Karla Jacobs
@karlajacobs.bsky.social
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Karla Jacobs
@karlajacobs.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Howdy, Bluesky! I’m a writer working on my MA in Professional Writing at Kennesaw State University. I love hiking, reading, cooking, and Jesus, not in that order. My kids are grown, and the mister and I split time between Marietta, GA and Brevard, NC. Independent, ex-GOP Harris voter.
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I love Gaudí's architecture, and I love churches. But, even if you don't, the interior of La Sagrada Familia is stunning. It's a cathedral of light, and in all my travels, I've never seen anything else like it.
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Behind the scenes at Gaudi's stunning La Sagrada Familia
Tech Now gains special access to Gaudí's iconic La Sagrada Familia as it nears completion.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I love Gaudí's architecture, and I love churches. But, even if you don't, the interior of La Sagrada Familia is stunning. It's a cathedral of light, and in all my travels, I've never seen anything else like it.
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THIS IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL.
They cannot commandeer state and local law enforcement because they want to.
THIS IS NOT LAWFUL.
They cannot use federalized guard or military personnel for civilian law enforcement absent rebellion and insurrection.
They cannot commandeer state and local law enforcement because they want to.
THIS IS NOT LAWFUL.
They cannot use federalized guard or military personnel for civilian law enforcement absent rebellion and insurrection.
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
August 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
THIS IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL.
They cannot commandeer state and local law enforcement because they want to.
THIS IS NOT LAWFUL.
They cannot use federalized guard or military personnel for civilian law enforcement absent rebellion and insurrection.
They cannot commandeer state and local law enforcement because they want to.
THIS IS NOT LAWFUL.
They cannot use federalized guard or military personnel for civilian law enforcement absent rebellion and insurrection.
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every online clothes site should have a filter for "does it have pockets"
August 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Endorsed
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The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
August 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The President does not run the Smithsonian.
The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law.
Release the Epstein files.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Talarico owns Will Cain so hard that he has to tap out of their interview based on "time"
August 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Talarico owns Will Cain so hard that he has to tap out of their interview based on "time"
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
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August 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...
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I agree with the problem of propaganda, but it was something that could only take hold in a country where people had enough affluence and leisure time to marinate themselves in it. People over 55 with a lot of time on their hands.
I blame it on propaganda.
Entertainment posing as news all coordinating. Fox, talk radio, social media, tabloid magazines, church. Making people that hated civics, interested in civics.
It's like getting heavy people addicted to amphetamines and then they fat shame you for being 5lb overweight.
Entertainment posing as news all coordinating. Fox, talk radio, social media, tabloid magazines, church. Making people that hated civics, interested in civics.
It's like getting heavy people addicted to amphetamines and then they fat shame you for being 5lb overweight.
August 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I agree with the problem of propaganda, but it was something that could only take hold in a country where people had enough affluence and leisure time to marinate themselves in it. People over 55 with a lot of time on their hands.
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Jen Easterly is herself a graduate of West Point (the Secretary of the Army is not) and she was the second Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
In another episode of “we live in the stupidest timeline,” Jen Easterly, a woman I have (1) never met and (2) did not work for, had her appointment at West Point terminated because Laura Loomer lied about both of us in a tweet.
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Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly
The United States Military Academy abruptly ended the appointment of Jen Easterly to a high-profile academic position in West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, according to a memorandum issued We...
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July 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Jen Easterly is herself a graduate of West Point (the Secretary of the Army is not) and she was the second Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
They didn’t just carry them around; they got them out and waved them at people. Doesn’t look like they actually read them, though.
I remember belonging to a party whose elected officials, in their somewhat corny but earnest way, carried around pocket versions of the Constitution. My God, what a bunch of frauds most of them turned out to be.
July 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
They didn’t just carry them around; they got them out and waved them at people. Doesn’t look like they actually read them, though.
Same
My Roman Empire is queueing up YouTube "vocal coach reacts" videos of "Golden" from K-Pop Demon Hunters and watching the tops of their heads pop off when EJAE/Rumi hits that A5 for the first time
July 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Same
No. The correct answer to this question is unequivocally no.
WELKER: Would you support a pardon or commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker?
MIKE JOHNSON: That's a decision of the president. That's not my lane.
MIKE JOHNSON: That's a decision of the president. That's not my lane.
July 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
No. The correct answer to this question is unequivocally no.
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The SCOTUS shadow docket decision to let the Administration gut DOE, with its stated purpose of closing it, while the lower courts ponder the issue is like a court letting the state go ahead with a death penalty sentence while the appeals work their way through the courts.
July 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The SCOTUS shadow docket decision to let the Administration gut DOE, with its stated purpose of closing it, while the lower courts ponder the issue is like a court letting the state go ahead with a death penalty sentence while the appeals work their way through the courts.
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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They could have just said this was their one mistaken case but instead they have to make this guy suffer to pay for embarrassing them
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Trump administration says it will deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia before his trial if he’s released from criminal custody | CNN Politics
The Trump administration will take steps to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia before he goes to trial in Tennessee if he’s released from criminal custody, which could happen as soon as next week, a Justice ...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
They could have just said this was their one mistaken case but instead they have to make this guy suffer to pay for embarrassing them
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You Too Can Vacation On Tatooine
Just don't do it in the summer.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public.
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Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice
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July 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public.
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July 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Have you ever wondered what happens to adopted kids if birthright citizenship no longer exists? If you are adopted, you may have no way to prove that your parents were citizens. Without birthright citizenship, that would leave you in limbo, as a stateless individual with no right to live anywhere."
Trump Is Coming for Your Citizenship
Your citizenship won’t save you any more than Congress, or the laws, or the courts do.
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July 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"Have you ever wondered what happens to adopted kids if birthright citizenship no longer exists? If you are adopted, you may have no way to prove that your parents were citizens. Without birthright citizenship, that would leave you in limbo, as a stateless individual with no right to live anywhere."