a problem (CAPSAP) is something trump uses frequently from his bag of deceit. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
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Trump Says He Will Order T.S.A. Agents Paid as Funding Deal Stalls
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
One more demonstration of Trump’s ineptitude. He starts an illegal war, has his SIL illegally negotiating with the Russians, has a chummy call with fellow war criminal Putin and takes an ineffective step that benefits no one but himself and his oligarch friends. Fuck any Repub that swore an oath
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Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I was a Scout and was trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty and brave clean and reverent. None of which apply to our current President or administration. Please Scouts, don’t take a knee to those deplorables. apnews.com/article/scou...
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Scouting America will alter its policies to maintain support from the US military, Pentagon says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Scouting America will alter several policies to maintain its support from the U.S. military.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
tRump grifters can be expected to already be busy establishing private tariff refund administrative services that will reap a percentage of funds moved, interest earned during the return period and rights to keep anything that can’t be returned for any reason.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Zohran is already making Regular People's lives harder...
Mamdani shout out his wife in big speech
When's the last time you made a statement about me
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Well, no sense listening to GMA on chicken shit ABC anymore. They will spend more time on Justin Baldoni than they will deporting on the fall of the USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
What can I say but FUCK tRUMP. II now need to include all Republican members of the House and Senate. What a bunch of spineless, ignorant, ass kissing cult members. Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump apnews.com/article/publ...
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a cornerstone of American culture for three generations.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
What can I say but FUCK tRump. The Trump administration’s battle with Columbia was the first of a series of broadsides against elite research universities that depend on federal funds to operate.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Another brilliant decision by the tRump administration. Too bad tRump’s father didn’t use some protection when the his tiny spermm was approaching the poor egg that was to become the Don. US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say
U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This article is the truth. Thank you Terry Moran for speaking the truth and no thanks to ABC/ Disney for hiding in a self imposed corner. You get the shame award! open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller
The road to fascism is paved with "objectivity" and "civility."
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Incognito in TX @ignognitotx.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Trotting 4 one-ton animals around a human laying on the ground is a recipe for that person beyond seriously injured or dying. And then they layer on the bully sticks. Shame on them!!! ACAB?!?!?
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Terry Moran gets screwed by ABC for speaking the truth just like they kissed tRumps ass when they caved to tRump after George Stephanopolis said the truth about tRump being a rapist. Disney’s MO? www.usatoday.com/story/entert... Terry Moran suspended by ABC for Trump post about Stephen Miller
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ABC suspends Terry Moran for calling Trump official Stephen Miller a 'hater'
ABC News has suspended correspondent Terry Moran for a deleted X post on White House official Stephen Miller that the network said violated standards.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
tRump is doing so much because he can and the congressional republicans won’t do anything to stop him. Fuck him and all of them. The world would be so much better if they all just ceased to exist. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Bars People From 12 Countries From Entering U.S.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If he could apply the same mentality (to the extent one exists) to the USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/w...
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Trump’s Pledge to the Middle East: No More ‘Lectures on How to Live’
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I guess I can cross CBS off my list and stop streaming Paramount + since they are caving in to the tRump autocratic regime. Maybe fashion designers will come up with a “taken the knee to tRump regime” line of pants and shorts. What a farce. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
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Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I hope I live long enough to urinate on his grave. And I hope it’s soon.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard, keep on fighting this orange piece of shit. Don’t be like the other schools and law firms taking a knee and further embodying that fuck. Trump administration freezes about $2.3 billion in funding to Harvard - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump administration freezes about $2.3 billion in funding to Harvard
The U.S. Department of Education said on Monday it was freezing about $2.3 billion in federal funds to Harvard University over the school's decision to fight White House demands, including that it shut down diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
DOW surges almost 3,000 points. There is no way that the tRump regime is not using the instability to make a ton of money to add to their other grifting. Fuck all of them.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I’m 80 YO and was looking forward to a reduced stress “autumn of my life”. The orange turd has destroyed that. I hope he burns in hell and gets there soon. Glad to help.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It is roumored that Mitch McConnell is the father. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Four babies born to nearly 100-year-old parents? It happened in Philadelphia
OK, so the parents are endangered Galapagos tortoises. The Philadelphia Zoo shared the happy news about its oldest and most famous residents.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This must be a survey of only those Americans that watch Fox “News” or cartoons (almost the same). Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies economist.com/graphic-deta... from The Economist
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Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies
Our polling shows that Americans’ and Europeans’ attitudes towards each other are changing quickly
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I sure prefer “elbows up” over “taking a knee”. I don’t understand why any of these corporate entities are kowtowing to tRump as he destroys the USA. substack.com/app-link/pos...
