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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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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 13h

These people are absolutely pathetic in their subservience to Trump

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 18h

It sure is!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

I doubt he can even spell it

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

It’s their bread and butter

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

No the president would just like to call it something other than OBAMAcare

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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

I feel sure thats the method he used to rid himself of brain worms. Either that or ivermectin….

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

On a related note I’ve seen a so called historian of medicine on here say we shouldn’t wholesale dismiss these clowns claiming the link between autism and Tylenol and my response if yes indeed we should in the same way we should reject eugenics wholesale.

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

As opposed to the studies that already exist that don’t make the proof 🤦🏻‍♀️

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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

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

I needed some time in the pretty library and with my own research today to remind myself that there is value in the life of the mind, that being a scholar and an educator matters in this country now led by people who can’t read the side panel on a box of cereal.

A large white hall with wooden desks and medieval chandeliers

My computer on a wooden desk open at page that reads “ chapter one: looking for Willie m”

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

Just signed a contract with an Australian moving company to ship my stuff back home. The only time I'm glad to see the $US stronger against the Aus because it is not a cheap business. Also feels very final. And a relief, frankly.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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

Looks like fascism to me

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

"Fascist regimes have classic, telltale traits, like vilifying immigrants, adopting patriotic symbolism of their nation’s glorious past, and embracing a narrow definition of masculinity and family values. But just because we also do all of those things does not make us fascists."

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You

President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

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