@gregkesich.bsky.social
Retired Maine journalist. Childless stay-at-home dad. Avid book reader and payer of attention.
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There is a stronger link between childhood trauma & addiction, than there is between obesity & diabetes. Two thirds of addicts report being abused as children.
That means the war on drugs and mental wellness issues is a war on traumatised people that just need help.
That means the war on drugs and mental wellness issues is a war on traumatised people that just need help.
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There is a stronger link between childhood trauma & addiction, than there is between obesity & diabetes. Two thirds of addicts report being abused as children.
That means the war on drugs and mental wellness issues is a war on traumatised people that just need help.
That means the war on drugs and mental wellness issues is a war on traumatised people that just need help.
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"I don't care what judges think."
Homan: "We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're coming."
March 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"I don't care what judges think."
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A century ago, Richard Riker was part of a kidnapping club. With other gov’t officials he schemed to grab free Back NYers off the street, deny them due process, declare the fugitive slaves, and send them south to enslavement. Look around. Past is once again prologue.
March 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A century ago, Richard Riker was part of a kidnapping club. With other gov’t officials he schemed to grab free Back NYers off the street, deny them due process, declare the fugitive slaves, and send them south to enslavement. Look around. Past is once again prologue.
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The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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Ocasio-Cortez isn't screwing around. She has the House behind her. They want to string Schumer up.
March 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ocasio-Cortez isn't screwing around. She has the House behind her. They want to string Schumer up.
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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When you hear Trump & his supporters defend the detention of a Green Card holder by pretending to care about 1) antisemitism on campus, and 2) trespassing on college property, remember that Trump 1) hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & 2) pardoned violent insurrectionists.
March 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
When you hear Trump & his supporters defend the detention of a Green Card holder by pretending to care about 1) antisemitism on campus, and 2) trespassing on college property, remember that Trump 1) hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & 2) pardoned violent insurrectionists.
Is this what he told you in your office Susan Collins, when you decided to vote for this lunatic?
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Is this what he told you in your office Susan Collins, when you decided to vote for this lunatic?
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DHS just tore up a settled, signed union contract with TSA employees, which is straightforwardly, unambiguously illegal.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03...
DHS Ends Collective Bargaining for TSA’s Transportation Security Officers, Enhancing Safety, Efficiency, and Organizational Agility | Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it is ending collective bargaining for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Transportation Security Officers, which has constrained TS...
www.dhs.gov
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
DHS just tore up a settled, signed union contract with TSA employees, which is straightforwardly, unambiguously illegal.
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03...
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03...
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Not even hiding it.
February 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Not even hiding it.
I never thought I would be one of ‘those people,’ but I canceled my Washington Post subscription today. Jeff Bezos does not need my help sucking up to Trump
February 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I never thought I would be one of ‘those people,’ but I canceled my Washington Post subscription today. Jeff Bezos does not need my help sucking up to Trump
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The US has always contained far more fascists than communists, and fascism has always posed a much bigger & more proximate threat to democracy. Yet we've never had a "brown scare." No McCarthy-esque hearings to root out fascists embedded in gov't. Wonder why that is.
February 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The US has always contained far more fascists than communists, and fascism has always posed a much bigger & more proximate threat to democracy. Yet we've never had a "brown scare." No McCarthy-esque hearings to root out fascists embedded in gov't. Wonder why that is.
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Just like when CRT became the enemy, most of the people villainizing USAID as the worst thing ever to happen had no idea what it was a week ago.
February 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Just like when CRT became the enemy, most of the people villainizing USAID as the worst thing ever to happen had no idea what it was a week ago.
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OG being listed as Questionable, 96 hours before the trade deadline, means absolutely nothing. They could have amputated his foot last night and he’d be listed as questionable.
February 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
OG being listed as Questionable, 96 hours before the trade deadline, means absolutely nothing. They could have amputated his foot last night and he’d be listed as questionable.
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We're all gonna die
January 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We're all gonna die
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January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
So far 2025 hasn’t been that bad …
January 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So far 2025 hasn’t been that bad …
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one of the writers who wrote the carter obit in the washington post has been dead for almost 11 years
December 29, 2024 at 9:33 PM
one of the writers who wrote the carter obit in the washington post has been dead for almost 11 years
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the best explanation I have for how the blue jays are acting is that maybe Canadian Off Season is in a different month than ours
December 23, 2024 at 1:20 PM
the best explanation I have for how the blue jays are acting is that maybe Canadian Off Season is in a different month than ours