Auntie Smithbrainz
@smithbrainz.bsky.social
Lisa Smith. Writer, narrator, migraine advocate, connector of dots. Sarcasm free of charge. She/her. (I block at the drop of a hat. Nothing personal.)
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The thing is I read bad books all the time-a lot of romance isn’t great but sometimes it’s still worth reading because authors can keep your interest in the plot somehow
What Nuzzi produced is a self involved trite abomination, justifying her choices in normalizing a dangerous man.
What Nuzzi produced is a self involved trite abomination, justifying her choices in normalizing a dangerous man.
I spent a few years reading bad books by worse people to save you the pain.
Having read the first page of the Nuzzi excerpt
Under medical advice I cannot get drunk enough to make reading that worth it and I suggest you don't try either unless you really thought Twilight was intensely good prose.
Having read the first page of the Nuzzi excerpt
Under medical advice I cannot get drunk enough to make reading that worth it and I suggest you don't try either unless you really thought Twilight was intensely good prose.
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The thing is I read bad books all the time-a lot of romance isn’t great but sometimes it’s still worth reading because authors can keep your interest in the plot somehow
What Nuzzi produced is a self involved trite abomination, justifying her choices in normalizing a dangerous man.
What Nuzzi produced is a self involved trite abomination, justifying her choices in normalizing a dangerous man.
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BREAKING: Documents reviewed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
Jeffrey Epstein Had Access to Trump's Inner Circle, While Working With Steve Bannon
Emails and text messages reveal Jeffrey Epstein had a direct line into Donald Trump’s inner circle while Bannon worked to rehabilitate him in the hours before his arrest
bylinetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
BREAKING: Documents reviewed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
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Truly a tragic loss. May her memory be a blessing.
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Truly a tragic loss. May her memory be a blessing.
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What do Jeffrey Clark, Harmeet Dhillon, Heather Honey and Kari Lake have in common?
While they do happen to be Trump’s favorite election deniers, they’re also the force behind the administration’s anti-voting efforts.
Here’s what you need to know👇
https://bit.ly/3LKeRz6
While they do happen to be Trump’s favorite election deniers, they’re also the force behind the administration’s anti-voting efforts.
Here’s what you need to know👇
https://bit.ly/3LKeRz6
Trump’s Administration Is Full of Election Deniers — They’re Already Working to Rig the Vote
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
What do Jeffrey Clark, Harmeet Dhillon, Heather Honey and Kari Lake have in common?
While they do happen to be Trump’s favorite election deniers, they’re also the force behind the administration’s anti-voting efforts.
Here’s what you need to know👇
https://bit.ly/3LKeRz6
While they do happen to be Trump’s favorite election deniers, they’re also the force behind the administration’s anti-voting efforts.
Here’s what you need to know👇
https://bit.ly/3LKeRz6
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Epstein built an empire of abuse and a whole lot of people just sat in silence and didn’t say anything.
The epidemic of violence against women is constructed on a foundation of enabling and turning a blind eye.
This post is about the reporters who said nothing when their peer was called ‘Piggy’
The epidemic of violence against women is constructed on a foundation of enabling and turning a blind eye.
This post is about the reporters who said nothing when their peer was called ‘Piggy’
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Epstein built an empire of abuse and a whole lot of people just sat in silence and didn’t say anything.
The epidemic of violence against women is constructed on a foundation of enabling and turning a blind eye.
This post is about the reporters who said nothing when their peer was called ‘Piggy’
The epidemic of violence against women is constructed on a foundation of enabling and turning a blind eye.
This post is about the reporters who said nothing when their peer was called ‘Piggy’
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ICE is going to raid mosques and synagogues in NYC as an act of revenge against Mamdani’s election.
This is so deeply sick.
This is so deeply sick.
"The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race."
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
ICE is going to raid mosques and synagogues in NYC as an act of revenge against Mamdani’s election.
This is so deeply sick.
This is so deeply sick.
🤬
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🤬
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A machine built to eat people will eat people.
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A machine built to eat people will eat people.
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I’ve spent the last hour reading hundreds of posts from long COVID support groups.
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I’ve spent the last hour reading hundreds of posts from long COVID support groups.
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
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“Lawrence H. Summers is no longer with the Center for American Progress.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“Lawrence H. Summers is no longer with the Center for American Progress.”
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He's on the run.
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement...
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
He's on the run.
