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Walter Smith 🦋💙

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USian by Birth | Journalist by Schooling | Progressive by Choice Biracial Son of an Immigrant & Stalwart Champion of Justice & Equity for All! 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 #Handsoff #ChingaLaMigra #BlackLivesMatter #LoveIsLove #StandWithIndigenousPeoples

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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here’s a handy writeup from the WSJ of the recently revealed spates of rogue AI behaviors.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Stolen Valor by FIFA's inaugural Peace Prize receipient.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
That day that Amazon's algorithms were really keen to let me know I was past due on pressure washing my patio.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Astrid is making great strides at learning to walk on a lead. After we wrap each training session, she gets to chill in her "place".
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hello World! Meet Astrid! This 3-month-old 20-lb bundle of love was found in a ditch a couple of weeks ago, but now has landed in her forever home. She may feel she won the lottery (we do own a couple of pet stores), but we know that we’re the ones that hit the jackpot!
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Please meet Astrid, our newest pack member. ❤️🐶
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
JD Vance has been a Catholic for six years, a politician for less than five, and is now lecturing a Pope who holds a doctorate from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on how to do theology. Really? JD feels qualified to mansplain theology to the Pope? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
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Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Yet another tweet that aged poorly.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Yet another tweet that aged poorly.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
When the Harry Potter Universe intersects with Real Life ™
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
In the time a human could have gone from conception to birth, the world still awaits the arrival of the Trump Phone. After several missed availability dates in 2025, it seems that the currently touted "late March" timeframe is just as unlikely. Who thinks this thing will ship this month?
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Goodness, Sergey has certainly strayed from Google's founding mantra of "Do no evil".
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Why would any service provider set things up so its customers must pay before, during, and after?! #SoUSian
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I fully support regime change — in the US. Mr. Trump, pull up your drooping diaper and resign now.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Has anyone checked the tranche of Epstein files for mentions of John Barron, John Miller, David Dennison, and Carolin Gallego as stand-ins for Trump?
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"You Can't Tell Me That's Not Donald": A C-SPAN Caller Who People Think Sounds Like Trump Is Going Viral
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Is it just me, or is this evening news every single day?
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE is murdering US citizens in MN and trying to frame it as self-defense against terrorists.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
DefSec Pete was touting its new military AI availble to servicemembers. One of them decided to relaye a "hypothetical" missle strike on a boat and its subsequent surviors to get its assessment. "Unambiguously illegal" makes it pretty clear that these are extrajudicial killings.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is literally the visual representation of what the MAGA Right would like everyone to believe is happening in NYC because of the outcome of the mayoral race. #escapefromNYC #MamdaniWins
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Is there hope that those that those Trump administration officials that planned, ordered and carried out these extrajudicial killings will ever be held accountable for these murders? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
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Trinidadian Family Says U.S. Military Killed Relative in Boat Attack
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Fettered no more, sweet angel. Run free from the burdensome weight of this mortal coil. You are so loved and will be missed for the rest of my days.🐶💔
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Sarah Palin conjured up the notion of “death panels” in a bygone era of political deception that’s charmingly quaint by MAGA standards. Infuriating to see GOP Senators pick up that mantle, set aside all semblances of morality and ready themselves to pass the heinously inhumane budget bill. Shame!
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Oh lawdy! Please let this be AI.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
So lemme get this straight… Trump can bomb Iran but claim he’s warring against only Iran’s nuclear program and not Iran at large. Does that mean he’s fine if Iran attacks US military facilities in Qatar but also pretends that they’re not attacking the US proper?
