Martha Nell Smith
@marthanellsmith.bsky.social
Writer. Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 (@emilydickinson.org). Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, UM Terp. Poetry, queer & feminist life & practice, LGBTQ+ crit/theory. DH. Bio Susan Dickinson (https://www.emilydickinson.org/writings-by-susan-dickinson).
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We did it on the Epstein petition, and we can do it again for healthcare:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We did it on the Epstein petition, and we can do it again for healthcare:
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Today is an insane day
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Today is an insane day
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Mamdani walked in with an agenda. Trump walked out repeating it.
Trump’s Oval Office Surrender to Zohran Mamdani
In a stunning White House meeting, Donald Trump abandoned his party’s narrative and embraced New York City’s mayor-elect, while Mamdani stayed laser-focused on issues facing the city.
www.meidasplus.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Mamdani walked in with an agenda. Trump walked out repeating it.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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We have the bill AND the bipartisan support to restore union rights for 1 million federal workers!
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We have the bill AND the bipartisan support to restore union rights for 1 million federal workers!
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
It’s time to get it done.
Tell your representatives: pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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Mike Johnson's official bio says he has "two decades of previous experience in Constitutional law." Yet, when Trump threatens to execute Democratic members of Congress, he suddenly has no opinion.
This is what shameful cowardice does to someone like Johnson and it is how he will be remembered.
This is what shameful cowardice does to someone like Johnson and it is how he will be remembered.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Mike Johnson's official bio says he has "two decades of previous experience in Constitutional law." Yet, when Trump threatens to execute Democratic members of Congress, he suddenly has no opinion.
This is what shameful cowardice does to someone like Johnson and it is how he will be remembered.
This is what shameful cowardice does to someone like Johnson and it is how he will be remembered.
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“You’re the clearance-sticker end-cap sex doll at a Dollar Tree for dictators with erectile dysfunction. Glossy-eyed, hollow-headed, and shrink-wrapped in synthetic virtue.”
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Mother Mary Full of Shit
I so hope Karoline will appreciate MY frankness.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“You’re the clearance-sticker end-cap sex doll at a Dollar Tree for dictators with erectile dysfunction. Glossy-eyed, hollow-headed, and shrink-wrapped in synthetic virtue.”
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Trump falling in love with Mamdani is the most predictable thing I've ever seen.
All vibes, no ideology.
All vibes, no ideology.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Trump falling in love with Mamdani is the most predictable thing I've ever seen.
All vibes, no ideology.
All vibes, no ideology.
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That Trump / Mamdani press conference was so weird. Donald was so tame, like Zohran was taking a pig for a walk.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
That Trump / Mamdani press conference was so weird. Donald was so tame, like Zohran was taking a pig for a walk.
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It’s hilarious that every Republican operative has been frothing at the mouth to turn Zohran into a giant Democratic boogeyman, and Donald Trump’s in the Oval Office right now talking about how great he is and how he would love to live in New York under Mayor Mamdani. Just incredible shit.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It’s hilarious that every Republican operative has been frothing at the mouth to turn Zohran into a giant Democratic boogeyman, and Donald Trump’s in the Oval Office right now talking about how great he is and how he would love to live in New York under Mayor Mamdani. Just incredible shit.
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When my health teacher in the 10th grade taught about contraception, she held up a banana and showed us how use a condom correctly. In a conservative suburb of Dallas. When Reagan was president. The repubs lost their damn minds a long time ago
Could you explain further? I went to school in a time when girls were required to wear dresses and women had to leave the military when they were pregnant. But, I was required to read Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, and 1984. Learned a lot as a young Catholic girl!
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When my health teacher in the 10th grade taught about contraception, she held up a banana and showed us how use a condom correctly. In a conservative suburb of Dallas. When Reagan was president. The repubs lost their damn minds a long time ago
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blood-consciousness, so powerfully on display in MAGA-America; evangelical Christianity masquerading as religion when it is essentially political, & indeed rightwing politics fueled by hatred of the Other & a wish to do harm to opponents.
