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Working to strengthen democracy and build learning systems that equip every Kentuckian to flourish.

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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kentucky is 4 local time. Folks on Central time still have a few minutes, but things are locked down already for most of the state.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The hush money was for something specific. www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/u...
nytimes.com
Dennis Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months, and Apologizes for Sex Abuse (Gift Article)
The former House speaker faced up to five years for his effort to cover up his sexual abuse of high school wrestlers he coached.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ll see your Grand Teton desecration and raise you selling arms to our leading military rival. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If your bill passes, how will it change employer plans that cover families?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are SO many ways to avoid facing the reality loaded into the words “systemic” and “complicit.” I’m grateful that this piece is into facing truths, naming them, and putting in work.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He was a Radical Republican, which was as far toward human equality as a person could get and hold office at the time, and Secretary of the Treasury during the great fight for liberty and union.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Grateful for Bishop Budde.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In my long-gone childhood, a 20-ounce restaurant drink let you choose: finish quickly or open a a second straw when the first goes soft. It was a regular inconvenience. It wasn’t a horror. (Shampoo in glass bottle? That was a regular source of terror.)
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
People walked across the bridges.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"But for whatever reasons, probably cultural, probably profound, little of the sort happened among these ruins..." shaped my life. That model of show-up-and-do has followed me everywhere. I'm glad to have the exact citation again.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lexington (Ky) Herald-Leader pretty much slaughtered.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kentucky desperately needs journalism and new ways to pay our journalists. I’m sorry we’re losing your needed talents, Tessa.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Noticing the market response. It’s smaller than a yawn.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Was it September 12th? Or 13th? VP Cheney appeared on television and said that clearly we needed a new Department of Homeland Security and laid out the main elements of the power play in maybe 90 seconds. He hadn't built that plan overnight: it was a strategy with years of thinking behind it.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yeah, but they work for the paint-it-gold guy who is bankrolled by the we-are-western-civ punks. They want a little glam on their treasure hoards.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remembering when the Times reported on remarks by “Mrs. Abzug and Miss Steinem.”
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Cycling like the Dutch” entails the infrastructure of cycling like the Dutch.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
August 20 seems difficult?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They were filed in a box marked "Afghan Withdrawal" in. a room marked "Mission Records 2021-2024, but the guys only thought to look in the room this summer and got to the box this week.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Already a fan, now looking forward to rereading his whole opus as geopolitical.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And the babies too young to get the shots, and the folks taking immunosuppressant medications, and folks whose immune systems are otherwise weakened.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Different take: “Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.”
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Which five are without?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It’s spelled Beshear, and the brand is working to solve solvable problems for people in Kentucky.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Cheerfully, we can be sure about dogs that haven’t barked. The agents and agency haven’t said he had a gun or knife. Therefore, we know there was no weapon like that. Similarly, they haven’t claimed any of THEM were endangered by a moving vehicle, so that also didn’t happen.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Govote.ky.gov and first two hours of no-excuse early (small obligation to consult others on precise time).
govote.ky.gov
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On Chief Justice Roberts’ telling, it was common law long long before that. The Dred Scott ruling was an aberation, and the 14th restored the original rules.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Growl.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Do we need to go over the word "whosoever" AGAIN?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I’d prefer evidence. I would never *assume* that someone can tell me what I can wave or wear at a sporting event. Individual liberty is the default. Control by others has to be justified.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
In the USA, when someone tells a ticket holder what she can’t carry or wear, that notice needs to be very easy to find and very clearly from someone with authority to create that rule. The ticket buyer isn’t obligated to know 40 years of history.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yep.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I have not been able to locate sentences that support your claim here:
Image of earlier exchange.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This one loaded first. I haven’t spotted the part where the stadium gave FIFA employees enforcement powers.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Show me the reporting on this?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Did they post signs at the door showing which flags were banned?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
True, but she doesn’t appear to represent a stadium.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Please don’t speak of humans as trash. It’s an old class-based cliche we should all set aside.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I'd expect an 1875 cabinet member with a spouse and one child to have a household of six or more? Plus dinner guests?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Our family television was in our bedroom, and I stood up on the bed. I don’t need that level of excitement, but I sure do miss it.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Five games and a pie in his face is bigger and better.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Is this number also smaller than all people detained with ICE paying for them to be held?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
That picture is not four pillars in front of a domed building.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
April 12, 1861.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Polls have been closed in western Kentucky for nine minutes.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Money is flowing toward capital and away from labor. In Hassett’s world, that’s great news.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Respectful dissent: I loved seminars. I lived seminars. I chose Swarthmore to get seminars. And I am 100% clear that if I can still hear the seminar in a candidate's stump speech, that is grounds for to be very wary indeed.
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Even a column this excellent needs to be linked to earlier analysis of the same events…. youtu.be/ffII2JejUYg
youtu.be
Where You're Going: The Upscale Beer for Yuppies - Saturday Night Live
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
@nickjudin.bsky.social did the main work on this story and @mississippifreepress.org published it. Why aren’t they named in your piece?
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SPWeston @spweston.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Ain’t gonna let John Roberts Turn me around Turn me around
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