Megan Liz Smith
@meganlizsmith.bsky.social
Photojournalist | sometimes funny | documentary filmmaker | former Petsmart dog trainer | Mizzou mafia
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Honored to be named a finalist for a Society of Professional Journalists' "Dateline Award" for this story @meganlizsmith and I worked on last year about the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on Ukrainian-Americans in Pennsylvania
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In Pennsylvania, Ukrainian-Americans grapple with overseas war and how to vote
In Pennsylvania, Ukrainian-Americans grapple with an overseas war and how to vote. Hear their stories.
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May 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Honored to be named a finalist for a Society of Professional Journalists' "Dateline Award" for this story @meganlizsmith and I worked on last year about the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on Ukrainian-Americans in Pennsylvania
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Fruit tarts are for me. Banana splits are for me. Acai bowl/smoothie places are for me. These are my foods.
May 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Fruit tarts are for me. Banana splits are for me. Acai bowl/smoothie places are for me. These are my foods.
I just want a record of this. When I flew from Paris to Dublin this week, the customs person at Orly saw my U.S passport and and asked me who I voted for before he would stamp it.
May 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I just want a record of this. When I flew from Paris to Dublin this week, the customs person at Orly saw my U.S passport and and asked me who I voted for before he would stamp it.
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Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to all of his meetings and sharing top secret government information with her is an extreme version of couples who share a Facebook account because one of them cheated.
April 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to all of his meetings and sharing top secret government information with her is an extreme version of couples who share a Facebook account because one of them cheated.
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"For twenty-five years, I was contracted to produce three articles a year, long ones, typically ten thousand words. For this, my peak salary was $498,141. That’s not a misprint—$498,141, or more than $166,000 per story."
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Bryan Burrough on Graydon Carter and Vanity Fair’s Golden Era
Lavish budgets, high-society gossip, and headline-making journalism— Vanity Fair under Graydon Carter was the last great magazine empire. Bryan Burrough…
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March 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"For twenty-five years, I was contracted to produce three articles a year, long ones, typically ten thousand words. For this, my peak salary was $498,141. That’s not a misprint—$498,141, or more than $166,000 per story."
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Middle seat on an airplane gets both arm rests right?
March 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Middle seat on an airplane gets both arm rests right?
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The board of Virginia Military Institute voted on Friday against extending the contract of Major General Cedric Wins, the college’s first Black superintendent.
The First Black Leader of Virginia Military Institute Is Ousted
The college’s board decided not to renew the contract of its superintendent, Major General Cedric T. Wins, who led diversity efforts and removed a Confederate statue on campus.
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March 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The board of Virginia Military Institute voted on Friday against extending the contract of Major General Cedric Wins, the college’s first Black superintendent.
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bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET
February 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET
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A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.
Kansas City doesn't have enough jobs available for all the federal workers getting laid off
Federal workers in Kansas City whose jobs were eliminated under the Trump administration's massive budget cuts will have a hard time finding comparable work in the area. Instability in the city's work...
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February 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.
We owe each other nothing?? Brother…we owe each other EVERYTHING
February 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We owe each other nothing?? Brother…we owe each other EVERYTHING
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“.. In my 20-year law enforcement career, this is one of the most horrific crimes I have ever investigated,” Captain Swift said at a news conference on Friday.”
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Trans Man Killed in New York Was Tortured for Two Months, Police Say
The body of Sam Nordquist, 24, was found in a field after he had been reported missing. The district attorney in Ontario County, N.Y., called the circumstances surrounding the death “beyond depraved.”
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February 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“.. In my 20-year law enforcement career, this is one of the most horrific crimes I have ever investigated,” Captain Swift said at a news conference on Friday.”
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BREAKING
Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from:
1. Deleting CFPB data
2. Firing CFPB employees
3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund
Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave
Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from:
1. Deleting CFPB data
2. Firing CFPB employees
3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund
Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave
February 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
BREAKING
Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from:
1. Deleting CFPB data
2. Firing CFPB employees
3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund
Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave
Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from:
1. Deleting CFPB data
2. Firing CFPB employees
3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund
Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave
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The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
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February 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
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From the bottom of my heart I truly love editing social videos. There’s just something so magical about finishing a perfect little one minute edit in four hours or under. Real editors get it.
February 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
From the bottom of my heart I truly love editing social videos. There’s just something so magical about finishing a perfect little one minute edit in four hours or under. Real editors get it.
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
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A child abuse pediatrician talks about a CDC app that's been taken offline:
"We use this to figure out the right dose to treat a young child who's acquired a sexually transmitted infection after being abused. [...] Apparently helping little kids who've been sexually assaulted is just too woke now."
"We use this to figure out the right dose to treat a young child who's acquired a sexually transmitted infection after being abused. [...] Apparently helping little kids who've been sexually assaulted is just too woke now."
February 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A child abuse pediatrician talks about a CDC app that's been taken offline:
"We use this to figure out the right dose to treat a young child who's acquired a sexually transmitted infection after being abused. [...] Apparently helping little kids who've been sexually assaulted is just too woke now."
"We use this to figure out the right dose to treat a young child who's acquired a sexually transmitted infection after being abused. [...] Apparently helping little kids who've been sexually assaulted is just too woke now."
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🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/
February 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/
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January 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is my newest social video for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social check it out 😎 www.instagram.com/reel/DFgJLVQ...
Is it too late to become a Harvard man
January 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Is it too late to become a Harvard man
It’s actually crazy how much Edward Norton sounds like Pete Seeger. Listen to “Little Boxes”
January 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s actually crazy how much Edward Norton sounds like Pete Seeger. Listen to “Little Boxes”
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A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
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GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
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PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
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17. If there’s something you love doing and want to do professionally, just keep doing it. Eventually everybody else your age who is trying to do that thing will move on to something else or leave town and it’ll just be you and a couple other people who actually love the thing qua the thing
January 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
17. If there’s something you love doing and want to do professionally, just keep doing it. Eventually everybody else your age who is trying to do that thing will move on to something else or leave town and it’ll just be you and a couple other people who actually love the thing qua the thing