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Roy Smythe, M.D.
@drroysmythe.bsky.social
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Surgeon-scientist turned biotech exec and rabble rouser - proud father, mediocre husband, writer, liberal thinker, BS caller. Mostly Homo sapiens. Texas native living in Boulder CO.
#TruthMatters #ScienceMatters

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Roy Smythe, M.D. @drroysmythe.bsky.social · Mar 4
“People have the power to redeem the work of fools”
- Patti Smith

#PushBack #Resist

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Patti Smith - People Have The Power
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These colors aren’t being dug up or wiped off in Boulder!
#Boulder #Colorado #Tolerance #acceptance #wereallinittogether
October 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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If you think the #president posting a video dumping #shit on #American citizens - regardless political party or views - is okay, then you are literally completely and absolutely lost.
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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One of these panels depicts moral (earned) authority, the other positional (appointed) authority.
Can you guess which is which?
#authority #leadership #competence
October 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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WHO WILL LEAD US?
WHO WILL PULL US OFF THE EDGE???

#America #President #Leadership

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America on the Edge of a Cliff
When you are standing at the edge of a cliff you are not afraid that the cliff will betray you, and you will fall. You are afraid that you might jump.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Are our leaders going to push us over, or pull us back?

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America on the Edge of a Cliff
When you are standing at the edge of a cliff you are not afraid that the cliff will betray you, and you will fall. You are afraid that you…
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September 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Watching #Starmer and #Trump press interview this AM. Not sure why, but for some reason they remind me of a mental patient and his doctor.
You have to feel sorry for Starmer.
#leadership #America #UK
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The insanity continues, and continues, and continues…

#gunviolence #Minneapolis

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Fact and Fiction and the Great American Shootout
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone.
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August 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Think carefully about your next vote.

Because for half of you it could be one of the last times you do so, depending on who you vote for.

#19thamendment #womensrights #suffrage #throwback

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Pete Hegseth reposts video that says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote
Progressive evangelical group says ideas shared by pastors and amplified by defense secretary are ‘very disturbing’
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August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Hey!
International Criminal Court (ICC) guys!

FYI:
Anchorage, Alaska
61°13'00" North, 149°53'37" West

#warcriminal #opportunity #ICC #goforit
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Times have changed, Johnny.
#FreePress #TruthMatters
August 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
- H. L. Mencken

Some notes on #America. Written before the 2024 election and aging well.

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Common Sense 2025
2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" - a pamphlet that articulated the American colonists' united complaints against the British Crown. In this elect...
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July 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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MOTIVE DOESN’T REALLY MATTER
MOTIVE DOESN’T REALLY MATTER
MOTIVE DOESN’T REALLY MATTER

Access to guns… really matters.

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Does It Really Matter Why Shooters Shoot?
Listening to a news account of the (latest) school shooting in Madison, WI yesterday, I heard local law enforcement there say understanding the shooter's motive was "now a top priority" - something we...
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July 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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There have been 2337 mass shootings in America (Everytown Research) since I wrote this in 2018.

#Reno #Manhattan

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Guns, Germs and Blood
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty I attended medical s...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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If you think we have a character deficit in American leadership, we are in violent agreement.

Why it's right to fight for character.

#charactermatters #leadership #congress #president

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It’s Right to Fight for Character
When public Virtue is gone, when the national Spirit is fled, when a Party is Substituted for the Nation, and Faction for a Party, when…
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July 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A note to the alt-right. Read these essays and weep, because more people identify with the concepts I discuss here, than don't.

#midterms2025 #vote #TruthMatters

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Common Sense 2025
2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" - a pamphlet that articulated the American colonists' united complaints against the British Crown. In this elect...
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July 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The truth may not set you free, but it can help keep you from being imprisoned by your past mistakes.

#TruthMatters #acknowledgment #America

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July 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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THIS ESSAY IS AGING WELL, in view of the current administration's efforts to rewrite history in our military records and at our national landmarks, and it's attack on education.

#history #ownership #truth #TruthMatters #teachers #education

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July 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The past is unavoidably tied to the present and the future, and while it doesn't predict either of them - its influence is strong and undeniable.

#racism #respect #fatherhood #examples #Texas #discrimination #boyhood

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Race and Respect in Small Town Texas
Something happened in that unassuming place that would change my life forever — an unlikely occurrence in a small, simple rectangular beige building with a central front door and large windows on eith...
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July 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Your past doesn’t predict your future, but it influences it - undeniably.

#racism #discrimination #respect #humanrights #love #Texas #smalltowns

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Race and Respect in Small Town Texas
Something happened in that unassuming place that would change my life forever — an unlikely occurrence in a small, simple rectangular…
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July 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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If you’re like me, the denial of #racism and #discrimination by those currently in power, and by a surprising number of Americans - has been disorienting.

While our past experiences don’t predict our future they influence it, a great deal.

What were your experiences?

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Race and Respect in Small Town Texas
Something happened in that unassuming place that would change my life forever — an unlikely occurrence in a small, simple rectangular…
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July 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Looks like Trump finally got a “real” university. Wonder when he’ll change the name?

#courageisnolongercommon
#empiricism
#truth

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Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
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July 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Who actually believes #PamBondi will release anything related to #Epstein that remotely incriminates the president? Zero chance. That will magically be removed first. And neither #congress nor the #justicedepartment will lift a finger to investigate.
#TruthMatters #CharacterMatters
July 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The batshit craziness of the alt-right... continues.
Somehow, the Texas floods have been caused by sinister left-wing weather manipulators, but at the same time is also "God's will".

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Yes, Right-Wingers Are Pushing Conspiracies About the Texas Flood
Right-wing influencers and lawmakers are spreading conspiracy theories about the cause of deadly floods in central Texas.
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July 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#TruthMatters #January6th
July 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM