Leo Smith
@leosmith.bsky.social
Life long Michigander in SW Michigan. Retired social services worker. Politically; Slightly to the left of Bernie Sanders. Looking for serious conversations with serious people. But also like a good joke. or even a bad pun..
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Leo Smith
@leosmith.bsky.social
· Aug 17
People need to understand- self serving, attention whore, Democratic politicians like Gavin Newsom who throw vulnerable populations under the bus in a cynical attempt at Carville style triangulation are not the solution to fascism, they are what got us here.
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The entire Democratic Machine exists to serve donors, not voters.
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The entire Democratic Machine exists to serve donors, not voters.
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I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home
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the new netflix series Teens In A World Without Artificial Lights stops mid-scene to play an AI-generated advertisement of me embracing a beautiful woman I’ll never meet, beaming at a yard full of children I’ll never have. tears fill my eyes. the show is cancelled before the end of the ad
May 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
the new netflix series Teens In A World Without Artificial Lights stops mid-scene to play an AI-generated advertisement of me embracing a beautiful woman I’ll never meet, beaming at a yard full of children I’ll never have. tears fill my eyes. the show is cancelled before the end of the ad
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Trump Administration sees its chief foreign policy role as the backer of the far right international, all foreign policy bends to that aim.
The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism
The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Trump Administration sees its chief foreign policy role as the backer of the far right international, all foreign policy bends to that aim.
The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism
The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism
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AOC: This is how our healthcare system got deregulated. People talking about Americans should have the personal choice of getting totally fleeced by insurance companies.
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
AOC: This is how our healthcare system got deregulated. People talking about Americans should have the personal choice of getting totally fleeced by insurance companies.
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Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society
December 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society
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People say they want to manufacture real things in America again BUT they complain that it’s “inappropriate” and “not productive” to talk about how we need lots of guillotines. Like make up your minds!
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
People say they want to manufacture real things in America again BUT they complain that it’s “inappropriate” and “not productive” to talk about how we need lots of guillotines. Like make up your minds!
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This sounds intuitively like the equivalent of executing prisoners.
"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 5:27 AM
This sounds intuitively like the equivalent of executing prisoners.
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I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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This is the imperial playbook. The western nation breaks a country, then they go look at those savages with a broken country.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is the imperial playbook. The western nation breaks a country, then they go look at those savages with a broken country.
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There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
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And liberals want to make it about when he got asylum? As if that doesn't play right into Miller's narrative? This is a consequence of a bipartisan military complex and addiction to brutality. Grow up.
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
And liberals want to make it about when he got asylum? As if that doesn't play right into Miller's narrative? This is a consequence of a bipartisan military complex and addiction to brutality. Grow up.
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
You gotta think that something quite maladaptive is going on with these people that turn transphobia into their entire life identity.
as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
You gotta think that something quite maladaptive is going on with these people that turn transphobia into their entire life identity.
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Literal bullshit machine
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Literal bullshit machine
This isn't strange, if you realize the The New York Times has become a racist piece of trash.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This isn't strange, if you realize the The New York Times has become a racist piece of trash.
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Just removing all subsidies to irrigation water, and making long-haul trucks pay the full cost of roadbed damage via weight-distance tolls, would massively decarbonize and relocalize US agriculture.
this I think is pretty easy if you just price water correctly
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Just removing all subsidies to irrigation water, and making long-haul trucks pay the full cost of roadbed damage via weight-distance tolls, would massively decarbonize and relocalize US agriculture.
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Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
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Don't look away. Soliman: "My experience was more traumatizing than my detention in Egypt....I don't think this gov't will stop....Immigrants will be the first target. After that, they will target any opposition. Violating due process this time means they will violate it again and again and again."
Opinion | We Followed the Rules. ICE Jailed Us Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Don't look away. Soliman: "My experience was more traumatizing than my detention in Egypt....I don't think this gov't will stop....Immigrants will be the first target. After that, they will target any opposition. Violating due process this time means they will violate it again and again and again."
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Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?
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This is, quite literally, the concluding chapter from years of vice signaling as politics. There is no better evidence for how putting Trump, a charlatan and moral void, at the center of our politics for a decade has resulted in the literal rotting of the soul and character this nation.
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is, quite literally, the concluding chapter from years of vice signaling as politics. There is no better evidence for how putting Trump, a charlatan and moral void, at the center of our politics for a decade has resulted in the literal rotting of the soul and character this nation.