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Christopher C

@kernelmustard.bsky.social
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Former legislative staffer. Current disappointed optimist. Eager 2026 voter.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. Here is that body cam footage. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/watch-body-c...
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Christopher C @kernelmustard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s heartwarming to know that literally ANYONE could successfully serve in the U.S. Senate
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Christopher C @kernelmustard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
To be fair, he’s uniquely suited for that role
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm glad he finally got one, but Stephen Root should have won an Emmy for this character
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NewsRadio: Jimmy James Reads Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
YouTube video by minggnim
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And soil. It's a Big Herrenvolk, & you ain't in it. You & I are not in the Big Herrenvolk.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
"EPA paid staffers roughly $200 million to not work last year as part of its effort to ultimately slash the agency’s workforce by thousands of employees." Cool cool cool.
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POLITICO Pro: EPA spent $200 million for staff not to work
President Donald Trump's efforts to reduce and reshape the federal workforce took a toll at the agency, newly obtained records show.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/09/2026
Crude prices rose after American forces hit ‘multiple’ ships linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in a new escalation in the Middle East conflict. ft.trib.al/21WEsnQ
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is what Trump did on 9/11.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/09/2026
They want to place foster LGBTQ+ kids with parents who will put them through conversion therapy. www.cnn.com/2026/09/06/u...
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An estimated one-third of foster youth identify as LGBTQ+. Federal agencies are ripping away their protections | CNN
Child welfare agencies and nonprofits are trying to find a delicate balance between fulfilling their mission and working within the Trump administration’s guidelines
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wouldn't it be weird if the racist billionaire who bankrolled and took credit for the neo-Nazi victory in Germany was somehow involved in American politics too? Can you even imagine? I bet the media would have a field day asking politicians who aligned with him and took his money for statements!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2026
NEW: An armed individual lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Dr. Amy Acton while she was at the Canfield Fair in Mahoning County, resulting in the injuries of multiple people who were nearby. A suspect is in custody. www.wlwt.com/article/amy-...
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Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured
Amy Acton was reportedly attacked at a campaign event near Youngstown on Sunday.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump cut down cherry trees for which Washington DC is famous for one of his tacky golf courses. He’s planning to sell some of Yosemite Park to a private developer. He’s destroyed the East Wing. He’s threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center. That vulgar slob has no respect for beauty.
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 28/08/2026
FIRST ON CBS NEWS: A history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from work may no longer be a barrier to employment at the FBI.
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At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired
In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel.
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PLUR🧡 @plurgasm2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Register to Vote in Texas | VoteTexas.gov share.google/bIU7lTm969XB... Please share this for the Texans! You can check and register all on the same site if they removed you! You need to do it now!
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Your Guide to Voting in Texas | VoteTexas.gov
VoteTexas.gov is your go-to resource for voter registration, election dates, polling locations, and more. Get the info you need to make your vote count.
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Christopher C @kernelmustard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Read that wrong. Momentarily wondered what space thongs were and why the dinosaurs were wearing them. Got it now
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)
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Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You may remember that Trump fired nearly 20 inspectors general last year after he took office. The transformation of the system of watchdogs has continued since. They're "scared to do anything," one senior OIG official told us of those who are left. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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From Watchdogs to ‘Lapdogs’: Inside the Trumpification of Agencies’ Inspectors General
Between canceled reports, deleted pages and mass firings, the government is getting less oversight.
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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
A jury found that entertainment anchor Ojinika “Oji” Obiekwe had proven that, were it not for her complaints of race discrimination before her termination, WPIX would not have fired her. | Jill Jordan Sieder atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/17/b... #BlackskyNews
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‘Might As Well Be a Plantation’: Black Entertainment Anchor Fired After Calling Out Racial Discrimination Now Getting Millions from NYC Station
A federal jury awarded a veteran entertainment anchor for a New York City television station $2.4 million after finding she had proved she was fired in
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/08/2026
One Ossoff joke produced more coordinated deployment than most NATO exercises.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Stars & Stripes publisher announces sudden retirement, telling staff his philosophy of leadership and “understanding of the value and mission" of the newspaper differ in “fundamental ways” from the direction DoD wants to go in. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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Stars and Stripes publisher announces retirement
Max D. Lederer Jr., the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, announced his retirement, ending a three-decade career at the organization.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today in It Waa Always Just a Stick Up, You Dummies : www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Trump Officials Ignored Their Own University Investigations, Lawyer Says (Gift Article)
A former Justice Department lawyer says Trump administration leaders ignored findings that elite schools, including Brown and Columbia, hadn’t broken the law as they pressed them into deals.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026
A young mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now a local council member is calling for a federal investigation into Tasia Fortune’s death. Her case comes as questions still surround the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Suri Crowe reports.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Family members share with MeidasTouch that women aboard the USS Boxer have been “begging” for extra pads and tampons as basic feminine hygiene supplies run out at sea.
