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Nicholas Smith

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State gov’t attorney. Started with wrangling bulls in Louisiana; now wrangling market bullies in Kansas. Consumer protection nerd. Friend of Dorothy. Married to a Detroiter. Views are my own.

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A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

06.03.2026 15:04 👍 5379 🔁 848 💬 320 📌 630

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

01.03.2026 19:01 👍 21390 🔁 7249 💬 428 📌 269
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

18.02.2026 16:03 👍 20520 🔁 6590 💬 468 📌 455

Sorry no my draft still isn't quite done yet. Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown

02.10.2025 19:51 👍 60 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 3
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

30.09.2025 21:41 👍 26440 🔁 7944 💬 355 📌 247

coates is genuinely a generational writer

17.09.2025 04:50 👍 10675 🔁 2588 💬 72 📌 36

Trump v. United States

05.09.2025 12:12 👍 801 🔁 252 💬 18 📌 5

I love this song.

03.09.2025 17:29 👍 751 🔁 83 💬 20 📌 6

It’s not too surprising Cuomo interprets “no” as a “maybe”

25.06.2025 03:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No better way to build morale in the military than forcing troops to march down largely empty streets in a thunderstorm to celebrate a draft dodger’s birthday

14.06.2025 21:10 👍 5782 🔁 1203 💬 91 📌 28
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Linda Elrod's expertise helped shape ever-changing landscape of family law Topekan and former Washburn University law professor was recognized by the Kansas Supreme Court.

Absolutely love Cricket, and so happy she’s getting her well-deserved flowers!

www.cjonline.com/story/news/l...

10.06.2025 12:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And the majority of the State AG community is against this prohibition because of its far reaching implications.

www.tn.gov/attorneygene...

21.05.2025 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The push notification for this stated something like “might could” may be “fixin’ to” disappear. And let me tell you—not on my mama’s watch.

She might could single-handedly preserve the dialect.

10.05.2025 22:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is the Southern accent fixin' to disappear in parts of the US South? Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.

Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.

10.05.2025 17:00 👍 141 🔁 23 💬 38 📌 17
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
t.co/lg46ijHLDF

23.04.2025 11:55 👍 29741 🔁 10642 💬 2051 📌 1673
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Look at the size of today's #HandsOff! protest in Topeka, Kansas 👀

Turns out people don't like billionaires stealing their government

05.04.2025 17:21 👍 1406 🔁 289 💬 10 📌 11
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Topeka

05.04.2025 18:22 👍 48 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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#handsoff
Topeka KS

05.04.2025 17:01 👍 13477 🔁 2922 💬 180 📌 215

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

04.04.2025 23:11 👍 11077 🔁 3408 💬 166 📌 90

About time LATech recognized you. Congratulations!

31.03.2025 16:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The pure goodness of Kansans is what I love most about this state and its people.

26.03.2025 11:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Kansas pastor takes up the fight for trans rights Charles McKinzie is a small-town pastor and lifelong Republican. Unlike many of his religious peers, he's also a vocal critic of new laws restricting gender-affirming care for Kansas minors. Plus: a l...

“Just as there is a spectrum of light and dark, because we have sunrises and sunsets in the same way, I think that God's creation is broad enough and beautiful enough and wide enough to include variations of what we have understood as a gender binary.”

26.03.2025 11:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.

25.03.2025 00:56 👍 4754 🔁 1582 💬 83 📌 45

FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”

Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.

Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.

13.03.2025 22:58 👍 9816 🔁 2333 💬 97 📌 50

The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.

09.03.2025 23:52 👍 3121 🔁 1273 💬 70 📌 30

I’m sorry I am sure you have an excellent point but they took away the hour I had allocated to care about it

09.03.2025 16:53 👍 1760 🔁 122 💬 20 📌 4

Not the SOC slander, too.

07.03.2025 13:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

04.03.2025 22:15 👍 17141 🔁 4663 💬 232 📌 128

Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.

05.03.2025 02:48 👍 10589 🔁 1755 💬 254 📌 101