smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
Folks, I know it’s easy to get excited about all the polls showing Democrats ahead and feel like this election is a done deal. But we can’t take anything for granted. That’s why I’m urging you to take part in a No Kings early voting event today where you live. https://www.nokings.org/
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
🚨BREAKING: With the threat of federal election interference looming large over the midterms, Senate Democrats plan to send more than 100 congressional staff to observe voting sites in nine states — the first program of its kind for the upper chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
Under Trump and his Republican enablers, the richest Americans and biggest corporations have made out like bandits. Average working Americans are paying dearly for what the bandits have stolen. The grift and the graft must end. Accountability starts November 3.
Mike Johnson threatens us with a good time: "If this group took over, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the cabinet, donors to the party, leaders of business ... "
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
Donors of $333 million to the ballroom include "contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member." From @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4yiUDPx
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
Trump's DHS raiding and trying to strip the citizenship of Ilhan Omar just weeks before the election is fascism, pure and simple If his thugs can do this to a member of Congress, they can do it to you too. I stand with @ilhanmn.bsky.social.
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
In Alberta grassroots resistance is coming together to take on the MAGA premier. Here is a link for resistance in the land of the big sky. Go Alberta go. www.abresistance.ca
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
One month out from Election Day and Trump is campaigning in deep red territory he should never have to worry about, Ken Paxton is admitting Trump's convention hurt Republicans, and Democrats are surging in Texas, Florida, South Carolina and Kansas. The momentum is real. Let's keep it going! 👏
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
The Department of Homeland Security signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft at a substantial markup from a company owned by a political contributor of Kristi Noem on her last day as secretary, documents show. trib.al/a3d0s6B
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
A treaty from the 1960s declared that nobody can own outer space. Half a century later, billionaires and superpowers see fortunes to be made nonetheless.
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
Sure just throw the plague on top of Trump’s fascist shit show. 2026 you really fucking SUCK!
🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted
smithjb65.bsky.social reposted