David Smith
@davidsmith.cloud
My Personal Bluesky account - mostly just my friends here. I like to share my photography too. Opinions are mine.
https://www.davidsmith71.com/
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
I’m not sure how much more of the report is actually “new” news - we’ve already known a lot of this. But having it run on a show like 60 Minutes would’ve been impactful.
GO WATCH IT
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
GO WATCH IT
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’m not sure how much more of the report is actually “new” news - we’ve already known a lot of this. But having it run on a show like 60 Minutes would’ve been impactful.
GO WATCH IT
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
GO WATCH IT
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
Makes me want to renounce being white.
What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Makes me want to renounce being white.
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Happy EPSTEIN Files Release Day Eve for all those who celebrate!!! 👍
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Happy EPSTEIN Files Release Day Eve for all those who celebrate!!! 👍
Another one.
December 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Another one.
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As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
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Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
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Jesus fucking Christ, America. We are a shithole country with a shithole president and a shithole congress that does nothing to stop this entirely preventable violence. Fuck your guns and fuck you.
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Jesus fucking Christ, America. We are a shithole country with a shithole president and a shithole congress that does nothing to stop this entirely preventable violence. Fuck your guns and fuck you.
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Americans ought to decide, collectively, that this should not be a routine story in our country. Numbness -- acceptance -- is an enemy. apnews.com/live/brown-u...
2 people were killed and 9 others injured in shooting at Brown University
At least two people at Brown University were killed Saturday and nine others were injured in critical but stable condition, police said. No one is in custody.
apnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Americans ought to decide, collectively, that this should not be a routine story in our country. Numbness -- acceptance -- is an enemy. apnews.com/live/brown-u...
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TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
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Shocking 🥱
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Shocking 🥱
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BLITZ: “.. the Fed and Treasury balance sheets are essentially one .. What Bessent/Trump want is cheap funding – flood the short end and starve the long end .. Today, the Fed announced it will be there to buy the short end. Put this one in the column for why inflation will be higher in 2026.”
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...
youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...
The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...
youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...
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Trying to imagine what their reaction to whatever the lefty version of this would be and realized we’ve already seen how much they hate libraries.
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Trying to imagine what their reaction to whatever the lefty version of this would be and realized we’ve already seen how much they hate libraries.
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Double drop tomorrow on Art in the Raw 🎙️
Dallas artist and educator Joe Boatfield paints the conflicted energy he feels in gay bars.
Then Ignacio Darnaude, creator of Breaking the Gay Code in Art, dives into queer symbolism and how artists smuggle desire into “respectable” images.
Dallas artist and educator Joe Boatfield paints the conflicted energy he feels in gay bars.
Then Ignacio Darnaude, creator of Breaking the Gay Code in Art, dives into queer symbolism and how artists smuggle desire into “respectable” images.
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Double drop tomorrow on Art in the Raw 🎙️
Dallas artist and educator Joe Boatfield paints the conflicted energy he feels in gay bars.
Then Ignacio Darnaude, creator of Breaking the Gay Code in Art, dives into queer symbolism and how artists smuggle desire into “respectable” images.
Dallas artist and educator Joe Boatfield paints the conflicted energy he feels in gay bars.
Then Ignacio Darnaude, creator of Breaking the Gay Code in Art, dives into queer symbolism and how artists smuggle desire into “respectable” images.
Note: no drag queens or trans individuals are involved but clergy is.
Reporter Andy Mannix from the @startribune.com and I have been speaking to women all over the country about allegations of child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church. This is the story of how one perpetrator in Minnesota escaped consequences for years: www.propublica.org/article/sexu...
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Note: no drag queens or trans individuals are involved but clergy is.
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Data-centers make Page One in Washington State.
“.. they cost millions if not billions to build, consume vast amounts of water and power, and generally do not employ significant numbers of people beyond the construction phase ..”
“.. they cost millions if not billions to build, consume vast amounts of water and power, and generally do not employ significant numbers of people beyond the construction phase ..”
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Data-centers make Page One in Washington State.
“.. they cost millions if not billions to build, consume vast amounts of water and power, and generally do not employ significant numbers of people beyond the construction phase ..”
“.. they cost millions if not billions to build, consume vast amounts of water and power, and generally do not employ significant numbers of people beyond the construction phase ..”
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What could be more on-brand than Jesus hitting you up for In-App purchases?
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Get ready for all the Foxsplains about the differences between a pedophile and an ephebophile and how the latter isn’t really as bad as you think it is.
This is laying that groundwork.
This is laying that groundwork.
Her brand these days is as a cruel and toxic termagant, but this is grosteque even using that measure. What is WRONG with her?
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Get ready for all the Foxsplains about the differences between a pedophile and an ephebophile and how the latter isn’t really as bad as you think it is.
This is laying that groundwork.
This is laying that groundwork.
Except both parties are controlled by wealthy and powerful people who do terrible things *at scale*.
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Except both parties are controlled by wealthy and powerful people who do terrible things *at scale*.
Shocked I tell you!!!
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Shocked I tell you!!!