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Kae Lund

@kaelund.bsky.social
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Worker bee, writer, mom to young adults, Denverite.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 5h
If a frat boy passed out drunk at a sorority, he would wake up the next day with a blanket on him, two aspirins and a glass of water next to him, his shoes off, and perfectly safe. It would NEVER occur to the women that his incapacity was license to do whatever they wanted to him. Never.
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Indivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 7h
@protectcofuture.bsky.social Retired and earning under $500,000 a year? Don’t believe the scare texts! 🤥 Amendment 87 lowers your state income tax rate, which means more money in your pocket. Check the table on your ballot and in the blue book to see exactly where you land. #YesOn87 #NoOn136
PSSSST! AMENDMENT 87 CUTS TAXES FOR 97% OF COLORADO TAXPAYERS.
FOR SENIORS? VETS? SMALL BUSINESSES? PEOPLE ON FIXED INCOMES??
YES! THEM TOO!
YES ON 87!
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Phil Weiser @philweiser.bsky.social · 6h
Call me old-fashioned--I believe in showing up and answering questions from voters. I did so for an hour this week--and stayed overtime to answer more questions. For voters looking to get informed, please take a look and pass it on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ksc...
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Next Presents: The Race for Governor
YouTube video by Next 9NEWS
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 6h
NEW: Partially unsealed court filings show that ICE has been putting photos of people observing their activities into a Palantir-built database as well as tracking and intimidating them. @regret.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the details:
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 9h
One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.
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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 8h
Kinda feels like the only people investing in American higher ed right now are right-wing "civil discourse" types and tech companies pushing AI.
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Kae Lund @kaelund.bsky.social · 9h
Sad to see these icons of America go away. Classy department stores were such a treat. We need more Stanley Marcus types and fewer Jeff Bezos dudes.
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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Receiving life-saving medical care so they can try to kill her again. Does anyone else see the absurd perversity of all this? Good lord, we Americans can be a thoroughly disgusting people.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 14h
Americans need to understand the stakes of the upcoming elections. Too many news orgs rely on “horse race coverage”, “sanewashing”, “false equivalence”, “euphemism” and other inadequacies. Endorse our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2026-electio...
Ahead of the midterms, journalists must:
• Make threats to democracy clear.
Protect Americans from disinformation.
I Cover elections like they matter more than sports scores.
MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
PROJECT
Sign our open letter asking for pro-democracy coverage by visiting mediaanddemocracyproject.org
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16h
In Maryborough, Australia — birthplace of PL Travers — there are MARY POPPINS traffic lights.
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Kae Lund @kaelund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nice work. 👟
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
“No agency on Earth could fail eight audits and still get a $1.5 trillion check, except the Pentagon.”
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Think Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind.
We already spend at least that much on the US military each year, and maybe a lot more.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 01/10/2026
Reminder: Denver Water customers are banned from watering lawns starting today, and residential customers who break the rule even once will face a $500 fine.
denverpost.com
Denver Water’s new lawn-watering ban takes effect today — and fines start at $500
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Raven Song Farm @ravensongfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is something deeply wrong with trying to kill a person twice, then sending her to a hospital for life saving measures so that they can try to kill her again.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.
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Sandy B @sandyb23.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do the justices that allowed this to happen even care this morning?
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NikkSinc 📚 @nikksinc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let’s stop pretending the USA is a civilised, 21st century country. US death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections, says lawyer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after attempted execution, lawyer says
Her lawyer says Pike is being "provided life-saving measures" after two syringes of pentobarbital.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you were looking for an artifact that encapsulates this moment in time you could do worse than an official federal document signed by our top oligarchs that both declares AI is a "super intelligence" and is slop that misspells the country's name as "the Unites States"
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth has reportedly fired 20% of the military's generals, claiming, "No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors." This toxically masculine ethos sounds straight out of the handbook of Doug Wilson, Hegseth's Christian nationalist spiritual advisor.
motherjones.com
Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.
Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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Kae Lund @kaelund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"There is no longer a public domain." I see this every time my Fox-viewing mother and I discuss current events. People (especially those in charge) are quick to call "fake news" on anything they don't agree with. And so many people get their news from memes because facts are paywalled.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026
Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was fact-checking the president’s biggest lies. trib.al/G5rU7c2
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Trump Reprograms Government AI Chatbot to Stop Fact-Checking His Lies
Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was correcting the president’s biggest lies.
