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K (she/her/dr)

@kkinsf.bsky.social
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Leftist Dem who curses often, likes politics (less nowadays), the Warriors, & the Valkyries, appreciates alt text. Anti-ICE. Terfs GFY. Not your therapist. She/her

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1h
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The experiment has been run. In Quebec low cost daycare resulting in tens of thousands of additional women joining the workforce. The increase in taxes to both provincial and federal governments were more than the cost of the subsidy.
ippr.org
Lessons from Quebec's universal low-fee childcare programme | IPPR
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026
i think we are going to learn that there are a number of people in and around this admin who committed no shit, capital T treason and there will be strong incentives for the DOJ to prosecute them
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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K (she/her/dr) @kkinsf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I learned today that the London daily is AI slop. They stole this story from real journalists and photographers and posted it as their own 6 years later without credit. Please don't boost this one. You can find the real story with attribution and post that.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 23/09/2026
LAPD cops working for ICE contractors off duty — while the department fights to keep its moonlighting records hidden. That is the accusation now being leveled directly at LAPD leadership after a judge ordered the records turned over.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 22/09/2026
you sided with Trump TODAY to force through the Paramount-WBD merger which effectively makes CNN and CBS state-run TV!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
David Plouffe, a Coinbase adviser, is on MS NOW the same day that the Fairshake super PAC it bankrolls announces it will spend $30M vs. Sherrod Brown in #OHSen. Last year, Sen. Tim Scott publicly thanked crypto industry "for getting rid of Sherrod Brown." Brown had called for consumer protections.
Screenshot of David Plouffe on MS NOW (09-21-26)
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
Andrew Wakefield was stripped of his medical license over a fraudulent, now-retracted study that falsely claimed a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.
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RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the CDC director needs to resign.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The thing that's really bothering me about all this is that Talarico has a genuinely impressive track record on trans rights! The impulse that treats "very good, but not quite perfect" as though it were abject evil is such a poison
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 ANOTHER WORLD WAS POSSIBLE We could have responded by putting the terrorists on trial—as the overwhelming majority of our NATO allies’ population (and the rest of the world) wanted. Instead, we responded with war—just what the terrorists wanted. It made them warriors, not criminals.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If transphobes cared about women's sports they wouldn't ally with people trying to wreck the WNBA and dismantle Title IX. In any given year, there are more Oscar winners than trans women in the NCAA. Nobody genuinely thinks they're a threat, the whole purpose is to erase trans people everywhere.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026
I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(CW: the Missouri Supremes are PISSED at the executive branch for fucking around with people’s voting rights)
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Renée the Wicked Witch of Woke ✨️ 🇺🇦 ♿️ 🖇 @reneeincarnation.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Exhibit #1 billion and 1.9 million of why mark zuckerberg is a hideous monstrosity. He says it's ok to publish ads of ai generated child sexual abuse because it's not in San Francisco. Wtf are we doing here?
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: The San Francisco City Attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist telling it to stop publishing ads with AI-generated child sexual abuse. The letter asks Meta why the same ads keep running. Meta says the ads didn’t run in San Francisco and they are outside the city attorney's jurisdiction
wired.com
San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the reporting on Netanyahu ignoring explicit warnings of a Hamas attack days before Oct 7th, to confirmation that Netanyahu rejected a Hamas offer to release civilian hostages right after Oct 7th, without conditions, this Haaretz piece is astonishing: archive.ph/Z4lXx
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
WIRED spoke with the Anthropic engineer who very loudly quit over concerns about runaway AI. He thinks humanity has a “couple of years” to prepare. from @mzeff.bsky.social
wired.com
The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A hallmark of MAGA politics is that "we" are "winning" if "they" are "losing." But the world-historical failures of Trumpism, particularly his trade wars, are totally discrediting zero-sum economics and getting people to give positive-sum relationships a second look: newrepublic.com/article/2151...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
But is it popular? No. But is it legal? No. But is it good for the economy? Also, no. Again, I eagerly await the Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias & the NYT Editorial Board about why this is disastrous for a party denying reality, ignoring Real Folkz, & not "offering moderate, unifying solutions" 🤔🧐🦗
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The president ordering USPS to illegally throw out millions of ballots is at least on par with what he tried to do for 2020, and in big ways it's worse. It's another attempted self-coup, trying to create a fake Congress. That he's even attempting it is already a deadly serious constitutional crisis.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/09/2026
Again, if you agree with all these protestors, email and call Mount Sinai and tell them what you think about their deal to Trump's DOJ. MSHPatientRelations@mountsinai.org 212-659-8990
Protestors at the rally. Cop in the foreground, his back to us.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Another high profile resignation from leading AI company Anthropic. This is the warning to the world he wrote this evening on Twitter. "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A huge, unexpected twist in Missouri as a federal judge intervenes to overrule the Missouri Supreme Court despite Kavanaugh's decision to not take up the matter. Suddenly a lot of uncertainty, again.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s a grossly harmful worldview that has no relationship to the scientific consensus on the drivers of chronic disease. America’s disease burden (which is falling btw) is mostly a function of income and healthcare inequality, not the refusal of Americans to eat beef tallow.
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He had two guns and a taser on him — bad enough that the police are misdemeanor assault, but NYT “charging towards” ?! Seems like a foiled assassination attempt to me!
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Armed Man
Arrested After Charging Toward
Democratic Candidate for Ohio Governor
The authorities are charging the man, who they said did not draw his weapons, with misdemeanor assault.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe.
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1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026
I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Olivia Rodrigo is 23 years old and she’s doing more to vocally (and monetarily) support abortion rights and make progressive political engagement cool among her demographic than a lot of elected officials triple her age. Adore her!
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K (she/her/dr) @kkinsf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Needs more pigeon (or "pidgin") content.
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Brendan Gutenschwager @bgonthescene.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
DHS used a secretive summons to attempt to get information associated with my YouTube account without any notice to me. This is not ok. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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