Karen
@takeahike47.bsky.social
Environmental Educator, Professor of Academic Writing, Compassionate human being.
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Second Amendment for me but not for thee.
September 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Second Amendment for me but not for thee.
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People need to understand what's happening today: Trump sent the FBI to investigate one of his most prominent critics, and then threatened to military occupy multiple US cities.
He's trying to become a full dictator who makes it illegal to oppose him.
He's trying to become a full dictator who makes it illegal to oppose him.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
August 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
People need to understand what's happening today: Trump sent the FBI to investigate one of his most prominent critics, and then threatened to military occupy multiple US cities.
He's trying to become a full dictator who makes it illegal to oppose him.
He's trying to become a full dictator who makes it illegal to oppose him.
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New edition of the Democracy Atlas coming out tomorrow! Looking for lessons and inspiration from others who have navigated authoritarian threats across the world? This is for you.
Read more about the series here and share with other democracy defenders. ⬇️ www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/eight-rule...
Read more about the series here and share with other democracy defenders. ⬇️ www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/eight-rule...
Eight rules of antiauthoritarianism
Introducing the Democracy Atlas
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
New edition of the Democracy Atlas coming out tomorrow! Looking for lessons and inspiration from others who have navigated authoritarian threats across the world? This is for you.
Read more about the series here and share with other democracy defenders. ⬇️ www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/eight-rule...
Read more about the series here and share with other democracy defenders. ⬇️ www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/eight-rule...
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This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal
Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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What national security cases are these folks not working now? Organized crime, counter intelligence, corporate crime, child abuse?
August 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What national security cases are these folks not working now? Organized crime, counter intelligence, corporate crime, child abuse?
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"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
www.motherjones.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
Priorities. Meanwhile, low income kids are losing their funding for school lunch. More starving kids, but at least we are getting rid of all the immigrants...
A recent large deportation flight to Southeast Asia likely cost around $1.5 million to operate, to give you some sense of how expensive these are.
of about 55 hours. At a reported cost per hour of $28k the cost will be conservatively over $1.5 mill in operating costs to deport slightly over 100 people based on unofficial reports. But we can’t afford SNAP.
August 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Priorities. Meanwhile, low income kids are losing their funding for school lunch. More starving kids, but at least we are getting rid of all the immigrants...
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A D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer—who was attacked while defending the Capitol building on January 6—noted that the troops Trump has stationed in D.C. are not exactly cut out for the job.
“I can tell you that this is not what they’re trained to do."
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“I can tell you that this is not what they’re trained to do."
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August 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer—who was attacked while defending the Capitol building on January 6—noted that the troops Trump has stationed in D.C. are not exactly cut out for the job.
“I can tell you that this is not what they’re trained to do."
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“I can tell you that this is not what they’re trained to do."
trib.al/jxWEGK9
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Foreign nationals applying for student and exchange visitors visas will be asked to set their social media profiles to public, and the U.S. State Department said failure to do so would raise red flags.
U.S. orders social media vetting for student visa applicants
The move steps up measures to restrict foreign nationals’ entry to American campuses over national security concerns.
www.japantimes.co.jp
June 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Foreign nationals applying for student and exchange visitors visas will be asked to set their social media profiles to public, and the U.S. State Department said failure to do so would raise red flags.
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A majority of supporters of Donald Trump are against US military involvement in Israel’s conflict with Iran, a poll published Wednesday found.
Majority of Trump supporters against US military involvement in Israel-Iran conflict, poll finds
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A majority of supporters of Donald Trump are against US military involvement in Israel’s conflict with Iran, a poll published Wednesday found.
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It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
June 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway
Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.
Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.
March 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway
Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.
Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.
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very informative about public lands and states
Hey folks: I’m going to interview journalist Wes Siler about the proposed privatization of public lands. At my pages on and Facebook at 10:05 this morning. Posted there afterward, too.
March 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
very informative about public lands and states
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It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
June 1, 2024 at 11:37 AM
It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies
Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies
In Friday memo, president also pulls clearances for Antony Blinken, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Letitia James
Donald Trump moved to revoke security clearances for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and a string of other top Democrats and political enemies in a presidential memo issued late on Friday.
The security-clearance revocations also cover the former secretary of state Antony Blinken, the former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, the former Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump for fraud, as well as Biden’s entire family. They all will no longer have access to classified information – a courtesy typically offered to former presidents and some officials after they have left public service. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies
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Meet the Conservatives Standing Up to Trump
“I don’t want to be alarmist, but the situation is quite alarming," says a former Rubio adviser who is helping lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance.
zeteo.com/p/conservati...
“I don’t want to be alarmist, but the situation is quite alarming," says a former Rubio adviser who is helping lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance.
zeteo.com/p/conservati...
Meet the Conservatives Standing Up to Trump
“I don’t want to be alarmist, but the situation is quite alarming," says a former Rubio adviser who is helping lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance.
zeteo.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Meet the Conservatives Standing Up to Trump
“I don’t want to be alarmist, but the situation is quite alarming," says a former Rubio adviser who is helping lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance.
zeteo.com/p/conservati...
“I don’t want to be alarmist, but the situation is quite alarming," says a former Rubio adviser who is helping lead the small, but vocal conservative legal resistance.
zeteo.com/p/conservati...
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Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100B in taxes and receive no benefits or representation. Trump is about to explode the deficit by using the SSA to find and deport them. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...
IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants
The move toward information-sharing comes as President Donald Trump pushes his administration to use every resource to conduct what he hopes will be the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. ...
www.washingtonpost.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100B in taxes and receive no benefits or representation. Trump is about to explode the deficit by using the SSA to find and deport them. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...
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I keep updating this list of public employees erased from government websites, and it keeps getting simultaneously more ridiculous and more illuminating
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
bsky.app/profile/pink...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
bsky.app/profile/pink...
March 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I keep updating this list of public employees erased from government websites, and it keeps getting simultaneously more ridiculous and more illuminating
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
bsky.app/profile/pink...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
bsky.app/profile/pink...
Watch.
A really powerful WWII era "don't be a sucker" piece, that explains how authoritarians have to separate and destroy groups of people so they can take power. I don't usually watch anything this long (22 min) but couldn't stop watching once I started this.
Please watch and rewatch this movie, in the U.S. Archives from the @usarmy.bsky.social #DontBeASucker a reminder of how the Nazis conned their country into becoming the cause of mass murder and all the other horrors that Nazis unleash. The lessons are true for the USA🇺🇸 , in 2025 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
March 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Watch.
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The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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Economic uncertainty, shifting gender roles, and a crisis of purpose have left young men vulnerable to far-right "alpha-male" influencers. @oliviajulianna.bsky.social explores the new era of online extremism, how we got here & how to change course.
The masculinity crisis: How economic struggles and Andrew Tate are radicalizing young men
With housing out of reach, wages stagnant, and traditional career paths fading, young men are searching for a sense of purpose—and finding it in all the wrong places.
contrarian.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Economic uncertainty, shifting gender roles, and a crisis of purpose have left young men vulnerable to far-right "alpha-male" influencers. @oliviajulianna.bsky.social explores the new era of online extremism, how we got here & how to change course.
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Safety researchers claim Elon Musk’s auto company has a long history of potentially misleading stats. Now it looks like DOGE is following suit.
DOGE’s Dodgy Numbers Employ a Tesla Technique
Safety researchers claim Elon Musk’s auto company has a long history of potentially misleading stats. Now it looks like DOGE is following suit.
wrd.cm
March 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Safety researchers claim Elon Musk’s auto company has a long history of potentially misleading stats. Now it looks like DOGE is following suit.