Kari Sommers
@kariasommers.bsky.social
Writer, mom, wife. Intolerant of intolerance. Frequently described as squirrel-like.
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Is Larry Summers Ruining the Workplace? Yes
- By Elizabeth Warren
- By Elizabeth Warren
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Is Larry Summers Ruining the Workplace? Yes
- By Elizabeth Warren
- By Elizabeth Warren
Every time I’ve read a headline for the last 10 months
a close up of a woman making a funny face with her mouth open .
Alt: Dana Scully looking exasperated
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Every time I’ve read a headline for the last 10 months
I remember learning about oligarchies in social studies as a kid and wondering how the governed tolerated it.
Didn’t really want to learn first-hand.
Didn’t really want to learn first-hand.
One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I remember learning about oligarchies in social studies as a kid and wondering how the governed tolerated it.
Didn’t really want to learn first-hand.
Didn’t really want to learn first-hand.
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“You’ve heard about gerrymandering our vote, gerrymandering our districts. . . [they are also] gerrymandering our history . . . to undermine our ability to link our present to the past.” -- Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw
@kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social of AAPF ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
@kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social of AAPF ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights
To help students respond to the threats to voter suppression, teach about the long history of the fight for voting rights.
www.zinnedproject.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“You’ve heard about gerrymandering our vote, gerrymandering our districts. . . [they are also] gerrymandering our history . . . to undermine our ability to link our present to the past.” -- Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw
@kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social of AAPF ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
@kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social of AAPF ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
Just saw a claim from Fox News that No Kings protestors got $500 each. Times 7 million protestors (on the low end) that’s 3.5 billion dollars. These people expect us to believe someone is spending that to get the US government to…tax billionaires fairly? 🤣🤣🤣
Also, where’s my check?
Also, where’s my check?
October 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Just saw a claim from Fox News that No Kings protestors got $500 each. Times 7 million protestors (on the low end) that’s 3.5 billion dollars. These people expect us to believe someone is spending that to get the US government to…tax billionaires fairly? 🤣🤣🤣
Also, where’s my check?
Also, where’s my check?
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The Portland frog protester has become a WWII-era meme
October 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Portland frog protester has become a WWII-era meme
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
So the vice president decided that it’s better for the administration to claim that a comment made by the president is better played off as a joke he made AT A MEMORIAL SERVICE than taken at face value.
September 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
So the vice president decided that it’s better for the administration to claim that a comment made by the president is better played off as a joke he made AT A MEMORIAL SERVICE than taken at face value.
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How it started How it’s going
Trump rolls back housing discrimination laws he once violated edition
Trump rolls back housing discrimination laws he once violated edition
September 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
How it started How it’s going
Trump rolls back housing discrimination laws he once violated edition
Trump rolls back housing discrimination laws he once violated edition
Incredible that this administration not only manages to blame women for autism rates because we take Tylenol while pregnant (as doctors have recommended for decades), BUT, they also expect pregnant women to simply deal with pain during pregnancy and seek no relief.
September 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Incredible that this administration not only manages to blame women for autism rates because we take Tylenol while pregnant (as doctors have recommended for decades), BUT, they also expect pregnant women to simply deal with pain during pregnancy and seek no relief.
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After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, users may soon confront a different kind of threat, perhaps even worse: an algorithm “controlled by America.”
TikTok's algorithm will soon be "controlled by America"
It is once again time to ditch the machines.
www.motherjones.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, users may soon confront a different kind of threat, perhaps even worse: an algorithm “controlled by America.”
In another Ohio county, Dems were selling buttons at the fair that read “86-47” and “is he dead yet.” The sheriff there is considering charges because those phrases constitutes a “threat” to the president and therefore are not protected speech.
BUT…
BUT…
Ashland County sheriff considering criminal charges over Democrats' Trump buttons at fair
A sheriff is looking into criminal charges against his local Democratic Party for selling buttons that he and some Ashland County fairgoers say can be seen as threatening to President Donald Trump.
www.news5cleveland.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In another Ohio county, Dems were selling buttons at the fair that read “86-47” and “is he dead yet.” The sheriff there is considering charges because those phrases constitutes a “threat” to the president and therefore are not protected speech.
BUT…
BUT…
The FCC has been weaponized against American late-night hosts, despite claims otherwise. Something about the Colbert and Kimmel situations has been tickling my brain, and this morning I realized what. There are so many parallels to
Bassem Youssef in 2013.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...
Bassem Youssef in 2013.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...
Egypt’s censors
Egyptian TV stations have sidelined anti-coup voices since the military takeover in July.
www.aljazeera.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The FCC has been weaponized against American late-night hosts, despite claims otherwise. Something about the Colbert and Kimmel situations has been tickling my brain, and this morning I realized what. There are so many parallels to
Bassem Youssef in 2013.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...
Bassem Youssef in 2013.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...
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Steve Bannon: “If you merge MAHA with MAGA, it’s like 1932. You’ll govern forever.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “100%”.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “100%”.
September 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Steve Bannon: “If you merge MAHA with MAGA, it’s like 1932. You’ll govern forever.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “100%”.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “100%”.
Daughter asked how vaccines work (got her flu shot yesterday). I tried to do a metaphor.
“Have you ever seen a buffalo in person?”
“No.”
“Have you ever seen a picture of a buffalo?”
“I have on a bottle of sauce.”
“Would you know one if you saw it?”
“I don’t know.”
Elephants are a better metaphor.
“Have you ever seen a buffalo in person?”
“No.”
“Have you ever seen a picture of a buffalo?”
“I have on a bottle of sauce.”
“Would you know one if you saw it?”
“I don’t know.”
Elephants are a better metaphor.
September 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Daughter asked how vaccines work (got her flu shot yesterday). I tried to do a metaphor.
“Have you ever seen a buffalo in person?”
“No.”
“Have you ever seen a picture of a buffalo?”
“I have on a bottle of sauce.”
“Would you know one if you saw it?”
“I don’t know.”
Elephants are a better metaphor.
“Have you ever seen a buffalo in person?”
“No.”
“Have you ever seen a picture of a buffalo?”
“I have on a bottle of sauce.”
“Would you know one if you saw it?”
“I don’t know.”
Elephants are a better metaphor.
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Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
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Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
I was half expecting today’s announcement from the Oval Office to be about declaring martial law, so the whole “we’re moving the base” thing hardly registers as news in my brain. This is where we are now.
September 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I was half expecting today’s announcement from the Oval Office to be about declaring martial law, so the whole “we’re moving the base” thing hardly registers as news in my brain. This is where we are now.
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Look at this graph.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
August 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Look at this graph.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
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I have to imagine that for Otis, finding a box that she fits into so precisely must feel the same way it feels for us to find the perfect pair of jeans.
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I have to imagine that for Otis, finding a box that she fits into so precisely must feel the same way it feels for us to find the perfect pair of jeans.
Oh look, it’s my state rep being an embarrassment again.
In Ohio, Republicans seem to not be able to give a general answer to a simple question.
I hope the one is joking with the Jurassic Park answer....
Education, science, and facts matter.
I hope the one is joking with the Jurassic Park answer....
Education, science, and facts matter.
August 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Oh look, it’s my state rep being an embarrassment again.
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Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.