Knud L
@knudl.bsky.social
Retired sociologist, former staff to the Governor's Cabinet Council and Michigan's adult services director.
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Tatiana Schlossberg ripped the damage her cousin, RFK Jr., could cause to future cancer patients.
Cancer Tragedy Kennedy Scion Blasts RFK for War On Healthcare
Tatiana Schlossberg ripped the damage her cousin, RFK Jr., could cause to future cancer patients.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg ripped the damage her cousin, RFK Jr., could cause to future cancer patients.
Setting the record straight.
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Opinion | ‘Things happen’
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Setting the record straight.
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wapo.st/4a02JnI
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Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."
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IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
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Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
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Thank you to the millions of you across the country for keeping the protests peaceful and for demonstrating that we love the American ideals of democracy, equality, and freedom.
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thank you to the millions of you across the country for keeping the protests peaceful and for demonstrating that we love the American ideals of democracy, equality, and freedom.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
October 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)
Cause for concern
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October 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I think Greta Thunberg deserves a @NobelPrize and more.
But what she really wants is an end to the starvation, maiming and killing of Gaza’s entrapped and helpless civilians, - and of course the respect and care our Earth requires
But what she really wants is an end to the starvation, maiming and killing of Gaza’s entrapped and helpless civilians, - and of course the respect and care our Earth requires
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I think Greta Thunberg deserves a @NobelPrize and more.
But what she really wants is an end to the starvation, maiming and killing of Gaza’s entrapped and helpless civilians, - and of course the respect and care our Earth requires
But what she really wants is an end to the starvation, maiming and killing of Gaza’s entrapped and helpless civilians, - and of course the respect and care our Earth requires
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Für das Verständnis der USA ist es wichtig zu verstehen,
wie sehr die aktuelle Regierung und Teile der Bevölkerung von den Ideen des Christlichen Fundamentalismus durchsetzt sind. Die Aussagen im Thread sind gute Beispiele dafür, wie extrem diese Ideen sind. Die USA auf dem Weg zum Gottesstaat.
wie sehr die aktuelle Regierung und Teile der Bevölkerung von den Ideen des Christlichen Fundamentalismus durchsetzt sind. Die Aussagen im Thread sind gute Beispiele dafür, wie extrem diese Ideen sind. Die USA auf dem Weg zum Gottesstaat.
The Kirk memorial service is set up as a religious revival (his killing has been framed that way by Cardinal Dolan & others). The singer says: "We want the Kirk family to be healed, and we want our land to return to Jesus." Christian nationalism had become part of Kirk's brand - it's on full display
September 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Für das Verständnis der USA ist es wichtig zu verstehen,
wie sehr die aktuelle Regierung und Teile der Bevölkerung von den Ideen des Christlichen Fundamentalismus durchsetzt sind. Die Aussagen im Thread sind gute Beispiele dafür, wie extrem diese Ideen sind. Die USA auf dem Weg zum Gottesstaat.
wie sehr die aktuelle Regierung und Teile der Bevölkerung von den Ideen des Christlichen Fundamentalismus durchsetzt sind. Die Aussagen im Thread sind gute Beispiele dafür, wie extrem diese Ideen sind. Die USA auf dem Weg zum Gottesstaat.
A Time to See With New Eyes
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A Time to See With New Eyes
Wow, what a few days.
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September 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A Time to See With New Eyes
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
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Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants:
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
September 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants:
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
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The damage this man has done is incalculable.
August 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov made the same point as @governorwalz.mn.gov Enough of the damn "Dems in disarray" written-on-autopilot coverage. Or "how does this change odds for 2028?"
The country is under attack. That's the story.
The country is under attack. That's the story.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
August 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov made the same point as @governorwalz.mn.gov Enough of the damn "Dems in disarray" written-on-autopilot coverage. Or "how does this change odds for 2028?"
The country is under attack. That's the story.
The country is under attack. That's the story.
"Hitting a hospital isn’t just an accident. It’s the product of a failed strategy and a morally bankrupt leadership."
ILAN GOLDENBERG, AUG 27
ILAN GOLDENBERG, AUG 27
August 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Hitting a hospital isn’t just an accident. It’s the product of a failed strategy and a morally bankrupt leadership."
ILAN GOLDENBERG, AUG 27
ILAN GOLDENBERG, AUG 27
The inequality in wealth and privilege is unimaginable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The inequality in wealth and privilege is unimaginable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
The new decorum of our Republican friends in high places. “Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL! Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are...”
August 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The new decorum of our Republican friends in high places. “Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL! Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are...”
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Trump’s firing of the labor statistics chief is described by the New York Times as a display of “disproportionate intensity.” Get serious, NYT. He’s not just throwing ketchup against the wall — he’s on an autocratic campaign of fraud against the American people.
August 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Trump’s firing of the labor statistics chief is described by the New York Times as a display of “disproportionate intensity.” Get serious, NYT. He’s not just throwing ketchup against the wall — he’s on an autocratic campaign of fraud against the American people.
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Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."
August 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."
Pessimism may be warranted. “The three most powerful men in the world are a walking version of the dark triad: Trump is a textbook narcissist, Putin is a cold psychopath, and Xi Jinping came to rule [China] by being a master Machiavellian manipulator.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Pessimism may be warranted. “The three most powerful men in the world are a walking version of the dark triad: Trump is a textbook narcissist, Putin is a cold psychopath, and Xi Jinping came to rule [China] by being a master Machiavellian manipulator.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This will not serve the public well, not at all!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This will not serve the public well, not at all!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
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We would expect that the extreme uncertainty of the Trump regime would hurt private investment.
It did.
Private domestic investment plummeted by 15.6% in Q2.
This is a key indicator & worse is likely to come.
How can any company pursue serious investment in the US today?
It did.
Private domestic investment plummeted by 15.6% in Q2.
This is a key indicator & worse is likely to come.
How can any company pursue serious investment in the US today?
July 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We would expect that the extreme uncertainty of the Trump regime would hurt private investment.
It did.
Private domestic investment plummeted by 15.6% in Q2.
This is a key indicator & worse is likely to come.
How can any company pursue serious investment in the US today?
It did.
Private domestic investment plummeted by 15.6% in Q2.
This is a key indicator & worse is likely to come.
How can any company pursue serious investment in the US today?