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Katie Karnehm-Esh

@karnehmesh.bsky.social
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Writer, runner, hiker, dog-lover, old-house restorer, yoga instructor. Episcopalian. Great Basin College Humanities Center coordinator and National Parks enthusiast.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 16/08/2026
Several people in the area saw the body…. But not a single news station is reporting anything
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Infinity Connect @infinityconnect.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@fbpech.bsky.social How is this even possible?
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"All told, a Black Cambridge professor endured 249 times more media coverage for an accusation of plagiarism by a known racist propagandist than a White Cambridge professor found guilty of plagiarism."
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Felix O'Kelly @callidusdominus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The press were acting with such glee in their onslaught against Jason Arday, while they give a pass to much worse behaviour, for reasons that ultimately boil down to racism.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 17/04/2026
this maybe difficult to hear but nobody cares about the “male perspective” Concerning why you murdered your wife… “What all you was dealing with” “The pressures you were under” You lose the benefit of explanation at murder
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Oly Backstrom @olybackstrom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Thursday morning on an unprecedented move to strip mining prohibitions from an area near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Lawmakers are considering a measure under the Congressional Review Act. If passed and signed by the president, the measure would remove a 20-year ban on mining federal lands in the Superior National Forest put in place under then-President Joe Biden three years ago.

Passage would mark a major victory for Rep. Pete Stauber, who represents northeastern Minnesota, and for Twin Metals, a mining company with plans to establish a copper-nickel mine in the area. The resolution would also bar a future presidential administration from reinstating the ban.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Please call these GOP Senators tonight or first thing tomorrow and ask them to vote NO on opening up the Boundary Waters to dangerous polluting mining. Here are the Sens. who might be swayed, as thousands of their constituents visit this special place each year.
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
For the love of God, don't let them touch Chaco Canyon. Act now! Stand with Pueblo leaders and other Tribes and urge @SecretaryBurgum to keep the mineral withdrawal around Greater Chaco. #ProtectChaco = Protecting a living cultural landscape protectchaco.org
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Act now to protect Chaco Canyon
You can support protecting this living cultural landscape by submitting a comment to the DOI
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I found out I have a last minute spot in the Vermont Studio Center in March for a writers residency! You can help me make this possible by sharing the link, letting me know about funding opportunities, or donating if you feel led. Thank you! gofund.me/91bc2cfa3
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Donate to Help Katie Attend Vermont Writers Residency, organized by Katie Karnehm-Esh
My name is Katie, a writer, educator, and humanities advocate; I'm origi… Katie Karnehm-Esh needs your support for Help Katie Attend Vermont Writers Residency
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Abolish. ice. 💔
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2026
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Emotional support terrierorist
A black and white terrier puppy running toward the camera The black and white terrier puppy looking at the camera.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/01/2026
state-sponsored child trafficking
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I wrote a substack about dogs disguised as a substack about snakes. open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
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The Year of the Snake
What I needed to live well, with thanks to Hanif Abdurraqib
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
If you're rich and powerful enough, rich and powerful Republicans will ignore your crimes -- including child molestation.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
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Jill Reed, Ph.D. @reedwrite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
AOC leading school tours during the shutdown. Always doing the most.
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Zach @zhackry.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Republicans took the day off while all democrats showed up to work. Could you see a republican showing students around just as a nice gesture?
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We can, in fact, oppose ALL political violence, no matter the form, source, or reasoning. Genocide (& supporting it) is bad. Ethnic cleansing is bad. Murdering people in a boat off Venezuela is bad. Murdering people for Existing While Black is bad. Shooting someone whose views are repellant is bad.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
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Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Life comes at you fast
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This article increasingly horrified me, and made me grateful that I might be out of bachelorette trip demographic. www.thecut.com/article/awkw...
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Are You Rude With Money?
Our readers share annoying financial scenarios to avoid when splitting the bill.
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Dumpster and Dumpster alone is getting me through the horrors. Anyway call your congress people.
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Even worse if you're dual career.
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When you strip away humanity
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I started a post in January, and finished it today. Which kind of lets you know how my mental health (not great Bob!) went this winter. Thanks to @lyz.bsky.social and @theferocity.bsky.social for helping me get some initial ideas going. open.substack.com/pub/katiekar...
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Midsummer
circling back and letting go
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I got to interview Dom Flemons, a hugely talented multi-instrumentalist and performer and music scholar back in January, and wrote about it for Nevada Humanities in May. Here it is on my new Substack! open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
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An Interview with Dom Flemons
My guest post at the Double Down Blog
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I started a Substack to write about my arts/humanities work in the Wild West. I hope you check it out. open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
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Welcome to High Desert Humanities
A midwesterner meets cowboy country
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
If you use the website uketa.com, you are getting triple charged for a UK travel visa, even though they make it look like they are affiliated with the UK government. Ask me how I know.
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UK Electronic Travel Authorisation | UKETA.com
Your guide to the United Kingdom’s Electronic Travel Authorization (UK ETA) information and UK ETA application.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead: House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs
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Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo @asmpilarschiavo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Today someone I know who has fought for low wage workers his whole life was detained while observing an ICE raid. David Huerta is a citizen and a proud Angeleno. He must be released now. If this can happen to David, it can happen to anyone. It’s unacceptable.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
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I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron
“Last year, two mercurial billionaires formed a partnership and vowed to drive the country in a new direction. Donald Trump had the political power...
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”
Patch of pansy flowers seeming to have angry faces.
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The attack in Boulder yesterday is concerning for a host of reasons. It not only points to an escalation of antisemitic violence, but will almost certainly be weaponized by the administration to intensify crackdowns on immigrants, activists, journalists, and academics. Just bad all around.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Statement from his husband
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NDNchick4Decency @fedtfupofthemall.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Jonathan Joss, ‘King of the Hill’ and ‘Parks & Recreation’ actor, dead at 59 after shooting | CNN
Jonathan Joss, an actor who voiced the character of John Redcorn on “King of the Hill” and appeared as Ken Hotate on “Parks and Recreation,” has died following a shooting incident, according to police...
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Please help this shelter if you can! "We are extremely overwhelmed with kittens right now and have very few staff members, even fewer volunteers and worst of all, not enough money for supplies. We desperately need kitten food, wet &dry. We also need KMR milk replacement"
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Philip Sewell @othershoe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Please consider taking a moment to comment on this foolish and reprehensible plan. Brief and personal is just great.
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Katie Karnehm-Esh @karnehmesh.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It's been just over a year since I got purged from my Christian college. It's one of the best things to happen to me, but the fact that I can say that about a place where I learned so much is sad. sojo.net/articles/opi...
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How Authoritarian Politics Took Over My Christian College
I spent more than a year investigating my alma mater, Cornerstone University. What I discovered explains the Right's strategy to transform the U.S.
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