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There's no sum of money that will keep you safe from Trump
Corporations are learning this the hard way.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Do you think anyone has done an analysis of how many lives will be lost as a result of these cuts at HHS, USAID, CDC, etc? All this so tRump and fElon Musk can claim some efficiency improvement. what couple of idiots. What is a life worth? I’d say tRump’s is zero. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
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Trump administration live updates: HHS to cut roughly 10,000 jobs, sources say
The Department of Health and Human Services is expected to cut roughly 10,000 jobs.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I don’t Kari Lake is capable of telling any truth…the ideal tRump candidate for any position. Opinion | Kari Lake Isn’t Telling the Truth About the VOA - The Wall Street Journal
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Let’s just hang the original there instead. l.smartnews.com/p-jNfnyCl/a3...
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Trump demands presidential portrait is taken down immediately (Daily Mail)
Donald Trump has savaged an artist for painting an 'unflattering' portrait of him which is hanging in the Colorado State Capitol. The president is demanding...
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
How can we get tonthe point where people will be afraid to have their name associated with tRump or a tRump administration? www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump has long hated this media outlet. Now he's ordering it dismantled.
Journalists are being placed on administrative leave and grants are being terminated at other outlets.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We are already a laughing stock around the world. Now look at the latest clown threat. Fuck Trump. Trump threatens to put 200% tariff on French champagne and other E.U. spirits - CNBC
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Stock market down again. The world is totally screwed. Thanks repugnicans. Fuck all of you.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I hope Someone is keeping a list of all tRump’s enablers (including Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg) so that they will feel the whole wrath of the country when the tide changes. With tRump’s erratic and totally destructive actions getting more unhinged, there must be some nefarious support.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Amazon Prime is going to stream the Apprentice series. Maybe because Bezos needs something from tRump. Wouldn’t it be better for Amazon’s Prime membership if they streamed the out-takes that reveal the real tRump?
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I remember back when Enron collapsed, it was toxic when seeking a follow-on job, to show Enron in your resume. If we survive the tRump destruction, I hope the same situation for anyone admitting to a role in his administration or supporting him as an elected representative.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/03/2025
I used to grow alarmed seeing mounted police in DC but now I secretly hope we're being invaded by Canada.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is unfortunate Inwishbthat Ontario would have continued and not given in to the orange turd. And fuck you to Lutinick for being tRumps threatening mouthpiece. He knows what is right and wrong but wants to help destroy the US globally.
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Trump doubles tariffs on Canadian metals, causing Ontario to back down on electricity price hikes
President Donald Trump says he will double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Do all the republicans Anorchia? This is a rare congenital condition where the testicles never develop.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A few more fucks to distribute. First, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett and second, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for blaming the stock market and economic reaction on Biden. I thought they were smart guys but it appears that if you support tRump your brain turns to shit.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Wouldn’t it be the easiest and most expedient if Russia just left Ukraine? abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
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Rubio says Ukraine needs to be 'prepared to do difficult things' to end war
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I have never hated anyone more than tRump. On a scale of 1 to 10 he is at 50, Vance is at 40, Johnson at 45, Musk at 49, Rupert Murdock at 48 and the entire tRump cabinet at 25. What a bunch of wasted protoplasm. I hope I live long enough to see tRump and his entire family living under a bridge.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Can’t we tell Trumpkov he’s fired? I have pitchforks
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Allan @allan1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"Only fools or kremlin tools" is a nice little rhyme that benefits from being the truth.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Congrats to Ontario Premier Doug Ford regarding 25% increase in electricity charges exported to the US saying “the tariff would remain in place even if there’s a one month reprieve from the Americans. Ford has said that so long as the threat of tariffs continue, Ontario’s position will not change.”
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
tRump destroying the lives of so many people. For what? For revenge? For continued power? To make himself look good in front of his empathy-empty cult members? To weaken to United States and starve us of talent, bravery and people willing to sacrifice? Funk trump. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
reuters.com
Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
If tRump was such a genus business man, why does he keep up his tariff “bitch slapping” of automobile companies. Their industry requires long term planning and not on-again, off-again major expenses. Time for constitutional amendment allowing the removal of a president for extreme idiocy.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
aje.io/pavqss How can our country turn against allies and bend the knee to adversaries so quickly. I attribute it to Republican lawmakers who re more interested in keeping their jobs than being committed to their oaths. May they all die timely and painful deaths.
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US says it cut off intelligence sharing with Ukraine
Days after public spat, US president says Ukrainian leader has told him he is ready to come to the negotiating table.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I will be recording trumps session today so I have a record of which Republicans applaud him. These are the Russian stooges that need to be remembered and targeted in future elections.
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Ed Smith @smithem66.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Fuck trump, fuck Vance and fuck everyone that takes a knee to either of these pieces of shit. Zelenskyy is 1000 times the leader that tRump & Vance think they are. I’m embarrassed to be an American. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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Trump and Vance Rebuke Zelensky During White House Meeting: Live Updates
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