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Blanche K

@blanchekolaczek.bsky.social
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She/her. American. Possible ‘Lectroid. Chicagophile. Russia watcher. Trying my best. Please look at photos of my cats.

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Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social · 8h
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie
Not a selfie! My husband, peeking in from the left, took this of me sitting next to him on the plane, wearing noise canceling headphones, eye mask, and KN95 mask over my nose/mouth.
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Beaver Bones Robertson @darickr.bsky.social · 46m
Notice that law enforcement aren't removing the guy who punched her. Also, last time I checked, free speech is allowed at public events, even if it's unpopular with the crowd.
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 43m
A meme from the onion showing many tired and stressed looking people waiting on a subway platform clearly going to work. Below them is a simple slogan “it only Tuesday“
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10h
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 2h
Marie isn’t looking bad for her age
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Bocc Kob @bocckob.bsky.social · 18h
Every single time House Dem leadership supported Republicans against impeachment this term, the White House escalated the crimes they were being accused of. If they're doing home invasions of members of Congress, how many steps are left before imprisonment or execution? Impeachment has to be now.
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 9h
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h
The first thing that I wrote after I moved to DC in 2009 was about Matthew Shepard, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and the first year of the Obama administration. It wasn't great, but it was on deadline; I was just back to DC; and it hit a lot of points that, in retrospect, were right on the mark:
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"The Legacy of a Legacy"
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h
I spoke a bit about Matthew Shepard over the weekend in person to some folks, but I didn't want to let the anniversary of his death — October 12, 1998 — pass by without giving a moment to him and his memory here.
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Prince Caspian @nysea.bsky.social · 11h
People really can't wrap their heads around how much money a trillion dollars is. If your net worth is $100k, this is the equivalent of you spending $27.60 on lunch.
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 10h
Shoutout Portage Park!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h
I still remember in 2015 when Trump was gonna hold a press conference clear up all the questions about Melania's immigration issues in two weeks. And then he didn't. And the press never asked them about it again.
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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 11h
Ken Paxton was chilling with the alleged Loretto Hospital schemers illinoisanswers.org/2021/04/28/c...
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Cash-Strapped Loretto Hospital Paid Millions to Companies Formed by Ousted Executive’s Pal
Before COO Anosh Ahmed resigned after hooking up friends with early vaccines, Loretto Hospital was paying millions to companies founded by Ahmed's close pal and business partner.
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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 11h
Chicago Not In Chicago (villain edition)
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h
Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.
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Spooky Bran @beemooney.bsky.social · 14h
I noticed the highway patrol did NOT take away the person punching the protestors repeatedly in the face? Did I miss that?
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 14h
the racism, fascism and violence at this rally should make those who have a conscience sick to their core
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
Just the president cheering on his crowd as they physically assault a woman
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 14h
Dark and hot.
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Matthew Shirts @matthewshirts.bsky.social · 14h
Trying to start a race war for God’s sake. Should be in prison
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump pushes gutter racism in Ohio: "Look at what's happening in the once great state of MN. What a mess. Somalia ... all they do is kill each other in the streets. They cheat on everything. You have to vote for Michele Tafoya ... I thought I won MN 3 times." The crowd chants "De-port! De-port!"
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 14h
Motivational
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 15h
The thing is, in his rancid pudding brain, he truly believes this is how it works.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18h
Trying to figure out what to do now? How to be useful in this moment of history and beyond the midterms? Have we got a list for you -- complete with categorized Google Doc thanks to @rachelriskind.bsky.social !
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THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST
keep all your shenanigans in one place
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 18h
It’s like writing up an Epstein profile and ignoring his sex crimes
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19h
Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 15h
@nytimes.com perhaps “troubling” or a “ bold statement”?
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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 15h
America used to tie our hands; now it has blindfolded us.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h
CLERGY BECOME A POLL CHAPLAIN HELP SUPPORT PEOPLE TRYING TO VOTE AND KEEP THINGS CALM AT VOTING LOCATIONS BE THE ADULT ON SITE IF PEOPLE SHOW UP TO MAKE TROUBLE YES THERE IS A TRAINING YES I'M SHOUTING COME ON TRAINING OCT 15th www.turnoutsunday.com/poll-chaplain
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POLL CHAPLAIN | TurnOutSunday
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 17h
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 17h
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 17h
Trump’s strategy continues to be— all the carrots for Moscow, all the sticks for Kyiv. This isn’t diplomacy, this is aiding and abetting Russia’s attempted conquest.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 18h
When he ran, Trump had already spent years claiming Obama wasn't born in the US, that Bill Ayers wrote Obama's memoir, that Obama wore "an Arabic ring" and was secretly Muslim, was actually named "Barry Soetoro," and had a Hawaiian health department official killed to protect his fraud.
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 17h
While being cradled in arms like a baby. That’s him.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 20h
entire energy complex, but NOW Putin's oil industry is protected, so Putin is protected and conversely, all the "deals" Putin is offering the Trump family are protected.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 20h
As expected, Trump's gift to Putin had nothing to do with lowering diesel prices, but everything to do with giving him a foundation to then forbid Ukraine from striking Putin's oil industry. No affect at all across the..
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 21h
Cat photos are the best part!
A close up of a fluffy toasted marshmallow colored cat lounging with eyes half closed.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h
This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 21h
Impeach him.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23h
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 23h
We are 22 days out from an election. This raid is based on paperwork from 1995. There can be no exigent circumstances here.
9-85.500 Actions that May Have an Impact on an Election

Federal prosecutors and agents may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party. Such a purpose is inconsistent with the Department’s mission and with the Principles of Federal Prosecution. See § 9-27.260. Any action likely to raise an issue or the perception of an issue under this provision requires consultation with the Public Integrity Section, and such action shall not be taken if the Public Integrity Section advises that further consultation is required with the Deputy Attorney General or Attorney General.
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's not at all hyperbolic to say the president is trying to denaturalize and deport my congressional representative
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 23h
Feds used a piece of tech that simulates a cell tower so all the phones in an area will connect to it so they can find someone working on journalism. Other countries have cut down national security signals intelligence programs just at the risk it might collect journalists' communications!
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ILuvPolitix @iluvpolitix.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The raid stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child. " www.foxnews.com/politics/ilh...
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12/10/2026
It feels like this whole midterm elections cycle is a game of Mad Libs. What do you mean Florida Republicans allegedly stole millions of health insurance money from poor children to bankroll a campaign that blocked a marijuana legalization referendum www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NYT reports that the Republicans' leading donor is a neo-Nazi www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is what happens when you elevate “civil discourse” to be the greatest good. All of the sudden, it’s worse to call someone a Nazi than it is to be a Nazi.
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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The most brightly lit corner store I’ve seen without it being that ghostly halogen blue. . Bodega No.8 8”x8” oil
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