Kim Smith 💪🐸🇺🇸
@kimshere.bsky.social
Writer, naturalist, native plant gardener, #bugdork, knitter, reader. 🇺🇸 Ohio.📚
🧶 I knit so I don't strangle people. 🧶
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness. (Desmond Tutu)
🧶 I knit so I don't strangle people. 🧶
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness. (Desmond Tutu)
Dagna Cardi blocking! I made a couple near-disastrous decisions with my steek, but managed to pull it off. Details in alt text. #knitsky #cardigan #knitting #colorwork #strandedknitting
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Dagna Cardi blocking! I made a couple near-disastrous decisions with my steek, but managed to pull it off. Details in alt text. #knitsky #cardigan #knitting #colorwork #strandedknitting
Just watched "Train Dreams" on Netflix and have to say that I haven't enjoyed a movie this much in a VERY long time. What a beautiful story about life, love, and our place in the world. Savor this one. #movies youtu.be/HyRdazbYKgY?...
Train Dreams | Official Teaser | Netflix
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November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Just watched "Train Dreams" on Netflix and have to say that I haven't enjoyed a movie this much in a VERY long time. What a beautiful story about life, love, and our place in the world. Savor this one. #movies youtu.be/HyRdazbYKgY?...
Sophie is oblivious to the fact that it's #Caturday. Here she's napping on her heated pad on a cold day. #catnap #cat #catsky #sleepingcat
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sophie is oblivious to the fact that it's #Caturday. Here she's napping on her heated pad on a cold day. #catnap #cat #catsky #sleepingcat
For this week's WIP theme for #showmeyourknits, I'm finally into the colorwork yoke of my Dagna Cardigan! It's always fun to see the pattern emerge one row at a time. 🧶💚 #knitsky #knitting #strandedknitting
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
For this week's WIP theme for #showmeyourknits, I'm finally into the colorwork yoke of my Dagna Cardigan! It's always fun to see the pattern emerge one row at a time. 🧶💚 #knitsky #knitting #strandedknitting
Just finished my 3rd version of the "Close to You" scarf and this is the first time I noticed it called for a picot bind off. 🤪 The 2nd picture is one I took this morning in NW Ohio, our first snow of the season. I'm calling it "The Joy of Overlapping Seasons." Boo on soggy leaves. 😢 #knitsky #snow
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Cancelled my Spotify premium because they're running ads for ICE, which means they're supporting the horrific illegal attacks on Americans. Took me less than 2 minutes to cancel AND transfer all of my playlists to Tidal. Easy peasy and felt great. Should have done it a long time ago. #cancelspotify
Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Cancelled my Spotify premium because they're running ads for ICE, which means they're supporting the horrific illegal attacks on Americans. Took me less than 2 minutes to cancel AND transfer all of my playlists to Tidal. Easy peasy and felt great. Should have done it a long time ago. #cancelspotify
I donated to my local food bank and I hope you'll consider it too When SNAP benefits are cut off next week, millions of our neighbors are going to struggle to feed their families. This should never happen in America and we should pull together to help them. 😢
This is an emergency. This is about families being able to put food on the table and about the stability of our communities. We need immediate action to restore SNAP benefits.
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I donated to my local food bank and I hope you'll consider it too When SNAP benefits are cut off next week, millions of our neighbors are going to struggle to feed their families. This should never happen in America and we should pull together to help them. 😢
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Trump is throwing 15 million Americans off health care.
He's doubling premiums for 20 million Americans.
Now, he's refusing to use a $5 billion emergency SNAP fund to keep 16 million kids from going hungry.
But the 1% keep $1 trillion in tax breaks.
Oligarchy in action.
He's doubling premiums for 20 million Americans.
Now, he's refusing to use a $5 billion emergency SNAP fund to keep 16 million kids from going hungry.
But the 1% keep $1 trillion in tax breaks.
Oligarchy in action.
October 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Trump is throwing 15 million Americans off health care.
He's doubling premiums for 20 million Americans.
Now, he's refusing to use a $5 billion emergency SNAP fund to keep 16 million kids from going hungry.
But the 1% keep $1 trillion in tax breaks.
Oligarchy in action.
He's doubling premiums for 20 million Americans.
