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Kim Foster

@kiminthewest.bsky.social
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Social scientist. James Beard Award-winning author. Book: The Meth Lunches (St. Martin's Press.) Newsletter: KimFoster.substack.com. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The right for autistic people with intellectual disabilities (and other disabled people) to live outside of institutions was only granted by the US Supreme Court in 1999.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 05/03/2025
Al Green is a NATIONAL TREASURE!!!! Dear @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedem.bsky.social WE WANT AN OPPOSITION PARTY!
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Do I understand this right? He had a Representative thrown out for booing a speech where he said, "Free speech is back?" Did this actually happen?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
As I know from writing Proof of Cruelty, Donald Trump gets an obvious thrill in describing the rape and murder of women, so he has exercised that rhetorical muscle repeatedly tonight Because if this night is about anything at all (and it may not be), it is about Donald Trump taking a victory lap
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Hi! I'm never on here anymore. - sorry! But yes! I loved your book. Are you on substack by chance?
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is the wierdest thing I could write but I have mad respect for Michelle Obama and Karen Pence right now. They are being true to themselves. More of this please.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
9yo daughter walked in and said: Mom! Is tik tock being banned???? Me: yes, babe. 9yo: But mom! I have a CAREER on there! People, she has 20 videos all set to private.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I wrote a little thing about why you should spend this holiday with your Trump lovin' Uncle Bob (or your devoutly liberal cousin Judy) and why connection matters. Shout out to @podsaveamerica.bsky.social + @MGPforCongress for the inspo. kimfoster.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...?
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Why You Should Spend the Holidays with Your Trump-Lovin' Uncle Bob.
Or Your Lib Cousin Judy. And when you do: Ask the same questions, multiple ways.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Oh my, thank you so much for saying that, Tami. xo Kim
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thanks Tami!
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Tami Belt @tamibelt.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Another great post from @kiminthewest.bsky.social. This resonates in many ways as I reflect on groups & gatherings I used to host & attend, traditions passed & transformed & friends who have traveled through chapters and those who remain, both familiar and evolved. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Our Collective Loneliness.
Will we be forever changed by the pandemic? Or is this the latest part of a grief cycle?
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I was talking to my husband + telling him I didn't get "Hot Frosty" + couldn't suspend belief about snowman love. And my 9yo heard us + pipes up: I love Hot Frosty!!! Clearly I do not have my finger on the pulse.
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Geoff Carter @mostlywrite.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Also: it assumes that I'm online because I have to be; that I've a civic responsibility to expose myself to bad-faith arguments, name-calling and willful ignorance. I don't; I really don't. I'm just here for the ideas and, really, the diminishing quantity ot dopamine
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Dickensheets @dickensheets.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My pal @kiminthewest.bsky.social Stacks some Sub this week on the topic of post-pandemic sociability fatigue, loneliness, and leaning into your agoraphobia as you age -- fewer freestyle dinner parties, more time with select friends and fam. (Includes research.) open.substack.com/pub/kimfoste...
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Our Collective Loneliness.
Will we be forever changed by the pandemic? Or is this the latest part of a grief cycle?
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
There hasn't been a crime against women for them to react to. They are "afraid" that transwomen might hurt women in bathrooms. I'd prefer my daughters have to pee around a transwoman, than be clothed in a room with Gaetz, Trump or Hegseth, who actually have hurt women. How is this a position?
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Scott! Thanks for the plug. I feel this one deeply. :)
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Listening to true crime while prepping dinner. I've decided that if one of my friends doesn't return my texts, I'm probably not the one who will call the police. I'd be more like, "They are just busy. Stop stalking her, she'll call when she gets a chance." While my friend bleeds out on the floor.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thank you! I live in a legal state and defintely take edibles at night to sleep (menopuase) but I need to know more about mirco-dosing, if it gets to that. Thanks for the reminder!
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yes. We know this is all probably true. But we pretty much accept that men do this + bc men in power often do this, even w/kids, we have to assume that this w/not be a deal breaker bc we simply do not care that men do this kind of awful shit to women/children all the time. There. I said it.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So I might be having a rheumatoid arthititis flare up. And in pursuit of some pain relief, I had my husband get me a topical tylenol cream. I just used it and I now officially smell like old people.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I believe this is a thing.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm so bummed!!!! I wanted to be there so badly.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Was so bummed to miss this. I love his work around savirorism. How did it go?
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Ah! Menopause! I get it. LOL.
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Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I took this photo a number of years ago and I have absolutely NO IDEA WHY.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
its very cool.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One of the thigs i love most is the intricate complexity between humans when they are trying to get it right. This Thanksgiving Modern Love form last year, hits perfeclty. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/s...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
All of this.
Tweet that says if your concern with trans women is that men might claim to self-ID as trans to gain access to women’s spaces and assault them, then your problem is actually with predatory men and not trans women.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For New #Bluesky users, I just found the thing that will keep me here.... Deck.Blue. If you are missing tweedeck, this is going to make your day.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
There is a real push to have #PlannedParenthood defunded in the next admin. My adult daughter was able to get an expensive birth control injection for $20 because of taxpayer subsidy. She is not in a position to be a parent, and that shot is going to prevent an abortion. PP must be saved.
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Ben Schu @benschu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Whenever anyone tries to tell you Trump won in a “landslide” or has a “mandate,” tell them that Trump has the slimmest popular vote margin since Nixon in 1968, and votes are still being counted.
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Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I mean, I get this. If my husband wasn't around, I'd have 30 more chickens than I do. LOL. Guardrails, people.
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