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Tim Knauff

@timkjr.bsky.social
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ELCA Lutheran pastor, musician, improviser, computer nerd. Currently fascinated by Gustav Mahler, AI, cognitive science, and historical resistance movements to fascist regimes.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trump stock market:
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Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
To be clear, the U.S. is leveling punishing tariffs on its allies while discussing easing sanctions on Russia.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trump wanted to cut off aid to Ukraine to please his handler Putin. He set up the Oval Office ambush to create an excuse to do so. It's obvious.
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Lil A 🐴💙 @lilatheofficial.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Russian hackers infiltrate our system *every* day. They are constantly looking for persistence (long term access) in our critical infrastructure. If Hegseth thinks that they’re going to stop just because we do, he’s even more out of his depth than I thought.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/03/2025
If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.
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DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion
The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines…
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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“As communion partners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, & as Lutherans concerned with the human rights, dignity & future of all the peoples of Palestine & Israel, we must use our voices, resources & power of prayer at this crucial time.” www.elca.org/news-and-eve...
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Bishop Eaton Issues Response in Support of Jerusalem Patriarchs on Gaza
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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markbartusch.bsky.social @markbartusch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A good run. So who becomes the leader of the free world now?
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 28/02/2025
EXCELLENT thread from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social he gets the threat #ArrestMusk
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Sent a message to all of my immediate family members yesterday asking for 5 things they did last week to be productive members of the family Let them know a failure to respond will be considered a resignation from the family This is how we say we love one another in America
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
He nails it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2025
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling work to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. “We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed.” propub.li/4370xr2
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They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left…
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Yikes.
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If you've ever tried to navigate finding mental health care, this reporting will be hardly surprising. We as a society really, really don't take care of our people when they need help.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Donald 'Art of the Deal' Trump doesn't understand that a deal must first be agreed between both parties before either side can break it. A convicted felon who couldn’t follow the laws of his own country accusing other countries of breaking imaginary deals.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.
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brainthink @brainthink.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Bingo. I keep telling people I know that there’s no grand plan here, or to anything he does. He’s not playing 4D chess. He’s a fascistic sociopath that seeks adoration and applause for everything he does, and he wants to be the focus of EVERYTHING. It’s that simple, folks, don’t overthink it.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
THIS is how you communicate. Say it plain.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It’s normalizing criminality and a constitutional crisis. There is no “DOGE” there is a paramilitary squad of cyber thieves illegally stealing information and sabotaging our government under orders from a white supremacist oligarch aligned against the interests of the people of the USA.
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
...and children will die for weak men's ego. Let's be clear here.
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It is disgusting that Ukraine is being pawned around without being included at the table. This is a blatant example of patronizing colonialism and I'm ashamed my country is host to this.
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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
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The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters.
That's what it's all about.
Truth.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/02/2025
"He keeps showing up." theonion.com/trump-u...
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Trump Unsure What Department He Has To Cut To Make JD Vance Go Away
WASHINGTON—Expressing frustration over the vice president’s continued presence in both the White House and his life, President Donald Trump was reportedly unsure Monday about what department he had to cut to make JD Vance go away. “I’ve tried the Education Department, USAID, the FBI, and still he keeps showing up,” said Trump, who lambasted the […]
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
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Politico @politico.com · 14/02/2025
A growing number of GOP lawmakers are pushing back against Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal government — but they face monumental challenges in getting the White House to spare their constituents from the ax.
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Republicans rush to soften Trump’s cuts
GOP lawmakers try to intervene with the Trump administration as local fallout grows.
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hooray for our farmers! Are you tired of the winning yet?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
PSA: Words matter They aren’t “layoffs” It’s not about “efficiency”
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🏴‍☠️US Marine in SoCal 🏴‍☠️ @usmarine.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
And Galloway for the Distraction…again, :(
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Probably the least surprising thing you'll see today.
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God @thegodshow.com · 16/02/2025
Don’t you just love how the people who wanted school open during the pandemic think we don’t need a Department of Education?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/02/2025
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/02/2025
"The Trump administration is also making clear that any states allowing transgender students to participate in high school athletics are going to be investigated. It’s a stance that makes a mockery of the supposed conservative 'states’ rights' viewpoint."
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Trump has already weaponized the Department of Education
He vowed to kill it. What he's doing to it instead is even worse.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
So, they are - illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress - burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah - reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system - putting backdoors into Treasury This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“Diversity is better for the bottom line,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said. “In a global economy, those who reject the multicultural nature of consumerism and business will be left in the past they are living in.” #DEI apnews.com/article/blac...
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
So, the current administration doesn't believe in taking care of our veterans?
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I am a Lutheran pastor, leading a congregation that is proud of its impact on the lives of our neighbors. While it's somewhat entertaining to think we're gaining notoriety for doing good, the level of ass-headedness here is going to hurt a lot of people.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is such a massive violation of basic privacy rights, and every elected Democrat in Congress should be screaming about the illegality of it and demanding accountability. apnews.com/article/dona...
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Elon Musk's DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources
The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicar...
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Trump’s tariffs are driving up prices for us, while driving down demand for U.S. exports in Canada and Mexico. This why you don’t trust your country’s economic policies to someone who bankrupted 5 casinos.
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Lord, have mercy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025
I would be more inclined to give Elon the benefit of the doubt over the Sieg Heil salute if he hadn't just endorsed the closest thing Germany has today to the Nazi party
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Lizanne Flynn (we/ours) @lizanneflynn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
My take aways from the FB video chat by @hcrichardson.bsky.social today that I needed: The incoming admin is unstable and not equipped to deal within a system that, by itself, has not been updated regularly. Don't watch/react to the Trump "show". 1/
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Tim Knauff @timkjr.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Wait, I thought this was the whole point of the election?
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