@canyonkaren.bsky.social
Retired engineer, Stanford University librarian. Grand Canyon addict.
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
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Mamdani is going to implement Shakuhachi law. Everyone will be made to listening to the soothing tones of traditional Japanese flute music.
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Shakuhachi law. Everyone will be made to listening to the soothing tones of traditional Japanese flute music.
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
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NEW: A Trump-appointed judge appeared skeptical of the DOJ’s defense of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Portland, questioning whether the administration’s use of an archaic law meant for foreign invasion or rebellion was justified in the city.
Federal Judge Sharply Questions DOJ Over Trump’s Portland Deployment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
NEW: A Trump-appointed judge appeared skeptical of the DOJ’s defense of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Portland, questioning whether the administration’s use of an archaic law meant for foreign invasion or rebellion was justified in the city.
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It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
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“We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.” — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declares war on beards 👀
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.” — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declares war on beards 👀
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The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
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Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
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The Justice Department once championed the Voting Rights Act to squash any attempts to racially gerrymander.
Now, under Trump, the department has pulled a 180 and is asking the Supreme Court to gut what’s left of the landmark civil rights law.
Now, under Trump, the department has pulled a 180 and is asking the Supreme Court to gut what’s left of the landmark civil rights law.
Once the Voting Rights Act’s Champion, DOJ Now Wants SCOTUS To Gut It
Once the Voting Rights Act’s Champion, DOJ Now Wants SCOTUS To Gut It
www.democracydocket.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Justice Department once championed the Voting Rights Act to squash any attempts to racially gerrymander.
Now, under Trump, the department has pulled a 180 and is asking the Supreme Court to gut what’s left of the landmark civil rights law.
Now, under Trump, the department has pulled a 180 and is asking the Supreme Court to gut what’s left of the landmark civil rights law.
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Actually, they are. That’s freedom.
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Actually, they are. That’s freedom.
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RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine council voted to stop recommending a combination vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, in what “seems to be an agenda of Kennedy’s own design,” Katherine J. Wu and Tom Bartlett report:
Kennedy’s Anti-Vaccine Council Is Going After the Easy Targets
Its members voted to stop recommending a combination vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella.
bit.ly
September 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine council voted to stop recommending a combination vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, in what “seems to be an agenda of Kennedy’s own design,” Katherine J. Wu and Tom Bartlett report:
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Literally you cannot make up this level of hypocrisy. What an endless chode.
September 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Literally you cannot make up this level of hypocrisy. What an endless chode.
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Kara Swisher on Jimmy Kimmel: "Nexstar is trying to do a very large merger with Tegna, and so they will do whatever it takes."
Anderson Cooper: "That's an important point, because that merger would require the approval of the FCC."
Anderson Cooper: "That's an important point, because that merger would require the approval of the FCC."
September 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Kara Swisher on Jimmy Kimmel: "Nexstar is trying to do a very large merger with Tegna, and so they will do whatever it takes."
Anderson Cooper: "That's an important point, because that merger would require the approval of the FCC."
Anderson Cooper: "That's an important point, because that merger would require the approval of the FCC."
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“If Obama is watching this on TV, it’s gotta be killing him,” Trump said.
Trump Boasts That Obama Never Got Crowds Like This in UK
“If Obama is watching this on TV, it’s gotta be killing him.”
www.borowitzreport.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“If Obama is watching this on TV, it’s gotta be killing him,” Trump said.
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Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
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This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
Or wasn't, until now.
Or wasn't, until now.
The US military killed three people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. https://cnn.it/4na60EM
September 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
Or wasn't, until now.
Or wasn't, until now.
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I was a known critic of many Obama policies, and not only was I invited to talk at the service academies but I was occasionally called up by the White House for intel briefs on China's economy. The people running the place now are children.
Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies
This is a really, really ominous development
(AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.)
gazette.com/military/air...
This is a really, really ominous development
(AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.)
gazette.com/military/air...
Air Force Academy cancels lecture after discovering speaker disparaged Trump
Air Force Academy officials have canceled an annual fall lecture because the speaker, Paisley Rekdal, disparaged President Donald Trump online, prompting a harsh critique from the donor, David Jannett...
gazette.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I was a known critic of many Obama policies, and not only was I invited to talk at the service academies but I was occasionally called up by the White House for intel briefs on China's economy. The people running the place now are children.
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Today's #WeAreAllDC rally in Washington
September 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Today's #WeAreAllDC rally in Washington
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It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act.
Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
August 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act.
Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.