Tara C. Smith
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Tara C. Smith
@aetiology.bsky.social

Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.

The Smith special counsel investigation was a special counsel investigation that was opened by U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland on November 18, 2022, three days after Donald Trump announced his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election. The investigation was created to continue two investigations initiated by the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding former U.S. president Donald Trump. Garland appointed Jack Smith, a longtime federal prosecutor, to lead the independent investigations. Smith was tasked with investigating Trump's role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack and Trump's mishandling of government records, including classified documents. .. more

Political science 39%
Economics 19%

Saw them with Brandi a few years back locally at Blossom. So good.
Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

Oh my god

Reposted by Smith, Colin Woodard

President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org

I'm so sorry. My daughter is still trying to figure out hers as she recently turned 26. It's such a mess.

Reposted by Smith

A recent study confirms that administering the #hepatitisB #vaccine at birth is safe and significantly reduces infections, countering the CDC's new position on delaying the vaccine. Hepatitis B poses serious health risks, including cancer. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
Hepatitis B vaccine at birth is safe, effective, protects public health
A recent study confirms that administering the hepatitis B vaccine at birth is safe and significantly reduces infections, countering the CDC's new position on delaying the vaccine. Hepatitis B poses s...
www.skepticalraptor.com

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Smith

As @postguild.bsky.social assesses the damage from last week’s layoffs, it turns out between 44% and 47.5% of the newsroom has been axed. It “may have been the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/09/a...
Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought - Washingtonian
The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastat...
washingtonian.com

Reposted by Smith

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

Sorry you lost your healthcare; we need to build more concentration camps.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

Right? "Aw, cute puppies, let's get them home!" with a nationwide surveillance system that who knows what exactly they're using it for besides Adorable Lost Dogs? How is this normal??
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
Missed Bad Bunny’s halftime show? Want to rewatch? (4x and counting for me). The NFL posted the whole performance on YouTube: on pace for 500k views in the first 30 minutes.
Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show
YouTube video by NFL
youtu.be
Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:

And famously beat his wife without remorse. Great choice for their spokesperson.

Reposted by Smith

Since confirmed by Lincoln’s instagram – his parents (presumably; he’s 5) posted a halftime show video clip with the caption “I'll remember this day forever! @badbunnypr - it was my truest honor”
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

It was about how he and his family were so obese and unhealthy because of processed food and then he started... eating an apple? It was awful.

I mean, that's the base of MAHA.

Of course this was the dude behind the MAHA ad.
Brett Ratner, the sex pest who came out of retirement to direct the Melania movie that Jeff Bezos spent $75 million on as thousands of people at Amazon and the Washington Post lost their jobs, helped produce an ad in which rapist Mike Tyson spewed fatphobic dreck for Secretary Bear Carcass

Yep. And now several of the kids have done the same with Pitt.
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
Sports reporter with NBC News reporting that the couple in Bad Bunny’s halftime show got married for real

Reposted by Smith

Brett Ratner, the sex pest who came out of retirement to direct the Melania movie that Jeff Bezos spent $75 million on as thousands of people at Amazon and the Washington Post lost their jobs, helped produce an ad in which rapist Mike Tyson spewed fatphobic dreck for Secretary Bear Carcass

For a Novartis blood test. I'm sure it will be online soon.

Ha!

A million times better than all the AI bullshit.

Ok that prostate cancer screening one was pretty good.
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Reposted by Smith

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.

The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.

Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.

Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
“If I’m here at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never stopped believing in myself. You should never stop believing in yourself either. It’s worth more than you think.” —Bad Bunny