Trevor Smits
@trevorsmits.bsky.social
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A headline for the ages www.politico.eu/article/fran...
France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-delay-g7-white-house-donald-trump-birthday/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=France%20delays%20G7%20to%20avoid%20clash%20with%20White%20House%20cage%20fighting%20on%20Trump’s%20birthday
January 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
A headline for the ages www.politico.eu/article/fran...
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The government is full of pedophiles and the legacy media is complicit but on the plus side broad adoption of Linux on the desktop might have a fighting chance so today is kind of a wash.
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The government is full of pedophiles and the legacy media is complicit but on the plus side broad adoption of Linux on the desktop might have a fighting chance so today is kind of a wash.
Lakers should trade for AD.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Lakers should trade for AD.
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most political parties both globally today and throughout history would not allow people to starve explicitly as a political stunt. Trump *sued to be allowed to do it*
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
most political parties both globally today and throughout history would not allow people to starve explicitly as a political stunt. Trump *sued to be allowed to do it*
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I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
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Love distinct periods of hope. Here’s to more distinct periods of hope!
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Love distinct periods of hope. Here’s to more distinct periods of hope!
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both teams could do worse
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
both teams could do worse
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Brooke Rollins: "I guess the silver lining in all of this is that we're having a national conversation on our SNAP program. This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated."
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Brooke Rollins: "I guess the silver lining in all of this is that we're having a national conversation on our SNAP program. This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated."
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Eddington (2025)
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Eddington (2025)
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I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons
October 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons
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Many of you would cast a glance at this “Elvira,” with her shock of messy black hair and tattered dress, and dismiss her as some dirty hag. But those who dare look longer might find that she has a certain allure.
And I do dare!
And I do dare!
September 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Many of you would cast a glance at this “Elvira,” with her shock of messy black hair and tattered dress, and dismiss her as some dirty hag. But those who dare look longer might find that she has a certain allure.
And I do dare!
And I do dare!
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i feel we dramatically overestimate the intelligence of the American electorate
September 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
i feel we dramatically overestimate the intelligence of the American electorate
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Just a tiny leap from “broadcasters have to use their spectrum in Trump’s interests” to “AT&T and Verizon have to manage content on their wireless networks in Trump’s interests because they operate on public spectrum”
September 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just a tiny leap from “broadcasters have to use their spectrum in Trump’s interests” to “AT&T and Verizon have to manage content on their wireless networks in Trump’s interests because they operate on public spectrum”
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Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air
Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air
Speech regulation
buff.ly
September 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air
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the mass mobilization has actually been good, but uh the intra elite signalling? its bad dawg
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
the mass mobilization has actually been good, but uh the intra elite signalling? its bad dawg
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the total lack of interest from business and media elites in defending the liberal norms that underpin civil society and like, modern capitalism for that matter has been truly shocking
we are in really unsettling place that we're facing a deeply unpopular regime that is making everything appreciably worse but the people with the power to stand up to them and takes steps to maintain basic political stability are capitulating without a fight
dawg
September 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
the total lack of interest from business and media elites in defending the liberal norms that underpin civil society and like, modern capitalism for that matter has been truly shocking
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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I actually think one might want to walk a few hundred metres in Ezra Klein's shoes before delivering the take. There's a tendency to look at him (still!) as a kid blogger, on roughly the same level as Matthew Yglesias or Amanda Marcotte. He's not! He's in a very different position these days ...
September 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I actually think one might want to walk a few hundred metres in Ezra Klein's shoes before delivering the take. There's a tendency to look at him (still!) as a kid blogger, on roughly the same level as Matthew Yglesias or Amanda Marcotte. He's not! He's in a very different position these days ...
Now we‘re calling this!!!
September 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Now we‘re calling this!!!
Excited to return to the orange phone!
September 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Excited to return to the orange phone!
The blitz man...
September 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The blitz man...