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Karina Coombs

@karinacoombs.com
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Writer in Massachusetts interested in pop culture, news, and books. YIMBY in NIMBYtown.

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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
I’ll admit that America.gov is entertaining.
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Who is big balls

In congressional correspondence, "Big Balls" is described as an online alias used by Edward Coristine, a person associated with DOGE (the U.S. DOGE Service effort).

A Senate Small Business Committee letter (August 1, 2025) refers to him that way in connection with reported access to Small Business Administration systems: PDF 7. 

Other congressional items also name Edward Coristine among DOGE-linked staff (for example, this House resolution draft 7).
I cannot verify from those sources that this is an official job title, or confirm later employment status.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
There are a lot of MAHA adjacent people in Concord and surrounding towns so this isn’t totally surprising. That said, they are still the minority in so I’d be curious to see how this goes.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
I remember being at a parent orientation for my new college student and the entire theater erupted in cheers when some school officials emphasized the dangers of AI. This was an entire theater of parents. And my 18 year old and her peers ruthlessly mock the technology. There’s hope.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Friction” is humans. There is nothing else to build systems for but humans. They mean a system built for human flourishing won’t survive and they might be right. But not because the agents are so good but because AI is politics.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 28/09/2026
He needs to be impeached and his enablers removed and prosecuted for any and all crimes
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Worst episode of Dr. Who ever
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
Exactly. When I used to type “58008” into my calculator, I never once thought it was actually thinking about human anatomy. But some jail cells are just hungry. It’s a fact. If we can sate their appetite by feeding them billionaires, who am I to judge.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 26/09/2026
I used to be somewhat impressed by these prestigious schools, but they’ve shown very little backbone re: this administration’s determination to make schools white and male and this is just salt in the wound.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 25/09/2026
My kid wrote an essay an hour before it was due yesterday. “I’m worried the professor will think it’s AI because I wrote it so fast.” Tell me again how this tech is supposed to be improving our lives when an 18 year old spends more time worrying her writing being flagged than actually writing.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 24/09/2026
20% enjoying his own bed 30% missing the college student (who actually owns the bed) 50% pouting because the other dog won’t let him on my bed
A light tan labradoodle curled up in ball atop a bed with a checkered quilt and stuffed animals and in front of a white curtained window.
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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Altman is the name of the scientist, OpenAI is the monster
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Luminosity @luminosity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kombucha girl 2-panel
First panel:  Ew. Buying plastic skulls and skeletons for Halloween
Second panel: *lightbulb* Using natural and compostable billionaire bones
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 21/09/2026
He is a delightful performer. And this video is fantastic.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 20/09/2026
It’s only a matter of time before they install a HELIOS atop the Washington Monument.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 18/09/2026
What a cry baby. #presidentpampers
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Now that’s a lotta trees!”
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 17/09/2026
He’s really a lying piece of shit except for when he brags he’s going to do horrible things. We’re so past lions eating faces at this point.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 17/09/2026
What a time to be alive.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The comments about University of Texas students reveals what many of us have known all along: The end of affirmative action, the dismantling of DEI, and the denigration of ethnic, racial, and gender studies was not enough. They want the university to be overwhelmingly White. That was always the goal
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Löded Diper will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
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Rodrick's Energetic Drum Performance
Alt: Rodrick - from Löded Diper - plays the drums with great enthusiasm.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Impeach. National assets are not his to destroy.
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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Rage Against The Machine: Tom Commerford Rocking
Alt: Rage Against The Machine in a rehearsal space rocking the fuck out!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 10/09/2026
Give me liberty or give me five thousand dollars…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 10/09/2026
Let me tell you a little story about a guy who went down this road. We’ll call him “Meth Soulton”.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 10/09/2026
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Are You Going To Class Today? Emotionally Ready?
Alt: Image from the movie Pretty and Pink of the two main characters walking through a high school hall with lockers and the text, “Are You Going To Class Today? I don’t know if I’m emotionally ready.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
heather mac donald is one of the biggest racists in the public sphere, what a disgrace this is
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Blue Skies In Utah @papabear333.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The bread is poisoned and the circus is too expensive.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 09/09/2026
Donald Trump has never produced one name of a friend he lost, one worker he sent, one funeral he attended, one dollar he gave when it mattered. What he has produced is a story about two big firemen who picked him up like he was the thing worth saving that day.

