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krm

@kmcn13.bsky.social

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Prof Emeritus of Lit and American Studies Editor, The City in American Lit and Culture, Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature, Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles, Author, Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of the American City

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Michael McKeon @grinch67.bsky.social · 6h

U.S. Military Archbishop Orders Catholic Troops Not to Take Part in Hegseth’s Firing Squad open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

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U.S. Military Archbishop Orders Catholic Troops Not to Take Part in Hegseth’s Firing Squad

Hours after meeting Pope Leo XIV, the military archbishop bound Catholic soldiers as he would on abortion. The conservative prelate has spent the year defending Catholics against the Trump-Vance Penta...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“These include a trip to a small town in Hawaii months before his family’s blind trust bought land there; 24 trips to Utah, where the trust owns five properties; and 53 trips to Florida, where Paxton and the trust have two houses and a townhome.”

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stpauldeb.bsky.social @stpauldeb.bsky.social · 20h

Staggering corruption.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump National DC

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kentuckification of the US or is it Kenfuckitation

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Rainey Bethea - Wikipedia

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thesis: The NYTimes has adopted the apocryphal weave as its strategy of covering [for] Trump. In this way, they are able to report everything without suggesting anything.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Somebody was asking me tonight: Why can't Dems ever get their act together? Me (approx): Yes, sure. But can you remember a stronger slate than Dems are putting up in big races right now? Cooper? Ossoff + Bottoms? Talarico + Hinojosa? Turek + Sand? Benson + El-Sayed? Brown + Acton? Hamilton? Etc

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The ads write themselves. No more farm aid, rural health and tech aid, cut SS and Medicare. Protect them billionaires.

texastribune.org

Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio

In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some academics, anyway. Even were I not emeritus, I don't think I could, thanks. The problem, of course, is that the very people one would wish wouldn't watch will, and learn a lesson glorifying violence.

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A number of late-night comedians would like to diosagree

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They'll get a better education where they won't be asked to perform above their abilities. Isn't that what they used to say?

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Didn't even last 24H

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who's dumb enough to believe it?

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

but he'd not object at all. He hates LA.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fitting, I suppose. A British journalist who posted about the new wave of repression against LGBTs was also blocked.

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Turkey orders at least 88 X accounts blocked, including freedom of expression group - Turkish Minute

Turkish authorities ordered access blocked to at least 88 X accounts in the early morning hours of October 5, including the official X account of the Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD), days aft...

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The legend next to the red rectangle reads: Areas with potential plague natural foci based on historical data and current information

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bio weapons

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Keep the defense contracts while reneging on Article 5.

phillipspobrien.substack.com

Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe

And Why It Could Work

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When foreign invaders occupy part of your country and turn your children, in their own schools, into soldiers trained to come back and kill the rest of you once they grow up, it’s… it’s just unspeakable evil. It is unfathomable tragedy for Ukraine.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's right about that. If he were a better liar people would believe it.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Midwest

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"When an employee raised concerns about whether the N.S.F. would continue supporting basic research, an official responded that 'we’re transitioning.'” I thot this administration was against transitioning!?

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Absolute must read journey into the nationwide surveillance network tracking your travels.

houstonchronicle.com

Texas driver wins $1 per minute he was wrongfully detained by Bexar deputies

Jury rules in favor of driver in a case that uncovered unsettling facts about how a vast and secretive network is being used to track people across Texas.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Keith Las discussed the former on here. As for the latter, they have 2 starters and they pitched Saturday and Sunday. Lambert went a couple innings Sunday on his bullpen day.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dead bodies lie on the streets of Kyiv once again, and a market is on fire after another russian terrorist attack. Russia isn't shy to kill Ukrainians in broad daylight, during busy evenings, or burn us in our beds at night. They are openly terrorizing us every single day now.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So he is one of them, then.

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Your Tax Dollars at Twerk

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Indivisible Houston ❌ 👑 @indivisiblehouston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Harris County TX early voting locations (so far). appfiles.harrisvotes.com/harrisvotes/...

appfiles.harrisvotes.com

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know we went to AMNH, probably went at least to the Met.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cropped like this, it's full on Gothic.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just watch the damned videos. Jeez.

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I want a late-19/early-20 C novelist to write that scene. It doesn't look political. Moe like how I imagine the hotel scene if Daisy really were leaving with Jay.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Steampunk AI. Love it.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And I swear off baseball.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My NYC public school.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't recall if I was in middle school or grade school, or which opera it was, but as a NYC public school kid in the 60s-70s, my class went to the opera. My school also had a visit from Dr. Billy Taylor (was he Dr. yet?) and the Jazzmobile. Oh, the places we went.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UPS? Fucking brilliant.

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How the fuck do you use UPS and expect it to go to the right address!?!?!?!?!

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Tens of thousands of voter registration applications, some dating back at least a year, are caught in a backlog and have yet to be processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the leader of an association of county election officials said Wednesday."

texastribune.org

After Texas DPS neglected tens of thousands of voter applications, Democrats demand an investigation - The Texas Tribune

The number of unprocessed applications continues to grow. Texas Democrats, locked in tight races in November, want Gov. Greg Abbott to probe the failure.

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

almost 900,000.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kentucky State player from Senegal in ICE custody since August. Taken as she flew in for an HCBU tournament.

Kentucky State player from Senegal in ICE custody since August

Aminata Seck, who is from Senegal, is in the U.S. on a student visa and was detained Aug. 7 at Louisville's airport as she was planning to travel with her team, her attorney said.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That makes me happy

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fly the Texas flag at half-staff.

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's about damn time. I've taught on the Ramsey Unit when the a/c was out in the ed. building.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good luck with that. He was an absolute Trump sycophant.

krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will they refund the payments? (Don't answer.)

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sale, you say? FTA: "The U.S. provides Israel a base line of $3.8 billion a year in military assistance, including $3.3 billion in financing that Israel largely uses to purchase American weapons, which includes the latest sale of bombs."

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krm @kmcn13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FTA: "The U.S. provides Israel a base line of $3.8 billion a year in military assistance, including $3.3 billion in financing that Israel largely uses to purchase American weapons, which includes the latest sale of bombs."

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