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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

For once in my life, my guess was correct! Love Sami’s work w Betches, but most impactful for me was reading Democracy in Retrograde by Sami and Emily Amick (IG @/emilyinyourphone). Build community, keep fighting for our country.

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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

And guess what - our military won’t be stronger for it. Maybe there will be literally more physical muscle, but less strategy, less capability, less precision, less talent, less institutional knowledge, less innovative and cross-platform thinking, less critical analysis, less effectiveness.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/10/2025

People who don’t think this is fascism “yet” aren’t seeing members of their own ethnic group get brutalized and kidnapped by masked men with guns. Some of us already live in the future. Spoiler alert: It’s fascism.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

To criminalize being against racism and against fascism is wild.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The EO targeting former Trump cybersecurity official Krebs is equally chilling, since Trump claims as Krebs’ crime his denial that the 2020 election was rigged. Trump, as he does, is flipping the script: election integrity is denialism. And *now* it’s a crime.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

EOs targeting 2 former Trump officials aren’t getting enough attention. In invoking treason, Trump puts death penalty on table for Miles Taylor. In revoking security clearances for Penn because Taylor taught there, he gives Penn a choice: suffer or join the punishment by banning Taylor.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

And right after you learned from Columbia that even if you do every single goddamn inane thing he asks, even more than the list of things he asks, he's still not giving you your money back? He's running a protection racket except he burns your house down at the end.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

What's the point of an endowment, pray tell, if its not to maintain the institution that holds it? Like what the fuck are you using your money for if not to keep your doors, and the doors of academic inquiry open as an authoritarian tries to shutter them?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Via New York Times: “The DOJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on indefinite paid leave for a “failure to zealously advocate” for the department — less than 24 hours after defending the gov’t in federal court.”

Glenn Thrush &
@GlennThrush

NEWS: The DOJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration's decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on indefinite paid leave for a "failure to zealously advocate" for the department — less than 24 hours after defending the gov't in federal court.

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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Awful. We’re losing our country piece by piece.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

All 550 of VOA's contract status reporters, editors, videographers, engineers and techs just notified they're terminated effective end of this month. We don't distinguish internally between them and regular staff — all are highly skilled and absolutely critical to the operation.

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William Gallo @williamgallo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

South Korea's foreign ministry pushes back, after Pete Hegseth referred to North Korea as a "nuclear power." "North Korea's denuclearization has been a principle consistently upheld by South Korea, the United States and the international community," the ministry said.

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S. Korea says N. Korea can never be recognized as nuclear power after Trump nominee refers to Pyongyang as one | Yonhap News Agency

By Kim Seung-yeon SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- North Korea cannot be recognized as a nucl...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

if you’re looking for something to do to help LA, folks in ktown are going to need masks. there are lots of elderly and homeless people in that neighborhood, this organization will distribute aid! ❤️

instagram post from ktownforall.

While not in the direct path of the fire yet - Koreatown is covered in heavy smoke and we are in need of KN95 masks and will need to replace a ton of tarp and tents.
Please consider donating to our Venmo at:
@Ktownforall or via
debit/ credit card through Paypal at
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/pa
yment/D8A65YA2D58EQ
Every dollar will go to survival items that will be handed to someone in need.

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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Wondering how long “meet the climate crisis” will stay as a prominent focus of DOD (at least on their website) w the incoming admin.

Screenshot of DOD website. “Meet the Climate Crisis.
Our strategy and planning address the security implications of our changing climate. We are developing new platforms that mitigate logistical risks in contested environments. We are also investing to improve mission resilience and cut the risks from extreme weather.”

Tagged with: climate change, tackling the climate crisis

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Incredible sentence: "America right now is far less prepared for a nuclear attack than Japan was in August 1945." I do not think that is the case! www.seattletimes.com/opinion/new-...

seattletimes.com

New administration must prep nation for nuclear threat | Op-Ed

There are some easy steps that, if enacted early, could save countless lives during a nuclear attack. The problem is that, as a nation, we are not ready.

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Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

1/ Watching the "Stop the Steal" movement emerge in South Korea has been deeply unsettling. While unfounded election fraud claims aren't new here, the speed and intensity with which this narrative has taken hold since Yoon's martial law and impeachment is staggering.

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It's no exaggeration to say there is a torrent of news in South Korea right now. Blinken is visiting, while investigators trying to figure out how/when to arrest Yoon, impeachment trials of Yoon and the impeached PM under prep, ongoing Jeju Air investigation, now a North Korean ballistic missile.

