Thomas Smith
@seriouspod.bsky.social
Caster of too many pods: Opening Arguments, Where There’s Woke, Serious Inquiries Only, Dear Old Dads, and Gavel Gavel.
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Thomas Smith
@seriouspod.bsky.social
· Nov 27
This was my pinned tweet forever. Need to bring it over here. I don't see this as much right now, but it is something that frustrates me to no end and we saw a lot of "do something!" directed at Elizabeth Warren the other week.
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Let the history books show that when fascism took hold in America, all of traditional journalism stood tall, and with one voice bravely proclaimed, “appear to contradict”
January 25, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Let the history books show that when fascism took hold in America, all of traditional journalism stood tall, and with one voice bravely proclaimed, “appear to contradict”
I really think the NYT will consider itself to have done a good job one we get to “President Trump, some critics say the ethnic cleansing and the camps are morally bad. What’s your response?”
*Trump spews the most racist logorrhea a sitting president has ever directed against a single ethnic group in one public interview*
"I've heard many people say that this is generalizing a population."
if this is being a journalist i am just as happy to be a podcaster
"I've heard many people say that this is generalizing a population."
if this is being a journalist i am just as happy to be a podcaster
January 12, 2026 at 11:35 AM
I really think the NYT will consider itself to have done a good job one we get to “President Trump, some critics say the ethnic cleansing and the camps are morally bad. What’s your response?”
Dear god, if I hear how this event was a "political Rorschach test" one more goddamn fucking time... No. It was a murder. Some number of people either refuse to see that or see it and like it. That isn't a fucking Rorschach test.
January 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Dear god, if I hear how this event was a "political Rorschach test" one more goddamn fucking time... No. It was a murder. Some number of people either refuse to see that or see it and like it. That isn't a fucking Rorschach test.
This seems right
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
This seems right
You see, it was his past trauma that made him film himself murdering a woman and calling her dead body a “fuckin bitch.” He was afraid!
January 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
You see, it was his past trauma that made him film himself murdering a woman and calling her dead body a “fuckin bitch.” He was afraid!
I know I’m screaming into the void but anyone who does anything other than completely condemn this vile, misogynist hate crime murder doesn’t deserve to be in our society.
January 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I know I’m screaming into the void but anyone who does anything other than completely condemn this vile, misogynist hate crime murder doesn’t deserve to be in our society.
I ran out of my rainbow pride stick tape and had to finish with black tape and accidentally depicted America under Trump 2.0
January 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I ran out of my rainbow pride stick tape and had to finish with black tape and accidentally depicted America under Trump 2.0
NYT: "The photons in the video appear to be configured in such a way as to suggest the possibility that the light was reflecting from the subjects into the camera lens in a manner that would be consistent with a story that would appear to possibly conflict with what the Trump administration said."
January 8, 2026 at 11:45 PM
NYT: "The photons in the video appear to be configured in such a way as to suggest the possibility that the light was reflecting from the subjects into the camera lens in a manner that would be consistent with a story that would appear to possibly conflict with what the Trump administration said."
I don’t even know who the lies are for anymore
January 8, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I don’t even know who the lies are for anymore
Just heard someone on the news say oil was in the “subtext” of the press conference. Even when Trump just says “it’s about the oil” somehow it’s still too far for the media to just say “it’s about the oil.”
January 4, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Just heard someone on the news say oil was in the “subtext” of the press conference. Even when Trump just says “it’s about the oil” somehow it’s still too far for the media to just say “it’s about the oil.”
Maybe JD Vance should apologize for being white, actually
December 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Maybe JD Vance should apologize for being white, actually
This is just beautiful. Have a good thing and watch this, you deserve it.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng?...
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng?...
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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December 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is just beautiful. Have a good thing and watch this, you deserve it.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng?...
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng?...
God this is such a fucking bummer. The thing they think DEI is is actually what they are. Bari Weiss's talents are: getting rich people to give her money, and cosplaying as a "journalist" by using centrism and faux objectivity language to obscure her persistent bias and sizable incompetence.
This email from Sharyn Alfonsi to her colleagues after Bari Weiss killed their @60minutes.bsky.social piece on CECOT is powerful and worth a full read. (h/t @yasharali.bsky.social)
BREAKING: 60 Minutes Correspondent Says Trump Story Was Spiked For Political Reasons
In an email to her colleagues, Sharyn Alfonsi said that CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss spiked a story about the Trump administration and El Salvador prisons for political reasons.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
God this is such a fucking bummer. The thing they think DEI is is actually what they are. Bari Weiss's talents are: getting rich people to give her money, and cosplaying as a "journalist" by using centrism and faux objectivity language to obscure her persistent bias and sizable incompetence.
