Martha Smith
@jazziknits.bsky.social
She/her. Knitter, mom to one human, gramma to two cats. Lifelong Democratic worker bee, looking for a bit of a rest … but now doesn’t seem like the time. #Minterland
📍Corvallis, OR
📍Corvallis, OR
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Martha Smith
@jazziknits.bsky.social
· Nov 13
A bit irreverent, I know, but my attitude hasn’t changed.
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Just a reminder: White supremacy is the reigning ideology of the American executive branch.
Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA.
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid
As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Just a reminder: White supremacy is the reigning ideology of the American executive branch.
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The people who forged Electoral College votes.
Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™️
Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™️
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The people who forged Electoral College votes.
Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™️
Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™️
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The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
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I am committed to vigorously defending Minnesota’s medical providers who do incredible work to treat and care for all Minnesotans, including our trans neighbors. I have already taken the Trump Admin to court to stop them from scapegoating the trans community. I will not hesitate to do so again.
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I am committed to vigorously defending Minnesota’s medical providers who do incredible work to treat and care for all Minnesotans, including our trans neighbors. I have already taken the Trump Admin to court to stop them from scapegoating the trans community. I will not hesitate to do so again.
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Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
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Celeste (who is in the book) texted me after seeing the list on Instagram:
"I am literally over here in tears. I am just so so so happy."
Knowing that her story, along with those of the other four families, is reaching this kind of audience means more to me than I can say.
"I am literally over here in tears. I am just so so so happy."
Knowing that her story, along with those of the other four families, is reaching this kind of audience means more to me than I can say.
December 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Celeste (who is in the book) texted me after seeing the list on Instagram:
"I am literally over here in tears. I am just so so so happy."
Knowing that her story, along with those of the other four families, is reaching this kind of audience means more to me than I can say.
"I am literally over here in tears. I am just so so so happy."
Knowing that her story, along with those of the other four families, is reaching this kind of audience means more to me than I can say.
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This is Copper. He's trying to make you a fancy Italian meal. Just needs help tracking down some sauce and meatballs, then dinner will be served. 13/10 (TT: spy_v13)
December 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is Copper. He's trying to make you a fancy Italian meal. Just needs help tracking down some sauce and meatballs, then dinner will be served. 13/10 (TT: spy_v13)
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Most notably JFK did not go around naming airports and art centers after himself. Other people did that, mostly after he was dead. This is Trump just vandalizing institutions like a child with a crayon in a room full of white walls and there are no adults willing to stop him
Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.
C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
December 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Most notably JFK did not go around naming airports and art centers after himself. Other people did that, mostly after he was dead. This is Trump just vandalizing institutions like a child with a crayon in a room full of white walls and there are no adults willing to stop him
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I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Thursday for unfettered access to the states’ voter registration records. The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C.
This is a developing story...
This is a developing story...
DOJ Sues Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and DC, Expanding Campaign of Voter Data Lawsuits to 22
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.
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I just want to point out that the Trump administration is - for the coast guard - reclassifying the swastika as merely potentially bad instead of absolutely a hate symbol.
Horrific.
Jewish students have a right to feel safe on campus, free of vile antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate.
www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...
Jewish students have a right to feel safe on campus, free of vile antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate.
www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...
Police investigating swastika painted on Jewish Center at MSU as hate crime
The swastika appeared on the Jewish Center on Albert Street in recent days, East Lansing police said.
www.lansingstatejournal.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I just want to point out that the Trump administration is - for the coast guard - reclassifying the swastika as merely potentially bad instead of absolutely a hate symbol.
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
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“… as I tried to push my button to voice my concern, to ask questions and certainly not to vote in support of this, I was muted,” said @repbeatty.bsky.social. “Participants were not allowed to voice their concerns who were online, yet it was said at the end it was a unanimous vote.”
Kennedy Center Board Member Who Opposed New Trump Name Claims She Was 'Muted' During Vote: 'This Was Not Unanimous'
Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex-officio Kennedy Center board member, accused the White House of lying about having unanimous support to rename the iconic building after Donald Trump, saying she was "not allo...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“… as I tried to push my button to voice my concern, to ask questions and certainly not to vote in support of this, I was muted,” said @repbeatty.bsky.social. “Participants were not allowed to voice their concerns who were online, yet it was said at the end it was a unanimous vote.”
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President John F. Kennedy didn’t name the Kennedy Center for himself.
Eisenhower signed legislation to create a “National Cultural Center.” Eisenhower and Kennedy fundraised for it.
Congress and Johnson only named it in honor of Kennedy after he was assassinated.
www.kennedy-center.org/our-story/
Eisenhower signed legislation to create a “National Cultural Center.” Eisenhower and Kennedy fundraised for it.
Congress and Johnson only named it in honor of Kennedy after he was assassinated.
www.kennedy-center.org/our-story/
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
President John F. Kennedy didn’t name the Kennedy Center for himself.
Eisenhower signed legislation to create a “National Cultural Center.” Eisenhower and Kennedy fundraised for it.
Congress and Johnson only named it in honor of Kennedy after he was assassinated.
www.kennedy-center.org/our-story/
Eisenhower signed legislation to create a “National Cultural Center.” Eisenhower and Kennedy fundraised for it.
Congress and Johnson only named it in honor of Kennedy after he was assassinated.
www.kennedy-center.org/our-story/
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If it lives, he destroys it
This is another Trump crime against monumental Washington. The willow-shaded terrace at the Kennedy Center has been denuded. These trees were an important part of Stone's design, and I have fond memories of walking in their shade.
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If it lives, he destroys it
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2/ @buzzfeed.com wrote: "when the event was later immortalized online, at least one infamous individual was missing from the names of the masters of the universe who had gathered for the evening: the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."
December 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
2/ @buzzfeed.com wrote: "when the event was later immortalized online, at least one infamous individual was missing from the names of the masters of the universe who had gathered for the evening: the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."
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These symbols are not “potentially divisive”- they are symbols of hate that have NO place in our nation’s military.
This decision must be reversed.
This decision must be reversed.
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
These symbols are not “potentially divisive”- they are symbols of hate that have NO place in our nation’s military.
This decision must be reversed.
This decision must be reversed.
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We are descending to depths of stupid I once considered impossible.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We are descending to depths of stupid I once considered impossible.
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If you joined us Wed on Substack LIVE, you knew this could be a thing. Today, we learned it just might be. Police are probing a possible connection between the Brown and MIT shootings. Join me on Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you joined us Wed on Substack LIVE, you knew this could be a thing. Today, we learned it just might be. Police are probing a possible connection between the Brown and MIT shootings. Join me on Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
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Clearly none of Trump's new board are lawyers, because the Kennedy Center's charter prohibits this, but by all means, I'm sure Karoline Leavitt will continue to brag about Trump's illegalities...
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Clearly none of Trump's new board are lawyers, because the Kennedy Center's charter prohibits this, but by all means, I'm sure Karoline Leavitt will continue to brag about Trump's illegalities...
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FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.