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Kathleen Clarkson

@kmclarkson.bsky.social
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helicopter mom without a pilot, travel enthusiast, stealth nerd, amateur gardener, peripatetic by nature, therapist by trade. Doing my small part to fight the MAGA of it all.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
After the GOP spent $88 million in the most expensive primary in history to boost John Cornyn, Trump endorsed the corrupt, biblically divorced adulterer Ken Paxton. The result: James Talarico shot up 7 points in the prediction markets. www.thedailybeast.com//donald-trum...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/05/2026
Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits ft.trib.al/ePJ9DiF
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Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits
Justice department deal comes day after government set up $1.8bn fund to pay president’s allies hit by alleged ‘lawfare’
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/05/2026
Massie, and Cassidy, will now enter the land of freedom to do what you want. It’s a wonderful land of milk and honey. And telling Trump to eat balls is the best part of it
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Go get ‘em, Rep. Massie.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The fight between the expansion and restriction of liberty has always raged in America. The side that has embraced freedom is the one that has always won in the end, despite setbacks, hardships and great injustice at the hands of the causes rooted in the malignancy of the spirit of the Confederacy.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/04/2026
When a king says you’re too kingy
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
why don’t they make the whole airplane out of the ballroom
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The DOJ violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the daily. So I'm suing Todd Blanche. As a journalist, I cannot report accurately on the Epstein Files if I cannot even read them. I am represented by @brendanballou.bsky.social & we seek to hold the DOJ accountable for its noncompliance.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I love a hot mic conversation
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This might be worth another phone call, you guys. They're literally trying to poison us so some billionaires can make even more money.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
PS. Don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s not Trump’s dinner, nor is it his decision, to reschedule…
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/04/2026
We have to address the false equivalence being pushed right now. Criticizing an administration’s policy or warning against threats to democracy is the work of a healthy opposition. Calling political opponents evil or Satanic is the work of an accelerant. One is advocacy, the other is dehumanization.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.
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@JenniferJJacobs
The shooting happened on the level above the ballroom where the White House Correspondents Association dinner was. 
I don't think people hearing about this -- or even those of us in the room -- realized how far from the president, VP and other guests this incident was. It was on another floor, up some stairs and several sets of security away. 
Because the Washington Hilton's hotel and other public spaces were open for other functions, the entire building wasn't secured by the Secret Service, just the specific areas where the WHCA dinner was held, law enforcement officials told @CBSNews
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
It's almost as if none of them are taking this seriously either.
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Good Trouble @davidgoodtrouble.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I hate it when the Second Amendment ruins the First Amendment’s dinner!
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Right - but if I recall, the Secret Service did not even realize that Reagan had been hit until they had left the scene. They heard the shots and just reacted, clearly they were very well trained. I’m sure Trump’s lack of awareness and mobility makes the job more challenging!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/04/2026
See how scared he was when he thought it wasn’t staged?
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Oh, ok, now it makes sense!! 😉🤣🤦‍♀️
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The consistent absence of actual facts from the president’s briefings is, even in this horrifying moment, a tell. He just doesn’t know.
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
OMFG. It’s like a screenplay for a political thriller written by a 14 year old. Or AI. Or Trump. 🙄
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Garthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Our country celebrates violence as a means to resolve problems and glorifies guns as a form of resistance to tyranny. And then we act surprised when someone turns to gun violence to resolve their perceived issues. We have a problem. Follow for more cartoons.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years
Now deleted Twitter post from Debra Lea @thedebralea. It reads Shooter at WH Correspondence dinner. Shooter is dead. Thank you secret service.

Under it is a selfie of her making a kissy-face at the camera while everyone mills around with the energy of a minor fire alarm
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 26/04/2026
In my day, we called that hotel the Hinkley Hilton because it's where Reagan got shot.
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Oh, bless your sweet, hopeful and definitely not sarcastic heart! 😉
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
But maybe it’s a sign that we are not drinking the Kool-Aid like they hoped they would?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
🚨UPDATE: The latest credible reports say the WHCA shooting suspect is in custody, not confirmed dead. Reuters and The Washington Post report authorities apprehended the shooter after the incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Oh wow, I did not register that. Someone needs to write a “then and now” piece on this!
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Dead or alive/ apprehended seems like a pretty low bar. But this is where we are. The so-called journalists are being fed the narrative and discouraged from seeking the truth. They can’t even report what they see with their own eyes.
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I remember watching the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan as a kid and marveling at the skill, efficiency and bravery of the Secret Service. This hits SO different.
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Meagan @sfgiantsmeag.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Now they all know how children at school feel.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/04/2026
The White House Correspondents Dinner has been canceled per law enforcement.
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 26/04/2026
Too much unknown about tonight right now, but there’s this: barring world wars and 9/11, the Trump presidency has come with an unprecedented series of stressors.
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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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AntifaHahaha 💙 @nofascistforum.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU AGREE THIS IS TOTAL FUCKING, STAGED ATTENTION -GRABBING B.S. apple.news/ArfosVx7OTdC...
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Trump evacuated after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no sign of injuries — The Associated Press
President Donald Trump and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after an unspecified threat.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If they continue that WHCD and Felon Trump still speaks on that open stage after Secret Service shot and killed someone in the hotel lobby, there is something seriously wrong with these people.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
SCHRODINGER'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
apparently it was just Jeanine Pirro throwing chairs at the waiter who cut her off
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The owner of Coachella is a right-wing nationalist and gives lots of money to anti-LGBT organizations.
billboard.com
AEG Owner Phil Anschutz Is Still Donating to Causes Promoting Anti-LGBTQ Beliefs
AEG owner Philip Anschutz donated $1,020,000 to two organizations that made public statements against LGBTQ people -- Colorado Christian University and the Sky Ranch Christian camping organization.
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
#ProtestSign #resistance #resist #MayDay #NoKings #HandsOff #BlueWave #BlueWaveComing #Midterms
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💙 MaryH 💙 @maryh58.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Just a reminder that the Epstein Files were supposed to be released 124 days ago.
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Jason Kauzlarich @jasonkauz.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I was kind of hoping this was going to happen
Screencap from ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We need a Schoolhouse Rock 2.0, or a Schoolhouse Rock New Millennium, or something, ASAP. Schoolhouse Rap? Distance Learning Pop? Something!! 🤣
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Kathleen Clarkson @kmclarkson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
OMG yes, we need a 21st century Schoolhouse Rock 1 it could even be Schoolhouse Rap, whatevs!
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Schoolhouse Rock never prepared us for this shit.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/04/2026
If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Seeing a lot of hostility towards indie journalists who'd long heard rumors of Salwell's abuses but didn't report on them, & I'm sorry, but that's not how journalism works. This isn't sitting on a story for a book. You can't report w/o sources. You can't out victims who aren't ready to go on record.
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