K Buss
@kbird28.bsky.social
I have more aspirations than accomplishments and more anxiety than action; I am a lover of tea and good stories and the silence of wild places, of sun on my face, gravel under my bike, and boulders beneath my hands.
It’s terrifying to imagine a 7th grade boy (like my son) having to endure something like this. This is so very wrong.
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It’s terrifying to imagine a 7th grade boy (like my son) having to endure something like this. This is so very wrong.
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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A masked ICE agent sprayed Pastor David Black of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in his face.
📸 Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times
📸 Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A masked ICE agent sprayed Pastor David Black of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in his face.
📸 Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times
📸 Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times
That’s not how science works omg this is painful
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
That’s not how science works omg this is painful
This is a really good article - it’s a month old but quite relevant now with RFK’s announcements about causes and “cures” for autism.
It’s hard to believe he actually cares about autism when he kills funding for people who have been studying it for years with dedication and rigor.
It’s hard to believe he actually cares about autism when he kills funding for people who have been studying it for years with dedication and rigor.
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
www.propublica.org
September 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
This is a really good article - it’s a month old but quite relevant now with RFK’s announcements about causes and “cures” for autism.
It’s hard to believe he actually cares about autism when he kills funding for people who have been studying it for years with dedication and rigor.
It’s hard to believe he actually cares about autism when he kills funding for people who have been studying it for years with dedication and rigor.
Just for something that’s not depressing 😊 what a great shot of this bear
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Just for something that’s not depressing 😊 what a great shot of this bear
It doesn’t bode well for society when people are increasingly convinced that the peaceful norms for civil discussion and representative government are insufficient and that violence is the only remaining response. But the rampant corruption and hate in power now encourages that belief.
JUST IN: Charlie Kirk, the conservative firebrand and founder of Turning Point USA, has reportedly been shot at a Utah Valley University event in Orem, Utah.
Charlie Kirk reportedly shot at Utah college event
Charlie Kirk, the conservative firebrand and founder of Turning Point USA, has reportedly been shot at a Utah Valley University event in Orem, Utah.
bit.ly
September 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It doesn’t bode well for society when people are increasingly convinced that the peaceful norms for civil discussion and representative government are insufficient and that violence is the only remaining response. But the rampant corruption and hate in power now encourages that belief.
Wow Alabama. This has got to be one of the worst book bans I’ve heard of - banning ‘positive descriptions’ only of trans people, to the extreme of banning this picture book, which I actually thought of in terms of neurodivergence when I first read it.
7. Even Red: A Crayon’s Story—a book about a blue crayon mislabeled as red, meant to teach kids about resisting labels and being your own person—has made the list.
September 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wow Alabama. This has got to be one of the worst book bans I’ve heard of - banning ‘positive descriptions’ only of trans people, to the extreme of banning this picture book, which I actually thought of in terms of neurodivergence when I first read it.
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The Supreme Court just decided that it’s okay for ICE to profile people for the way they look or the language they speak.
Arizona has been here before and we remember the damage it caused in our communities. This is unacceptable.
Arizona has been here before and we remember the damage it caused in our communities. This is unacceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Supreme Court just decided that it’s okay for ICE to profile people for the way they look or the language they speak.
Arizona has been here before and we remember the damage it caused in our communities. This is unacceptable.
Arizona has been here before and we remember the damage it caused in our communities. This is unacceptable.
Yay Arizona 😊
In 2022, Arizona got rid of peremptory strikes—the primary tool used throughout most of the 20th century to prevent people of color from serving on juries. So far, the state's innovative move appears to be paying off.
Jury Selection Changes in Arizona Lead to More Representative Juries
Unrepresentative juries exclude and marginalize communities of color.
eji.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Yay Arizona 😊
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.
https://to.pbs.org/4naCsqj
https://to.pbs.org/4naCsqj
U.S. revokes visas of Palestinian president, other officials ahead of UN General Assembly
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step ...
www.pbs.org
August 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.
https://to.pbs.org/4naCsqj
https://to.pbs.org/4naCsqj
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I think this is right.
The DOE Secretary: “Wright – whose department has bizarrely [has] taken to tweeting pictures of lumps of coal with the words ‘She’s an icon. She’s a legend.’”
& while shutting down solar & wind in stupid & expensive ways, they’re propping up coal & gas. shorturl.at/AeaS6
The DOE Secretary: “Wright – whose department has bizarrely [has] taken to tweeting pictures of lumps of coal with the words ‘She’s an icon. She’s a legend.’”
& while shutting down solar & wind in stupid & expensive ways, they’re propping up coal & gas. shorturl.at/AeaS6
A coal-fired plant in Michigan was to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1m a day
A town had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week
shorturl.at
August 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I think this is right.
The DOE Secretary: “Wright – whose department has bizarrely [has] taken to tweeting pictures of lumps of coal with the words ‘She’s an icon. She’s a legend.’”
& while shutting down solar & wind in stupid & expensive ways, they’re propping up coal & gas. shorturl.at/AeaS6
The DOE Secretary: “Wright – whose department has bizarrely [has] taken to tweeting pictures of lumps of coal with the words ‘She’s an icon. She’s a legend.’”