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Being MAGA is such a PLMF — pretzel logic mind fuck.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This demented dotard loves to talk about himself in the third-person, but this is a case where he was also prognosticating his own future complicity.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Current mood 🧪 #standupforscience #NoKings
“No Kings Since 1776”
Wonder Woman punching DJT
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Salmonberries are a common wild berry in the Pacific Northwest, thriving in coastal forests and along streams. They're an important food source for birds, bears & other wildlife, and have long been foraged by Indigenous peoples for food & medicinal uses. #PNW #forage #salmonberry #wildberry #flora
Rubus spectabilis
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Siena finds her light, June 2025. #iphone #photography #landscape #flora #flower #rhododendron #pink #pitbull #blacklab #doggo #sun #shadow #spring #summer #naturephotography #photooftheday #POTD #PNW
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We must never forget that the actions of Elon & the DOGE Bros have lead to an estimated 300K deaths (of which 2/3 were children) that didn't need to happen. Such appalling behavior for someone that purports to want to grow human population. Equally appaling: Rubio's tacit blessing of these deaths.
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Analysis | Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cuts
The secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Autumn Rain (PNW, October 2024) #PNW #iphone #outdoor #photography #tennis #leaves #rain #reflection #clouds #light
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
RIP, Loretta Swit. Thanks to your character’s brilliantly quick wit, you always kept those boys in the Swamp in line. Thanks for the laughs.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The GOP media strategy in 3 easy steps.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Liminal Light Stick, May 2025. #PNW #urban #landscape #iphone #photography #dusk #twilight #liminal #light #evening
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Siena finds cooling solace in the shade as the sun finally begins to warm the PNW — May 2025. #PNW #siena #dog #pitbull #blacklab #nature #iphone #photography #landscape #clouds #green #grass #field #forest
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Trump would have us believe that he's against governments taking land away from farmers. As private developer and POTUS, he has pushed for the equivalent legal tactics against private US land owners that stand in the way of his egomaniacal manifest destiny. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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When Trump Was the One Taking Land From Farmers
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Hey Republicans! The world is watching. #TheMadnessOfDementiaDon
It's truly madness that the GOP wants to make real the notion of a Unitary Executive by propping up a dotard with dementia-induced executive dysfunction.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Jenny, don’t lose that number.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Purchased for $27.50 nearly 80 years ago as a presumed copy, the now-authenticated copy of the Magna Carta is just one of seven originally issued in 1300 that are known to have survived.
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Harvard’s unofficial copy of Magna Carta is actually an original, experts say
Document issued by Edward I in 1300 was bought by law school library for just $27 in 1946
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Wishes to all the Mothers out there, courtesy of Mr. T.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Good on SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall — thank you for standing by your convictions, and against those who wish to erase vulnerable and marginalized communities.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
It's time to impeach—but that's fantasy with this House. Has Dementia Don slid so far during his first 100 days that he doesn't remember swearing an oath to uphold the US Constitution just a few short months ago? He's gobsmacked that the millions he's trying to deport have due process rights.
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Trump says, ‘I don’t know,’ when asked if he’s required to uphold Constitution
The president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
JFK: Public investment as a means to broad uplift. DJT: Disinvestment in public good, framed as “efficiency,” but functionally austerity for the many, comfort for the few. JFK's idea of "a rising tide lifts all boats" is anathema to DJT's world view where many shouldn't even have their own boats.
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Trump's 2026 Budget Proposal Calls for $163 Billion in Cuts: Live Updates (Gift Article)
The president’s $1.7 trillion budget blueprint would cut $163 billion for the 2026 fiscal year, offering an outline of his vision for Washington and dramatically curtailing the role and reach of the f...
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Tom Homan, T47's border czar, tried to clarify the WH's 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 of US citizens to other countries. Oddly, the rhetoric hill he chose to die on was to insist that "deported" was the wrong word to use to since these children are US citizens. As you wish, Tom—𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
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Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Harsh. Slightly related:
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Seems like an appropriate visual for this situation.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Trump admin moves deeper into the realm of human trafficking with today’s extrajudicial removal of a US citizen to Honduras.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In an internal memo leaked to the press, the DOJ makes clear they’re going to go after reporters if they receive leaked information.
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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I guess simple math is too hard for the head of DOGE. No wonder none of Elon's purported fraud and waste numbers are adding up correctly.
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