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Kelly Kennedy

@kellyskennedy.bsky.social
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Army vet. Kidney donor. Combat ballerina. Ghostwriter: Christine Brown’s Sister Wife Co: The Unit; Queen of Cuba; Fight Like a Girl Author: They Fought for Each Other Formerly of The War Horse, USA Today, Military Times www.kellykennedy.net

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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 5h
Like they do in other civilized countries. Like the punishment needs to be unbearable for his family. Like those old pics of hangings with people grinning that make you wonder what it is to be human. Not a fan of cap punishment generally, but this is maudlin, ghoulish.
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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 10h
🤬 Joseph Mengele would be pleased.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 10h
Say it like John Wayne: “A Delta Air Lines passenger on Tuesday stole an airport towing vehicle then crashed it before attempting to escape in a truck that holds aircraft lavatory waste, the authorities said.”
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Delta Passenger Steals and Crashes Airport Tug in California, Officials Say (Gift Article)
The episode briefly disrupted operations on Tuesday at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Calif., where the man went onto the tarmac, the authorities said.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 10h
Listen. If he’s not assaulting/harassing/blaming women, that job was much more wholesome than any oyster-shucking gig. Besides, don’t we all have post-military publicity shots we’d rather not get out? Making journalism sexy again.
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Bondage Photos Weren’t Part of the Campaign Plan
But Chris Gallant, a Black Hawk pilot and Democrat who is running to represent Long Island in Congress, is making the most of life post-tabloid reveal.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 11h
Surprising no one. “Milstein has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting…to present the Netanyahu government” favorably. His “efforts have helped insulate Israel’s right-wing government against potential blowback from a Trump Administration that has been its closest ally.”
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 11h
Jesus.
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Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Fixing Sign (Gift Article)
Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democrat, said the attack in August occurred while she was repairing a damaged campaign sign.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can’t even imagine.
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Christa Pike is angry and confused after surviving execution, attorney says
Christa Pike's attorneys say she is aware of what happened to her after Tennessee’s failed execution attempt a week ago and is both angry and confused.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh dear. $10 million. In that case, just kidding! “When Mr. Trump was asked on Tuesday if he would reimburse the government for the ads, he demurred and defended them as ‘promotion for the country’ and said ‘we’ll decide.’”
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads (Gift Article)
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Book market researcher." "Marketer." I go with whatever they say they're offering that I don't want. If you send them to junk, you can still do a quick check.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love the ones that praise my experience as a "combat ballerina" and skill as a kidney donor. I got one of those today. You can set your filters to send them directly to trash.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“He gave generations of Africans the words to grapple with a question that still haunts us: that of opening ourselves to the world’s knowledge without losing anything of who we are,” Mr. Faye wrote. “His work now belongs to the heritage of our Nation and of all Africa.”
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FFS. “The spat quickly grew in intensity and volume. At one point, Mr. Jedlinsky recalled, they were saying, ‘You shut up!’ and “No, you shut up!’”
nytimes.com
They Argued About Trump at a Dog Park. Then They Pulled Their Guns.
What happened between two dog owners one April afternoon in Ohio will soon be scrutinized by a judge and jury as both men grapple with the consequences.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What could go wrong? “In the last six years, multiple Chinese, American and Russian rockets have failed and exploded, and a Russian lander has crashed into the moon. Space junk regularly tumbles to Earth.”
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Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not only was he still around, he was still scamming. It’s like early training for believing misinformation. “In June 2021, Bakker and his Morningside Church Productions Inc. settled a lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming the health supplement Silver Solution could cure COVID-19.”
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Jim Bakker, who lost his ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire in sex and money scandals, dies at 86
Jim Bakker, who along with his first-wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has d...
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Possible" conflicts of interest. Or just stoopid. "Musk had largely failed at his high-profile government cost-cutting expedition last year, not coming close to meeting his stated goals ... he prompted an epic fight with President Trump and threatened to start his own political party."
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With Elon Musk’s Return to Washington, Possible Conflicts of Interest Resurface (Gift Article)
The founder of SpaceX, with billions of dollars in military contracts, joins several other defense industry executives on a Pentagon advisory board.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dropped a test tube. Welp, going home.
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Little Girl Waving Bye on Red Slide
ALT: Little Girl Waving Bye on Red Slide
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I almost felt hope, but polls. Oof. People come out of their hidey holes to vote against themselves.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Feels badly" is bad grammar. Also, bad human.
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#PME in the latest Military Review. www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil...
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I still don’t eat green beans.
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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*Screaming Into The Void* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cuz they didn’t f it up enough last year.
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Kennedy Center Honors to be held at Capital One Arena amid fight over adding Trump's name
2026 Kennedy Center Honors will be held at Washington's Capital One Arena.
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Saint Terrificus (Official Music Account) @saintterrificus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@ourcommondefense.bsky.social If ya need to rage at the world a bit, here's 4 new protest songs we recently released & we invite folks to take a listen. saintterrificus.bandcamp.com/album/this-f...
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This Fck'n Gov't, by Saint Terrificus
4 track album
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nothing more punk rock… “What would librarians do with $10,000 more in their budgets?” “I could completely overhaul my nonfiction section.”
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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So, if I get voluntarily drunk and my “friend” steals my wallet or breaks my nose, it’s his fault, but if he invites seven pals to rape me, it’s mine? And why does my “friend” know this?
