Scott Russell Smith
@scottcole73.bsky.social
Scott Smith is the author of “On Compost: A Year in the Life of a Suburban Garden."
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"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy."
- U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
This should send shivers down the spine of Republican and Democratic members of Congress alike.
It's a 'perspective' not capable of negotiating for true U.S. interests.
(video via Republicans Against Trump on X)
- U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
This should send shivers down the spine of Republican and Democratic members of Congress alike.
It's a 'perspective' not capable of negotiating for true U.S. interests.
(video via Republicans Against Trump on X)
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy."
- U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
This should send shivers down the spine of Republican and Democratic members of Congress alike.
It's a 'perspective' not capable of negotiating for true U.S. interests.
(video via Republicans Against Trump on X)
- U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
This should send shivers down the spine of Republican and Democratic members of Congress alike.
It's a 'perspective' not capable of negotiating for true U.S. interests.
(video via Republicans Against Trump on X)
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This perfectly encapsulates the "performative neutrality" of which @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I accuse the New York Times--with respect to both climate and vaccines--in #ScienceUnderSiege. In fact, it goes beyond that, engaging in outright antiscience pandering:
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This perfectly encapsulates the "performative neutrality" of which @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I accuse the New York Times--with respect to both climate and vaccines--in #ScienceUnderSiege. In fact, it goes beyond that, engaging in outright antiscience pandering:
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
Oh, my, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, how well wrought. This is the post that finally got me to do the paid subscription thing. Tis the season!
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Oh, my, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, how well wrought. This is the post that finally got me to do the paid subscription thing. Tis the season!
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Every single news story about Trump hosting MBS at the WH today should include the tremendously lucrative business deals the Saudis have done this year with Trump Org to enrich Trump and his family personally, which is the primary reason why this is happening.
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Every single news story about Trump hosting MBS at the WH today should include the tremendously lucrative business deals the Saudis have done this year with Trump Org to enrich Trump and his family personally, which is the primary reason why this is happening.
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WTF
Trump: I’m very proud of the job he’s done. What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
WTF
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It’s all right in front of us, in plain sight
Trump to MBS: "I want to just tell you what an honor it is to be your friend and I very much appreciate the investment of now $1 trillion."
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s all right in front of us, in plain sight
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"things happen"; sometimes people are just randomly dismembered with bone saws. especially journalists who ask me mean questions.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"things happen"; sometimes people are just randomly dismembered with bone saws. especially journalists who ask me mean questions.
I would love to read an insider account of the @nytimes.com copy desk, @emilynussbaum.bsky.social. Perhaps from a reporter fed up with suspect edits and misleading headlines? There’s got to be a story behind that fiefdom and the people running it.
That "clubby" NYT headline is awful, but the piece itself is clear-eyed & observant, if cool in tone — it's by a strong writer & it documents the creepy, backpatting insider world of guys griping about MeToo as it happens. The NYT is always doing this! If the hed was different, the piece wd be legit
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I would love to read an insider account of the @nytimes.com copy desk, @emilynussbaum.bsky.social. Perhaps from a reporter fed up with suspect edits and misleading headlines? There’s got to be a story behind that fiefdom and the people running it.
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This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
100% right. Please listen, @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, @cnn.com and other major media outlets. It's not too late to shift course and do your jobs.
(🧵) This thread from a retired journalism professor who helped usher in the era of metajournalism in the 2010s—and has written a book on the relationship between Trump and Epstein as part of his NYT-bestselling Proof Series—explains how to report properly on the Trump-Epstein Scandal.
Here we go.
Here we go.
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
100% right. Please listen, @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, @cnn.com and other major media outlets. It's not too late to shift course and do your jobs.
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As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
More continued awfulness, @nytimes.com. Just indefensible framing.
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
More continued awfulness, @nytimes.com. Just indefensible framing.
Biden should’ve done this. Long overdue
I am cashing every chip I earn in with the next administration to insure we get a brutal Democratic Attorney General that makes this type of prosecutorial abuse seem like child's play. It's all I want. They don't have to pay me for loyalty. They just have to do this.
NEW: Bill Pulte, who was under investigation for allegedly unlawfully obtaining mortgage documents in the Letitia James and Lisa Cook cases, has referred Eric Swalwell to the DOJ for mortgage fraud. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Biden should’ve done this. Long overdue
There is no bottom to these Trump apologists
Quite a hill to die on.
Wtf
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
There is no bottom to these Trump apologists
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Quite a hill to die on.
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Quite a hill to die on.
Does make one wonder, hmmm, right, @nytimes.com?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Does make one wonder, hmmm, right, @nytimes.com?
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Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
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Speaker Mike Johnson to Max Cohen about the emails:
“Another publicity stunt by the Democrats. They're trying to mislead people. I'll refer you to the Oversight Committee's response by the Republicans.”
“Another publicity stunt by the Democrats. They're trying to mislead people. I'll refer you to the Oversight Committee's response by the Republicans.”
The email that’s most newsworthy in my mind is the one that Epstein sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011.
1. This was years before Trump ran for office.
2. It appears that Ghislaine Maxwell lied to DOJ officials during her meeting with them a couple months ago.
1. This was years before Trump ran for office.
2. It appears that Ghislaine Maxwell lied to DOJ officials during her meeting with them a couple months ago.
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson to Max Cohen about the emails:
“Another publicity stunt by the Democrats. They're trying to mislead people. I'll refer you to the Oversight Committee's response by the Republicans.”
“Another publicity stunt by the Democrats. They're trying to mislead people. I'll refer you to the Oversight Committee's response by the Republicans.”
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For-profit medical insurance companies should be OUTLAWED. It’s a predatory business model that is quite literally killing us.
These are the five biggest US Industries in terms of total revenue in 2025.
(It’s cute that they’re listed in thousands of billions instead of trillions to throw us off the scent.)
What do you notice?
(It’s cute that they’re listed in thousands of billions instead of trillions to throw us off the scent.)
What do you notice?
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For-profit medical insurance companies should be OUTLAWED. It’s a predatory business model that is quite literally killing us.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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I don't like to share too many of these videos because they're upsetting. However, I feel compelled to share this one so we can see what's being done in our name, and with our tax dollars.
IT'S WRONG! IT'S IMMORAL! IT'S DEPRAVED!
IT'S WRONG! IT'S IMMORAL! IT'S DEPRAVED!
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I don't like to share too many of these videos because they're upsetting. However, I feel compelled to share this one so we can see what's being done in our name, and with our tax dollars.
IT'S WRONG! IT'S IMMORAL! IT'S DEPRAVED!
IT'S WRONG! IT'S IMMORAL! IT'S DEPRAVED!
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=2,000 words
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
=2,000 words
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Just about an hour apart by the way
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Just about an hour apart by the way