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KathyF
@kathyf.bsky.social
· Jan 21
When I signed up for BlueSky I was tired of writing bios for every new platform, so I didn't. In case you don't know who I am:
Author. Vegan. Ex-pat. Hiker. Dog lover.
Former: Dem operative. New Mexican. Virginian. Mil-spouse. Blogger.
I like pretty flowers.
Author. Vegan. Ex-pat. Hiker. Dog lover.
Former: Dem operative. New Mexican. Virginian. Mil-spouse. Blogger.
I like pretty flowers.
Why am I not surprised to see Bill Richardson's name here?
The Prospect has obtained through a state FOIA request thousands of pages of documents related to a little-known investigation of Jeffrey Epstein by the New Mexico attorney general in 2019, related to his 8,000-acre Zorro Ranch near Stanley, NM that he bought from a former governor.
We Obtained Thousands of New Epstein Documents
The mostly redacted documents pertain to a New Mexico attorney general investigation that was launched in 2019 but never led to criminal charges.
prospect.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Why am I not surprised to see Bill Richardson's name here?
I’m calling bullshit on this bullshit.
We’re calling bulls**t on these text messages.
September 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I’m calling bullshit on this bullshit.
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I thought a lot of the criticism of Shapiro was unjustified but now I'm convinced. What is he thinking?? Kirk wasn't an elected official, he was a young firebrand with racist and misogynistic views who does not deserve such respect.
September 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I thought a lot of the criticism of Shapiro was unjustified but now I'm convinced. What is he thinking?? Kirk wasn't an elected official, he was a young firebrand with racist and misogynistic views who does not deserve such respect.
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Every single “conservative” accusation about campus speech, viewpoint diversity, & the marketplace of ideas was a confession.
Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies
This is a really, really ominous development
(AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.)
gazette.com/military/air...
This is a really, really ominous development
(AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.)
gazette.com/military/air...
Air Force Academy cancels lecture after discovering speaker disparaged Trump
Air Force Academy officials have canceled an annual fall lecture because the speaker, Paisley Rekdal, disparaged President Donald Trump online, prompting a harsh critique from the donor, David Jannett...
gazette.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Every single “conservative” accusation about campus speech, viewpoint diversity, & the marketplace of ideas was a confession.
One of the best
New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
August 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
One of the best
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“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.”
Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday.
Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday.
Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
August 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.”
Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday.
Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday.
Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
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The Colorado River is going to run dry if we don’t act now.
We came together to create Colorado’s first Water Plan when I was governor. We need to work together once again to ensure our kids and grandkids can inherit a river that continues to support our way of life in the West.
We came together to create Colorado’s first Water Plan when I was governor. We need to work together once again to ensure our kids and grandkids can inherit a river that continues to support our way of life in the West.
August 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The Colorado River is going to run dry if we don’t act now.
We came together to create Colorado’s first Water Plan when I was governor. We need to work together once again to ensure our kids and grandkids can inherit a river that continues to support our way of life in the West.
We came together to create Colorado’s first Water Plan when I was governor. We need to work together once again to ensure our kids and grandkids can inherit a river that continues to support our way of life in the West.
I am doomed. This summer has been brutal. Another scorcher today.
Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests
- Research is a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding how damaging prolonged high temperatures are to health, showing the impact can be lifelong
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Research is a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding how damaging prolonged high temperatures are to health, showing the impact can be lifelong
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests
Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I am doomed. This summer has been brutal. Another scorcher today.
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Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests
- Research is a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding how damaging prolonged high temperatures are to health, showing the impact can be lifelong
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Research is a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding how damaging prolonged high temperatures are to health, showing the impact can be lifelong
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests
Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests
- Research is a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding how damaging prolonged high temperatures are to health, showing the impact can be lifelong
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Research is a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding how damaging prolonged high temperatures are to health, showing the impact can be lifelong
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study
Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It’s actually even worse than that: the original post did not invent it either. It was copied from Reddit and the user has an extensive history of AI and Reddit generated content.
bsky.app/profile/tnew...
bsky.app/profile/tnew...
Begging ppl on the left to have media literacy. Shocking # of ppl here sharing the post referenced below:
-no evidence in linked article
-profile photo on the account sure looks like AI
-account seems very resistance spammy
-text is a copy of this 3d old Reddit comment www.reddit.com/r/politics/c...
-no evidence in linked article
-profile photo on the account sure looks like AI
-account seems very resistance spammy
-text is a copy of this 3d old Reddit comment www.reddit.com/r/politics/c...
August 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
It’s actually even worse than that: the original post did not invent it either. It was copied from Reddit and the user has an extensive history of AI and Reddit generated content.
bsky.app/profile/tnew...
bsky.app/profile/tnew...
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1. An anon invents a story about Big Balls that’s not in the police report or in the Daily Beast piece he links to.
