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@kmwoods.bsky.social
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Retired historian, author, teacher, veteran, and very concerned citizen. “Tis the time's plague, when madmen lead the blind”

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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 23h
Karl Rove on Fox arguing the WH has a ‘focus’ problem epitomizes the insanity of the GOP. “We don’t want to hear about…the great Triumphal Arch and …drones and snipers and a whole bunch of sniper ammunition. But who are those snipers going to shoot? People driving down the parkway?” #Blue #WTF
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
popping this up on top of your feed because it's a seriously fucking great read and call-to-action
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The original post is correct in terms of Xi’s likely reaction. The gloating over such a juvenile scar on our nation tells me that Trump seeks Xi’s approval. Trump is the tough-kid wannabe trying desperately to get a nod from his idea of the tough kid on the block. #unamerican #voteblue #nokings
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump @ the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas: “I want for myself a Congressional Medal of Honor...I will give it to myself. I have no problem, but I’m not allowed to.” “Can you believe it? The one thing I’m not allowed to do.” Trump dishonors us all. #VoteVets #Blue
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
apnews.com/article/trum... He is proposing to illegally give us money to vote for 2 more years of unfettered moral, economic, and geopolitical collapse. All so he can enrich himself and the rest of the Epstein Class. This toxic brew of ‘state capture’ and public ignorance is how we collapse.
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Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins
President Donald Trump says he plans to give every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Never forget that we have the power to change our lives. VOTE
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just brushing up on my Criminal Code - any good examples out there where a politician explicitly offers to make an expenditure in exchange for a vote? Recent examples are most welcome... #NoKings #ImpeachRemoveConvict #VoteBlue #TruthMatters
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Congratulations, Mr. Trump, on a near-perfect authoritarian quote.
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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump weakened election-security agencies, then laid the groundwork to call any loss rigged. He doesn’t need proof. He needs confusion, fear, & corrupt Republicans repeating the lie. Your vote counts. Don’t let Trump turn his sore-loser routine into a power grab. #CostOfCorruption
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Calgacus @armstrong2025.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anymore Questions?
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What could go wrong? Give someone unlimited pardon power, a presumption of immunity that would make Henry the VIII blush, and an expanded definition of executive privilege that can be used shield non-governmental co-conspirators. #VoteBlue #ReadThinkVote #NoKings
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The German word for where we are is "Führungsversagen"- the direct structural collapse caused by bad leadership. A situation where a leader's inability to manage allows negative trends to compound and spiral out of control. www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-seri...
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Threats to US global leadership are mounting: fiscally, militarily, and with allies
Rising national debt, the ongoing war in Iran, and the trade dispute with Canada are testing the United States’ global leadership.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Read-Think-Vote. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country”
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The warnings have been there for decades - Borstien’s Pseudo-Events to Postman’s Entertaining Ourselves to Death, etc. As the Trump era makes clear, we are no longer an ‘educated and informed public’ but a delusional an easily manipulated one. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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The death of reading puts the world in a perilous place
Books and newspapers are increasingly giving way to social media content as the habit of reading fades. This isn’t just dumbing down, it’s a threat to democracy
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Strategic failure comes in many forms - among the most dangerous is a Pyrric tactical victory against a 3rd rate military power which leaves one strategically exposed to 1st rate military threats. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/iran-lost-...
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Iran lost its navy. America lost the sea.
There is a clinical and bloodless phrase the United States Navy uses to deliver an ice-cold verdict about failure: loss of confidence.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
History matters - especially now!
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Strategic drift, an inability to rationalize strategy and resources, a Congress asleep at the Constitution, and a credulous public are the rot. Trump is the opportunistic pest. We are approaching the “gradually then all at once” moment & storms are coming. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-putini...
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The Putinization of the American Military
When poseurs and yes-men run a war
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Conspiracy to defraud in plain sight. DoJ will rescind the recision at a later date and the so-called ‘IRS settlement’ amounts to a Presidential self-pardon. bsky.app/profile/meid...
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In 1905, one of NYC's most colorful and unscrupulous politicians (G.W. Plunkitt) differentiated between what he called "honest graft and dishonest graft." Seems another son of NYC (and more than a few members of Congress) has taken this age-old racket to new heights of ignominy. READ-THINK-VOTE
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every damn word. Great rebuttal in both substance and tone!
