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Susan Smith

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Retired from politics but not ready to shut up about it

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, it’s propaganda, and good for WaPo putting the word in the headline, which almost nobody else did. They should remove the damn quote marks though. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’
A TV ad boosting President Trump and saying that it was paid for by the U.S. government is airing in two major markets despite a federal law against using tax funds for "propaganda."
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Every action needs to be assessed in the context of his psychological dysfunction, his cognitive decline and his untethered relationship to reality—rather than the typical framing of a sane president managing the nation’s affairs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...
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We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump’s ICE thugs shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez through his car window as he was delivering food yesterday in Austin, Texas. His wife and lawyer were reportedly denied access to see him in the hospital, and ICE is now trying to deport him. This violence must end. Abolish ICE.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨
American Research Group's poll of 1,100 adults shows Trump at 29% approval, and one away from the cool sex number in disapproval.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nothing good results from this disastrous Paramount-WB merger. Nothing. So many people will be hurt. Why? So billionaires can make more money, gain more control, and suppress art and speech they don't like.
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This also brought me to tears.
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We should all be disgusted of the White House Press Corp. No one walked out No one told Trumpy to go fuck himself. No one said mean things to Trumpy after he chopped down another pillar of American Democracy. No one asked for proof any of them published 'fake news'. No one did anything. Sad.
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Have to turn off @stephruhle.bsky.social because of Rahm Emmanuel. His education ideas helped bring us to where we are now with privatization. 
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I see @rahmemanuel.bsky.social is coming on @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social to explain how to kill off public schools with "accountability" which helped set up today's phony choice/privatizer grift. Whatever the problem, Rahm is not the answer.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Ranking House Judiciary member already has (time zone is ET +6).
Rep. Jamie Raskin

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Who Hatched this plan? Every other sitting U.S. Attorney General followed the Hatch Act and stayed away from political campaign rallies. But the handful of Americans tuning into tonight’s GOP midterm convention will be treated to the spectacle of Todd Blanche turning his office and the Department of Justice into partisan campaign props by becoming the first U.S. Attorney General in history to address a political party convention.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
UK will announce illegal settlements trade ban today - but more than that. Miliband will announce a broad reset of the UK’s relations with Israel, promising the government will take a more active approach in supporting the Palestinian cause. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK to adopt tougher stance on Israel with illegal settlements trade ban
Ed Miliband to reassert support for Palestinian rights and a two-state solution in move fiercely criticised by US and Israel
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm extremely disappointed to see Kathy Castor on this list.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 31/08/2026
*The* Ohio Couch-Fucker
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
DOJ election monitors reportedly tried to access voting machines in Wyoming last week. I’ve spent thousands of hours reporting on past efforts by Trump allies to access machines & copy data. Mark my words: State officials need to be ready for this to happen again. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Wyoming Governor Objects to ‘Very Odd’ D.O.J. Election Monitoring (Gift Article)
Governor Mark Gordon, a Republican, said he was concerned by the behavior of election observers who visited a polling station in Cheyenne.
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fred Rogers and Dolly Parton are examples of what truly loving ones' fellow man looked like.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Third Way Democrats plan to spend $15 million attacking democratic socialist House and Senate candidates. We need every single seat we can win in November, but these folks seem to be of the view that we should "vote blue no matter who" only when centrists constitute the who.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
this is HOW YOU win... great candidates on fire and on message open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Florida Flips: Angie Nixon Is the Democrats’ Newest Progressive Senate Nominee
Scrappy democratic socialist Angie Nixon scores victory against a $16 million campaign
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Alex Vindman spent $9 million. Angie Nixon spent $709,000. She won by 11 points. Florida Democrats just picked the Jacksonville state rep who got arrested at a sit-in over redistricting. She now faces Ashley Moody in November. LFG FLORIDA!!!!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries is not up for the job. They have got to get rid of him in January.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Anyway, I don't think it is unreasonable to expect DC journalists to start asking the Senate Majority Leader & the Speaker of the House hard questions every day about why they are doing nothing while a Mad King shreds the Constitution & destroys our most important security alliances.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I support DC statehood cc @jilldlawrence.bsky.social
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Aubree Lane @aubreelane3.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This Boomer would like a word. In my lifetime (I’m old), I could count on one hand, the number of people, in my age bracket, who voted against abortion rights. In case you need a reminder, we were the ones who fought and won the right in the first place in 1973. 1946-1964 is the Boomer generation
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is unethical at the very least. Shame on Sen. Cassidy and the rest of the Republicans.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
so Mark Walter, who was at the White House recently, is under investigation by the Trump administration and just so happened to abruptly sell one of America’s premier sports franchises to the brother of Trump’s son in law 🤔
The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to American businessman Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for a record breaking price over $12 billion, multiple sources told ESPN.

