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Christina KC
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Never had a mug shot. Sources cited when possible. Opinions are mine alone. Co-host of She Talk Wha on KKFI 90.1 fm. KCMO.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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I think the sentiment is worth sharing.
June 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Happy Easter!
April 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Our family photo (minus one shy kiddo) from the protest today. It’s important to stand up for our democracy while we still can.
A group of people hold up signs in support of democracy while protesting
April 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Let the warning ring out once more: Tyranny is at our door
April 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Dictatorial powers have used their editing pens to create myths, justify decisions, erase opponents, and even dispose of crimes. — Steve Benen
April 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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This is what #Democracy looks like! #HandsOff in #KCMO
April 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#HandsOff
Some of my favorite pics from the protest in #KansasCity today!
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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These are the 10 representatives who prefer standing with #trump and his bullies. Shame.
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@bera.house.gov
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@gluesenkampperez.house.gov
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The 10 Democrats who voted with Republicans to censure Green were: Ami Bera of California, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa of California, Laura Gillen of New York, Jim Himes of Connecticut, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Jared Moskowitz of Florida, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Tom Suozzi of New York. “I don’t mind being one of 10 Democrats who said, no, there’s a deeper principle at stake here, which is reverence for this institution,” Himes said after the vote, adding that lawmakers need to act “with the decorum and with the civility that says to the world that we are a serious country.” “I have no love for Donald Trump, but I do have reverence for the Office of the President,” he told CNN’s Pamela Brown. Most of the 10 the Democrats are considered centrists in the party, and belong to either the Blue Dog Coalition, the New Democrat Coalition or the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.
March 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions even when that is exactly what they have announced they will do.
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I’ve been reading On Tyranny.
An abstract painting with text written in it that says, “It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators.”
February 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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From the link I posted above …
February 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I heard someone say it’s unlikely any of these new policies will affect everyday Americans. Would we even know about it if it weren’t in the news?

www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
There’s no hiding from this, because it will touch every aspect of life in the U.S. Just this week, the Trump Administration illegally halted Medicaid and Head Start payments, halted veterans benefits, stopped SNAP benefits for hungry families, launched invasive immigration raids designed to terrorize communities, froze federal grants to nonprofit organizations providing direct service, cut off loans to small businesses, attacked advocacy organizations, banned transgender people from serving in the military and even went so far as trying to silence the history of the Tuskegee Airmen as part of his capricious and bigoted campaign to end DEI programs. Makes the price of eggs seem minor. These sadistic orders and actions affect the lives of tens of millions of Americans. Over 70 million people receive Medicaid benefits. The number of citizens impacted by Trump’s craven funding freeze is undoubtedly a majority.
February 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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www.senate.mo.gov/25info/BTS_W...
Current Bill Summary SB 72 - This act creates the offense of trespass by an illegal alien which provides that a person shall be guilty of such offense if the person is an illegal alien who knowingly enters this state and remains here and is physically present in the state at the time a licensed bounty hunter or peace officer apprehends the person. Such an offense shall be a felony for a term of imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole with certain exceptions as provided in the act. Any person who commits the offense of trespass by an illegal alien shall be prohibited from voting in any election, receiving any permit or license to drive, receiving any public benefit, and becoming a legal resident of this state. Additionally, the Department of Public Safety shall develop an information system for people to report violations of this act which shall include a toll-free telephone hotline, e-mail, and online reporting portal. Any person who makes a report in which an illegal alien is arrested shall receive a reward of $1,000. The Department of Public Safety shall develop the "Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program" which shall certify applicants to be bounty hunters for the purpose of finding and detaining illegal aliens in this state. Any person with a license as a bail bond agent, general bail bond agent, or surety recovery agent may apply to the program as provided in the act. Finally, this act creates the "Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program Fund" which shall consist of money appropriated by the General Assembly. JIM ERTLE
January 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Confused about what part of the #Bible the right is talking about when they tout their reverence for God.

So let me ask you, who do you think most follows God’s commanded treatment of foreigners?

#christianity #immigration #hypocracy
Leviticus 19:33-34 “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt
January 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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When The Handmaids Tale came out, Margaret Atwood the horrors in this book were so hard to believe, she had to inform people these were all based on real scenarios across the world and in history.

Today, it is really not so hard to imagine the reality of this fictional world.
Book cover of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
January 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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(pg. 66-67) Perhaps imagination is not where we go to escape reality but where we go to remember it. Perhaps when we want to know the original plan for our lives, families, world, we should consult not what’s in front of us, but what’s inside us. Imagination is how personal and worldwide revolutions begin. “I have a dream,” said Martin Luther King, Jr. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning,” said Gloria Steinem. In order to move our culture forward, revolutionaries have had to speak and plan from the unseen order inside them. For those of us who were not consulted in the building of the visible order, igniting our imagination is the only way to see beyond what was created to leave us out. ... Each of us was born to bring forth something that has never existed: a way of being, a family, an idea, art, a community – something brand new. We are here to fully introduce ourselves, to impose ourselves and ideas and thoughts and dreams onto the world, leaving it changed forever by who we are and what we bring forth from our depths. So we cannot control ourselves to fit into the visible order. We must unleash ourselves and watch the world reorder itself in front of our eyes. ... Discontent is evidence that your imagination has not given up on you. It is still pressing, swelling, trying to get your attention by whispering, “Not this.”
January 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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(p. 51) In the past eighteen years, I have learned two things about pain. First: I can feel everything and survive. What I thought would kill me, didn’t. Every time I said to myself: I can’t take this anymore – I was wrong. The truth was that I could and did take it all – and I kept surviving. Surviving again and again made me less afraid of myself, of other people, of life. I learned that I’d never be free from pain, but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough. I finally stopped avoiding fires long enough to let myself burn, and what I learned was that I am like that burning bush: The fire of pain won’t consume me. I can burn and burn and live. I can live on fire. I am fireproof. Second: I can use the pain to become. I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution. Everything I need to become the woman I’m meant to be next is inside my feelings of now. Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold. I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. If I can sit in the fire of my own feelings, I will keep becoming.
January 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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This week has been as emotionally raw as I expected it to be. Knowing this hasn't made it any less painful. Today, words from Glennon Doyle are reminding me to feel. #booksky
Book cover of "UNTAMED" by Glennon Doyle
January 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Democracy requires participation. From “How Democracies Die” …
Because of the gaps and ambiguities inherent in all legal systems, we cannot rely on constitutions alone to safeguard democracy against would be authoritarians. “God has never endowed any statesman or philosopher, or any body of them, wrote former U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, “with wisdom enough to frame a system of government that everybody could go off and leave.”
January 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Hashtag blessed
December 26, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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I picked this up but never finished it during the previous administration. Then I was hopeful I’d never need to.

Steven Hassan’s book “The Cult of Trump” is sadly still very relevant.

#booksky #booksp #politics
Book cover: “The Cult of Trump” by Steven Hassan, PhD
December 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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It’s been awhile since I was in the church, and I hadn’t heard of this movement. However, there have been seeds in this growth in going back 20 years, which has increased since the 2016 election of Donald Trump. Be aware.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Apo...
December 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Looking to improve your alt text skillz? 👇
A bright pink instructional graphic entitled “How to sleigh alt text” (using word-play, the word "slay" is spelled like it would be when referencing Santa's sleigh). The graphic has colorful headings advising what good alt text descriptions should include: Identify Who, Expression, Description, Color, and Interesting Features. Below the headings is a photo of Santa and, alongside it, a sample of an excellent alt text description: “Santa Claus looking happy as he waves at the camera. He wears a traditional red suit and hat and has a long white beard and glasses. There are colorful lights twinkling behind him.”
December 9, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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There are about 3,000 deaths from food poisoning a year. If you’re curious, that’s about 3,000 more than people killed by a transperson in a public bathroom.

There are real problems to solve.
December 7, 2024 at 3:29 AM