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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

West Virginia never actually existed, it’s unconstitutional

kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pittsburgh has some similarities here. Downtown is a triangle with river on two sides, and the third side is cut off by an interstate and the Hill District. That’s contributed to the rise of a second core around the Pitt campus.

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thorpe also had an uncredited, but speaking, role in the scene where Ronald Reagan does the “win one for the Gipper” speech

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Japanese-style iced pour over is incredible, I don’t know why it’s not a bigger thing in the US

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thiiird person @thiiirdperson.com · 17/05/2026

hey graduates, good job on the four years you spent learning how to learn and think among a community of learners and thinkers. the most exciting news i can think to tell you is that your learning and thinking will soon be replaced by feeding little prompts to an AI. ok now why are you booing me

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My first year on the Hill, I made less in 12 months than a friend did during his 10 weeks as a biglaw summer associate.

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I think this is right. If I clear all cookies from their site it resolves the issue for a day or two for me.

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S Peter Davis @speterdavis.com · 14/03/2026

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The problem is the prize money from the ATC is a fraction of what these athletes stood to make if they won the national championship. First prize was 20k, but their shoe sponsor contracts likely stood to pay out in the low six figures for winning a national championship!

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Tyler Pager has always prioritized access over telling readers the truth lmao, don’t ask me how I know

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/11/2025

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

“The regime is arresting and prosecuting opposition politicians for the crime of public protest” has for eight decades been shorthand for “the democratic West should not support this regime.” And that’s where we are now.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

chosun.com

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

Headline from time with a photo of Charlie Kirk at the event where he was murdered, smiling and waving at the crowd. The preview time has shared indicates that this will be the cover story of the next magazine.

The headline reads

The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Political Violence Haunting America

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Greg Lipper @theglipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In conclusion, if Dems aren't talking about how Trump et al are stripping Secret Service protection from their politicial enemies—and aren't imposing political consequences on those who use violent threats to expand their power—then Dems aren't actually serious about stopping political violence.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/07/2025

The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

According to the forecasting models, the current steep funding cuts— coupled with the potential dissolution of the agency—could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2·4 million deaths per year. These deaths include 4·5 million among children younger than 5 years, or more than 700 000 deaths annually.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 06/05/2025

It's darkly funny how little attention the masked secret police receive. Last year it seemed that the chattering class would never shut up about masked undergraduates. Perhaps they saw the encampments as more of a threat to their interests than the jackboots?

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Trump has I think rightly calculated that no amount of fascist atrocities will drive the media to call them fascist atrocities

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A 1000 times this.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The past four Republican administrations have tanked the US economy. But I know multiple Democrats who include their pronouns in the footer of their emails. I have never felt more politically homeless.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

been thinking a lot about the media reaction to Biden's first debate performance compared to its response to fascism

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Awful: Delivery of life saving treatment to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is in doubt amid USAID firings, the product's manufacturers tell me. The treatment is a paste made of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1919...

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Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk

Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos. This isn’t what Marco Rubio said would happen.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

saying it again: if there are "conditions" on aid to california, no democrat should vote for any disaster aid of any kind to any state. all states get aid or no states get aid. that's it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2025

every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Think about how fast it went from Trump personally is not liable to prosecution for official acts to Trump’s big Nazi donor’s extralegal and unaccountable goon squad is not subject to arrest.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

These are important wording choices. When you describe lawbreaking this way, you’re communicating to the reader that sure, maybe it’s TECHNICALLY illegal, but it can’t REALLY be that important. Nobody describes street criminals as “unbound by legal niceties.”

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin

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FREEZE OF AIR
TRAFFIC CONTROL
HIRING
Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statements after President Trump froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers, among other safety-critical positions.
"The bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the Administration to hire the maximum number of air traffic controllers. That's what the law says, so the Administration must rescind this ridiculous executive order," Ranking Member Larsen said. "Hiring air traffic controllers is the number one safety issue according to the entire aviation industry. Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the Administration is choosing to spread bogus DEl claims to justify this decision. I'm not surprised by the President's dangerous and divisive actions, but the Administration must reverse course. Let's get back to aviation safety and allow the FAA to do its job protecting the flying public."
"Our top priority must be the safety of the flying public so an order freezing the hiring of air traffic controllers is a misguided decision and goes against the directives of our
FAA Reauthorization bill," Ranking Member Cohen said. "The aviation community will speak with one voice in condemning this short-sighted policy and reaffirm our

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Ah, my back-of-the-napkin math didn’t account for state income taxes or property taxes, so very incomplete come to think of it (Illinois’ flat 5% income tax is still silly though)

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’d have to quadruple my income before I faced the same nominal local tax burden in Portland as I currently pay in Chicago (which has a 10.25% sales tax)

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Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“The index for shelter rose 0.3 percent in November, accounting for nearly forty percent of the monthly all items increase.” www.bls.gov/news.release...

bls.gov

Consumer Price Index Summary - 2024 M11 Results

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kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social @kentuckyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

No idea who will pick up the torch, but Earl Blumenauer’s Bicycle Commuter Tax Credit did this until Republicans scrapped it as part of the 2017 tax cut. He introduced a bill this Congress to make it a parking benefit cash-out, which would cover people who walk too.

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