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Ms.Smith, Esq.

@mssmithesq

civil rights attorney. parent of two wild things. sometimes runner. DC by way of Baltimore & Kentucky. i like food. formerly: civil legal aid; middle school teacher.

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This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society.

And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.

09.03.2026 15:24 👍 2488 🔁 544 💬 86 📌 50
The image is a flyer for a "Fix-It Clinic" event. It features a green and white geometric design with the "Fix-It DC" logo at the top left. The event details include the date, Wednesday, March 18, and time, 5:30-7:30pm at the MLK Library. It invites attendees to bring small broken items for repair guidance. Logos for DC Public Library, Department of Energy & Environment, and the Government of the District of Columbia are at the bottom. Registration is required.

The image is a flyer for a "Fix-It Clinic" event. It features a green and white geometric design with the "Fix-It DC" logo at the top left. The event details include the date, Wednesday, March 18, and time, 5:30-7:30pm at the MLK Library. It invites attendees to bring small broken items for repair guidance. Logos for DC Public Library, Department of Energy & Environment, and the Government of the District of Columbia are at the bottom. Registration is required.

Got a broken toaster, toy, gadget, or favorite shirt? Bring it to the Fix-It DC Clinic and learn how to repair it with help from experts. Save money, reduce waste, and learn something new.

📍 MLK Library
🗓 March 18 | 5:30–7:30 PM

⚠️ Register here: https://bit.ly/4cV55WH

09.03.2026 12:00 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 4
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The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.

We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.

New from me at @brennancenter.org:

06.03.2026 15:15 👍 1083 🔁 426 💬 12 📌 14
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We need candidates who fall firmly into “looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you” overlap.

05.03.2026 13:22 👍 707 🔁 149 💬 37 📌 36
Call your City Council Members to demand they pass PAUSE EVICTIONS, SAVE LIVES! The wards in pink need EXTRA PRESSURE.

Map of Minneapolis Wards with Ward 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, and 13 highlighted in pink.

Call your City Council Members to demand they pass PAUSE EVICTIONS, SAVE LIVES! The wards in pink need EXTRA PRESSURE. Map of Minneapolis Wards with Ward 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, and 13 highlighted in pink.

If you are in Mpls Ward 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, or 13, extra pressure is needed on your councilmember. Call or email today and urge them to pass Pause Evictions, Save Lives tomorrow at the full council meeting.

04.03.2026 20:10 👍 28 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
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a stuffed animal with a chef 's hat and apron Alt: "tiny chef," a little green claymation figure in an apron and chef hat, stopping mid-task to cry into his hands, turna and walks to his bed, where he sits and resumes crying into his hands.

POV: you *finally* find time on a WFH day to make The Perfect Sandwich™️, only to discover that your children have eaten all of the good chips.

04.03.2026 19:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

28.02.2026 13:36 👍 6031 🔁 1246 💬 77 📌 38
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

28.02.2026 16:00 👍 17025 🔁 6539 💬 469 📌 550

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

26.02.2026 16:55 👍 12901 🔁 4777 💬 8 📌 109
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Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

24.02.2026 23:04 👍 2015 🔁 786 💬 57 📌 57

I'm asking in all seriousness, who has a direct line to Bruce Springsteen to ask if he can donate $100,000?

24.02.2026 00:01 👍 500 🔁 216 💬 17 📌 1
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Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan

AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero

17.02.2026 14:51 👍 3144 🔁 1442 💬 139 📌 114
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 👍 21769 🔁 7747 💬 299 📌 637

Oh, okay. I'll bite.

The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.

The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.

16.02.2026 21:25 👍 3884 🔁 864 💬 128 📌 13

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

14.02.2026 04:29 👍 6542 🔁 2102 💬 102 📌 72
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

13.02.2026 14:46 👍 3870 🔁 1836 💬 118 📌 204

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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11.02.2026 21:56 👍 5247 🔁 2656 💬 85 📌 907

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:

The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/

Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate

Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

12.02.2026 00:29 👍 2273 🔁 635 💬 55 📌 35

I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.

10.02.2026 23:33 👍 923 🔁 294 💬 7 📌 5

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

08.02.2026 17:56 👍 4028 🔁 747 💬 66 📌 53

I disagree with Congressman Gonzales that 5-year-old American citizen children are helped in any way by their kindergarten classmates being kisbnapped and disappeared by marked, armed thugs.

08.02.2026 17:05 👍 3302 🔁 609 💬 100 📌 0

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

08.02.2026 15:59 👍 11292 🔁 3857 💬 1 📌 39

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

08.02.2026 03:49 👍 1809 🔁 1067 💬 4 📌 1
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

08.02.2026 04:37 👍 7165 🔁 3739 💬 166 📌 466

please watch:

04.02.2026 17:17 👍 5367 🔁 2280 💬 228 📌 176
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

03.02.2026 17:27 👍 4397 🔁 2278 💬 81 📌 321
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

The Washington Post Guild just set up a GoFundMe.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

04.02.2026 16:02 👍 231 🔁 154 💬 5 📌 3

As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island).

The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.

29.01.2026 01:45 👍 5175 🔁 2035 💬 92 📌 65