Kim Kankiewicz
@kimkankiewicz.bsky.social
Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square 2026). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
This was an especially satisfying and disheartening episode of an always satisfying and disheartening podcast.
Why not slip into our downline and let us sell you this new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social on the gender politics of multi-level marketing, on backlash politics and on garages overflowing with alfalfa supplements! With @bridgetgillard.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 81: MLM Nation with Bridget Read
Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 06/17/2025 · 53m
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June 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This was an especially satisfying and disheartening episode of an always satisfying and disheartening podcast.
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The regime has now arrested, handcuffed/decked:
• Judge
• Member of Congress
• US Senator
• Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/
A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN.
And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.
• Judge
• Member of Congress
• US Senator
• Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/
A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN.
And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.
Here's shortly video of his detention, full video coming.
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The regime has now arrested, handcuffed/decked:
• Judge
• Member of Congress
• US Senator
• Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/
A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN.
And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.
• Judge
• Member of Congress
• US Senator
• Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/
A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN.
And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.
Eager to read this.
Thank you to @Hyperallergic, who writes that I've put forth "stunning new revelations" and
"uncovered astonishing findings" about Rose Valland's remarkable life! Read, watch, or listen to my interview with publication founder @Hrag Vartanian
hyperallergic.com/1014426/rose...
"uncovered astonishing findings" about Rose Valland's remarkable life! Read, watch, or listen to my interview with publication founder @Hrag Vartanian
hyperallergic.com/1014426/rose...
The French Lesbian Curator and Spy Who Saved Art From the Nazis
Michelle Young joins Hrag Vartanian to discuss her new book, which uncovers astonishing findings about the World War II hero.
hyperallergic.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Eager to read this.
I nodded at every sentence of this essay while an automated voice read it to me from my phone.
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. Jia Tolentino writes about how more and more of the world is slipping beyond comprehension.
My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
www.newyorker.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I nodded at every sentence of this essay while an automated voice read it to me from my phone.
Wow, this essay. I drove past that Confederate flag before filling my gas tank in Paducah last week, and I'm finding comfort in sharing the road with @jeanettemrozinski.bsky.social and her witness of resistant beauty.
In this week's Short Reads, Jeanette Mrozinski (@jeanettemrozinski.bsky.social) finds hope in a very unlikely place, and maybe we all can, too.
www.short-reads.org/literally-any/
www.short-reads.org/literally-any/
Literally Any
by Jeanette Mrozinski | In search of hope.
www.short-reads.org
April 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wow, this essay. I drove past that Confederate flag before filling my gas tank in Paducah last week, and I'm finding comfort in sharing the road with @jeanettemrozinski.bsky.social and her witness of resistant beauty.
I have drunk
the third Coke Zero
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for after school
Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
the third Coke Zero
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for after school
Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
April 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I have drunk
the third Coke Zero
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for after school
Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
the third Coke Zero
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for after school
Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
This is the reminder I needed after a family member’s screed about LPJ. Apparently her ownership reveals “Operation Signalgate” as a deep state plot because she’s been photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell and The Atlantic ran a story debunking child pedophile conspiracies.
March 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is the reminder I needed after a family member’s screed about LPJ. Apparently her ownership reveals “Operation Signalgate” as a deep state plot because she’s been photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell and The Atlantic ran a story debunking child pedophile conspiracies.
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@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
urldefense.proofpoint.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
Usually when I hear someone loudly explain something to their table mate at any local coffee shop, it's the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. Today, it's a plan for democratic action. #Missouri #resistance
March 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Usually when I hear someone loudly explain something to their table mate at any local coffee shop, it's the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. Today, it's a plan for democratic action. #Missouri #resistance
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Here we have a Texas government official telling a Baptist minister what they are supposed to believe
Interesting exchange from today's hearing to require the 10 Commandments in schools, during which an ordained minister noted Baptists' long support of church-state separations, prompting a Texas Senator to essentially tell her that protecting said separations isn't a real part of Christian faith.
