Karen Duncan
@kazduncan.bsky.social
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the only thing musk should be remembered for
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
the only thing musk should be remembered for
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Trump’s racial profiling ICE goon army is ripping parents from kids
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Trump’s racial profiling ICE goon army is ripping parents from kids
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It’s pretty simple.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s pretty simple.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
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#VeteransDay
Take a moment to listen
I try to walk his shoes
So many just like him gather
20 years in the Navy
Fought for Freedom
I thank you for your service
We pledge to fight along side them
Fight this fascism
Fight for their Benefits & Healthcare
They deserve better than trump & hegseth
Take a moment to listen
I try to walk his shoes
So many just like him gather
20 years in the Navy
Fought for Freedom
I thank you for your service
We pledge to fight along side them
Fight this fascism
Fight for their Benefits & Healthcare
They deserve better than trump & hegseth
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#VeteransDay
Take a moment to listen
I try to walk his shoes
So many just like him gather
20 years in the Navy
Fought for Freedom
I thank you for your service
We pledge to fight along side them
Fight this fascism
Fight for their Benefits & Healthcare
They deserve better than trump & hegseth
Take a moment to listen
I try to walk his shoes
So many just like him gather
20 years in the Navy
Fought for Freedom
I thank you for your service
We pledge to fight along side them
Fight this fascism
Fight for their Benefits & Healthcare
They deserve better than trump & hegseth
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And he just stands there...
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
And he just stands there...
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The job of a good message isn't to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said.
MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The job of a good message isn't to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said.
MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
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Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.
April 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.
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“The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops. . . . If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops. . . . If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Kavanaugh in Vasquez Perdomo:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Depending on traffic, these are all closer to O'Hare than the Loop is.
The White House's "Chicago is in chaos" video "is littered with outdated footage highlighting drug busts, arrests and deportation raids in other states, including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska"
White House's Chicago 'chaos' video uses footage from other cities
A dramatic voiceover video shared by the White House and US President Donald Trump claims to show immigration agents responding to the "mess" in Chicago as the Republican seeks to justify deploying Na...
uk.news.yahoo.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Depending on traffic, these are all closer to O'Hare than the Loop is.
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A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
The U.S.
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Reposted by Karen Duncan
My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.
October 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.
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Great Read!
From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.
Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.
Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great Read!
From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.
Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.
Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!
🎁 Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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These GOP politicians have to stop describing largely peaceful urban centers like Portland and Chicago as war zones. The unpeaceful parts are where the Feds have shown up to spread fear and abuse.
September 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
These GOP politicians have to stop describing largely peaceful urban centers like Portland and Chicago as war zones. The unpeaceful parts are where the Feds have shown up to spread fear and abuse.
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Let me be clear: any Democrat who supports these bills, as written by demagogue Republicans, does so at their own political peril.
Statutory changes can be helpful but there are better ways to deal with the issues in DC - and Home Rule matters.
apnews.com/article/wash...
Statutory changes can be helpful but there are better ways to deal with the issues in DC - and Home Rule matters.
apnews.com/article/wash...
House approves bills to reshape DC's criminal justice system
The House has passed legislation to change how youth offenders are prosecuted in Washington, D.C. The “DC Crimes Act” would lower the age of a youth offender from 24 to 18 and require sentences to mat...
apnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Let me be clear: any Democrat who supports these bills, as written by demagogue Republicans, does so at their own political peril.
Statutory changes can be helpful but there are better ways to deal with the issues in DC - and Home Rule matters.
apnews.com/article/wash...
Statutory changes can be helpful but there are better ways to deal with the issues in DC - and Home Rule matters.
apnews.com/article/wash...
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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I do not care who you are or what position you hold.
No one bullies our children.
No one bullies our children.
September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I do not care who you are or what position you hold.
No one bullies our children.
No one bullies our children.
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I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.
I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
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Reposted by Karen Duncan
Ukrainian children share their heartfelt thanks to the brave soldiers defending their country.
I’m not crying you’re crying 😭
#SlavaUkraini
#NAFO
I’m not crying you’re crying 😭
#SlavaUkraini
#NAFO
July 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Ukrainian children share their heartfelt thanks to the brave soldiers defending their country.
I’m not crying you’re crying 😭
#SlavaUkraini
#NAFO
I’m not crying you’re crying 😭
#SlavaUkraini
#NAFO
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Also let’s note that JD Vance has the kind of Christian who thinks you should apologize for saying “bullshit” but not for lying about a group of immigrants stealing and eating pets in order to fan the flames of immigrant-hate.
July 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Also let’s note that JD Vance has the kind of Christian who thinks you should apologize for saying “bullshit” but not for lying about a group of immigrants stealing and eating pets in order to fan the flames of immigrant-hate.
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Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
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This. Is. Insane.
Read this, please.
Read this, please.
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.
This man has no citizenship now.
This man has no citizenship now.
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
www.austinchronicle.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This. Is. Insane.
Read this, please.
Read this, please.