Jennifer Smyth
@jensmyth.bsky.social
Teaching, gardening, sewing, and nerdery.
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Hard to believe the unbelievable cruelty of the Trump administration. You are watching the deliberate and illegal strangulation of 10 million people and the US media can hardly be bothered to notice. Whether the govt stays or falls, this man-made humanitarian crisis of epic proportions will remain.
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Hard to believe the unbelievable cruelty of the Trump administration. You are watching the deliberate and illegal strangulation of 10 million people and the US media can hardly be bothered to notice. Whether the govt stays or falls, this man-made humanitarian crisis of epic proportions will remain.
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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for what should be a week of winter weather instead of the harshest conditions that spring has to offer: wingssilverwork.com/red-willow-s....
February 18, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for what should be a week of winter weather instead of the harshest conditions that spring has to offer: wingssilverwork.com/red-willow-s....
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The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
February 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
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An ethics waiver is for when you waive ethics
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
February 18, 2026 at 2:04 AM
An ethics waiver is for when you waive ethics
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Ambiguity is beyond required and also she's in an extremely delicate spot, trying to signal the possibility of an alternative to the official line?! and the whole world watching in terror
February 18, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Ambiguity is beyond required and also she's in an extremely delicate spot, trying to signal the possibility of an alternative to the official line?! and the whole world watching in terror
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I've consistently maintained that the bar for meaningful participation in foreign policy discourse should be low, but I'd like to set it at least one notch above "critiquing an answer on Taiwan without knowing about 'strategic ambiguity'," a bar Barkan fails to clear nymag.com/intelligence...
AOC’s Munich Stumble Is a Warning to the Left
It’s time for progressives to get more sophisticated about national security and foreign policy.
nymag.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I've consistently maintained that the bar for meaningful participation in foreign policy discourse should be low, but I'd like to set it at least one notch above "critiquing an answer on Taiwan without knowing about 'strategic ambiguity'," a bar Barkan fails to clear nymag.com/intelligence...
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Genocide.
It was genocide when Andrew Jackson did it to Native Americans & it’s genocide now.
That Yossi Klein Halevi circulates a letter NOW calling the word genocide “blood libel“* tells on some Israeli & US Jewish centers’ (these signatories)’ tacit approval of Palestinian land theft.
*ayfkm
It was genocide when Andrew Jackson did it to Native Americans & it’s genocide now.
That Yossi Klein Halevi circulates a letter NOW calling the word genocide “blood libel“* tells on some Israeli & US Jewish centers’ (these signatories)’ tacit approval of Palestinian land theft.
*ayfkm
Bezalel Smotrich: the next government must "encourage voluntary migration" of Palestinian from the West Bank - there is no other solution. "We must complete the revolution".
This is what the Israeli right is working towards: not Apartheid, but mass expulsion.
www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...
This is what the Israeli right is working towards: not Apartheid, but mass expulsion.
www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...
סמוטריץ' הצהיר כי על הממשלה הבאה "לעודד הגירה" של פלסטינים מהגדה
שר האוצר אמר בכנס של הציונות הדתית כי "בטווח הארוך אין פתרון אחר", וקרא לבטל את הסכמי אוסלו
www.haaretz.co.il
February 18, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Genocide.
It was genocide when Andrew Jackson did it to Native Americans & it’s genocide now.
That Yossi Klein Halevi circulates a letter NOW calling the word genocide “blood libel“* tells on some Israeli & US Jewish centers’ (these signatories)’ tacit approval of Palestinian land theft.
*ayfkm
It was genocide when Andrew Jackson did it to Native Americans & it’s genocide now.
That Yossi Klein Halevi circulates a letter NOW calling the word genocide “blood libel“* tells on some Israeli & US Jewish centers’ (these signatories)’ tacit approval of Palestinian land theft.
*ayfkm
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This captures my fear about these drugs - that people will see their existence as license to be even crueler to fat people and to further police what an acceptable body looks like. I already see it in people I know- they use the drugs to confirm their judgments rather than question their assumptions
I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy.
But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.
But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.
February 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
This captures my fear about these drugs - that people will see their existence as license to be even crueler to fat people and to further police what an acceptable body looks like. I already see it in people I know- they use the drugs to confirm their judgments rather than question their assumptions
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The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.
February 17, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.
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Monstrously evil. Abolish ICE. Melt down its weapons and sell off all of its assets. Release everyone from its concentration camps and grant citizenship (if they want it) to everyone whose rights it has violated.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Monstrously evil. Abolish ICE. Melt down its weapons and sell off all of its assets. Release everyone from its concentration camps and grant citizenship (if they want it) to everyone whose rights it has violated.
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The plan is for you to own nothing and be forced to use cloud computing for everything. We don't even own our phones anymore! Pay monthly installments on that! We stream everything for movies and music. Xbox Game Pass. This isn't conspiracy shit, it's how we consume everything now.