March 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Here we have a Texas government official telling a Baptist minister what they are supposed to believe
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Please try updating your settings to prompt alt text descriptions with media! 🙏🏽
Under, Accessibility, you can select "Require alt text before posting" to remind you! 👀
That way, if you forget, then you are unable to post until you provide a description of your media! ✨️
February 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Please consider updating this setting & providing alt text for media going forward as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to your posts on BlueSky as those of us who can see that @lambdalegal.bsky.social refused to take just a few minutes to invest in accessibility! 🙏🏽
I frequently think about the beetle sex scene in North Woods and imagine Daniel Mason chortling at his typewriter, delighted by his audacity. #booksky
February 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I frequently think about the beetle sex scene in North Woods and imagine Daniel Mason chortling at his typewriter, delighted by his audacity. #booksky
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Having facilitated a Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity series, which delved into Collective & Ancestral Grief, Disenfranchised & Suffocated Grief, Movement Grief, Anticipatory Grief, Carceral Grief, Disability Grief, Climate Grief, etc, so sharing those resources: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
February 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Having facilitated a Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity series, which delved into Collective & Ancestral Grief, Disenfranchised & Suffocated Grief, Movement Grief, Anticipatory Grief, Carceral Grief, Disability Grief, Climate Grief, etc, so sharing those resources: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
State-sponsored terrorism in our neighborhood.
Homeland Security agents removing employees from Liberty restaurant, in Missouri. #hsi #ICE #immigrants and what do they mean by, "Will be returned when they check out?" Check papers first not an option? Rounding up like #pogroms is?
www.kctv5.com/2025/02/07/h...
www.kctv5.com/2025/02/07/h...
Homeland Security agents seen removing employees from Liberty restaurant
Video and pictures show Homeland Security agents at El Potro Mexican Restaurant in Liberty Friday morning.
www.kctv5.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
State-sponsored terrorism in our neighborhood.
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Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.
January 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.
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I took some time with this. Here is my full report at Law Dork on Trump's order revoking Executive Order 11246: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-fede...
January 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I took some time with this. Here is my full report at Law Dork on Trump's order revoking Executive Order 11246: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-fede...
In a week of upheaval, one executive action feels strikingly surreal to me: the rescission of Executive Order 11246. EO 11246 was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 as part of the enforcement process that gave teeth to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 1/12
January 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
In a week of upheaval, one executive action feels strikingly surreal to me: the rescission of Executive Order 11246. EO 11246 was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 as part of the enforcement process that gave teeth to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 1/12
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A statement alongside my fellow Democratic EEOC Commissioners regarding the rescission of Executive Order 11246.
January 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A statement alongside my fellow Democratic EEOC Commissioners regarding the rescission of Executive Order 11246.
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1. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT "WOKE"
Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors
It has been in place for 60 years
It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II
And now it is gone
Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors
It has been in place for 60 years
It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II
And now it is gone
Trump undercuts enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
For decades, the political right has purported to broadly support the goals of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
popular.info
January 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
1. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT "WOKE"
Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors
It has been in place for 60 years
It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II
And now it is gone
Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors
It has been in place for 60 years
It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II
And now it is gone
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From Naked Pastor: Never apologize for loving.
January 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
From Naked Pastor: Never apologize for loving.
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Thankful for Mother Jones and other media outlets who are shining light on this brazen takeover of the MN House. It’s unprecedented, unlawful and undemocratic. #GOPCoup #Resist @mnhouseinfo #mnleg #mndfl
Trying to make sense of what’s happening right now in the #mnleg? Here’s a good primer.
Republicans attempt power grab in Minnesota
GOP lawmakers are trying to unseat an elected representative and force appointments through without a quorum.
aflcio.mn
January 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
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Here’s an #EssayThread of eight example essays that I handed out to my Nonfiction Workshop students in our final workshop of the semester, which had thematic and craft similarities to their workshop drafts.
December 6, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Here’s an #EssayThread of eight example essays that I handed out to my Nonfiction Workshop students in our final workshop of the semester, which had thematic and craft similarities to their workshop drafts.