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Kristin

@kristinceleste.bsky.social
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Currently traveling from Oregon to Arizona. Views my own. "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." -Edward Everett YouTube & blog: Highway to Hoeftland

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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026
A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured. n.pr/4xW1mPX
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State of U.S. democracy reaches new low, report finds
A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured.
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Trump’s Economic Record Doesn’t Come Close to His Campaign Promises
The president likes to boast about the “greatest economy we’ve ever had.” His record falls far short.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/08/2026
Hatred and exclusion of Americans due to their religion is illegal, anti-American, and disgusting. We will not be silent.
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Disconcerting
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE needs to: Be reformed ❌ Be trained ❌ Receive less or reduced funding ❌ Leave the state (because that means they will go to another state and commit the same sort of atrocities) ❌ Be completely defunded and abolished ✅
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The Iran war ended, as Trump had predicted in March, with a surrender. Unfortunately, it was a US surrender. But too many people seem to be learning the wrong lesson. The problem was not getting out of the war, but getting in. A gift link to my column: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
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Opinion | Trump Was Right. The War Ended With a Surrender.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Superb piece by @nickkristof.bsky.social “Trump’s assault on global health has left us in a worse position to combat Ebola” He: 1. Destroyed USAID—it had supported surveillance systems in the DRC 2. Withdrew the US from WHO 3. Tore up preparedness plans 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
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Opinion | This Is Why You Don’t Slash Humanitarian Aid
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Their ideas are so backward. 😔 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"More than 1.4 million Oregon residents — roughly one in three — receive coverage through the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program. It provides health coverage for more than half of the state’s children." oregonlive.com share.google/BNFR0thaokaf...
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Oregon Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather
Get the latest Oregon local news, sports, weather, entertainment and breaking updates on oregonlive.com
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"The bottom line is that pretty much everyone with an ACA plan is paying more." Steep drop in number of people with Affordable Care Act health coverage, analysis finds : NPR share.google/e6kcoTPLgeil...
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Steep drop in number of people with Affordable Care Act health coverage, analysis finds
Enrollment in Healthcare.gov and the other marketplaces is plunging by 5 million, the new paper from KFF finds. Last year, Congress failed to make a deal to keep the coverage more affordable.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Imagine being a billionaire in an unequal society where the system has been massively rigged in your favor, watching as ordinary people fall further and further behind and get more and more desperate, and thinking a slightly higher tax rate is the worst possible thing that might ever happen to you.
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
So freaking weird. Ugh. Revealing how he says "bad girl" and not "bad boy."
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anaïs Nin The Blue Door (1927) 🎨 Raymond Wintz
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is so sad and unjust. "The investigation also underlined what other reports and security analysts have concluded: that the strikes have not reduced the flow of drugs to the US, but have instead torn apart communities already fractured and weakened by organised crime and state neglect."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Insane in the membrane. Insane in the brain. 🧠
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"Travel works because it is event-boundary-dense by design. Every new street, new meal, and new language barrier is something the brain has to encode rather than skim." Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by... share.google/qECVSFgRZXBA...
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Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by fewer temporal landmarks — the small disruptions to routine that give the brain something worth remembering
Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Together, these historical analogies suggest U.S. stock markets can keep the music playing for a few more months — perhaps longer if buoyed by continued euphoria over artificial intelligence-related stocks — but it will stop eventually."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"A system in which political parties can rewrite the rules to keep themselves in power indefinitely — a system in which, barring a tsunami of opposition, they cannot lose — is not a democracy in any meaningful sense." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...
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Opinion | This Is Getting Dangerous
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"...he increased the minimum wage by 61 percent..."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"The best time to develop a vaccine against a dangerous virus is before that virus becomes a global emergency." www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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A New Hantavirus Vaccine Is in the Works
Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn't likely coming any time soon.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
America is full of really good people. Dr. Steve Kornfeld, a retired oncologist from Oregon, stepped in to care for fellow passengers suspected of having hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship when the ship’s doctor became incapacitated.
