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Pragmatic Northwesterner. Patriot. Climate/energy professional.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 3h
No, the death penalty should not still be in use in the U.S. Next question.
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Should the Death Penalty Still Be in Use in the United States?
A botched execution in Tennessee and a planned execution that might be livestreamed have renewed debate and division over capital punishment. How do you feel about the issue?
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 6h
New tech enables hackers to attack your computer using advertising. www.confiant.com/not-business...
confiant.com
Confiant | Not Business as usual
Discover how advertising infrastructure was exploited for covert surveillance and spyware targeting, and what this means for the ad industry
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We would like the answer, too @raskin.house.gov
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Oooh! First big AI company bankruptcy: Character AI is definitely more reminiscent of iTurf more than Lehman bros. www.404media.co/character-ai...
404media.co
Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Musk of course is not a diplomat, not a statesman, & despite being illegally & unconstitutionally allowed to be the acting co-president in return for spending a third of a billion to get Trump reelected w/GOP majorities in the House & the Senate is not a head of state. 2/
newyorker.com
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I did not know this.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not one of these members of Congress had their houses searched even though they all plotted and attempted to carry out a coup.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Could not happen to a nicer guy.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Credible is not the same as honest.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Please give this a read and share. Preparation is key to surviving what’s coming and I never paywall my new articles
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The real important take away here is that Green & the other elected & appointed officials, especially the Republicans, know that Trump is the source of a lot of the threats & he could stop the bulk of them. Which is why she asked him to stop & he said no. 1/
Her breaking point came after the president called her a “traitor.” Of the torrent of threats that followed, one stood out. It was aimed at her son.

“That’s the one that bothers me on a visceral level,” she said.

Ms. Greene reached out to Mr. Trump, hoping for compassion from a president she had stood by for years. She forwarded copies of the threats to him, hoping that seeing the threats against her family would be enough to tone down the attacks.

She got a five-word reply from the president: “Your fault, you deserve it.”
Weeks later, Ms. Greene announced her retirement from Congress.

