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B Smith

@hopesndreams.bsky.social

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I work with refugees. Historian. I believe in humanitarian action, in helping others, in making society better for the most marginalized. Jewish folks are welcomed. Zionists are not.

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Nov 8

Police brutality
Unequal education
Maternal mortality
Child welfare involvement

These are all systems in which, and are not an exhaustive list, of the ways in which systemic racism is *quantifiable*. This is what needs changing. Not murals painted
x.com/nowthisimpac...

x.com

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Phineas Delgado - Author @phineasdelgado.com · Mar 29

X is not worth 33 billion. He basically just paid himself $33B from another company, presumably to pay off his debts from the initial buy because he knows he'll never be able to raise the capital from X itself.

He is his own ponzi scheme.

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 28

Oh dang

Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · Mar 27

That is billion, with a b.
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IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts at agency

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yet, you're out here demonstrating I am correct daily 💜

⚜️New Logic @freshlogic.blacksky.app · Mar 26

3 of the last 4 words in this post doesn't even make sense next to
each other 😭😭

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 26

As usual, an absolutely wild tweet from this heathen bald-headed man

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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Mar 26

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 26

If you grow up poor there are two ways that one usually goes:

A) you save every damned penny. You still go without so you can save those extra pennies "in case"

B) you save nothing because you finally have money and it belongs to you, so you spend it

Bringing those two together is hard

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 26

As usual, an absolutely wild tweet from this heathen bald-headed man

⚜️New Logic @freshlogic.blacksky.app · Mar 26

Ion know fellas, I be tryna stand up for yall, but I’ve never once had my stroke insulted and at this point it may be my reputation or y’alls…

This might be my breaking point. 😭

a man in a hat is looking at another man in the dark

ALT: a man in a hat is looking at another man in the dark

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 26

Coworker 1 (yelling down the hallway after I helped): B knows everything! Go to her for help!

Coworker 2, later: "hey this isn't work related, but do you know if I need to get 2 separate tickets at the DMV for X and Y?"

And, yes. I did know the answers to all the questions that no one else did

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 26

And my job today, apparently, involved wearing out twin 5 year old boys and their long suffering 9yo sister at work today while their dad closed his loan with my boss.

I didnt get my walk in, but I have run around this building numerous times and did jumping jacks, too

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 20

All I did was quote him!

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 20

Meaning that, in general, their purpose is either racism (mostly likely) or mysogyny.

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 20

I just wanted to go ahead and remind folks that this bald-headed man, like most, is a menace

⚜️New Logic @freshlogic.blacksky.app · Dec 28

Gentleman, I want you to find your woman.

Grab her really tight and pull her close.

Stare deep into her beautiful eyes and tell her,

“You’re not the boss of me.”

Forehead kiss and then walk out.

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 19

I wouldn't be me if I wasn't rocking the boat about the fact that your panel is all white folks when the industry is 20% Hispanic and 15% Black.

Call that shit out in public

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 17

GOOD

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 17

It is so fun finding out weekly that more portions of my job are being threatened by sweeping cuts to long-standing federal programs.

Getting ready to sign a lease not knowing if my job will be around next month. Fun times.

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 11

Don't know. Haven't spoken to them since 2015.

But I am guessing these new tariffs aren't their favorite 😂😂

B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 11

My Trump loving cousins own a small manufacturing business in PA. Using almost exclusively aluminum and steel.

Am I laughing at them? You bet your ass I am

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Mar 10

Listen… i get it… U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist - TIME

apple.news/AoYv6MfSaQLm...

U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist — TIME

The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.

apple.news

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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Mar 10

I’d be interested in hearing from people in academia what Americans can do to inflict consequences on Columbia for its craven and contemptible behavior.

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 11

Because plane accidents are actually down from this time last year - it is that a commercial flight crashed this year that we hear about the rest.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · Mar 10

um www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

“It’s very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person,” he said, adding later that “we see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a good exercise regimen.”

West Texas is “kind of a food desert,” he added. Malnutrition “may have been an issue” for the child who died of measles in Gaines County.

Texas health officials said the child had “no known underlying conditions.”

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 11

I wish we had a functioning country where criminals who lead the country get held accountable

The Independent @the-independent.com · Mar 11

BREAKING | Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrested on Interpol arrest warrant for ‘crime against humanity’

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte arrested for ‘crime against humanity’

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila on Tuesday on an Interpol arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over allegations of crimes against humanity.

www.independent.co.uk

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Mar 6

Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

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B Smith @hopesndreams.bsky.social · Mar 6

Oh, I didn't realize you were a full on serial killer.

Noted.