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William Gallo @williamgallo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Despite political turbulence in the ROK, Blinken says he expects US-Japan-ROK cooperation to continue. Says it is "manifestly in the interest" of the people of all three countries.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

there is a massive sit-in happening outside the presidential residence right now in protest of how long it’s taking to arrest president yoon

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Investigators on Friday halted their efforts to detain impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, following an impasse that lasted more than five hours as the presidential security service barred them from entering his residence to execute their warrant. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

washingtonpost.com

Investigators halt attempt to detain South Korean president after standoff

Investigators seeking to detain Yoon Suk Yeol in relation to his attempt to institute martial law scuffled with security service officers blocking entry to his residence.

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Good thread:

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Joseph Kim @terpsicoreans.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

South Korea’s National Assembly voted to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo after he took over for Yoon Suk Yeol following his botched martial law decree. The motion passed unanimously in a 192-0 vote, marking the first time an acting president was impeached by parliament

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 17/12/2024

More than half of candidates who went through a training with Moms Demand Action won their races in the 2023-2024 election cycle — and the gun safety group says that one of its big takeaways is that nonpartisan messaging is key to wins.

19thnews.org

‘Putting our children first’: How gun safety as a nonpartisan issue helped local candidates win

More than 300 Moms Demand Action volunteers ran for office and won, and more than 200 of them were in local office, including school boards.

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Joseph Kim @terpsicoreans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Aerial view of the protests in South Korea

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

South Korea now enters a prolonged period of uncertainty. The constitutional court must decide whether to uphold the impeachment. But either way, it's a historic night. Yoon immediately hands over power to the prime minister, who becomes caretaker president. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

washingtonpost.com

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol impeached after martial law ploy

Yoon must immediately hand over power to the prime minister, who will act as caretaker while the courts review the impeachment vote. The process could take months.

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아나탈 @gatamchun.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Hong Ik-pyo, assembly leader for Minju party “This is not the end but a new beginning. Now is the time for the constitutional court. They have max 180 days to decide, considering the term limits on the judges we can expect a decision in April at the very latest. Typically 2-3 months deliberation.”

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 14/12/2024

Now the Constitutional Court must certify, BUT the president's powers are paused until they make a decision Speaker declares end of session To the people: "We hope you can all return to your interrupted lives" YAY: 204 NAY: 85 ABSTAIN: 3 INVALID: 8 (12 defections from conservative party)

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The 71-year military alliance between South Korea and the United States won’t be affected by the political turmoil in Seoul even if President Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached this weekend, according to experts. (from @choiboy.bsky.social)

stripes.com

Yoon impeachment turmoil won’t impact US-South Korea alliance, experts say

The military alliance between South Korea and the United States won’t be affected by the political turmoil in Seoul, according to experts.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 12/12/2024

Was asked to interview for a western media outlet and they were like "and has the impeachment vote awakened the women into political consciousness" and I was like ??? Women have always been the FOREFRONT of protest in Korea: Yoo Gwan Soon, stroller-pushing mothers in 2008, Ewha Women's Uni in 2016??

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 14/12/2024

Traditional funereal procession, in hopes of the end of Yoon’s presidency, as protest

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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Gosh, this seems unfathomable for US protest culture bc are there even public bathrooms that would allow for this type of solidarity?

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✨️naomithinksit✨️ @naomithinksit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys

Egyptian Blue Bes ceramic Statue from the British museum shop, kind of looks like a tiny suspicious bear? He's adorable

A middle Egyptian turquoise hippo from the met. He looks despondent and adorable. He has line art of reeds painted on his back and face.

A ceramic baby rattle from the met shaped like a pig. However it doesn't look much like a pig, it's giving creature saying ooooooo. It's adorable.

Little red earthenware bowl from the met. It has two little humanoid feet on the bottom and looks like he's standing shyly. Adorable.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 convicted of nonviolent crimes, the largest grant of clemency by an American president in a single day, the White House announced in a statement on Thursday." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...

nytimes.com

Biden Commutes the Sentences of Nearly 1,500 Americans, a Record for One Day

Most of those being granted clemency had been placed in home confinement during the pandemic. Some Republicans have tried to push legislation that would have forced those people to return to prison.

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The political paralysis in Seoul could be particularly destabilizing as South Korea prepares for a Trump White House and renewed scrutiny of the alliance, analysts say. Gift link to our new analysis from Seoul: wapo.st/4iA5SfO

wapo.st

Power vacuum in South Korea, a key U.S. ally, raises security concerns

The political paralysis could be particularly destabilizing as South Korea prepares for a Trump White House and renewed scrutiny of the alliance, analysts say.

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William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My latest: #SouthKorea former defence minister Kim Yong-hyun ordered a drone deployment to North Korea to lay the ground for martial law declaration, it has been alleged. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

telegraph.co.uk

South Korean minister ‘tried to spark conflict with North’ as pretext for martial law

Kim Yong-hyun ordered the deployment of drones to Pyongyang to instigate a retaliatory attack, say lawmakers

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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Could also be said about 2020.

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