Pam Smith
@pgardnersmith.bsky.social
Reader of words. Thinker of thoughts. Eater of all the things with icing.
Grieving parent. Permanently shattered. DoingMyBest
Grieving parent. Permanently shattered. DoingMyBest
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So many layers of corruption.
May 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So many layers of corruption.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason
Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.
April 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason
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My eldest daughter Claudia once asked me why there isn’t a provision that says that convicted felons can’t be president and this was *exactly* my answer
April 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
My eldest daughter Claudia once asked me why there isn’t a provision that says that convicted felons can’t be president and this was *exactly* my answer
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First RFK Jr says that people on the autism spectrum are useless eaters. And then he announces that the government is going to make a list of them, a “registry.”
April 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
First RFK Jr says that people on the autism spectrum are useless eaters. And then he announces that the government is going to make a list of them, a “registry.”
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I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend
I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…
lithub.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
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Penny is still making progress every day. I'd really love to see her find a nice forever home.
1 year old, around 50 lbs, spayed, house trained, good with other animals, very shy. Looking for a quiet home.
1 year old, around 50 lbs, spayed, house trained, good with other animals, very shy. Looking for a quiet home.
April 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Penny is still making progress every day. I'd really love to see her find a nice forever home.
1 year old, around 50 lbs, spayed, house trained, good with other animals, very shy. Looking for a quiet home.
1 year old, around 50 lbs, spayed, house trained, good with other animals, very shy. Looking for a quiet home.
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
t.co/lg46ijHLDF
t.co/lg46ijHLDF
April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
t.co/lg46ijHLDF
t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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This is straight authoritarianism
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
April 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is straight authoritarianism
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Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety:
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
April 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety:
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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An hour till I open my Etsy shop for limited nos of Victorian ink bottle posy kits designed to dial down fight/flight.
Also contains booklet explaining neuroscience of how kit works to alter brain biochemistry for the better & tiny dried flower posy in handprinted box that can be given as a gift.
Also contains booklet explaining neuroscience of how kit works to alter brain biochemistry for the better & tiny dried flower posy in handprinted box that can be given as a gift.
April 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
An hour till I open my Etsy shop for limited nos of Victorian ink bottle posy kits designed to dial down fight/flight.
Also contains booklet explaining neuroscience of how kit works to alter brain biochemistry for the better & tiny dried flower posy in handprinted box that can be given as a gift.
Also contains booklet explaining neuroscience of how kit works to alter brain biochemistry for the better & tiny dried flower posy in handprinted box that can be given as a gift.
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Tmrw evening at 8 I'll be opening my Etsy for a limited no. of Victorian ink bottle posy kits designed to👇 anxiety while you make something lovely.
Contents:
Victorian ink bottle
booklet:neuroscience of improving mental health with creative activity
tiny dried flower posy.
A RT would help so much🌿
Contents:
Victorian ink bottle
booklet:neuroscience of improving mental health with creative activity
tiny dried flower posy.
A RT would help so much🌿
April 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Tmrw evening at 8 I'll be opening my Etsy for a limited no. of Victorian ink bottle posy kits designed to👇 anxiety while you make something lovely.
Contents:
Victorian ink bottle
booklet:neuroscience of improving mental health with creative activity
tiny dried flower posy.
A RT would help so much🌿
Contents:
Victorian ink bottle
booklet:neuroscience of improving mental health with creative activity
tiny dried flower posy.
A RT would help so much🌿
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Do not look away.
April 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Do not look away.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
April 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating
April 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating
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Everything Trump is doing and putting into place, everything he’s having those around him do is to destroy us. He’s trying - purposely - to collapse our economy, our democracy. And he needs to be stopped.
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Everything Trump is doing and putting into place, everything he’s having those around him do is to destroy us. He’s trying - purposely - to collapse our economy, our democracy. And he needs to be stopped.
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What’s most clear to me tonight is that this is just the beginning, that Americans across this country, no matter their title or party, are ready to be heard.
I believe that history will show we rose to meet this moment.
I believe that history will show we rose to meet this moment.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
What’s most clear to me tonight is that this is just the beginning, that Americans across this country, no matter their title or party, are ready to be heard.
I believe that history will show we rose to meet this moment.
I believe that history will show we rose to meet this moment.
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots.
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots.
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
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Today's events are making some ingredients harder to find or so pricey they have become luxuries.
I took a look back at wartime cookbooks for inspiration and offer you 2 recipes perfect for today. My newest piece for The Contrarian.
(please give it a like)
contrarian.substack.com/p/victory-fo...
I took a look back at wartime cookbooks for inspiration and offer you 2 recipes perfect for today. My newest piece for The Contrarian.
(please give it a like)
contrarian.substack.com/p/victory-fo...
Victory food: A look back at wartime cooking
Chard, Zucchini, Potato Gratin and Fruit Crumble
contrarian.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Today's events are making some ingredients harder to find or so pricey they have become luxuries.
I took a look back at wartime cookbooks for inspiration and offer you 2 recipes perfect for today. My newest piece for The Contrarian.
(please give it a like)
contrarian.substack.com/p/victory-fo...
I took a look back at wartime cookbooks for inspiration and offer you 2 recipes perfect for today. My newest piece for The Contrarian.
(please give it a like)
contrarian.substack.com/p/victory-fo...