Amy Smith
@arsmith26.bsky.social
Tech comms | reader | boy & hound mom
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Please join me in opposing significant cuts proposed to Rhode Island’s Energy Efficiency Programs! I oppose these harmful cuts to energy efficiency – a key defense to rising energy costs as well as the foundation to acting on climate. Learn more: acadiacenter.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/u...
August 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Please join me in opposing significant cuts proposed to Rhode Island’s Energy Efficiency Programs! I oppose these harmful cuts to energy efficiency – a key defense to rising energy costs as well as the foundation to acting on climate. Learn more: acadiacenter.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/u...
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this is so fucking dumb.
THEY NEVER SOLD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The disinformation is out of control. Worthless media hacks
THEY NEVER SOLD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The disinformation is out of control. Worthless media hacks
Costco to stop selling abortion pill mifepristone at its US pharmacy stores reut.rs/45XgXCr
Costco to stop selling abortion pill mifepristone at its US pharmacy stores
Costco Wholesale said on Thursday it will stop selling abortion pill mifepristone across all its U.S. pharmacy stores, citing low demand.
reut.rs
August 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
this is so fucking dumb.
THEY NEVER SOLD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The disinformation is out of control. Worthless media hacks
THEY NEVER SOLD IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The disinformation is out of control. Worthless media hacks
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
aje.io
August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
We need this in RI!!
"The [Massachusetts] Department of Public Utilities is mulling a proposal to heavily discount electricity rates in the winter months for households with heat pumps." www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea... by Sarah Shemkus 🔌💡
Massachusetts could give heat pump owners a huge discount on…
The state will lower electricity rates for heat pump owners this winter, and is considering even deeper cuts to encourage residents to ditch fossil-fueled…
www.canarymedia.com
July 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We need this in RI!!
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“If a homeowner is thinking about solar and can afford it, now would be the time.”
House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that help make solar affordable. If that happens, it could upend the economic calculus of powering a home with sunlight.
House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that help make solar affordable. If that happens, it could upend the economic calculus of powering a home with sunlight.
Want to Claim the Solar Tax Credit? Get Installing Now
For anyone in the US who can afford to go solar, “now would be the time,” because House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that make it affordable.
www.wired.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“If a homeowner is thinking about solar and can afford it, now would be the time.”
House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that help make solar affordable. If that happens, it could upend the economic calculus of powering a home with sunlight.
House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that help make solar affordable. If that happens, it could upend the economic calculus of powering a home with sunlight.
If you care about health and science please comment!
This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.
GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
May 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
If you care about health and science please comment!
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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I would personally like to hear from my senators, @whitehouse.senate.gov and @reed.senate.gov about what they plan to do about these unconstitutional kidnappings & deportations, and why they saw fit to confirm Marco Rubio in the first place. /2/end
#Fascism
#Fascism
April 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I would personally like to hear from my senators, @whitehouse.senate.gov and @reed.senate.gov about what they plan to do about these unconstitutional kidnappings & deportations, and why they saw fit to confirm Marco Rubio in the first place. /2/end
#Fascism
#Fascism
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Tomorrow at "the rise" #RhodeIsland House Corporations is going to hear H5816, to require that our utility procure 1200 MW of #offshorewind by 2030.
We at @climateactionri.org's #yestowind campaign will be there w/ bells & whistles.
Why is this a BFD?/1
webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText25/H...
We at @climateactionri.org's #yestowind campaign will be there w/ bells & whistles.
Why is this a BFD?/1
webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText25/H...
webserver.rilegislature.gov
March 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Tomorrow at "the rise" #RhodeIsland House Corporations is going to hear H5816, to require that our utility procure 1200 MW of #offshorewind by 2030.
We at @climateactionri.org's #yestowind campaign will be there w/ bells & whistles.
Why is this a BFD?/1
webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText25/H...
We at @climateactionri.org's #yestowind campaign will be there w/ bells & whistles.
Why is this a BFD?/1
webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText25/H...
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This is an enormous scam designed to get X’s dwindling value and collateralized debts (which likely are imperiled due to Tesla’s crashing stock price) off Musk’s personal books.
BREAKING: Elon Musk said that his xAI has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for $45 billion, including debt reut.rs/43Znkp9
Musk's xAI buys social media platform X for $45 billion
Elon Musk said on Friday that his xAI has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for $45 billion, including debt.
reut.rs
March 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is an enormous scam designed to get X’s dwindling value and collateralized debts (which likely are imperiled due to Tesla’s crashing stock price) off Musk’s personal books.
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Read this
After a month break, I describe U.S. march toward tyranny as a slow cooker, turned up by degrees from Salvadoran gulags to snatched students to detained tourists to big-ticket capitulations. Trump wants to boil the frog...
...But we are not yet cooked. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
...But we are not yet cooked. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot
The slow, seemingly piecemeal march of American dictatorship is trampling colleges and law firms and coming for the rest of us.
www.inquirer.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Read this
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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But what you going to DO ABOUT IT!?!!!!!
