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Meg for Democracy @peaceful1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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When We Fight We Win! 🗽💙🔥👇Congratulations Hungary and Blue Resisters Everywhere! Be sure to follow and share these winning friends. #StrongerTogether #WeWin go.bsky.app/DWZaSRN

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

From the bad of statistical modelling to the worse of AI ! How about just listening to potential voters as Mamdani did? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Opinion | This Is What Will Ruin Public Opinion Polling for Good

Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"Washing clothes before wearing them helps remove some potential irritants like excess dyes, fragrances and formaldehyde.. a single short washing cycle with cold water removed almost all of the formaldehyde,https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/well/wash-new-clothes-before-wearing.html?smid=bs-share

Do You Really Need to Wash New Clothes Before Wearing Them?

Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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Thank you New Yorker. Hopefully Hearst family don’t sell to Ellison for $10 billion or whatever UAE bosses will pay to curry favor with Trump

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is terrifying. We must fight to ensure our vote is counted in November @markwarner.bsky.social "The idea that a president could fabricate an emergency to take control of elections would have been unthinkable not long ago. It must remain unacceptable now. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Override Our Voting System

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Yes!! March ! Then register! “A pro-democracy movement dedicated to not just to standing up against authoritarian strongmen like Trump and against big money like Peter Thiel’s, but to empowering all Americans, politically and economically. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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Toward a Pro-Democracy Movement

Why I'm demonstrating today

Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS NYC MASS MARCH” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/o...

Opinion | Is There Method to Trump’s Madness?

Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Thank you New Yorker. Hopefully Hearst family don’t sell to Ellison for $10 billion or whatever UAE bosses will pay to curry favor with Trump

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Hmmm. Donald Trump struggles to explain why he launched another Middle Eastern war

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Trump is better at breaking the peace than peacemaking as he sets the Emirates off, encourages Putin to keep invading Ukraine and gets ready to start a war in Iran. I guess thats what happens when you rename D/Defense the D/War. FIFA shd give Trump the FIFA War Prize? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/w...

How a Call From Trump Ignited a Bitter Feud Between Two U.S. Allies

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rosebanditquinn @rosebanditquinn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Frederick Douglas in black and white

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

How Alex Pretti’s Death Became a National Tipping Point

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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Irish Stew Podcast @irishstewpodcast.com · 28/12/2025

What do Trump's America and Ireland's housing crisis have in common? Former diplomat Ted Smyth connects the dots in our year-end political episode—dropping midnight EST. "Affordability will define 2026" 🎧 IrishStewPodcast.com #Politics #Podcast @tedsmyth.bsky.social #GlobalIrishNation #SpéirGhorm

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Irish Stew Podcast @irishstewpodcast.com · 03/01/2026

What will it take to become the next president of the United States? On our latest #podcast episode, Ted Smyth gives his thoughts. #USPolitics #GeoPolitics #GlobalIrishNation #SpéirGhorm @tedsmyth.bsky.social

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Nicolaus Mills’ book Winning the Peace shows what real patriots cd do with govt. Gen Marshall took away fm his New Deal experience “a heightened sense of the govt’s capacity for bringing order out of social chaos and creating what he called‘valuable and self supporting citizens

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Many thanks for the great exchange!

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Floggings will continue until morale improves! "98 percent of respondents said that workplace morale had fallen since Mr. Trump’s second term began in January. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u... Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts

John Prince @nbpt-john.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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And, in conclusion… #USDemocracy

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

“They pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Xi and Putin run rings around the dumbest President in US history. Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy

Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

That is a mission that everyone agrees with, and yet one we somehow fail to achieve in an America larded with billionaires cavorting in a new tech-driven Gilded Age. Billionaires who are, Shore said, only “giving away a very small percentage of their revenue.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...

Opinion | Leaving Hungry Pols to Help Hungry Kids

Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Low dose Bayer aspirin! They’re not joking, the red line shows the actual fill level.

Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Corruption and greed in the White House are destroying our country’s security and future greatness “They are leading the White House down the road to perdition with this ascendant technocratic oligarchy,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

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Ted Smyth @tedsmyth.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Bravo @nytopinion and @GoldmanSachs Trump=Higher Prices "Goldman Sachs estimates the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Opinion | Does Trump Know the Price of Milk?

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Trump is destroying our economy.

Exactly right “The only question remaining is which will give Trump a more egregious place in history - his moral failures or economic ones. open.substack.com/pub/niemtzow...

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His cult doesn’t recognize this, but Trump is a failed businessman- with 4 (some say 6) corporate bankruptcies under his watch.

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People are tiring of Trump just as they eventually did of Celebrity Apprentice.

Congratulations New York Magazine exposing the biggest rip off of American taxpayers in history by Trump and his Team of Thieves.

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The oligarchs who own the media are the cowards. Larry Ellison Bezos Murdoch etc A few brave ones stand out, Bloomberg Sulzberger Atlantic in opposing Trump censorship

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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wonder how long it takes one of bloomberg's lawyers to remind their execs that not pushing back on noxious shit like this could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment

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BostonCatherine @banner19.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It’s easy for people like me - avg media consumer - to be outraged at reporters who don’t defend colleagues. But I admire the tenacity & guts to ask him questions knowing what a hateful POS he is. Silence makes his comment LOUDER for all the world to see what a scumbag he is. Give her the Pulitzer.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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Also… Trump’s “piggy” insult to the reporter was tweeted out Friday night by a CBS (former Bloomberg) reporter … but it seems to have gone largely under the radar til the People story. x.com/JenniferJJac...

Highlights from NEWSY gaggle on AF1 on our flight to Florida on Friday night:
Trump told us on EPSTEIN:
-"I know nothing about that," he said when asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump knew about the girls. "Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years."
-"Quiet, quiet, piggy," he told a Bloomberg reporter who asked why, if there's nothing incriminating in the files, he's acting like there is.
-Asked if he's ruled out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender connected to Epstein, "I haven't even thought about it," he said. "I don't rule it in or out. I don't even think about it."
-"They can have whatever they want," he said when asked about MTG's interview with CBS saying release all the files. "I was never on his island. Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times."
-If they had anything, they would've used it before the election, he said. I asked why, then, his team encouraged Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to not pursue this. "Because it's bad to talk about it" when Rs should talk about "how well we've done."
-He said he heard Pam Bondi picked U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, "a real legal talent," to look into ties between Epstein and prominent Dems.

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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It was our pleasure & privilege. Thank you for the incredible welcome. 💚

The White House press lost their moral standing when they failed to react ! Access beats out truth in Trumps White House as his greedy oligarchs buy up the mainstream media “Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week