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Karen Smithey

@ksmithey.bsky.social

I’m an artist, avid gardener, and mom to three weird couch-eating cats and a handful of stray ducks. Also three children, lol. Please, no dms.

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01.03.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1187    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 6
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Give teachers a politician's salary & give politicians a teacher's salary

Cut off politicians from billionaire donors & they MUST disclose how their "campaign money" is being spent (b/c it matters)

Politicians should live like everyday Americans so they can feel the FULL impact of their decisions

28.02.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
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For once, The Lincoln Project agrees with Trump.

28.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1574    πŸ” 566    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 29
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Iranian Shahed-136 drone hits the Grand Air Hotel in Bahrain, which allegedly housed senior U.S. military officers of the U.S. Fifth Fleet (after their relocation from the base).

28.02.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.

In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

27.02.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5612    πŸ” 1682    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 102

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

25.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 15494    πŸ” 8144    πŸ’¬ 856    πŸ“Œ 544

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

25.02.2026 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3484    πŸ” 1815    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 62

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

25.02.2026 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1201    πŸ” 454    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 17
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Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

24.02.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6172    πŸ” 2646    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 212

Exactly.

24.02.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

23.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 26685    πŸ” 12711    πŸ’¬ 889    πŸ“Œ 956
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www.facebook.com/reel/1958511...

23.02.2026 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Read this. I had no idea.

24.02.2026 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

unfortunately, this is happening in the USA and in many places in the world. Women and good men of the world, we need to put our collective feet down about this bullshit.

23.02.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shift Generation & Transmission Costs to Data Centers; Force the Largest to Provide Energy Storage & Clean Energy The House killed bills that would have saved Virginians money on electricity bills and made it harder to build more dirty fossil fuel energy generation plants. Yet these same bills passed the Senate a...

WOW! As of this morning only about 350 letters had been sent out urging our Delegates to hold data centers accountable and lower our energy costs. BUT after we blasted this call to action, we hit our goal of sending over 1,000 letters to our Delegates. Keep going!

actionnetwork.org/letters/shif...

22.02.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2409    πŸ” 1025    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 26

Why? Why is he doing this?

22.02.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i spend more time than most discussing the ongoing realities of the pandemic &how to mitigate the harmsβ€”i can guarantee you people are traumatized. what the trauma is from varies, but there’s so much. & most ppl, perhaps even you readin this, fall into the ease of denial, letting masks collect dust.

22.02.2026 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes β€œI love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

22.02.2026 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 13935    πŸ” 2514    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 136

Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.

22.02.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 27818    πŸ” 7149    πŸ’¬ 561    πŸ“Œ 217

Let's try this again πŸ‘‹

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

21.02.2026 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 13751    πŸ” 3504    πŸ’¬ 891    πŸ“Œ 187
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm'not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ...lf we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
~ Martha Gellhorn - novelist

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm'not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ...lf we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics. ~ Martha Gellhorn - novelist

Don’t be one of these people

22.02.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is unbelievable. So embarrassing, so ridiculous.

22.02.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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British tourist with legal visa & no criminal record detained by ICE and locked up for 6 weeks Foreign tourism to the US hits a wall In 2025, tourism to the US declined 6%. The World Travel & Tourism Council, the global body representing the industry, estimated that the decline in international...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

22.02.2026 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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mattsrebecoming on Instagram: "UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the Tarrant County Board of elections and they say that my registration is in pending status.…" UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the Tarrant County Board of elections and they say that my registration is in pending status. Still in pending even though I put in the application on October 7 of 2025, which was over four months ago, and that there are, in her words, hundreds of thousands of people that are in the same situation because Tarrant County is one of the top 10 counties that people in the US are moving to. Spread the word! #fyp #texaselections #tarrantcounty @jasmineforus

Matt registered to vote on October 7, 2025, in Tarrant County, TX. Four months later, his registration is still pending. When he contacted the county, he was told that he was one of hundreds of thousands.

Check your registration, TX!

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

www.instagram.com/reel/DU_r3Wt...

22.02.2026 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 722    πŸ” 493    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 25

I don’t even have the words for how disgusting and evil this is.

21.02.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Flags lowered for Charlie Kirk but not for Jesse Jackson
Another Black man found hung in a tree in Georgia
But somehow, this isn't a racist country....

20.02.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But what happens to all the money already collected?

20.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are showing us who they are. Over and over and over again.

20.02.2026 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0