Jason Karsh
@jkarsh.bsky.social
Writer. Photographer. Liberal. Obama alum. Petter of dogs. Partaker of libations. Medium: @jkarsh | Instagram: _jkarsh
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Jason Karsh
@jkarsh.bsky.social
· Jun 8
The Tyranny of Tiny Men
The way to fight back is not to give up on anyone. The way forward is to stand with each other, for each other.
medium.com
As the Trump admin predictably rolls the National Guard into the streets and a Republican army of enablers roots for military violence against Americans, some words on why, and the way forward.
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it’s crazy how obvious it is that donald trump has been actively part of the epstein coverup for half a decade now and he’s just still the president
Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
December 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
it’s crazy how obvious it is that donald trump has been actively part of the epstein coverup for half a decade now and he’s just still the president
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RFK Jr and Trump rolled back a Biden regulation that required nursing care homes that received Medicare and Medicaid payments to have a registered nurse on site 24/7.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
December 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
RFK Jr and Trump rolled back a Biden regulation that required nursing care homes that received Medicare and Medicaid payments to have a registered nurse on site 24/7.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
Effective January 1st — those rules no longer apply.
So choose carefully when making medical care decisions for your loved ones.
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New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Oh they completely killed MTV now. parade.com/news/mtv-off...
The MTV You Remember Is Now Officially Gone After 44 Years
MTV ends its iconic music era as it pulls the plug across the globe.
parade.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Oh they completely killed MTV now. parade.com/news/mtv-off...
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Speaking of Rod Serling.... he was dropping bars here... about Black soldiers who were fighting for this country only to come back home and get treated as if they weren't even citizens.... this is an example of a true ally.
He used his voice & his art to speak up & speak out.
He used his voice & his art to speak up & speak out.
June 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Speaking of Rod Serling.... he was dropping bars here... about Black soldiers who were fighting for this country only to come back home and get treated as if they weren't even citizens.... this is an example of a true ally.
He used his voice & his art to speak up & speak out.
He used his voice & his art to speak up & speak out.
Also, to whom? Who exactly is arguing that in good faith?
December 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Also, to whom? Who exactly is arguing that in good faith?
If your friend is out there doing it for the love of the game, you’ll understand.
Is there a term for when your friend isn't texting you back but is posting on social media
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If your friend is out there doing it for the love of the game, you’ll understand.
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Busy
Is there a term for when your friend isn't texting you back but is posting on social media
December 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Busy
I’m not exaggerating when I say this was an almost exact plot-point from the second Blade Runner. And it was not a positive.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’m not exaggerating when I say this was an almost exact plot-point from the second Blade Runner. And it was not a positive.
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Big man first down and almost TD. 💪💪
Bengals OL Cody Ford splits out wide and makes a play!
December 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Big man first down and almost TD. 💪💪
You will be not at all shocked to know that RFK Jr is a complete grifter whose only real goal is self-aggrandizement. But Republicans don’t care, so they put him in charge of public health and will find a way to blame the body count on the rest of us.
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he’s part of an administration embracing it.
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.
Plastic is everywhere—including in us.
www.motherjones.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
You will be not at all shocked to know that RFK Jr is a complete grifter whose only real goal is self-aggrandizement. But Republicans don’t care, so they put him in charge of public health and will find a way to blame the body count on the rest of us.
All praise to the glory. 🙌🙌
Welcome, my sisters and brothers and all beloved siblings, welcome to the Church of Love and Biscuits.
December 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
All praise to the glory. 🙌🙌
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This comes across like you don’t understand that when people are unavailable you just … wait. Instead of doing all this gen AI shit and polluting the earth. Your insistence on using it suggests that you don’t have solid interpersonal relationships. That’s unsettling.
Re people: I have people who I can have valuable discussions with but whose availability is limited. AI also allows useful affordances that humans don't (and vice versa) so they aren't interchangeable.
December 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This comes across like you don’t understand that when people are unavailable you just … wait. Instead of doing all this gen AI shit and polluting the earth. Your insistence on using it suggests that you don’t have solid interpersonal relationships. That’s unsettling.
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Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.
December 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.
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This from Iowa journalist @laurarbelin.bsky.social is so good. Belin - an actual journalist with years experience including covering Russia(!), spells out what it's really like trying to get the govt to comment for stories & why Bari Weiss screwed up.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
On "fair" reporting and what happened at "60 Minutes"
Laura Belin: I was alarmed (though not surprised) when CBS News boss Bari Weiss intervened to stop “60 Minutes” from airing a segment.
www.bleedingheartland.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This from Iowa journalist @laurarbelin.bsky.social is so good. Belin - an actual journalist with years experience including covering Russia(!), spells out what it's really like trying to get the govt to comment for stories & why Bari Weiss screwed up.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...
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Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
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I wasn’t going to read this—I know what Navarro is—but I’m glad I clicked. There are worse people in the world, but never has there been such a crushingly devastating profile. Here is the true, puny, pathetic essence of Trumpism.
“I don’t know why he still goes to work, or if he even knows how boxed out he is. His life is a fiction. He’s not a player at all.“
Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man
The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials.
www.newyorker.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wasn’t going to read this—I know what Navarro is—but I’m glad I clicked. There are worse people in the world, but never has there been such a crushingly devastating profile. Here is the true, puny, pathetic essence of Trumpism.
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This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
Yep, being asked by my mom over the holidays if I would “Move to a foreign country if things get bad here” was a little disconcerting.
Hanging out with German relatives this week and all them have been like, “Oh yeah that’s definitely a Hitler you got there. You wanna fix that now or else you got a REAL problem down the pike.”
December 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Yep, being asked by my mom over the holidays if I would “Move to a foreign country if things get bad here” was a little disconcerting.
*raises hand*
Me. I needed to hear this.
Me. I needed to hear this.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but today is Sunday.
December 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
*raises hand*
Me. I needed to hear this.
Me. I needed to hear this.
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The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.
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Listen, I didn't realize that having a centrist both sides take on "polarization" could make me 70k an hour.
I have changed my mind. The central problems aren't corruption, inequality, and rising militant right wing extremism.
The real issue is that we won't meet in the middle. Please pay me.
I have changed my mind. The central problems aren't corruption, inequality, and rising militant right wing extremism.
The real issue is that we won't meet in the middle. Please pay me.
December 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Listen, I didn't realize that having a centrist both sides take on "polarization" could make me 70k an hour.
I have changed my mind. The central problems aren't corruption, inequality, and rising militant right wing extremism.
The real issue is that we won't meet in the middle. Please pay me.
I have changed my mind. The central problems aren't corruption, inequality, and rising militant right wing extremism.
The real issue is that we won't meet in the middle. Please pay me.
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also, ppl who are mad about or afraid of data centers now when they didn't care before are not being stupid or whatever - it makes sense. if suddenly they started building mcdonalds the size of apartment buildings that increased your power bill by 200% people would be right to be mad about those too
December 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
also, ppl who are mad about or afraid of data centers now when they didn't care before are not being stupid or whatever - it makes sense. if suddenly they started building mcdonalds the size of apartment buildings that increased your power bill by 200% people would be right to be mad about those too
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Make time to cherish family this holiday season
Heard my cousins talking about stranger things and describing a "demogorogon" so I got them super high and I'm showing them The Thing and the amount of screaming happening rn is possibly my greatest accomplishment
December 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Make time to cherish family this holiday season