Now, he's refusing to use a $5 billion emergency SNAP fund to keep 16 million kids from going hungry.
But the 1% keep $1 trillion in tax breaks.
Oligarchy in action.
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
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As SNAP benefits are cut, this should be something we demand of state governors to do with their states national guard.
Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this
Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
As SNAP benefits are cut, this should be something we demand of state governors to do with their states national guard.
Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this
Food banks & other forms of community aid will feel the stress caused by these cuts. There will undoubtedly be understaffing and shortages, this is one way we can prepare for this
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I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024.
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024.
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
This week's #showmeyourknits inspired me to start making hats for charity, something I haven't done for quite a few years. These are the two I made so far this week, modeled by my Vermont teddy bear whose head is too small. These will go to the unhoused in southeast Michigan next month. ♥️ #knitsky
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This week's #showmeyourknits inspired me to start making hats for charity, something I haven't done for quite a few years. These are the two I made so far this week, modeled by my Vermont teddy bear whose head is too small. These will go to the unhoused in southeast Michigan next month. ♥️ #knitsky
Even my mail is pissing me off these days. 🤬 What was @aarpfoundation.bsky.social thinking, putting Stallone on the cover as an "American icon" ? 🤮 He's as M@GA as they come, and I had to block out his face before I could even consider reading this issue. Still might not.... #boohiss #aarp
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Even my mail is pissing me off these days. 🤬 What was @aarpfoundation.bsky.social thinking, putting Stallone on the cover as an "American icon" ? 🤮 He's as M@GA as they come, and I had to block out his face before I could even consider reading this issue. Still might not.... #boohiss #aarp
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Why is Vought’s role as Trump’s budget director so key to the president’s plans?
“Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.
“Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.
What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Why is Vought’s role as Trump’s budget director so key to the president’s plans?
“Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.
“Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.
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This is heartbreaking and surely not legal to do this without congressional approval. This is OUR house, damn it. #whitehouse
JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)
October 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is heartbreaking and surely not legal to do this without congressional approval. This is OUR house, damn it. #whitehouse
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Our confirmed count stands at 8.1 million participants worldwide for yesterday’s No Kings protest. Thank you to everyone who helped verify the numbers through our submission website. While some MAGAs attempted to submit false or misleading data (such as reporting “one person” for major cities)
October 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Our confirmed count stands at 8.1 million participants worldwide for yesterday’s No Kings protest. Thank you to everyone who helped verify the numbers through our submission website. While some MAGAs attempted to submit false or misleading data (such as reporting “one person” for major cities)
#showmeyourknits theme this week is #hats. I haven't knitted hats for a while, but now I'm motivated to start doing some for charity. Here are a few from my Ravelry projects over the years. #knitting #knitsky
October 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#showmeyourknits theme this week is #hats. I haven't knitted hats for a while, but now I'm motivated to start doing some for charity. Here are a few from my Ravelry projects over the years. #knitting #knitsky
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
Toledo, Ohio, is LIT!! #NoKings This is definitely our biggest and most visible protest so far this year. We lined both sides of a main thoroughfare for 2 miles today. 🇺🇸💙💪 Thank you Toledo for showing up for democracy! #indivisible
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Toledo, Ohio, is LIT!! #NoKings This is definitely our biggest and most visible protest so far this year. We lined both sides of a main thoroughfare for 2 miles today. 🇺🇸💙💪 Thank you Toledo for showing up for democracy! #indivisible
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Levin: I did not pay one dime to any Republican to publicize the No Kings protest. They’re talking about it all by themselves because they’re scared—scared of mass, peaceful people power.
They can smear us all they want—these are our First Amendment rights, and we’re showing up.
They can smear us all they want—these are our First Amendment rights, and we’re showing up.
October 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Levin: I did not pay one dime to any Republican to publicize the No Kings protest. They’re talking about it all by themselves because they’re scared—scared of mass, peaceful people power.
They can smear us all they want—these are our First Amendment rights, and we’re showing up.
They can smear us all they want—these are our First Amendment rights, and we’re showing up.
The world is with us today! Have a safe and fun #NoKings day, America!
The inflatable frog has gone global. Today’s #NoKings #NoTyrants rallies in Japan, Australia, Spain, and Germany.
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The world is with us today! Have a safe and fun #NoKings day, America!