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Kimberly Atkins Stohr

@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social
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Writing for @GlobeOpinion.bsky.social, speaking on @ms.now and #SistersInLaw. Snickers's scheduler. Believer in democracy, science and the rule of law. Upcycler. Expert thrifter. Typos are my love language. From Detroit, in Washington, of Boston.

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Buckle up: It’s back-to-SCOTUS day. First arguments of the term begin at 10am.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I just dropped and shattered the @wbur.org mug from which I superstitiously sipped every time I had the pleasure of guest hosting On Point back in the day and I inconsolable! 😭
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/08/2026
Tropical storm Dolly has formed in the Atlantic.
displays a National Hurricane Center forecast cone graphic for Tropical Storm Dolly, Advisory 1, issued at 11 AM AST on Thursday, August 27, 2026.

The storm's current center is located in the Atlantic Ocean at 13.6 N, 38.7 W, moving west at 24 mph with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. The 5-day probable track cone shows Dolly continuing westward as a tropical storm (indicated by black circles with an "S") through Saturday morning. By 8 PM Saturday and 8 AM Sunday, the forecast track shifts to white circles with an "S", indicating it is expected to become a post-tropical or potential tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 39-73 mph as it approaches the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico.

The graphic includes the standard NOAA disclaimer that the shaded white cone represents the probable path of the storm center, not the total size of the storm, and that hazardous conditions can occur outside of the cone. No watches or warnings are currently highlighted on the map.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Meta's current market cap is $1.45 TRILLION. $12.6 billion is a drop in the bucket. A rounding error. Outrageous. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/m...
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Meta settles social media addiction trial with California, other states
Meta and coalition of state attorneys general settled a federal trial centering on allegations that the social media giant misrepresented the extent of child-related mental health harms.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s a wrap for me today, y’all. I’m going to curl up somewhere, play my favorite DP track on repeat, and be anything but fine and dandy. I know it’s August. I don’t care. 💔😭 open.spotify.com/track/0uTVCh...
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Hard Candy Christmas
Dolly Parton · Once Upon A Christmas · Song · 1984
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Someone yesterday said to me: “I’m not for everybody.” My reply: “No one is. Except Dolly Parton. Dolly is for everybody.” I’m inconsolable.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
She’s the sweetest girl in the world, but every now and again I receive all the attitude. Never her male hooman. Just me.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
SCOTUS to Trump on reconsidering E Jean Carroll verdict: www.cnn.com/2026/08/17/p...
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Alan Reed: The Answer Is Still No
ALT: Alan Reed: The Answer Is Still No
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Snickers is pawfully grateful for all the get well wishes over the past week! It was a ruff week for her (and her humans!) but she’s feeling much better!
Snickers looking cute
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Always a pleasure to join @pbsnews.org NewsHour when @jonathancapehart.bsky.social is away www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Brooks and Atkins Stohr on 'woke' politics in America
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of the Boston Globe join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including the surprising result in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary, the...
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I miss the days when the Hatch Act was actually a thing that could be enforced, like the law that it is
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I wore this album OUT in high school
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Subscribers of my Supreme Court newsletter The Gavel knew this was coming: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow White House ballroom construction to continue
The president wants the justices to act before a court ruling that would block construction goes into effect.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My Dad was born on an August day. He left the world on an August day, too. It was a month he loved, when he could go boating, fishing, and golfing. When the family would gather for a picnic to celebrate him. When the days felt easy. I miss him always, but especially in August. Happy birthday, Dad.
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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“We have somebody who is an agent of authoritarianism who just got the okay from a senator who, as you said, had nothing to lose.” @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social rejects Sen. Bill Cassidy’s rationale for confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general as Cassidy also warns of lawfare under this DOJ.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Todd Blanche ain’t ish and ain’t never gonna be ish. My column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/05/o...
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Todd Blanche is unfit to head the Justice Department - The Boston Globe
His record shows a willingness to bend the agency to Trump’s political agenda and inch the nation closer to autocracy.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The case was obviously trash but I’m still shocked she admitted it
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Pearl Clutching Omg
ALT: Pearl Clutching Omg
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The tackification of the nation’s capital
An ugly and tacky gilded statue in DC
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh, this saddens me. Sending her all the good juju.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Even when I know I’m being carded because the restaurant is being fastidious about following the law, it still makes this 53-year-old’s day.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We made it to Friday, y’all Just barely
Snickers sprawled out on the floor looking exhausted
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Looks like Harlan Crow, billionaire conservative donor and infamous travel buddy of Justice Clarence Thomas, is a White House decorator now… wapo.st/4wcRII3
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Trump continues overhaul of White House grounds with new Rose Garden statues
A bronze Thomas Jefferson was installed as the fifth new statue last week. Three were provided by Harlan Crow, a conservative collector and political donor.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
‘White men get to fail’: Graham Platner collapse illuminates toxic double standard in US politics Expectations that prioritize privileged identities keep women and people of color from even running for office
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‘White men get to fail’: Graham Platner collapse illuminates toxic double standard in US politics
Expectations that prioritize privileged identities keep women and people of color from even running for office
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Bravo to these judges, who are traveling around the country to educate the public about the importance of the rule of law!