(it's an interesting question though not addressed here whether "humanism" in its rational, egalitarian, genteel form can even begin to confront the blunt crude amoral aggression of anti-humanism: fascism, totalitarianism, nativism, the dark underbelly of humankind's propensity for xenophobia,
Eloquent & thoughtful lecture on the subject of a traditional sort of generic humanism by Marilynne Robinson in our Princeton University Lecture Series.
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
blood-consciousness, so powerfully on display in MAGA-America; evangelical Christianity masquerading as religion when it is essentially political, & indeed rightwing politics fueled by hatred of the Other & a wish to do harm to opponents.
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Defending rude, indecent, and misogynistic conduct as "frankness" and "transparency." What a role model.
Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"?
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Defending rude, indecent, and misogynistic conduct as "frankness" and "transparency." What a role model.
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This is extremely dangerous.
From the attempts on his own life to the murders of Speaker Hortman & Charlie Kirk, this isn’t hard. You either condemn all of it or none of it.
I don’t want to hear a single word about political violence from Republicans until they condemn this language.
From the attempts on his own life to the murders of Speaker Hortman & Charlie Kirk, this isn’t hard. You either condemn all of it or none of it.
I don’t want to hear a single word about political violence from Republicans until they condemn this language.
Trump says Democrats' message to military is 'seditious behavior' punishable by death
President Donald Trump is accusing half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal ...
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is extremely dangerous.
From the attempts on his own life to the murders of Speaker Hortman & Charlie Kirk, this isn’t hard. You either condemn all of it or none of it.
I don’t want to hear a single word about political violence from Republicans until they condemn this language.
From the attempts on his own life to the murders of Speaker Hortman & Charlie Kirk, this isn’t hard. You either condemn all of it or none of it.
I don’t want to hear a single word about political violence from Republicans until they condemn this language.
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Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
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I have had one of the strangest weeks of my legal career:
-My firm won TX redistricting case.
-Trump's bogus RICO against me was in 11th Cir.
-Accused in deranged opinion of being a Soros puppet.
I write about all of this and more tomorrow. Join Democracy Docket now to receive. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
-My firm won TX redistricting case.
-Trump's bogus RICO against me was in 11th Cir.
-Accused in deranged opinion of being a Soros puppet.
I write about all of this and more tomorrow. Join Democracy Docket now to receive. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I have had one of the strangest weeks of my legal career:
-My firm won TX redistricting case.
-Trump's bogus RICO against me was in 11th Cir.
-Accused in deranged opinion of being a Soros puppet.
I write about all of this and more tomorrow. Join Democracy Docket now to receive. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
-My firm won TX redistricting case.
-Trump's bogus RICO against me was in 11th Cir.
-Accused in deranged opinion of being a Soros puppet.
I write about all of this and more tomorrow. Join Democracy Docket now to receive. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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Oopsie.
Trump tariffs to reduce US deficits by $1 trillion less than previous estimate, CBO says reut.rs/3LT5Ofm
Trump tariffs to reduce US deficits by $1 trillion less than previous estimate, CBO says
President Donald Trump's tariff increases on imports from foreign countries will reduce U.S. deficits by $3 trillion if they are maintained through 2035, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated on Thursday, instead of the $4 trillion the agency projected in August.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Oopsie.
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What the hell: The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” and triggered a standoff with armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map. 🧵 1/
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
What the hell: The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” and triggered a standoff with armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map. 🧵 1/
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Live your life so you’re not the only living president and vice president not to be invited to a former vice president’s funeral
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Live your life so you’re not the only living president and vice president not to be invited to a former vice president’s funeral
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Abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
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NEWS: The bill to release the Epstein Files has been transmitted to the White House, but Trump officials have thus far refused to provide any updates on if, or when, Trump will sign the legislation.
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
NEWS: The bill to release the Epstein Files has been transmitted to the White House, but Trump officials have thus far refused to provide any updates on if, or when, Trump will sign the legislation.