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Katherine Roberts

@kroberts.bsky.social
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American in London - Second World War nursing historian - museums education enthusiast - she/her

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The tax rate for the richest was much higher when the middle class was strongest It was much higher even under Reagan But now they want you to behave raising taxes on the rich is “COmMuNiSm” ? Bottom line: They think we’re all idiots
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
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Katherine Roberts @kroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Immediate Action Needed: Palestinian Physician Tortured for over 550 Days, Imminent Risk of Death. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/imme...
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Immediate Action Needed: Palestinian Physician Tortured for over 550 Days, Imminent Risk of Death
"This is the last time you will see me… They brought me here to kill me." — Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, to his lawyer, July 2, 2026 Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Palestinian pediatrician and director of Ka...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
remember when Trump abducted Maduro all the FL politicians like Rick Scott, Salazar and Giminez told their constituents that Trump was going to bring freedom and democracy to Venezuela when we all knew he just wanted to steal their oil.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
part of the reason not voting does very little is that *a lot* of people don't vote, and the reason they don't vote is not to make a statement but mostly just disinterest. 1
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/06/2026
People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey
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New Jersey — Stand With Minnesota
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 01/06/2026
california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...
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Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED
State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.
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Katherine Roberts @kroberts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I am assuming that this has already been done but still it needed to be said... #projecthailmary
Screenshot of a scene from Brooklyn Nine Nine depicting Rosa Diaz, a tough looking woman with dark curly hair, holding a small puppy, named Arlo, in her arms. Rosa is saying 'I've only had Arlo for a day and a half. But if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself'. The poster has placed images of the alien, Rocky, from the film Project Hail Mary, over top of the puppy Arlo, and replaced the name 'Arlo' with 'Rocky'.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Sean Duffy should be impeached and removed from his cabinet post.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
what happened to if you have time to lean you have time to clean. or does that only apply to me making $7.25/hr to sell shitty frozen yogurt and not the highly paid murder squad
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/03/2026
“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Not one of them has ever stood in a line for 4 hours or more to vote in person. Not one of them has been turned away at the polls because they are suddenly “not on the list.” Not one has had their pay docked b/c they arrived late to work b/c they went to vote in the morning.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Senate Democrats voted multiple times to fund TSA separately from ICE. Republicans voted it down every time. Republicans are to blame for today’s airport chaos — all because they’re happy to keep letting Trump’s thugs terrorize our communities with no consequences. Remember this.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Pearl Harbor is no joke to the oldest US vet of that attack. At 106, Freeman Johnson doesn't mince words about Trump's move, without Congressional approval, to send Americans into harm's way. "He declared war by himself." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/23/m... @bostonglobe.com
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106-year-old Freeman Johnson of Centerville is the oldest living survivor of Pearl Harbor - The Boston Globe
Johnson was a 21-year-old from Waltham serving as a Navy machinist on the USS St. Louis on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Cardinal Cyn @jacquelinecable.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026
GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
They've adopted a strategy of claiming they're dialing it down while changing nothing on the ground. Minnesota is still under a violent, lawless reign of ICE terror. Children and families are still being abducted. Do not look away.
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Katherine Roberts @kroberts.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If anyone is looking for something fun to do with the family tomorrow, the National Maritime Museum will be hosting its LGBTQ+ family event, Out at Sea, from 11 - 4. Program includes arts and crafts, dance workshops, storytelling and more! www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...
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Out at Sea
Visit the National Maritime Museum for a family-friendly festival celebrating LGBTQ+ history!
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Katherine Roberts @kroberts.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
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Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 22/01/2026
NEW: Trump is floating a $1.5 trillion war budget. $1.5 trillion could fund Medicaid, the child tax credit, SNAP, the Department of Education, national highway repair, the NIH, school breakfast & lunch, FEMA, the FAA, the EPA, and federal overdose prevention COMBINED. War costs us a better world.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two weeks ago Trump warned Iran that if they harmed protesters the US military was “locked and loaded” and would come to their rescue to save them. Thousands were killed, Trump did nothing. Now this.
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NPR @npr.org · 23/01/2026
A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost. n.pr/3YVSGJK
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Gladys West, mathematician whose work paved the way for GPS, dies at 95
A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Today’s Minnesota Star Tribune front page will be hung in museums in future. Every headline, every inch of it documenting a failed state; a descent into authoritarianism.
The main picture shows a person being held down whilst pepper sprayed int be face.
The headline reads Children as young as 5 detained. Other headlines include;
Somali American citizen arrested held of TW days.
Preschoolers detention
ICE claimed enhanced power to enter homes.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.
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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The fact that not a single one of Tamora Pierce's series has ever been adapted is baffling, especially given media trends over the last few decades.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/01/2026
A 21-year old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday. trib.al/i7dkhL4
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"The coffins with three Danish soldiers killed in Helmand, Afghanistan, arriving in Denmark in Dec. 2008." ""Krestine Havemann/Polfoto, via Associated Press" archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.b...
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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Today feels like a good day to spotlight the recent appeal made by Kurihara Toshio, one of the preeminent Japanese reporters on the war memory beat, to journalists covering war today. Its drawn from his research on the failures of Japan's media establishment in the 1930s: apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
10/10. No notes.
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realKyleKeegan @realkylekeegan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Glad we finally settled that Russian Collusion question …
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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Dustin Nelson @dlukenelson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A whole lot have already announced. It's really impressive that so many owners are doing it. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
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List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
ProPublica reporters have gone deep on the implements that ICE and other federal agents are using on the streets of Minneapolis. From 2020, on tear gas: "It has been found to cause long-term health consequences and can hurt those who aren’t the intended targets" www.propublica.org/article/tear...
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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On — Especially During the Coronavirus Pandemic
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A couple of days ago, Wrecktangle Pizza in Minnesota raised $83k to donate food and other essentials to immigrants and other people trapped in their homes. Very soon, ICE showed up at their door. The agents got chased off by employees and locals, though not before dropping some tear gas.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The US government is funding an unethical Hepatitis B study on babies in West Africa that will put thousands of lives at risk—randomizing vax at birth, with no placebo control. But we already have solid evidence that the vaccine is effective.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It's straight-up fascist playbook to create chaos and violence, blame your enemies for it, and claim the chaos and violence will stop only if you have absolute power. Stand against Trump's criminal regime. Stand with Minneapolis.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Again, check to see if you have a dormant Hilton Honors account and, if so, call them up to cancel it.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 14/01/2026
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
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Katherine Roberts @kroberts.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Check out my article, 'Becoming Family', on the parallels present in nursing care during the COVID pandemic and the Second World War. Lord knows, this article was a long time in coming 😮‍💨
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Watch this. Share this.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Venezuela. Minneapolis. The J6 whitewash. And (after I wrote this) Jerome Powell It's all the same story: Trump's now-public belief that nothing can stop him beyond his own 'mind' and 'morality' But he can be stopped, by actual morality. Ours My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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Trump now a tyrant restrained only by ‘my own morality.’ We stop him with our own. | Will Bunch
After a monumental week that changed America, Trump believes there is no limit on his powers. We can prove him wrong.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
No matter how many awful things come out of this White House, you can organize your community at the state and local level to fight back against the oligarchy. Kudos to everyone who organized and won against Big Tech last year. Let’s keep up the fight this year and beyond.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
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