David Smith
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David Smith
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Proud libtard
NYS Department of taxation just sent me a notice claiming i underpaid my 2022 taxes by like $75. This feels like one of those state level scams.

Like its too small to spend a lot of time fighting but also fuck that I paid my taxes.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
When your motto is "don't be evil" and you decide its no longer an appropriate motto....
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
No matter how old I live to be I will never be too old to watch The Sandlot.
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Unless he dies suddenly in office, he's probably going to issue blanket pardons to everyone who did what he asked. The people breaking the law for him are counting on this.
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Yes falling apart for Trump just like im 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021....

I hope so, but I'll believe it when i see it.
Really hard to overstate how fast it's falling apart for Trump rn.
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Dick Cheney dies the day that the first Muslim is elected NYC mayor.
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This could easily be the best thing about Mamdami--if Dershowitz was telling the truth.
What's driving the surge in the Jewish vote for Mamdani in NYC
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My wife is an immigrant.

I just got a notification email that USCIS had "taken action" on our case, but there is nothing new or changed showing in their portal.

This does not feel great.
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This quote continues to rattle me to my core:

"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."

That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:
Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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If you blame migrants collectively for the horrible actions of a few but do not hold white people collectively responsible when white people commit heinous crimes, that's racism. Just saying.
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Go Blue Jays!
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If you title a calendar invite "Let's Connect! Other words" know i am not reading the rest and i assume this is some kind of sales spam.
October 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Jack Smith for president??
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.

Remove him from office.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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If the House ever reconvenes, every Democrat should sponsor a resolution impeaching Trump for the destruction of the East Wing. It's not his worst crime, but it should be shocking to the largest number of Americans. Of course it'll fail - but the whole party should go on record calling this a crime.
October 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign
"Antidrug campaign" dear lord
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In response to the arrest of the man who was threatening Jefferies I was wrong. That was state troopers who arrested him.

The DOJ clearly does not exist to protest Democratic lawmakers.
DOJ declined to bring charges against two people who threatened to kill @ericswalwell.bsky.social this year, @nbcnews.com reports: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It has only been nine months????
October 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I think the statement from the GOP is that protests are not legitimate unless they get to smear shit on something.
October 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Yeah, Obama definitely bears some blame for where we are.

If you just lookat the kind if ten thousand foot view of his presidency it was pretty good.

Once you get into some of the details...not so much. This one in particular was very bad for democracy.
It's not even really that hard to imagine what the memo looks like, assuming they continue bothering with such niceties. You take the Obama-era DOJ memo justifying the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, plus assert the targets are in an "insurrectionary" city rendering capture infeasible.
October 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM