Kelly Smith
@kellysmith72.bsky.social
Libraries, higher ed, spreadsheets, ADHD, GenX, social justice, progressive politics, literary fiction, dancing, music, cats. That about sums it up.
LFG. Biggest nonviolent protest ever in this country. Be a part of it. Courthouse Plaza 1-4
Speeches @ 2
💠George Ella Lyon
💠Bishop Mark Van Koevering
💠Vice Mayor Dan Wu
💠Charles Booker
@progressky.bsky.social @50501ky.bsky.social @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social @dsabluegrass.org
Speeches @ 2
💠George Ella Lyon
💠Bishop Mark Van Koevering
💠Vice Mayor Dan Wu
💠Charles Booker
@progressky.bsky.social @50501ky.bsky.social @ky120unitedaft.bsky.social @dsabluegrass.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Societies start to reflect the culture of their dominant form of communication." @micahloewinger.bsky.social quoting @jay.bsky.team on this excellent On the Media Episode
This week's @onthemedia.bsky.social segment on Bluesky was good I thought.
18:23 - Intro
19:28 - @mmasnick.bsky.social interview
22:33 - @jay.bsky.team interview
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
18:23 - Intro
19:28 - @mmasnick.bsky.social interview
22:33 - @jay.bsky.team interview
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Tariff Week From Hell. Plus, the Bluesky CEO Reimagines Social Media. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The president’s on-again, off-again tariffs are wreaking havoc on the economy. On this week’s On the Media, how the press is struggling to keep up with covering the chaos. Plus, the C...
www.wnycstudios.org
April 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Societies start to reflect the culture of their dominant form of communication." @micahloewinger.bsky.social quoting @jay.bsky.team on this excellent On the Media Episode
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Stupid, surreal & clearly illegal — especially the part about the messages set to disappear www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Stupid, surreal & clearly illegal — especially the part about the messages set to disappear www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"We are being tested right now and it is a tactic." They are "rage farming" and "we are the crop."
Resist taking the bait. If we know the above, we can get beyond our emotion and focus on what is happening. Kathleen McEvoy, Senior Policy Fellow, The EveryLibrary Institute
#ERL2025
Resist taking the bait. If we know the above, we can get beyond our emotion and focus on what is happening. Kathleen McEvoy, Senior Policy Fellow, The EveryLibrary Institute
#ERL2025
March 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"We are being tested right now and it is a tactic." They are "rage farming" and "we are the crop."
Resist taking the bait. If we know the above, we can get beyond our emotion and focus on what is happening. Kathleen McEvoy, Senior Policy Fellow, The EveryLibrary Institute
#ERL2025
Resist taking the bait. If we know the above, we can get beyond our emotion and focus on what is happening. Kathleen McEvoy, Senior Policy Fellow, The EveryLibrary Institute
#ERL2025
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Course syllabi are increasingly expected to serve multiple audiences. How can instructors help students catch the key points? chroni.cl/41O5pPx
Who Is Your Syllabus For?
Two faculty developers share their perspectives on how instructors can streamline an often-overburdened document.
chroni.cl
March 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Course syllabi are increasingly expected to serve multiple audiences. How can instructors help students catch the key points? chroni.cl/41O5pPx
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Thank god I was included in school and wasn't warehoused. I even ended up giving one of the speeches at my high school graduation using my communication device. Protect special education! #Disability #IDEA www.threads.net/@timwalz/pos...
Tim Walz (@timwalz) on Threads
Teachers want to teach. But Trump’s cuts are leaving teachers without the resources they need to ensure every student receives a quality education.
www.threads.net
March 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thank god I was included in school and wasn't warehoused. I even ended up giving one of the speeches at my high school graduation using my communication device. Protect special education! #Disability #IDEA www.threads.net/@timwalz/pos...
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Following an emergency consultation with Indivisible leaders nationwide, Indivisible is calling on Chuck Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. indivisible.org/statements/i...
Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
March 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Following an emergency consultation with Indivisible leaders nationwide, Indivisible is calling on Chuck Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. indivisible.org/statements/i...
Some inspiration from the graduate Education Policy class I'm in this semester. When you advocate to legislators, remember to tell a STORY. You don't change minds based on facts. You *may* change minds when they can visualize why a policy is good or bad by connecting with your story. #indivisible
March 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Some inspiration from the graduate Education Policy class I'm in this semester. When you advocate to legislators, remember to tell a STORY. You don't change minds based on facts. You *may* change minds when they can visualize why a policy is good or bad by connecting with your story. #indivisible
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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February 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Living through the fall of a civilization is confusing, stressful, and upsetting for someone like me with my many privileges. For my friends in the disability and LGBTQAI+ communities, it is abso-fucking-lutely terrifying.
so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Living through the fall of a civilization is confusing, stressful, and upsetting for someone like me with my many privileges. For my friends in the disability and LGBTQAI+ communities, it is abso-fucking-lutely terrifying.
Disappointed that @governorwalz.mn.gov would propose cuts to disability services, especially since he is on a first name basis with my nephew, @justinsmithwrites.bsky.social.
I feel like I'm in a horror movie and it’s not going to end well for me or others with disabilities. Here are the services currently under threat that I need to live my life:
SSI, Medicaid, SNAP & a Section 8 housing voucher.
I'm a human being not a parasite! justinsmithwrites.com/2025/02/06/f...
SSI, Medicaid, SNAP & a Section 8 housing voucher.
I'm a human being not a parasite! justinsmithwrites.com/2025/02/06/f...
Frightened
Between threatened cuts to services at both the federal and state levels, to put it bluntly, I’m frightened. My life as I’m currently living it, that I’ve worked so hard at pulling together, feels …
justinsmithwrites.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Disappointed that @governorwalz.mn.gov would propose cuts to disability services, especially since he is on a first name basis with my nephew, @justinsmithwrites.bsky.social.
Central KY friends. If you want to get engaged in local actions again, the BGAA board is getting things organized. Follow our new Bluesky account. Thanks! #bgaa #indivisible
📢Where our members go, we will follow!
BlueGrass Activist Alliance, an #Indivisible chapter in central KY, has been organizing in person & on Facebook since 2017. Today we launch our presence here on Bluesky - a fitting home for folks from the Bluegrass State. 😊 Link to our website in bio. #bgaa
BlueGrass Activist Alliance, an #Indivisible chapter in central KY, has been organizing in person & on Facebook since 2017. Today we launch our presence here on Bluesky - a fitting home for folks from the Bluegrass State. 😊 Link to our website in bio. #bgaa
February 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Central KY friends. If you want to get engaged in local actions again, the BGAA board is getting things organized. Follow our new Bluesky account. Thanks! #bgaa #indivisible
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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Déjà vu all over again.
February 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Déjà vu all over again.
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this is just the dumbest possible way for an empire to collapse
February 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
this is just the dumbest possible way for an empire to collapse
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Kelly posted expanded thoughts on this on FB last night. This is so important right now to focus your energy. "Deescalate all conflict that isn't with the enemy." My mantra going forward and what I will be encouraging.
February 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Kelly posted expanded thoughts on this on FB last night. This is so important right now to focus your energy. "Deescalate all conflict that isn't with the enemy." My mantra going forward and what I will be encouraging.
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The inability of the national media to understand this basic point ABOUT AMERICAN CIVICS is simply wild
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER!
she shouts into the void
she shouts into the void
BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the plans tell NBC News.
February 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The inability of the national media to understand this basic point ABOUT AMERICAN CIVICS is simply wild
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Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.
February 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.
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In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
February 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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if your senator or reps have full voicemails I highly recommend faxing them
February 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
if your senator or reps have full voicemails I highly recommend faxing them
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There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
February 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
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It's the superpower of being a pathological liar. People hear what they want to hear.
cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says
I hold a lot of disdain for the people who didn’t see this coming given P2025 but it does seem like the actual support for these goals is nonexistent, everyone who voted for him did so under the incredibly stupid assumption that he wouldn’t do this
February 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It's the superpower of being a pathological liar. People hear what they want to hear.