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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · Nov 17

Hi! For my new friends, a little about me. I'm emerita from U of Calif Ag Extension, working in sustainable food systems, garden-based learning, etc. I'm a US historian & wrote a book about victory gardens & US food policy during WWI and WWII. I edit, blog & am working on a novel. Based in So Cal.

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 1h

This is me now.

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This is my new favorite podcast.

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 3h

JD Vance is defending these people. Of course he is.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 3h

Good for them!

Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 5h

This is so wrong. We can't allow the GOP to discard entire groups of people. These children are all our children.

Democrats @democrats.org · 5h

7.5 million children with disabilities will be affected.

Graphic featuring Donald Trump with the following text:

UPDATE

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 5h

Thanks for including me!

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LOVE

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Just trying to imagine what Republicans would’ve done if, say, the head of the California Democratic Party were accused of rape, while one of the state’s Democratic congressmen has his career ended by sex trafficking allegations and a second juggled multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

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“Florida Keys Party”

Florida's GOP power couple is embroiled in scandal

House report on former Rep.
Matt Gaetz reveals rampant sexual misconduct, drug use

Exclusive: Top Florida
GOP official was convicted in probe into his romantic involvement with
inmate during his time as jail employee

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against
Rep. Cory Mills

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 9h

So gross.

Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 9h

Yep.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 10h

See you on Saturday!

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10h

NEW: Great point from @ezralevin.bsky.social:

"This is an authoritarian regime that is very scared of mass organizing, peaceful protest.…It is the number-one thing they’re concerned about.…What Trump is doing is not popular.…His hope is that people feel alone."
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

www.thebulwark.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11h

I recruited Janet Mills to run for Senate because, at 72, Susan Collins is too young for the job.

by Chuck Schumer

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is practicing dementia in the right way.

by Ezra Klein

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11h

Democrats need to accept that Trump will indict his political enemies. But if Democrats respond by later indicting the DOJ officials who illegally carried out Trump's indictments, that will be end of our Republic.

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 11h

You're on a roll today.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11h

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 11h

Everything about this administration is corrupt.

Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · Apr 23

In an astonishing escalation of the Trump family’s efforts to profit from crypto, a website promoting Trump’s memecoin announced that the coin’s 220 largest buyers would be invited to a private dinner with him.

Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin

The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.

www.nytimes.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

This is the most important politics story in a long time. Twitter has radicalized the young GOP into overt Nazism and white supremacy and the news has spent years pretending not to see.

It’s a gleefully racist and antisemitic party now. Stop pretending otherwise www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 11h

This was such a disturbing clip. These people.

Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · 11h

Important piece.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h