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Tom Smith

@tbone810.bsky.social

Venn diagram: philosophy, history, religion. Logophile. Musician manqué. Grandpa. Drinks both whiskey and whisky. Washington Huskies, ND Fighting Irish. Seattle, New Orleans, Colorado.

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The Abrego García case is not about one man. By denying the constitutional rights of one man, the Trump regime is threatening the constitutional rights of every man, woman, and child in America.

Trump is using the plight of Abrego Garcia as a test case — with the malicious intention of someday…

20.04.2025 22:52 — 👍 2042    🔁 587    💬 63    📌 27

James Comer can’t even write a brief letter without filling it with outright lies. What trash.

21.04.2025 00:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.

17.04.2025 10:32 — 👍 17514    🔁 4203    💬 632    📌 197
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He’s virtually psychotic.

03.04.2025 18:31 — 👍 33918    🔁 5193    💬 4614    📌 822

"Devour feculence."

One of the greatest put downs in tv history

Iykyk

14.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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THREAD: Elon & Trump’s NOAA layoffs means fewer weather balloons, meteorologists, tracking available to monitor level 5 tornadoes heading to the Midwest & Southeast. 100M ppl will be at risk w/ fewer resources to stay safe.
Please share this thread w/ anyone in the storm’s path:

14.03.2025 20:18 — 👍 2278    🔁 938    💬 129    📌 42

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

05.03.2025 22:34 — 👍 97034    🔁 26819    💬 1544    📌 1264

-1,300 in the past two days.

05.03.2025 00:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.

01.03.2025 21:11 — 👍 43968    🔁 12076    💬 700    📌 352
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Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

02.03.2025 08:14 — 👍 53906    🔁 14966    💬 855    📌 811
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

01.03.2025 18:21 — 👍 95070    🔁 41251    💬 5845    📌 4864

I’m not a young man. I began my life in the Eisenhower administration, and became politically aware under JFK. Lived through Nixon. Today was the most sickening display by an American President in my lifetime. Indescribably embarrassing for our nation.

28.02.2025 22:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The shame of this will haunt our country for many years. Disgusting.

25.02.2025 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chaos erupts at Idaho legislative town hall, woman pulled from seat and dragged out The woman refused to leave the meeting after speaking out against the possible repeal of Medicaid expansion and other bills working their way through the Idaho Legislature.

The SHERIFF of this town got three unidentified men to violently assault a woman in public because he didn't like what she was saying - and no one stopped them. www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...

23.02.2025 23:07 — 👍 1416    🔁 663    💬 123    📌 82
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So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

11.02.2025 00:14 — 👍 56288    🔁 11894    💬 3072    📌 925
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The Halfway Cafe on Substack BREAKING: The National Association of Tuba Musicians is reportedly raising money to bus 1,500 tuba players from around the nation to attend Donald Trump's inauguration speech and play their tubas whil...

substack.com/@thehalfwayc... This is utterly brilliant.

09.01.2025 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not surprisingly, Trump sounded non compos mentis at his “press conference” today. The man is as mad as the March Hare.

07.01.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Craig Sicknick, brother of Brian Sicknick who died a day after defending the US capitol on January 6, 2021, said:

"I came here today to urge Congress to do its job and block Mr Trump from taking office just a few short weeks from now." #USProtests #3E #14thNow

05.01.2025 03:02 — 👍 7749    🔁 2095    💬 114    📌 68

Owners of a newspaper of course want and need to be in the black. But they have a high moral and ethical responsibility to be guardians of a free press. In truth, Bezos could run WaPo at a loss for the next century and not harm his wealth.

06.01.2025 01:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m feeling really confident about Trump’s choices so far: a heroin addict with a brain worm and a ketamine-drugged billionaire. What could possibly go wrong?

30.12.2024 03:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Donald Trump made the courageous decision today, after sitting on the sidelines for days hemming and hawing, to stand behind Elon Musk's position on HB1 visas, despite clearly not knowing what they are based on his New York Post interview

30.12.2024 02:48 — 👍 1858    🔁 150    💬 107    📌 6
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Pls do the same.

26.12.2024 14:19 — 👍 27255    🔁 9603    💬 548    📌 405

AI doesn’t think or analyze, but obeys coded rules. Business schools don’t educate, but train.

26.12.2024 20:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I doubt it. Seems like a case of old-fashioned ineptitude.

23.12.2024 04:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The seeding is weird. Oregon, the #1, got the toughest path to the championship.

22.12.2024 15:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.

Black wolf looking straight at the camera. Pine forest behind. Yellow eyes.

We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.

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20.12.2024 23:36 — 👍 41639    🔁 10390    💬 845    📌 368

We now confront the unprecedented problem of an unelected South African half-trillionaire holding hostage an unstable and vengeful president with a thermonuclear arsenal and a barely Republican (221-214) Congress as the rough beast of tyranny slouches toward Bethlehem. What could possibly go wrong?

21.12.2024 13:25 — 👍 6273    🔁 1721    💬 259    📌 94

It turned out really well. Hope I made a dent. 😁

20.12.2024 02:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wait—FDR’s been dead since 1945 and they’re *still* whining about him?

16.12.2024 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I used AI somewhat ironically in my philosophy of mind course: had student enlist an AI to write a paper on whether AI could become conscious. Next assignment: detailed critique of the argument used by the AI.

15.12.2024 19:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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