Nadine Smith
@nadinesmith.bsky.social
Civil rights activist.
Frontline Florida Resistance. 🏳️🌈
Host, Wide Awake America
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Frontline Florida Resistance. 🏳️🌈
Host, Wide Awake America
Join me here: www.WideAwakeAmerica.org
A U.S. president just toppled a foreign government to “run” its oil‑rich country like a seized casino and every autocrat on Earth is watching.
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Trump’s Mobster Shakedown in Venezuela
A U.S. president just toppled a foreign government to “run” its oil‑rich country like a seized casino and every autocrat on Earth is watching.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
A U.S. president just toppled a foreign government to “run” its oil‑rich country like a seized casino and every autocrat on Earth is watching.
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Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a 2nd year in a row.
Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker.
Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker.
January 2, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a 2nd year in a row.
Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker.
Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker.
New Year's Resolution:
Laugh more; Resist smarter.
In the roundup of top Wide Awake America posts, I'm glad so many people enjoyed a look at the history of mockery and laughter as a tool for toppling tyrants.
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Laugh more; Resist smarter.
In the roundup of top Wide Awake America posts, I'm glad so many people enjoyed a look at the history of mockery and laughter as a tool for toppling tyrants.
1nadinesmith.substack.com/publish/post...
Laughter, Not Obedience: The Power of Mockery Against Authoritarianism
Authoritarians thrive on anger but crumble under ridicule. Their power relies on compliance; mockery strips it away.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
New Year's Resolution:
Laugh more; Resist smarter.
In the roundup of top Wide Awake America posts, I'm glad so many people enjoyed a look at the history of mockery and laughter as a tool for toppling tyrants.
1nadinesmith.substack.com/publish/post...
Laugh more; Resist smarter.
In the roundup of top Wide Awake America posts, I'm glad so many people enjoyed a look at the history of mockery and laughter as a tool for toppling tyrants.
1nadinesmith.substack.com/publish/post...
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This is Pastor Michel Tshimankinda getting detained, brutalized & experiencing #ICELawlessness. They weren't looking for him—they were looking for someone else. They had no warrant, just brute force & if it can happen to him, it could happen to anyone.
So talk about it at your holiday celebrations.
So talk about it at your holiday celebrations.
January 1, 2026 at 8:25 PM
This is Pastor Michel Tshimankinda getting detained, brutalized & experiencing #ICELawlessness. They weren't looking for him—they were looking for someone else. They had no warrant, just brute force & if it can happen to him, it could happen to anyone.
So talk about it at your holiday celebrations.
So talk about it at your holiday celebrations.
I’d put in $100, easy.
December 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I’d put in $100, easy.
#4 Top Wide Awake America stories I wrote this back in February, long before Redacted Don was threatening to execute Congressmembers for reminding servicemembers of their duty to disobey an illegal order. It generated the most online debate. 1nadinesmith.substack.com/p/when-the-i...
When the Illegal Order Comes
What to Do to Protect Your Rights and Your Integrity
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December 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
#4 Top Wide Awake America stories I wrote this back in February, long before Redacted Don was threatening to execute Congressmembers for reminding servicemembers of their duty to disobey an illegal order. It generated the most online debate. 1nadinesmith.substack.com/p/when-the-i...
#5 Top WideAwakeAmerica.org
This surprised with the # of shares and DMs generated.
It wasn’t breaking news, more of a meditation on how history continues to reverberate and how close we are teetering backwards into the horror we want to believe we have overcome.
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This surprised with the # of shares and DMs generated.
It wasn’t breaking news, more of a meditation on how history continues to reverberate and how close we are teetering backwards into the horror we want to believe we have overcome.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
A 500-Year-Old Shark and the Unfinished Reckoning with Slavery
This shark has been swimming since before the transatlantic slave trade began, a reminder that the past isn’t gone—it’s still circling us.
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December 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#5 Top WideAwakeAmerica.org
This surprised with the # of shares and DMs generated.
It wasn’t breaking news, more of a meditation on how history continues to reverberate and how close we are teetering backwards into the horror we want to believe we have overcome.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
This surprised with the # of shares and DMs generated.
It wasn’t breaking news, more of a meditation on how history continues to reverberate and how close we are teetering backwards into the horror we want to believe we have overcome.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
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Innocent people are being brutalized, ripped from their families & denied medical attention.
