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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026

If you're a Westchester voter and you don't already know who Mike Lawlor is, would you be able to guess which of these candidates is the Democrat?

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 02/08/2026

My 12-year-old just finished Let This Radicalize You and made this for me ❤️ @prisonculture.bsky.social

Beaded bracelet that says "Hope is a discipline"

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 23/07/2026

What if education were something we built in community rather than a product handed down to us? We’re building community around the idea that learning can be a practice of democracy, inclusion, and solidarity. Any support is appreciated as we get off the ground! bankingcrowded.com/collect-hub/...

Clip from the website with the heading "When the conditions are right." Underneath, it says "The quiet glow known as foxfire appears only when the conditions are right. We believe meaningful communities grow the same way. Healthy ecosystems are built through countless relationships, each contributing to something larger than itself. Foxfire strives to cultivate those same conditions for learning, belonging, and community."

Clip from the website reading "Healthy communities don't happen by accident. They're building through commitment shared by the people who care for them. Every family has different gifts, different capacities, and different seasons of life. A cooperative works best when people contribute where they can make the greatest impact. No one is expected to do everything, but everyone plays a part in helping Foxfire grow."

Clip reading "Like any living thing, Foxfire is always evolving because the people who make up our community are always evolving too. As children grow, families discover new interests, and fresh ideas take root, so do new classes, traditions, and opportunities to learn together. The result is a community that's always growing, always learning, and never standing still."

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 22/06/2026

Ended up getting the best Father's Day gift the day after when my oldest asked we if we could get up early to watch the sunrise on the beach together ❤️

Picture of my oldest from behind with the sun rising over the waves

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 22/06/2026

Didn't occur to me what I wore out to the store until someone I don't know wished me happy Fathers Day lol

Me wearing a shirt that says "Best cat dad ever" with a picture of a cat in sunglasses

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 10/06/2026

You really can't understand what is going on if you don't understand the constant fear that these men live in

Clip from the article: "If hegemonic masculinity is defined by anything, it is anxiety. From that quivering, flabby mass radiates all the other things we’re likelier to associate with it—violence, status games, domination, overt misogyny. For such men, life is a wilderness of insecurities. Men comparing themselves to other men, threatened by women, and needing to prove that they belong here. For these PMC men, class treason means expiating their anxiety by building up and elevating offensive caricatures of manhood as exemplars that we all must follow; through their own forelock-tugging displays of obeisance, they hope to prove that they, too, know what a Real Man is and can therefore be forgiven for knowing how to eat with chopsticks, having opinions about Microsoft Excel, and enjoying the odd microbrew."

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 07/06/2026

Couldn't help it--look at these babies together 😍

Picture of three of my kids with Pearl (the goose) as a baby

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 06/06/2026

Never expected to have a therapy animal, and certainly never expected it to be a goose, but life is weird I guess

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 19/05/2026

If you're near Newtown, CT and love fresh tortillas, please give me an excuse to spend more time at the comal by checking out Las Gansas Tontas! Prepared from heirloom corn from local family farms, available every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning www.facebook.com/615898742487...

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 17/04/2026

Evidence for the claim that "people immediately declared it to be an authoritarian plot" is a single paragraph mentioning Trump's laundry list of potential "conquests." My actual article is just a history of the draft, but I shouldn't expect the Free Press to let reading get in the way of a hot take

Screenshot of Free Press headline reading "No, You Are Not Being Drafted" with subhed "The Trump administration announced a small change to the draft registration rules--and people immediately declared it to be an authoritarian plot."

Screenshot from the article reading "In Slate, for instance, Steve Kennedy wrote about how “Trump Just Automated Draft Entry. It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Step In.” The piece begins, ominously, “Even as the war in Iran has seemed to de-escalate since a ceasefire began last week, we’ve recently witnessed just how out of hand things could possibly still get.” From there, Kennedy unspooled a scenario of U.S. boots on the ground in multiple wars started by Trump, unless the Supreme Court stepped in to rule that a draft was unconstitutional."

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 04/03/2026

How many of these Dunkin' feedbags are there going to be at the Boston No Kings this month now? www.masslive.com/entertainmen...

Picture of the new Dunkin' 48 oz coffee, which comes in a bucket with a handle

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 24/02/2026

Unintentionally put on my @fivefourpod.bsky.social shirt of the overgrown ruin of the Supreme Court for Chichen Itza today. The best part was when my kid wondered if the priests up top were actually doing anything since no one could see them, and when I pointed to the shirt she got it lol

Photo of me and wife outside of the Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza where I am wearing the shirt mentioned in the post

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 10/01/2026

Yes, legal structure for this acceleration has been there for quite a while. All it took was for someone to take the reins to expand what was already there, and DHS knows it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Excerpt from linked article in original post: "The Court’s decision to hollow out Bivens doesn’t just fail to protect people from government violence—it encourages more violence. Taken together, these cases mean that the ICE agents who are now storming apartment buildings and Home Depot parking lots are operating in a legal gray area, confident that whatever they do, courts will probably never hold them liable for it. The justices have created the perfect environment for abuse: an unaccountable paramilitary force with sweeping powers and no meaningful legal check on how they use them. You don’t need a law degree to know how that ends."

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 19/11/2025

Such an awesome day at the Lawyers March for Democracy kickoff! So many amazing lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals coming together in defense of the rule of law. But was not just an event, it is the start of a movement. For more information, sign up here: forms.gle/FwJSuBBPrdNe...

Collage of speakers and attendees at the Lawyers March for Democracy kickoff. Signs include "We defend more than clients. We defend democracy. The rule of law matters," "Lawyers march for democracy. The people do not support our not-so-supreme court," Lawyers march for the rule of law and a better Supreme Court," "We took an oath, not a side," "Rule of law is an American value," "Voters rights," "Karma matters," and "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that as a member of the Bar of this Court, I will demean myself uprightly and according to law; and that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America,"

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 29/10/2025

So excited to finally share the campaign that we have been working on to build a lawyers movement against authoritarianism, with a kickoff event outside of the Supreme Court on 11/15 and building toward nationwide engagement of lawyers and law students peoplesparity.org/event/lawyer...

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 19/10/2025

Don't have the time to break this into a thread, but thank you so much for calling this out. It's not easy when you're whole life has (shamefully) been about keeping yourself and the people around you from ever experiencing discomfort, but it's also the way out of this

Screenshot of draft post in response: "It feels like such a small, performative thing, but after like thirty years of moving through mostly white spaces as a cishet, white male, and later a veteran to boot, where fascists and collaborators assume I'm one of them and tell me heinous shit, I just traded polos for explicitly leftist, anti-racist, and feminist T-shirts while driving my kids around town or whatever else, and it's led to legitimate conversations around values and organizing. I mean, it's gotten me into some fights too lol, but mostly it's at least a relatively respectful conversation, if not a moral trauma dump from people who would normally never talk about these things."

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 03/10/2025

To avoid the very thing that Trump is trying to do--using the power of the state to push veneration of a current leader. Make America Turkmenistan Again!

Picture of the golden statue of Turkmenistan dictator Saparmurat Niyazov in Ashkabat

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 02/10/2025

I don't know the answer, but seriously? Has there been a single justice who has been more rude to his colleagues in the history of the Supreme Court than Scalia?

Screenshot of a tweet from @KrangTNelson saying, "no no no you misunderstood. I said "fuck YOUR feelings". MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13/09/2025

Only proper way for a real man to eat

Image from A Christmas Story of the little brother showing "how the piggies eat" with his faced shoved into his mashed potatoes

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13/09/2025

The flag down the road from Sandy Hook flying at half staff for the man who demanded that conservatives defend Alex Jones after survivors' families prevailed in their lawsuit against him 🙃

Large flag in Newtown, CT flying at half staff

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 29/08/2025

Was feeling old and fat on my 39th birthday, but then a friend caught me saving a kid's friend from my wonderful (to me) and monstrous (to strangers) goose, and it made me feel like maybe I've still kind of got it at least lol

Picture of me chasing my goose, who was chasing a young child and ultimately but him on the butt as he ran away 😅

