Kiley ☆
@hellokiley.bsky.social
📍the thrift store
Teaching myself embroidery 🪡
Former HS teacher (no, I'm not okay 😩)
Teaching myself embroidery 🪡
Former HS teacher (no, I'm not okay 😩)
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Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...
EMERGENCY RENT FUND: Support Workers in Minnesota
Rent is due FEBRUARY 1st. Support our Emergency Rent Fund for Minnesotan workers and families facing eviction due to ICE Raids. We are calling for a rent moratorium, but regardless of if that happens ...
chuffed.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...
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Philosophy, history, and law were the top of the hierarchy in those spaces. In the "Great books", "reclaim the west" style liberal arts programs, there was a very strong vision of a humanities-driven reclamation of the education system with an agenda through law, education policy, and universities
January 28, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Philosophy, history, and law were the top of the hierarchy in those spaces. In the "Great books", "reclaim the west" style liberal arts programs, there was a very strong vision of a humanities-driven reclamation of the education system with an agenda through law, education policy, and universities
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i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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Look at the hundreds of people in that community in Minneapolis who ran TOWARDS the danger. Look at those who documented in their heads what happened so they could accurately recount it afterwards, look at those currently out protesting. Pay attention & do your part too.
January 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Look at the hundreds of people in that community in Minneapolis who ran TOWARDS the danger. Look at those who documented in their heads what happened so they could accurately recount it afterwards, look at those currently out protesting. Pay attention & do your part too.
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Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.
January 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.
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If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
January 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
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Crying at Ronald Reagan bearing silent witness
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Crying at Ronald Reagan bearing silent witness
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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There are more severe consequences for making unsavory social media posts than there are for being a pedophile
September 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
There are more severe consequences for making unsavory social media posts than there are for being a pedophile
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If this is what they're getting caught on camera doing--to teenage US citizens--just imagine what they're doing that we don't see.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If this is what they're getting caught on camera doing--to teenage US citizens--just imagine what they're doing that we don't see.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt.
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
July 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt.
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
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really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad
July 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad
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they don't let women have big pockets because they know we will pick up birds and put them in there
June 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
they don't let women have big pockets because they know we will pick up birds and put them in there
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Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!
June 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!
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June 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine
www.nytimes.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
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Love living through one of those garbage centuries that they’re always crapping on in Star Trek
June 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Love living through one of those garbage centuries that they’re always crapping on in Star Trek
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...
Low-Risk Flier
On bureaucracy, and confronting my inner fascist
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...
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How can people say Oregon's drug decriminalization effort failed, when it was never implemented properly? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Oregon spent funds meant for addiction services on prosecutors and police gadgets
As the state abandons decriminalization, treatment grants are going to sheriffs and district attorneys: ‘that might be two or three case managers’
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
How can people say Oregon's drug decriminalization effort failed, when it was never implemented properly? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...