Kushner and Iger were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Reup: Bc journalists simply are NOT reading the court filings closely enough to understand how bad the misconduct in the Davey Hearn case may be. What Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/w...
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What Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? - emptywheel
In a bid to get the indictment against him dismissed with prejudice, Davey Hearn reveals that DOJ misrepresented the circumstances of a "before" picture proving he didn't damage the reflecting pool.
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sounds like Mamdani is on to something.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I saw this story for the first time on @allinwithchris.bsky.social last night and for the life of me I don’t know why this hasn’t been leading the news for weeks. Also, fwiw, the way this person would have been cast as every elected Democrat in office were he a Dem, just messaging malpractice.
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Fingers crossed it falls apart!
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🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP CANUCK! 🇨🇦 @comeoncomet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Another buy a pardon deal... disgusting!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This Message From Former Ambassador Michael McFaul, Who Served Under President Obama, As Ambassador To Russia.......
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The "defund the police" cost Democrats countless elections claim always sits awkwardly with the fact that peak "defund" activism was 2020, the year that Democrats won their first federal governing trifecta since 2008.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Best description of Trump’s speech I’ve heard so far: the “Pettysburg Address.”
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“We had transgender for everybody…but not anymore.”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Before Trump's speech tomorrow night promoting the Big Lie, read up on the Trump administration's "chum cycle," in which they launder declassified docs through friendly media and claim falsely they prove scandal and crime. www.mediamatters.org/john-solomon...
The salvo Trump and his administration are telegraphing is incredibly dangerous — but it is simply the election denial version of what they’ve previously tried to do to delegitimize the federal probes of Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump’s retention of classified documents, and his role in the January 6 insurrection, among other cases. I previously described this tactic as the Trump administration’s "chum cycle":

The Trump administration chums the waters by handing over documents related to one of the myriad past investigations into the president’s actions; the president, top Trump officials, and Republican officeholders say they show a massive scandal; and mainstream reporters point out their narrative is farcical while MAGA media stars call for the indictment, arrest, prosecution, jailing, and perhaps execution of their political enemies.
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is why so many people are so dispirited by Democrats.
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What an inspiring story to read on Sunday morning. RIP Heroes.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
And consider how sympathetic and beloved they’d be now if they played without Balogun. May have even won without that 300 pound orange blob on their backs.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
When Platner drops out, Schumer should immediately resign his position as Senate leader.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
X is a fascist propaganda website owned by the world’s richest man who is responsible for the deaths of millions of non white people. He regularly peddles explicitly neo-Nazi viewpoints. And yet, the political and media elite continue to use his website and mock those who use the alternative. Sad!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We wanted to know how regular Americans feel about the country’s 250th birthday. So we talked to three South African neo-Nazi billionaires at a ketamine bar on Market Street
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Also, how is the answer to people thinking something is their kids' route to a scholarship not "make college free" but instead "genital checks"?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's such a *clear* equal protection violation to me, if for no other reason that trans *men* are not subjected to the same restrictions, only trans women. But, since the court already decided that the constitution doesn't apply to trans women, I can't be surprised.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Ossoff: On Wednesday of this last week he said the war was "Done." And then on Thursday another ship was struck. On Friday the president was bombing again. This is what happens when you send your son-in-law, Jared, to cosplay as a diplomat
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
FIFA and the U.S. thought that by humiliating  Iran in the World Cup and making their logistics difficult, would turn the world against them. Instead, the amount of support they received throughout this tournament is unprecedented. They represented their country with dignity and humility. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Susan Smith @stsmith222.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’m listening to this article on the Tates now and it’s sickening.
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