Jennifer Smyth

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

Always listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social cuz she’s always right on time! You find our chat wherever you get your podcasts (or on YouTube!) just search for The Sam Sanders Show

You do NOT have the right to take over DC, Donald. It would take an act of Congress.

Violent crime in DC plummets to lowest level in 30 years - WTOP News A year-end analysis of violent crime in the District shows the rate of violent incidents is at a 30-year low.

Violent crime in DC plummets to lowest level in 30 years!!!

According to the US Attorney’s Office, violent crime overall has dropped 35% over last year. Homicide is down 30%. Sex abuse crime is down 22%. Assault with a dangerous weapon is down 27%. Robbery is down 39%. And burglary is down 8%.

Generational public health sabotage

If a DOGE staffer got his ass kicked in DC there’s less than zero percent chance it was because he was trying to defend a young woman from “about a dozen young men” lmao but this is some incredible fan fic

Mike Johnson's operation distraction: let's subpoena everyone except the prosecutor who actually cut a sweetheart deal for Jeffrey Epstein, negotiating the whole thing, start to finish, with Alan (But I Was Wearing My Underwear) Dershowitz.

a post which says "Bush wasn't taking rights away nor was he trying to cheat elections. The most harm caused under him was the Great Recession."

it must be hard to run a country when the whole population gets hit with the men in black memory erasing device every 4 years

A Pregnant Texas Teen Died Under Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat Law It took three ER visits before a hospital admitted pregnant teen Nevaeh Crain, one of at least two Texas women to die under the state’s abortion ban.

Nevaeh Crain is one of at least two Texas women who died after doctors delayed treating miscarriages.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton successfully made his state the only one in the country that isn’t required to follow the Biden administration’s efforts to ensure ERs treat women like Crain.

Texas GOP governor sues to remove Democratic leader amid election map fight Gov. Greg Abbott filed his lawsuit as other top Republicans raised the prospect of intensifying law enforcement actions against Democrats.

Breaking news: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked the state’s high court to remove a top Democratic lawmaker from office, arguing he had abandoned his job by leading dozens of his colleagues out of state to block a plan to redraw the state’s congressional map.

We’re not all part of an experiment.

They functionally and repeatedly have said that they bank on attacking folks like ME AND MINE first while yall sit on your asses and justify it from every angle

And then erase us via flattening

That’s a choice YOU make not a fact of law

It sexy and funny and glib to CERTAIN people to embrace dehumanization because it doesn’t actually fucking happen to you like it does yo everyone else

And you get paid for both describing ours improperly and insulated from critique by what actually touches you

But the shit is appalling

And just like Hannah Arendt couldn’t “see” the protests of non white people for education to the point that with multiple books about r it the “  intelligentsia “ couldn’t peep it

Similarly the tech folks are “experts” at similar blindness

And don’t worry I don’t expect white folks to actually engage

Because the response will be

“Delete”
“Disconnect”
“Protect peace”

But what it actually is a cultural enabling that has existed in large scale media by purported intellectuals and leftists since segregation

Over and over we have seen that “algorithms” actually degrade immensely when applied to certain populations …

Yeh exact populations the white washed internet harnesses from but does not engage with

And even with the “experiment” we are NOT being experimented on the same

There’s a reason you see that dismissive dehumanizing garbage mostly from white folks

And maybe three years ago I would have forgiven it but now it viscerally disgusts me

It’s complacency complicitness and capitulation used to justify their own laziness

And don’t ever forget it’s lazy

I’ll be that because I’m in a bad fucking mood today but white nihilism and “we’re all a product of the tech bros” is straight up racism

Unvarnished

It’s not smart it’s not savvy and the cavalier way white folks throw it around isn’t “truth” it’s laziness

Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker “If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

A former DOGE staffer was injured in an attempted carjacking in D.C., two people familiar with the incident said, in an attack that captured the attention of President Trump and reinspired his threats to take over the nation’s capital.

Belarusian drone in Lithuania carried explosives, officials say A drone that entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus on July 28 was carrying explosives, Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office confirmed Aug. 5.

⚡️Belarusian drone in Lithuania carried explosives, officials say.

A drone that entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus on July 28 was carrying explosives, Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office confirmed Aug. 5.

A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.

Abbott moves to dismiss fleeing Texas Democrats from office More than 50 Democratic lawmakers left Texas to prevent the GOP from holding a vote on a new congressional district map.

BREAKING: “Gov. Greg Abbott acted to remove Texas Democrats from office after they refused to return to Austin, leaving the House without quorum and further stalling a Republican-drawn congressional map.”

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

Breaking: The court just ruled that FEMA can’t spend NC’s $200m in disaster preparedness money elsewhere while our lawsuit against them plays out.

FEMA broke the law when it cut these funds for our water and sewer systems. We’re going to keep fighting to make sure this funding is restored.

oh yes, oven roasted stuffed figs or dates are amazing - also great with blue cheese and bacon

That would require them discussing whose being pushed out. Why . And how many in media did similarly in their news rooms

It’s a gerrymander to push out Black representatives specifically the ones who’ve been directly confronting Trump

And mRNA research has generated at least two potential cures for previously untreatable cancers (kidney and pancreas) earlier this year. Kakistocracy, folks!

Hamed AleazizNicholas Nehamas By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas Aug. 5, 2025, 4:51 p.m. ET On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.

🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.

The persistent belief that people who believe abhorrent things are identifiably abhorrent 100% of the time is honestly going to kill us all.

A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair

New photos and documents reveal the inside of Jeffrey Epstein's NY mansion and how he interacted with the elite.

• He prominently displayed photos of him hanging out with Trump & Clinton

• There were surveillance cameras in the bedroom

• And much more...

🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Image of that CEO at the Coldplay concert hugging the head of HR Text below reads: HR is in bed with your boss. Unionize

I snorted and cackled and giggled and snorted again