Ted Smyth
@tedsmyth.bsky.social
Discussing Politics, Economics, Satire, US-Europe relations, Ireland, History. Chair Clinton Inst American Studies advisory board, President Glucksman Ireland House NYU advisory Board, former Irish diplomat and Heinz and S&P Global
Nicolaus Mills’ book Winning the Peace shows what real patriots cd do with govt. Gen Marshall took away fm his New Deal experience “a heightened sense of the govt’s capacity for bringing order out of social chaos and creating what he called‘valuable and self supporting citizens
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Nicolaus Mills’ book Winning the Peace shows what real patriots cd do with govt. Gen Marshall took away fm his New Deal experience “a heightened sense of the govt’s capacity for bringing order out of social chaos and creating what he called‘valuable and self supporting citizens
Many thanks for the great exchange!
What do Trump's America and Ireland's housing crisis have in common?
Former diplomat Ted Smyth connects the dots in our year-end political episode—dropping midnight EST.
"Affordability will define 2026"
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#Politics #Podcast @tedsmyth.bsky.social #GlobalIrishNation #SpéirGhorm
Former diplomat Ted Smyth connects the dots in our year-end political episode—dropping midnight EST.
"Affordability will define 2026"
🎧 IrishStewPodcast.com
#Politics #Podcast @tedsmyth.bsky.social #GlobalIrishNation #SpéirGhorm
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Many thanks for the great exchange!
Floggings will continue until morale improves! "98 percent of respondents said that workplace morale had fallen since Mr. Trump’s second term began in January. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u... Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts
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December 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Floggings will continue until morale improves! "98 percent of respondents said that workplace morale had fallen since Mr. Trump’s second term began in January. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u... Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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“They pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.
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‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
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December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“They pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.
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Coming soon (June 2026) as the next book in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social A powerful reinterpretation of global Irish nationalism by @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social nyupress.org/search-resul...
December 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Xi and Putin run rings around the dumbest President in US history.
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy
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December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Xi and Putin run rings around the dumbest President in US history.
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
That is a mission that everyone agrees with, and yet one we somehow fail to achieve in an America larded with billionaires cavorting in a new tech-driven Gilded Age. Billionaires who are, Shore said, only “giving away a very small percentage of their revenue.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Opinion | Leaving Hungry Pols to Help Hungry Kids
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December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
That is a mission that everyone agrees with, and yet one we somehow fail to achieve in an America larded with billionaires cavorting in a new tech-driven Gilded Age. Billionaires who are, Shore said, only “giving away a very small percentage of their revenue.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Low dose Bayer aspirin! They’re not joking, the red line shows the actual fill level.
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Low dose Bayer aspirin! They’re not joking, the red line shows the actual fill level.
Corruption and greed in the White House are destroying our country’s security and future greatness “They are leading the White House down the road to perdition with this ascendant technocratic oligarchy,” he said.
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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
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December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Corruption and greed in the White House are destroying our country’s security and future greatness “They are leading the White House down the road to perdition with this ascendant technocratic oligarchy,” he said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
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This should be the new symbol of the GOP
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This should be the new symbol of the GOP
Bravo @nytopinion and @GoldmanSachs Trump=Higher Prices
"Goldman Sachs estimates the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
"Goldman Sachs estimates the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | Does Trump Know the Price of Milk?
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November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Bravo @nytopinion and @GoldmanSachs Trump=Higher Prices
"Goldman Sachs estimates the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
"Goldman Sachs estimates the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in October, and that it will continue to rise, reaching 67 percent by the middle of next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Exactly right “The only question remaining is which will give Trump a more egregious place in history - his moral failures or economic ones.
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Trump is destroying our economy.
His cult doesn’t recognize this, but Trump is a failed businessman- with 4 (some say 6) corporate bankruptcies under his watch.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Exactly right “The only question remaining is which will give Trump a more egregious place in history - his moral failures or economic ones.
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People are tiring of Trump just as they eventually did of Celebrity Apprentice.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
People are tiring of Trump just as they eventually did of Celebrity Apprentice.