He wasn’t there. He was four miles away, on the phone, measuring buildings.

Friday he’ll be 230 miles away, at a microphone.

The firefighters who are actually big and strong will be at Ground Zero, standing behind a mayor their former mayor is trying to run out of town, reading names into the silence that Donald Trump can’t stand to be part of because nobody’s allowed to hear him talk.

That’s the whole story. It always was. There is no more disgusting, amoral, indecent, lying piece of shit on this planet.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 09/09/2026
Tonight I made a speed run into the city with a care package of meds and supplies for my new to college daughter who’s sick. I had no idea I’d feel even worse after leaving than I did when I dropped her off two weeks ago. I’m happy for her but the withdrawal is no joke. Sigh.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 08/09/2026
He’s so out of his mind he’s Forrest Gumping himself.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 08/09/2026
Now point that lense inside the White House.
404media.co
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 06/09/2026
This:
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 05/09/2026
One of my favorite experiences this time of year in MA is driving with the windows open and getting hit with a sudden waft of wild Concord grapes. Saw a woman sitting atop her SUV the other day while cutting some off the trees on the side of the road.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Working people are struggling to get by, while MAGA Republicans give tax breaks to billionaires. No more. From Maine to Massachusetts to Minnesota to Michigan, we are sending a message— it’s time to stand up to oligarchy, pass Medicare for All, and put working families first.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 05/09/2026
Someday, when this is all over and these camps are closed and ICE no longer exists, everyone involved needs to be held responsible for what they’ve done.
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 05/09/2026
The world feels so weird but then I get a text from my kid at midnight describing her night of watching a free concert with her new friends in the park, meeting up with high school friends after, and now watching movies in her dorm. She also admitted to being stoned. And it all feels normal again.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 04/09/2026
I had to lure my dog to an idling car with dog treats and cheese before pushing him inside and speeding off to the groomer before he caught on. Yes, I just successfully kidnapped my own dog.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 03/09/2026
I don’t hear much from my college freshman, but what I do hear inevitably involves cheesecake. Classes. They’re fine. But she can text reams about her love of dining hall desserts.
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Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Seth Moulton is ambitious. He spearheaded an effort to oust Pelosi as Speaker in 2018, tried a Presidential run in 2019, and chased headlines with a trip to Kabul in 2021. This time, he thought bashing trans kids would be his path to success. And he lost. Big time. Bye, loser. We won't miss you.
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Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street @marleywrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In reversal, Seth Moulton thrown under bus by trans people
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Even in this generational moment for Democrats, it’s not enough to just be younger. Primary voters need to believe the candidate has big ideas too. Markey won by highlighting his progressive credentials and casting Moulton to his right and as too tied to establishment orthodoxy.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 01/09/2026
Just cast my vote for Markey in the MA primary because if you challenge the rights of trans kids, you’ll challenge the rights of anyone.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 31/08/2026
If this is really what Republicans voted for, they should be shunned forever. They clearly don’t want to be part of a society.
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 30/08/2026
My daughter moved into college four days ago and is already at her first college-sponsored drag show. Feeling pretty good about her decision and the people she’s going to spend the next four years with.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We don’t debate people’s civil rights period www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...
nytimes.com
Ed Markey Defends Transgender Athletes in Massachusetts Senate Race (Gift Article)
Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has emerged as a vocal defender of transgender rights as he tries to fend off a primary challenge from Representative Seth Moulton.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"We have tiptoed around Trump, and antivaxers, and various other false prophets, for fear of offending the sensibilities of their followers. And in all that time, their malign influence on society has only deepened." www.offmessage.net/p/hard-truth...
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The Case For Hard Truths Told Well
The Democratic establishment wants to avoid conflict with the people it’s trying to persuade; the insurgent left wants to beat them over the head with hard truths. We need a path between.
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