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N.Y. Lawmakers and Victims Push to Change Rape Law in Intoxication Cases (Gift Article)
Accusations that Cornell University students assaulted a woman while she was impaired have renewed calls to amend the law.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Military services recently began requiring service members to update their Religious Affiliation Codes in their personnel records. The Department of the Air Force said the requirement exists only to improve chaplains’ knowledge of the force’s religious makeup.”
militarytimes.com
Pentagon launches Office of Religious Affairs, will report directly to Hegseth
The Pentagon intends to address what Hegseth calls a loss of religious community within the military after an era of “political correctness.”
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Silkie naps. They’re. So. Fluffy.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But we gave him that record-breaking 19% approval rating. #winning
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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FFS 🤬 Combining this with the 20% reduction of the officer corps tells me that they're really going to try and turn them on us, aren't they?
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Liberty University has a 99% acceptance rate. It’s No. 395–that’s before you get into the founded-by-Falwell bit. Hegseth’s premier universities: “Louisiana State University [LSU], Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University and Hillsdale College.”
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Hegseth announces 5 new non-Ivy League partnerships
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced new Pentagon partnerships with five non-Ivy League colleges and universities Wednesday amid his ongoing efforts to distance the military from America’…
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We already know better. “On Dec. 9, 2025, Rupert sought emergency mental health care.” “Left alone while he waited for further instructions on the transfer, Rupert bolted from the clinic, headed toward Interstate 35 and jumped off an overpass.”
militarytimes.com
8 sailors died by suicide at Oklahoma base in one year, Navy confirms
The deaths, along with eight attempted suicides in the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group, illustrate a systemic problem in the U.S. Navy, families say.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good info available: Onyx is not alone. One civil rights group put out a “Black Voters Survival Guide”; another focused a podcast episode on media literacy amid an “infodemic.” A Black history organization arranged a town hall about disinformation and voter fraud claims.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Black Americans aren’t targeted because they’re uniquely gullible or susceptible to this — they’re targeted because the Black vote matters,” she said. “If we just let this information run rampant ..: we’re essentially taking ourselves out of the game.”
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Black Voting Groups Prepare for Disinformation Campaigns in the Midterms
A new “propaganda playbook” aims to demystify common techniques used to target Black Americans, long a powerful voting bloc, with election-related disinformation.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bummer. “Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’”
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’ll be fine. “Last year’s hiring effort drew criticism for its size and speed, as officers were let into the agency with limited or no initial vetting. By the spring, hundreds of those new hires had been removed.”
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m gonna go with no. “His being unfaithful doesn’t equal murder,” said defense attorney Patrick Mulligan. “The issue here isn’t, ‘Was he a good husband?’”
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Former ‘American Idol’ singer Caleb Flynn convicted of fatally shooting his wife
A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on “American Idol” has been convicted of murder in the killing of his wife while he was having an affair.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FFS. "The memo is part of Hegseth’s push to overhaul military service academies. The Pentagon chief said last year his goal was to get 'woke' civilian professors out of the institutions and replace them with military personnel."
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why the everyday, small fights matter. Pick one. A place. A policy. A thing to fix. A way to help as rights and benefits disappear. Just one. (Unless you’re Jack. Then take them all.)
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Since the Iran war began, 19 U.S. service members have died with 418 injured. Five service members have died since Operation Epic Fury concluded. “Since May 5, 443 service members have been wounded in action while military operations in the Middle East have continued.”
navytimes.com
38 sailors, Marines wounded this month in Middle East
The Pentagon's Defense Casualty Analysis System said 29 sailors and 9 Marines were wounded in the Middle East in September.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“If the administration was serious about assisting state and local election officials, they shouldn’t have dismantled all of the federal government’s election cybersecurity capacity and fired all their experts in early 2025.”
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Hegseth says national security, military cyber forces will guard US election systems during midterms
The U.S. National Security Agency and military intelligence forces are set to guard election systems during the November midterms.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Memorializing the Holocaust is one of the fundamental tenets of the modern German state and to many Germans, the tiles’ location amid the bustle of everyday life is considered crucial to their impact — precisely because it is so easy to step on them.”
nytimes.com
German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews
Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Doesn't RPI have better things to do? Perhaps their students think so?
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My raccoons played with the balls I left for them—in their little raccoon swimming pool—so hard that they tore through them.
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On This Mexican Island, Raccoons Make and Play With Toys (and Also Sip Margaritas)
Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you. The men who say they love us.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus. “…one of the 7 dropped a message…telling his brothers there was ‘free pussy’ upstairs. Upstairs was a 20-year-old woman who…had already been pressured into snorting….ketamine. Somebody in the chat wrote back ‘this is crazy work.’ Somebody else wrote ‘like you can walk in and whip it out.’”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Kelly Kennedy @kellyskennedy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“In 2003, I desperately wish there had been leaders who could say, ‘I fought for the country; this is going to make us less safe, less prosperous,’” he said. “I’m super proud that we as vets, with VoteVets driving that, stood from Day Zero of this war in Iran and said, ‘This is bad.’”
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VoteVets Spends Millions to Elect Democrats, Shaping Midterms (Gift Article)
The organization, founded in 2006 to back Democratic veterans opposing the Iraq war, is pouring huge sums into this year’s elections amid intense voter antipathy for another conflict in the Middle Eas...
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