Clint Smith
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
- Reposted by Clint SmithThe church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
- Credit to PSG, a really excellent team
- Less than ideal…
- TODAY IS THE DAY ARSENAL LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN I BELIEVE IN YOU ALSO PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU
- Reposted by Clint SmithWhat an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
- Reposted by Clint SmithMore than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Besides Pele, is Lamine Yamal the best 17-year-old player of all time?
- Giannis come to the Pelicans
- It could have been much much worse. We go again next week.
- Wow they are quite good
- Would give anything to be at The Emirates tonight
- Reposted by Clint Smith🎙️ON AIR: We're speaking with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social and the Museum of the African Diaspora's Key Jo Lee about the battle over how American history is told. ❓What's your reaction to the Trump order to remove "improper ideology" from museums and monuments? 📻 Listen:
- Reposted by Clint Smith"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." theatln.tc/81hXXEqK
- In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
- Reposted by Clint SmithThis is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
- Reposted by Clint SmithDOGE's latest efficiency is halting $500 million in food deliveries to the nation's food banks. www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/p...
- Reposted by Clint SmithThe Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw
- Reposted by Clint SmithI look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
- Arsenal really beat Madrid home and away and truly were the better team. Can’t believe it. Incredible work from the boys. Huge credit to Arteta. I don’t think all our fans appreciate how solid he has made us.
- Reposted by Clint SmithAmazing stuff again! Arsenal deserved to win both legs of this quarter-final, Saka's goal brilliant, and Madrid only scored because of a mistake you'll probably never see Saliba make again in his career. 5-1 on aggregate, Rice superb over both games, but a hugely impressive collective effort too.🔥
- Saliba noooooooooooo
- SAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- My heart rate has been all over the place
- TODAY IS THE DAY ARSENAL
- Reposted by Clint SmithWhat we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Bowled over by Quinn’s generosity here. We created this young readers’ edition with librarians and educators top of mind. Those who are on the front lines of helping to ensure that our kids understand American history fully and honestly. Thankful he’s sharing it with his community in this way.
- Pre-ordered 20 copies of @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s young readers edition of How The Word Is Passed from @bookshop.org for our local libraries and schools. Who’s gonna match it?
- Reposted by Clint SmithI've gotten more hate mail for this piece than any other, a reminder that people myths that give people meaning die hard www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Reposted by Clint SmithThis is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
- I have consumed so much Arsenal content since yesterday and I cannot stop.
- Reposted by Clint SmithWhat a night, what a performance from this far from 100% team, one of the great European nights at the Emirates. Declan Rice has produced two of the greatest free kicks you'll ever see at this level, and we 100% deserved that third goal too. Incredible. This team deserves so much love. #arsenal
- Historic night for Arsenal. Unbelievable.
- BRING ME THE BIRTH CERTIFICATES I AM CHANGING ALL MY CHILDREN’S NAMES TO DECLAN RICE
- Courtois is ridiculous
- DECLAN RICE MY HERO
- We missed Saka so much
- Reposted by Clint SmithOne of the most thoughtful introductions to the many challenges that Americans still face in coming to terms with the history and legacy of slavery and white supremacy at historic sites around the country. 🗃️ Perfect for the classroom. #sschat #historyteacher #edusky
- How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers) will be out September 2nd and is now available for pre-order. Can’t wait for you all to read it. Shout out to teachers. This is for y’all. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...
- Reposted by Clint SmithYoung readers will need this esp in schools that are abandoning actual history for whitewashed mythology
- How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers) will be out September 2nd and is now available for pre-order. Can’t wait for you all to read it. Shout out to teachers. This is for y’all. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...
- The Spanish translation of How the Word Is Passed is out this week. Thank you to my publisher @capitanswing.bsky.social and my translator Julia Gómez Saez for making this possible.
- ⚫️ NOVEDAD ⚫️ 250 años de existencia legal: la historia de EEUU es la historia de la esclavitud. Una exploración sobre cómo su historia y la memoria colectiva siguen afectando y dan forma al presente del país. 'El legado de la esclavitud', de @clintsmithiii.bsky.social. #YaEnLibrerías
- How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers) will be out September 2nd and is now available for pre-order. Can’t wait for you all to read it. Shout out to teachers. This is for y’all. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...
- Honored to have How the Word Is Passed included on Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Century list alongside so many writers I love and admire. www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...
- A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
- Reposted by Clint SmithThis is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
- Reposted by Clint SmithThere are many wild things in Trump's EO about History but one that especially caught my eye was the complaint that the American Art Museum promoted the view that "race is not a biological reality." It's not! That's a true statement! The idea that race is biological was the foundation of racism!
- They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
- Reposted by Clint SmithUnidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
- Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
- “The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.” 1.2 million children dying. Abhorrent. Evil. Indefensible.
- Reposted by Clint SmithBREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
- Reposted by Clint Smith"Symbols are not just symbols. They reflect the stories that people tell." @clintsmithiii.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/03/21/5...
- Reposted by Clint SmithThis #WorldPoetryDay, we celebrate the profound impact of poetry as a form of artistic expression and mirror to our shared human experiences. The Thread highlights New America Fellows and acclaimed poets @kaysarahsera.bsky.social and @clintsmithiii.bsky.social. ✒️
- Reposted by Clint Smith@clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza, the day after construction crews began removing its mural. “Symbols are not just symbols,” he writes. This is “part of a movement that is removing Black people” from power.
- Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.
- Reposted by Clint SmithThe detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- This new PSG team is very fun to watch.
- Reposted by Clint SmithHappy World Book Day! What are you reading? Me, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s book on how the history of slavery has been told. An examination of the axiom that history is told by victors, or in this case, white supremacy. ”Just because someone tells you a story doesn’t make that story true.”
