Howard A. Smith PhD

@notlost-drsmith.bsky.social

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PhD in Public Admin, 35 year SME in making government work better for the people. 1.4 years laid off. Available to work for the resistance.

You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.
The road is long With many a winding turn That leads us to who knows where? Who knows where? But I'm strong Strong enough to carry him He ain't heavy, he's my brother So on we go His welfare is my concern No burden is he to bear We'll get there For I know He would not encumber me He ain't heavy, he's my brother It's a long, long road From which there is no return While we're on the way to there Why not share? And the load Doesn't weigh me down at all He ain't heavy, he's my brother
Split frame picture. Top frame is of President Trump yelling out the window of a black SUV "Open up the Strait you crazy bastards!" Bottom frame shows a young woman leaning out the window of a driver through, wearing an Arby's hat, saying "Sir, this is an Arby's."
post by Chris J. Suggs @chrisjsuggs "By the way, April Fools is cancelled tomorrow. Keep your jokes to yourself because this whole year has been one already. We tired. Tomorrow is March 32nd"
List of donors to the White House Ballroom project published by The Hill in the story "White House releases donor list for Trump ballroom amid East Wing demolition" by Brett Samuels - 10/23/25 10:37 AM ET Altria Group Amazon Apple Booz Allen Hamilton Caterpillar Coinbase Comcast Corporation J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul Hard Rock International Google HP Lockheed Martin Meta Platforms Micron Technology Microsoft NextEra Energy Palantir Technologies Ripple Reynolds American T-Mobile Tether America Union Pacific Railroad Adelson Family Foundation Stefan E. Brodie Betty Wold Johnson Foundation Charles and Marissa Cascarilla Edward and Shari Glazer Harold Hamm Benjamin Leon Jr. The Lutnick Family The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation Stephen A. Schwarzman Konstantin Sokolov Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher Paolo Tiramani Cameron Winklevoss Tyler Winklevoss
Picture of Erika Kirk and the Serena Joy character from the "Handmaid's Tale" series with the following caption: Serena Joy in The Handmaid's Tale preached that women should stay in the home, yet found herself living under the very limits she helped design. Erika Kirk now leads a multimillion-dollar group that tells women to avoid power, ambition, and independence- while exercising all three herself. Life, meet art.
Facebook post from Dan Satterfield (9-18-2025, approx 5:30pm ET: OK, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel['s ban]. The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or Nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or sometime this week. 3. Note the companies that bought TV adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company. Trust me. I worked in TV for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact. Nothing. THis is a much more effective tool than cancelling Disney. We did cancel Disney, but calling Joe's Jeep dealership who is buying ads on the local Nexstar station will have a big impact. Joe doesn't need that grief. He will find another station to buy adverts on.
Picture of Trump with this caption: Behold, the festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a clansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul -- all sprayed orange and paraded like a prize hog at the county fair. Not a President. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been: arrogance masquerading as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh--a rotting idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it vomits up this bloated obscenity and dares to call it a leader. Signed Oliver Kornetzke @Kornetzke.bsky.social watermarked: Trump Resistance Movement
Text by Brad Allen "I need conservatives to understand if it weren't for blue states, the U.S. would be a third world country with broadband holes, broke schools, and zero innovation (exactly where Trump is trying to take the country). Red states TAKE federal money. Blue states MAKE it. They [red states] don't fund the country, they drain it. The loudest voices are always the ones who bring the least to the table." Attached chart from Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program showing share of US GDP produced by counties won by Joe Biden and Donald Trump in 2020 elections. Joe Biden's counties contributed 71% of US GDP, Donald Trump's contributed 29%.
Two Tweets from Congressman Randy Fine Republican of Florida. First tweet: The Thump Thump Act will Allow Americans to run over these Muslim Terrorists. They don't try this in Florida because of the bill I helped pass in the Legislature to allow them to be run over. It's time to take it national. Thump thump. Second tweet: To be clear, the Thump Thump Act will also allow you to run over BLM, Antifa, illegal immigrants, and anyone else who intentionally blocks roads! Thump thump!
Picture of and quote by Stephen Colbert: "If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to just pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it."
50's style sign that says: "Here's a thought; maybe you wouldn't have to mention you are a Christian all the time if you just acted like one most of the time." Pen and ink picture of a June Cleaver type in the lower right hand corner.
Several polls have tested the agency in recent weeks, and the verdicts are universally quite bad. A Quinnipiac University poll showed voters disapproved of how ICE was enforcing immigration laws, 57% to 39%. ICE’s numbers on immigration were even slightly worse than Trump’s. An NPR-PBS News-Marist College poll last month showed 54% of Americans said ICE had “gone too far” in enforcing immigration laws. And a CNN poll released last weekend showed Americans opposed Trump’s expanded ICE funding, 53-31%. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/ice-unpopularity-trump-analysis