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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑

@drkimburns.bsky.social
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💜 Coach & consultant to higher ed leaders 🌻 Badass whisperer 🎓 Based in Massachusetts, USA

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It is time to show up for our communities. I am joining thousands of volunteers for Indivisible’s largest voter protection effort yet. From millions of conversations to neighbors helping neighbors, we are making a difference together. Join the movement at Indivisible.org. 🗳️🤝
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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STOP Trump’s 250-foot-tall Arch
YouTube video by Home of the Brave
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The ultimate example of voting against your own interest
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Hope is a form of planning.” RIP Gloria.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 02/09/2026
US Senator Ed Markey is projected to win the often-bitter Democratic Senate primary against US Representative Seth Moulton, according to the Associated Press. trib.al/4P7umEE
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
After four years of struggling to talk about abortion, Republicans think they’ve found the message that will take them through the midterms and into 2028
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The GOP’s 2028 Abortion Strategy in One Word: Massachusetts
Republican candidates will lean into “late” abortion. Democrats need to be ready.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted (Gift Article)
As immigration arrests hit record highs, ICE appears closer than ever to meeting its goal of 2,000 daily arrests.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Barbie Backlash www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o...
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Opinion | The Barbie Backlash (Gift Article)
‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Barbie’ show a zeitgeist shift that goes beyond Hollywood: The hero’s narrative is corroding our political and public life.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Death should not be the price of academic celebrity.” Article by @drshaunharper.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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The Fatal, Familiar Takedown of Jason Arday
I wish the vicious envy and violent despising of Black male intellectual leadership had somehow bypassed him.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Voting season puts focus on election administration, litigation, turnout commonwealthbeacon.org/government/s...
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Voting season puts focus on election administration, litigation, turnout
"With 600,000 ballots on the street, I think it's important for people to vote them and send them back," Secretary of State William Galvin said, calling the figure average and declaring that his "stro...
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Almost 130,000 people work at Mass. universities. Many are now on the ‘chopping blocks.’ - The Boston Globe
Higher education has long felt like the most stable sector of the Massachusetts economy. Not any more.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I know I've got a special bottle set aside for the occasion. 🎉
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Democracy experts tell us the work starts at the local level and we need to get to know our neighbors. Tonight we did just that with an @indivisiblefm.bsky.social gathering with good food, good conversation, and a civil liberties trivia quiz! On to the midterms!
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thrasybulus63.bsky.social @thrasybulus63.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Apparently her capacity for shameless lying and insults was exhausted. Not to worry: Karoline's place in Hell is assured. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Karoline Leavitt quits
Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House at the end of the month to spend more time with her children. It’s a perfectly acceptable reason for quitting a job. And luckily…
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ugh. I have found myself thinking about my writing so it doesn't sound like AI. What about you? www.wired.com/story/more-t...
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More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What Our Epstein Outrage Has Obscured www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | What Our Epstein Outrage Has Obscured (Gift Article)
It’s easy to shake our fists at a monster. It would be more effective to actually help exploited girls.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/o...
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Opinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating.
Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Imagine what the possibilities would be if we had universal health insurance? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/22/b...
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More workers hate their jobs, but keep them for the health insurance - The Boston Globe
Almost a quarter of all US workers say they want to leave their current job but won’t because they want to keep their health benefits, according to a new survey.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/07/2026
This free documentary is a MUST SEE. Shuffling people around the US, away from their attorneys and family, away from their Habeas Corpus filings, on a merry-go-round of extremely expensive tax-payer funded charter flights, is a key part of the ICE death machine and hardly anyone is talking about it.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Remote Work is a Feminist Issue open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
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Remote Work is a Feminist Issue
And the unpleasant, revealing answer as to why some bosses now won’t let you do it
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@indivisiblefm.bsky.social partnered with the Pepperell Democratic Town Committee to honor the memory of Congressman John Lewis with an election Q&A with Town Clerk Brynn Durno. We learned how our locally controlled elections are run and kept secure. We had a great crowd and a great conversation.