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 26/07/2025

You just know RFK Jr. has at least one of these in his house

Screenshot from Tucker Carlson's Manhood documentary with a naked man standing on a rock outside with arms outstretched and his genitals right up against a UV lamp

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 22/07/2025

If only! Electoral map the last time Democrats explicitly ran on policies like Zohran Mamdani's:

Electoral map from the 1936 presidential election showing FDR winning every state but New Hampshire and Maine

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 17/07/2025

To me this is the perfect tech bro pitch. Correctly identify a shortcoming in the market but then rather than correcting the underlying issue, just put out an alternate product that makes them the middleman, potentially while circumventing regulations designed for the original middlemen

LinkedIn screenshot from Isaiah N. Granet with the following post: "McKinsey consultants bill $500 an hour to create PowerPoints that AI can now generate in seconds. McKinsey isn't going anywhere.

The paradox makes sense once you realize what companies actually buy. It's not the deck. It's the permission to fire 10,000 people that comes from hearing it from someone in a $3,000 suit who went to Wharton with your board member.

Every industry has these relationship premiums hidden in plain sight. Sommeliers exist because wine descriptions need to come from someone French. Executive recruiters charge 30% of first-year comp to introduce people who are already connected on LinkedIn. Investment bankers take 2% to blessing deals that were decided on the golf course.

These jobs survive automation because they were never about the output. They're about the human need to buy from humans we trust.

At Bland, our AI can explain technical architecture better than most solutions engineers. But Fortune 500s still want to hear it from someone who flew out for the meeting. The flight matters more than the explanation. The expense report is the product.

As AI gets better at everything measurable, the unmeasurable becomes the entire economy. Taste. Judgment. Social proof. The ability to make someone feel heard. The skill of knowing when the client needs good news.

Google's AI can diagnose skin cancer as accurately as dermatologists. Patients still prefer the human doctor. Not because they doubt the AI's competence. Because competence was never the whole job.

The most valuable workers of 2030 won't be the ones who compete with AI. They'll be the ones who make other humans feel comfortable buying from it."

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 15/07/2025

SCOTUS is coming around just in the worst way possible peoplesparityshop.itemorder.com/shop/product...

Black tee shirt with white writing saying "Marbury Was Wrongly Decided"

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 24/06/2025

My parents' shower door just tried to hit me up for $500. What's been going on since I left this place?

Sign written on printer paper taped to a sliding shower door that reads "*Careful* Door is *broke*"

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 14/06/2025

There must be at least one tanker who knows how amazing this would be and can deal with the mountain of shit would come with it

Picture of the container ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 03/06/2025

Forgot how good it is to see a win up on the board! Connecticut will now lead the nation in judicial selection commission reporting, including compiling data on professional background so we can make sure that the people's lawyers have a fair shot at judgeships after passing HB 7041

CT House voting board reflecting unanimous passage of HB 7041

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 22/05/2025

So glad to see HB 7041 pass the Connecticut House today! Critical step in breaking the corporate and prosecutorial dominance of the bench by requiring reports on professional backgrounds of all judicial applicants and approved candidates to deter bias against pro-people attorneys reviewed by the JSC

Picture of the vote tally board in the Connecticut House of Representatives indicating that all members present voted in favor of HB 7041: An Act Concerning the Composition of the Judicial Selection Commission and Decisions Rendered by Said Commission."

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 29/04/2025

As bad as things are, it makes me feel a little better to think of this as the tech bros' future

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 21/04/2025

LAW STUDENTS: last day to pledge not to work for Trump collaborators before the broader release tomorrow! You are the future of the legal profession, and you have more power than you know docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Picture of a protest with young people holding signs and a megaphone. Text says "No labor for collaborators. Stand up to fascism or fail. We are the future of the legal profession, and firms unwilling to stand up for the Constitution are not worth our labor. It's time for firms to defend more than just their bottom line. Sign the pledge here: bit.ly/43JokOa"

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 11/04/2025

Really proud of the law students taking a hard line against collaboration with coercive measures from the Trump administration despite all of the uncertainty as they get ready to graduate. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 09/04/2025

Trump unironically coined the term "shower freedom" here, and I just don't know that planet I'm living on any more

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