Desirée Cormier Smith
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- The U.S. is making history again - but not in a good way. For the first time, a UN member state is withdrawing from the Universal Periodic Review, one of the core human rights instruments…and it’s the U.S. @catherinepowellesq.bsky.social, Beth Van Schaack & I wrote about this dangerous move 👇🏾
- I wrote this with two brilliant colleagues because what is happening at the State Department should concern every American. “We fear that America’s retreat from human rights and democracy on the global stage is a preview for more repression to come here at home.” www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
- Reposted by Desirée Cormier SmithAmerica is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
- Reposted by Desirée Cormier SmithOne of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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- Reposted by Desirée Cormier Smitheveryone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
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- Reposted by Desirée Cormier SmithThe attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
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- Reposted by Desirée Cormier Smith“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
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- Reposted by Desirée Cormier SmithSo after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
- “And yes, I know many are afraid. We have seen the vindictiveness of Trump. But we will either act now or wait until autocracy has become so unyielding that we will no longer be able to exercise our basic rights.“
- Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
