Kevin J. Jones
kevinjjones.bsky.social
Kevin J. Jones
@kevinjjones.bsky.social
Sometime journalist. Coloradan transplant to NW Minnesota.
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More than 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the wake of the post-9/11 wars writes @ishaantharoor.bsky.social, citing our research.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Column | Dick Cheney’s Iraq War legacy lives on
The former vice president is outlived by the cascading consequences of a war he defended to the last, even as Republican politics shifted.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A serious case against Cheney. It ought to be addressed in every obit.
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Good point.
Side note: Threats of military action notwithstanding, worth noting that any Christians fleeing religious persecution in Nigeria could not, at present, enter the U.S. as refugees, as the U.S. refugee program has been almost entirely frozen by Trump for months — save for Afrikaners from South Africa.
Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians reut.rs/4qBrVXy
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Personally, I do not usually cuss on social media because I don’t want my posts to sound like the title of a self-help book circa 2013
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Hard to believe it’s a painting!

This portrait of Temple Grandin by artist David Lenz will join the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Despite staggering challenges, CRS and our partners have reached 1.8 million people in #Gaza since 2023 with food, shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene, cash assistance and social and emotional support. We’re ready to do more. (2/3)
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Hildebrand also gets invited to speak to seminarians in Austria where he insists that Catholics in this moment must forcefully reject all anti-Semitism, even the most casual varieties. Half of the audience walks out, and he is never invited back to the seminary.
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oops. Forgot to follow Colorado Public Radio @cprnews.bsky.social when I joined this site.

Fixed!
October 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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BREAKING: The post-10/7 wars have killed or injured at least 236,505 people in Gaza alone. The U.S. has spent over $31 billion and counting in the wider region since Oct. 7, 2023, where millions have been displaced, according to new Costs of War research. [THREAD]

Photo Credit: Heidi Levine, 2025
October 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I only subscribe to The Pillar, Catholic news run by former colleagues. www.pillarcatholic.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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NEW DETAILS: Evergreen High School shooter embraced Columbine, antisemitism and white supremacy online
Evergreen High School shooter embraced Columbine,  antisemitism and white supremacy online
Review shows that Desmond Holly also posted online about Columbine shooting and a picture of a revolver
coloradosun.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Does using generative AI, like ChatGPT, affect our critical thinking? Check out my new piece, where I sift through initial research and figure out what we know and don’t know. undark.org/2025/09/12/c...
Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to Chatbots?
Research, much if it by companies with deep investment in AI, suggests that chatbot interactions alter how users think.
undark.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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my ideal status for theology and philosophy at Jesuit universities:
a woman with a crown on her head has black lipstick on her lips
ALT: a woman with a crown on her head has black lipstick on her lips
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September 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Getting this old phone to work again is among the more interesting challenges I have tackled at the Denver Press Club. And yes, you can get a dial tone on it with a VOIP system. Sweetheart, get me rewrite!
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Fringe Catholic media drama can be hazardous to participants’ financial health.
August 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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INBOX: Boulder Run for Their Lives, the same Jewish group targeted in the June 1 firebombing attack, is no longer publicly advertising their weekly demonstrations out of safety concerns

#copolitics
August 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Rural Colorado mourns 6, including father and sons, who died from suspected gas exposure at dairy farm
Rural Colorado mourns 6, including father and sons, who died from suspected gas exposure at dairy farm
Alejandro Espinoza Cruz, of Nunn, died along with his 17-year-old son Oscar Espinoza Leos — a high school student — and a second son, 29-year-old Carlos Espinoza Prado of Evans
coloradosun.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We need to create an AI decoy of a smart leftCath woman to distract the haters from Liz Bruenig.
August 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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CRS welcomes the call by Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the @usccbofficial.bsky.social for a special collection to provide humanitarian relief and pastoral support to families in #Gaza and surrounding areas of the Middle East.

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August 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Big news for Colorado media!
August 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Whoever slanders a neighbor in secret
I will bring to silence.
Proud eyes and haughty heart
I will never endure.
August 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Harlingen TX
“He lifts up the lowly and fills the hungry with good things”
Los arrogantes no conocerán los misterios del Reino, los tesoros que guardaba María en su corazón.
August 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM