Trevor Smith
@tdsmith100.bsky.social
Librarian, educator, parent, music lover but crappy musician
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🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Hoping that calmer heads prevail. As for me, if ABC and Disney don't get a spine in the next week, #Disney+ will be gone from my household.
I love the service and it is a constant for family movie night, but I won't tolerate authoritarianism antics.
I love the service and it is a constant for family movie night, but I won't tolerate authoritarianism antics.
September 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Hoping that calmer heads prevail. As for me, if ABC and Disney don't get a spine in the next week, #Disney+ will be gone from my household.
I love the service and it is a constant for family movie night, but I won't tolerate authoritarianism antics.
I love the service and it is a constant for family movie night, but I won't tolerate authoritarianism antics.
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Why do all dictators target comedians? Because comedians can take a serious issue & distill it into a couple of simple sentences with a funny punchline. Comedians can puncture the dictator’s armour with satire. Humour is subversive. I support Colbert & Kimmel.
a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a city skyline with the words made with mematic at the bottom
ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a city skyline with the words made with mematic at the bottom
media.tenor.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Why do all dictators target comedians? Because comedians can take a serious issue & distill it into a couple of simple sentences with a funny punchline. Comedians can puncture the dictator’s armour with satire. Humour is subversive. I support Colbert & Kimmel.
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I'm just glad I live in Canada.
Hmmm, yup. That's all I need to say.
Hmmm, yup. That's all I need to say.
September 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I'm just glad I live in Canada.
Hmmm, yup. That's all I need to say.
Hmmm, yup. That's all I need to say.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Not to add to the discourse, but…
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Not to add to the discourse, but…
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
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Holy Moley, more of this, please! Nenshi slaps down True North reporter with an excellent response.
July 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Holy Moley, more of this, please! Nenshi slaps down True North reporter with an excellent response.
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Apparently todays the 30th anniversary of my debut album! RS
🗓️ 30th anniversary! (May 16, 1995)
💿 Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith
🎶 The very secret you're trying to conceal/ Is the very same one you're dying to reveal/ Go tell her how you feel
@ronsexsmith.bsky.social
💿 Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith
🎶 The very secret you're trying to conceal/ Is the very same one you're dying to reveal/ Go tell her how you feel
@ronsexsmith.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Apparently todays the 30th anniversary of my debut album! RS
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NEW: ALA denounces yesterday's unlawful firing of Dr. Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress.
Dr. Perlmutter has led the US Copyright Office with integrity, intelligence and an understanding of intellectual property issues. 1/2
Dr. Perlmutter has led the US Copyright Office with integrity, intelligence and an understanding of intellectual property issues. 1/2
May 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
NEW: ALA denounces yesterday's unlawful firing of Dr. Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress.
Dr. Perlmutter has led the US Copyright Office with integrity, intelligence and an understanding of intellectual property issues. 1/2
Dr. Perlmutter has led the US Copyright Office with integrity, intelligence and an understanding of intellectual property issues. 1/2
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Here's what motivated the standoff. My understanding is that DOGE is trying to get in to do what they do...but have been blocked thus far (again, from a personal contact who works there). www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup
The White House terminated U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter two days after firing the Librarian of Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Here's what motivated the standoff. My understanding is that DOGE is trying to get in to do what they do...but have been blocked thus far (again, from a personal contact who works there). www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
May 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
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Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring access to knowledge for all. Your service as Librarian of Congress has inspired a generation of librarians, archivists, and readers.
Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.
Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.
May 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring access to knowledge for all. Your service as Librarian of Congress has inspired a generation of librarians, archivists, and readers.
Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.
Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.
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“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy, where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
- Dr. Carla Hayden
We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚
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- Dr. Carla Hayden
We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚
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May 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy, where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”
- Dr. Carla Hayden
We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚
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- Dr. Carla Hayden
We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚
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Rogers celebrates 20 years of higher than expected call volumes
Rogers celebrates 20 years of higher than expected call volumes
TORONTO, ON – This week telecom giant Rogers Communications announced a record-breaking milestone - twenty straight years of customer service calls vastly exceeding what their meagre call centres can ...
www.thebeaverton.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Rogers celebrates 20 years of higher than expected call volumes
How can I read a news story like this and not think of the 1930s?
"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How can I read a news story like this and not think of the 1930s?
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when he sends citizens to foreign concentration camps, it’s no longer a slide to authoritarianism—it’s full blown fascism! 😔 this is not an administration, it’s a criminal regime in a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 democracy. #FightFascism #TraitorTrump #DefendLiberty 🔔
April 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
when he sends citizens to foreign concentration camps, it’s no longer a slide to authoritarianism—it’s full blown fascism! 😔 this is not an administration, it’s a criminal regime in a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 democracy. #FightFascism #TraitorTrump #DefendLiberty 🔔
Gotta start the day right.
April 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Gotta start the day right.
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This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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