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Ken Robert

@kenandpapernm.bsky.social
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half-hearted champion of the oxford comma

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This passed 57% - 42% on the ballot last year, so of course the Republican governor and Legislature in Missouri repealed it. And to top it off, they eliminated capital gains taxes too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Missouri’s governor signs repeal of state’s guaranteed paid sick leave law
Business groups had lobbied hard for law’s repeal, but voters could have a chance to reinstate it next year
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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...
A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim.""Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/06/2025
All this discussion about what language is ok to use in opposition to a genocide and IDF is out here shooting people for wanting to eat IDF soldiers are telling the press they feel like the Nazis targeting the Jews And you're worried about a phrase? A PHRASE? fuck you guys
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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DOJ sues Washington state over law requiring clergy to report possible child abuse
The administration is supporting an effort by Catholic bishops who are fighting the law over concerns that it conflicts with confession.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.
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Rebecca McCray @rebeccakmccray.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"When we ask them who they are, they usually don't reply. 'Who do you think we are?' barked one agent while they were making an arrest, as the elevator doors closed." Great reporting from @hellgatenyc.com on the rampant masking of ICE agents hellgatenyc.com/ice-gone-rog...
hellgatenyc.com
'It Felt Like ICE Gone Rogue': The Masked Men of Lower Manhattan
Longtime immigration court observers say that federal agents working for ICE have created an unprecedented atmosphere of terror in their quest to deport as many New Yorkers as they can.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
ICE officials require adequate time to dispose of bodies, disappear troublesome detainees, simulate marginally adequate conditions, put on shirts without visible burrito stains, etc.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎
americanscientist.org
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“We’re talking about securities fraud.” Murphy said many of the bond buyers who stand to be affected by the church’s decision to halt the 1 July interest payment are Louisiana citizens. “They’re almost definitely … parishioners,” Murphy said. “These are the people they’ve cut off.””
theguardian.com
New Orleans archdiocese bond investors accuse church of ‘securities fraud’
Catholic church says it won’t make nearly $1m interest payment but calls fraud accusation ‘extreme stretch’
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Pro life
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Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins
Excavation crews begin sealing off site in Tuam, Co Galway, before full-scale dig starts on 14 July
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 17/06/2025
We’re delighted to share that our popular online course 'Introducing humanism: non-religious approaches to life' led by writer, broadcaster, and humanist Sandi Toksvig is now available and free to access for everyone. Sign up and start learning with Sandi today 🧵 humanists.uk/2025/06/16/i...
humanists.uk
Explore life’s big questions – with Sandi Toksvig
Humanists UK has relaunched its online course Introducing humanism: non-religious approaches to life. The popular course is led by writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig and features humanist philosophe...
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Trump is a POS-FF.
theguardian.com
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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RaulSanity @josersanity.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Albuquerque - NM Representative Melanie Stansbury speaking
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
“Survivors, however, describe a reality that was far more brutal. “It was the greatest atrocity Spain has committed against women,” said Consuelo García del Cid, who was drugged by a doctor at her home in Barcelona and taken to a centre in Madrid at the age of 16.”
theguardian.com
‘It’s not a genuine apology’: Spanish women reject Catholic attempt to redress Franco incarceration
Many survivors believe organisation’s request for forgiveness over abuse in Women’s Protection Board centres does not go far enough
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social. Take the time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2025
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman, were shot in their own homes overnight.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/06/2025
I don’t really have words to explain how it feels to see Kristi Noem standing on a street in East LA that looks like the street I grew up on in East LA with an invading military force trying to kidnap people who look like the neighbors I grew up with. It stays with you, spiritually.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/06/2025
I mean, if the choice is between exhaustingly hectoring lefties being mean kids and bootlicking righties who will happily rat out their neighbors to masked thugs for not being potential cover models for Aryans Illustrated, I have a pretty good idea about who I'd rather be loitering with online
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
People get mad at me on bluesky but I rarely get called slurs, see someone posting a bullshit chart about how people like me are subhuman, and no one complains when i Romapost. People seem to actually read pieces I share! As far as social media experiences go it’s about as good as it gets
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Elim Garak @elimgarak240b.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Along with abolishing ICE we should abolish all for-profit prison companies in the country.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is incredible
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
RIP, Brian Wilson
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God Only Knows - BBC Music
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
‼️ This is absolutely absurd. Trump is actively manufacturing a crisis. The Pentagon just announced that he’s federalizing another 2,000 California National Guard troops bringing the total to 4,000, plus 700 active-duty Marines heading into LA. This is a military occupation, not public safety.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
What does it take, man. They’ve arrested mayors, broken into Congressman’s offices. Does anyone doubt they would arrest governors or Senators? What line needs to be crossed before we all recognize this as lawless authoritarianism?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
/3 I left Twitter because it was increasingly a racist shithole. It was gross and uncomfortable and I felt gross and uncomfortable helping promote it. Everything I see from there makes me think it was the right choice for me.
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Patriarchies are trash.
ourmidland.com
Former church pastor Scott Haught sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing his daughters
Former church pastor Scott Haught, 54, of Saginaw, was sentenced to serve up to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing two of his daughters.
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“Despite Scott’s alleged confession, Morales Reyes remained in ICE custody and is expected to appear before an immigration judge on June 4.”
people.com
Man Robbed Mexican Immigrant, then Wrote Fake Trump Threats in His Name So He'd Be Deported Before Testifying: Prosecutors
Demetric Deshawn Scott allegedly confessed to forging death threats against President Donald Trump and ICE in order to get the star witness in his criminal trial deported, according to prosecutors
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
For sale: red tesla, never driven. 😢
nypost.com
Trump wants to get rid of the Tesla he bought to show support for Elon Musk, White House says
President Trump is planning on parting ways with all traces of Elon Musk — including the Tesla he bought at full price on March 11.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Jesus Christ Democrats, all you have to say is “These men are idiots and giant babies and suck! Look at how much they suck!”
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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Geniuses are wild.
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Has anyone done a wellness check on FOX News?
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/06/2025
Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.
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Deontological Warfare @clockworklady.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“You saw a man (Musk) who was very happy when he stood behind the oval desk, even with a black eye. I said you want a little makeup? You want a little makeup?” DJT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
“You saw a man (Musk) who was very happy when he stood behind the oval desk, even with a black eye. I said you want a little makeup? You want a little makeup?” DJT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
One positive aspect of former mainstream journalists starting their own Youtube channels is getting to hear them say things like “suck ass.”
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
That sad ass golden key Trump gave Elon the other day is even funnier now:
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Phang: There’s a Texas Tribune article that reveals that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants sent to CECOT in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.—even though the administration wanted to label them as terrorists before deporting them.
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Ken Robert @kenandpapernm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It just keeps getting better.
Tesla stock drops 14.75% to $238.08 today, 06/05/25
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