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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 · Jun 5

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 · 17d

These jackals seem to have forgotten that key bit from a pledge they gleefully recited as children: "...one nation...indivisible...with liberty and justice for all."

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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · 17d

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...

Trinidadian Family Says U.S. Military Killed Relative in Boat Attack

www.nytimes.com

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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Sep 23

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.🐶💔

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 30

It would be lovely if we could get to a place where it's wholly normalized that the wealthiest among us would -- for each additional home they acquire -- build an equal amount's worth of affordable housing for the rest of us.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 30

The GOP-led Congress will kill people with these Medicaid cuts, much in the same way that DOGE killed hundreds of thousands of children & adults with their funding malfeasance.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 30

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!

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 25

Oh lawdy! Please let this be AI.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 23

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?

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 23

Being MAGA is such a PLMF — pretzel logic mind fuck.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 22

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 · Jun 14

Current mood 🧪
#standupforscience #NoKings

“No Kings Since 1776”
Wonder Woman punching DJT

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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 6

I'm flummoxed at how the Israel-loving MAGA faction squares itself with its neo-Nazi faction that is entirely anti-Semite. Is it a shared hatred of Islam and the Arab world that bond these two?

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 5

These two's egos and bellies would keep their micros from ever making contact much less slapping.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 4

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.

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.

wapo.st

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · Jun 4

Autumn Rain (PNW, October 2024)

#PNW #iphone #outdoor #photography #tennis #leaves #rain #reflection #clouds #light

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · May 30

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.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · May 29

On a beach not far from James Comey …

In an AI generated image of a sandy beach, shells are arranged to spell out PSALMS 109:8.

That Bible verse, as rendered in KJ21 is: “Let his days be few, and let another take his office.”

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · May 29

The mythology of Tech’s Wizard of Oz runs deep. They all are due an awakening.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · May 26

The GOP media strategy in 3 easy steps.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · May 26

They’re def all in on the con. Here’s a slightly tweaked version of your image that puts hands on ears for the middle guy.

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · May 26

Liminal Light Stick, May 2025.

#PNW #urban #landscape #iphone #photography #dusk #twilight #liminal #light #evening

Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · May 25

We're in vehement agreement here ... my typo-laden comment didn't help make that clear.

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Walter Smith 🦋💙 @waltersmith.bsky.social · May 24

The immunity extends to “official duties”. I don’t thin lo anyone could argue that grifting and grafting like this falls within the bounds of typical “official duties” of any POTUS.

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