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Kristina Jeffers

@kaijeffers.bsky.social
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Just doing my part to knock down autocrats (and aspiring autocrats) wherever I can

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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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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every time the GOP claims to be the party of national security, I want folks to remember this and the many other natsec screwups that have plagued this administration as a direct result of officer and civilian leadership purges. It's Stalin ahead of WW2 all over again.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A lovely essay from @juderogers.bsky.social on the ebb and flow of history, on cowardice, and on all the people who are still here even if somehow the aforementioned cowards have decided they shouldn't be.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This should be a wake up call for all of my fellow Americans, particularly the Ukrainian Flag in Profile folks. We are the neo imperialist state whose leader openly questions the sovereignty and legitimacy of our neighbor.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I look forward to the Trump Administration's Five Year Plan for comprehensive high speed rail and protected bike lanes for all.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Kudos to ProPublica for this incredible reporting. The Trump family's corruption is vast and horrifying, but also has real policy implications. Trump's son receives lavish gifts from Gazprom execs while Trump himself calls on Ukraine to stop targeting Russian oil refineries.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am a single-issue voter, and that issue is "are you actively repeating the inflammatory, unscientific, inaccurate, or hateful language the GOP uses to make normal shit sound scary, thereby reinforcing the idea that it IS scary even as you attempt to distinguish yourself from the GOP in other ways"
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Ihar Filipau @ifilipau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oleksandra Matviichuk: Russian Empire has a center, but has no borders. We're fighting to stop Russian Empire. Ukrainians are fighting for freedom in all senses: for freedom to be independent country, not Russian colony. For freedom to preserve our identity,
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Mart Roodbeen @martroodbeen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They hounded him .. bsky.app/profile/keta...
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don't sleep on how Russia is leveraging.....fear of gender-neutral bathrooms as part of their hybrid attacks on Moldovans and their democracy. It's almost as though the anti-trans movement is part of a broader authoritarian playbook www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/w...
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Russia Campaigned to Derail Moldova’s Pro-Western Government
In the tiny nation, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government.
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Ukraine intercepted only one ballistic missile last night because the country has run out of missiles for its Patriot systems. In Kyiv, nine people were killed and 30 injured. Every delayed decision eventually arrives in Ukraine in the form of death and destruction.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Yet another flood of videos from Russians weeping over the "shock" and "unfairness" of strikes on a Wildberries warehouse. ​It doesn't cross their minds how unfair it felt when we were just living our lives, bothering no one, in our own country and our own homes,
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In the decades-long history of the ICC, only 73 people have been publicly indicted. Imagine the scale of inhumanity underway if you are concerned you are going to be number 74.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Shocking moment of today's Russian strike on Sumy, which killed 5 people‼️ Please do not look away! No mother should be forced to cover her children's bodies with her own like this. No child should have to live through such horrors!
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
One of the only tactics that works to build public support for democracy during a period of backsliding is to directly link the regime's corruption to citizens' quality of life Schiff wildly misses the mark by placing the blame externally rather than internally, doing Trump's work for him
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Last night at bar trivia, there were TWO teams called Rigor Tortoise, so the emcee had to call them up and have them agree to be Rigor Tortoise 1 and Rigor Tortoise 2.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Are you incandescent with rage that SCOTUS decided a teenage girl who just wants to throw discus with her friends is the real threat to gender equality in the USA? Me too!
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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Venezuela quake: The most useful thing to give after a major catastrophe is cash. But it can be tricky figuring out where to send the cash where it’ll have the biggest impact. Local charities with known track records & connections work best, but… they’re the ones also struggling in the aftermath.
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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If you’re a manager, teacher, or other leader, consider if you have Venezuelan employees, students, or volunteers. A USGS red pager event means we’re anticipating thousands of deaths. Silence is going to be echoing terrifying for people far away from their loved ones. Just… Be gentle.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Do folks remember the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the near-constant construction fails due to massive graft and no-bid contracts to Putin associates? The Sochi Games let the Russian opposition clearly link corruption/state capture to national humiliation, a lesson I'm begging Democrats to learn.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Unlike my friend Kathleen, I'm not a public health expert, but in my layman's experience, I feel like I've lived through two medical miracles in my life - the HPV vaccine, and antiretrovirals/PrEP. I'm sure there are more!
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lauren @elledeejo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
everyone on my timeline skeeting my thoughts for me. ❤️‍🔥
3 different theater stans skeeting about Ali Louis Bourzgui's stunning acceptance speech at the Tony Awards.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
And the 8 Dems are: Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), Cleo Fields (LA), Laura Gillen (NY), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Marcy Kaptur (OH), Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA), & Eugene Vindman (VA).