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"They Were Begging Us to Send Them Extra Pads and Tampons." Family Member Describes Feminine Hygiene Shortage Aboard the USS Boxer
A family member with loved ones serving aboard the USS Boxer reached out to us directly to describe a supply crisis unfolding on the amphibious assault ship,
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
Pix of Norman
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Indigenous people represent 18% of the world’s extreme poverty, but only 6% of the population In the US, median household earnings are among the lowest Unemployment rates are among the highest They are 400% more likely to be incarcerated And they are 300% more likely to be killed by police
Three feathers hang on a cord against a tree; overlaid text states Indigenous people in the US are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police.
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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New w/ Maia Spoto and Jill Cowan: Body-camera video and court evidence show federal immigration agents using slurs and targeting Latinos in Chicago and Los Angeles. But whether the tactics are legal remains an open question now being tested in cases across the country www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...
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New Evidence Shows Federal Agents Using Racial Slurs During Immigration Sweeps (Gift Article)
Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/08/2026
This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names
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Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home
The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization
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North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”
The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/08/2026
In 2005 I went to a sleep disorder specialist in Manhattan to talk about my sleep paralysis. He told me I needed to see a psychiatrist because I clearly had schizophrenia, his evidence being he’d never heard of sleep paralysis and I was 25 and didn’t have a husband or boyfriend.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri blocks anti-gerrymander referendum from November ballot in attempt to silence voters
Voter advocates are expected to immediately challenge the move and ask the courts to ensure that Missouri voters have the final say on the map.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They're trying to steal the election in Texas
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 04/08/2026
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
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60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
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Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'
Capital One says it closed hundreds of accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a filing.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Trump administration is so opposed to socialism that it has acquired — sometimes by coercion — equity stakes in 30 companies so far. www.cato.org/blog/governm...
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Christopher C @kernelmustard.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A very interesting perspective on Hegseth’s incompetence. foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/31/h...
foreignpolicy.com
The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures
‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2026
I remember when Bill Clinton met with the Attorney General for three minutes when Hillary was being investigated for mishandling classified information, and the republicans cried bloody murder. Now, the AG nominee is covering for pedophiles and that seems okay. WHAT THE FUCK?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/07/2026
BARTIROMO: Last time we spoke, you told me you were expecting 4% growth in the second half of the year. The number was way lower. How would you assess that? HASSETT: The reason why the number was 1.5% was because we imported so many capital goods because we're building factories so fast
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Matthew Moore @matthewrmoore.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The cost of losing local journalism is more than just a metaphorical one. A group of finance professors found that fewer local reporters are leading to higher municipal borrowing costs for local governments. Thanks to @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social for chatting - www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...
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Fewer local reporters may mean higher borrowing costs for local governments
Researchers Dermot Murphy of the University of Illinois Chicago and Matt Baker of Rebuild Local News explain how shrinking local news coverage drives up what local governments pay to borrow.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Double the sides, double the pleasure.
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Kelly Boo-ten 👻 @kwooten.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Great reporting from our student journalists at the Duke Chronicle on increases for the most highly paid Duke employees in the wake of unnecessary massive layoffs: www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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As cost-cutting began, Duke’s highest-paid employees took big raises
Tax filings reveal administrators, including President Vincent Price and Provost Alex Gallimore, saw their compensation rise in fiscal year 2025. Managers of Duke’s endowment and standout athletics co...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Uh, me? There is not a single person in my audience or that I know who experienced any one of these things. I do, however, know four people personally who died of Covid before the vaccine was available. I'm so sick of this shit.
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The National Archives is shutting down its Chicago, San Francisco & Seattle research facilities. The closures rip public records out of the hands of the people, burying our history behind bureaucracy and darkness. This is NOT how democracy works!
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