Sean Smith

Husband, father, lawyer, reader and painter. Co-founder of Continuum Legal Group LLP.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Nicole Wallace ☠️☠️☠️

"Riddle me this: when Obama ran intelligence, the election was secure and Donald Trump won in 2016.

When Biden ran the government and the intelligence, the election was secure and Trump ran in 2024.

But when Donald Trump and all of his boobs were running US national security, it got all effed up. Is that the theory?"

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

An audit of all 1.11 million ballots cast in Georgia’s runoff elections found just 23 “discrepancies.” Every one of them involved hand-marked paper ballots. #gapol
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[Sean Smith @Ramones413]

@Acyn @atrupar You don’t know them, they go to a different school.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Donald Trump will go down in history as the only US President to be outwitted by a single-celled organism.

[PitBackle @PitBackle]

We didn't win against Iran but at least it didn't cost us 300 billion USD. 🤷‍♂️

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Part of how we love our country is telling the truth about our story.

America's story is one of extraordinary progress and painful injustice.

We dishonor both when we pretend only one is true.

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

In this race, Chuck Schumer is throwing his weight behind Haley Stevens. Of the candidates, she’s the only one who accepts corporate PAC dollars, she’s taken thousands from the company that sells tasers to ICE and from Elon Musk’s companies, and she refuses to hold any public events or take hard questions from voters.

That’s what he wants to put up against Mike Rogers in November?

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Vance, 2026: "If you think this is a bad deal, what is your alternative?”

Obama, 2015: “I’m hearing a lot of talking points being repeated about ‘this is a bad deal.' What I haven’t heard is, what is your preferred alternative?”

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[Amanda Litman @amandalitman]

Obama talked to campaign and admin staff last night about how nostalgia is useless. This stuck with me.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

“The reflecting pool is open and everyone is having a wonderful time.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

John ultimately comes from the Latin name Johannes.

Here’s the journey ⬇️

-Johannes shortened to Jan.

-The diminutive suffix -kin was added to make Jankin.

-The first n was dropped to make Jackin.

-Then shortened to Jack.

[Sean Smith @Ramones413]

@UnrealBluegrass @BBGreatMoments Mark Grace.

[Sean Smith @Ramones413]

@TheOklahoman_ He was just resting his eyes.

[Sean Smith @Ramones413]

@TheTweetOfGod Confirms that he thinks he is doing an elaborate remake of The Apprentice.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Capoeira looks like dancing because enslaved Africans in Brazil designed it to look like dancing. Getting caught training to fight meant death.

The art emerged during Brazil's colonial period among people brought primarily from Angola and West-Central Africa. Brazil received roughly 4 million enslaved Africans over three centuries, more than any other country in the Americas. Open combat training was prohibited. Any slave caught training to fight faced torture, forced deportation to isolated colonies, or execution. So they built the entire fighting system around deception.

Kicks, sweeps, headbutts, and takedowns hide inside playful-looking spins and acrobatic movements. The music served as the control system. The berimbau, a single-string bow made from wood and a gourd, controlled the pace of every sparring session. When danger approached, the tempo shifted. Slaveholders saw entertainment. What was actually happening was weapons practice.

After slavery was abolished in 1888, the disguise had worked so well that authorities finally grasped what capoeira was. Within two years, the government banned it. Article 402 of Brazil's 1890 Penal Code made practicing capoeira on any street or public space a criminal offense carrying 2 to 6 months in prison. Gang leaders faced double the penalty. The word capoeira, once a symbol of survival, became slang for criminal and outlaw. Police hunted them city-wide.

Manuel dos Reis Machado, better known as Mestre Bimba, changed that. In 1932, he opened the first official capoeira school in Salvador, Bahia, where the art had survived longest. By 1937, the government formally registered the academy and ended the ban. President Getulio Vargas watched a demonstration in 1953 and declared capoeira "Brazil's only true national sport."

In November 2014, UNESCO added capoeira to its Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list. It is now practiced in more than 160 countries. The bus driver in this video is performing a combat system that was illegal in Brazil less than 90 years ago.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Watch the live feed: https://t.co/012z6cYwVN

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Tens of thousands of people are currently watching a live feed of workers preparing to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center.

[Sean Smith @Ramones413]

@nut_history 5 miles. But with the ATL traffic, time is merely a construct.

[Sean Smith @Ramones413]

@UnrealBluegrass @Acyn @LeaBlackMiami To quote Homer (Simpson): “I am so smart, SMRT.”