Todd_J_Smith
@todd-j-smith.bsky.social
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⛳️ Raleigh, North Carolina
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Todd_J_Smith
@todd-j-smith.bsky.social
· Dec 12
I've said it before, but it bears repeating:
BlueSky isn't an echo chamber, it's a reassertion of the Overton Window, where:
• Nazis are always vile
• White supremacy is always wrong
• Women are never subhuman
BlueSky isn't an echo chamber, it's a reassertion of the Overton Window, where:
• Nazis are always vile
• White supremacy is always wrong
• Women are never subhuman
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More TikTok shenanigans — users are reporting the word “Epstein” won’t go through in Direct messages 🤔
January 27, 2026 at 3:48 AM
More TikTok shenanigans — users are reporting the word “Epstein” won’t go through in Direct messages 🤔
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There was no protest. Armed, masked federal agents were just harassing people as usual. He was not a protester and not protesting. They killed him anyway. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sean Duffy: "If you come to a protest with a 9mm firearm, that's fine believing in the Second Amendment, but you stand on the sidewalk and you hold your sign. You take that 9mm and you start to engage with ICE officers, and then you resist arrest -- listen, I don't want anyone to die, but ... "
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
There was no protest. Armed, masked federal agents were just harassing people as usual. He was not a protester and not protesting. They killed him anyway. bsky.app/profile/atru...
"In a 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Rittenhouse, the court held that..."
Pretti was not protesting, but the actual rule is "Don't bring a gun to a protest unless you're coming to shoot left wingers, then it's ok"
January 26, 2026 at 11:32 PM
"In a 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Rittenhouse, the court held that..."
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Any doctor who can say this with a straight face should lose their license to practice medicine immediately
January 26, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Any doctor who can say this with a straight face should lose their license to practice medicine immediately
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We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.*
The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
January 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM
We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.*
The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Going to *Philadelphia* to manufacture cause to invoke the Insurrection Act is a little too on-the-nose. 🤦♂️
imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
January 26, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Going to *Philadelphia* to manufacture cause to invoke the Insurrection Act is a little too on-the-nose. 🤦♂️
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A rather disturbing analysis (from 2023!) of whether the US is on the road to Civil War.
(1/3)
A rather disturbing analysis (from 2023!) of whether the US is on the road to Civil War.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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A rather disturbing analysis (from 2023!) of whether the US is on the road to Civil War.
(1/3)
A rather disturbing analysis (from 2023!) of whether the US is on the road to Civil War.
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A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Arizona, November 2020
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Arizona, November 2020
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It would be an enormous mistake for a future muscular liberal government to let editors off the hook. Freedom of the press is not a one-way street. A press that chooses not to defend the structures and ideology that guarantees its freedom does not deserve protection.
January 25, 2026 at 10:06 PM
It would be an enormous mistake for a future muscular liberal government to let editors off the hook. Freedom of the press is not a one-way street. A press that chooses not to defend the structures and ideology that guarantees its freedom does not deserve protection.
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When ICE Opens Fire On Us
A Future History of ICE's First Mass Attack
www.againstallenemies.net/p/when-ice-o...
A Future History of ICE's First Mass Attack
www.againstallenemies.net/p/when-ice-o...
When ICE Opens Fire On Us
A Future History of ICE's First Mass Attack
www.againstallenemies.net
January 25, 2026 at 10:24 PM
When ICE Opens Fire On Us
A Future History of ICE's First Mass Attack
www.againstallenemies.net/p/when-ice-o...
A Future History of ICE's First Mass Attack
www.againstallenemies.net/p/when-ice-o...
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I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but what we are seeing is NOT (just) a training problem. It is a VETTING problem.
Law enforcement *disproportionately* attracts sociopaths. Layers of screening and oversight are needed to give the kind of power these goondas have. It’s broken.
Law enforcement *disproportionately* attracts sociopaths. Layers of screening and oversight are needed to give the kind of power these goondas have. It’s broken.
If I hear one more big name former prosecutor attorney call for better training of fascist military forces that are killing people, I am going to yeet my phone into the sun.
As I said yest, there are legal commentators who are built for this moment, and PLENTY, including those on MSM, who ARE NOT.
As I said yest, there are legal commentators who are built for this moment, and PLENTY, including those on MSM, who ARE NOT.
January 25, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but what we are seeing is NOT (just) a training problem. It is a VETTING problem.
Law enforcement *disproportionately* attracts sociopaths. Layers of screening and oversight are needed to give the kind of power these goondas have. It’s broken.
Law enforcement *disproportionately* attracts sociopaths. Layers of screening and oversight are needed to give the kind of power these goondas have. It’s broken.
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something very annoying will happen after there’s a next Dem president. An example of Immigrant Crime will occur and the gop will go full blitz with SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DONT LET US AND TRUMP DO THE THING, and wayyyy too many in the media will let them do it as if it were normal…
The era is aptly defined by this, up against “boo hoo” and “fucking bitch”
I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 PM
something very annoying will happen after there’s a next Dem president. An example of Immigrant Crime will occur and the gop will go full blitz with SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DONT LET US AND TRUMP DO THE THING, and wayyyy too many in the media will let them do it as if it were normal…
Their entire view of The Way Things Ought To Be revolves around the image of a raging father brandishing a leather belt (them) over a sobbing child cowering on the floor (us).
It's utterly depraved, and a profound misreading of their actual capabilities versus those of the population.
It's utterly depraved, and a profound misreading of their actual capabilities versus those of the population.
they have no ability to back down and recalibrate AND they lack a theory of mind for their opponents
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Their entire view of The Way Things Ought To Be revolves around the image of a raging father brandishing a leather belt (them) over a sobbing child cowering on the floor (us).
It's utterly depraved, and a profound misreading of their actual capabilities versus those of the population.
It's utterly depraved, and a profound misreading of their actual capabilities versus those of the population.
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“those rights don’t count when you exist in a way I don’t like” is a wild position 🥲
Bovino: "We respect Second Amendment rights, but those rights don't count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct, and impede law enforcement officers"
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 PM
“those rights don’t count when you exist in a way I don’t like” is a wild position 🥲
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When you’re such a good person your ex still sings your praises…
January 25, 2026 at 5:13 AM
When you’re such a good person your ex still sings your praises…
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The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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The gun was removed by agents from his waistband - he was never pointing it at them. He was already disarmed when they fired "defensive shots," killing the man. They then fired several shots at his lifeless body.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The gun was removed by agents from his waistband - he was never pointing it at them. He was already disarmed when they fired "defensive shots," killing the man. They then fired several shots at his lifeless body.
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The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
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Don’t look away at what is happening these “detention facilities” www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions
Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.
www.aclu.org
January 24, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Don’t look away at what is happening these “detention facilities” www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
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ICE just shot and presumably killed an observer this morning. If they thought yesterday’s protests would be the end of it… they were just the beginning
January 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
ICE just shot and presumably killed an observer this morning. If they thought yesterday’s protests would be the end of it… they were just the beginning
Kim Jong-un could do something reeeeeeally funny right here.
this seems like a great idea that will build lots of enthusiasm for the party and doesn't have any blowback potential at all, i'm really excited for them
RNC takes steps toward a 2026 GOP midterm convention
The Republican National Committee voted Friday to allow for an off-cycle national convention this summer.
www.politico.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Kim Jong-un could do something reeeeeeally funny right here.