Thomas Smith
@seriouspod.bsky.social
Caster of too many pods: Opening Arguments, Where There’s Woke, Serious Inquiries Only, Dear Old Dads, and Gavel Gavel.
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Thomas Smith
@seriouspod.bsky.social
· Nov 27
This was my pinned tweet forever. Need to bring it over here. I don't see this as much right now, but it is something that frustrates me to no end and we saw a lot of "do something!" directed at Elizabeth Warren the other week.
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Where are the stories about the man? Is he also getting death threats? Are people questioning his ethics re the need to make a living?
OK I'm going to stop now but it's really fucking weird how people can't just go, "damn it sucks for this lady."
December 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Where are the stories about the man? Is he also getting death threats? Are people questioning his ethics re the need to make a living?
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TODAY ON OA (12/19)
-how eugenicists, "progressives", and the Klan teamed up to base the American visa system in old-timey racism
-how Trump is bringing back 1920s-style "national origins"-based immigration by executive order
-a British deli tries to trademark the concept of vegetables
-how eugenicists, "progressives", and the Klan teamed up to base the American visa system in old-timey racism
-how Trump is bringing back 1920s-style "national origins"-based immigration by executive order
-a British deli tries to trademark the concept of vegetables
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
TODAY ON OA (12/19)
-how eugenicists, "progressives", and the Klan teamed up to base the American visa system in old-timey racism
-how Trump is bringing back 1920s-style "national origins"-based immigration by executive order
-a British deli tries to trademark the concept of vegetables
-how eugenicists, "progressives", and the Klan teamed up to base the American visa system in old-timey racism
-how Trump is bringing back 1920s-style "national origins"-based immigration by executive order
-a British deli tries to trademark the concept of vegetables
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Today's episode of Opening Arguments with Christopher Blackwell is our 2nd interview with an incarcerated author in as many months. I am so proud to be part of a show that is committed to sharing the human voices of those harmed by our most inhumane law & policy
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Solitary Confinement Is Inhumane, Traumatizing, and Unnecessary. So Why Are We Still Doing It To People?
OA1216 - We welcome incarcerated journalist and advocate Christopher Blackwell, calling from his home at the Washington Corrections Center. Chris is the co-founder and Executive Director of Look2Justi...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today's episode of Opening Arguments with Christopher Blackwell is our 2nd interview with an incarcerated author in as many months. I am so proud to be part of a show that is committed to sharing the human voices of those harmed by our most inhumane law & policy
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Big thanks to @seriouspod.bsky.social for having me on to talk about Trump's threats to nonprofits — and a bunch of other, uh, fun stuff.
SIO499: Trump Is Weaponizing Government Against Political Enemies. Nick Fish, President of American Atheists, on How to Be Prepared
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December 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Big thanks to @seriouspod.bsky.social for having me on to talk about Trump's threats to nonprofits — and a bunch of other, uh, fun stuff.
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Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!
Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!
Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!
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This week's conversation with author, jorunalist, & convicted murderer John J. Lennon calling in from Sing Sing is one of the most interesting we've ever had. John's new book has so much to say about the true crime industrial complex, and what it is doing to us all
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The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us [Lennon, John J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
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November 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This week's conversation with author, jorunalist, & convicted murderer John J. Lennon calling in from Sing Sing is one of the most interesting we've ever had. John's new book has so much to say about the true crime industrial complex, and what it is doing to us all
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ngl It would be pretty funny if Bill Clinton turned out to be a total boy scout in this and that KEN STARR was the guilty one.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
ngl It would be pretty funny if Bill Clinton turned out to be a total boy scout in this and that KEN STARR was the guilty one.
I don’t know that I believe Schumer engineered the vote, but I guess either he did and those senators took the fall essentially, or he didn’t and that means he couldn’t control his side. Either way, he needs to be fucking gone yesterday. He can go live with the goddamn Baileys
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t know that I believe Schumer engineered the vote, but I guess either he did and those senators took the fall essentially, or he didn’t and that means he couldn’t control his side. Either way, he needs to be fucking gone yesterday. He can go live with the goddamn Baileys
Schumer needs to be gone. There is no world in which this vote makes sense. Either you should never have shut the government down, or you stick to your guns until getting something. Why the fuck do you hold out for a month to ultimately get fucking nothing? This is why people view dems as spineless.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Schumer needs to be gone. There is no world in which this vote makes sense. Either you should never have shut the government down, or you stick to your guns until getting something. Why the fuck do you hold out for a month to ultimately get fucking nothing? This is why people view dems as spineless.
I can’t believe the first thing I thought was “he’s not even doing it right.” What a stupid, stupid world full of idiot fascists ruining our lives. Can we just not
Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I can’t believe the first thing I thought was “he’s not even doing it right.” What a stupid, stupid world full of idiot fascists ruining our lives. Can we just not
This is so fucking pathetic
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
October 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is so fucking pathetic
This is how mainstream media framing consistently helps the racists. What is the “criticism” NPR is referring to? You’d think Bad Bunny did something wrong that might have invited criticism. The “criticism” is just… racism. Racism is the word you’re looking for.