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Maybe, just maybe, spend some of your party coffers on recruiting, investing in and supporting candidates (women in particular) who aren’t Nazi tattooed and sex crimey
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The demand for cheap fast fashion contributes to tragedies like this. We’ve learned nothing from Rana Plaza. www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...
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‘Major casualties’ after fire at shoe factory in China
Jinjiang, in the coastal Fujian province, is a major footwear and apparel manufacturing hub and is often referred to as China‘s “shoe capital.”
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Every now and then I fall apart. What an incredible voice. Rest peacefully
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Pay her what you owe her Don’t act like you forgot Trump betta have her money www.reuters.com/world/judge-...
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Judge authorizes payment of multi-million dollar award to E. Jean Carroll in Trump case
A judge on ​Wednesday authorized ‌payment of a ​damages ​award that totals around $5.8 ⁠million ​to magazine ​writer E. Jean Carroll to ​satisfy ​a 2023 civil ‌verdict ⁠in which a jury found ​Presiden...
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hey DC: come see my friend @atimaomara.bsky.social and me as we discuss her book The Instigators tomorrow at Politics and Prose at The Wharf: politics-prose.com/atima-omara5...
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Atima Omara — The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (And What We Can Learn from Them) - with Kimberly Atkins-Stohr — at The Wharf
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Nothin says Happy Birthday America like creating massive air pollution over the nation's capital www.capitalweather.com/dcs-firework...
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DC's fireworks supershow this year could be a smoke-filled mess
Disrupted views are a common part of the DC fireworks show, even before it gets supersized like in 2026.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Woman Says Yup - I Can't Do Without You
ALT: Woman Says Yup - I Can't Do Without You
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is the man who is refusing to sign an affordable housing bill, calling “a yawn.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
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Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is having a real one: He authors opinions of the court denying vulnerable kids the right to play sports and striking down campaign finance rules, and then writes a concurrence/dissent that essentially says the citizenship of babies born in the US is up to Congress to decide.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
And in the biggest act of "See? We're not that bad!" ever, the Supreme Court holds that children born in the United States, regardless of their parents' citizenship status, are US citizens.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I've covered the court for the better part of 20 years. I love my job. But, y'all, sometimes it makes me angry and sad. Profoundly, profoundly sad.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is devastating, not only in the majority's analysis that contorts the principles of constitutional interpretation beyond all recognition, but also for the way it strips one of the most vulnerable populations in America of the right to live a full and happy life.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
In the short term, at least, this is a boon for the GOP, which has far more in its party coffers than Democrats
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Last day of this wild ride of a Supreme Court term
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Status Cansada Morta
ALT: Status Cansada Morta
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My column on the Supreme Court's coronation of President Trump: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/29/o...
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Supreme Court is turning Trump into the king he wants to be - The Boston Globe
Smashing precedent and historical tradition, the court’s conservative supermajority declared that Trump has the right to fire those he doesn’t find sufficiently loyal. That’s a coronation.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is the president to whom the Supreme Court just granted vastly expanded powers
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Tomorrow is the last opinion day of the term. Still on deck: birthright citizenship, bans on trans athletes in sports, and whether candidates can coordinate campaign spending with parties. This would be a really good time to sign up for my newsletter the Gavel: www.bostonglobe.com/newsletters/...
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The Gavel - The Boston Globe
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Trump's gonna LOVE this SCOTUS: Trump can't summarily fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, BUT he essentially has the *constitutional* right to fire other agency heads even if Congress created the agency to be independent and limited now leaders can be fired. A gobsmacking expansion of presidential power.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
SCOTUS: Police obtaining geofencing data from cell phones of people in the vicinity of a crime is a search for Fourth Amendment purposes. The court remands to a lower court to decide if the search was a reasonable one or not. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is for mail-in voting, obvs. But stating that anyway.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Trump won't like this SCOTUS: Federal election law does not require ballots to be received by Election Day. That means states that count ballots postmarked by Election Day may continue doing so. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Supreme Court's 250th anniversary gift to America: turning the principle engraved on the Statue of Liberty itself on its head. We no longer "lift our lamp beside the golden door," at least not to the immigrants Trump disdains. My column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/25/o...
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As America celebrates liberty, the Supreme Court protects Trump’s efforts to deny it - The Boston Globe
As the nation turns 250, the justices expand the powers of a president who has derided those who seek a better life on American soil as “invaders,” “garbage,” and “criminals.”
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This jam popped up in my dream. My inner me knew I needed a bit of joy this challenging week. Now my poor husband has to deal with me singing it all weekend. 🗣️🎼And I’ll giiive yooouuu alllll I haaave to giiiiive, all the love, all the joyyyyy my heart can giiive🎵 open.spotify.com/track/2tEifc...
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Come Share My Love
Miki Howard · Come Share My Love · Song · 1986
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Oh, the fact that Alito had the gumption to give a verbal rebuttal from the bench after Sotomayor read from her dissent (according to SCOTUSblog's Amy Howe) is a prime example of why OPINION ANNOUNCEMENTS NEED TO BE LIVE STREAMED!
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And in the final Alito-penned decision of the day, SCOTUS rules 6-3 that Haitian and Syrian refugees cannot seek relief to stop the termination of their TPS status: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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