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leosmith.bsky.social
Life long Michigander in SW Michigan. Retired social services worker. Politically; Slightly to the left of Bernie Sanders. Looking for serious conversations with serious people. But also like a good joke. or even a bad pun..
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the era of neoliberalism is over, and realpolitik is dead. you have to grow a spine. you have to have morals. you have to have red lines. you have to develop a sense of right and wrong that is not based in pragmatism or law, but in your heart and empathy for your fellow man. then, we can win

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Whenever I see this quote, I think of this meme I saw like 10 years ago. Only now it applies to LA. No reason to think it's going to stop there.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

submitted 3 days ago • 105 comments

I’m convinced a lot of the whining about Bluesky is because the trolls get angry when they’re not fed.

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

submitted 6 days ago • 133 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

It is pathetic how easily network news executives let right wingers manipulate them. Terry Moran rightly calls Stephen Miller a hater driven by bile, and ABC News accepts the idea that this is “unhinged” behavior. Critiquing people abusing their power is the JOB of journalism.

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

I'm not sure Democratic elected officials should even be admonishing demonstrators. They don't have any real relationship to the party. They're not like heading to the DNC in 2028. They're not precinct captains. I suspect these admonishments just reenforce Republican frames.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Feels like a uniquely American brand of stupidity to try and mobilize troops for the battle of Home Depot

submitted 6 days ago • 232 comments

The California legislature and city & county governments should file injunctions and draft emergency legislation prohibiting the quartering of now-federalized troops on private property including hotels under the Third Amendment. Make the Guard bivouac on the ground on federal property.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 7 days ago • 316 comments

the people who make this country unsafe aren’t immigrants. the people who make this country unsafe are cops.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

So it’s 6 days in June and we have a massive hate crime and MURDER against a Native actor and the illegal arrest of the head of one of America’s biggest union The Dem website has no response

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

A thing I find baffling is that anyone now old enough to have kids grew up in a time when it was considered uttterly normal and safe for kids to walk around the neighbornood alone, and yet we seem to have collectively determined the thing we all did as kids is now borderline child abuse.

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

Can we circle back to the part where Elon Musk was "feeding USAID into the wood chipper" — an illegal action that is reported to be the direct cause of ~300,000 preventable deaths, including more than 200,000 children? www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Also, to be temporarily serious, I hate that my political awareness as a citizen in a so-called representative government requires keeping up with the personal relationship of an unhinged billionaire private citizen and the man to whom he gifted the presidency

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

We were spared the embarrassment.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

The President of the United States didn't realize that the Chancellor of Germany isn't as big of a Nazi supporter as he is.

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MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House

submitted 12 days ago • 97 comments

Logistics are collapsing in Russia as paranoid military and police authorities check every truck for Ukrainian drones. Long queues everywhere. This is exactly why Ukraine released details of how they carried out yesterday’s ingenious strike on strategic bombers.

submitted 12 days ago • 42 comments