Lydia Smith

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

Inside the Secret Smear Machine That’s Targeting Hollywood A shadowy network of anonymous slander sites is attacking players in high-profile entertainment scandals — from Blake vs. Baldoni to a Rebel Wilson film fiasco to an ugly K-pop feud. Critics allege th...

If you still doubt the smear machine that NYT called out Dec 2024, check out this new piece that collates info we've learned in the Lively v Baldoni lawsuit through discovery/depo. This is coordinated and dark. I'm glad it's being exposed. Burn them all.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Is there anywhere where the A-numbers for immigrants being detained at the various "facilities" are listed, like via a nonprofit? I'd like to write some letters and contribute to commissaries if possible, but I understand that can't be facilitated to anyone if it doesn't include their A-number.

Please help, scientists: why is my stomach growling RIGHT after I eat a pretty filling lunch? #science

This freaking guy needs to go. This is clearly now a PATTERN. Remember last October when he wanted Trump to send the National Guard into San Francisco? 🗑️ BUH BYE.

Yes!!!! Welcome back ❤️

WTW111: Antifa Is Good and Effective, Actually Podcast Episode · Where There's Woke · 02/01/2026 · 47m

@seriouspod.bsky.social and I had a FANTASTIC convo with @letsgomathias.bsky.social on @wokepod.bsky.social about all things antifa and he has some really inspiring stories to share on the pod AND in his new book, out now! www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Lawrence Krauss fawning over Epstein via iMessage in August 2018.

Very cool. Very skeptical.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

I figure I'm shouting into the wind on this platform, but WAKE UP!!!!!! THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!!!!!

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Absolute evil.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions.

We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

You ALWAYS know. @openargs.bsky.social covered a piece of yours from 2015 that saw the writing on the wall with Trump. I just hope more people will start freaking listening.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...

Paging Senator Bill Cassidy. Hope you haven't slept well since confirmation hearings, asshole.

As clergy pray, arrests begin

🚨Epstein Files Tracker🚨
Days Late: 35
Percent Released: <1%

Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

2 arrested after anti-ICE protester was attacked in Sacramento A person was attacked on Saturday while demonstrating in downtown Sacramento, police said. A vehicle was also damaged.

This is good news, though I hope there are additional arrests made. The video is just awful.
www.kcra.com/article/arre...

Title screenshot for the Guardian review for All's Fair, the Hulu "law" television show helmed by Kim Kardashian. They gave it 0 stars and said it was "existentially terrible"

For Law'd Awful Movies tomorrow. 😬

Fertility Rate and Satisfaction in the US over time since 1980. In 2020, 7 year rolling average for satisfaction at its lowest (below 10%), with fertility rate below 1.9. Peak for satisfaction was early 2000s, approx. 55% satisfaction of 7-year rolling average. Fertility rate peaked soon after in the mid 2000s at 2.1. I guess they want us to think when we have more kids, we're happier?

Mom of three here and I just have to say that this is a weird graph that the Heritage Foundation put together for their report about why fewer people in America are getting married and having kids.
www.heritage.org/marriage-and...

This is necessary reading from the Detention Watch Network's Silky Shah. She'll be joining on tomorrow's show for a great conversation about 23 years of fighting ICE on the ground, what this moment means to her, the tough choices these times require, and imagining life after ICE

YouTube video by Serious Pod Network Silky Shah has been fighting ICE for its entire existence

Thanks to @silkys13.bsky.social of the Detention Watch Network for a great conversation about the challenges & opportunities of organizing against mass deportation & detention in this moment, how lawyers can (and can't) help, & where she is finding hope right now

youtu.be/zonU1PEmrd0?...

@seriouspod.bsky.social's 5-second review of the pro-insurrectionist "The Eastman Dilemma":

"it's like someone did 4% of the work on this movie, and then died"

Can't wait to get into this with you! NICE WORK.

Man, everything is so overwhelming. That's it. That's the post.