Congratulations New York Magazine exposing the biggest rip off of American taxpayers in history by Trump and his Team of Thieves.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Congratulations New York Magazine exposing the biggest rip off of American taxpayers in history by Trump and his Team of Thieves.
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The oligarchs who own the media are the cowards. Larry Ellison Bezos Murdoch etc
A few brave ones stand out, Bloomberg Sulzberger Atlantic in opposing Trump censorship
A few brave ones stand out, Bloomberg Sulzberger Atlantic in opposing Trump censorship
Cowards.
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The oligarchs who own the media are the cowards. Larry Ellison Bezos Murdoch etc
A few brave ones stand out, Bloomberg Sulzberger Atlantic in opposing Trump censorship
A few brave ones stand out, Bloomberg Sulzberger Atlantic in opposing Trump censorship
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wonder how long it takes one of bloomberg's lawyers to remind their execs that not pushing back on noxious shit like this could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wonder how long it takes one of bloomberg's lawyers to remind their execs that not pushing back on noxious shit like this could be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment
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It’s easy for people like me - avg media consumer - to be outraged at reporters who don’t defend colleagues. But I admire the tenacity & guts to ask him questions knowing what a hateful POS he is. Silence makes his comment LOUDER for all the world to see what a scumbag he is. Give her the Pulitzer.
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s easy for people like me - avg media consumer - to be outraged at reporters who don’t defend colleagues. But I admire the tenacity & guts to ask him questions knowing what a hateful POS he is. Silence makes his comment LOUDER for all the world to see what a scumbag he is. Give her the Pulitzer.
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Also… Trump’s “piggy” insult to the reporter was tweeted out Friday night by a CBS (former Bloomberg) reporter … but it seems to have gone largely under the radar til the People story.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Also… Trump’s “piggy” insult to the reporter was tweeted out Friday night by a CBS (former Bloomberg) reporter … but it seems to have gone largely under the radar til the People story.
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Thank you @iehs.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @migrantherstory.bsky.social & Eunice Kim for this conversation on Rituals of Migration @nyupress.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari
Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …
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October 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Wonderful to host historian @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social & filmmaker Briona Nic Dhiarmada for the NYC screening of "From That Small Island" @gihnyu.bsky.social -- the story of Ireland, across the millennia, in global context @tedsmyth.bsky.social
An incredible evening in NYC for our screening. A huge thank you to the amazing team @irelandhousenyu & @irelandnyc 🇮🇪🇺🇸
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@kevinkenny.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Wonderful to host historian @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social & filmmaker Briona Nic Dhiarmada for the NYC screening of "From That Small Island" @gihnyu.bsky.social -- the story of Ireland, across the millennia, in global context @tedsmyth.bsky.social
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It was our pleasure & privilege. Thank you for the incredible welcome. 💚
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It was our pleasure & privilege. Thank you for the incredible welcome. 💚
The White House press lost their moral standing when they failed to react !
Access beats out truth in Trumps White House as his greedy oligarchs buy up the mainstream media
“Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week
Access beats out truth in Trumps White House as his greedy oligarchs buy up the mainstream media
“Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week
…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues?
Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!
Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.
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Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!
Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.
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
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November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House press lost their moral standing when they failed to react !
Access beats out truth in Trumps White House as his greedy oligarchs buy up the mainstream media
“Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week
Access beats out truth in Trumps White House as his greedy oligarchs buy up the mainstream media
“Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week
Congratulations Jane and Briona
We were honored to host you and your epic movie @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
We were honored to host you and your epic movie @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
Wonderful to host historian @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social & filmmaker Briona Nic Dhiarmada for the NYC screening of "From That Small Island" @gihnyu.bsky.social -- the story of Ireland, across the millennia, in global context @tedsmyth.bsky.social
An incredible evening in NYC for our screening. A huge thank you to the amazing team @irelandhousenyu & @irelandnyc 🇮🇪🇺🇸
@gihnyu.bsky.social
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
@gihnyu.bsky.social
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Congratulations Jane and Briona
We were honored to host you and your epic movie @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
We were honored to host you and your epic movie @gihnyu.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social