Nathan Smith
@natjs.bsky.social
Operator. Organizer.
Husband. Brother. Dog dad.
INTJ-T - skeptically. Duality resolver - lazily.
Listen kid, we’re all in it together.
Husband. Brother. Dog dad.
INTJ-T - skeptically. Duality resolver - lazily.
Listen kid, we’re all in it together.
Gotta Light?
After David Lynch’s death, in January, viewers reflected on the meaning of the filmmaker’s work amid the first avalanches of cruelty from the second Trump Administration. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/bNaqek
2025 Was David Lynch
The filmmaker, who died in January, showed us what our world was becoming, and how we should respond.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Gotta Light?
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“America is sleepwalking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anybody out there that is a member of a labor union that is safe and doesn’t think this applies to you, he’s coming for you. They’re coming for you.”
inthesetimes.com/article/drop...
inthesetimes.com/article/drop...
Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey Wants You to Wake the F*ck Up
The Nazi-punching, union-supporting punk rocker who's setting an example in the Trump era.
inthesetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“America is sleepwalking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anybody out there that is a member of a labor union that is safe and doesn’t think this applies to you, he’s coming for you. They’re coming for you.”
inthesetimes.com/article/drop...
inthesetimes.com/article/drop...
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🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
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some resources for protestors
A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions
An extensive guide to less-lethal police weaponry—including chemical weapons and impact munitions—and how to defend against and treat their effects.
crimethinc.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
some resources for protestors
A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
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Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
propub.li
April 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has initiated legal action against Elon Musk for buying votes which violates Wisconsin’s election laws.
March 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has initiated legal action against Elon Musk for buying votes which violates Wisconsin’s election laws.
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Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
March 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
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Blindly posting “general strike!” whenever something bad happens is not useful. If however a local (or national…) labor council called for a mass sick out on a certain day, say May 1, and got all their members to commit, that could actually be something.
March 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Blindly posting “general strike!” whenever something bad happens is not useful. If however a local (or national…) labor council called for a mass sick out on a certain day, say May 1, and got all their members to commit, that could actually be something.
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“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
www.newyorker.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.
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NEW: When Marco Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks.
Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange.
Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange.
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic partner in Asia.
propub.li
March 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
NEW: When Marco Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks.
Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange.
Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange.
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Elon Musk reposted a tweet that equated public service workers with genocidal murderers. Our nurses, educators, firefighters and sanitation workers make our communities strong. Elon has no idea what working people go through.
Read our full statement: m.afsc.me/1kk
Read our full statement: m.afsc.me/1kk
March 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Elon Musk reposted a tweet that equated public service workers with genocidal murderers. Our nurses, educators, firefighters and sanitation workers make our communities strong. Elon has no idea what working people go through.
Read our full statement: m.afsc.me/1kk
Read our full statement: m.afsc.me/1kk
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We just announced we're done fucking around with Fascists. We're opening a Resistance nerve center at our tap room in Madison and are gonna fight back. Read more to volunteer and to join our introductory zoom call next Wednesday night at 7 pm
open.substack.com/pub/kirkbang...
open.substack.com/pub/kirkbang...
March 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We just announced we're done fucking around with Fascists. We're opening a Resistance nerve center at our tap room in Madison and are gonna fight back. Read more to volunteer and to join our introductory zoom call next Wednesday night at 7 pm
open.substack.com/pub/kirkbang...
open.substack.com/pub/kirkbang...
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Musk and Trump just fired over a dozen employees at Madison's local VA.
Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans.
This will mean slower services and longer wait times. Our vets deserve better.
Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans.
This will mean slower services and longer wait times. Our vets deserve better.
Federal workers, including at least one disabled veteran, fired from the VA in Madison
The Wisconsin workers who lost their jobs were among 1,400 laid off by the Department of Veterans Affairs this week. Veterans were among those fired.
www.jsonline.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Musk and Trump just fired over a dozen employees at Madison's local VA.
Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans.
This will mean slower services and longer wait times. Our vets deserve better.
