Sign in

Ken

@ptkenny.bsky.social
473 followers 1.4K following 32 posts

Some Irish lad who reposts too much

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Ken
Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 22h
Important Context has a new story published in partnership with @theguardian.com. Anti-vaxxers, including Robert Kennedy Jr.’s former group, Children’s Health Defense, have been going after doctors professionally to cast doubt on measles deaths. www.importantcontext.news/anti-vaxxers...
importantcontext.news
Anti-Vaxxers Target Doctors to Deny Measles Deaths in Widening Outbreak
Children’s Health Defense boasts that it sparked malpractice inquiries into two doctors who treated deceased unvaccinated measles patients.
14337196
Reposted by Ken
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
5830751404
Reposted by Ken
HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/10/2026
They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.
141244367
Reposted by Ken
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just Ted Cruz recirculating racist far right propaganda from a French white nationalist and disseminator of the great replacement bullshit theory.
Ted Cruz * @tedcruz• 1h
Wow. Everyone should WATCH this
Thaïs d'Escufon • @ThaisE... • 10/3/26
American an European friends,
I'm so ashamed, but you need to see what France has become....
eco-friendly, au lycee nelson
36
{] 153
854
ılıl 32K
38852196
Reposted by Ken
Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we
382100538
Reposted by Ken
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.
665107274229
Reposted by Ken
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
Ben Meiselas: And here's a compilation of Trump saying many times that if any country bought oil from Russia, he would go after them...
7825711106
Reposted by Ken
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CLAIM: the ICE agents fired into a vehicle with a child in it for no reason at all FACT: these keys here are jingling isn't that interesting? isnt the sound they make really something?
281604271
Reposted by Ken
Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
on AI eroding trust and humanity
19756213
Reposted by Ken
The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 27/09/2026
Ken Rubin: The feds are opting to diminish the public’s access to information and privacy, ending any pretence of consumer and taxpayer protection, and introducing data centres that generate too much misinformation. www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/23/c...
hilltimes.com
Carney’s shaky digital and AI government initiatives a blow to transparency and accountability   - The Hill Times
The feds are opting to diminish the public’s access to information and privacy, ending any pretence of consumer and taxpayer protection, and introducing data centres that generate too much…
11619
Reposted by Ken
Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
237501337
Reposted by Ken
Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
711870647
Reposted by Ken
Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'd add that there are lots of Republicans actually taking money from Elon Musk, and they are rarely or never asked about his more radical/racist statements.
81160249
Reposted by Ken
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
5847101402
Reposted by Ken
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
1143333688
Reposted by Ken
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
growinguptransgender.com
Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
1341360482
Reposted by Ken
Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
someone on twitter got into the zei squirrel discord and damn they are a full on nazi
31906156
Reposted by Ken
Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Utterly mad how most of society just bumbles along, ignoring the monstrous future realities being locked in place, day in day out.
921563
Reposted by Ken
Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In 2025, DOGE eliminated USAID screwworm monitoring in Central America and cut USDA staff by 20,000, including 23 percent of the division handling animal disease response. In June, screwworm returned to U.S. livestock for the first time in 60 years. It has since spread to at least 45 cases.
11712
Reposted by Ken
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:
realtimetechpocalypse.com
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)
331543449
Reposted by Ken
Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just when you thought it couldn’t get even more FUBAR: DOGE Staffers Are Back—and Leading AI Takeover of Government Services! The DOGE goons who drove federal agencies into the ground last year are back, including that dude who goes by “Big Balls.” newrepublic.com/post/215538/...
newrepublic.com
DOGE Staffers Are Back—and Leading AI Takeover of Government Services
The DOGE goons who drove federal agencies into the ground last year are back, including that dude who goes by “Big Balls.”
27150125
Reposted by Ken
UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 31/08/2026
"Wherever Russian troops arrive, Ukrainians cease to exist." At an official event in Moscow, Russian Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Selivanov openly admitted their true goal is the total erasure of Ukrainian identity.
36225118
Reposted by Ken
Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
jesus fucking christ Trump is using our taxpayer dollars to create a global fascist movement
WASHINGTON/BERLIN, Aug 31 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is planning to spend $4 million to bolster right-wing media in Europe, part of a package of at least $25 million for civil society groups working on conservative causes in the region, according to four people familiar with the funding.
The grants risk deepening tensions between the Trump administration and European governments, some of which have already accused Washington of intertering in their domestic politics.
The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) says the funding is meant to strengthen transatlantic ties and promote free speech. It comes as European countries prepare for elections over the next couple of years, and as the Trump administration openly backs Europe's populist right-wing and far-right parties.

The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) says the funding is meant to strengthen transatlantic ties and promote free speech. It comes as European countries prepare for elections over the next couple of years, and as the Trump administration openly backs Europe's populist right-wing and far-right parties.
The State Department notified Congress of its intent to allocate these funds on August 21, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans.