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Full-on North Korea. POTUS spins warmed over lies about 2020 election to a room full of people that know he is lying (again) but cheer the Dear Leader nonetheless.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I see future State and Federal legislation along the lines of the 2021 'Naming Commission.' e.g.; "remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate Donald Trump or any person who served voluntarily with his corrupt administration from all assets..."
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The original No Kings day. Credit: chappatte.com
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The T. Roosevelt administration fought Gilded Age govt and corporate corruption, instituted consumer protection laws, and created a merit-based civil service system...in these and so many more ways - the polar opposite of Donald the Grifter and his cabinet of vultures. bsky.app/profile/pbsn...
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
More news of Trump’s impeachable corruption and graft is glaring proof of a system-wide failure. This is not an Administration - it is a Wake of Vultures feeding on our Republic. In other news, have you heard about the 'threat' posed by a handful of DSA candidates?
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Never underestimate the staying power of willful ignorance and bigotry.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It is more than his governing philosophy - it is him. He is a fraud and a conman - always has been. As more and more of the cheap façade falls away we will see much worse than algae come to the surface…
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Great collection. Honored to have contributed a chapter.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The national humiliations just keep coming. America's Nero now has his gladiator pit...he can even deliver the pollice verso from the comfort of the WH balcony. Shame...
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We are a nation at serious risk. "Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him by ours..." We are distracted by trivia; cultural life is perpetual entertainment, serious public conversation is a form of baby talk, and the public's business is a vaudeville act. (Neil Postman, 1985)
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Sadly, Alabama is celebrating' Jefferson Davis' birthday for the 126th time (but never Juneteenth). Since the Davis political mold holds true for the current occupant of the White House, can another rebranding be in the offing - 'Trump-Davis' day? alabamareflector.com/2024/06/03/t...
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
State offices in Alabama are closed today in observance of Confederate president Jefferson Davis's birthday. I have some thoughts. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Alabama Closes Its Offices For Jefferson Davis
In the year we celebrate 250 years of freedom, Alabama is still honoring the man who fought to end it.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence." Thomas Jefferson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Sure looks like Xi is getting exactly what he wants. And what is Trump getting? Nothing, apparently. What brilliant negotiating.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
An addendum to Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund says the IRS is “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” from pursuing “examinations” of Trump, “related or affiliated individuals,” and related trusts and businesses. This is shockingly and unbelievably corrupt - even for Trump. No Kings!
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/05/2026
When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.” ― Robert Green Ingersoll
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's not complicated. It is still an ongoing war. - A blockade is a belligerent operation (i.e., an ongoing act of war) - a cease-fire ≠ a war termination - The Iranians get a vote "...they call it a war, I call it a military conflict,” Trump said. “But there’s a legal reason for that.” (3/28)
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So…are the sellers of ‘8646’ shirts on Amazon, Etsy, and MAGA sites (and the buyers) being investigated? WTF!
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Can't help but see the parallels between MAGA and the old South. I will give them credit for one innovation -- the Orwellian effort (see DoJ shenanigans and Jan 6 rewrite) to craft a new Lost-Cause myth before the movement is even on history's ash heap. bsky.app/profile/civi...
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Rereading AMB John Limbert's monograph "Negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran" (USIP, 2009), and wondering if Trump's Three Stooges have any clue... #IranWar #NoKings #AlliesMatter #NotaGame www.usip.org/sites/defaul...
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Last night -- would the US commit genocide or simply large-scale war crimes? Today, we are debating whether Iran's cease-fire framework is a complete or just partial US capitulation. Regardless, it has all been a human tragedy, strategic waste, and a long-term disaster. #IranWar #NoKings
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The gross hypocrisy of the so-called Christian community this Easter. - Trump “Open the Fuckin’ Strait” or “You’ll Be Living in Hell” and yet they still see him as Christ-like. - Franklin ‘MAGA’ Graham’s 60 Minutes prayer. A clear, but unintentional, condemnation of Trump’s entire agenda.
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is the epitome of Trump's strategic and economic approach to world affairs. The cavalier ignorance is actually breathtaking. Geopolitical vandalism with generational implications. #ThinkNationalActLocal #VoteBlue #Impeach47
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KMW @kmwoods.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The fact that they said these things is NOT a defense SecDef - "...no quarter, no mercy for our enemies," POTUS - We will blow up "...all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalination plants!)...in retribution..." Follow your oaths!
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