Katy Smith
@katysmith12.bsky.social
The other Mrs. Smith. Mom, Mimi, Minnesotan. Educator. Lifelong optimist. I’m a passionate advocate for play and parent education. And democracy 💙.
2012 MN Teacher of the Year.
2012 MN Teacher of the Year.
Dear James Taylor, if “She’d a Little Light” isn’t on this evening’s set list, would you kindly add it? It’s just the anthem Minnesota needs to hear to comfort our broken heart. 💔 Thank you and welcome back. @jamestaylor-com.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Dear James Taylor, if “She’d a Little Light” isn’t on this evening’s set list, would you kindly add it? It’s just the anthem Minnesota needs to hear to comfort our broken heart. 💔 Thank you and welcome back. @jamestaylor-com.bsky.social
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As an epidemiologist I feel like I cant breathe. I genuinely cant breathe having to act normal. Like nothing is happening. Like people arent going to die because a cult is in charge of the country. They are a cult. Republicans are a fascist death cult. Firing ALL cancer doctors & vaccine specialists
June 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
As an epidemiologist I feel like I cant breathe. I genuinely cant breathe having to act normal. Like nothing is happening. Like people arent going to die because a cult is in charge of the country. They are a cult. Republicans are a fascist death cult. Firing ALL cancer doctors & vaccine specialists
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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Trump’s HHS is canceling a contract to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine, even as the disease continues to spread through dairy cows across the U.S.
Make no mistake: delaying the development of this vaccine puts people’s lives at risk.
Make no mistake: delaying the development of this vaccine puts people’s lives at risk.
Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine
The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develo
www.npr.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trump’s HHS is canceling a contract to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine, even as the disease continues to spread through dairy cows across the U.S.
Make no mistake: delaying the development of this vaccine puts people’s lives at risk.
Make no mistake: delaying the development of this vaccine puts people’s lives at risk.
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Grift all the way down
I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much?
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
May 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Grift all the way down
I called Stauber’s teleconference town hall tonight & whew! Pete is deep in Trumpspeak. After screening my ?about due process, I made it into the queue but not the call. Pete is not interested in ?s about tough issues. He WILL talk abt 27 year old Medicaid scammers w/ Cheetos in your basement tho.
May 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I called Stauber’s teleconference town hall tonight & whew! Pete is deep in Trumpspeak. After screening my ?about due process, I made it into the queue but not the call. Pete is not interested in ?s about tough issues. He WILL talk abt 27 year old Medicaid scammers w/ Cheetos in your basement tho.
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I’d just like to remind people that while MAGA Republicans are yelling about Joe Biden’s Cancer - they’re distracting you from the fact that they’re denying access to cancer treatment for 9/11 first responders.
This is America.
This is America.
May 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I’d just like to remind people that while MAGA Republicans are yelling about Joe Biden’s Cancer - they’re distracting you from the fact that they’re denying access to cancer treatment for 9/11 first responders.
This is America.
This is America.
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BREAKING: Kristi Noem doesn’t know what Habeas Corpus is.
This is highly concerning
This is highly concerning
May 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
BREAKING: Kristi Noem doesn’t know what Habeas Corpus is.
This is highly concerning
This is highly concerning
Big ugly cruelty.
14 MILLION people will lose health care to give billionaires another tax break.
That's Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill."
That's Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill."
May 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Big ugly cruelty.
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the President of the United States, everyone
May 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
the President of the United States, everyone
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If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
May 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
Loons, pontoons and blue sky. Happy Mother’s Day from Minnesota!
May 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Loons, pontoons and blue sky. Happy Mother’s Day from Minnesota!
The fight for democracy is ever present here, in Normandy. It is astounding to witness the price they paid for it then and the urgency for each of us to protect it now. Honoring those who fought and died here, Resist.
May 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The fight for democracy is ever present here, in Normandy. It is astounding to witness the price they paid for it then and the urgency for each of us to protect it now. Honoring those who fought and died here, Resist.
Headstart is a sound investment in the future.
April 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Headstart is a sound investment in the future.
Legal. Permanent. Resident.
The wife of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil says Khalil missed the birth of his first child after immigration officials denied his request for temporary release so that he could attend.
Reminder: Khalil is a legal permanent resident in the U.S.
Reminder: Khalil is a legal permanent resident in the U.S.
April 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Legal. Permanent. Resident.
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WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”
April 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here.
www.kqed.org/news/1203596...
www.kqed.org/news/1203596...
April 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here.
www.kqed.org/news/1203596...
www.kqed.org/news/1203596...
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Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien."
Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway.
This is Fascism.
Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway.
This is Fascism.
April 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien."
Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway.
This is Fascism.
Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway.
This is Fascism.
Paying federal taxes tomorrow (because of course I will, I’m a big fan of following the rules) makes my brain spin and my heart ache.
April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Paying federal taxes tomorrow (because of course I will, I’m a big fan of following the rules) makes my brain spin and my heart ache.
Calling tomorrow using this script. Thank you.
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Calling tomorrow using this script. Thank you.
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Bravo, my friends. Your one big, beautiful bill is going to blow a hole through the deficit to give permanent tax breaks to billionaires on the backs of real Americans.
That’s why we voted NO!
That’s why we voted NO!
April 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Bravo, my friends. Your one big, beautiful bill is going to blow a hole through the deficit to give permanent tax breaks to billionaires on the backs of real Americans.
That’s why we voted NO!
That’s why we voted NO!
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So… Tonight Republicans pulled the plug on their own budget and tax package because fiscal conservatives in the House are demanding even deeper cuts to social and other vital programs to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Here’s what’s going on. ⬇️
April 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
So… Tonight Republicans pulled the plug on their own budget and tax package because fiscal conservatives in the House are demanding even deeper cuts to social and other vital programs to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Here’s what’s going on. ⬇️
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.