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Brian Michael Smith
@thebrianmichael.bsky.social
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Actor. Advocate. Dog Father.
IG: @the_brianmichael
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rezekjoe.bsky.social
Just posting this. Everyone knows why.
Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
October 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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jennifilm.nz
This is a fascinating story: SEGM commissioned systematic reviews on gender affirming care, claimed they showed care should be banned, so the authors have released this statement saying their research is being misused and that it is unconscionable to ban gender affirming care:
Systematic reviews related to gender-affirming care  - Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)
[...]Read More...
hei.healthsci.mcmaster.ca
September 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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katz.theracket.news
A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Aug 27
Hell of a passage to read in twenty twenty five
to Chicago or vice versa, the locat and, by transference, the community, too. The German community-the rest of the seventy million Germans, apart from the million or so who operated the whole machinery of Nazism-had nothing to do except not to interfere. Absolutely nothing was expected of them except to go on as they had, paying their taxes, reading their local paper, and listening to the radio. Everybody attended local celebrations of national occasions-hadn't the schools and the stores always been closed for the Kaiser's birthday?—so you attended, too. Everybody contributed money and time to worthy purposes, so you did, too. In America your wife collects or distributes clothing, gives an afternoon a week to the Red Cross or the orphanage or the hospital; in Germany she did the same thing in the Nazi Frauenbund, and for the same reasons. The Frauen-bund, like the Red Cross, was patriotic and humanitarian; 57 The Lives Men Lead did your wife ask the Red Cross if "Negro" plasma was segregated from "white"? One minded one's own business in Germany, with or without a dictatorship. The random leisure which leads Americans into all sorts of afterhour byways, constructive, amusing, or ruinous, did not exist for most Germans. One didn't go out of one's way, on a day off, to "look for trouble" thoro loon ta
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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jordanjessego.bsky.social
On this week’s JJGo, we welcome actor/filmmaker, @thebrianmichael.bsky.social (9-1-1: Lonestar), to chat motorcycles, looking awesome on camera, and more! Listen on @maximumfun.org or podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

@jessethorn.bsky.social
@jordanmorris.bsky.social
@stevenraymorris.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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stevenraymorris.bsky.social
3 - Our #SDCC #AlienEarth full video episode with Natalie Lucia, @samanthajo.bsky.social, and @calebcomposed.bsky.social is out now!
4 - Actor @thebrianmichael.bsky.social was a delight on @jordanjessego.bsky.social!
5 - I also recapped Alien:Earth E2 on See Jurassic Right
(2/2)
August 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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jordanjessego.bsky.social
#ICYMI we discussed macro muffins and a pyramid of meat with the talented @thebrianmichael.bsky.social on JJGo. Listen on @maximumfun.org or wherever you get your podcasts!

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@jessethorn.bsky.social
@jordanmorris.bsky.social
@stevenraymorris.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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heightenedscrutinydoc.com
@heightenedscrutinydoc.com is coming to the best coast 🌴 – join @samfeder.bsky.social, Amy Scholder and @thebrianmichael.bsky.social at our Q&A show this Saturday in LA at
@laemmle.com. Get tickets: bit.ly/ScrutinyLA #heightenedscrutiny
July 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
thebrianmichael.bsky.social
Heard you been asking about me… 😏

I’ve been quiet, but The Renegades and I have been busy.
Who Are You? is my new action short—written, produced, and led by ya boy.

