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K’s miscellany

@ksmisc.bsky.social
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Salty Milspouse. Pro-democracy. Pro-science. Pro-facts. MPH, MSW, LCSW. Social justice, intersectionality, military & veteran advocacy. #stillmasking Loud in my small circle, learning how to be loud elsewhere too. A collection of internet things.

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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 · 07/11/2025
Received! Thank you!
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Oh, I DM’d you here. I can do it on IG too.
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Yay! I’ll DM you. Thank you! And thank you for all the work you do to keep us informed.
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@samisagesays.bsky.social …. 👀 my guess was 24.
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I deleted my original guess bc Twitter rant…my guess is 24
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you for fighting for our health care.
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you for fighting to defend our healthcare.
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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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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
BLUF: unfortunately this.
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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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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I am so sad for our country.
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Ewwwwww
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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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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
😭
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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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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🥴
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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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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Anton’s summaries are 🥇
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
BREAKING NEWS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol REMOVED from office by the court's unanimous decision www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
washingtonpost.com
South Korean court removes president from office, says he violated duties
The Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law, a decision expected to exacerbate political divisions.
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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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Veteran Against Fascism @armymp22.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
There are no words I can even think of to express how I feel about this, but I’ll try these: Fucking Dehumanizing!
theguardian.com
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US department of defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters “DEI” added to website address
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Same. I like not having “a cold” for the entirety of fall and winter and thinking it’s normal.
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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
And kids aren’t able to stay healthy while at school bc no one at school masks…we say we care about the kids, but we do the bare minimum to protect them and their health.
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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.
en.yna.co.kr
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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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
mfer
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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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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
One more time: this problem is only going to get worse. If we want to constrain the North Korean arsenal, we've got to deal with them. The DPRK's capabilities continue to advance. apnews.com/article/nort...
apnews.com
North Korea says it tested hypersonic intermediate range missile aimed at remote Pacific targets
North Korea says its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike targets in the Pacific as leader Kim Jong Un vowed to further expand his collection of nucle...
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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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K’s miscellany @ksmisc.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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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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