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Monica Kwasnik

@mkwasnik.bsky.social
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Journalism instructor, editor, mom, wife, Oregonian, defender of #democracy and a #freepress

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Susan Shelton @txsccs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Help me make sense of this: Is he endorsing @petebuttigieg.bsky.social for president, or is he advocating for regulating AI under his own administration?
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is where I post from.
Kate Winslet (Ross) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack) in Titanic. Jack completes his sketch while Rose stands behind him, looking at the drawing.
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In case we wondered how out of touch the GOP is with voters: The *leader of the GOP* doesn’t even register their anger as criticism — even when he sees it with his own eyes in his own self-curated social media feed. HE’S TALKING ABOUT YOU, DONALD!
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W.M. @minuteman04.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I'll be willing to buy the desirability of data centers once they locate one in Beverly Hills and one next to Mar-A-Lago.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
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Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
Just really feeling appreciative today that Donald John Trump rushed the Covid vaccine through and took it himself and told everyone to. Good job Trump MAKING THE COVID VACCINE
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Don’t we all close our eyes in reverence at funerals? I do it at sporting events too. UFC matches. NBA Finals. The World Cup. And high-level meetings. World summits. Press conferences. Parades held on my birthday.
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NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hell yeah, I finished the book I was reading! ... ... ...Aww damnit, I finished the book I was reading.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 07/07/2026
BREAKING: A federal appeals court ion Tuesday struck down parts of Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, calling it a “breathtaking assertion of power” that unconstitutionally censors what state university and college professors can discuss with their students about race, sex and other forms of bias.
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Federal court strikes down Florida’s Stop WOKE Act in higher ed
The ruling said Florida’s law was unconstitutional and wrongly tried to ban the speech of professors and students.
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today. We talked about Graham Platner, the Iran war, and what we should do about a potential vacancy if a certain official were to become incapacitated in an election year. “Oh, we’d fill it,” he said with a sinister smirk. Fill it, Kentucky!
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
OMG. I’m dying. 😭 This is a day after his “Three Strokes and You’re Out” post.
Social media post from Congressman Thomas Massie: 

I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning.

He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out.
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Jamey @klocktower.org · 05/07/2026
The Sun-Times is public media, and IMO is pretty good (particularly since becoming non-profit).
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/06/2026
For the first time on record, solar generated more electricity than coal across the entire U.S. - despite active federal policy pushing the other direction. Read more at the link below!
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The great solar-coal flip | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Solar passes coal, super El Niño looms, and show your warming stripes Coal built the Industrial Revolution - now wind and solar are beating
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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Trump, obsessed with appearance, insists the capital be pristine for our nation’s 250th anniversary. He’s gussying up statues and the reflecting pool (never mind algaegate). He even dressed the Kennedy Center in seersucker. Yes, his taste is tacky (see WH Rose Garden), but THIS? For America’s 250th?
Side-by-side photos of the White House. At left, the building is surrounded by pristine green lawns: the Ellipse in the foreground and the South Lawn behind it. At right, the Ellipse’s grass is reduced to dirt, and much of the South Lawn’s grass is reduced to dirt, along with a UFC cage. The East Wing of the White House is a pile of rubble, which extends pretty far east. In the left picture much of this space was occupied by trees.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is an incredibly smart sentence.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool
A photo of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The water is green and it's surrounded by gray-white stone structures. A man wearing a green seersucker suit with a white shirt and black knit tie.
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
So they’re finally admitting they pulled those “missing ballots” out of their recto?
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
How do I get Bluesky to stop showing me dead-pet skeets from people I don’t know. I see at least one a day. As an HSP, I need it to stop. 😭
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I never realized how much he looks like Jack Nicholson. I just wish he hadn’t stormed out before completing the transformation. #Trump #MTP #werewolf
Side-by-side images. At left is Donald Trump on Meet the Press. His face is red, and his mouth is open. At right is Jack Nicholson transforming into a werewolf in a film. His face is red, and his mouth is open.
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MPWERED @kelvin1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"60 Minions" by Andrew Winters.
"60 Minions" by Andrew Winters.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Meowie Antoinette
A cat with its head turned creates the appearance of headlessness. Next to them is a basket with a second cat’s head poking out the top.
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Look what happened today! My first-ever peony! 😍
Bright hot pink peony blossom
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.
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In unusual deal, a $1.8 billion fund that could help Trump allies is created
The agreement to end the Trump family's lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority to distribute nearly $1.8 billion to those who, like the president, have claimed they have been targets of a
"weaponized" justice system.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We Are a Democracy! “We don't live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic." This is like saying "I don't have a dog, I have a golden retriever." A constitutional republic is a type of democracy. You didn't catch anyone in a gotcha. You told everyone you don't know what words mean.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I have legit lost my voice from doing an Alex Jones impression once an hour or so for the last three days. Nobody hates this man more than his own larynx.
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Colorado Socialist ☭🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is great! 😂
A detailed, symbolic painting inspired by the movie "Pulp Fiction," featuring Samuel L. Jackson's character depicted as a Jesus-like figure with a glowing halo and radiant hands, blessing a sick man lying in a hospital bed. Surrounding them are other characters from the film—John Travolta and Uma Thurman—both praying, and a nurse and another man watching solemnly. Above, three cherubic angels with the faces of other "Pulp Fiction" characters float in the sky. The background includes iconic American symbols such as the U.S. Capitol, the Statue of Liberty, an American flag, flying bald eagles, military jets, and fireworks, blending religious imagery with patriotic and cinematic elements.
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
👏👏👏
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I'm That ANTIFA Holly @imthatholly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I asked CoPilot, hardly a lawyer, but nor am I. It agrees a simple law won't cut it, but if I asked the other way, maybe it would have answered differently, to agree with me, since it wants to be friends, except not helping me steal stuff! bsky.app/profile/did:...
⚖️ The Supreme Court’s Ruling (5–4)
The Court held:
✔️ Corporations, unions, and nonprofits may spend unlimited money on independent political advocacy.
This includes ads, films, and other communications that support or oppose candidates — as long as the spending is not coordinated with a campaign.
✔️ Restrictions on such independent expenditures violate the First Amendment.
Justice Kennedy wrote that limiting this spending is equivalent to limiting speech.
✔️ Disclosure and disclaimer rules remain valid.
Groups must still report spending and include “paid for by” disclaimers.
❌ Corporate contributions directly to candidates remain banned.
The ruling did not allow corporations to donate to campaigns — only to spend independently.


