UB
@ubsmith.bsky.social
Christian, husband, dad, fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Lakers, Kings & Rams. Black Lives Matter. Pro-democracy. Destroy white-supremacy.
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆
He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆
He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
So perfectly said. Continue to rest in peace, Jonathan Gold.
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So perfectly said. Continue to rest in peace, Jonathan Gold.
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Will Klein hero game good lord
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Will Klein hero game good lord
Oh my, absolutely exhausted. Absolutely thrilled! Freddie does it AGAIN! Let's Go Dodgers! #LADodgers #WorldSeries
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Oh my, absolutely exhausted. Absolutely thrilled! Freddie does it AGAIN! Let's Go Dodgers! #LADodgers #WorldSeries
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"Conservative" is not the word. It's "extremism"--and a host of other words.
But there is nothing conservative about what this regime is doing.
Their project is not conservative, it's regressive.
They don't want to conserve, they want to destroy.
But there is nothing conservative about what this regime is doing.
Their project is not conservative, it's regressive.
They don't want to conserve, they want to destroy.
October 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
"Conservative" is not the word. It's "extremism"--and a host of other words.
But there is nothing conservative about what this regime is doing.
Their project is not conservative, it's regressive.
They don't want to conserve, they want to destroy.
But there is nothing conservative about what this regime is doing.
Their project is not conservative, it's regressive.
They don't want to conserve, they want to destroy.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Seeing so many white Christians defend Charlie Kirk while ignoring, minimizing, and dismissing the concerns of so many Black Christians is exactly what compromise and complicity look like today.
#ColorofCompromise
#ColorofCompromise
September 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Seeing so many white Christians defend Charlie Kirk while ignoring, minimizing, and dismissing the concerns of so many Black Christians is exactly what compromise and complicity look like today.
#ColorofCompromise
#ColorofCompromise
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"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.
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All right, I wrote about it:
The White Civility Council
As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
September 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
All right, I wrote about it:
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"Mainstream" (pronounced "WHY-itt) media is a place where a lady who does situps, an anonymous text & the tears of a racist clown hold as much intellectual weight as a Black historian, expert or scholar
The Great Un-Blackening: How Trump Tears and White Fragility Are Remaking Media
How did Jillian Michaels become a CNN-certified slavery scholar? The answer is in Joe Scarborough's text messages.
dlvr.it
August 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"Mainstream" (pronounced "WHY-itt) media is a place where a lady who does situps, an anonymous text & the tears of a racist clown hold as much intellectual weight as a Black historian, expert or scholar
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Journalists following up on Trump's DC takeover should be aggressively reporting on Trump’s real motives, which include distracting from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, perpetuating racism, and normalizing the military takeover of an American city. presswatchers.org/2025/08/the-...
The elite media still falls for Trump‘s lies | Press Watch
What Trump has put into motion in the nation’s capital is not a crime fighting measure.
presswatchers.org
August 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Journalists following up on Trump's DC takeover should be aggressively reporting on Trump’s real motives, which include distracting from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, perpetuating racism, and normalizing the military takeover of an American city. presswatchers.org/2025/08/the-...
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Happy 66th Birthday to the legendary, Magic Johnson 🎂🥳
August 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy 66th Birthday to the legendary, Magic Johnson 🎂🥳
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Put this in my veins
August 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Put this in my veins
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Should the #Marines consider adding a new verse to their hymn?
"From the shores of Lake Balboa
"To the heights of Baldwin Hills,
"We will stand around Los Angeles
"To gratify Trump's ego thrills."
"From the shores of Lake Balboa
"To the heights of Baldwin Hills,
"We will stand around Los Angeles
"To gratify Trump's ego thrills."
July 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Should the #Marines consider adding a new verse to their hymn?
"From the shores of Lake Balboa
"To the heights of Baldwin Hills,
"We will stand around Los Angeles
"To gratify Trump's ego thrills."
"From the shores of Lake Balboa
"To the heights of Baldwin Hills,
"We will stand around Los Angeles
"To gratify Trump's ego thrills."
