The Writing Kit
@thewritingkit.bsky.social
St. Clement’s Episcopal Church People & Pets Ministry Leader.
Retired freelance writer and editor.
My passions include animals, Creation, and good storytelling.
Retired freelance writer and editor.
My passions include animals, Creation, and good storytelling.
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So Trump would not qualify for a US visa?
The Trump administration directed visa officers to consider obesity — and other chronic health conditions such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes — as reasons to deny foreigners visas to the U.S.
U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says
The Trump administration has directed visa officers to consider obesity and other chronic health conditions when deciding whether to grant visas to immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So Trump would not qualify for a US visa?
This is horrendous. Having a dependent with a disability is disqualifying. Also dependents who require elderly care. And many more.
The Trump administration directed visa officers to consider obesity — and other chronic health conditions such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes — as reasons to deny foreigners visas to the U.S.
U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says
The Trump administration has directed visa officers to consider obesity and other chronic health conditions when deciding whether to grant visas to immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is horrendous. Having a dependent with a disability is disqualifying. Also dependents who require elderly care. And many more.
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The pundit and political class tended to downplay the Epstein Files because they believed it too salacious and not serious enough to drive government policy and decision-making. Except, they are doing just that. Dismissing the importance of the Files ignores who Trump is and who he has always been.
It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The pundit and political class tended to downplay the Epstein Files because they believed it too salacious and not serious enough to drive government policy and decision-making. Except, they are doing just that. Dismissing the importance of the Files ignores who Trump is and who he has always been.
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EPSTEIN: even today, after the release of the key Epstein-Maxwell emails in which Epstein says Trump knew about the "girls" but hasn't "barked" (presumably, talked), the NYT reports that the WH is intensely pressuring the House NOT to vote to release more? How much worse is what we have not seen?
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
EPSTEIN: even today, after the release of the key Epstein-Maxwell emails in which Epstein says Trump knew about the "girls" but hasn't "barked" (presumably, talked), the NYT reports that the WH is intensely pressuring the House NOT to vote to release more? How much worse is what we have not seen?
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For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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@TheRickWilson : "The Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, “We killed Obamacare at last!”" https://open.substack.com/pub/therickwilson/p/schumer-and-the-hateful-eight-betray?r=2lckc&utm_medium=ios
Schumer and the Hateful Eight Betray America
A new low for the Democratic Senate
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
@TheRickWilson : "The Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, “We killed Obamacare at last!”" https://open.substack.com/pub/therickwilson/p/schumer-and-the-hateful-eight-betray?r=2lckc&utm_medium=ios
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
@kenmartin.bsky.social
Please recruit candidates to primary every single senator who surrenders to the Republicans on the shutdown and does not stand up for healthcare for Americans.
Please recruit candidates to primary every single senator who surrenders to the Republicans on the shutdown and does not stand up for healthcare for Americans.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
@kenmartin.bsky.social
Please recruit candidates to primary every single senator who surrenders to the Republicans on the shutdown and does not stand up for healthcare for Americans.
Please recruit candidates to primary every single senator who surrenders to the Republicans on the shutdown and does not stand up for healthcare for Americans.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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Help keep people and their pets together this holiday season! Our Pet Food Bank Distributions help struggling families. Please donate pet food directly or through Chewy at www.chewy.com/g/st-clement...
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Help keep people and their pets together this holiday season! Our Pet Food Bank Distributions help struggling families. Please donate pet food directly or through Chewy at www.chewy.com/g/st-clement...
“They are scared of prayer.”
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“They are scared of prayer.”
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Brother Warnock lays it plain.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Brother Warnock lays it plain.
Oh, spare me!
One clear message from yesterday’s voters, across the spectrum: Republican mudslinging & fear mongering Don’t. Feed. My. Family.
One clear message from yesterday’s voters, across the spectrum: Republican mudslinging & fear mongering Don’t. Feed. My. Family.
Zohran Mamdani’s joyful campaign made New Yorkers feel good. But in the long run, his victory could make Republican strategists feel even better econ.st/43ensjw
Illustration: Rose Wong
Illustration: Rose Wong
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Oh, spare me!
One clear message from yesterday’s voters, across the spectrum: Republican mudslinging & fear mongering Don’t. Feed. My. Family.
One clear message from yesterday’s voters, across the spectrum: Republican mudslinging & fear mongering Don’t. Feed. My. Family.
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What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.
September 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.
You go, Pete!@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Pete Buttigieg responded to Kamala Harris' assertion that it would've been too risky to have a Black woman and a gay man running on the same ticket, saying: "Politics is about the results we can get for people, and not about all these other things."
Buttigieg "surprised" at Harris' reason for not making him her VP pick
"I just believe in giving Americans more credit," he told Politico.
www.axios.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
You go, Pete!@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
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In New Mexico, we love our green chile dip, and kids love their half-pint milk cartons. Even more, we appreciate the workers that produce them. They deserve respect and a fair contract.
I will always stand with unions in demanding fair pay, good benefits, and safe working conditions.
I will always stand with unions in demanding fair pay, good benefits, and safe working conditions.
September 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
In New Mexico, we love our green chile dip, and kids love their half-pint milk cartons. Even more, we appreciate the workers that produce them. They deserve respect and a fair contract.
I will always stand with unions in demanding fair pay, good benefits, and safe working conditions.
I will always stand with unions in demanding fair pay, good benefits, and safe working conditions.
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Watch for these moves in the coming days:
1.) Instant sanctification by the leader
2.) Rituals that migrate into rallies
3.) Attribution-before-evidence
4.) Policy ratchet tied to grief: calls for emergency powers, campus purges
5.) Merchandising the memory,
1.) Instant sanctification by the leader
2.) Rituals that migrate into rallies
3.) Attribution-before-evidence
4.) Policy ratchet tied to grief: calls for emergency powers, campus purges
5.) Merchandising the memory,
When Tragedy Becomes Theatre - Don’t Let Them “Horst Wessel” Charlie Kirk
The warning isn’t about equivalence; it’s about a tactic. Authoritarians turn death into myth, grief into mobilization, they are experts at turning funerals into furnaces. Resist the myth-making
belib.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Watch for these moves in the coming days:
1.) Instant sanctification by the leader
2.) Rituals that migrate into rallies
3.) Attribution-before-evidence
4.) Policy ratchet tied to grief: calls for emergency powers, campus purges
5.) Merchandising the memory,
1.) Instant sanctification by the leader
2.) Rituals that migrate into rallies
3.) Attribution-before-evidence
4.) Policy ratchet tied to grief: calls for emergency powers, campus purges
5.) Merchandising the memory,
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No one in this country should have to fear gun violence, whether they're in class in high school or attending an event on a college campus.
I strongly condemn the shooting that killed Charlie Kirk today at Utah Valley University.
May his memory be a blessing.
I strongly condemn the shooting that killed Charlie Kirk today at Utah Valley University.
May his memory be a blessing.
September 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
No one in this country should have to fear gun violence, whether they're in class in high school or attending an event on a college campus.
I strongly condemn the shooting that killed Charlie Kirk today at Utah Valley University.
May his memory be a blessing.
I strongly condemn the shooting that killed Charlie Kirk today at Utah Valley University.
May his memory be a blessing.
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Here's a lengthy, nuanced, and thoughtful new interview with Pete:
www.gq.com/story/pete-b...
It's part of a series that GQ is doing on American men. I don't love the title they chose, but the discussion itself is worth reading.
#Buttigieg
www.gq.com/story/pete-b...
It's part of a series that GQ is doing on American men. I don't love the title they chose, but the discussion itself is worth reading.
#Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg Has a Case to Make to American Men
The Democrat and former Secretary of Transportation admits liberals’ mistakes, warns about the risks of the current administration, and extols the virtues of friendship, partying, and domestic life.
www.gq.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Here's a lengthy, nuanced, and thoughtful new interview with Pete:
www.gq.com/story/pete-b...
It's part of a series that GQ is doing on American men. I don't love the title they chose, but the discussion itself is worth reading.
#Buttigieg
www.gq.com/story/pete-b...
It's part of a series that GQ is doing on American men. I don't love the title they chose, but the discussion itself is worth reading.
#Buttigieg
Horrific to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot today in Utah. Political violence must be always and totally rejected. Praying for him and all who may have been injured or impacted.
September 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
If this is how you”support” workers, Senator, I can’t support you. Hard NO!
In April, @slotkin.senate.gov announced her intended support for legislation that would CUT and FREEZE the wages of farm workers - one of the most underpaid professions in the US.
This is just wrong!
Call Senator Slotkin TODAY! Urge her to withdraw her support.
(202) 759 - 4087
This is just wrong!
Call Senator Slotkin TODAY! Urge her to withdraw her support.
(202) 759 - 4087
September 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If this is how you”support” workers, Senator, I can’t support you. Hard NO!
Go, New Mexico‼️
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…
www.krqe.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Go, New Mexico‼️