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I can't get over how much Vira in particular looks like she could be just one of my teen's stage crew friends, hanging out around the fire pit after wrapping a show. Vira and Lyubava had their whole lives ahead of them, and died for Russia's imperial goals. My heart breaks for their mother.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
One of my turning points was when a unit of IDF soldiers photographed themselves wearing t-shirts with a pregnant woman in the crosshairs, and a joke about having gotten two. The article has even more examples, maybe even more horrifying. www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli...
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is absolutely worth celebrating. Reproductive freedom absolutely extends to giving birth in a safe, culturally component, environment.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🧵with a little bit of comparative politics and a little bit of how you can take action to safeguard our little-d democratic institutions. We know how autocrats behave, and protecting the watchdogs is one of the most important things we can do right now.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today I learned....
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
For those who need some historical touch points, the last time the Hagia Sophia was a Christian church, William Shakespeare was a century from being born. The War of the roses had not yet started. Christopher Columbus had not yet begun his campaign of genocide in the Caribbean.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Oh wow. This is much better than expected, particularly given how deeply embedded the anti-gender movement was into Orban's version of right-wing populism.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This thread is the opposite of doom scrolling Joy scrolling? Hope scrolling? Whatever it is, I enjoy this feeling and would like more of it
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Yes yes yes. The "anti gender" movement has been the tip of the right wing populist spear for decades As a result, the lgbtq+ community has the strongest skills and tools to fight fascism That's why throwing any member of that group under the bus is not just immortal -- it's terrible tactics
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Jokes aside, this is an incredibly important day for freedom and democracy and, most importantly, for basic common sense and human dignity, in the spirit of 1989.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Polls close at 7 pm CEST, which is 1 pm EST for those who don't want to do math. However, there are reportedly a lot of folks still in line and the vote count won't start until everyone in line at 7 has voted, so it will be a long (but hopefully joyous) night in Hungary.
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Ramsey (Oklane) (Jacob) (Billiot) Sprague @vocabularasa.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A thread of alternatives to random spammy attention-money appeals to charity for Gazans and Palestinians.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I'm not sure that any rhetorical approach makes me angrier than people who weaponize parenting, and particularly parenting girl children, to make life worse for other kids Almost any dude who opens his sentence with "As a father to girls..." is about to say something either tone deaf or harmful
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I can't get over the parallels to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, right down to murdering the very people you claim to be liberating.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/03/2026
ICYMI, this week Evan Urquhart wrote about the central place of trans and queer activists in the movement against ICE. Activists told Assigned the solidarity we see today is the result of years of coalition building rooted in the movement for Black lives. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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When ICE Came to Maine, Trans Mainers Fought Back — Assigned
Crystal Cron leads an immigrant mutual aid organization. Crystal is nonbinary and Latine. Jesse Holleran does coms for Equality Maine by day, and volunteers to fight ICE after work. They’re far from a...
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Great question. I did not die in a freak pickleball injury, but I absolutely tore my ACL and meniscus the very first time I played The thing is, my surgeon and PTs were not at all surprised. Apparently this is common among the Gen X crew. We get cocky and then boom - our knees or ankles fail us
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I think folks in lefty bubbles have been done with Fox News for so long that it feels fruitless to try to make folks pay attention to their disinformation machine But misleading Fox viewers on the topic of a dignified transfer of troops killed in a war of choice could actually break through
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This seems like a good chance to plug The Devil You Know, Sarah Marshall's excellent new(ish) podcast on the Satanic Panic. New to me was how deeply sexism and homophobia were baked into the crust from the beginning. spotify.link/QZEgEwF9FXb
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Introducing The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
On this International Women’s Day, let’s remember that women’s equal rights can only fully exist in a democracy, because autocracy finds it much easier to operate through corruption and patronage systems, which ultimately lead to male dominance.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I would love to know whether any of this is breaking through various media bubbles, but particularly veterans and families of active duty military. If the US is openly throwing aside the rules of engagement, the world is about to get a lot more dangerous for US sevice members
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is what it looks like to be an opposition party, not simply a party with a minority of seats in the legislature.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I know this is not the main point, but his claims around critical studies give away the game. This is just right-wing slop. If he had spent any time with the literature, he would understand that "queer identity" leaves MORE room for nontraditional gender expression without transition, not less.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
In Defense of Effeminate Boys
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.

By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
There is not nearly enough attention being paid to the specific eschatological beliefs of senior members of this Administration. If our civilian leadership genuinely believes we are living in the End of Days, they have no incentive to seek peace, or even safeguard a future for the next generation.
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Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I think Applebaum is absolutely correct that Trump does not have a plan for Day 10 or Day 25 or Day 100 of this war. But the fact that one of the first targets struck was a school for girls suggests there was also not a plan for Day 0. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People
The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.
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