February 18, 2026 at 2:12 AM
The plan is for you to own nothing and be forced to use cloud computing for everything. We don't even own our phones anymore! Pay monthly installments on that! We stream everything for movies and music. Xbox Game Pass. This isn't conspiracy shit, it's how we consume everything now.
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Oh the irony of ChatGPT users and Claude Coders being the reason they themselves won't have hardware to use ChatGPT and Claude Code on in the near future is too good
February 18, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Oh the irony of ChatGPT users and Claude Coders being the reason they themselves won't have hardware to use ChatGPT and Claude Code on in the near future is too good
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i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham
February 18, 2026 at 2:12 AM
i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham
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Your regular reminder that since August of last year, Mr. Abrego has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, but the Trump admin refuses to do so because they want to instead punish him by sending him to an African country that will most likely detain and then deport him to El Salvador for the admin.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled. https://cnn.it/4kHhwqR
February 17, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Your regular reminder that since August of last year, Mr. Abrego has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, but the Trump admin refuses to do so because they want to instead punish him by sending him to an African country that will most likely detain and then deport him to El Salvador for the admin.
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A different 20-year-old refugee in Minneapolis got abducted by ICE then jailed in a cell 5x over capacity with an overflowing toilet and no beds or blankets. Fellow detainees were denied life-saving medication and forced to sleep standing in excrement. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM
A different 20-year-old refugee in Minneapolis got abducted by ICE then jailed in a cell 5x over capacity with an overflowing toilet and no beds or blankets. Fellow detainees were denied life-saving medication and forced to sleep standing in excrement. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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As glad as I am that he's keep track of this family, just think of the countless other children and families who have no advocates. This whole system must be dismantled and everyone involved in propping it up held accountable.
We are laser-focused on tracking them down, holding ICE accountable for this monstrous action, demanding specific details on their whereabouts and wellbeing, and ensuring their safety.
February 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
As glad as I am that he's keep track of this family, just think of the countless other children and families who have no advocates. This whole system must be dismantled and everyone involved in propping it up held accountable.
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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says Trump exerting ‘unfair’ pressure on Kyiv during Geneva talks
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says Trump exerting ‘unfair’ pressure on Kyiv during Geneva talks
Ukrainian president says he hopes Trump’s recent remarks are ‘just his tactics and not the decision’ as negotiators meet in Geneva. What we know on day 1,456
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says Trump exerting ‘unfair’ pressure on Kyiv during Geneva talks
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ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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i don’t think dems will have the numbers they need to actually dismantle DHS or even just ICE after the midterms, *but* they can spend two years tearing into what’s likely to be a megaton of malfeasance and fraud at DHS and line it all up for a dem AG
corrupt, but also staggeringly incompetent and catastrophically understaffed when it comes to planning and administrative capacity
One of my firm beliefs about ICE's $79B budget is that the organization is so corrupt it'll grift and graft it's way through that pile of dough so fast it'll make heads spin.
February 17, 2026 at 8:05 PM
i don’t think dems will have the numbers they need to actually dismantle DHS or even just ICE after the midterms, *but* they can spend two years tearing into what’s likely to be a megaton of malfeasance and fraud at DHS and line it all up for a dem AG
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the people pushing this bullshit, including those who claim to be on the left, are basically trying to enforce a tech version of TINA (“there is no alternative”): there’s only Silicon Valley’s version of digital technology, or none at all. don’t dare consider there could be another path.
February 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
the people pushing this bullshit, including those who claim to be on the left, are basically trying to enforce a tech version of TINA (“there is no alternative”): there’s only Silicon Valley’s version of digital technology, or none at all. don’t dare consider there could be another path.
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why won’t the left just praise every technology handed down from self-interested billionaires seeking only to enhance their power and profits?! clearly, they’re the ones in the wrong if they can’t get on board 😤
February 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
why won’t the left just praise every technology handed down from self-interested billionaires seeking only to enhance their power and profits?! clearly, they’re the ones in the wrong if they can’t get on board 😤
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Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.
After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
February 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.
After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
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Rs did exactly what progressives said they were going to do, which is make immigrants at large the problem because their end goal is white nationalism, not a better immigration system.
February 16, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Rs did exactly what progressives said they were going to do, which is make immigrants at large the problem because their end goal is white nationalism, not a better immigration system.
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There was never any border crisis and when you pretend that there is *some* kind of problem with the system to placate Rs, you allow them to paint immigration as the problem itself. What should have been a full throated defense of immigration became a bigger crackdown at the border
February 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
There was never any border crisis and when you pretend that there is *some* kind of problem with the system to placate Rs, you allow them to paint immigration as the problem itself. What should have been a full throated defense of immigration became a bigger crackdown at the border