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@kmbates.bsky.social
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Retired International business woman. Now a volunteer political organizer. I am interested in science, facts truth and ethics. I’m in the fight to save our democracy. I support Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Isn’t there an oath that Federal employees take? If they don’t resist enemies of the constitution foreign or domestic - have they not violated their oath and at least become an enabler or coconspiritor?
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Impeach and convict him.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Christa Pike was first sexually abused when she was just two years old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We live in a time of parables, and the lesson in this man’s is that the suffering we are responsible for is much closer to us than we would like to believe. And that our obligations to our neighbor must therefore be held even closer.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Senate results rightly got a lot of attention, but these gubernatorial polls from NYT-Siena are just as stark. Hinojosa by 3! Sand by 11!! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Democrats Lead Governor Races Deep in Republican Territory, Polls Show
Democratic advantages in the races for governor in Texas, Iowa, Ohio and Alaska reflect deep unhappiness with President Trump and the economy. A Republican leads in Kansas.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣ ⁣ Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How is this not the equivalent of Hitlers concentration camps? This is being done in our name. Anyone not actively resisting this -speaking out against it -is complicit. The new Congress must allow the ICC to try these crimes to be tried in a court for crimes against humanity.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hi hair must be a mess or he’s having trouble staying awake.
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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TEXAS: Being on a suspense list doesn't mean you can't vote, but it does mean more paperwork. Avoid the hassle by updating your address by OCT. 5 to keep things simple at the polls. It only takes 2 minutes. Spread the word to a friend. ✊ #LetsGetVoteReady
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can we trust them?
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack Mullock is a mayor and father of three who cares deeply about the future of South Jersey and will work with me to uplift our communities in this part of the state, and his race was just upgraded to be a “district in play”! (1/2)
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has named New York State Attorney General Letitia James to serve as special prosecutor to investigate the Cornell rape case.
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The unintended but completely imaginable consequences of an ill advised “excursion” with Iran.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Since Nixon is back in the news: --Congress almost forced gov shutdown to end his illegal bombing of Cambodia --Congress enacted 1973 War Powers Resolution in large part b/c of illegal bombing of Cambodia --One of the proposed articles of impeachment pertained to his illegal bombing of Cambodia
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Renée Good’s family filed two federal lawsuits, with one accusing the US of being liable for the actions of federal agents, alleging wrongful death and excessive force. The second alleges a conspiracy to interfere with civil rights, naming ICE agent Jonathan Ross and Greg Bovino among others.
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They called her a domestic terrorist. Now Renée Good’s family is suing.
The family alleges wrongful death and deprivation of civil rights.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The three banks have paid a combined $512.5 million in settlements with Epstein survivors and the US Virgin Islands. The question remains, what did the Epstein-linked banker tell the FBI, and why wasn’t that interview report in the files released to the public? #OpDeathEaters
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This woman needs and deserves the support of all of us. Many college women are victims of assaults. It’s a dirty secret that needs daylight!
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every state should allow this
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey @abigailspanberger.com let’s do this in Virginia too!
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One would think the God fearing Tennessee Republicans and US Supreme Court Justices would take this as a clear message from God that he is not going to tolerate their evil.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 25/11/2025
“General Dostler justified his action by contending that he was merely obeying Hitler’s Commando Order…General Dostler was condemned to death by the U.S. military tribunal in Rome on October 12, 1945.” -Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 1539
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cornell may very soon be an all male university.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
US Rep AOC: “The culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is protected in elite institutions across the United States and including Cornell University” #OpDeathEaters
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Upton Sinclair remains undefeated
Upton Sinclair man/job quote
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Nightmarica @n1ghtmarica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senator Whitehouse launched ethics complaint against Justice Alito Covered by Lawrence O'Donnell Goes over Alito's recent sketchy shit in detail. Tune in to learn more about Alito's corruption. youtu.be/rt3d9RZtIgw?...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 29/09/2026
Every three months like clockwork, $40 billion rotates between two ETFs in a trade that lets foreign investors dodge US taxes
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A $40 Billion ETF Shuffle Helps Foreign Investors Dodge US Taxes
Every three months like clockwork, $40 billion rotates between two ETFs in a trade that lets foreign investors dodge US taxes
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ALSO LIVE AT 915 AM ET: Legal AF provides live coverage as the entire D.C. Circuit of Appeals hears En Banc Oral Argument  on Trump Administration’s Defiance of court order and CECOT deportations Under Alien Enemies Act. Join Popok for a hearing pregame! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_fb...
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LIVE: D.C Circuit Hears Major Case on Trump CRIMINAL CONTEMPT
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026
CNN, MS NOW, Politico ask judge to extend block on White House ban reut.rs/47oZHH6
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CNN, MS NOW, Politico ask judge to extend block on White House ban
CNN, MS NOW and Politico asked a federal judge late on Monday to ​issue a court order preserving their White House access ‌while they fight US President Donald Trump's move to ban them over coverage he dislikes.
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have been laughing so hard my husband took his CPAP off just so he could hear me read this to him. Great point ! And 🤣😂🤣😂
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think we lucked out a bit here in that a lot of what Trump does falls into the bucket of “so jaw-droppingly vulgar or corrupt that it’s not technically illegal because it was inconceivable that someone would attempt it.” Like why restaurants rarely post “no defecating on the tables” signs.
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Taking the emoluments that were not approved by Congress is not punishment - it is upholding the constitution.
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m not ok with this
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unsurprisingly, there are almost no Russian-made components in Russia's new Geran-4 drone. While Chinese parts surprise no one, how a Texas Instruments onboard computer got there is a major question. #cdnpoli
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Match me? New merch just dropped:
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Abdul for US Senate Webstore
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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kmbates.bsky.social @kmbates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are you a bot?
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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