Keith Smith

Keith Smith

@keithlsk.bsky.social

Higher Ed Leader, interests in leadership-organizational effectiveness, politics-global affairs, human behavior, spirituality-religion. Please no DMs re crypto/investing.

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Former CIA Director John Brennan (who is a target of the Trump regime): “President Xi is a very smart, calculating and strategic thinker.” Yes, and he must look at our sociopathic moron and marvel at his good fortune. And wonder how Americans could have put this fool back in power.

huffpost.comTrump Shows Xi His Helipad And Gold Doodads. What America Gets Out Of It Remains Unclear.The status of Taiwan, Chinese help to Iran and willingness to cooperate on AI are among the issues remaining unresolved despite Trump’s glazing of the communist dictator.

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Anderson Cooper's last segment on 60 mins. We are witnessing the death of a network. CBS. The last to go Stephen Colbert.

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So in case anybody’s counting, today Donald Trump called not one, but two female reporters “stupid.” He is going to continue to do this. He’s going to start calling them far worse. Because nobody fucking stops him.

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“If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they’re going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can’t think of anything more un-American.” -Sen. Mark Kelly

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Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

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Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.

Did Trump and his cronies anticipate Iran's retaliation? Do they care? We have lost lives and billions of dollars for no clear reason and strategy. Trump, Rubio full of you know what. Love the military--not their fault--all the damage on Trump.

I am sure our former allies and the gulf states are really appreciating Trump's outlandish actions. Lives lost and damage they did not ask for, and again, no plan/strategy/reasonable rationale. He is beyond the idiotic bull in the china shop.

I have always supported our military servicemembers, and always will, but sadly their current commander in chief cares not for them, is an idiot who operates on his egotistic whims and attempts to distract us from his multiple wrongdoings.

If a plan, strategy, and intelligent reasoning, I might be for a strike on Iran...but that is not the case. I support our servicemembers always, but not the idiot in chief.

The Orange Loser has no plan, no strategy, operates on whim and ego, and already American lives are lost. He just made the world a more dangerous place, again.

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Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

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ICE point weapon directly at woman peacefully protesting, just inches in front of her face. Goon is pointing a B&T GL06 grenade launcher and shooting someone at point-blank range with this so-called "less than lethal" ammo could be fatal.

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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

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A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

democracydocket.comFederal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusadeThe judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

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Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

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I don't often wear political t-shirts, but I'm proudly sporting this one today. I'm an immigrant. I teach American (and international!) college students, research the U.S. economy, consult with policymakers, write books, raise my kids, pay taxes, and try to make this a better place.

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More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

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Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."

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Again…. Just under 48 hours ago….. seven democrats and all the so called “reasonable” (concerned on Twitter and cnn types) voted to fully fund ICE at its bloated, out of control level. ICE is better funded than most militaries

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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

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Bruce Springsteen: “If you stand against heavily armed federal troops using Gestapo tactics in an American city and believe you shouldn’t be killed for exercising your right to protest, send a message to this president — ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”