Ryan Smith

Educator, equity-driven, student-centered

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨Ken Paxton was reported to the FBI for accepting hundreds of thousands in bribes.

His own staffers were the ones who reported him.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

So just to be clear: Florida is trying to challenge the NFL on the Rooney Rule when there are 3 Black coaches in the NFL, two Black offensive coordinators, and four Black general managers.

This is out of 32 teams.

It seems like the system has worked swimmingly well for white guys, so … what’s the issue?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me get this straight.

The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately.

Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes.

Trump said no.

Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workers’ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote.

Like a petulant child flipping the board when he’s losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse.

Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judge’s approval while hiding behind masks.

We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican party’s losing electoral math.

Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today.

Trump is the one standing in the way.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Just a reminder: TSA isn’t being funded because Republicans want to privatize it. It’s all in Project 2025.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

CBS Folds Again, Cancels 60 Minutes Segment on Epstein Cover-up After DOJ Pressure

*(Remember kids CBS has lost the C...now just BS).
https://t.co/FmgkBRKGAZ

[Kazeem Famuyide 🇳🇬 🍎 @Kazeem]

Probably should’ve ran an actual campaign instead of “Muslims are scawy”

[Conan O'Brien @ConanOBrien]

The suspension of @jimmykimmel and the promise to silence other Late Night hosts for criticizing the administration should disturb everyone on the Right, Left, and Center.  It’s wrong and anyone with a conscience knows it’s wrong.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Good to know, @StephenM.

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

This is one really, really good reason we shouldn’t allow police to cover their faces while they are on duty.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is chilling to watch and utterly unacceptable in the United States of America.

As a former Senator, I’m calling on all current members to speak out on behalf of Sen. Padilla and defend him and the Senate against these outrageous attacks.

Stop this blatant violation of the Constitution’s system of checks and balances before it’s too late.

[Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders]

We have warning signs and examples all around us of what our President is actively trying to do to America. We just need to be willing to look.

[Ryan Smith @rsmithequality]

@outbreakupdates Damn, that used to get me all the time on Oregon Trail…

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

🚨BREAKING: SHOCKING BETRAYAL🚨

The United States just VOTED AGAINST a UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The resolution still passed—but America sided with Putin.

This is beyond disgraceful. The U.S. has abandoned its moral leadership and bowed to Russia. A dark day for democracy.

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

X appears to be censoring Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter @bluestein’s posts covering Rep. Rich McCormick’s (R-GA) town hall. The now “unavailable” posts, which per Bluestein were not deleted, showed McCormick being booed after he defended DOGE
https://t.co/RhOiwQDlSZ

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

The mass deportation of illegal immigrants is a racist purge of the Latino and Black communities. Notice no raids of the Russian community in Brighton Beach or the Irish community of Boston, where known undocumented immigrants regularly live. No European immigrant communities raided

[Ryan Smith @rsmithequality]

@elonmusk Aren’t you an unelected bureaucrat?

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

I’ve never seen a more clear example of baseless and idiotic prejudice.

For those curious, Arabic Numerals are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9.

[Ryan Smith @rsmithequality]

@BiologicalWoma2 @Acyn Racism while hiding behind a pic of a lion. HA.

[Ryan Smith @rsmithequality]

@JeffYoungerShow Am I right in that you are in TX and the ex wife and kids are in CA? Why the distance?

[Christopher Emdin @chrisemdin]

I’ve been pretty silent about politics thus far but I’ll tell you this. Having a teacher as Vice President is a beautiful thing. Having a family of educators in the White House is even more beautiful. Tim Walz and his wife are teachers. There is a certain type of thoughtfulness, capacity to see beyond and humanity that educators have. To teach or to have ever taught changes you in the most magical ways. You need people with that outlook in power and in proximity to it.