SMsly
@smsly65.bsky.social
Mom, booklover, believer of equality and enviromental justice.
Fav quote: Be careful what you wish for.
Fav quote: Be careful what you wish for.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
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The speed of media consolidation under administration allies is staggering. Never been more important to support independent journalism.
* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ
$ORCL
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September 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The speed of media consolidation under administration allies is staggering. Never been more important to support independent journalism.
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The oldest fossil evidence shows that humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and would have had dark pigmented skin to protect them from intense UV rays. So if you're a believer in "God," and believe man was created in his image... then it stands to reason that God is a Black man.
September 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The oldest fossil evidence shows that humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and would have had dark pigmented skin to protect them from intense UV rays. So if you're a believer in "God," and believe man was created in his image... then it stands to reason that God is a Black man.
Take Your A** to Cracker Barrel
YouTube video by I've Had It
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August 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The claim to Alaska — Russia has been doing this for years — I was meaning to predict they would exploit this but waited because I thought that the Russians would wait until the day itself to use it to deride Trump. But he’s using it against himself and ahead of schedule.
youtu.be/9uF6wlwGo3U?...
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Trump says he's meeting with Putin in Russia, but their summit is in Alaska
YouTube video by Associated Press
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August 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The claim to Alaska — Russia has been doing this for years — I was meaning to predict they would exploit this but waited because I thought that the Russians would wait until the day itself to use it to deride Trump. But he’s using it against himself and ahead of schedule.
youtu.be/9uF6wlwGo3U?...
youtu.be/9uF6wlwGo3U?...
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Great little series on women's contributions to democracy by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
10 segments all brief (under 2 mins.)
All important contributions from all ethnicities. How easily Americans are piddling it all away.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
10 segments all brief (under 2 mins.)
All important contributions from all ethnicities. How easily Americans are piddling it all away.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Declaration in Action | Journey to American Democracy - YouTube
The revolutionary idea that everyone is created equal inspired Americans who were excluded from voting, economic opportunity, civil rights, or citizenship, t...
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August 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Great little series on women's contributions to democracy by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
10 segments all brief (under 2 mins.)
All important contributions from all ethnicities. How easily Americans are piddling it all away.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
10 segments all brief (under 2 mins.)
All important contributions from all ethnicities. How easily Americans are piddling it all away.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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While we're all waiting for the Epstein files to be released, here's the five volume bipartisan set of the Russian interference and collusion reports.
We should probably call them the Marco Rubio files.
www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...
We should probably call them the Marco Rubio files.
www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...
Senate Intel Releases Volume 5 of Bipartisan Russia Report | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
www.intelligence.senate.gov
July 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
While we're all waiting for the Epstein files to be released, here's the five volume bipartisan set of the Russian interference and collusion reports.
We should probably call them the Marco Rubio files.
www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...
We should probably call them the Marco Rubio files.
www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...
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America in a nutshell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
America in a nutshell.
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NEW ANGLE
Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage.
But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…
Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage.
But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…
July 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
NEW ANGLE
Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage.
But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…
Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage.
But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…
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Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/c...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/c...
Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp - emptywheel
Chuck Grassley is protecting a guy, Emil Bove, who gave an order to unload dozens of innocent men into a concentration camp. Worse, he is cheating to promote him to a lifetime appointment.
www.emptywheel.net
July 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/c...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/c...
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For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.
Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.
It was a hoax.
Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.
It was a hoax.
July 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.
Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.
It was a hoax.
Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.
It was a hoax.
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Must Read about the BBS BILL. Please share
July 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Must Read about the BBS BILL. Please share
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📌The most evergreen thing that's ever been said by anybody ever.
Nothing describes Trump and his grotesque MAGA better ...
Nothing describes Trump and his grotesque MAGA better ...
July 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
📌The most evergreen thing that's ever been said by anybody ever.
Nothing describes Trump and his grotesque MAGA better ...
Nothing describes Trump and his grotesque MAGA better ...
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You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
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Jupiter, the king of planets.