“I looked at what are the risks and what is the reward,” she said. “And for me, it was, I’m not going to be treated that way, and I’m not going to have my children’s lives threatened.”
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We can also remove cap on SS and Medicare taxes…or raise it in a systematic and controlled manner.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
WaPo calls for a wealth tax like the Swiss have used. apple.news/An80PJPffTE-...
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Opinion | Could a U.S. wealth tax work? Follow Switzerland — not the left. — The Washington Post
The federal government needs revenue, and this could be a bipartisan solution.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We weren’t expecting truth from the admin until, they are deposed and then we will have to wait until they have been jailed for perjury for a few months.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is amazing.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Another reason to stay away from Xitter. apple.news/AamKFWr2SS9C...
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A Network of Anonymous Sports Fans Is Ruining the Lives of College-Age Girls. One Victim Fights Back — WIRED
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless college-aged girls who’ve had their lives destroyed by anonymous sports fan accounts. Now she’s fighting back.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This should be the lead story with a screaming headline on every news website: “Trump sides with Putin in Ukraine war.” “After a long, friendly chat during which Putin offered Trump a political lifeline, Trump called for Ukraine to surrender.”
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing www.ft.com/content/7fd4...
ft.com
US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
But the people doing the shooting are not trannies, fatties, weirdos or beardos, and serve as a role model for child warfighters everywhere. Children will be inspired to grow up and join the military.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 10/10/2026
11-3-26: Stain Removal
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That is epic.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Check out some printable PDF signs for the upcoming election, designed with rural Americans in mind. factocracy.net
factocracy.net
Factocracy — Facts in Every Yard
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People in the Trump orbit are so tacky and gross.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Agree that this is one of the many issues with the House.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Still More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collins’ Orbit talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/st...
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Still More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collins’ Orbit
How Many of These Guys Are There? The latest report about far-right...
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The latest illegal and corrupt move by Trump to extract money from the American people. I will begin lobbying for payback as soon as we take power back from the GOP members who have betrayed their oaths and sold out America.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a comically out of touch response. Maine, please vote this idiot out.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump’s Shameless Collaborators - accurately comparing them to historical figures that enabled Nazism’s rise to power, but not calling them Nazis. apple.news/AZ1QceDqDRC2...
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Trump’s Shameless Collaborators — New York Magazine
The cronies of his second term are heading for a harsher comeuppance.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Moved ethical lines” as in “the Cornell 7 moved ethical lines to drug and gang rape a young woman”
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All true
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😍😍😍
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨"For the first time, a coalition of partners at the local, state, & fed levels is ready to pull off the kind of election heist that eluded the president back in 2020. At the very least, the midterms could serve as a trial run for this coalition ahead of the 2028 presidential race." 🎁 t2m.co/MH8DJSA
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also unsurprising: Trump is trying to profit off it at the expense of Americans and our allies.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Never has there been worse energy policy in this country.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Full disclosure, Lily and I became friends after her 2018 “Uncivil agreement” became pivotal to the media effects model I developed in “Wrong.” And now my friend has done it again: simplified something we’ve all been fooled into thinking is “too complicated” to readily understand or fix.
Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to American democracy.
It is a vivid and identifiable symptom of the real threat. And it is a popular frame because it blames no one. But because political polarization is a symptom, and not the root of the problem that ails us, "fixing" polarization will not restore American democratic health.
Having written two books and dozens of articles on the topic, it is clear to me that polarization in the United States is certainly a prob-lem. The gridlock, anger, violence, and unaccountability that accompany partisan polarization are major impediments to the success of American democracy. But the actual source of American partisan polarization today (and often in the past) is the degree to which the nation is disagreeing about who belongs, who deserves the full dignity and protection of U.S. laws, and who is punished for breaking those laws.' For a very long time, the answer to these questions was simple—white, Christian, heterosexual men belong and deserve protection and dig-nity, and everyone else is subject to punishment for breaking laws or challenging this social order. Things were "better," the story goes, back in the 1950s, when everyone knew their place. Polarization became a national problem when this story began to change.
I have written about the partisan divide in the United States as being structured by "mega-identities"-with party identities psychologically bound together with other powerful social identities such as race and religion. These identity-based alignments did motivate and exacerbate the partisan divide. But that party-based social divide along the lines of "who we are" is only part of the story.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you happen to receive a notice that your NY Times subscription rate is bumping up from whatever your intro rate was to $30/month, you can just start the cancellation process and they will probably offer you a discount.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a sickening affront to American values, the Trump launches a racist video game using taxpayer money www.democracyrenovator.com/cp/217443473
democracyrenovator.com
Can Democracy Survive a Culture of Cruelty?
From a dehumanizing deportation game to the AfD’s school agenda, the right is remaking identity. The states are our wall — if they defend culture, too.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just another 200 million dollars of Musk money to influence elections in an attempt to keep GOP in power. insidepoliticalmoney.com/news/the-mus...
insidepoliticalmoney.com
The Musk Money Machine: Who’s Getting Paid?
As Musk cranks back up his political operation for the midterms, we look at the complex ecosystem of vendors and companies who are moving his money.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3439):
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To justify their abhorrent and anti-Christian policies, a new class of self-help books is geared at Right Wing jerks painting empathy as toxic. apple.news/At7dSJV94Qpa...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Turns Out We Blew Up All Those Boats in the Caribbean for Nothing - apple.news/AMBzHRDB1Td-...
apple.news
Turns Out We Blew Up All Those Boats in the Caribbean for Nothing — Esquire
As if we needed more confirmation that Pete Hegseth and our defense department are both psychotic and ineffectual.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OK here's part one (of two): presswatchers.org/2026/09/dona...
presswatchers.org
Donald Trump is an idiot, and the mainstream press is covering up for him | Press Watch
He does incredibly stupid things and doesn’t understand basic concepts, for starters
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Interesting take on muse. braddelong.substack.com?utm_campaign...
braddelong.substack.com
DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog | Substack
Economy in the 2000s & Before: working, making, apportioning, talking, taking, & more. What I know and can learn about it, & related things. Click to read DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog, by Brad DeL...
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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Allowing Kalshi to operate is a terrible idea.
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