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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm sorry but Nancy Mace isn't real, she's a character written by a Millennial Elmore Leonard to populate a 21st-century noir world in which "deadass" is something the heroic main character says before pulling a Sig Sauer

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/10/2025

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Cuomo’s “media director came from running meme pages, which tells you everything,” @thestefansmith.bsky.social tells WIRED. “They know modern political strategy isn’t about message quality—it’s about content volume feeding the algorithm.” www.wired.com/story/andrew...

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The Andrew Cuomo Campaign Is All in on MAGA Influencers

With the NYC mayoral race coming to a close, Andrew Cuomo is courting right-wing creators.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If your car alarm goes off your key should also go off so you know that it’s you.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

We’re going to discover that the lowering of standards for ICE and DHS was also followed by a clandestine call for militia and former separatist members to join. They’ve brought the nationalists into the government.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The elephant we’re all talking around is the fear that this incident will be used by the current administration to begin a wave of violent repression using the National Guard it’s already mobilizing in cities and the newly empowered Department of Homeland Security.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

If you’re Brown and doing a home renovation, you now have to carry your birth certificate to Home Depot.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If I win the lottery, you will absolutely know. I will collect it publicly, in an ostentatious manner. And then I’ll launch a SuperPac.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Gen Z and Gen Alpha AND Millennials can’t all look 35 somethings gotta give

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

In 150 years, Laura Loomer will have the historical mystique of Rasputin. A wildly archaic archetype, so obviously villainous students are left bewildered.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The fact that Trump actually LISTENS to this extremist nutjob tells you everything you need to know about Trump. bluevirginia.us/2025/09/sen-... h/t @thestefansmith.bsky.social

"In 150 years, Laura Loomer will have the historical mystique of Rasputin. A wildly archaic archetype, so obviously villainous students are left bewildered." - Stefan Smith

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

His health is declining without an heir and he’s hiding it with bad makeup that doesn’t match their undertones? It’s not authoritarianism, it’s Elizabethan.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

last night’s Trump digital mania had the energy of a bacchanal.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

It’s wild how the difference between Mike Pence and JD Vance suddenly really matters.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Taylor Lorenz is the type of character who would make a fascinating subject for one of those old school, two hour long YouTube video essays. Inherently provocative.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

A sick president? A close circle of advisors limiting access? An ambitious VP who may or may not be ready for the top of the ticket? Al*x Th*mpson, that’s your music buddy

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Trying to lynch the Vice President didn’t warrant the National Guard, but Big Balls getting carjacked requires a show of force?

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

If you’re the third or fourth son in your family and you’re complaining about women and traditional family values know that traditionally you should be in a monastery.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This story being the entire metaphor and emotional anchor of my NetRoots panel is wild

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

My dear friend @thestefansmith.bsky.social has been suggesting that we bring back monasticism in a non-religious form to accommodate rising numbers of unpartnered men. Don’t be an incel, be a volcel, and watch the world improve

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Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Last week we introduced a plan on how we move forward — how we fix the chaos and bring back trust in government. Talked about our Pledge for America with @mikenellis.bsky.social and @thestefansmith.bsky.social on Substack.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

my theory is that business republicans waited until the BBB passed and they got their tax cuts and so now the WSJ side of the party is cutting itself loose from Trumpism

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It’s a major story that’s almost everywhere and is being used across Twitter right now to drag Elon Musk. But that misses its potential to tell a larger story about AI susceptibility to tampering.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Why are you afraid of the Establishment? Your careerism is an inherently conservative impulse and it’s stopping you from replicating Mamdani’s success across the country.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

They don’t target legislators if the legislative system is already captured. They don’t target protests if the protestors aren’t a threat. Defeatism is counter revolutionary. Lock the fuck in.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I should have way more followers because sometimes I’m prophetic.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Best thing about Taylor Swift getting her records back is I can finally stop listening to her version of 1989 and pretending I like it.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is the Cassandra of the Democratic Party and yall don’t wanna hear him you just wanna dance

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Democrats will never solve our Man Problem™️ from the top-down. Cultural crisis requires a culture-first response and those are inherently bottom up. You cannot start a vibe shift with a PowerPoint.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

**stella nova** collapse (pause) expand into ether, into nebulous—tenuous eternity (—) ripped into existence; birthed, belching and grotesque specks turned disc turned world, this life, this burning ember, this—

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Jokes aside, there is a missing generation of campaign operative and political staffer who should be in powerful positions in the party right now but their members were defeated in wave elections in 2010 and 2014.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Y’all are weaponizing the social convention of speaking only positively about the sick, dead, or dying in order to filibuster a needed conversation about political succession and legacy power within the Democratic Party.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The King’s former advisor is predicting disharmony with the new Papacy, accusing him of being foreign and disloyal.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

None of this makes sense until you remember they’re all invested in a decentralized alternative currency.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

None of this makes sense until you remember they’re all invested in a decentralized alternative currency.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Your value is not measured by how much it hurts. Being good at suffering doesn’t mean you were built for it.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If participating in your democracy requires exact change, it isn’t democratic.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

China fumbled America’s collapse so badly that Europe got the ball back.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“It’s not fascism, it’s technically autho…” You bolt awake at the White House. It’s April 30, 2011 and you are David Litt, Obama’s joke writer, and you’ve changed your mind. You won’t include any Trump jokes at that night’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The only way the longest filibuster ever doesn’t “do” anything is if we let it be ceiling and not the floor.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Yall don’t wanna hear me you just wanna dance 😭

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you keep having to ‘meet people where they are’ it’s because you’re not where you’re supposed to be to begin with

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It’s wild how everyone in the 90s was like, “Wouldn’t it be wild if this was the peak of civilization?” and then did nothing really to stop it from being the peak of civilization.

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(the)StefanSmith @thestefansmith.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Jon Ossoff and AOC out the gate hard for the Millennials, joining PB in the Shadow Primary lane for my generation. Ossoff’s rally today had an absolutely incredible energy. AOC is obviously the most visible, but the road to the White House runs through GA.

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