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katekimball.bsky.social

@katekimball.bsky.social
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Retired government/public interest lawyer who fled DC, eventually to life on a PacNW island. Yearn for less interesting times, but too cantankerous to sit back. Hannah Arendt is still right, damn it.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 18h
Register (or confirm your registration) time in these states. Be the vote democracy and justice need this year!
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Time to register or confirm you are registered! This November we band of voters will get to do what no other US electorate has done: fight corruption, stop a war, and protect our neighbors with a single vote. You’ll want to be part of this. Tell friends and family so they can be part of it, too.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Agree we first need to do the work to win in November and Bouie is 💯🎯 about how Dems will need to show they earned our votes.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How to make governance look good: do your job competently and then tell people what you did (bonus points for using where/how people get their news).
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 13/09/2026
Politics Girl is right! Between now and Election Day, Democrats need to stop attacking each other & focus on the real threat. Debate your differences after the election. Right now, every ounce of energy must go toward winning. Unity. Discipline. Victory 💙🇺🇸 #SheShed #DemocratsUnited
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How ICE gets help to arrest people in our communities who are busy peacefully working and leading their lives.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Brilliant skewering by @jamellebouie.net of “the obsession with wokeness that seems to monopolize the thoughts of America's commentary class” when “There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one. It's an authoritarian one, an autocratic one.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tp... 1/2
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well said! We need every school district in the country to get this message.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
At every step in the WI-Gov primary, my message has been the same: whoever you've been supporting, commit to doing all you can to ensure that the nominee wins in November. It's all on the line.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Susan Collins is financed by a man who wants to make it easier to create nude pictures of children
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“We will never cut Medicare.” Then Republicans passed a bill that triggers hundreds of billions in Medicare sequestration risk and shortens the trust fund horizon. Then they kill the Part D premium subsidy so drug coverage costs more for millions of seniors starting 2027.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wikler right yet again.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
While we attribute many decisions to Trump, he does not know or care how government works. Vought does and is systematically dismantling it. Worth a watch.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Words of hope:
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This gives me hope. Thank you, Professor Blight.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...
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A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates
This morning on Bluesky Politico’s Josh Gerstein flagged to me and others...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Read my latest:
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We didn’t need a rape accusation to know Graham Platner was unfit
Despite months of red flags, his allies insisted he was the vision of positive masculinity the party needed.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Great insights: “If the moderates had had the courage to ask for everything rather than an increment, they would, after all the tussling was over, land closer to where they actually wanted to be. This basic principle of negotiation is clear to anyone who has had to struggle for something they need.”
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I interviewed a former prosecutor yesterday who said this one thing that I cannot stop thinking about : “I think the most radical thing I learned from becoming a prosecutor is how much violence women face in this country and how little people care.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/06/2026
"Speaking as an early American historian who spent decades immersed in what the founding generation thought about political power — specifically about executive power — this presidency is entirely out of bounds and beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of." — @jbf1755.bsky.social
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Joanne Freeman on why Trump is an affront to the Founders
"This presidency is beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of."
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Insightful perspective on our current moment.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Gov. Mikie Sherrill's mishandling of protests outside the Newark ICE detention center, with violent state troopers running amok, is a national embarrassment To make it worse, Sherrill invoked the vile "outside agitator" trope of 1960s segregationists My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...
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Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will Bunch
New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"If by 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead & not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties-someone who believes 1/2
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The majority-Black 2nd District map also looks a lot like a map of "Cancer Alley" -- what a coincidence, huh?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Fantastic conversation between @shikhadalmia.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net, especially the rebuttal to the Ruy Teixeira/Third Way overreading of the meaning of 2024. Highly recommend: www.theunpopulist.net/p/where-will...
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Where Will the GOP—and Where Should Democrats—Go After Trump: A Conversation with Jamelle Bouie
The New York Times columnist offers his thoughts on the great MAGA crackup and the rightward shift of centrist Democrats
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is not just an issue about Black voters and votes. It’s an American issue, whether we will let the Confederacy rise again and choke democracy, only this time not just in the South.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sherrilyn Ifill Interview with Jon Stewart is Best Introduction for Layperson to the Radical the Supreme Court Callais Decision Killing a Key Part of the Voting Rights Act electionlawblog.org?p=156005
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Sherrilyn Ifill Interview with Jon Stewart is Best Introduction for Layperson to the Radical the Supreme Court Callais Decision Killing a Key Part of the Voting Rights Act #ELB
Watch here:
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A surprising source of cheer, sort of. We’ve got this, even if it’s a tough road ahead.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
What she said. What happens next is on all of us if we value democracy — the right to be heard at the ballot box.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Because the world needs more happy need stories like this one:
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Worth a read of history most of us know nothing about — Harriot’s specialty.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/04/2026
Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Soon to be appearing in midterm political ads for Democratic candidates nationwide. Thanks, Darnold. 🙏
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
There is so much wrong and this is one more thing not getting enough attention. Even if a judge blocks this decision, it’s a reminder that there is nothing they won’t do for fossil fuels.
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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Reposting solely for the SAVE act info - that part where it gives the fed govt power to comb through ALL the voter rolls in the country and strike off voters they think won’t support them.
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