Smileford
dingteal.bsky.social
Smileford
@dingteal.bsky.social
Commercial real estate consulting and sometimes residential too

Women's soccer, NWSL/USWNT, legal reading geek, SCOTUS, LGBTQIA+, he/him, getting into rugby, travel aficionado, increasing Spanish literacy one Duolingo lesson at a time, ex-theatre dancer
The world was a better place for having Dr. Goodall in it
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Why would Democrats agree to any budget deal when all of it can be overturned by executive fiat?
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
September 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽
July 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I'm normally not a participant but if @muellershewrote.com can show out, I can follow her lead. Great demonstration of what our city is about; proud to be SD and to say #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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SOUND ON for instant relaxation
for all my water freaks out there
June 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This is part of the big manufacturing lie: that people can get jobs with no education or training just wielding screwdrivers.

Apple cannot make iPhones in the US without an army of tooling engineers, and we don’t even have the tooling engineers here to educate an army of tooling engineers.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Might save a life.
March 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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"So is OPM providing a project/charge number to respond to that email? No? Oh, well I'm sorry that we can't work on unfunded projects for other agencies at this time"
February 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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And here’s the copy. Please disseminate these images widely. Who needs to place ads in a newspaper that few people actually read anymore?
February 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
www.insidehighered.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I want this on my tombstone
Me, all the time.
February 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Again, this idea has been floating out there for ages, and many other governments around the globe use the concept of shadow cabinets. Why haven't the Dems actually done this?
One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
February 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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www.npr.org/2025/01/15/n... Rs who support tariffs are in favor of massive tax. Ds must be party of low taxes for working and middle class. Dems repeat after me: TRADE TAX
Trump will begin his presidency in delicate position, poll finds
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows that Americans' support for President-elect Donald Trump's top priorities is split, despite his claims of a mandate for his agenda.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I'm gonna share this cartoon again simply because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post tried to censor it.
January 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is it. This the fresh take I had not thought of but definitely made me chuckle
Little Drummer Boy is also severely fucked up. Imagine if you had just given birth IN A FUCKING BARN, and this random child shows up and starts 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘴 while you're desperately trying to get your newborn infant to sleep??? I would fucking commit murder.
December 2, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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I'm not in the business of making predictions so the two takes I've been telling people are simply that

1) I am hopeful
2) I am also scared
i think every political poster on Bluesky should be required to pre-register at least two election takes
November 3, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Listening rn & Greg just said "everything's about getting out the vote right now, I mean—that's everything."

Truer words! Ne'er been spoke!

Are you
-new to getting out the vote
-in a blue-blue-blue area
-unable to knocks doors for any reason
-unsure where to start?

I got you! ⬇️ ELEVEN DAYS LFG!!
October 24, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Are we now in a world where the POTUS has the same capabilities to speak/act infallibly as the Pope? The US political version of "ex Cathedra" while performing his official acts. SMH
But soldiers can be given illegal orders.

Presidents can't give illegal orders.

That's where we're heading.
July 1, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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Idea: One executive (WB's Zaslav?) gets to introduce the In Memorium segment by reading off all a list of the films they killed off just so thier company can get a tax break.
March 11, 2024 at 1:24 AM