Nicholas Smith
@nicholas.esq
State gov’t attorney. Started with wrangling bulls in Louisiana; now wrangling market bullies in Kansas. Consumer protection nerd. Friend of Dorothy. Married to a Detroiter. Views are my own.
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Nicholas Smith
@nicholas.esq
· Nov 11
For those new to BlueSky, I am very active on here, but I do not personally post often here or anywhere. Law school taught me not to give my opinions out for free. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I still welcome you to follow me, notwithstanding.
I still welcome you to follow me, notwithstanding.
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Sorry no my draft still isn't quite done yet. Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown
October 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Sorry no my draft still isn't quite done yet. Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
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coates is genuinely a generational writer
September 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
coates is genuinely a generational writer
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Trump v. United States
September 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Trump v. United States
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I love this song.
Newsmax sues Fox News, accusing the broadcaster of abusing its monopoly power in the right-wing pay-TV market https://cnn.it/45KNsoo
September 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I love this song.
It’s not too surprising Cuomo interprets “no” as a “maybe”
ok so in case it wasn’t clear from his speech, the NYT reports cuomo has in fact conceded
June 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It’s not too surprising Cuomo interprets “no” as a “maybe”
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No better way to build morale in the military than forcing troops to march down largely empty streets in a thunderstorm to celebrate a draft dodger’s birthday
June 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No better way to build morale in the military than forcing troops to march down largely empty streets in a thunderstorm to celebrate a draft dodger’s birthday
Absolutely love Cricket, and so happy she’s getting her well-deserved flowers!
www.cjonline.com/story/news/l...
www.cjonline.com/story/news/l...
Linda Elrod's expertise helped shape ever-changing landscape of family law
Topekan and former Washburn University law professor was recognized by the Kansas Supreme Court.
www.cjonline.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Absolutely love Cricket, and so happy she’s getting her well-deserved flowers!
www.cjonline.com/story/news/l...
www.cjonline.com/story/news/l...
And the majority of the State AG community is against this prohibition because of its far reaching implications.
www.tn.gov/attorneygene...
www.tn.gov/attorneygene...
May 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
And the majority of the State AG community is against this prohibition because of its far reaching implications.
www.tn.gov/attorneygene...
www.tn.gov/attorneygene...
The push notification for this stated something like “might could” may be “fixin’ to” disappear. And let me tell you—not on my mama’s watch.
She might could single-handedly preserve the dialect.
She might could single-handedly preserve the dialect.
Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.
Is the Southern accent fixin' to disappear in parts of the US South?
Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.
bit.ly
May 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The push notification for this stated something like “might could” may be “fixin’ to” disappear. And let me tell you—not on my mama’s watch.
She might could single-handedly preserve the dialect.
She might could single-handedly preserve the dialect.
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Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.
Is the Southern accent fixin' to disappear in parts of the US South?
Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.
bit.ly
May 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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t.co/lg46ijHLDF
April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
![[text from the Declaration of Independence]
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qvyj3hxm4opuuddzrhcbiio6/bafkreiahlp7acp6y2hakkfu5h66vg2ifckdo6b7fqaebenki3qoxswp73e@jpeg)
April 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
“Just as there is a spectrum of light and dark, because we have sunrises and sunsets in the same way, I think that God's creation is broad enough and beautiful enough and wide enough to include variations of what we have understood as a gender binary.”
A Kansas pastor takes up the fight for trans rights
Charles McKinzie is a small-town pastor and lifelong Republican. Unlike many of his religious peers, he's also a vocal critic of new laws restricting gender-affirming care for Kansas minors. Plus: a l...
www.kcur.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Just as there is a spectrum of light and dark, because we have sunrises and sunsets in the same way, I think that God's creation is broad enough and beautiful enough and wide enough to include variations of what we have understood as a gender binary.”
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Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.
Hooooo boy: "The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.
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FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
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The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.
“Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view” www.ft.com/content/6685...
Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies
Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX
www.ft.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.
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I’m sorry I am sure you have an excellent point but they took away the hour I had allocated to care about it
March 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I’m sorry I am sure you have an excellent point but they took away the hour I had allocated to care about it
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
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Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.
March 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.