2. The post goes viral because it tells a story a lot of people want to hear.
3. A Columbia Law School lecturer with 10K followers copies the original BS post.
Misinfo is bad!
2. The post goes viral because it tells a story a lot of people want to hear.
3. A Columbia Law School lecturer with 10K followers copies the original BS post.
Misinfo is bad!
August 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
1. An anon invents a story about Big Balls that’s not in the police report or in the Daily Beast piece he links to.
2. The post goes viral because it tells a story a lot of people want to hear.
3. A Columbia Law School lecturer with 10K followers copies the original BS post.
Misinfo is bad!
2. The post goes viral because it tells a story a lot of people want to hear.
3. A Columbia Law School lecturer with 10K followers copies the original BS post.
Misinfo is bad!
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LOL, he blocked me, which is a shitty strategy to kill posts that alert people that you are posting disinformation. He is doing this systematically to others also.
Folks, if you don't like being lied to, block: @thomaspayne.bsky.social
Folks, if you don't like being lied to, block: @thomaspayne.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
LOL, he blocked me, which is a shitty strategy to kill posts that alert people that you are posting disinformation. He is doing this systematically to others also.
Folks, if you don't like being lied to, block: @thomaspayne.bsky.social
Folks, if you don't like being lied to, block: @thomaspayne.bsky.social
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The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article.
We are not immune from disinformation.
We are not immune from disinformation.
August 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article.
We are not immune from disinformation.
We are not immune from disinformation.
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Loved Cornwall, but the saddest thing when we drove back into England, were the tatty, Temu St George's flags on some motorway bridges, like Farage's used wank rags, and the red spray-painted bed sheet that said 'Vote Reform!!!' like it had been done by a 10-year-old. Britain is better than them.
August 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Loved Cornwall, but the saddest thing when we drove back into England, were the tatty, Temu St George's flags on some motorway bridges, like Farage's used wank rags, and the red spray-painted bed sheet that said 'Vote Reform!!!' like it had been done by a 10-year-old. Britain is better than them.
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
August 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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I remember a Beeb producer phoning me
'What do you think about [] again remind me?'
'[]'
'OK sorry, I forgot we already have someone who thinks that'
I mean I can understand the thought process but
'What do you think about [] again remind me?'
'[]'
'OK sorry, I forgot we already have someone who thinks that'
I mean I can understand the thought process but
It says so much about the state of the BBC that they even found themselves in this situation in the first place.
Call from a producer this morning:
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
August 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I remember a Beeb producer phoning me
'What do you think about [] again remind me?'
'[]'
'OK sorry, I forgot we already have someone who thinks that'
I mean I can understand the thought process but
'What do you think about [] again remind me?'
'[]'
'OK sorry, I forgot we already have someone who thinks that'
I mean I can understand the thought process but
For all the Americans who keep holding up the BBC as the model of fair journalism, please read and ponder:
I remember a Beeb producer phoning me
'What do you think about [] again remind me?'
'[]'
'OK sorry, I forgot we already have someone who thinks that'
I mean I can understand the thought process but
'What do you think about [] again remind me?'
'[]'
'OK sorry, I forgot we already have someone who thinks that'
I mean I can understand the thought process but
It says so much about the state of the BBC that they even found themselves in this situation in the first place.
August 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
For all the Americans who keep holding up the BBC as the model of fair journalism, please read and ponder:
Same rules here in the UK, but we have no RFK so why is that?
Many people unfortunately don’t seem to be aware that in May, Prasad and Makary announced that the FDA was changing guidance for COVID19 vaccines to only those aged 65+ or those with a health condition that puts them at risk for severe COVID19.
This is the impact of installing RFK Jr. at HHS.
This is the impact of installing RFK Jr. at HHS.
August 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Same rules here in the UK, but we have no RFK so why is that?
They’re looking for like minds. After four years the civil service, including the FBI and Justice department will be unrecognizable.
August 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
They’re looking for like minds. After four years the civil service, including the FBI and Justice department will be unrecognizable.
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trump is hard to understand because normally — absent the enormous wealth and protection he was brought up in — someone like trump spends basically his entire life in prison.
I think trump does lie on instinct but I also think he genuinely does not have the concept of lie and truth in his brain. It’s a very hard thing to imagine for normal people but someone like him genuinely does not process the world the same way
August 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
trump is hard to understand because normally — absent the enormous wealth and protection he was brought up in — someone like trump spends basically his entire life in prison.
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[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
My latest watch: Rabbit Hole, with Kiefer Sutherland. An absolute riot, with surprises all along the way. Just when you think you know what's happening, a new twist arrives. I literally shouted in joy at the last one. It's on ITV here in the UK, no idea how to find it in the US. But worth searching!
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
My latest watch: Rabbit Hole, with Kiefer Sutherland. An absolute riot, with surprises all along the way. Just when you think you know what's happening, a new twist arrives. I literally shouted in joy at the last one. It's on ITV here in the UK, no idea how to find it in the US. But worth searching!