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State government reporter for @kentuckypublicradio.org — @lpm.org, @weku.bsky.social, WKYU, @wkmsfm.bsky.social. Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe/BBN. Did a Pulitzer many years ago. DM me news/apocalypse tips! www.lpm.org/people/joe-sonka

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
In the original action at the Supreme Court, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama — lacking all sense of irony or knowledge of history — accuse New York, Massachusetts, and California of "one of the most serious interstate aggressions in our Nation’s history" because of their abortion shield laws.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: Amid ongoing lawsuits seeking to revoke nationwide access to abortion drug mifepristone, AGs in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to strike down shield laws in states with abortion access.
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Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in U.S. Supreme Court • Stateline
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New Y...
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 6h
A weekend incident in which a Flock camera search led Lexington police to surround the wrong home has sparked widespread online criticism of the city’s use of the surveillance technology.
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Flock search that led Lexington police to surround wrong home intensifies debate over the tech
Resident Will Penn posted doorbell camera footage to Facebook after the incident. It's since been shared thousands of times.
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Sylvia Goodman @sylviaruthg.lpm.org · 11h
The story this fine morning >>
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Political forecaster moves open Kentucky House seat rating toward Democrats
Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an election predictor out of the University of Virginia, moved Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District from a “likely Republican” win to “leans Republican.”
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 13h
Quality Kentucky sunrise
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 23h
Finished The Rehearsal last night and I obviously knew he didn’t crash, but good god that last episode was still stressful
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 30/09/2026
The Dirtbag Lefties
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio!
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: During her time in public service, WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s private family investments included stock in: 🇺🇸 Trump’s social media company 🪖 Defense contractors 🛢️ Oil companies 🤖 Tech giants 🔌 Tesla In @washingtonsun.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/money/karoli...
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Karoline Leavitt Discloses Family Investments in Trump Media and Tesla
An ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 29/09/2026
UVA Center for Politics just moved Kentucky’s R+15 congressional district to Lean Republican. Back in July it was Safe Republican, it’s shifted towards Democrats twice now. #ky06
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 29/09/2026
Local law enforcement agencies in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia are making more arrests for ICE this year compared to last, according to the latest federal data. New from KyCIR's @morgreports.lpm.org
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Across Appalachian Mid-South, local law enforcement helps drive immigration crackdown
In three Appalachian states, data show state and local police arrested more people for ICE in recent months, including during a national surge in immigration arrests this summer.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait, the cult-like, billionaire-pushed school that has driven kids to mental health breakdowns and that families have fled in droves? Read the Wired story about it here www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?
1:55 to 2:25 pm Reforms at CMS

Chris Klomp Chief Counselor HHS

Mehmet Oz, Administrator CMS

Moderated by Russell BRand, comedian and brodcaster
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 28/09/2026
I wish you luck with that message in rural America
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 28/09/2026
After community members denounced a lack of transparency from public officials in a Carroll County data center project, some people are now pursuing ethics complaints against those who approved it, citing their ties to the electric utility that would power it. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org
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Frustration over Kentucky data center has found another target — ethics complaints
After community members denounce a lack of transparency from public officials in a Carroll County data center project, some people are pursuing ethics complaints against those who approved it.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.
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Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET
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Deb @sailebed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Update: abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 27/09/2026
You’re welcome, taxpayers!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 27/09/2026
“Science”
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 27/09/2026
No Going Back reports spending another $49K on mailers for Alvarado and against Dembo. The Trump PAC has now reported spending $635,319 total on ads supporting the GOP #ky06 candidate in an R+15 district.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 26/09/2026
Nimrod! (complimentary)
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 26/09/2026
For those keeping track, this is the 978th time this story has appeared in a mainstream media publication
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 26/09/2026
Uh
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Donald Trump's Approval Among Trump Voters: 🟢Approve: 75% (-18) 🔴Disapprove: 22% (+17) YouGov / Sept 21, 2026 (% Change With Jan 28, 2025)
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 26/09/2026
Verdad, es totalmente inaceptable lo que hizo
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Bobby Football @robpaul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Texas star Colin Simmons hit with unsportsmanlike conduct after sacking Faizon Brandon for “simulating using the restroom.” Pretty good descriptor by the ref
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 26/09/2026
Ben Affleck must be in some serious debt
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 26/09/2026
Fall ball
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is crazy! How may direct, urgent warnings were there? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/09/2026
The Trump PAC “No Going Back” just dumped another $242K on TV ads in the #ky06 congressional race to help Republican Ralph Alvarado against Democrat Zach Dembo in the R+15 Kentucky district, per FEC filing.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/09/2026
Not beating the Creepy charges
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/09/2026
And @pablo.show does it again
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/09/2026
Jose Canseco, welcome to the resistance
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/09/2026
Records uncovered by @storiesbyjess.bsky.social and @g-nizzle.bsky.social show JCPS Chief Academic Officer Nathan Balasubramanian ordered staff to cancel a student production of “Ragtime” by duPont Manual High School’s Youth Performing Arts School.
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New JCPS chief tried to cancel Manual ‘Ragtime’ show, board member says
JCPS Chief Academic Officer Nathan Balasubramanian ordered staff to cancel a high school musical over racial slurs.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo
A map of North and Central America showing dozens of flights emanating out ICE Air's hub of Alexandria, LA
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 25/09/2026
‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges
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‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/09/2026
ah that's the stuff
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/09/2026
Doing some Kentucky politics fact-checking with Glengarry Glen Ross
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/09/2026
My latest on ARC, which has just been ordered to pay $18M to creditors and is down to just 8 facilities in Kentucky.
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 24/09/2026
McClatchy, a once-great newspaper company now being dismantled by a hedge fund, has lost its way. That's bad for communities and bad for democracy. Here's a report on the Lexington Herald-Leader, where I spent 21 years as the managing editor and a columnist. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
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McClatchy laid me off. The need for local journalism didn’t go with me. - Poynter
I was hired to fill a gap in local news coverage. Seven years later, that gap is widening again.
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 24/09/2026
star wars propublica: Galactic Republic investigators were circling Jar Jar Binks -- until Senator Palpatine got involved
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Politico: Trump is airing a pro-Trump midterms ad on TV that -includes “paid for by the U.S. government” disclaimer text -features a song by an artist who says they didn’t approve it’s use and are now looking for a lawyer
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Trump administration launches pro-Trump TV ad ahead of midterms
The 30-second ad, apparently paid for by U.S. tax dollars, features photos and videos of Trump, the American flag and military aircraft.
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