⭐ Congress cannot override Citizens United with a normal law.
Because the Supreme Court held that corporate independent spending is protected by the First Amendment, only a constitutional amendment or a future Supreme Court reversal can overturn it.

🧩 Why Congress can’t fix it with legislation
Citizens United is a constitutional ruling.
That means:
- Congress cannot pass a statute redefining corporations as “not individuals” for First Amendment purposes.
- Any such law would be struck down immediately as unconstitutional under Citizens United and Buckley.
The Court explicitly said political spending by corporations is protected speech.
Only the Constitution can override the Constitution.
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
OK. I’ll admit it. In the early 2000s, as I lamented getting stuck with the dumbest president imaginable, I actually believed (assumed) Donald Trump was … intelligent. 🫣 Alas, in the words of President George W. Bush: “Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
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take the W #DailyShow #Trump #GeorgeBush #Iran
TikTok video by The Daily Show
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Hear, hear! But you’re SO delicious, cheese. I wish I knew how to quit you!
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Among the things revealed in the Epstein files: the reason why tech billionaires are so desperate for A.I. to compose their emails.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny looking at Turning Point USA after generating the biggest halftime audience in Super Bowl history.
Kendrick Lamar smiles at the camera during his 2025 Super Bowl halftime performance in an apparent dig at Drake.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I almost didn’t write this post because it was so obvious. But apparently it wasn’t. presswatchers.org/2026/01/jour...
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Journalists must forcefully decry the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort | Press Watch
Press freedom is at stake, and news organizations need to say so
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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Monica Kwasnik @mkwasnik.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“I don’t agree with the government, so I can’t run for office.” FFS! What nation is this?!
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
If you are tired of people complaining about paywall access to journalism then imagine how tired people are of living in places like America where disinformation is free and journalism is a mandatory paid subscription
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 16/12/2025
@juliorvarela.com: “High-quality reporting must be free and open, supported by collective models that value impact over manufactured growth.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/audi...
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square
Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie. A close-up of his breast pocket.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2025
Trump To Travel With Own Escalator Following U.N. Embarrassment
Trump To Travel With Own Escalator Following U.N. Embarrassment
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Crashmodem @crashmodem.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
What exactly is an "antifascist ideology?" The Constitution?
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
When we eulogize political figures who have died we usually do so with snippets of their own words that exemplify the essence of their life’s work. So let’s see them, all of the Kirk quotes in which we see him urging his followers to embrace the better angels of their nature.
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