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De-ICE Action Network @de-ice.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Citizens Bank has announced it will exit its lending agreements with CoreCivic and GEO Group. This is an incredible win for everyone who refused to let a major bank finance the human suffering caused by ICE detention! Community resistance matters ✊
Graphic titled 'BREAKING' announcing that Citizens Bank is exiting its lending relationships with for-profit ICE prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group. The background photo shows protesters outside a Citizens Bank branch holding signs reading 'Citizens: Get Out of ICE OR We Get Out of Citizens,' 'Citizens Bank No ICE Prisons,' and 'Citizens Bank Has Blood On Its Hands.' The 'De-ICE Citizens Bank' campaign logo appears in the bottom left, with the URL www.de-icecitizensbank.org in the bottom right.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Hands Off Our Vote!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Hands Off Our Vote! · Indivisible
Join Indivisibles across the country for the kickoff call for Hands Off Our Vote, Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, and that those ballots get coun...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/07/2026
We all know this still stinks to high heaven. Gov. Andy Beshear says he still hasn’t received an official update from Sen. Mitch McConnell. “I’ve had no official response. Nothing sent to our office, no letter, no email.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is wrong in so many levels. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
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Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone (Gift Article)
Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Proud of the Massachusetts legislature for taking measures to prevent book banning. malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
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House Passes Bill to Protect Free Expression, Guard Massachusetts Against Book Bans
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The Massachusetts House of Representatives today passed a <a href="https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2726">bill</a> protecting residents&rsquo;...
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is terrifyingly not as fringe as it used to be. one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5846...
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🔊 Listen Now: Pastor Doug Wilson on why he believes the U.S. should be a Christian theocracy
Morning Edition on NPR One | 7:47
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/c...
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Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Join us for a Q&A session with Town Clerk Brynn Durno to learn about the process of voting in our state. This event is sponsored by the Pepperell Democratic Town Committee and @indivisiblefm.bsky.social All are welcome! Register at bit.ly/4bl4tHX
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Professor Fired for Criticizing Charlie Kirk Reaches $1.9 Million Settlement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Professor Fired for Criticizing Charlie Kirk Reaches $1.9 Million Settlement
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio (updated)
Thanks to the Supreme Court
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/06/2026
Three reports from universities and higher-ed organizations on public trust were released this spring. “Their mere existence proves that America’s universities have finally gotten the message: People don’t like them very much,” Rose Horowitch argues:
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Higher Ed Is Very Sorry
Universities are studying how they lost the public’s trust.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What if the MAGA Vibe Shift Was Just a Mirage? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Opinion | Gay Lit’s Gone Mainstream
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Virtual OMB Comment Q&A Workshop — 27 UNIHTED
Join us June 25th at 3:00PM ET to learn about writing a comment to the proposed OMB Rule on "regulation for federal financial assistance". Join Dr. Troyer and Dr. Ginexi. Contact information info@27UN...
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The latest @indivisible.org What's the Plan? addresses threats to the midterm elections and what we can do about it. youtu.be/VUntFj_3BRs?...
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How to Get into Election Protection Formation
YouTube video by Indivisible
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Real Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (It’s Not Productivity) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...
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Opinion | The Real Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (It’s Not Productivity)
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@indivisiblefm.bsky.social joined up with Indivisible Tyngsboro on Flag Day, June 14, 2026, to promote democracy. @indivisiblemass.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Scott Pelley: CBS News ‘Is on Fire’ www.nytimes.com/video/podcas...
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Video: Scott Pelley: CBS News ‘Is on Fire’
In an exclusive interview, Scott Pelley defended himself against accusations from President Trump and said there was “a subtle political bias” in the new management at “60 Minutes.”
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Dr. Kim Burns ❌👑 @drkimburns.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Boston judge hears arguments to block Trump’s effort to restrict mail-in voting
Plaintiffs, including the ACLU of Massachusetts, Mass. AG Andrea Campbell and 20 other states, argued that the order violates the U.S. Constitution and risks mass disenfranchisement to eligible voters...
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