Bad Bunny returned to SNL as a host for the second time, and the musician addressed criticism over his upcoming Super Bowl performance.
SNL roasts Trump in season premiere, as Bad Bunny addresses Super Bowl criticism
Bad Bunny returned to SNL as a host for the second time, and the musician addressed criticism over his upcoming Super Bowl performance.
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October 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is how mainstream media framing consistently helps the racists. What is the “criticism” NPR is referring to? You’d think Bad Bunny did something wrong that might have invited criticism. The “criticism” is just… racism. Racism is the word you’re looking for.
Fucking abolish ICE. And prosecute them.
October 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Fucking abolish ICE. And prosecute them.
Wow. Just wow.
So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.
These two gotta go.
These two gotta go.
September 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wow. Just wow.
Are you fuckin happy now, FIRE and you other fake ass free speech warriors? This single event was more verified firings over speech than you featured on your dumb ass website in 20 years. Because of the regime you enabled with your bull shit.
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A Broad Wave of Firings Followed Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
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September 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Are you fuckin happy now, FIRE and you other fake ass free speech warriors? This single event was more verified firings over speech than you featured on your dumb ass website in 20 years. Because of the regime you enabled with your bull shit.
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Oh this is how we’re doing science now? Ok cool
“Thomas Smith to link brain worms to being a pathological lying animal murdering sack of useless nepo baby dogshit in a suit.”
I guess I just did a science, make me health secretary.
“Thomas Smith to link brain worms to being a pathological lying animal murdering sack of useless nepo baby dogshit in a suit.”
I guess I just did a science, make me health secretary.
September 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Oh this is how we’re doing science now? Ok cool
“Thomas Smith to link brain worms to being a pathological lying animal murdering sack of useless nepo baby dogshit in a suit.”
I guess I just did a science, make me health secretary.
“Thomas Smith to link brain worms to being a pathological lying animal murdering sack of useless nepo baby dogshit in a suit.”
I guess I just did a science, make me health secretary.
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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...
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September 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
You cry censorship now that someone was taken off air by government pressure for saying something extremely minor and basically true but WHERE WERE YOU when these other people faced social consequences not from the government for saying disgustingly false racist and/or sexist things? Hypocrite.
September 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
You cry censorship now that someone was taken off air by government pressure for saying something extremely minor and basically true but WHERE WERE YOU when these other people faced social consequences not from the government for saying disgustingly false racist and/or sexist things? Hypocrite.
They’ve designated antifa as a terrorist organization. In response I’m going to double my monthly donation.
WHO’S WITH ME?
WHO’S WITH ME?
September 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
They’ve designated antifa as a terrorist organization. In response I’m going to double my monthly donation.
WHO’S WITH ME?
WHO’S WITH ME?
The strategy sure seems to be “If we just give the fascists the authoritarian nightmare state that they want, then they’ll leave us alone.”
September 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The strategy sure seems to be “If we just give the fascists the authoritarian nightmare state that they want, then they’ll leave us alone.”
I've always been someone who is very bothered by when things don't make sense. Falsehoods and lying and irrationality are just extremely hard to deal with. I'm sure that's a lot of you but it isn't everyone.
Does it feel like this era is almost being engineered to kill us? Is that by design?
Does it feel like this era is almost being engineered to kill us? Is that by design?
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I've always been someone who is very bothered by when things don't make sense. Falsehoods and lying and irrationality are just extremely hard to deal with. I'm sure that's a lot of you but it isn't everyone.
Does it feel like this era is almost being engineered to kill us? Is that by design?
Does it feel like this era is almost being engineered to kill us? Is that by design?
Well the evidence as they've presented it would strongly indicate that he killed Kirk because of Kirk's anti-LGBT views. I didn't think the memes on the casings were compatible with that theory, but it reads like those were completely unrelated and just something he was doing on a separate occasion.
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Well the evidence as they've presented it would strongly indicate that he killed Kirk because of Kirk's anti-LGBT views. I didn't think the memes on the casings were compatible with that theory, but it reads like those were completely unrelated and just something he was doing on a separate occasion.
This person is not well. Holy shit.
September 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This person is not well. Holy shit.
Hi can anyone help I’m just trying to figure which side is more responsible for the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk by a 22yo, is it the one that wants gun control? or the one that worships guns as their religion and is responsible for them being easier to get than health insurance… no idea need help
September 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hi can anyone help I’m just trying to figure which side is more responsible for the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk by a 22yo, is it the one that wants gun control? or the one that worships guns as their religion and is responsible for them being easier to get than health insurance… no idea need help