It’s gritty, darkly funny & packs a punch 👊🏾

Follow the mayhem: @whoRU_forgetfulspy

#WhoAreYouFilm #BrianMichaelSmith #TheRenegades
July 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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esqueer.net
I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst.

www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...
Anatomy of a Hit Piece: Deconstructing The New York Times' Attack on Transgender Rights in U.S. v. Skrmetti
Seemingly not content with the US v. Skrmetti decision issued by the court siding with Tenessee to ban gender affirming care for trans youth, the New York Times was ready to pour salt on the fresh wou...
www.thedissident.news
June 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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dgcomedy.bsky.social
My Gay of the Day is actor, activist and absolute smokeshow, Brian Michael Smith! Representation matters! #transgender #pride #pridemonth #lgbtq #lgbt #history
June 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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npr.org
Valerie ran off while she was on a camping trip with her owners back in 2023 on a remote island in Australia. They had lost hope until locals spotted her more than a year later, surviving in the wild.
After 529 days alone in the Australian bush, Valerie the mini dachshund is home
Valerie ran off while she was on a camping trip with her owners back in 2023 on a remote island in Australia. They had lost hope until locals spotted her more than a year later, surviving in the wild.
n.pr
May 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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candicefrederick.bsky.social
bricartsmedia.org?form=FUNCZEP...

The NEA and IMLS funding for BRIC, an essential arts space in Brooklyn, was just terminated. They're asking for donations
Home
For over 40 years, BRIC has shaped Brooklyn’s cultural and media landscape by presenting and incubating artists, creators, students, and media makers.
bricartsmedia.org
May 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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theatlantic.com
“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
bit.ly
April 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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thetransdad.bsky.social
@thebrianmichael.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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pennyalexander.bsky.social
Outside pressure works
Keep up the pressure
Don’t stop calling

☎️ www.5calls.org ☎️
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
www.5calls.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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alexsegura.bsky.social
'Everyone Needs to Call Their Dem Senator Right Now' to Stop Republican Funding Disaster www.commondreams.org/news/call-de...
'Everyone Needs to Call Their Dem Senator Right Now' to Stop Republican Funding Disaster | Common Dreams
"There is a very serious danger that Senate Democrats are on the verge of folding," said the leader of one progressive advocacy group.
www.commondreams.org
March 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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michaelharriot.bsky.social
If you are still concerned about the survival of American democracy, it's time to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth:

It's gone, y'all.

We can't defeat fascism until we acknowledge its existence.

http://dlvr.it/TJVmTg
The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over
It's time to admit that the fascism we feared is already here.
dlvr.it
March 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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zinnedproject.bsky.social
So students can be alert to scapegoating divide & conquer tactics, teach outside textbook about Red Scare, "a scorched-earth policy against country’s most progressive forces."

Not just McCarthy & Hollywood, it was an attack on Black freedom & labor struggles.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/su...
Subversives: Stories from the Red Scare
Students meet targets of government harassment and repression to analyze why disparate individuals might have become government targets.
www.zinnedproject.org
March 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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benwikler.bsky.social
Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power.

Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...

But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 9
1. Major news in transgender care.

Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.

They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.

Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
thebrianmichael.bsky.social
Thursday night was something truly special.

This wasn’t just a performance; it was a statement, a celebration, and a testament to our strength as artists and as a community.

I’m deeply grateful. ❤️ #Streetcar #communitythroughart
March 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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slothgirlmel.bsky.social
Date night (aka an all trans table reading of A Streetcar Named Desire) was exactly what I needed to escape from all of the hatred and insanity of this year. Just a room of gorgeous, diverse, friendly people enjoying talented actors do their thing.
A group of trans actors (left to right: Chaz Bono, Alexandra Billings, Rain Valdez, Brian Michael Smith, Jamie Clayton, Theo Tiedemann, and Eve Lindley) taking a bow on stage after performing. The audience is giving them a standing ovation.
March 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
thebrianmichael.bsky.social
These days, you can catch me putting on my production hat. (What up Doe #Detroit)

Meetings on Meetings on Meetings!!! 😅😅

#actor #producer #jackofalltrade #workingactor #behindthescenes #behindthecamera #blackactors #blackproducer #queerartists #queerart #tellyourstories #explorepage✨ #fyp
March 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation.

We have confirmed those reports.

The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
If you or your loved ones are part of the LGBTQ community, there are steps you should take to protect yourself.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM