Michael K.
@kahoetek.bsky.social
Left-leaning Gen-X girl dad, Atheist, and Oxford Comma Enthusiast.
My musical tastes are frozen in amber circa 1985. Please stay off of my lawn. No DMs please!
My musical tastes are frozen in amber circa 1985. Please stay off of my lawn. No DMs please!
R. I. P. Diane Keaton
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Diane Keaton: "You'd be so nice nice to come to"
YouTube video by Ricardo Leitner
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October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
R. I. P. Diane Keaton
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🚨When all is said and done the money that was WASTED on Alligator Alcatraz could’ve easily been the 1 TRILLION that was cut from Medicaid. There must be oversight for the OUTRAGEOUS costs: 1) Monetarily 2) Environmentally & 3) The Physical & Mental Health stress this cost people and their families.🚨
September 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨When all is said and done the money that was WASTED on Alligator Alcatraz could’ve easily been the 1 TRILLION that was cut from Medicaid. There must be oversight for the OUTRAGEOUS costs: 1) Monetarily 2) Environmentally & 3) The Physical & Mental Health stress this cost people and their families.🚨
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A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
June 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
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Actually, quite flattering.
March 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Actually, quite flattering.
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They are going to ignore court orders.
If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect.
It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.
If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect.
It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.
February 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
They are going to ignore court orders.
If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect.
It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.
If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect.
It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.
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Read this. Then read it again. Never let these people tell you they care about "protecting children." They care about controlling & abusing children with impunity, while scapegoating trans and queer people to advance their neo fascist agenda. That's it. And Dems like @blumenthal.senate.gov help them
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Read this. Then read it again. Never let these people tell you they care about "protecting children." They care about controlling & abusing children with impunity, while scapegoating trans and queer people to advance their neo fascist agenda. That's it. And Dems like @blumenthal.senate.gov help them
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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
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This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
February 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
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If this doesn't scare the crap outta you, I don't know what will. They better be looking into this.
January 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
If this doesn't scare the crap outta you, I don't know what will. They better be looking into this.
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On his first day at DOD, Pete Hegseth ordered the military to suspend all recognition of holidays like MLK Jr’s Birthday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Black History Month, Juneteenth,Women’s Equality Day, National Hispanic Heritage Month
Pride Month, & National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Pride Month, & National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
January 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On his first day at DOD, Pete Hegseth ordered the military to suspend all recognition of holidays like MLK Jr’s Birthday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Black History Month, Juneteenth,Women’s Equality Day, National Hispanic Heritage Month
Pride Month, & National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Pride Month, & National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
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Excellent post
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Excellent post
These next four years are going to be so, so bad. The amount of racism, misogyny, and corrupt fuckery is going to be off the charts.
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
These next four years are going to be so, so bad. The amount of racism, misogyny, and corrupt fuckery is going to be off the charts.
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At the VERY LEAST, since he accomplished nothing else to hold the leaders of this accountable, Merrick Garland needs to release the damn report and stop being afraid of his own shadow. Weak people all over this Admin is part of what got us here.
January 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
At the VERY LEAST, since he accomplished nothing else to hold the leaders of this accountable, Merrick Garland needs to release the damn report and stop being afraid of his own shadow. Weak people all over this Admin is part of what got us here.
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
December 11, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
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This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
December 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM
This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
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Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story
The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million
Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.
popular.info
December 3, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story
The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
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Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it
Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence
www.salon.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
Great thread.
A thread. My favorite movies from each year, starting with:
1916 INTOLERANCE ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ This grandeur of this early mega-epic means there's a lot to recommend it, though I find the overall tone smug and cloying; an early "cancel culture is out of control."
(This is the only film I've seen from 1916.)
1916 INTOLERANCE ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ This grandeur of this early mega-epic means there's a lot to recommend it, though I find the overall tone smug and cloying; an early "cancel culture is out of control."
(This is the only film I've seen from 1916.)
November 28, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Great thread.
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I’m pretty sure this is not legal. Congressmen can’t trade and make money on their job.
Ethics maybe having to take a look
Ethics maybe having to take a look
November 25, 2024 at 5:31 PM
I’m pretty sure this is not legal. Congressmen can’t trade and make money on their job.
Ethics maybe having to take a look
Ethics maybe having to take a look
Why did nobody tell me about the music of Orville Peck? "Kalahari Down" is absolutely wrecking me right now.
November 23, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Why did nobody tell me about the music of Orville Peck? "Kalahari Down" is absolutely wrecking me right now.
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According to many smart people I follow this was the endgame all along and the reason why the billionaire bond villains you hate attached themselves to this regime. They intend to tank the economic and take it over with cryptocurrency
Not that anyone cares, but Trump is looking to buy a crypto exchange.
Why? B/c he can shield it from any/all SEC oversight, which is a valuable forking thing.
(And the exchange he's looking to buy is owned by Kelly Loeffler's husband.) www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-cry...
Why? B/c he can shield it from any/all SEC oversight, which is a valuable forking thing.
(And the exchange he's looking to buy is owned by Kelly Loeffler's husband.) www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-cry...
Trump’s Crypto Scheme: A Layer Cake of Corruption
America is a banana republic now.
www.thebulwark.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:10 PM
According to many smart people I follow this was the endgame all along and the reason why the billionaire bond villains you hate attached themselves to this regime. They intend to tank the economic and take it over with cryptocurrency
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You don’t bury an ethics report that would exonerate Trump’s pick.
You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide.
See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.
You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide.
See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.
November 15, 2024 at 10:07 PM
You don’t bury an ethics report that would exonerate Trump’s pick.
You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide.
See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.
You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide.
See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.
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Wonderful when Russian State TV praises Trump’s DNI nominee as “our girlfriend Tulsi.”
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Wonderful when Russian State TV praises Trump’s DNI nominee as “our girlfriend Tulsi.”
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Trump's insulting nominations are coming fast, but let's take a moment to look at Pete Hegseth, picked because of his chin and his hatred of the U.S. military.
The Fox News host is MAGA "manhood" embodied. It pretends to be tough, but is weak and whiny.
www.salon.com/2024/11/14/f...
The Fox News host is MAGA "manhood" embodied. It pretends to be tough, but is weak and whiny.
www.salon.com/2024/11/14/f...
Pete Hegseth embodies MAGA's cubic zirconia masculinity
MAGA manhood pretends to be tough, but is brittle and weak on close inspection
www.salon.com
November 14, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Trump's insulting nominations are coming fast, but let's take a moment to look at Pete Hegseth, picked because of his chin and his hatred of the U.S. military.
The Fox News host is MAGA "manhood" embodied. It pretends to be tough, but is weak and whiny.
www.salon.com/2024/11/14/f...
The Fox News host is MAGA "manhood" embodied. It pretends to be tough, but is weak and whiny.
www.salon.com/2024/11/14/f...