Karen
@k8ren.bsky.social
📍Boston Burbs
I like reading and hiking and biking to work | Surviving toddler parenting one gummy snack at a time | The Philly special is the best special | I’ve never spoken to the manager |
I like reading and hiking and biking to work | Surviving toddler parenting one gummy snack at a time | The Philly special is the best special | I’ve never spoken to the manager |
Turned on the Eagles game just in time to see the interception fumble situation. I know I should turn it off and walk away but I love to suffer.
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Turned on the Eagles game just in time to see the interception fumble situation. I know I should turn it off and walk away but I love to suffer.
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Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream..
Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream..
Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
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2025 job market: 26 rounds of interviews, cage-fight two large land mammals, take the One Ring to Mordor, and then find out the job never existed
2025 job market [healthcare workers]: if you go outdoors in scrubs, you will be bagged and thrown in a van. you work for them now.
2025 job market [healthcare workers]: if you go outdoors in scrubs, you will be bagged and thrown in a van. you work for them now.
July 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
2025 job market: 26 rounds of interviews, cage-fight two large land mammals, take the One Ring to Mordor, and then find out the job never existed
2025 job market [healthcare workers]: if you go outdoors in scrubs, you will be bagged and thrown in a van. you work for them now.
2025 job market [healthcare workers]: if you go outdoors in scrubs, you will be bagged and thrown in a van. you work for them now.
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Elect Jalen Hurts to replace Fetterman so he can do this!
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
June 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Elect Jalen Hurts to replace Fetterman so he can do this!
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I think whoever brought these charges should be fired (into the sun).
In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
June 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I think whoever brought these charges should be fired (into the sun).
Taking a moment to admire the beautiful box of sidewalk chalk before I give it to the kids
June 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Taking a moment to admire the beautiful box of sidewalk chalk before I give it to the kids
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Never forget that the richest man in the world chose to take food from the mouths of the world’s poorest children.
Burn in hell.
Burn in hell.
April 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Never forget that the richest man in the world chose to take food from the mouths of the world’s poorest children.
Burn in hell.
Burn in hell.
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Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
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What if I, as a parent, don’t WANT to be the primary decision maker in my children education because…I do not have a degree in education??? What if I prefer someone who knows what they are doing does that instead and I teach them stuff I know about when they’re home??? Like how society should work??
SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
![After President Trump's inauguration last month, he has steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep these education promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology extremism, and discrimination in admissions. President Trump has also been focused on eliminating wasteful bureaucracy and harmful programs in the federal government. To that end, today he signed [Executive Order XYZ, entitled "Eliminating the Department of Education,] which has given us a clear and final mission.
We are to identify which of the Department's functions, programs, and offices are not mandated by statute, and eliminate them. This reorganization will impact staff, budgets, reporting, and more —and in coming months, we will determine how it can be accomplished with minimal delay and disruption. The President further tasked us with creating a plan to reallocate and reassign functions of the Department of Education that would be more effectively managed by other agencies. This plan will offer Congress a road map toward fulfilling the expectations of the President and the American people.
The new vision—which I hope each of you will embrace going forward—can be expressed as four main convictions:
Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education.
Students deserve to be protected from physical violence, racial discrimination, medical tyranny, and gender extremism ideology on campus.
Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs.
Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning: proficiency in math, reading, and core subjects, and patriotism in American history and civics.
As we move to reduce the Department's middleman role in education, these four convictions must guide us toward conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals
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March 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
What if I, as a parent, don’t WANT to be the primary decision maker in my children education because…I do not have a degree in education??? What if I prefer someone who knows what they are doing does that instead and I teach them stuff I know about when they’re home??? Like how society should work??
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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CANADA CONFIRMED EAGLES FANS
February 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
CANADA CONFIRMED EAGLES FANS
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Tech bros know what every parent wants: children who sleep less
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Tech bros know what every parent wants: children who sleep less
Wake up babe! We’re hating on the Merritt Parkway!
“Welcome to Connecticut and the Merritt Parkway (menacingly).”
December 6, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Wake up babe! We’re hating on the Merritt Parkway!
Can’t believe I’m saying this but I want a blizzard this winter so badly
How lame have recent winters been? Today makes exactly 1,000 days since Boston last had a 4" snowfall. Insane.
I doubt we will avoid such an event again this time around. #wbz
I doubt we will avoid such an event again this time around. #wbz
November 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Can’t believe I’m saying this but I want a blizzard this winter so badly
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a different angle of the Marta goal that everyone is talking about
November 18, 2024 at 12:09 AM
a different angle of the Marta goal that everyone is talking about
“Controversial” huh? Try “absolutely wrong and easily disproven”
RFK Jr. wants to tackle chronic disease. Despite controversial views on vaccines, his focus on healthy food and taking on special interests may find broad support — and face political headwinds.
RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again.' He could face a lot of pushback
RFK Jr. wants to tackle chronic disease. Despite controversial views on vaccines, his focus on healthy food and taking on special interests may find broad support — and face political headwinds.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2024 at 8:37 PM
“Controversial” huh? Try “absolutely wrong and easily disproven”
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There’s plenty of talk about what Democrats got wrong, but I think few understand what they were up against.
@kathsstewart’s new book MONEY, LIES, AND GOD lays it out. It’s an essential guide to the forces arrayed against our democracy: bookshop.org/p/books/mone...
@kathsstewart’s new book MONEY, LIES, AND GOD lays it out. It’s an essential guide to the forces arrayed against our democracy: bookshop.org/p/books/mone...
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy a book by Katherine Stewart
"An indispensable citizen's guide to the anti-democratic MAGA Right in America . . . This is a vibrant ideological ecosystem but Stewart explains why the vast majority of Americans must reject its dar...
bookshop.org
November 9, 2024 at 5:16 PM
There’s plenty of talk about what Democrats got wrong, but I think few understand what they were up against.
@kathsstewart’s new book MONEY, LIES, AND GOD lays it out. It’s an essential guide to the forces arrayed against our democracy: bookshop.org/p/books/mone...
@kathsstewart’s new book MONEY, LIES, AND GOD lays it out. It’s an essential guide to the forces arrayed against our democracy: bookshop.org/p/books/mone...
“To those feeling despair: I understand. But remember, every step toward progress in American history came after the darkness of defeat.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Here's the Plan to Fight Back
To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important.
time.com
November 8, 2024 at 2:34 AM
“To those feeling despair: I understand. But remember, every step toward progress in American history came after the darkness of defeat.”
200 postcards are on their way
October 29, 2024 at 7:58 PM
200 postcards are on their way
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NORTHERN LIGHTS: Take my picture! Please! I don't look great now but the photos will be spectacular, bursts of green and pink! Take as many photos as you can!
THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny
THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny
May 11, 2024 at 4:18 PM
NORTHERN LIGHTS: Take my picture! Please! I don't look great now but the photos will be spectacular, bursts of green and pink! Take as many photos as you can!
THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny
THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny