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Karen Wickre

@kvox.bsky.social
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Stubborn San Franciscan. Connector, reassurer, dog enthusiast, art collector, veteran technology observer and yes, optimist. Wrote Taking the Work Out of Networking. #resist

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 14h
James Talarico’s new ad is hilarious. 😂 Also be sure to call! Because that’s literally the best part. 1 (844) WHOS-KEN (1-844-946-7536)
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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 15h
Happy 55th Anniversary to "Soul Train" ❤️✌🏽✊🏾
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Karen Wickre @kvox.bsky.social · 10h
calling @jfallows.bsky.social, who recently wrote about this
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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 13h
The political equivalent of handing a child an iPad so you can have ONE NIGHT of adult conversation.
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 15h
All these tech guys going 'look, you don't need musicians anymore! We can just generate whatever music you want!' and it's the fucking POPE who has to explain to them that art occupies a space not replaceable by the products of machines.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
Trump instinctively supports and identifies with rapists... because he is one himself. Indeed, adjudicated as such. bsky.app/profile/head...
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 20h
Seattle apartment buildings used to be called things like "The Cedar Arms" and now they're all called FLUX or interSector. Even if I was in tech, I would not want to live in FLUX or interSector.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 22h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Free link: Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026
I Pushed My Luck, Reheated My Burrito An Extra 30 Seconds, and It Exploded All Over The Microwave. Here's Why That's A Lesson for Democrats
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/10/2026
The Democratic base is eager to see Trump held accountable for some of his actions, and congressional investigators are quietly preparing for next year, @mviser.bsky.social reports:
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The Democratic Playbook for Investigating Trump
Congressional oversight committees are quietly preparing for next year.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
for the late night crowd!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks be to God that the Department of Education is finally doing something to stop the ideological indoctrination that’s been running rampant in our public schools.
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Today, Secretary Linda McMahon called on schools across the nation to strengthen instruction on the history and human toll of communism and socialism.
It is imperative that the next generation understands the principles of liberty that underpin America's constitutional system.
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/bIGL50ZTeaU
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U.S. Department of Education Calls on Schools to Strengthen Education on the History and Dangers of Communism and Socialism
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Andy Welfle 🛰️ @andy.wtf · 01/10/2026
I do not like them in my ranks I do not like them driving tanks
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Again, it bears repeating: this is the best that whiteness can do. Multiracial, multicultural and multi religious democracy produces strong men who can lead. Whiteness produces Peter Pans.
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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Update: The America.gov chatbot now refuses to answer "political" questions or offer "judgments about past elections" 🤔
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New survey from the Annenberg Center is out. Less than a quarter of Americans (23%) have a favorable view of RFK Jr. Meanwhile 42% of us have a “very unfavorable” view of him, and many people (40%) are confused about whether he recommends the MMR vaccine. Horrifying stats for an HHS Secretary.
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About 1 in 3 Americans Say RFK Jr. Recommends Measles Vaccine | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
1 in 3 U.S. adults say HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommends vaccinating children against measles - as many as those who say he does not recommend it.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE DARK POWER OF FRATERNITIES A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame. By @caitlinflanagan.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Dark Power of Fraternities
A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've reported first-hand on steel mills in Korea, China, Japan, Illinois, and Mississippi. This is 100% not going to happen. Disagree? Bet me. (Though I'm against online betting. It's just not going to happen.)
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 28/09/2026
Murder rates fell in 2025 and look to be still dropping this year. New research points to what could be behind the decline: billions of federal dollars spent during Covid-19 on crime prevention and mental health initiatives. bit.ly/4xMoks9
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Crime Prevention and Mental Health Spending May Have Contributed to Drop in Violent Crime
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars shoring up state and local budgets and funding new public safety initiatives.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The move is illegal, according to the GAO, an independent, non-partisan watchdog agency charged with providing federal agencies fact-based information. Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to levy taxes and decide how federal funds are spent — known as power of the purse."
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Bando Sparks 🍑 @bandosparks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Emerging WaPo opinion genre: Republicans with regrets
Top text is a link to a Dave McCormick oped headlined as "I'm a Republican senator. America needs more science, not less."

Bottom text is a link to a Don Bacon oped headlined as "I'm a Republican. This woman tried to do everything right – and was deported."
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Attorney Ben Crump @attorneybencrump.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nearly 4 million records of enslaved people are now free to search on Ancestry, helping descendants across the African diaspora uncover names, family connections, and pieces of their history. Slavery tried to reduce our ancestors to property, but their names, their stories, and their LEGACY matter.
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Nearly 4 million enslavement records are now free to search on Ancestry
The records include names, family relationships and places of origin that could help descendants fill gaps left by slavery.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a lifelong baseball fan, can I say: this is a truly bad idea. Fenway Park is for baseball, Teton Park is for wildlife www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s up! Our new film “Kill.Bury.Print” is streaming now on Peacock #KillBuryPrint trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg?... and here’s a clip:
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 27/09/2026
An acoustic expert has released an immersive “sound map” of the famous trail featuring sound recordings he took along his thru-hike.
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How the new Pacific Crest Trail ‘sound map’ can take you to the trail without leaving home
An acoustic expert has released an immersive “sound map” of the famous trail featuring sound recordings he took along his thru-hike.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A 48% drop in employees at National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Yikes.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/09/2026
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every other news outlet should boycott this trip. Don’t give this malignant narcissist the oxygen of coverage. Leave it to the radical right wing outlets reaching only the cult. White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/b...
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White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One
CNN won’t be able to join President Trump on a Saturday trip to Tennessee. He had banned CNN and two other news outlets from the White House, but a court order on Thursday restored their access.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bismarck, North Dakota: bismarcktribune.com/news/local/a...
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ICE surge prompts protest in Bismarck
A weeklong spike in immigration enforcement in the Bismarck area prompted a protest downtown on Friday evening.
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Adele M. Stan @addiestan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is important good news. Had Trump won this one, no one would ever report anything even vaguely predictive again. After a career of calling races correctly, Selzer's last poll was a clam. So were many others. Since 2016, pollsters have had trouble figuring out who's in the electorate.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 24/09/2026
“We hope that Judge Kelly will soon make his TRO permanent, and that his permanent order addresses the news organizations’ First Amendment claims ... The First Amendment bars the president from transforming the press corps into a propaganda machine.” knightcolumbia.org/content/judg...
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Banning News Organizations From White House
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jared Kushner is helping conduct U.S. diplomacy over war and peace while Senate investigators said Affinity collected about $157.5 million in fees from foreign investors. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/jared-kush...
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I honestly don't understand how some people live with themselves. Not just the monsters ordering this, but the Eichmanns who are carrying out those orders.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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