Bryan Smith AKA Smitty[.]bat

North London is RED ⚽

Full-time. Spurs 1-4 Arsenal

May every single person in power be held accountable. Let the system that upheld their abuse burn and justice prevail.

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.

Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

The Fox News chyron reads "Latest Dem hoax" at the same time that Brendan Carr confirms that yes, the FCC would've "enforced the law" and gone after CBS had Colbert aired his interview with Talarico on TV

Finally, people are recognizing what I have been saying for months -- CBS has completely capitulate to Trump.

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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Trump’s propaganda czar Brendan Carr and Trump-controlled CBS refused to let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico. You can watch the interview here, and it already has 1.4M views. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Just a big hug to all the anarchists in the Twin Cities who get dismissed all the time but knew exactly what to do when shit went down here.

Rep Raskin reports he reviewed the full unredacted Epstein Files & Trump's name appears MORE THAN A MILLION TIMES.

We knew of 38K times—meaning we know of only ~3% of Trump's involvement with a convicted child sexual abuser & sex trafficker.

Anyone still unwilling to impeach & remove is complicit.

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1,113th (mostly) daily reminder that @mlb.com and the @cleguardians.com need to make July 5th #LarryDobyDay and give 14 the same honor as 42. Your daily reminder will continue until it happens.

#GuardsBall

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I just hope fearless leader and his large adult sons are losing a lot of money in the crypto market crash.

The Bad Voting Bill that Refuses to Die The SAVE Act would stop millions of eligible Americans from voting.

Please tell your representatives to vote NO on the SAVE Act! It’s a bad bill. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Myles Garrett has been unanimously voted as the 2025 Defensive Player of the Year:

Always 😎

pouring one out for the systems thinkers who can see the abyss and have to live with the darkness

6 weeks is a feat in and of itself.

List of teams qualified for the Champions League knockout phase List of teams which have qualified for the next round of the Champions League after the league phase concluded on Wednesday, ranked by table position:

List of teams qualified for the Champions League knockout phase reut.rs/4bkr7RL

Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

I know not everyone can close shop on Zuck platforms because their livelihood depends on them (esp. Insta). But if it doesn't, and you don't like fascism, may I once again recommend you get rid of any Meta products you use?

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

If “sharing information about suspicious cars that drove by on the Internet” is illegal, than Kash Patel better be cracking down hard on Nextdoor before he bothers with Signal.

THIS. Strike while they're vulnerable.

Add TikTok....

Video of Alex Pretti reading final honors for a veteran he cared for at the VA.

Rest in Power 🇺🇸

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

I wonder what Jesus would say about an evangelical pastor who’s also an ICE agent. Other than, “Yeah, that tracks.”

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Don’t believe it? Learn more here: EFF.org/Age