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K.B. Owen

@kbowenwriter.bsky.social
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Former lit adjunct turned author of mysteries set in 19thc U.S. featuring women who can't mind their own business and have the scars to prove it. Book banning makes me crazy. I love cats, container gardening, yarn crafts, and democracy.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
STUNNING: Trump left the White House press corps in Turkey as a decoy to be attacked by Iran—and instead flew out on a secret plane: wapo.st/4i1OByh
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Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every reporter who was on board Air Force One when Trump abandoned it as a decoy to be attacked knows exactly which administration staffers were also left as sitting ducks there. There's a real opportunity here to get some inside dirt from people who have every right to be bitter and spiteful.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 10/07/2026
51 employees were laid off after Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced launched. It's pointing more and more towards a fixed-term, project-by-project games industry. That still requires you to work on-site and relocate for every gig. Utter bullshit.
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TruthToPower🇵🇷🇺🇸 @poweristruth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Idk who needs to hear this, but there is no "gender war". Women didn't try to take away men's right to vote, to education, or for property. Women don't write laws that control a man's body. Women didn't built systems that strip men of their any freedoms. This injustice does not go both ways.
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Opinion | The anti-abortion movement’s growing support for throwing women in jail
The only way to actually stop abortions in states where they’re banned, some activists argue, is to prosecute women for homicide.
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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Another one of those what-if-it-happened-in-another-country moments: The president is suing the government for $100 million dollars for searching his home for the classified documents he stole, and the attorney who represented him on those charges is currently leading the Justice Department.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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K.B. Owen @kbowenwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
@jbf1755.bsky.social inspired my #NoKings protest sign today. Thanks, Joanne! #Chutzpah
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
They call it the SAVE America Act. But look closer — it’s just another piece of the Project 2025 blueprint: centralize power, control voter access, and move election oversight to Washington. When politicians start rewriting the rules of voting… they’re usually trying to win without voters.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The fuck kind of answer is this
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Heidi Schuster @heidischuster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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some of you may die but it 's a sacrifice i am willing to make ..
Alt: some of you may die but it 's a sacrifice i am willing to make ..
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
NASHVILLE: “They used a permanent marker on his skin because they were keeping score.”😕 Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social lets loose after this horrific report about @TNHighwayPatrol & ICE blatantly racial profiling and terrorizing immigrants: nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Watching Trump’s highly trained, fully armored and masked ICE goons being totally played by a delivery guy on a bike. They usually require an indoor hallway and an unarmed immigrant leaving a legal hearing to really show their stuff.
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Dr Lisa 🇰🇳🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈❤️🧘🏽‍♀️🎸🏝💃🏽🛸🐸✊🏽🕉☯️⚧️☮️ @xitter-refugee.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I was just on a press call with TX Rep. Nicole Collier, @corybooker.com, and @gavinnewsom.bsky.social. Rep. Collier joined us from the TX Capitol. She was ordered to leave the call, and threatened with a felony charge if she didn’t comply. This is an outrageous violation of her freedom of speech.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Can he scream "I'm Pooty's bitch" any louder?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/08/2025
Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies. Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
🚨 #SocialSecurity is on the chopping block. Thanks to Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” retirees are now staring down $18,000-a-year benefit cut in just seven years. Seniors who paid in their whole lives are left holding the bag. – $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.
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A new analysis projects a 24% cut to Social Security benefits by late 2032.
Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will cause sharp cuts to Social Security by late 2032, a new analysis says.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Quite apart from the economics, this secret police force and the prison network that will be built for it, is the most repugnant and frightening aspect of the bill; Medicaid can be funded again, food stamps can be funded again, clean energy can be funded, taxes can be increased progressively. But an immigrant prison network, overseen by Trump-loyal paramilitaries, with no resources for due process, will be very hard to dislodge, and could easily be turned against the citizenry. This is Stephen Miller’s wet dream and it will stain the whole country.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
To vote for this bill is to vote to starve and kill Americans, and to saddle those who survive with a mountain of debt and a hotter globe. That is a policy choice. And everyone who votes yes owns that choice.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Please share this. Our government has failed in its most basic duty of keeping its citizens safe. Instead, it has cut and run — by closing the American embassy, by telling Americans they are on their own, by abandoning them in a war zone. Where is the wall-to-wall coverage of this betrayal?
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Trump Cuts and Runs
American media silent about Trump's betrayal
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K.B. Owen @kbowenwriter.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Something weird is going on over at @threads @meta today...duplicate threads everywhere, under all different user names! I usually only read/comment on other posts over there, but I checked my posts (most recent was 3wks ago), and they're duplicated, too. Anyone here know what might be going on? Tx!
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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
They've arrested, detained, or assaulted a judge, a Mayor, a Congresswoman, a labor leader—and now a U.S. Senator. Imagine what they'll do to you. They are counting on our fear, which is why we must be courageous. If we don't fight back, they will come for all of us.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Trump makes wearing a face covering in public a criminal offense. Law enacted by Truth Social Edict from his country club.
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God Emperor Doom @plootube.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The great American educator Neil Postman wrote in “The Soft Revolution” that students should “adopt the symbols of American values rather than attack them,” emphasizing that the real revolution is in demonstrating what those values - liberty, justice & equality - mean in practice.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 19/05/2025
In 2017, to pass their first round of tax cuts, Republican negotiated in secret, wrote a bill behind closed doors, ignored every analysis, and moved it through the committee process in a matter of days without a single hearing about the impact of their legislation. In 2025, they’re doing it again.
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In overnight vote, Republicans move closer to pushing Trump agenda bill through House
GOP officials are scrambling to advance massive tax breaks and dramatic Medicaid cuts, and it's worth appreciating why they're in such a rush.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thye're trying to kill us.
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
USPS workers sound alarm over Trump efforts to dismantle service: ‘The hounds are at the door.’ The United States Postal Service is now facing off with Trump and Elon Musk’s Doge over privatization. #MomSky #Voices4Victory www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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USPS workers sound alarm over Trump efforts to dismantle service: ‘The hounds are at the door
The United States Postal Service is now facing off with Trump and Elon Musk’s Doge over privatization
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K.B. Owen @kbowenwriter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
@contrarian thanks for your solid reporting. However, please hire a copy editor. "Freedom of conscious" is a freshman writing mistake that makes this former prof's eye start twitching.
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Brion @mntngroove.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Like, soooo efficient. 🙄
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Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 18/04/2025
Our leaders have failed Stephanie Horowitz and other Parkland survivors by making them endure the unthinkable not once, but twice. There are no words, only actions. #FSU #FloridaState #Parkland #Enough
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Once again sharing this info. Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.
If you are national guard or active duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens then this is the number to the GU Rights Hotline. There is support, you don’t have to go thru with it.
1-877-447-4487
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/04/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge refuses to block immigration enforcement operations in churches in a lawsuit brought by religious groups.
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Federal judge refuses to block immigration enforcement operations in houses of worship
A federal judge has refused to block immigration agents from conducting enforcement operations at houses of worship in a lawsuit filed by religious groups over a new policy adopted by the Trump administration.
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K.B. Owen @kbowenwriter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Got one side of my sign done for tomorrow. Still debating what to put on the other side. This is my first protest. #handsoff2025 #yourvoicematters #resist #wethepeople #moralmoment
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/03/2025
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K.B. Owen @kbowenwriter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What a bunch of morons. "Oh, but her emails...."
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education? Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power. Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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