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Matthew Cooke @matthewcooke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You Don't Have Rights, You Have A Temporary Permit. Without guaranteed access to water, shelter, a meaningful share of the planet you're from... You don't have rights. You have a permission slip -- that can get torn up in an instant. By an owner class. Link in bio: free tools and the full version.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 30/09/2026
Insurers deploy AI to deny. Hospitals deploy AI to bill higher. The patient isn't in the loop. It's an arms race, & the war itself is administrative waste. Patients pay twice: in premiums, & in records written for machines, not the next doctor. We need rules that protect patients!!!
healthcaredive.com
Insurers say AI could add billions in health costs. Billing companies disagree
Studies from insurers say AI-backed billing tools used by providers raise health costs. But the companies making those tools say the problem isn’t with AI — it’s with the healthcare billing system.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
doomsdayscenario.co
The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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Denverite @denverite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Denver Water will be banning you from using sprinklers to water your lawn starting Thursday, Oct. 1.
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You could get fined $500 for watering your grass with sprinklers
Denver says residents were expected to save 20% of their water this summer. That didn’t happen.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love a good data viz 📈📉🧶
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If children had any political power, instead of being treated like property, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Exhibit A: Attacks on Critical Race Theory started in schools as "parents' rights" and book bans-- within 7 years, this morphed into an anti-DEI purge of adults in workplaces and academia.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In an age when the Peter Thiels of the world are smiling and saying evil does good because it is competent, we are entering a time when we will need to be aggressively "pro-human." Or at the very least, Pro-Good. And we have to build power, unapologetically.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 27/09/2026
To understand what it's like inside ICE's Aurora detention center, @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social and @sethklamann.bsky.social spoke to current + former detainees and reviewed 911 records and audio recordings from emergency calls. “They treat you as if we’re animals, basically,” a Venezuelan told them
denverpost.com
Pepper spray, health crises and rotten food: Inside Colorado’s only immigrant detention center
In interviews with The Denver Post, current and former detainees described frequent fights and feelings of hopelessness. They say they’re often served inedible or rotten food that frequently gives the...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U.S. manufacturing jobs are down under Trump, including in the auto industry. His strategy failed, and so will this. Lowering standards will accelerate what he has already been doing: handing the clean tech future to China and forcing Americans to pay more at the pump.
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Kae Lund @kaelund.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Coach Prime has some work to do with his players.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/09/2026
Residents on Hawaii's Big Island are bracing for potentially life-threatening and catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Nolo, while Mexico is still under the threat of Hurricane Polo.
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Hurricane Nolo threatening Hawaii with heavy rain as Polo churns near Mexico
Residents on Hawaii’s Big Island are bracing for potentially life-threatening and catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Nolo, while Mexico is still under the threat of another Pacific hurricane, Polo.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
About as grim as it gets.
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Kae Lund @kaelund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These are not the people you want to have the power.
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Denverite @denverite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The average cost of diesel in Colorado hit a record high of $6.22 a gallon this week. That dramatic jump is hitting school districts across the state where it hurts: right in the transportation budget.
cpr.org
The soaring cost of diesel means a bumpy road for school buses in Colorado
The cost of diesel fuel in Colorado hit a new record high this week
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Indivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
YES - 87 is the only ballot initiative whose petition was volunteer led and NN is an initiative from the legislature that requires voter approval to help better fund education across our state. NO - The other initiatives were funded by dark money. www.whoisadvancecolorado.org/ballot-measu...
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Advance Colorado's 2026 Ballot Initiatives, Explained — Who is Advance Colorado?
A breakdown of every 2026 Colorado ballot initiative tied to Advance Colorado, the right-wing dark money group behind them — and who's involved.
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Indivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Indivisible Colorado Voter Guide This year's Colorado Ballot has many initiatives written in ways that sound appealing on the surtace, but do nothing to actually help the people in our state and some that will actually do real harm. Here is our guide to the measures to support and avoid this fall.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2016, Trump’s goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media as he seeks to destroy the US itself." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Kae Lund @kaelund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Drove this yesterday on the way to Guanella Pass for leaf peeping which btw was fabulous. Glad my husband was driving. I70 in the mountains is not pleasant. Took 285 home. Not quite as nerve wracking. Highways in general are just not my jam.
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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 24/09/2026
MARY POPPINS was released 62 years ago today. One of the most successful of all Disney films, and the movie which made Julie Andrews an overnight star, the behind-the-scenes story is practically perfect in every way… 1/51
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