Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

Policy nerd. World’s Best Dad with the mug to prove it. Currently @MichiganLEO, formerly @RepDerekKilmer @SenGaryPeters @JohnDingell @SenCarlLevin. Go Green! East Lansing, MI Joined January 2008

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

4 months ago

@ModeledBehavior @Noahpinion @sdamico Great answer for shareholders. Follow up question for real humans: why didn’t Ford spend the last 15 years building or acquiring world class battery technology?

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

5 months ago

I’m not in favor of a culture war but if MAGA is going to make me pick a side I’m more than happy to choose the side with football and reject the one with Kid Rock.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

5 months ago

@TVietor08 @CahnEmily None of these guys got murdered. nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/…

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5 months ago

@AlecStapp This is spot on.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

6 months ago

Donald Trump publicly pressuring Machado to give him her Nobel Peace Prize is amazingly similar to Putin stealing a Super Bowl ring from Robert Kraft. He really is copying the authoritarian playbook! cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres…

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

7 months ago

@Acyn Does Lindsey Graham realize how discovery works?

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

8 months ago

@Noahpinion Not logical but understandable. Water is a natural resource. Many people remember when our lakes and rivers were deeply polluted. There’s an emotional resonance that doesn’t exist in the same for energy, which is ultimately a resource generated to be consumed.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

9 months ago

I’m starting to think MSU’s football team isn’t very good.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

9 months ago

Same for you, Common Cause.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

9 months ago

I don’t know who the Progressive Turnout Project is but getting spammed with clickbait like this does not make me more likely to support progressive candidates.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

9 months ago

Big Ten expansion is ruining Big Ten football.

Michigan State Football @MSU_Football

10 months ago

it’s gonna be a late one folks

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

9 months ago

@NathanCHubbard Wait till you see how good they are at parental controls.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

10 months ago

Chuck Schumer's top recruit for the Maine Senate race is 78 years old. Have these people learned nothing? punchbowl.news/article/campai…

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

10 months ago

"The fact is that almost nobody can control themselves around the glowing little demon. That’s fine — it doesn’t make you a bad person for failing to do so. But it does make us a bad society for allowing it to happen." open.substack.com/pub/theargumen…

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

12 months ago

@besttrousers Totally agree with this. It’s really made me think about how I can be a better communicator when assigning tasks or assignments to humans.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

a year ago

@Crime_Penguin The point of cities is that humans are more productive in groups than by themselves. More productivity means more money per person. People are what unlock “high-level econ activity.” If the most productive people like bike lanes you’d be stupid not to build them.

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

a year ago

Michigan State was able to lure away the President of UNC in part because of a MAGA crackdown on academic freedom. Santa Ono is leaving Univ of Mich to go to a place that was so conservative and political that a GOP Senator quit. nytimes.com/2025/05/07/opi…

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

a year ago

“We are now seeing a generation of 70-year-olds who called for the departure of an 81-year-old fail to understand how anyone under 60 gets information about the world.” nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opi… via @nytopinion

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Jonathan Smith @jonathan_smith

a year ago

How hard would it be for Apple to put some kind of mechanism in the lid to the AirPods case so that it doesn’t immediately open and eject your AirPods every time you drop the case?