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kjb

@kristijaybee.bsky.social
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Exhausted idealist, entering my crone era Here for: news, opposition, higher ed, info literacy, unraveled Christians, pop culture, laughs, whimsy my places: Spokane/PNW, Midwest, DC/MD, Ukraine 🇺🇦.

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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
That’s an awkward, nervous laugh. These guys hate being mocked. We should do it a lot more often.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Amid growing scandal after turning off Ukraine's Starshield satellite access, Btitish journalists berate Trump's moron Defense Secretary with jeers of "Putin's puppet" and "Putin playing you like a fiddle.
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The biggest mistake of the Biden administration was underestimating the threats we were facing. It is truly inconceivable when so many of us normies could see it so clearly.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
a lot of people warned this would happen when biden signed those huge contracts with starlink for the ukraine war, the US military more broadly, and rural US internet expansion. he ignored those repeated warnings throughout his entire presidency. foolishness
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is what I want to see more of. Dems will *often* move on, so they can sell something to viewers/listeners. That's fine in normal times. Abnormal times call for Dems to lean into Republican humiliation, make *them* the story, bear down on them, crush their good standing in the public.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
he is not giving this up lol
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is infuriating to me that Supreme Court judges never have to defend their positions to regular people and news media. They exist and rule in a bubble and are never directly challenged about the effects of their rulings outside of the tightly controlled courtroom.
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine if they had done this ten years ago
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/09/2026
Quite frankly, I think all of you who believe the Democrats shouldn’t hammer the GOP on letting actual sci-fi super-villain Elon Musk mass-murder vast numbers of children because “Americans don’t care about that” are suffering from a dire lack of marketing and sales imagination.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Have any Dems really gone hard on the USAID death toll? It’s one of those stories I’d bet a lot of people don’t even know yet.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
CDC’s 9/11 world trade center health program was one of the first things this regime purged. just something to remember when republicans get really into the performative nationalism this week
abcnews.com
New York Republicans scold Trump for CDC cuts that affect 9/11 responders
Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Erika Kirk recently gave a speech when she said a wife without her husband is "shattered and useless." Gross, but also nonsensical. If she's "shattered and useless," why is she giving speeches? Read more to understand why Erika Kirk failed. www.salon.com/2026/09/08/w...
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School
What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🤯🧵👇
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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Today at @Alphaschool, my team proved that we are smarter than 85% of Harvard students by climbing Mount Everest with 4 other students." Convincing children they're super special and much better than other people is the easiest task in the world, and perhaps the most dangerous.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/09/2026
Americans Celebrate 10 Millionth ‘Bring Yourself To Work Day theonion.com/americans-celebrate-10…
Americans Celebrate 10 Millionth ‘Bring Yourself To Work Day
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
origin story in the terminator prequel is not as compelling as i thought it would be
Highlight
Sarah O'Connor: Al is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at work
1h ago
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/09/2026
Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This adorable video of a bat swimming to a guy’s hand was posted on Reddit a few days ago and immediately horrified all the Americans while people from the UK and New Zealand etc said their bats were safe. www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
reddit.com
🔥 swimming bat
Explore this post and more from the NatureIsFuckingLit community
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/08/2026
This is framed as though it's a subversion of the tech but this is what the glasses are for
futurism.com
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ugh. So tired of this era of absolute idiots being put forward for elections just because they have some notoriety. Bring back competence requirements.
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It wasn’t just the 9/11 planes. Those were quickly followed up by the anthrax attacks on news organizations, then the beheadings (Daniel Pearl was huge and horrific news) on video on the new-ish internet where everyone can see them, and then the show bomber that made the world feel scary.
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Rabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's painful to hear the GOP trash Dr. Fauci. He was sanity & light in the darkness during COVID. The CDC now in shambles, thanks to the GOP; children are dying of measles, ppl infected with Cyclospora, we are at war - they hold all 3 branches -- and THIS is how they spend their time? Disgusting.
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Thank you for sharing this thoughtful and hopeful post.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ok so #FollowFriday recs of some brilliant people who should be way bigger on here. I’ll probably try and theme these each week. This time, religion. @hollybfletcher.bsky.social, @bradleyonishi.bsky.social, & @angeladenker.bsky.social for brilliant analysis of Christian nationalism
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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“The one who frightens Englishmen"--engla ǿgir--is a title given to a Norwegian king in a skaldic poem from the mid-1000s, around the last time England and Norway faced off.
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I will join you 🇳🇴
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Can’t wait to be rid of him
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
He thinks he looks manly but he is not even holding them right which is why they could bite him.
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
She died doing what she loved, entering the code displayed in her authenticator app
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Now I want that to be the actual pronunciation of “vague”. It’s way more satisfying.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
You cannot rewoke once you've unwoked. Do not make the fatal first mistake.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Every basin has below-normal snowpack. Some have melted out almost entirely. That's not unheard of for low elevations in mid-March, but what highly unusual is the lack of snow at middle and high elevations across such a broad region. Winters like are becoming increasingly common.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 17/03/2026
Pete Hegseth is just as, if not more, fanatical than the Iranian mullahs he rails against.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Good story from Vox on falling numbers of new and competitive renewal R01 grants. [Gift Link] www.vox.com/future-perfe... 1/5
vox.com
The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else
Revealed in one chart.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/03/2026
hey if you're sometimes feeling paralyzed because of the horrors and want to find something to DO to help make things better, here are some good accounts to follow go.bsky.app/9H3C9Ty
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Arrest quotas Palantir selected “targets” No warrants Random detainments Despicable
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
What monster at the College Board decided that tests for teenagers—which they often have to travel an hour or more to get to—should be held at 8 am? This person or persons is seriously a sadist.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A more honest and accurate headline would be: "Trump assured massive profits to fuel Putin's war on Europe while simultaneously paying off oil execs who bankrolled his campaign."
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is so wildly ridiculous and most likely true
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I remember feeling sick over the “cultural cleansing” in Iraq when ISIS destroyed priceless archaeological sites and historical artifacts. I couldn’t understand a country just giving extremists free rein to annihilate the things that it had built and preserved over centuries. Well, well, well
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I miss functional-twitter, back when it was the best place to get breaking news from journalists updating in real time. That’s just not a gap that has been filled by Bluesky or Threads
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Yes. I was just missing it again this morning after we had a big windstorm here tonight. Neither place has captured the usefulness that made it a target for destruction.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"we stole all human art and knowledge and now we're going to sell it back to you"
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov No more funding for Palantir and tax the hell out of them
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