Every Dem in that chamber should have followed the only LEADER on Tuesday and stood and called them out until you were escorted out.
You are failed to meet the moment. NOW is the time for Good Trouble in the Senate.
Every Dem in that chamber should have followed the only LEADER on Tuesday and stood and called them out until you were escorted out.
You are failed to meet the moment. NOW is the time for Good Trouble in the Senate.
March 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
But what you going to DO ABOUT IT!?!!!!!
Every Dem in that chamber should have followed the only LEADER on Tuesday and stood and called them out until you were escorted out.
You are failed to meet the moment. NOW is the time for Good Trouble in the Senate.
Every Dem in that chamber should have followed the only LEADER on Tuesday and stood and called them out until you were escorted out.
You are failed to meet the moment. NOW is the time for Good Trouble in the Senate.
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This ⬇️
Few people know 230 as well as Mike
Few people know 230 as well as Mike
Democracy is burning, and we need sites like Bluesky more than ever. And Senator Durbin wants to repeal 230, which would massively stifle the ability of sites like Bluesky to exist, while massively empowering X and Meta.
Why?
It seems that someone in his office doesn't understand 230.
Why?
It seems that someone in his office doesn't understand 230.
It’s time to repeal Section 230. We must be able to take social media companies to court for addicting kids and enabling drug trafficking on their platforms.
March 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This ⬇️
Few people know 230 as well as Mike
Few people know 230 as well as Mike
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“In the venture capital game, sooner or later, someone has to get fucked. And it is very rarely the venture capitalists.”
That a large swathe of journalism is being walled in at substack is a HUGE red flag.
That SS cofounder is gaslighting ppl about SS’s Nazi contacts is also a huge red flag.
That a large swathe of journalism is being walled in at substack is a HUGE red flag.
That SS cofounder is gaslighting ppl about SS’s Nazi contacts is also a huge red flag.
March 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“In the venture capital game, sooner or later, someone has to get fucked. And it is very rarely the venture capitalists.”
That a large swathe of journalism is being walled in at substack is a HUGE red flag.
That SS cofounder is gaslighting ppl about SS’s Nazi contacts is also a huge red flag.
That a large swathe of journalism is being walled in at substack is a HUGE red flag.
That SS cofounder is gaslighting ppl about SS’s Nazi contacts is also a huge red flag.
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Hi, broken record here. The same degraded information environment that led to Trump being elected is still in place. Most people still aren't being told what's happening, who's at fault, or what the effects will be. And there's zero reason to think traumatic events will "wake people up."
March 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hi, broken record here. The same degraded information environment that led to Trump being elected is still in place. Most people still aren't being told what's happening, who's at fault, or what the effects will be. And there's zero reason to think traumatic events will "wake people up."
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I’m in
February 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I’m in
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Elon Musk spending more than $4 million to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court race
NC Republicans going to unprecedented lengths to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race
There’s a constitutional crisis in the states as well
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
NC Republicans going to unprecedented lengths to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race
There’s a constitutional crisis in the states as well
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Republicans and Elon Musk are also causing a constitutional crisis in the states
The GOP is going to unprecedented lengths to seize power over state courts in North Carolina and Wisconsin.
www.motherjones.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Elon Musk spending more than $4 million to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court race
NC Republicans going to unprecedented lengths to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race
There’s a constitutional crisis in the states as well
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
NC Republicans going to unprecedented lengths to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race
There’s a constitutional crisis in the states as well
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Love this!
Dear Manager,
1. I drank a whiskey drink.
2. I drank a vodka drink.
3. I drank a lager drink.
4. I drank a cider drink.
5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.
1. I drank a whiskey drink.
2. I drank a vodka drink.
3. I drank a lager drink.
4. I drank a cider drink.
5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.
February 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Love this!
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Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
wrd.cm
February 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated."
"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety
Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.
www.rollingstone.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated."
"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”
EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
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Choose Your Adventure, a microfiction.
Science: Car A impacts Car B, producing Force F.
Engineering: Seat belts! Crumple zones! Air bags!
Economics: Here's what all that costs.
Business: Oof. Maybe in our luxury models.
Government (1): Sucks to be poor.
Government (2): Poor Lives Matter.
Science: Car A impacts Car B, producing Force F.
Engineering: Seat belts! Crumple zones! Air bags!
Economics: Here's what all that costs.
Business: Oof. Maybe in our luxury models.
Government (1): Sucks to be poor.
Government (2): Poor Lives Matter.
February 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Choose Your Adventure, a microfiction.
Science: Car A impacts Car B, producing Force F.
Engineering: Seat belts! Crumple zones! Air bags!
Economics: Here's what all that costs.
Business: Oof. Maybe in our luxury models.
Government (1): Sucks to be poor.
Government (2): Poor Lives Matter.
Science: Car A impacts Car B, producing Force F.
Engineering: Seat belts! Crumple zones! Air bags!
Economics: Here's what all that costs.
Business: Oof. Maybe in our luxury models.
Government (1): Sucks to be poor.
Government (2): Poor Lives Matter.
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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
February 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?