Nina Jo Smith
@njsmith.bsky.social
Songwriter. Poet.
“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
- Bertolt Brecht
“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
- Bertolt Brecht
Pinned
I don’t know how to tell you this, but being anti-immigrant is anti-American.
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Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/
ASAP
When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
ASAP
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Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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The two Americas:
Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned
Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The two Americas:
Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned
Hard working Honduran college student deported, Honduran drug kingpin (what bribes exist?) pardoned
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"Dishonorable" is putting it mildly. it's cold-blooded murder. And how many Americans know what "hors de Combat" means? KISS.
🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Dishonorable" is putting it mildly. it's cold-blooded murder. And how many Americans know what "hors de Combat" means? KISS.
One good thing. 🧵
Today I picked my new bike up in San Mateo and to prove I deserved it, I road it home to SF on the scenic route.
November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
One good thing. 🧵
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November 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Well, that’s not good.
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Florida did not drift into one party control. It was redesigned through a corporate political partnership that fused industry power with state power. The shift was intentional, engineered, and funded by sectors that profit from weakened oversight. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy
Florida did not drift into one party control. It was redesigned through a corporate political partnership that fused industry power with state power. The shift was intentional, engineered, and funded by sectors that profit from weakened oversight. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Well, that’s not good.
Invisible no more. If we look.
Contributor: Epstein victims deserve spotlight. So do 5,700 Native women and girls reported missing each year
The very same forces that failed Epstein’s victims continue to fail thousands of others.
www.latimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Invisible no more. If we look.
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Who’s keeping track of where all this ‘protection money’ Universities are paying is going? Who’s keeping track of where the money from the tariffs is going? Because services are gutted, Universities are squeezed like scrawny kids on the school yard, yet the deficit keeps growing. Who’s getting rich?
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Who’s keeping track of where all this ‘protection money’ Universities are paying is going? Who’s keeping track of where the money from the tariffs is going? Because services are gutted, Universities are squeezed like scrawny kids on the school yard, yet the deficit keeps growing. Who’s getting rich?
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WSJ BOARD: “Tens of thousands are building new lives here in peace and contributing to communities. They shouldn’t be blamed for the violent act of 1 man. Collective punishment of all Afghans won’t make 🇺🇸 safer and might embitter more against 🇺🇸” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
WSJ BOARD: “Tens of thousands are building new lives here in peace and contributing to communities. They shouldn’t be blamed for the violent act of 1 man. Collective punishment of all Afghans won’t make 🇺🇸 safer and might embitter more against 🇺🇸” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Dem Melissa Hortman and her husband, and John Hoffman and his wife were all shot by a MAGA supporter. Hortman and partner died, Hoffman and partner lived. Was there a crackdown on all white, middle-aged MAGA male people? Was there anything at all done? It was down the memory hole in three days.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Dem Melissa Hortman and her husband, and John Hoffman and his wife were all shot by a MAGA supporter. Hortman and partner died, Hoffman and partner lived. Was there a crackdown on all white, middle-aged MAGA male people? Was there anything at all done? It was down the memory hole in three days.
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"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
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We live in a time when you can be blown up because you “might” be carrying drugs…
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
We live in a time when you can be blown up because you “might” be carrying drugs…
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
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Says the guy who auto-penned nearly 1600 pardons for January 6
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Says the guy who auto-penned nearly 1600 pardons for January 6
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It's sad that Republicans haven't been able to prove that President Biden is guilty of any of the imaginary crimes they made up.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It's sad that Republicans haven't been able to prove that President Biden is guilty of any of the imaginary crimes they made up.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
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If Kamala Harris were President today Sarah Beckstrom would still be alive and Andrew Wolfe would not be in a Washington DC hospital ICU fighting for his life.
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If Kamala Harris were President today Sarah Beckstrom would still be alive and Andrew Wolfe would not be in a Washington DC hospital ICU fighting for his life.
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I long to hear something like this instead of the cramped hatred spouted by small men.
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I long to hear something like this instead of the cramped hatred spouted by small men.