Two out of touch billionaires who have never served in uniform slashing an agency that serves our nation’s veterans.
This will mean slower services and longer wait times. Our vets deserve better.
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Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.
February 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.
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“Just admit that you were lied to, and then fight back.”
He says what we've been shouting that MAGA just wouldn't hear but he says it in a way that some of them will hear. He's a rural farmer who speaks how they speak. @hcrichardson.bsky.social I posted 4 you to watch bec I think he's the missing link in our messaging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CR...
From One Farmer to Another
YouTube video by The Back Forty
www.youtube.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“Just admit that you were lied to, and then fight back.”
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Since 1492, they've come after us. They've come after our lands, our water, our mothers, sisters ... our children.
Here they come again.
My latest for @thenation.com.
Here they come again.
My latest for @thenation.com.
Trump Can’t Strip Natives of Our US Citizenship, but He Will Try to Take Our Lands
The Department of Justice recently argued that birthright citizenship does not apply to Native Americans. The administration will likely take aim at Native sovereignty next.
www.thenation.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Since 1492, they've come after us. They've come after our lands, our water, our mothers, sisters ... our children.
Here they come again.
My latest for @thenation.com.
Here they come again.
My latest for @thenation.com.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
February 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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I don’t care that Mitch McConnell fell. I care that democracy is doing the same.
February 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I don’t care that Mitch McConnell fell. I care that democracy is doing the same.
Sad day, I’m out of outrage.
At least our hens are laying.
(It was never about the price of eggs you totalitarian fucks)
Visit www.penzeys.com for your spices!
At least our hens are laying.
(It was never about the price of eggs you totalitarian fucks)
Visit www.penzeys.com for your spices!
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Sad day, I’m out of outrage.
At least our hens are laying.
(It was never about the price of eggs you totalitarian fucks)
Visit www.penzeys.com for your spices!
At least our hens are laying.
(It was never about the price of eggs you totalitarian fucks)
Visit www.penzeys.com for your spices!
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NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
February 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
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When millions of struggling workers want to join unions, Trump's decision to neuter the NLRB is blatantly illegal. It is also a huge gift to Musk, Bezos & other billionaires who want to abolish the only federal agency that can stop their union busting.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Trump firings at labor board threaten union win at Whole Foods – and beyond
Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia voted to unionize early this week but may be stuck in limbo due to President Donald Trump firing leaders at a federal labor regulator.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
When millions of struggling workers want to join unions, Trump's decision to neuter the NLRB is blatantly illegal. It is also a huge gift to Musk, Bezos & other billionaires who want to abolish the only federal agency that can stop their union busting.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
trump’s already blamed ATC for this, and obviously an investigation is underway, but we know he does this to distract attention from himself and his policies. In a couple of hours he’ll be blaming Biden and DEI.
The spineless opposition party -
*crickets*
The spineless opposition party -
*crickets*
January 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
trump’s already blamed ATC for this, and obviously an investigation is underway, but we know he does this to distract attention from himself and his policies. In a couple of hours he’ll be blaming Biden and DEI.
The spineless opposition party -
*crickets*
The spineless opposition party -
*crickets*
Finishing up a book on the dangers of AI, tech-industrial complex, and income inequality just in time to read about the techniques used by authoritarians to maintain power.
Welcome to the trump-musk dystopia and the opposition thereof.
Welcome to the trump-musk dystopia and the opposition thereof.
January 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Finishing up a book on the dangers of AI, tech-industrial complex, and income inequality just in time to read about the techniques used by authoritarians to maintain power.
Welcome to the trump-musk dystopia and the opposition thereof.
Welcome to the trump-musk dystopia and the opposition thereof.
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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.
propub.li/3DGXECO
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.
propub.li/3DGXECO
The Militia and the Mole
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
propub.li
January 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.
propub.li/3DGXECO
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.
propub.li/3DGXECO
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3 nominations at the Annie Awards! Thank you! 🐈⬛
December 20, 2024 at 4:27 PM
3 nominations at the Annie Awards! Thank you! 🐈⬛