YES. We have literally ALL been chanting this, nonstop, IN UNISON, since fucking 2016.
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
YES. We have literally ALL been chanting this, nonstop, IN UNISON, since fucking 2016.
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Where are the stories about the man? Is he also getting death threats? Are people questioning his ethics re the need to make a living?
OK I'm going to stop now but it's really fucking weird how people can't just go, "damn it sucks for this lady."
December 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Where are the stories about the man? Is he also getting death threats? Are people questioning his ethics re the need to make a living?
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TODAY ON OA (12/19)
-how eugenicists, "progressives", and the Klan teamed up to base the American visa system in old-timey racism
-how Trump is bringing back 1920s-style "national origins"-based immigration by executive order
-a British deli tries to trademark the concept of vegetables
-how eugenicists, "progressives", and the Klan teamed up to base the American visa system in old-timey racism
-how Trump is bringing back 1920s-style "national origins"-based immigration by executive order
-a British deli tries to trademark the concept of vegetables
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
TODAY ON OA (12/19)
-how eugenicists, "progressives", and the Klan teamed up to base the American visa system in old-timey racism
-how Trump is bringing back 1920s-style "national origins"-based immigration by executive order
-a British deli tries to trademark the concept of vegetables
-how eugenicists, "progressives", and the Klan teamed up to base the American visa system in old-timey racism
-how Trump is bringing back 1920s-style "national origins"-based immigration by executive order
-a British deli tries to trademark the concept of vegetables
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Today's episode of Opening Arguments with Christopher Blackwell is our 2nd interview with an incarcerated author in as many months. I am so proud to be part of a show that is committed to sharing the human voices of those harmed by our most inhumane law & policy
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Solitary Confinement Is Inhumane, Traumatizing, and Unnecessary. So Why Are We Still Doing It To People?
OA1216 - We welcome incarcerated journalist and advocate Christopher Blackwell, calling from his home at the Washington Corrections Center. Chris is the co-founder and Executive Director of Look2Justi...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today's episode of Opening Arguments with Christopher Blackwell is our 2nd interview with an incarcerated author in as many months. I am so proud to be part of a show that is committed to sharing the human voices of those harmed by our most inhumane law & policy
directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...
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Big thanks to @seriouspod.bsky.social for having me on to talk about Trump's threats to nonprofits — and a bunch of other, uh, fun stuff.
SIO499: Trump Is Weaponizing Government Against Political Enemies. Nick Fish, President of American Atheists, on How to Be Prepared
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December 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Big thanks to @seriouspod.bsky.social for having me on to talk about Trump's threats to nonprofits — and a bunch of other, uh, fun stuff.
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Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!
Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
@openargs.bsky.social
Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!
Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!
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This week's conversation with author, jorunalist, & convicted murderer John J. Lennon calling in from Sing Sing is one of the most interesting we've ever had. John's new book has so much to say about the true crime industrial complex, and what it is doing to us all
www.amazon.com/Tragedy-True...
www.amazon.com/Tragedy-True...
The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us [Lennon, John J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
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November 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This week's conversation with author, jorunalist, & convicted murderer John J. Lennon calling in from Sing Sing is one of the most interesting we've ever had. John's new book has so much to say about the true crime industrial complex, and what it is doing to us all
www.amazon.com/Tragedy-True...
www.amazon.com/Tragedy-True...
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ngl It would be pretty funny if Bill Clinton turned out to be a total boy scout in this and that KEN STARR was the guilty one.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
ngl It would be pretty funny if Bill Clinton turned out to be a total boy scout in this and that KEN STARR was the guilty one.
I don’t know that I believe Schumer engineered the vote, but I guess either he did and those senators took the fall essentially, or he didn’t and that means he couldn’t control his side. Either way, he needs to be fucking gone yesterday. He can go live with the goddamn Baileys
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t know that I believe Schumer engineered the vote, but I guess either he did and those senators took the fall essentially, or he didn’t and that means he couldn’t control his side. Either way, he needs to be fucking gone yesterday. He can go live with the goddamn Baileys
Schumer needs to be gone. There is no world in which this vote makes sense. Either you should never have shut the government down, or you stick to your guns until getting something. Why the fuck do you hold out for a month to ultimately get fucking nothing? This is why people view dems as spineless.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Schumer needs to be gone. There is no world in which this vote makes sense. Either you should never have shut the government down, or you stick to your guns until getting something. Why the fuck do you hold out for a month to ultimately get fucking nothing? This is why people view dems as spineless.