Daren Smith
@darensmith.bsky.social
Free agent editor/writer who’s covered the NHL, the Olympics, minor league baseball, NJ politics. Looking for work.
If he’s talking, he’s lying. sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
If he’s talking, he’s lying. sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
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The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
Finally, a worthy cause. For how long have we been asking, “Where will the next generation of investors come from?”
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Finally, a worthy cause. For how long have we been asking, “Where will the next generation of investors come from?”
It’s nostalgic that the president has adopted a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding his MRI.
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It’s nostalgic that the president has adopted a “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding his MRI.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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In which Patton Oswalt tells Jay Mohr Joe Rogan is like the new L Ron Hubbard
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In which Patton Oswalt tells Jay Mohr Joe Rogan is like the new L Ron Hubbard
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
If only the folks putting trillions into AI invested a tiny fraction in, you know, people
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If only the folks putting trillions into AI invested a tiny fraction in, you know, people
During a recent Transatlantic phone call:
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
During a recent Transatlantic phone call:
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We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.
September 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.
This hits so hard.
In addition to backstopping the greatest hockey team I’ve ever seen, his books — “The Game” and “Home Game” — are two of the best ever written about the sport. www.nhl.com/canadiens/ne...
In addition to backstopping the greatest hockey team I’ve ever seen, his books — “The Game” and “Home Game” — are two of the best ever written about the sport. www.nhl.com/canadiens/ne...
The Montreal Canadiens mourn the passing of Ken Dryden | Montréal Canadiens
Hall-of-Fame goaltender won six Stanley Cups with the team
www.nhl.com
September 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This hits so hard.
In addition to backstopping the greatest hockey team I’ve ever seen, his books — “The Game” and “Home Game” — are two of the best ever written about the sport. www.nhl.com/canadiens/ne...
In addition to backstopping the greatest hockey team I’ve ever seen, his books — “The Game” and “Home Game” — are two of the best ever written about the sport. www.nhl.com/canadiens/ne...
May 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Gasparino's been right a lot and wrong a lot, but if he's right, he's unwittingly saying that the White House leaks information to friendly investors who can front-run the markets
April 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gasparino's been right a lot and wrong a lot, but if he's right, he's unwittingly saying that the White House leaks information to friendly investors who can front-run the markets
Happy anniversary!
March 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Happy anniversary!
Ironic that many of the same Democrats who forced Biden to the sidelines refuse to step aside themselves.
March 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Ironic that many of the same Democrats who forced Biden to the sidelines refuse to step aside themselves.
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Scoop: As Jeff Bezos pushes The Washington Post in a rightward direction, publisher Will Lewis quietly met last month with the editor in chief of the Free Beacon where the two discussed recruiting conservative journalists.
Details in Status: www.status.news/p/washington...
Details in Status: www.status.news/p/washington...
The Post's Beacon of Inspiration
As Jeff Bezos pushes The Washington Post to the right, publisher Will Lewis quietly met with a conservative editor last month.
www.status.news
March 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Scoop: As Jeff Bezos pushes The Washington Post in a rightward direction, publisher Will Lewis quietly met last month with the editor in chief of the Free Beacon where the two discussed recruiting conservative journalists.
Details in Status: www.status.news/p/washington...
Details in Status: www.status.news/p/washington...
If you see this, quote post with a photo you took of a sunset.
March 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
If you see this, quote post with a photo you took of a sunset.
How quickly we forget 1778, when Louis XVI and his foreign minister, Comte de Vergennes, berated Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee and Silas Deane for not being supplicant enough as France considered whether to provide aid to America at the height of the Revolutionary War.
Because it didn’t happen.
Because it didn’t happen.
February 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
How quickly we forget 1778, when Louis XVI and his foreign minister, Comte de Vergennes, berated Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee and Silas Deane for not being supplicant enough as France considered whether to provide aid to America at the height of the Revolutionary War.
Because it didn’t happen.
Because it didn’t happen.