-Credits: NASA
-Credits: NASA
July 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Jupiter, the king of planets.
-Credits: NASA
-Credits: NASA
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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?
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?
July 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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?
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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“The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck: that at the dawn of the electricity-guzzling era of artificial intelligence, the U.S. president and his party have decided to engage in one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm imaginable.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
Opinion | How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again
www.nytimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck: that at the dawn of the electricity-guzzling era of artificial intelligence, the U.S. president and his party have decided to engage in one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm imaginable.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
How many times are Republicans going to lie that "trickle down economics" will solve all the problems? AGAIN, providing tax cuts for the rich will NOT help the middle/low class. #WakeUpAmerica
July 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
How many times are Republicans going to lie that "trickle down economics" will solve all the problems? AGAIN, providing tax cuts for the rich will NOT help the middle/low class. #WakeUpAmerica
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This is disgusting. A US agency sending a celebratory email about a bill that will deprive millions of healthcare and food assistance while making permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest.
I, like millions, received it last night. The email fails to note that reducing the social security tax...
I, like millions, received it last night. The email fails to note that reducing the social security tax...
July 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is disgusting. A US agency sending a celebratory email about a bill that will deprive millions of healthcare and food assistance while making permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest.
I, like millions, received it last night. The email fails to note that reducing the social security tax...
I, like millions, received it last night. The email fails to note that reducing the social security tax...
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Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.
📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
July 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.
📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
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When you jam your bill through overnight…
When you are forced to cancel town halls…
When you need to wear masks to hide your actions…
You know the people aren’t on your side—and now, you’ve lost us forever.
We will remember this day. We will remember your names. We will remember you as traitors.
When you are forced to cancel town halls…
When you need to wear masks to hide your actions…
You know the people aren’t on your side—and now, you’ve lost us forever.
We will remember this day. We will remember your names. We will remember you as traitors.
July 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
When you jam your bill through overnight…
When you are forced to cancel town halls…
When you need to wear masks to hide your actions…
You know the people aren’t on your side—and now, you’ve lost us forever.
We will remember this day. We will remember your names. We will remember you as traitors.
When you are forced to cancel town halls…
When you need to wear masks to hide your actions…
You know the people aren’t on your side—and now, you’ve lost us forever.
We will remember this day. We will remember your names. We will remember you as traitors.
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Congress voted to pass the largest job-killing bill in history.
Congress voted to take away health care from 17 million people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
Congress voted to take away food assistance from 3 million people.
Congress voted to betray working people.
Congress voted to take away health care from 17 million people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
Congress voted to take away food assistance from 3 million people.
Congress voted to betray working people.
July 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Congress voted to pass the largest job-killing bill in history.
Congress voted to take away health care from 17 million people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
Congress voted to take away food assistance from 3 million people.
Congress voted to betray working people.
Congress voted to take away health care from 17 million people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
Congress voted to take away food assistance from 3 million people.
Congress voted to betray working people.
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For 50 years GOP has relied on 3 big scams:
*deficits pose civilizational threat (when Dem is in WH)
*tax cuts for rich pay for themselves
*safety net cuts needed to purge welfare cheats
w/this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1976...
*deficits pose civilizational threat (when Dem is in WH)
*tax cuts for rich pay for themselves
*safety net cuts needed to purge welfare cheats
w/this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1976...
Trump Just Went Absolutely Nuclear in Screwing Over MAGA Voters
He has persuaded the media and many voters that he’s different from earlier Republicans on economics—but he’s now doubled-down on the GOP’s plutocratic agenda.
newrepublic.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
For 50 years GOP has relied on 3 big scams:
*deficits pose civilizational threat (when Dem is in WH)
*tax cuts for rich pay for themselves
*safety net cuts needed to purge welfare cheats
w/this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1976...
*deficits pose civilizational threat (when Dem is in WH)
*tax cuts for rich pay for themselves
*safety net cuts needed to purge welfare cheats
w/this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1976...