Three million dollars were earmarked for a program to "document and analyze democratic backsliding in Europe as it relates to mass and illegal migration, the independent media landscape, and legislative agendas by supranational entities," according to the people.
Another $1 million aims to create a consortium of independent journalists covering issues including national sovereignty, natural rights, and religious freedom in Europe, they added.
471020312
Reposted by Ken
olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 29/08/2026
I would make the case that opposing USAID's existence on (purportedly) left-wing ideological grounds is a position that necessitates viewing the lives of people in developing nations as more of a number on a spreadsheet than the creation of USAID does.
723652
Reposted by Ken
james @james.claims · 01/09/2026
seems to be a woman randomly killing two people where one was a woman who happened to be the “vice president of business selection”. the media will (and are) link to the Luigi case even though they appear nothing alike.
1406
Reposted by Ken
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026
Aid workers in Nepal laid off by USAID cuts - including trans women who were working on community HIV outreach - have been forced to turn to sex work to survive.
apnews.com
Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive
After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs.
5347125
Reposted by Ken
The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Imagine having enough cases of bestiality in your recruits that you have to loosen hiring rules to get enough of them in.
1982472694
Reposted by Ken
Robert Raymond @robertr369.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Looks to Give a Swath of Yosemite Park to Developer
The proposed land swap would allow easy access to the crown jewel of the national park system. Democrats and former Park Service officials are incensed.
245
Reposted by Ken
Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This isn't being taken seriously enough. I'm terrified. We all should be. “If we don't control it where it is, it is extremely likely to go somewhere else, and it's not just the neighboring countries that are at risk, but any country that one can fly to, which is everywhere in the world.”
21714
Reposted by Ken
Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is your periodic reminder that Donald Trump is mentioned more than 38,000 times in just one batch of the Epstein files released by the Justice Department.
14552297
Reposted by Ken
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I am not surprised that Curtis Yarvin and Elon Musk — two incredibly dumb men who want to be seen as geniuses — want to destroy all of academia.
592409520
Reposted by Ken
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Randy ‘The Felon’ Fine got caught committing another felony on camera. It’s against the law to rummage through US mail, even if your excuse is that you were looking for a snack.
1141032442
Reposted by Ken
John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s a graphic projecting massive and devastating #climate driven drying out of soils right across Europe by mid-century… …oh wait, sorry, that’s an ACTUAL reading from August 10th last. My mistake.
711238656
Reposted by Ken
Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The entire reason people are crashing out over Claude watermarks on 'AI' content is not because 'aww the watermark ruins it *madface*' It's because they're passing off AI work as their own....and often getting PAID for it. And plenty of people saw this as some magic lifehack cheat code.
647896
Reposted by Ken
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 13/08/2026
does bluesky's trending algorithm have a crystal ball or are the votes secretly rigged because the election hasn't finished yet. the polls literally just opened.
bluesky trending: 1. farage wins clacton seat
42821146
Reposted by Ken
852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
274164112319
Reposted by Ken
jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The fact this story has been mostly ignored by national politics is disgusting www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
2320120
Reposted by Ken
UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 20/06/2026
You might want to share this, and maybe save it too. "In its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature." www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
lemkininstitute.com
Statement on the Anti-Trans and Anti-Intersex EHRC Code of Practice in the United Kingdom
June 20, 2026 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and a...
2171101
Reposted by Ken
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
donmoynihan.substack.com
Watching the show trials
Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution
431436388
Reposted by Ken
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Rapidly becoming convinced that one major immediate impact of AI diffusion is a massive uptick in the sophistication and scale of scams and hacks. Seeing it everywhere.
471255167
Reposted by Ken
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the people behind this are ghouls
futurism.com
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
57127
Reposted by Ken
chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
Of course they did. Not one of these tech bros, oligarchs or billionaires ever had any original idea. Everything they do or want has been described in a novel, manga, game, or movie they consumed in their teens. They are nothing, create nothing. They are here to wreck. Bukowski wrote them down.
From Bukowskis "Genius of the Crowd":

They will attempt to destroy anything
That differs from their own

Not being able to create art
They will not understand art
They will consider their failure as creators
Only as a failure of the world

Not being able to love fully
They will believe your love incomplete
And then they will hate you
And their hatred will be perfect
Like a shining diamond 
like a knife
Like a mountain 
Like a tiger
Like hemlock

Their finest art.
34318
Reposted by Ken
Gloria is here! @gloriasin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Where was the media's outrage over DOGE? Few if any were willing to call his illegal destruction of the federal government, even now when the results have become undeniable. How many people lost their life savings due to the tanked SpaceX IPO? Why platform such a failure at all?
1668
Reposted by Ken
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre
Woman, 25, charged with transporting New IRA explosives had
'Semtex and detonator, court hears
Isobella Perrie Sullivan, from Abbeylands Park in Clane, Co Kildare, appeared before Judge Raymond Finnegan for a special sitting in Trim, Co Meath on Friday eveningMr Booth told the court her mother is from Mayo and Ms Perrie Sullivan lives in Kildare with her father. He said her family were
"devastated" and that she had been a member of a political group in the past, and spent two years in Syria.
She had "moved away" from politics@DailyMail
X.com
Trainee barrister 'caught driving car bomb across Northern Ireland border' previously spent time in Syria, her lawyer saysNYC
News24
NYC News 24 % @ @NYCNews24 •1d
Trainee barrister 'caught driving car bomb across Northern Ireland border' previously spent time in Syria, her lawyer says
X
A trainee barrister who was allegedly caught driving a car bomb towards Northern Ireland in a suspected New IRA operation spent time in Syria, her lawyer said.
1522589
Reposted by Ken
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
120124993553
Reposted by Ken
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
BREAKING: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man who killed Democratic Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman is sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison.
16257441081
Reposted by Ken
Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/07/2026
An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵
18532731613