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What Happened on the Hantavirus Cruise, According to a Doctor on Board
A passenger helped manage the outbreak after the ship’s doctor on the MV Hondius fell ill.
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Some will celebrate this as a victory for a “colorblind” constitution. But ignoring racial discrimination does not make it go away; you cannot cure a disease by refusing to diagnose it."
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 27/04/2026
Who is responsible for the dramatic increase in violence and dehumanizing rhetoric in American politics since Donald Trump started running for president in June 2015? Who could it be? It really is a mystery.
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"St. Clair estimated that 99 percent of the largest right-wing influencers are compensated in some form."
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CNN @cnn.com · 21/04/2026
Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. cnn.it/3Ovxzwk
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ah you mean religious dogma shouldn’t dictate public policy? Interesting interesting
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Love seeing conservatives argue for separation between church and state but only when religious doctrine conflicts with blowing people up
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Reader, Iran was not: 1) close to having a nuclear weapon 2) Posing an imminent threat to the US
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Bluesky is funny tonight 😃
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
😆😆😆 💯
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I like the "Rebel Alliance"
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
"Many initiatives that we treat as American, such as Project 2025, are based largely on Hungarian models."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It's amazing how nature can reduce stress. I feel my body relaxing on these hikes and feel grateful for the experience. 🏞 #simplepleasures
Colorful yellow plant, green trees, and trail with clouds and blue sky overhead. A trail with trees and green shrubs blooming in spring. A river and large boulders. A wooded trail passes by the river.
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Positive things the government can do. 🌚🪂 "We sent four amazing people to the moon and safely returned them to Earth for the first time in more than 50 years," said NASA's Lori Glaze, who leads the Artemis programs. "To the generation that now knows what we're capable of: Welcome to our moonshot."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Obsession with punishment: "DHS has for months been trying to deport Abrego Garcia to several different African countries, while simultaneously rejecting his desire to be sent to Costa Rica, which has said it would grant him some form of legal status..." share.google/UrsMMvOIObIU...
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A key criminal case could soon get tossed because of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s comments | CNN Politics
As Todd Blanche takes the reins at the Justice Department, a federal judge is set to decide whether controversial remarks made last year by the now-acting attorney general should lead to the unravelling of one of the Trump administration’s marquee criminal cases.
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I love this!
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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The Jer Witch Project @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump’s threats against Iranian civilians are shocking and dangerous. They break every moral code. Congress needs to return to D.C. NOW and vote to rein in this insanity. We know this is wrong. It shouldn’t be partisan.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/04/2026
Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
There is no future for humanity in which the basic conditions for life for millions of people can be destroyed on one person’s whim.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Teddy enjoyed the sunshine and warm weather today. 🐾
Our dog Teddy, a white and tan pitbull, rests in the grass on a sunny day.
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escoboomvanilla.bsky.social @escoboomvanilla.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Bike lanes are healthcare. I've always said this.
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"It also bears the markings of his reality TV background: bullying aggression and hyperbole. Yet the president did not elaborate on how his targets caused the problem; he offered no details to back up his accusations. The verbs were a dead end."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Scary stuff: "... drones could soon be in the U.S., which now are included in the blowback assessments noted earlier by U.S. intelligence agencies."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is insane! What a travesty that they're doing this again. "The request, which arrived on Friday as part of President Trump’s new budget, would amount to a roughly 40 percent bump from what the U.S. spent on the Pentagon this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
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White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"The United States is among at least 30 countries that automatically grant citizenship to anyone born within its borders."
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I'm trying to fight back on this, but it's not easy: "Being anti‑aging reflects a culture that struggles to accept imperfection, change, or diversity in appearance.”
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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"... more than 500 U.S. scholars, concluded that the U.S. system now falls nearly midway between liberal democracy and dictatorship."
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