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KaRK

@kateyrk.bsky.social
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Local nerd, blabbermouth, RVA lifer.

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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The best response to these threats is to volunteer to serve as an election officer in your community. Let’s come out en masse to protect our democracy.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump must be impeached for undermining and subverting our free and fair elections. And when he sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 17/07/2026
Tuberville lives in Florida but represents Alabama. Every accusation a confession.
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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The founder of the IALDF said in a sworn statement filed today that a senior Iranian official confided in him that ICE had shared the details of dozens of Iranian nationals’ asylum claims with his office. A number of Iranian detainees held by ICE reported the same in their own declarations.
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Court Filings Describe Ongoing Contact Between ICE and Iran on Deportations (Gift Article)
In a sworn declaration, a lawyer says an Iranian official reported receiving regular dossiers on Iranian detainees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement for months.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Activism works! A must read. As of last night, there were 53,000 posted public comments on the OMB rule that seeks to codify political interference in all federal grants. An analysis shows that the public overwhelmingly rejects it. IT IS THAT BAD. 🧪 www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...
techpolicy.press
The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch @richmond.com · 14/07/2026
A surcharge on monthly bills that Dominion Energy has proposed would shift costs data centers should be paying for high-voltage transmission lines and equipment to residential customers, a filing from Virginia’s new chief energy officer says.
richmond.com
Dominion surcharge for transmission shifts costs to residential customers, state says
A surcharge on monthly bills that Dominion Energy has proposed would shift costs data centers should be paying for high-voltage transmission lines and equipment to residential customers, a filing from Virginia’s new chief energy officer says.
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Stimulus Functions Music @stimulusfunctions.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm not on here much anymore. I hate social media. I miss some of you Richmond friends who I only see on here though so here's a little loop of something I'm working on. I'm still always lurking around Fuzzy and Morty's on the weekends with @kateyrk.bsky.social.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
i am begging democrats to take this threat to our elections as seriously as they take a fundraising deadline
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Biddeford Maine today - fatal ICE shooting "THIS IS BLOOD" www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
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RVAMAG @rvamag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Richmond native and multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus released the self-directed music video for her latest single “Planting Tomatoes” and every frame was filmed here at home.
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Lucy Dacus' New Music Video is a Love Letter to Richmond
Lucy Dacus' new self-directed music video for "Planting Tomatoes" was filmed entirely in Richmond, featuring Dogwood Dell, Hollywood Cemetery, Pony Pasture, and other local landmarks. The Richmond nat...
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How You Like Me Now?... @1bigbullshitbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal… division is the oldest trick in politics.” Zohran rings in America’s birthday by reminding us our story is one of welcoming immigrants, not excluding everyone who doesn’t look like us. 🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaVzyL0...
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Richmond Times-Dispatch @richmond.com · 29/06/2026
Virginia’s data‑center tax fight shows how targeted tax breaks distort the economy, burden ordinary taxpayers, and let politically favored industries win twice at everyone else’s expense.
richmond.com
Va.’s data-center tax standoff is about something more | Guest column
Virginia’s data‑center tax fight shows how targeted tax breaks distort the economy, burden ordinary taxpayers, and let politically favored industries win twice at everyone else’s expense.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
lol post obviously written by someone else, probably miller, but also "crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor"
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Wow. But also, yeah for sure that’ll settle things down.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The singularity is approaching and it sucks even worse than you thought it would
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 31/05/2026
Freedom 250 is Donald Trump’s Fyre Festival.
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
How long before the DOJ opens a criminal investigation against this judge?
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/05/2026
NEW: The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down.
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Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2026
congrats to jared polis for getting played like a chump
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Lindsey Graham said releasing the Epstein files would "destroy" Donald Trump. He did not say the files were false. He did not say they were manipulated. He said they would destroy him. That is not a defense of Trump. That is a description of what is in the files.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Yes. The “certainty” that White voters will have full control of the politics (once again).
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Just a quick reminder that the antidote to fascism is community #garlandgarage #RVA
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The whole dumb conversation about "woke" was a precursor to this absolutely sinister anti black institutionalized racism and so many people gave that segregationist logic credibility.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2026
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”
John Brown, no beard, arms crossed, looking intense as hell like usual
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"Billionaires don't just try to buy elections. They also promote the conspiracy theories and malaise that steer people toward fascist politicians, who in turn allow billionaires to loot the country." Listen to @brianbeutler.bsky.social and @smotus.bsky.social: www.offmessage.net/p/saving-dem...
offmessage.net
Saving Democracy And Reality-Based Politics Requires Billionaire Realism
Billionaires don't just try to buy elections. They also promote the conspiracy theories and malaise that steer people toward fascist politicians, who in turn allow billionaires to loot the country.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It won’t even get covered really
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/05/2026
I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
NEW: Generative AI tools are not “dreaming,” or “thinking,” or “reasoning.” How many times do I have to say it?! Latest blog for @wired.com
wired.com
I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Yes. Just like a homeland security department that can murder Americans on video and face no consequences means they can literally kill any American for any reason.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“[I]f Democrats never draw a hard-line against the bad faith of their opposition, they will resign themselves to governing under the current rules, fully rigged for the GOP.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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Time For The DNC To Sue CBS News For $20 Billion
A free idea for Ken Martin.
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Everything is fake.
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s so try-hard and cringey. Gives me the ‘ick’ so bad!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Odd, how a lone gunman failed to even enter a targeted room and no one was harmed—and Republicans go HYSTERICAL over the “tone” of Democrats. And yet heavily armed and masked fascists murdered two people at point-blank range in the streets of Minneapolis—and not a peep about the “tone” of the right.
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The more they babble about this ballroom bullshit, the more the whole thing looks like a staged event. They should maybe think about that. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/04/2026
There are many ways you can participate in the massive day of economic disruption on Friday, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The fact that nobody will remember this shooting by Tuesday--a charitable account of our collective memory span--doesn't own Trump. It's Trumpism's culture of perpetual violence as meaningless spectacle eating our minds.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/04/2026
How is every major reporter in DC in that room and no one knows what exactly happened.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New global health misinformation survey reveals: 7️⃣ in 10 people surveyed held at least one view that goes against medical science. Read more about the survey findings: ow.ly/9axN50YPuby
Image of a woman appearing confused as she talks on a cell phone and stares at her computer.
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
So, what he’s saying is, the ballroom is where he’ll be hiding out when he does his next coup?
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KaRK @kateyrk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Hey, @markwarner.bsky.social . Explain your vote here. I am one of your constituents and I NEED an explanation for your continued support of Israel’s destructive, aggressive, genocidal, expansionist behavior.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2026
"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought
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