Karen Kelsky
@drkarenkelsky.bsky.social
Partner @kel Weinhold dancing singing queer seeking joy in pain. Professor Is In, Professor Is Out, anti-Z ✡️🏳️🌈 & 🐰🐇
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They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
April 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
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Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
April 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
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April 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Just found out that one of my closest friends had a PhD offer rescinded because the NIH grant funding the program was cut. He’s considering Europe, as are a lot of researchers and scientists. Our research sector was the envy of the world. We’ll never recover. No hell hot enough
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Just found out that one of my closest friends had a PhD offer rescinded because the NIH grant funding the program was cut. He’s considering Europe, as are a lot of researchers and scientists. Our research sector was the envy of the world. We’ll never recover. No hell hot enough
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A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.
April 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.
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What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
February 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
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If you're an elected Dem and your entire resistance plan is to just post on Twitter and Bluesky until midterms to roll around: you are actively accelerating the destruction of our democracy and you're as big of a problem as Musk.
Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.
Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.
February 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If you're an elected Dem and your entire resistance plan is to just post on Twitter and Bluesky until midterms to roll around: you are actively accelerating the destruction of our democracy and you're as big of a problem as Musk.
Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.
Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.
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Hold the fuck on a minute — Assistant President Poopy Pants spent $15 million taxpayer dollars to attend a single football game, but Phony Stark’s Division of DOGEbags can’t find the money to fund childhood cancer research?
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
February 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hold the fuck on a minute — Assistant President Poopy Pants spent $15 million taxpayer dollars to attend a single football game, but Phony Stark’s Division of DOGEbags can’t find the money to fund childhood cancer research?
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
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OK, this is good
February 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
OK, this is good
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House Democrats made an unsuccessful attempt to subpoena billionaire Elon Musk to testify about his efforts to radically reshape the federal government, only to be blocked by Republicans.
February 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
House Democrats made an unsuccessful attempt to subpoena billionaire Elon Musk to testify about his efforts to radically reshape the federal government, only to be blocked by Republicans.
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Notably, many of the targets are Black employees working at health agencies. This disturbing attempt to intimidate and undermine public servants comes from AAF, a small right-wing nonprofit founded in 2020. Enough is enough.
February 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Notably, many of the targets are Black employees working at health agencies. This disturbing attempt to intimidate and undermine public servants comes from AAF, a small right-wing nonprofit founded in 2020. Enough is enough.
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Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.
February 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.
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I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET
February 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET
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@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point
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"It is easy, when you do not care about your country, when you do not see people as fellow human beings but as kindling on which to pour your rhetorical kerosene, to talk about secession. You win no matter what because your color is not red or blue but green, the color of money."
February 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"It is easy, when you do not care about your country, when you do not see people as fellow human beings but as kindling on which to pour your rhetorical kerosene, to talk about secession. You win no matter what because your color is not red or blue but green, the color of money."
@rachelgregor.bsky.social hello- I emailed a time sensitive image permissions request re creating a queer/trans friendly conference, and just pinging you here in hopes you see it. Thank you!
January 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@rachelgregor.bsky.social hello- I emailed a time sensitive image permissions request re creating a queer/trans friendly conference, and just pinging you here in hopes you see it. Thank you!
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It's comforting to know that when the Christian Nationalists come for the marginalized people I love, there will be good, progressive Christians to come to me, look me in the eye, smile and say "Not all Christians" before going on their merry way.
November 30, 2024 at 5:32 AM
It's comforting to know that when the Christian Nationalists come for the marginalized people I love, there will be good, progressive Christians to come to me, look me in the eye, smile and say "Not all Christians" before going on their merry way.
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Trans people: Help, Christians are attacking us!
Liberals: Quick, quick, save Christianity’s reputation!
Liberals: Quick, quick, save Christianity’s reputation!
Agree. It's so frustrating. "But they don't know the real Jesus. They need to be rediscipled. They're not reading the Bible. They don't have the Spirit. They're not submitted to the Spirit." IMO, just a different form of Christian supremacy + superstition about what "belief" does IRL.
January 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trans people: Help, Christians are attacking us!
Liberals: Quick, quick, save Christianity’s reputation!
Liberals: Quick, quick, save Christianity’s reputation!
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Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
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Trump and, more importantly, the gang of nativist ideologues he empowered around him, have begun executing their radical reimaging of America viewed through the prism of the white nationalist great replacement theory.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-3-key-...
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-3-key-...
The 3 Key Plot Points for Understanding Trump’s First Week in Office
For regular readers, the events of this week likely did not come as a surprise.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Trump and, more importantly, the gang of nativist ideologues he empowered around him, have begun executing their radical reimaging of America viewed through the prism of the white nationalist great replacement theory.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-3-key-...
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/the-3-key-...
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Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.
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this is contemptible www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
Opinion | End the Criminal Cases Against Trump
Democracy’s ultimate verdict has been delivered.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:02 PM
this is contemptible www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...