Ted Smyth

How Alex Pretti’s Death Became a National Tipping Point

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

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What do Trump's America and Ireland's housing crisis have in common?

Former diplomat Ted Smyth connects the dots in our year-end political episode—dropping midnight EST.

"Affordability will define 2026"
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What will it take to become the next president of the United States?

On our latest #podcast episode, Ted Smyth gives his thoughts.

#USPolitics #GeoPolitics #GlobalIrishNation #SpéirGhorm @tedsmyth.bsky.social

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

Essential viewing @nytimes.com Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Nicolaus Mills’ book Winning the Peace shows what real patriots cd do with govt. Gen Marshall took away fm his New Deal experience “a heightened sense of the govt’s capacity for bringing order out of social chaos and creating what he called‘valuable and self supporting citizens

Many thanks for the great exchange!

Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts

Floggings will continue until morale improves! "98 percent of respondents said that workplace morale had fallen since Mr. Trump’s second term began in January. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u... Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

And, in conclusion…
#USDemocracy

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women

“They pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.

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Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy

Xi and Putin run rings around the dumbest President in US history.
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

Opinion | Leaving Hungry Pols to Help Hungry Kids

That is a mission that everyone agrees with, and yet one we somehow fail to achieve in an America larded with billionaires cavorting in a new tech-driven Gilded Age. Billionaires who are, Shore said, only “giving away a very small percentage of their revenue.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...

Low dose Bayer aspirin! They’re not joking, the red line shows the actual fill level.

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

Corruption and greed in the White House are destroying our country’s security and future greatness “They are leading the White House down the road to perdition with this ascendant technocratic oligarchy,” he said.
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Opinion | Does Trump Know the Price of Milk?

Bravo @nytopinion and @GoldmanSachs Trump=Higher Prices
"Goldman Sachs estimates the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Trump is destroying our economy. His cult doesn’t recognize this, but Trump is a failed businessman- with 4 (some say 6) corporate bankruptcies under his watch.

Exactly right “The only question remaining is which will give Trump a more egregious place in history - his moral failures or economic ones.

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People are tiring of Trump just as they eventually did of Celebrity Apprentice.

Congratulations New York Magazine exposing the biggest rip off of American taxpayers in history by Trump and his Team of Thieves.

The oligarchs who own the media are the cowards. Larry Ellison Bezos Murdoch etc
A few brave ones stand out, Bloomberg Sulzberger Atlantic in opposing Trump censorship

wonder how long it takes one of bloomberg's lawyers to remind their execs that not pushing back on noxious shit like this could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment

It’s easy for people like me - avg media consumer - to be outraged at reporters who don’t defend colleagues. But I admire the tenacity & guts to ask him questions knowing what a hateful POS he is. Silence makes his comment LOUDER for all the world to see what a scumbag he is. Give her the Pulitzer.

Highlights from NEWSY gaggle on AF1 on our flight to Florida on Friday night: Trump told us on EPSTEIN: -"I know nothing about that," he said when asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump knew about the girls. "Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years." -"Quiet, quiet, piggy," he told a Bloomberg reporter who asked why, if there's nothing incriminating in the files, he's acting like there is. -Asked if he's ruled out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender connected to Epstein, "I haven't even thought about it," he said. "I don't rule it in or out. I don't even think about it." -"They can have whatever they want," he said when asked about MTG's interview with CBS saying release all the files. "I was never on his island. Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times." -If they had anything, they would've used it before the election, he said. I asked why, then, his team encouraged Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to not pursue this. "Because it's bad to talk about it" when Rs should talk about "how well we've done." -He said he heard Pam Bondi picked U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, "a real legal talent," to look into ties between Epstein and prominent Dems.

Also… Trump’s “piggy” insult to the reporter was tweeted out Friday night by a CBS (former Bloomberg) reporter … but it seems to have gone largely under the radar til the People story.

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Wonderful to host historian @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social & filmmaker Briona Nic Dhiarmada for the NYC screening of "From That Small Island" @gihnyu.bsky.social -- the story of Ireland, across the millennia, in global context @tedsmyth.bsky.social

It was our pleasure & privilege. Thank you for the incredible welcome. 💚

The White House press lost their moral standing when they failed to react !
Access beats out truth in Trumps White House as his greedy oligarchs buy up the mainstream media
“Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week

Congratulations Jane and Briona
We were honored to host you and your epic movie @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social