Karen
@k-kimbell.bsky.social
Love to read, walk myself and my dog, poetry, movies, and making friends. Once a medical editor, now a pain when editing. Retired.
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Karen
@k-kimbell.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Alice: “I don’t think …” Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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Let’s hope this doesn’t escalate. This is what you get when Trump sells out Ukraine and the Kremlin’s thug feels empowered.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/e...
Polish and NATO jets scrambled, Warsaw airport shut after Ukrainian reports of Russian drones over Poland | CNN
Polish authorities have closed Warsaw International Airport and Polish and NATO aircraft have been scrambled as reports have surfaced of Russian drones over the country.
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Let’s hope this doesn’t escalate. This is what you get when Trump sells out Ukraine and the Kremlin’s thug feels empowered.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/e...
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Yes, Trump’s suing the WSJ for $10b over THAT letter. But there's also a London theater reenacting Jan 6. 🎥Eddington opens this weekend & it broke me. Go see it! And, don't lose track of what the Trump team's doing w/ our next elections. 5 headlines you may have missed & along with some inspiration.
Saturday Morning Covfefe: 5 Things With Olivia
Truth with a shot of espresso.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Yes, Trump’s suing the WSJ for $10b over THAT letter. But there's also a London theater reenacting Jan 6. 🎥Eddington opens this weekend & it broke me. Go see it! And, don't lose track of what the Trump team's doing w/ our next elections. 5 headlines you may have missed & along with some inspiration.
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The DOJ has quietly contacted at least a dozen states demanding voter rolls, 2024 election records, even info‐sharing agreements. Voting rights experts warn these “deeply troubling” requests could be federal overreach under Trump’s executive order.
Here's all you need to know👇
Here's all you need to know👇
All the States Where DOJ is Demanding Voting Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The DOJ has quietly contacted at least a dozen states demanding voter rolls, 2024 election records, even info‐sharing agreements. Voting rights experts warn these “deeply troubling” requests could be federal overreach under Trump’s executive order.
Here's all you need to know👇
Here's all you need to know👇
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering: in a despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering. -Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, statesman and engineer
May 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering: in a despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering. -Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, statesman and engineer
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If this doesn't make every elected representative in the United States stand up and do something, I don't know how this country continues
“A threshold was crossed today, when Donald Trump said out loud that he’s more than ready to begin taking American citizens and putting them in a foreign gulag. We have all been warned.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-h...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-h...
Snapshot: "Home-Growns Are Next"
Donald Trump is not just hungry to kidnap migrants without due process. He said out loud today he's ready to deport American citizens. We've been warned.
www.americaamerica.news
April 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
If this doesn't make every elected representative in the United States stand up and do something, I don't know how this country continues
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More: “Freedom of thought and inquiry, along with the govt’s longstanding commitment to respect and protect it, has enabled universities to contribute in vital ways to a free society and to healthier, more prosperous lives for people everywhere. All of us share a stake in safeguarding that freedom.”
We need more of this—and more solidarity:
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
- Harvard President Alan Garber
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
- Harvard President Alan Garber
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
www.harvard.edu
April 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
More: “Freedom of thought and inquiry, along with the govt’s longstanding commitment to respect and protect it, has enabled universities to contribute in vital ways to a free society and to healthier, more prosperous lives for people everywhere. All of us share a stake in safeguarding that freedom.”
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I think it’s this, and I think Dems are largely preparing for a different, easier kind of fight. www.offmessage.net/p/trumps-las...
March 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I think it’s this, and I think Dems are largely preparing for a different, easier kind of fight. www.offmessage.net/p/trumps-las...
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Krugman's Substack newsletter teaches me something every day. Thought I would share with those who remain curious and still actually read:)
Europe: Is the Force Awakening?
A potential superpower realizes that it can’t rely on America
paulkrugman.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Krugman's Substack newsletter teaches me something every day. Thought I would share with those who remain curious and still actually read:)
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
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🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
February 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
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Trump posts a fake Time magazine cover with a crown on his head and a headline calling himself a king, while falsely attacking President Zelensky—who is courageously fighting for his country’s survival—as a dictator. This is sick and disgusting rejection of basic human values.
February 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Trump posts a fake Time magazine cover with a crown on his head and a headline calling himself a king, while falsely attacking President Zelensky—who is courageously fighting for his country’s survival—as a dictator. This is sick and disgusting rejection of basic human values.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
Thank you, Representative Jasmine Crockett!
February 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Thank you, Representative Jasmine Crockett!
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February 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Reading another terrific book: The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone.
February 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Reading another terrific book: The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why has a non-governmental employee born in a foreign country been given access to my SS number and personal information, including bank account? Why hasn’t Elon Musk been arrested?
February 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why has a non-governmental employee born in a foreign country been given access to my SS number and personal information, including bank account? Why hasn’t Elon Musk been arrested?
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The constitutional crisis is here, and it's Elon Musk, an unelected mega-billionaire benefactor of the president, being granted almost total authority over the operation of the federal government with zero oversight.
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The constitutional crisis is here, and it's Elon Musk, an unelected mega-billionaire benefactor of the president, being granted almost total authority over the operation of the federal government with zero oversight.
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Blessed Imbolc to all my friends and family! I hold up my wearied head and look forward to the coming greening.
February 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Blessed Imbolc to all my friends and family! I hold up my wearied head and look forward to the coming greening.
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This isn’t what the email offers in any case. It’s not severance. You have to stay on staff until your resignation date in 7 months—if you leave earlier you don’t get the pay—and there’s no guarantee even in the text that they’ll put you on paid leave during that time.
Trump sows chaos in federal workforce then says “resign within a week and I’ll give you 7 months severance.” Don’t fall for it! Trump told innumerable contractors he’d pay—then stiffed them. He has no authority to promise severance pay. Wait him out!
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months' pay in effort to shrink size of government
The Trump administration says it will begin subjecting all federal employees to “enhanced standards of suitability and conduct” and is warning of future downsizing.
apnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This isn’t what the email offers in any case. It’s not severance. You have to stay on staff until your resignation date in 7 months—if you leave earlier you don’t get the pay—and there’s no guarantee even in the text that they’ll put you on paid leave during that time.