In addition to Trump & the Republicans who made the policies & #ICELawlessness & thuggery, there are giant private prison companies engaging in this depravity.
Who should pay for these human rights abuses?
In addition to Trump & the Republicans who made the policies & #ICELawlessness & thuggery, there are giant private prison companies engaging in this depravity.
Who should pay for these human rights abuses?
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Innocent people are being brutalized, ripped from their families & denied medical attention.
In addition to Trump & the Republicans who made the policies & #ICELawlessness & thuggery, there are giant private prison companies engaging in this depravity.
Who should pay for these human rights abuses?
In addition to Trump & the Republicans who made the policies & #ICELawlessness & thuggery, there are giant private prison companies engaging in this depravity.
Who should pay for these human rights abuses?
Wow
In just the past week, hundreds of new subscribers signed up for the WideAwakeAmerica.org newsletter.
I know its because my BlueSky friends signed up, shared articles. You boosted the podcast. You helped get the Substack in front of more people.
Thank You!
In just the past week, hundreds of new subscribers signed up for the WideAwakeAmerica.org newsletter.
I know its because my BlueSky friends signed up, shared articles. You boosted the podcast. You helped get the Substack in front of more people.
Thank You!
December 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Wow
In just the past week, hundreds of new subscribers signed up for the WideAwakeAmerica.org newsletter.
I know its because my BlueSky friends signed up, shared articles. You boosted the podcast. You helped get the Substack in front of more people.
Thank You!
In just the past week, hundreds of new subscribers signed up for the WideAwakeAmerica.org newsletter.
I know its because my BlueSky friends signed up, shared articles. You boosted the podcast. You helped get the Substack in front of more people.
Thank You!
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
If you have a chance to interview Ada Palmer, take it.
Here’s your chance to listen to her. She will reset your nervous system and make you want hang out in Florence on a lazy, Sunday afternoon.
I like what I wrote but the interview is even more nutritious.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
Here’s your chance to listen to her. She will reset your nervous system and make you want hang out in Florence on a lazy, Sunday afternoon.
I like what I wrote but the interview is even more nutritious.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
What Tyrants Actually Want When They Erase Things
What historian and novelist Ada Palmer taught me about censorship, fear, and the long-term power of resistance.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you have a chance to interview Ada Palmer, take it.
Here’s your chance to listen to her. She will reset your nervous system and make you want hang out in Florence on a lazy, Sunday afternoon.
I like what I wrote but the interview is even more nutritious.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
Here’s your chance to listen to her. She will reset your nervous system and make you want hang out in Florence on a lazy, Sunday afternoon.
I like what I wrote but the interview is even more nutritious.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
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Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
Trump Uses ‘National Security’ To Freeze Offshore Wind Work
The administration has already lost once in court wielding the same argument against Revolution Wind.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
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From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
www.theverge.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
Jinkies!
Trump is doing everything he can to protect the names of powerful people meddling with kids.
Trump is doing everything he can to protect the names of powerful people meddling with kids.
December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Jinkies!
Trump is doing everything he can to protect the names of powerful people meddling with kids.
Trump is doing everything he can to protect the names of powerful people meddling with kids.
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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
A boxing ring is a wild place to propose but…love is love.
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A boxing ring is a wild place to propose but…love is love.
We could all use more light. Check out this wonderful list of voices to travel with.
🌲My Holiday Starter Pack 🌲
Wishing you all a Joyful HOLIDAY SEASON
With a special thanks to these great people who fight for our Democracy every day
I hope you will follow all of them.. They are keepers of the flame
🌲❤️🌲❤️🌲
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Wishing you all a Joyful HOLIDAY SEASON
With a special thanks to these great people who fight for our Democracy every day
I hope you will follow all of them.. They are keepers of the flame
🌲❤️🌲❤️🌲
go.bsky.app/T4ndBHR
December 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We could all use more light. Check out this wonderful list of voices to travel with.
Are you still on Facebook?
If so, I hope you will swing by and connect with me there too.
www.facebook.com/nadines1
If so, I hope you will swing by and connect with me there too.
www.facebook.com/nadines1
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December 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Let's redact his face on all posts until the Epstein files are actually released, as a symbol that we are not putting up with this farce of completely blacked-out pages.
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Let's redact his face on all posts until the Epstein files are actually released, as a symbol that we are not putting up with this farce of completely blacked-out pages.
Just a reminder:
December 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Just a reminder:
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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