Eric Smith
@esmith.bsky.social
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the other thing is that no one who fetishizes manual labor actually cares to improve life for people who are in those circumstances! no support for unionization or a generous welfare state! no interest in policies that make life easier for people who work their hands or afford them more autonomy!
July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
the other thing is that no one who fetishizes manual labor actually cares to improve life for people who are in those circumstances! no support for unionization or a generous welfare state! no interest in policies that make life easier for people who work their hands or afford them more autonomy!
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“The groups” is a derisive term used by the groups who control the Democratic Party to describe groups other than their groups.
June 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“The groups” is a derisive term used by the groups who control the Democratic Party to describe groups other than their groups.
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The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
June 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
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These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.
Having one of the richest people in America (Bloomberg) funding millions of dollars in ads bashing you really matters. Rich people promising to cut jobs from New York if you win also hurts. www.thefp.com/p/escape-fro...
June 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.
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They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.
June 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.
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What do you see when you see the cybertruck? For my friends @themorningsnows.bsky.social & @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social it's the Casspir, the armored personnel carrier of apartheid South Africa. slate.com/news-and-pol...
We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.
Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.
slate.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
What do you see when you see the cybertruck? For my friends @themorningsnows.bsky.social & @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social it's the Casspir, the armored personnel carrier of apartheid South Africa. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
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feel like this chart is example 1 in why "just do what's popular, based on polls" is so facile
March 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
feel like this chart is example 1 in why "just do what's popular, based on polls" is so facile
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this is an exonerative narrative they’ve spun to convince themselves to keep doing what they want to do and have been doing for as long as they’ve been in power, not an honest assessment of the party.
This is so profoundly strange from @slotkin.senate.gov. The Harris campaign ran one of the most aggressive outreach efforts to moderates, independents, and soft Republicans in recent memory!
March 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
this is an exonerative narrative they’ve spun to convince themselves to keep doing what they want to do and have been doing for as long as they’ve been in power, not an honest assessment of the party.
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It's not the biggest problem the party faces, but Democrats need to get over the tendency to look at obviously sociopathic and unprincipled elected officials and say "I may not agree with him on everything, but he is good at his job." Mostly because those guys also ALWAYS suck at their jobs.
March 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's not the biggest problem the party faces, but Democrats need to get over the tendency to look at obviously sociopathic and unprincipled elected officials and say "I may not agree with him on everything, but he is good at his job." Mostly because those guys also ALWAYS suck at their jobs.
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I am as dedicated to fighting fascism as anyone but you still should respect the office of the reich chancellor
March 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I am as dedicated to fighting fascism as anyone but you still should respect the office of the reich chancellor
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The actual trajectory of Democratic opposition to Trump since 2016 is that Democrats first engaged in #resistance and cultural progressivism, won the House in 2018, defeated Trump and won a trifecta the year of the George Floyd protests, tacked right under Biden, and lost in 2024.
Elissa Slotkin told Tim Alberta why her response to Trump's joint address did not touch on a laundry list of priorities from various advocacy groups.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
March 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The actual trajectory of Democratic opposition to Trump since 2016 is that Democrats first engaged in #resistance and cultural progressivism, won the House in 2018, defeated Trump and won a trifecta the year of the George Floyd protests, tacked right under Biden, and lost in 2024.
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But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned
March 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned
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one curious feature of our particular dismal political era: some people have gotten so addicted to the particular vice signaling around empathy / concern for other people that they seem to see evidence that something will benefit others as evidence that it will harm them
Anyway, this is about as gross and anti-social a statement from an antivaxxer as you'll find, but also probably pretty par for the course
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
![“We’re not going to harm our children or [risk] the potential to harm our children,” she said, “so that we can save yours.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreidn6b23ra25vaybk53lm2sxspxn2qs4g2zkedlkmi7t55biemt2ri@jpeg)
March 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
one curious feature of our particular dismal political era: some people have gotten so addicted to the particular vice signaling around empathy / concern for other people that they seem to see evidence that something will benefit others as evidence that it will harm them
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I’m not really surprised by anything the admin has done, but I expected the vibes to be closer to “private equity stripping a company down for parts” rather than “meth head stripping the walls for scrap metal”
March 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’m not really surprised by anything the admin has done, but I expected the vibes to be closer to “private equity stripping a company down for parts” rather than “meth head stripping the walls for scrap metal”
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just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo.
“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”
Part of memo:
“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”
Part of memo:
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
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I think what this shows is that most people aren't actually anti-vax, they're just extremely obstinate about being asked to do anything even slightly inconvenient when they don't see an immediate benefit for themselves
In Texas, said one doctor: “We’ve vaccinated multiple kids that have never been vaccinated before, some from families that didn’t believe in vaccines.”
@nbcnews.com #measles
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
@nbcnews.com #measles
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
February 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I think what this shows is that most people aren't actually anti-vax, they're just extremely obstinate about being asked to do anything even slightly inconvenient when they don't see an immediate benefit for themselves
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Kinda makes you wonder if the White House press corps wishes it had pushed back harder on the AP being banished, don’t it?
The White House announced on Tuesday that the administration — not an independent group of journalists — will determine which outlets have access to the president as part of a pool allowed into the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One and other events www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
White House says it will determine which reporters have access to the president
“All journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
www.politico.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kinda makes you wonder if the White House press corps wishes it had pushed back harder on the AP being banished, don’t it?
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That’s why I hate it when powerful people reply to Musk by first throat clearing with respect, admiration etc before getting to the issue. If you ever did respect him, that’s sad. But at this point any deference at all is dangerous. Do not kiss the Nazi’s ass. Give him nothing but shit. Break him.
Musk is a sensitive little orchid and I wish more people would figure out that it’d be really easy to push him over the edge simply by being meaner to him.
He is not able to handle pushback, if it keeps up we may see him have a real mental break.
February 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
That’s why I hate it when powerful people reply to Musk by first throat clearing with respect, admiration etc before getting to the issue. If you ever did respect him, that’s sad. But at this point any deference at all is dangerous. Do not kiss the Nazi’s ass. Give him nothing but shit. Break him.
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this is what they play for 70 hours straight if im ever in a black site interrogation situation
February 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
this is what they play for 70 hours straight if im ever in a black site interrogation situation
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being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)
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The United States is now an open kleptocracy. The Constitution has been suspended to allow the wealthiest man in the world to loot and destroy the federal government.
Elon Musk is working to transform X, his social media platform, into a virtual wallet where people can send money to each other. Digital payment platforms have come under intense scrutiny by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but that is likely to ease.
Elon Musk’s Attacks on CFPB Remove Obstacle to Building ‘X Money’
Former officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Elon Musk’s payment-business aspirations were driving his efforts to hobble the agency.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The United States is now an open kleptocracy. The Constitution has been suspended to allow the wealthiest man in the world to loot and destroy the federal government.
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They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others
January 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others