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John K

@johnkel104.bsky.social
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I'm a 60+-er who likes to read books and watch (mostly old) movies. Am planning to stay enraged for the next 4 years, with an occasional bout of joy.

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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is how the Times defines a scandal...for Democrats. As Becerra Rises in Polls, He Draws Fire for Trying to Direct Interview www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...
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As Becerra Rises in Polls, He Draws Fire for Trying to Direct Interview
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What if the media stopped using the phrase “southern states” when talking about their disenfranchisement schemes, and instead say “states that committed treason in defense of slavery?”
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
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Opinion | John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.
Screenshot of a tweet by perrito barista (@Carlitospindola), translated from Spanish, quoting Pope Leo responding to a question about migration by reframing it: "What is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate?" The embedded video shows the Pope holding a microphone aboard what appears to be a plane, with clergy visible behind him.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The thing about people who show real political courage is that usually they wish they weren't in a position where they had to show political courage.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/03/2026
Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I'm relieved that the level of fraud, waste, and corruption with this crowd still disgusts me.
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Tim Kaine Is Forcing the Iran War Debate From the Minority www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...
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Tim Kaine Is Forcing the Iran War Debate From the Minority
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This morning @WNYC featured a fifth grader arguing for later school openings. That was followed by an @NPR @SteveInskeep interview with John Bolton. All I can say is more fifth graders on a soap box and a lot less John Bolton. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Wild that these guys are getting arrested for financial crimes, and not sex crimes, in connection with Epstein The Al Capone accountability playbook strikes again www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
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Lord Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
The ex-US ambassador had been under investigation over allegations he shared market-sensitive government information with Jeffrey Epstein while a government minister.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Malevolent weirdos
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Navarro has repeatedly (and falsely) claimed that "illegals" were taking the jobs of Americans, including in this very interview. If that's the case, then why is he now warning that job growth will slow amidst mass deportations? Shouldn't this be boom times for native-born workers?
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I don’t speak Spanish, but I didn’t have too much trouble understanding what he was saying
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/02/2026
Last weekend I visited the Louis Armstrong House museum in Corona, Queens, where he lived with his wife Lucille for nearly 30 years. What a gift to walk through a home where so much joy, genius and soul lived on!
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The definition of irony is the founder of the largest book seller in the world eliminating the Books section of the paper he owns
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A man assaulted Representative Ilhan Omar at her town hall, but she responded by dropping an f-bomb. Both sides need to tone things down. Coming tomorrow, by someone who thinks of themself as a serious person.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Tiffany C. Li: ”Wake up. Check if WWIII started. Brush teeth. Go to work. Grow incandescent with rage viewing the latest terrible video of a child being endangered by the power of the state. Lunch. Make dinner. Read about the latest public health disaster. One episode of TV before bed.” 2026 🌎
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Is Donald Trump on the list?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The Bill Barr Epstein connection is one that has been ignored for too long
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I pity this bloviating, dried dung chunk’s future cell mate
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I have a sneaking suspicion that no one involved in this farce, especially Trump, has the foggiest idea what "Memorial" means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
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A Memorial to Kennedy? It’s Trump’s Now, Too.
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Durrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Fact-check: true
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I mourned my wife’s cat longer than Erica Kirk mourned her husband
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This reads like a roll call of the depraved...in the cause of poetry?? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/10/m...
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Larry Summers’ wife — a powerful Harvard professor — tapped Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen to boost her poetry project - The Boston Globe
Elisa New, the spouse of former university president Larry Summers, sought to downplay her relationship to the disgraced financier.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11/12/2025
Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left. And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Monday Friends #5 @allie-froglegs.bsky.social @jubaibu.bsky.social @itsbek.bsky.social @dalewalls1.bsky.social @auntisocial.bsky.social @bluejacksky.bsky.social @mrpassportking.bsky.social @jana1960.bsky.social @maryosteen.bsky.social @genxer-71.bsky.social @mindseyeofapoet.bsky.social
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It was only a matter of time…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
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A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Bill Browder on how Kushner and Witkoff are being played by Putin.
Sir William Browder KCMG
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Putin Meets With Witkoff and Kushner for Nearly Five Hours and the two sides did not reach any specific compromises, an aide to President Vladimir V. Putin said, as the United States pushes a plan to end the war in Ukraine.

Let me translate for you what this means. There was never any intention from Russia to settle this conflict (even when they released their 28 point “peace plan”). This whole thing has been a well executed intelligence operation with two very specific objectives: 1) to derail the devastating oil sanctions that Senator Lindsay Graham has tee’d up and 2) to derail the EU plan to transfer the Russian frozen assets to Ukraine. As a result of these so called “peace negotiations” both of these serious consequences have been kicked into the long grass. Putin is happy and Trump will say “we can’t impose sanctions on Russia while we’re trying to get peace”. And he will lean heavily on the EU to not confiscate the frozen assets so they don’t “derail these productive negotiations”. 

For anyone who understands what Russia cares about, this whole thing is so obvious. It’s a shame we let ourselves get played by Putin. 

Most importantly, the Russian terrorism against innocent Ukrainians will continue.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/12/2025
i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The White House has become “Weekend at Bernie’s.” Remember all the Fox segments on “Sleepy Joe” asking who’s in charge at the Biden WH? Shouldn’t the same questions be asked now?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I guess we’ve answered the question of what it would take to knock the Epstein files off the top of the news cycle…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/12/2025
this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)
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John K @johnkel104.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This administration is demanding elected officials be tried for sedition for suggesting US soldiers consider not complying with unlawful orders, and are now providing a clear example of why.
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L S D @lsdaif.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/11/2025
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2025
this insistence that she is some preternatural journalistic talent is going to drive me insane
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
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