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
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“Altho several states had ZERO homicides in pregnant women during the study pd, other states had MORE THAN 100 deaths of preg women per 1 million live births….likely reflect[ing] differences in state-level firearm-related legislation + policies re: access to comprehensive reproductive health care”🧪🛟
For pregnant women—“every 1% increase in state-level firearm ownership was signf’ly associated w/a 6% increase in all-cause homicide & 8% increase in firearm homicide…
results suggest…even incremental increases in firearm avail may contribute to measurable increases in homicide risk in preg women”🧪🛟
results suggest…even incremental increases in firearm avail may contribute to measurable increases in homicide risk in preg women”🧪🛟
New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women.
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“Altho several states had ZERO homicides in pregnant women during the study pd, other states had MORE THAN 100 deaths of preg women per 1 million live births….likely reflect[ing] differences in state-level firearm-related legislation + policies re: access to comprehensive reproductive health care”🧪🛟
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The art and imagination shaped by people living with long COVID these past six years feels almost miraculous.
And I keep wondering what we’ll create when this strange confinement finally breaks.
I’m not sure the world is ready for the brightness waiting beyond it.
And I keep wondering what we’ll create when this strange confinement finally breaks.
I’m not sure the world is ready for the brightness waiting beyond it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The art and imagination shaped by people living with long COVID these past six years feels almost miraculous.
And I keep wondering what we’ll create when this strange confinement finally breaks.
I’m not sure the world is ready for the brightness waiting beyond it.
And I keep wondering what we’ll create when this strange confinement finally breaks.
I’m not sure the world is ready for the brightness waiting beyond it.
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England’s top medical unions warn it’s unacceptable that Long COVID still isn’t classed as an occupational disease.
Three years after official advice, frontline health workers are still waiting for recognition and financial support.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Three years after official advice, frontline health workers are still waiting for recognition and financial support.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
‘Unconscionable’ that the Government has not recognised Long COVID as an occupational disease, warns BMA and RCN - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from the BMA.
www.bma.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
England’s top medical unions warn it’s unacceptable that Long COVID still isn’t classed as an occupational disease.
Three years after official advice, frontline health workers are still waiting for recognition and financial support.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Three years after official advice, frontline health workers are still waiting for recognition and financial support.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
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To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...
Why We’re Running a Series About Access
Access is still treated as if it’s a privilege, a burden, or a form of special treatment.
web.archive.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...
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More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...
The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...
How bad is the backup for forwarding mail at USPS lately? I’m waiting for important mail that was reportedly sent 3 weeks ago.
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
How bad is the backup for forwarding mail at USPS lately? I’m waiting for important mail that was reportedly sent 3 weeks ago.
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
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Larry is a Dennis.
Dennis Explains 'The Implication' of Saying No
The Always Sunny Argument for UBI
www.scottsantens.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Larry is a Dennis.
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As I told Marie Claire on the Epstein coverup recently “There is a lucrative industry in character assassination for hire that powerful and wealthy individuals and companies can deploy to dredge up dirt and minimise the damage of assault allegations...” bsky.app/profile/emma... New details emerge:👇
How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
“the google page is not good,” Epstein wrote
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
As I told Marie Claire on the Epstein coverup recently “There is a lucrative industry in character assassination for hire that powerful and wealthy individuals and companies can deploy to dredge up dirt and minimise the damage of assault allegations...” bsky.app/profile/emma... New details emerge:👇
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I'm just presuming someone out there is keeping track of all the corruption and illegal use of resources and will prosecute it all if/when Democrats have power again. Because I've lost track completely, it is so prevalent.
"People familiar with FBI security protocols said they were unaware of any other instance in which the girlfriends of top FBI officials received government-staffed security details..."
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel's girlfriend being protected by FBI SWAT agents as security perk
Agents on a detail with the country singer would presumably be unable to respond or delayed in responding to other incidents, according to sources.
www.ms.now
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm just presuming someone out there is keeping track of all the corruption and illegal use of resources and will prosecute it all if/when Democrats have power again. Because I've lost track completely, it is so prevalent.
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A huge complaint I have seen about long covid by assholes is “it’s only (rainbow haired, queer, progressive etc) women bitching about it, so o know it’s not real.”
As usual, it’s misogyny.
As usual, it’s misogyny.
Medical Dialogues: 'Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID: Here’s why'
'Research published in Cell Reports Medicine reveals key biological differences that may explain why women with long COVID..'
medicaldialogues.in/pulmonology/...
'Research published in Cell Reports Medicine reveals key biological differences that may explain why women with long COVID..'
medicaldialogues.in/pulmonology/...
Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID: Here’s why
Research published today in Cell Reports Medicine reveals key biological differences that may explain why women with long COVID-especially those who develop chronic fatigue syndrome-tend to...
medicaldialogues.in
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A huge complaint I have seen about long covid by assholes is “it’s only (rainbow haired, queer, progressive etc) women bitching about it, so o know it’s not real.”
As usual, it’s misogyny.
As usual, it’s misogyny.