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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.
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Political Science Professor. The opinions expressed here are my own.
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Aug 15
This part.
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Aug 7
No age cap, and no morality floor.
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Aug 1
This is the way authoritarian states operate.

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Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 1
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 23
hegseth makes my blood boil. he's a boorish bigot and an all-around idiot.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Jul 23
"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs."
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The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Jul 21
He’s gotta have something more important (and less racist) to do on than this.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Jul 10
This is what resistance looks like.

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A citizen shows us the totally professional way ICE agents react if they think they’re being followed.
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Nashville Resist 🗳️ Against Authoritarianism @nashvilleresist.bsky.social · Jul 10
@repilhan.bsky.social coming to #NASHVILLE along with @brotherjones.bsky.social THIS SATURDAY!!!

Rep. Andy Ogles hasn't held a town hall in his district, but he *has* been calling for Rep. Omar to be deported. Instead, she's going to his district to convene the town hall he's too scared to hold.
RAPID RESPONSE TOWN HALL CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR REPRESENTATIVE JUSTIN JONES Cane Ridge High School 12848 Old Hickory Blvd, Antioch, TN 37013 Saturday, July 12, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm BUILDING PEOPLE POWERED DEMOCRACY
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Jul 10
What does “Make America Great Again” mean? Well Bibi, why don’t you go visit a former enslavement camp for some context?
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Jul 8
Netanyahu nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize is like Lucky Luciano nominating Al Capone for police chief.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 5
really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves
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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · Jul 5
Curtis Yarvin, who has been profiled in media like Politico and The Wall Street Journal, has publicly stated in the past that he thinks black people are naturally fit to be slaves.
"I wonder if there's another domestic population capable of agricultural labor" - Curtis Yarvin
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 5
To the “I voted for this” crowd:

You voted for the guy who gutted the National Weather Service. Now we’ve got dead families and missing kids in Texas, because storm warnings didn’t go out in time. And he gutted FEMA so they can’t properly respond to disasters.

That’s what you voted for?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Jul 5
There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US.

Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?

Or just the brown people?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 4
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”

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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Jul 2
The big disastrous bill has over $560 billion in corporate tax cuts. So, of course, corporations will use the tax savings to raise wages so that workers won’t need the Medicaid or Food Stamps the bill cut funding for, right? 🤔
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Jul 2
How is this different from Germany in 1940?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 27
they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Jun 23
A truly great country knows its full history — this is strength. Denying that history is weakness and weakens that nation going forward.

A president who erases our history attacks our strength.

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · Jun 22
Just because he pulled out doesn’t mean it’s over. Rapists never understand that

#NoWar #ImpeachTrump
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Jun 23
Does that justify the most recent military action by the United States?
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Ron Hacker @ronhacker.bsky.social · Jun 18
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 18
the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 18
WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”

Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
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Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. @drmarkssmith.bsky.social · Jun 16
The worst thing we do in this country is put children in jails and prisons. Full stop.