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@kazlefay.bsky.social
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Words Are My Thing | Journalist | Author | Vermonter

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
wow -- Hegseth's talk at a conference is disrupted four separate times in succession by anti-Iran war protesters
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1h
Look: I lament to say that I am only three years younger than Trump. Zero times (0) in my experience has a doctor asked me to take a basic-cognition or dementia-screening test. We've mainly talked about what I was writing. Trump apparently gets these all the time. But not frequently enough.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
oh boy. Mike Collins is in trouble
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Just found out Elon Musk is pouring money into Vermont’s gubernatorial race to try to help Republican incumbent Phil Scott head off a challenge from progressive economist, Janoo. Ugh. 😩 I didn’t think it was possible to hate that dude more but here we are.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So just a reminder that violence at Trump’s rallies has been a staple of his campaign since the very beginning. He’s proud of it. Trump loves the cruelty and the spectacle of it and he always has. rantt.com/donald-trump...
rantt.com
Donald Trump’s Troubling History Of Violence - Rantt Media
The President equates physical aggression with power, so it’s no surprise his supporters feel emboldened to commit violent acts
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There’s this thing people do where they’re surprised that a rapper has read a book or knows any music theory or something else “intelligent”. Anyway, I hate it. Thank you.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Read every word of this and share it.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge issued a temporary order Sunday blocking the Trump admin from airing those propaganda ads. But the administration blew past that deadline and ran two of the ads into the early hours of Monday, advertising data shows.
washingtonpost.com
Trump blew past deadline to halt running taxpayer-funded campaign-style ads
A coalition of nonprofits had sued, calling the ads “propaganda.” The president has said campaign funds would be used to pay for the commercials going forward.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well this is delicious.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I only wear bralettes now in the very softest fabrics I can find and only when I have to leave the house or do yoga or go for a walk. It definitely helps. But sometimes they are necessary.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s such a drama queen. Like it’s not wrong usually but WHY so much extra. lol.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My fibromyalgia: OMG we’re being stabbed in the neck! Me: That’s probably just a bra strap. Stop referring pain into my neck. I’ll move it. Better? My fibromyalgia: Whew. Yes. Thank you My fibro 5 minutes later: OMG we’re being stabbed on the OTHER side of our neck! Me: Sigh (Takes bra off)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If Democrats retake the Senate, Warren will surely become chair of the Senate Banking Committee and, as such, in a position to investigate, humiliate and ultimately destroy Scott Bessent.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gavin Newsome is not your friend. He’s proved this repeatedly.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is an infuriating narrative. Appalling in every sense but one: This young woman at the center was and is relentlessly heroic.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026
SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A masked man seen on camera stealing trays of mail from the postal truck in Sacramento, CA. There is a 100K reward if you know who he is. #Pinks
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Trump administration has denied Illinois’ request for disaster relief — again. The state sought FEMA’s help after days of severe weather in and around the Chicago area in August. FEMA granted Indiana’s request for help with the same storm. buff.ly/P3ElxRb
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...
abc7.com
Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say
Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
::low whistle:: apple.news/AbOgHERrCRnG...
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US surpasses 4,000 measles cases, infections confirmed in 45 states, CDC data shows — ABC News
Most cases are among those unvaccinated or with unknown status, CDC data shows.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026
Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This regime is definitely trying to do absolutely everything possible to discredit the ICC. Gee I wonder why.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 09/10/2026
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 08/10/2026
We bullied a bunch of vulnerable kids back into the closet with threats of explicit violence and parental abuse. Why do they suddenly feel less secure?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He is explicitly calling for pogroms. (I ask again: at what point will our major news organizations finally acknowledge that he is either mentally ill or a vile racist or both?)
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So bring back the medieval practice of making executions events in the public square? Maybe calling this the modern dark ages is too kind.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most Vermont thing ever.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Congrats America. You elected Eric Cartman president.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In Vermont, your ballot comes with a bar code you can scan to see locations near you to drop off your envelope rather than mail it cause we are taking NO chances this year.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: Christa Pike - who survived two botched executions in Tennessee - is AWAKE and able to speak. apnews.com/article/chri...
apnews.com
Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee failed execution, her attorneys say
Attorneys for Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her, say she is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: In a major break from past norms, the Trump administration sent criminal prosecutors and an FBI agent to monitor voters in Arizona's primaries earlier this year. The push comes as Trump exerts pressure on state elections as part of an ongoing attempt to find fraud before the midterms.
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DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know 102 is a big long life but....this still hurts. Rest well, Eva! variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Eva Marie Saint, ‘North by Northwest’ Star, Dies at 102
Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, who starred in such memorable classic films as “On the Waterfront” and “North by Northwest,” has died.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t promise me a good time.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Still looking for a pet parent or two to chat with about pet insurance. Let me know if you can help!
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