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Kylie M. Smith

@drkyliesmith.bsky.social

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Historian. Assoc Prof. Making jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. From Eora Country, living on Muskogee Creek land. Un-American.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · Apr 25

Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press

There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Cro...

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 5h

honestly pretty tired of seeing man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 6h

Same as it ever was

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 6h

Indeed. It’s a real act of bravery calling someone a communist from under your white sheet while you burn a cross….

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 6h

I have to laugh when people think communist is an insult tho. Says a lot.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 6h

This is how she gets what she wants

A little tri color border collie sits politely, one ear cocked, waiting for her stupid hoomin to give her a treat.

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 7h

The so called attorney general just bald faced lying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 22h

To be clear I still would rather gauge my eyes out with a spoon than be in the same room as her

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 22h

Well I know I’m dead and hell has frozen over because MTG is out there making sense

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Uhh it’s awful. I started on lexapro because of it but I still feel nauseous all the time.

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

I’m at the “is it a heart attack” or “is it the daily news” stage

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

Elevating today’s ICE arrest of a journalist and American citizen in Chicago

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Obsessed with my current knitting project

I am holding up the body of a sweater that’s being knit in pink and shimmering yellow yarn together with a pink ribbed border

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

These people are absolutely pathetic in their subservience to Trump

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Huge shout out to my brain that sent me a dream last night where none of my current US friends would talk to me because they were angry I’m leaving. Thanks brain. Good job.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a lot, it’s going to cost me at least $10,000 just to go home… but I’m lucky - I have a car to sell and a home to go to.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

It sure is!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Just paid the $2000 deposit for my move back to Australia. So that's happening, I guess.

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

filling in forms for my move back to australia and i have to re-orient myself to the CORRECT way of writing dates.....

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

I doubt he can even spell it

Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2d

It’s their bread and butter