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When truth and partisan balance came into conflict, most of mainstream media decided that balance was most important. If that meant they had to distort information and treat blatant lies as at least possibly true, so be it.
That, in a nutshell, is the problem.
That, in a nutshell, is the problem.
The point I want to make is: this is not coincidence. You could not do what the NYT is trying to do while maintaining high journalistic standards.
Why? Because in reality, the parties are asymmetrical. The right has become deranged, violent, & illiberal. Dems are bog standard center-left party.
Why? Because in reality, the parties are asymmetrical. The right has become deranged, violent, & illiberal. Dems are bog standard center-left party.
July 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
When truth and partisan balance came into conflict, most of mainstream media decided that balance was most important. If that meant they had to distort information and treat blatant lies as at least possibly true, so be it.
That, in a nutshell, is the problem.
That, in a nutshell, is the problem.
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If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.
Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"
July 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.
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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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The depravity of this was neatly captured by the Reuters journalist who shot the image Trump brandished.
“In view of all the world,” he said, Trump used his work to push the idea that “white people are being killed by Black people.”
Link to full piece below. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
“In view of all the world,” he said, Trump used his work to push the idea that “white people are being killed by Black people.”
Link to full piece below. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
Trump’s Lie about Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
That photo he brandished to Cyril Ramaphosa was from the Democratic Republic of Congo—whose refugees the Trump administration is pointedly not welcoming to America.
newrepublic.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The depravity of this was neatly captured by the Reuters journalist who shot the image Trump brandished.
“In view of all the world,” he said, Trump used his work to push the idea that “white people are being killed by Black people.”
Link to full piece below. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
“In view of all the world,” he said, Trump used his work to push the idea that “white people are being killed by Black people.”
Link to full piece below. 6/6
newrepublic.com/article/1956...
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Loans for Black-owned businesses
Sesame Street
Tracking hate crimes
Teachers in high-poverty schools
Clean water
Preserving history
Investigating corrupt cops
These are just a few of the programs that will be defunded if Congress approves Donald Trump's federal budget
Sesame Street
Tracking hate crimes
Teachers in high-poverty schools
Clean water
Preserving history
Investigating corrupt cops
These are just a few of the programs that will be defunded if Congress approves Donald Trump's federal budget
A Wish List For White Supremacy: 10 Ways Trump's Budget Will Hurt Black America
The president's budget proposal includes cuts to programs that support Black-owned businesses, equal education and anything he considers "woke" or "DEI."
dlvr.it
May 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Loans for Black-owned businesses
Sesame Street
Tracking hate crimes
Teachers in high-poverty schools
Clean water
Preserving history
Investigating corrupt cops
These are just a few of the programs that will be defunded if Congress approves Donald Trump's federal budget
Sesame Street
Tracking hate crimes
Teachers in high-poverty schools
Clean water
Preserving history
Investigating corrupt cops
These are just a few of the programs that will be defunded if Congress approves Donald Trump's federal budget
Sovereignty and Journalism...hmm.
May 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Sovereignty and Journalism...hmm.
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If we get out of this with our democracy, I'm gonna need a list of every single university, law firm, elected official, news org, CEO or anyone who bent the knee and/or signed over their soul. All of them.
May 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
If we get out of this with our democracy, I'm gonna need a list of every single university, law firm, elected official, news org, CEO or anyone who bent the knee and/or signed over their soul. All of them.
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The fruit of American Christianity is humiliating the outcast, attacking the stranger, and dehumanizing the other.
Oh mill … what hast thou ground?
When the fruit of American Evangelicalism doesn’t look like Christ … it is because the tree is not rooted in Christ.
Oh mill … what hast thou ground?
When the fruit of American Evangelicalism doesn’t look like Christ … it is because the tree is not rooted in Christ.
at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants
April 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The fruit of American Christianity is humiliating the outcast, attacking the stranger, and dehumanizing the other.
Oh mill … what hast thou ground?
When the fruit of American Evangelicalism doesn’t look like Christ … it is because the tree is not rooted in Christ.
Oh mill … what hast thou ground?
When the fruit of American Evangelicalism doesn’t look like Christ … it is because the tree is not rooted in Christ.