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Ken Downey Jr.

@kdowneyjr.bsky.social
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Writer • Editor 📝 Harvard ‘23 | Rutgers ‘18 👨🏻‍🎓 Managing Editor, Delaware Desk @WHYY.org ✍🏻 “Just take care of your soul; let the beauty unfold. We’ll get through this.” ✨ Views/Opinions are explicitly my own and do not reflect those of my employer.

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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just finished re-reading Dune. I think it was even better the second go round 🤓🪱🐭
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Dune Part 2: Paul & Chani on Arrakis
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I think I speak more to my MIL than anyone in my actual family lmao
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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The ongoing wildfires in France and Spain are really driving home that quote about: ‘Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.’
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Project Kitbash 🔥🔥🔥 LFG
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sen Lindsey Graham has died at 71 meidasnews.com/news/sen-lin...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Dead at 71
A spokesperson said he died of a "brief and sudden illness."
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
And yet, he’s still denying the allegations 😬
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I need to start using this more ✍️
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This aged poorly 🥴 #LGM
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Breaking my BlueSky silence to announce I’ve eaten my first tamale 🫔 Can’t believe I went almost 30 years without these in my life 😋
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Steve Sleeves @sleeves88.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
#LGM #Mets
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Roger Cormier @themetsnewsletter.com · 22/01/2026
BREAKING: The New York Mets have acquired All-Star right-hander Freddy Peralta in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers, sources tell Jeff Passan. Deal is done. Top prospects Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat are headed to Milwaukee. One more big league pitcher will head to the Mets.
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
DAVID STEARNS MASTERCLASS 🔥 #LFGM #LGM
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Renée D. @reneed7.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Aldi is offering Thanksgiving meal fixins that will feed 10 (YMMV) for $40. Please share with those who may find it helpful this year: www.aldi.us/products/tha...
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Feast for 10
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This genuinely might be one of the best political speeches I have ever watched, and I’ve seen Obama speak live
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
Totals by Candidate
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
1012850
50.32%
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Curtis A. Sliwa
144123
7.16% |
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Irene Estrada
2575
0.13% |
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Eric L. Adams
6182
0.31%|
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Joseph Hernandez
1228
0.06%
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Andrew M. Cuomo
837398
41.61%
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Jim Walden
2128
0.11% |
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6163
0.31% |


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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 05/11/2025
I’m genuinely just sitting in the office in shock. We won everything. Young voters turned out in force for Dems. We’ve never been so back.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 05/11/2025
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A New York Mets fan will soon run the largest city in the world #LGM
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Glad to see my home state overwhelmingly reject MAGA (again). Looking forward to seeing what Governor Sherrill can accomplish in office 💙
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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I get a real chuckle out of Republicans saying year after year they are coming up with a health care plan, but never actually showing us what it is. Republicans gutted Medicaid. Now they want to gut the ACA too. That’s their health care plan.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 28/10/2025
Former NHL player Ryan Kesler has been charged in Michigan with two counts of criminal sexual conduct. Here are more details on the case.
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Ex-NHL player Ryan Kesler faces criminal sexual conduct charges related to 16-year-old
Former NHL player Ryan Kesler has been charged in Michigan with two counts of criminal sexual conduct. Here are more details on the case.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/10/2025
Trump just mass murdered another 14 fisherman in the Pacific, bringing the total murdered count to at least 41, & Netanyahu is once again violating ceasefire, heavily bombing Gaza, extending genocide. And the audacity of anyone to question whether Trump deserves a Nobel Peace prize. The Audacity. 🙄
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Just finished @kwamembalia.bsky.social ‘s latest and loved it! Hope to see more from him in the future @msiglain.bsky.social
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Denise Wu @denisewu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Obama wore tan suit republicans wanted to impeach him, Trump literally demolished the White House and GOP goes silent.
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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Yeah. So The White House is designated a National Historic Landmark. That means: It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance. Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted. It’s not his house! WTF.
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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 20/10/2025
ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/10/2025
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is definitely one of those things that people would’ve called you hysterical for predicting a year ago. Trump is going to destroy the East Room of the White House without even asking Congress and build a ballroom with funds from private companies that are seeking favors? Settle down, lib.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"He's 17. He has taken on the unlikely role of protector, often patrolling his neighborhood daily starting around 5 a.m. "I may not be no cop or none of that, but I be taking care of the community." www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
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As tensions rise in Chicago, volunteers patrol neighborhoods to oppose ICE and help migrants escape
Several hundred volunteers are patrolling the streets of Chicago and its suburbs warning migrants of ICE's presence. This is part of a growing resistance to ICE's operations in Illinois.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 16/10/2025
I urge our nation to use this weekend's No Kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country. Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community. THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Roberts readying that shadow docket like Alfred filling upthe Batmobile
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Quite literally the only thing @booker.senate.gov can do to earn any shred of respect back that I once had for him…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Toni Morrison: "“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas."
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Drinking sake while playing Ghost of Yotei for a more immersive experience
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a statue of a man riding a horse in front of a snowy mountain
ALT: a statue of a man riding a horse in front of a snowy mountain
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Imagine the response if a Dem Administration removed every top general and admiral from every US military post all around the world (including conflict zones), in order to force them to attend a big in-person meeting in DC (with a former cable news co-host). www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Tylenol has learned its lesson by Susan Collins.
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Ken Downey Jr. @kdowneyjr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
He does realize he’s been running things for 8+ months, yes?
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Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice
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New York Post @nypost.com · 15/09/2025
Eddie Giacomin, Rangers Hall of Famer, dead at 86
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Eddie Giacomin, Rangers Hall of Famer, dead at 86
The goalie spent 11 seasons of his 13-year NHL career with the Blueshirts before they put him on waivers four games into the 1975-76 season, when he was claimed by the Detroit Red Wings on Oct. 29, 1975.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 15/09/2025
‘ANDOR’ has won the Emmy for Best Writing in a Drama Series. See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 15/09/2025
'Andor' wins the Emmy for Best Writing in a Drama Series
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