Karin Gitchel
LightNews LightNews
banner
kgitch.bsky.social
Karin Gitchel
@kgitch.bsky.social
670 followers 760 following 28 posts
M.Ed. Writer of memories. Reader of mysteries. Quilter of rainbows. LGBTQ+ ally. Art as healing. Words as connectors. Cat wrangler. Obsessed w/ sparkling water. 🐈‍⬛🧵🎨📚
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Tuesday night, in an off-year election, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible American voters agreed with me. These people spent eight months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, “We don’t want this.” What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does. Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
colindickey.com
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
timothysnyder.bsky.social
The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.
October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
governorferguson.bsky.social
Today I announced an agreement between Washington state, Oregon, and British Columbia to renew and strengthen our partnership.

Together, the Cascadia region will address housing affordability, invest in clean energy, and create the conditions for long-term economic growth.
Bob giving thumbs up seated in chair next to Rachel Smith, president of Washington Roundtable. Flags in background from Oregon, Canada, USA, Washington state
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
kgitch.bsky.social
Quilts are math and project management with perseverance! This Jelly Roll Quilt in a Weekend took a lot of weekends - I took it apart three times before the lines matched up. Then, I hated the binding so I took that apart and redid it. Now, it drapes on my chair and I love it so much.
Scarlett Steps quilt draped to view binding and backing from Jelly Roll Quilts in a Weekend pattern book. My sweet Bentley snuggled in the quilt as I start tearing the binding off. The Scarlett Steps quilt with a new binding. Scarlett Steps quilt draped to view the striped pattern from Jelly Roll Quilts in a Weekend pattern book.
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
kgitch.bsky.social
A few weeks ago, I made this cute bag. 🐝 It is wonky, has flaws, but it was my first attempt at sewing different weights of felt. I need to practice creative stitches, buy better stabilizer, and keep trying!
A turquoise and white felt bag that has embroidered bee and flower with blue patterns lines.
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
kgitch.bsky.social
This was a two year process to finish this Kaffetastic Rainbow Star quilt. This quilt is pure joy! So many errors, so may crooked lines - so much learning for a first quilt. 🌈🩷
Quilter author holding up the finished Kaffetastic Rainbow Star quilt. Diamond shapes in rows from red to purple alternating with black and white polka dot patterns. The red, orange, yellow and green rows and corner of the Kaffetastic Rainbow quilt displayed over a couch. The blue and purple corners of the Kaffetastic Rainbow Quilt draped over couch.
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
kgitch.bsky.social
I’m obsessed with quilted bags and rainbows. A fun, small bag that I made in summer 2023. Pattern from @thelittlegreenbean (her reels and videos are helpful!)
Small handmade quilted bag with rainbow stripes and a flower sewed on the side. Creative stitching around edges. Tilted close up of a small handmade quilted bag with rainbow stripes and a flower sewed on the side. Creative stitching around edges. Tilted close up of a small handmade quilted bag with rainbow stripes and a flower sewed on the side. Creative stitching around edges. Posed in front of Singer sewing machine.
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
radleybalko.bsky.social
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
craigipedia.bsky.social Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · Oct 28
America... boy, I dunno.
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
thebulwark.com
You're gonna need a bigger tent
What a Bigger-Tent Democratic Party Could Look Like
Elected officials and operatives are rethinking old litmus tests.
www.thebulwark.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
tlecaque.bsky.social
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
newseye.bsky.social
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
karenmonroy.bsky.social
As always, there is so much danger for women in “ Christian” fundamentalist communities . Excellent 🧵 on the mix of Vance, Thiel, project 2025 authors and the oppression of women.

How do you feel about having to practice the religion? You’re told to practice ?
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Aug 2
“Behind Trump and Vance Is [Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism “NatCon”] Movement” By @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, 8/1/25 …. 1/
Opinion | Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
spavel.bsky.social
Even linkedin gets it
Mark Butcher 1) Sandra used AI to write a report 2) Bill used AI to summarise the report 3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report 4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions 5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report 6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation 7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers. No business value was achieved But but but AI adds business value
June 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
kgitch.bsky.social
👇 Jenny is a must follow - each and every thread contains links to who, how & why we are here: names, background, and research.
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · May 18
When Ryan Williams “took over at Claremont, he became ‘very interested in harnessing some of the energy that he saw among young people who were being drawn to the alt-right…,’ Matthew Continetti,…who was a Lincoln fellow at Claremont, said.” By Elizabeth Zerofsky, 8/3/22 1/
How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right (Published 2022)
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
karenattiah.bsky.social
No one is coming to help.

Not the Democratic Party, not a politician, not Black people, and no other country will come in and save us from this.
dokterrudi.bsky.social Dokterrudi @dokterrudi.bsky.social · Feb 7
I feel like a lot, and I mean a lot of people keep having the attitude that someone else is going to do the heavy lifting for them. I’m hoping the message is getting more clear. No one is coming to help.
February 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Reposted by Karin Gitchel
chrislhayes.bsky.social
He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM