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I found this cute teddy bear cup at Target that is way cheaper and easier to find than the Starbucks bear cup. #teddybearcup #starbucksbearcup #starbucksbear #target

November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

I found this cute teddy bear cup at Target that's way cheaper than the Starbucks bear cup. #teddybearcup #starbucksbearcup #starbucksbear #Starbucks #target

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Megyn Kelly: Pedophile Defender For Donald Trump

November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

It’s so baffling that Megyn Kelly will accept verbal abuse from Donald Trump while defending him by trying to justify adults having sex with minors, which is pretty disgusting.
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She defends him despite Trump's frequent public abuse of her

Unboxing a Baby Three Plush bag clip, a Labubu competitor that I found on sale at Target. #babythree #unboxing #target #labubu

November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Unboxing a Baby Three Plush bag clip, a Labubu competitor that I found on sale at Target. #babythree #unboxing #target #labubu

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A visit to two memorials located about three miles from each other that are both dedicated to the late Muppets creator Jim Henson. #jimhenson #Muppets #kermitthefrog #Maryland #travel

November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

A visit to two memorials located about three miles from each other that are both dedicated to the late Muppets creator Jim Henson. #jimhenson #Muppets #kermitthefrog #Maryland #travel

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The US Federal Government Shutdown

November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Since the federal government shutdown has been going on for over a month now, I decided to address that issue in my Travels With Kim Substack since the shutdown has impacted a variety of tourist sites in the Baltimore-Washington, DC area.
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The big elephant in the room when it comes to travel

The Most Hilarious New Kremlin Propaganda Featuring Charlie Kirk

November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

For your weekend fun here is Kremlin propaganda featuring a mannequin dressed as Charlie Kirk and Russian soldiers pretending to be Ukrainian soldiers speaking Ukrainian that makes fluent Ukrainian speakers cringe.

deconstructingkremlinpropaganda.substack.com/p/the-most-h...

Only an ill-informed person would take this one seriously

Unboxing a Sorbet Squad, which is Five Below's more affordable alternative to Labubu. #sorbetsquad #fivebelow #labubu #unboxing

November 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Unboxing a Sorbet Squad, which is Five Below's more affordable alternative to Labubu. #sorbetsquad #fivebelow #labubu #unboxing
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DHQTq8/

Clopper Road, Montgomery County, Maryland

November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

This week in my Travels With Kim Substack I drive along Clopper Road in Montgomery County, Maryland, which provided the inspiration for John Denver's hit song “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

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The road that inspired a John Denver song—"Take Me Home, Country Roads"

travelswithkim.substack.com

November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Here's an amazing musical performance at yesterday's Refuse Fascism protest in Washington, DC that included handmaids (from A Handmaid's Tale).

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dax2rM/

A few musicians and a Group of Handmaid's Tale women Sing against Donald Trump and fascism at the Refuse Fascism rally in Washington, DC on November 5, 2021. #refusefascism #donaldtrump #fascism #Wash...

A few musicians and a Group of Handmaid's Tale women Sing against Donald Trump and fascism at the Refuse Fascism rally in Washington, DC on November 5, 2021. #refusefascism #donaldtrump #fascism #Wash...

November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

A few musicians and a Group of Handmaid's Tale women Sing against Donald Trump and fascism at the Refuse Fascism rally in Washington, DC on November 5, 2021. #refusefascism #donaldtrump #fascism #Washingtondc #protest
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Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns | FreeSewing

November 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM

Reposted by Kimberly Keyes

ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ

@britpoptarts.bsky.social

FreeSewing.org

A site where you choose the clothing item you want to make, enter your measurements, and it produces a downloadable custom sewing pattern in your choice of several file types! Very handy and cool.

FreeSewing is open source software to generate bespoke sewing patterns, loved by home sewers and fashion entrepreneurs alike.

FreeSewing.org

November 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Here is my report (including a video) from today’s Refuse Fascism protest in Washington, DC that has only one demand: The complete removal of the Trump Administration from power.
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Footage From the Refuse Fascism Protest in Washington, DC

It's the first in a series of protests that are designed to remove the entire Trump Administration from power

Unboxing a new blind box line of Labubu-like plush from Five Below known as Sorbet Squad, which resembles their other LaBabies line. #fivebelow #lababies #sorbetsquad #labubu #blindbox

November 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Unboxing a new blind box line of Labubu-like plush from Five Below known as Sorbet Squad, which resembles their other LaBabies line. #fivebelow #lababies #sorbetsquad #labubu #blindbox
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DycAxq/

Is ICE Really Demanding Ransom Money For People It Has Kidnapped Off the Streets?

November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Now there are reports that ICE is starting to demand ransom money from the families of people it has kidnapped off the streets.

open.substack.com/pub/deconstr...

A potentially new disturbing development

Tomorrow is the Start of a New Movement to Remove the Entire Trump Administration From Office

November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM

Reposted by Kimberly Keyes

Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Today is Election Day but tomorrow, on the one year anniversary of Donald Trump's reelection, is a new protest movement with one demand: the complete removal of the Trump Administration from power.

deconstructingkremlinpropaganda.substack.com/p/tomorrow-i...

Could it become the American equivalent of Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity?

A visit to the College Park Airport and Aviation Museum, located near the University of Maryland campus, where the Wright Brothers once flew. #Aviation #flight #airplane #wrightbrothers

November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

A visit to the College Park Airport and Aviation Museum, where the Wright Brothers once flew.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DUV2bA/

A collection of memes that I found online

November 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

To start off another week, here are a few memes related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that I found online.

deconstructingkremlinpropaganda.substack.com/p/memes-mond...

Memes Monday

Brittany Venti: Portrait of a Budding Tankie Vatnik

November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

Brittany Venti is the latest person who is trying to become a famous right wing influencer by being as offensive as possible while catering to the MAGA movement.
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What Donald Trump's reelection has unleashed on America

A Large Wooden Wizard Statue in the Suburbs

November 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

This week in my Travels With Kim Substack I visit a carved wooden wizard statue that is located in a suburban cul-de-sac.

travelswithkim.substack.com/p/a-large-wo...

It's located in a cul-de-sac in Columbia, Maryland

travelswithkim.substack.com

October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party are having a grand Halloween banquet, including people like Joe Rogan, James Comey, and John Bolton.

deconstructingkremlinpropaganda.substack.com/p/its-the-ha...

It's the Halloween Leopards Feast

More tales of Trump supporters whose support is literally biting their behinds

There Will Be a Protest on Veterans Day

October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM

Kimberly Keyes

@kimberlyannkeyes.bsky.social

There will be another protest on November 11 in addition to the other upcoming protests and boycotts that are either happening now or will happen soon.

deconstructingkremlinpropaganda.substack.com/p/there-will...

Save the date: November 11, 2025