Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.

Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.

@drmarkssmith.bsky.social

Political Science Professor. The opinions expressed here are my own.

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Mother Jones
@motherjones.com

Trump, for over a decade: "I wouldn't give him a state dinner." This week: A full state dinner at the White House for China's Xi Jinping, complete with the arrival ceremony, a gift, and billionaires everywhere.

Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.
@drmarkssmith.bsky.social

Someone at Target should have sought an opinion outside of the narrow perspective that deemed this to be an acceptable image for an American retailer to promote. Stop using the thought-terminating acronym DEI. Say the words — diversity, equity, inclusion. Which one of those concepts is unappealing.

Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.
@drmarkssmith.bsky.social

The true voter fraud in the America is the repeated falsehood that there is rampant voter fraud changing the outcomes of elections. The incident of voter fraud over the past 50 years in the U.S. is 0.0003%. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

nytimes.comHomeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It.The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.
@drmarkssmith.bsky.social

This is insane. How many American soldiers gave their lives in the Korean War? “Denuclearization” of Iran? North Korea actually has nuclear weapons.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com

Outrageous. Let’s see the few republicans to speak up actually blame Trump here instead of “bad advice”

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger.substack.com

The fact that the Democratic senators are agreeing to a continuing resolution until Dec 11th with NO compromises for them is absolute political malpractice and head scratching. Why not even try to ban like…. The arch? Anything!

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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.
@drmarkssmith.bsky.social

Psychologists are going to fill volumes of academic journals trying to explain and understand this level of narcissism.

Cory Booker@corybooker.com

This is yet another deeply insulting daily moment from Donald Trump. Leadership isn’t about lifting yourself up by tearing others down. It’s about lifting others - period. Leadership shines light. It doesn’t cast shadows. It leads with integrity. It does not lead with lies.

Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.
@drmarkssmith.bsky.social

Barack Obama famously said we do not have red states or blue states, we have the United States. That message never reached the petty wannabe tyrant now in the White House.

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger.substack.com

Robert Mueller Served America. Trump Cheered His Death.This is not rough politics or another controversy. It is a glimpse into something darker now sitting in the Oval Office. A glimpse into the heart of a coward who ran from service. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

open.substack.comA President Who Cheers a Veteran’s Death Is Unfit for Office, and EVILRobert Mueller was a wounded Marine, a decorated veteran, and a public servant who spent his life defending the rule of law. The President of the United States responded to his death with glee.
Mark S. Smith, Ph.D.
@drmarkssmith.bsky.social

I just heard that Abagail Spamberger will deliver the Democratic response to Tuesday’s State of the Union address. I have nothing at all against Gov. Spamberger, but I think the Dems are missing an opportunity by not having Amy Klobuchar deliver the address in a Minneapolis town hall.

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Barb McQuade
@barbmcquade.bsky.social

We are a nation of laws, not of men. This banner symbolizes a disgusting betrayal of our values. www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p...

cnn.comGiant banner of Donald Trump hung at Justice Department headquarters | CNN PoliticsA large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, Thursday, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch t...

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social

@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.

NPR@npr.org

The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko

n.prSupreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challengeThe Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

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?