& while shutting down solar & wind in stupid & expensive ways, they’re propping up coal & gas. shorturl.at/AeaS6
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Arizona Democrats React Mad King-American Duce Wannabe Trump Wanting to Take Away Mail-In Voting
In yet another posting on truth social filled with falsehoods and outlandish big lie statements, Liar in Chief, Felon in Chief, American Duce Wannabe, Twice Impeached, and Mad King Donald Trump has…
In yet another posting on truth social filled with falsehoods and outlandish big lie statements, Liar in Chief, Felon in Chief, American Duce Wannabe, Twice Impeached, and Mad King Donald Trump has…
Arizona Democrats React Mad King-American Duce Wannabe Trump Wanting to Take Away Mail-In Voting
In yet another posting on truth social filled with falsehoods and outlandish big lie statements, Liar in Chief, Felon in Chief, American Duce Wannabe, Twice Impeached, and Mad King Donald Trump has again threatened to undo the foundations of the American Democratic Republic by issuing an Executive Order that would Unconstitutionally strip away people's ability to vote by mail. During a White House Oval Office event with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mr.
blogforarizona.net
August 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Arizona Democrats React Mad King-American Duce Wannabe Trump Wanting to Take Away Mail-In Voting
In yet another posting on truth social filled with falsehoods and outlandish big lie statements, Liar in Chief, Felon in Chief, American Duce Wannabe, Twice Impeached, and Mad King Donald Trump has…
In yet another posting on truth social filled with falsehoods and outlandish big lie statements, Liar in Chief, Felon in Chief, American Duce Wannabe, Twice Impeached, and Mad King Donald Trump has…
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So when you are suffering or dying waiting to get admitted to the ER, you can thank Trump and MAGA for their Big Ugly Betrayal Bill.
So when you are suffering or dying waiting to get admitted to the ER, you can thank Trump and MAGA for their Big Ugly Betrayal Bill.
Trump's Medicaid cuts will hurt every Arizonan, not just those who lose coverage
Arizona health officials warn Medicaid cuts will affect all residents with higher costs, longer waits
azmirror.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
azmirror.com/2025/08/14/t...
So when you are suffering or dying waiting to get admitted to the ER, you can thank Trump and MAGA for their Big Ugly Betrayal Bill.
So when you are suffering or dying waiting to get admitted to the ER, you can thank Trump and MAGA for their Big Ugly Betrayal Bill.
This is hilarious considering how hyped AI is.
And also infuriating given how unsustainable they are…
And also infuriating given how unsustainable they are…
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This is hilarious considering how hyped AI is.
And also infuriating given how unsustainable they are…
And also infuriating given how unsustainable they are…
One of my eight year old daughter’s best friends has MAGA parents and it makes it very hard to want to set up play dates. His mom isn’t someone I’d hang out with in terms of personality or shared interests either. Any tips for handling the situation and my own feelings about it?
August 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
One of my eight year old daughter’s best friends has MAGA parents and it makes it very hard to want to set up play dates. His mom isn’t someone I’d hang out with in terms of personality or shared interests either. Any tips for handling the situation and my own feelings about it?
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This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
August 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.
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There have been a lot of terrible days in the last year, but August 1 stands out for how clarifying it was in its shitiness.
August 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
There have been a lot of terrible days in the last year, but August 1 stands out for how clarifying it was in its shitiness.
The subculture I grew up in that emphasized truth, logical thinking, and free speech is embracing falsehood, manipulating people to doubt verifiable facts, and suppressing differing opinions. It feels like a complete betrayal even though I can now see the through line of it in recent history.
With Trump's executive orders on AI, tech companies will amass fortunes, and Trump, the wannabe autocrat, gets to control what AI “thinks.”
What’s at risk is merely civilization as we know it and the truth.
What’s at risk is merely civilization as we know it and the truth.
The Trumpification of AI: What Could Go Wrong?
Trump lets Big Tech run wild—as long as its chatbots accept his lies.
www.motherjones.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The subculture I grew up in that emphasized truth, logical thinking, and free speech is embracing falsehood, manipulating people to doubt verifiable facts, and suppressing differing opinions. It feels like a complete betrayal even though I can now see the through line of it in recent history.
Birds are so cool.
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Birds are so cool.
Mesa’s non discrimination order has always been a point of pride for me as a city resident. And the whole recall election in the first place is so stupid - it’s a non partisan council and some lady decided to critique her as not having sufficiently conservative Republican values…
Dorean Taylor speaking at a Mesa City Council meeting back in April. Here she talks about wanting the non discrimination ordinance removed specifically to discriminate against transgender people. Sorry for the bigoted commentary here but Mesa folks can’t sleep on this recall election.
July 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Mesa’s non discrimination order has always been a point of pride for me as a city resident. And the whole recall election in the first place is so stupid - it’s a non partisan council and some lady decided to critique her as not having sufficiently conservative Republican values…
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1868: The 14th Amendment is formally adopted, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. The Amendment resolved the question of citizenship of formerly enslaved people, and guaranteed to all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” /1
Today in history, 1868: The 14th Amendment is formally adopted, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. The Amendment resolved the question of citizenship of formerly enslaved people, and guaranteed to all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” /1
July 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1868: The 14th Amendment is formally adopted, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. The Amendment resolved the question of citizenship of formerly enslaved people, and guaranteed to all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” /1
Today in history, 1868: The 14th Amendment is formally adopted, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. The Amendment resolved the question of citizenship of formerly enslaved people, and guaranteed to all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” /1
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UPDATE: Israeli soldiers have BOARDED the Handala aid flotilla.
Cameras being shut down.
Volunteers’ hands are up.
The ship seeking to give aid to Palestinians is carrying volunteers from the US, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Australia, and more.
Cameras being shut down.
Volunteers’ hands are up.
The ship seeking to give aid to Palestinians is carrying volunteers from the US, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Australia, and more.
July 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
UPDATE: Israeli soldiers have BOARDED the Handala aid flotilla.
Cameras being shut down.
Volunteers’ hands are up.
The ship seeking to give aid to Palestinians is carrying volunteers from the US, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Australia, and more.
Cameras being shut down.
Volunteers’ hands are up.
The ship seeking to give aid to Palestinians is carrying volunteers from the US, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Australia, and more.