B E Smith
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
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When asked about the death of a W. Virginia National Guardsman, the President of the United States bragged about his electoral margin in her state.
When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person.
Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.
When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person.
Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
When asked about the death of a W. Virginia National Guardsman, the President of the United States bragged about his electoral margin in her state.
When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person.
Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.
When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person.
Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.
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Hah I suggested this idea years ago. (I do not imagine I was the first to think about it).
This is the way.
This is the way.
Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hah I suggested this idea years ago. (I do not imagine I was the first to think about it).
This is the way.
This is the way.
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Dear media,
There is no job on earth worth being talked to the way Trump talks to you and each time you don’t stand up for yourself you green light it.
Call him the stupid one and a racist lying demented old dictator. Then just say fuck you, I quit.
Half of America will adopt you for it.
There is no job on earth worth being talked to the way Trump talks to you and each time you don’t stand up for yourself you green light it.
Call him the stupid one and a racist lying demented old dictator. Then just say fuck you, I quit.
Half of America will adopt you for it.
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Dear media,
There is no job on earth worth being talked to the way Trump talks to you and each time you don’t stand up for yourself you green light it.
Call him the stupid one and a racist lying demented old dictator. Then just say fuck you, I quit.
Half of America will adopt you for it.
There is no job on earth worth being talked to the way Trump talks to you and each time you don’t stand up for yourself you green light it.
Call him the stupid one and a racist lying demented old dictator. Then just say fuck you, I quit.
Half of America will adopt you for it.
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Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:
What We Know About U.S.-Backed Zero Units in Afghanistan
Deadly night raids. Faulty U.S. intelligence. A “classified” war loophole. Reporter Lynzy Billing’s investigation offers an unprecedented insight into the civilian casualties of Afghanistan’s Zero Uni...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Hate to be posting this on a holiday, but there's been renewed interest in the CIA-backed Zero Units in Afghanistan. Here's a good summary of @propublica.org's 2022 reporting on the units and just some of the civilian casualties they were responsible for:
Why Are They Leaving Office? | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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Capitalism is so smart cuz if u have lots of disposable income, u hardly ever have to see ads but if u can only afford a $8 Netflix subscription boy does Chanel at Sephora have deals 4 u and your no money
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Capitalism is so smart cuz if u have lots of disposable income, u hardly ever have to see ads but if u can only afford a $8 Netflix subscription boy does Chanel at Sephora have deals 4 u and your no money
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Peace plan? How about eliminating incompetence? 🤦🏻♀️
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Peace plan? How about eliminating incompetence? 🤦🏻♀️
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November 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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This is my grand unified theory of Why Everything Sucks These Days, bascially
Control of business decisions in general has been ceded to "business people" who have zero experience in whatever specific field the business their running is involved in.
Control of business decisions in general has been ceded to "business people" who have zero experience in whatever specific field the business their running is involved in.
"When Disney trusts creative people and gives them support, resources, and space to run, amazing things result. When Disney engages in executive meddling and changes directors or formats partway through a project, disaster. They did a lot of the first in the 2010s then switched." Defensible argument
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is my grand unified theory of Why Everything Sucks These Days, bascially
Control of business decisions in general has been ceded to "business people" who have zero experience in whatever specific field the business their running is involved in.
Control of business decisions in general has been ceded to "business people" who have zero experience in whatever specific field the business their running is involved in.
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Back when I used to teach, there was a summer program where we let student teachers create electives for the middle schoolers. One in my group had the idea to do a mix tape class...which was DOA because the kids a.) didn't know how mixtapes worked and b.) thought the concept was insane.
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Back when I used to teach, there was a summer program where we let student teachers create electives for the middle schoolers. One in my group had the idea to do a mix tape class...which was DOA because the kids a.) didn't know how mixtapes worked and b.) thought the concept was insane.
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Daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. Hold him and everyone involved accountable.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. Hold him and everyone involved accountable.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
The survivors deserve justice.
The public deserves answers.
The predators deserve consequences.
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Russia killed 33 people, including six children, by a missile strike on Ternopil on November 19.
94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing.
Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.
94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing.
Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Russia killed 33 people, including six children, by a missile strike on Ternopil on November 19.
94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing.
Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.
94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing.
Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.
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Trump’s Dept. of Transportation has:
• Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep
• Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers
• Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules
• Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep
• Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers
• Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules
How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Expe...
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump’s Dept. of Transportation has:
• Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep
• Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers
• Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules
• Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep
• Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers
• Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules
Yet again
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Yet again
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This is also my position re: equity concerns. ‘get a good score on the test for which literally thousands of resources to prepare for exist” is far easier for low-SES applicants to navigate than the Byzantine maze of ‘holistic‘ admissions which have lots of unspoken rules, etc
going to reiterate a long time take of mine which is that grades and essays are far worse for disadvantaged groups than the SAT. A student in poorly funded school is generally going to have a worse essay and transcript than someone with a private tutor, meanwhile there are SAT guides on youtube
grades are an extremely messy signal and you do in fact need some kind of universal baseline.
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is also my position re: equity concerns. ‘get a good score on the test for which literally thousands of resources to prepare for exist” is far easier for low-SES applicants to navigate than the Byzantine maze of ‘holistic‘ admissions which have lots of unspoken rules, etc
Today’s Wordle is NOT subtle.
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today’s Wordle is NOT subtle.
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"Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city's jail population."
"[C]oalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members and advocates are demanding that Mamdani [..] go even further."
"We must end the abuses, neglect, torture."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare
"[C]oalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members and advocates are demanding that Mamdani [..] go even further."
"We must end the abuses, neglect, torture."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare
Rikers-Reform Fight Awaits Mamdani as Advocates Release Jails 'Blueprint'
With a court-appointed manager set to take over parts of the city's Correction Department, advocates want the incoming mayor to back up pledges he made about city jails while on the campaign trail.
www.thecity.nyc
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"Mamdani pledged to shutter Rikers Island and shrink the city's jail population."
"[C]oalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members and advocates are demanding that Mamdani [..] go even further."
"We must end the abuses, neglect, torture."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare
"[C]oalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, family members and advocates are demanding that Mamdani [..] go even further."
"We must end the abuses, neglect, torture."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.