KJ Lauck
@kjlauck42.bsky.social
Graduate of Lipscomb University. Louisville, KY ➡️ Nashville, TN. Sports fan and aspiring journalist.
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Found in the Kyiv region after the attack, he spent 10 hours under the rubble
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Found in the Kyiv region after the attack, he spent 10 hours under the rubble
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Quick recap with updates to come: #Louisville put belt to you-know-what in the annual Governor's Cup, pitching an emphatic shutout against Kentucky.
Louisville Throttles Kentucky for Governor's Cup Shutout
The Cardinals snap a three-game losing streak, and have now won back-to-back against the Wildcats.
www.si.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Quick recap with updates to come: #Louisville put belt to you-know-what in the annual Governor's Cup, pitching an emphatic shutout against Kentucky.
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COLUMN | With a walk-on and willpower, Louisville's Brohm buries Kentucky, and maybe Stoops, too www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | With a walk-on and willpower, Brohm buries Kentucky, and maybe Stoops, too
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – This past Monday, Mark Stoops rolled in with swagger. Jeff Brohm looked like he’d been demoted to assistant chess coach.
www.wdrb.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
COLUMN | With a walk-on and willpower, Louisville's Brohm buries Kentucky, and maybe Stoops, too www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
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Actually, leftover scumbags from the NIXON administration.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Roger Ailes, Roger Stone, Kissinger, all should have died in prison at a bare minimum. The George W Bush administration would never have even happened if we didn't let this nest of fascist ratfuckers fester.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Roger Ailes, Roger Stone, Kissinger, all should have died in prison at a bare minimum. The George W Bush administration would never have even happened if we didn't let this nest of fascist ratfuckers fester.
The main reason we're in this situation is a bunch of war criminal shitbags from the Reagan administration paved the way for fascism.
And the best thing you can do is ask the grunts not to follow illegal orders. What about your part of the bargain?
And the best thing you can do is ask the grunts not to follow illegal orders. What about your part of the bargain?
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Actually, leftover scumbags from the NIXON administration.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Roger Ailes, Roger Stone, Kissinger, all should have died in prison at a bare minimum. The George W Bush administration would never have even happened if we didn't let this nest of fascist ratfuckers fester.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Roger Ailes, Roger Stone, Kissinger, all should have died in prison at a bare minimum. The George W Bush administration would never have even happened if we didn't let this nest of fascist ratfuckers fester.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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NEW - we break down the legal messes that are the TX redistricting case & opinions; shenanigans on the Comey indictment; the White House's penchant for sex traffickers ...
... & more! (including worms)
Then Prof. Jill Hasday joins to chat her book WE THE MEN!
crooked.com/podcast/boy-...
... & more! (including worms)
Then Prof. Jill Hasday joins to chat her book WE THE MEN!
crooked.com/podcast/boy-...
a cartoon bird with a long pink tongue sticking out of it 's mouth
Alt: a cartoon bird with a long pink tongue sticking out of it 's mouth
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
NEW - we break down the legal messes that are the TX redistricting case & opinions; shenanigans on the Comey indictment; the White House's penchant for sex traffickers ...
... & more! (including worms)
Then Prof. Jill Hasday joins to chat her book WE THE MEN!
crooked.com/podcast/boy-...
... & more! (including worms)
Then Prof. Jill Hasday joins to chat her book WE THE MEN!
crooked.com/podcast/boy-...
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Social science takes time. Here, social scientists analyze a decade of evidence to show that a Supreme Court decision designed to suppress the black vote actually did. SCOTUS may soon obliterate the rest of the Voting Rights Act and we should not be shy about calling out what's going on here.
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Social science takes time. Here, social scientists analyze a decade of evidence to show that a Supreme Court decision designed to suppress the black vote actually did. SCOTUS may soon obliterate the rest of the Voting Rights Act and we should not be shy about calling out what's going on here.
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A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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how i became a Christian Atheist
YouTube video by Michael Burns
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November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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MPR News photojournalist Kerem Yücel was hit by less-lethal munition during the operation in St. Paul today. Other photojournalists were hit as well.
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
MPR News photojournalist Kerem Yücel was hit by less-lethal munition during the operation in St. Paul today. Other photojournalists were hit as well.
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
More on what unfolded at the chaotic scene: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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You can hear from a person who lived through the Economic War in the 1930s in our new episode, now available over on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
Early access: The Economic War | The Irish Passport Podcast
Get more from The Irish Passport Podcast on Patreon
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November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You can hear from a person who lived through the Economic War in the 1930s in our new episode, now available over on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
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Digging into the archives, I discovered my grandfather was the first generation not to speak Irish as his mother tongue, and that he grew up with a famine survivor - his grandmother.
History was so much closer than I thought. My essay this weekend: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
History was so much closer than I thought. My essay this weekend: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
The best Irish stories are often about death. My grandfather stole his own funeral
The history of Ireland – the hunger, the loss of the language – was so much closer than I knew. The change had been so fast from my grandfather’s life to mine
www.irishtimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Digging into the archives, I discovered my grandfather was the first generation not to speak Irish as his mother tongue, and that he grew up with a famine survivor - his grandmother.
History was so much closer than I thought. My essay this weekend: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
History was so much closer than I thought. My essay this weekend: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
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The government called Delmar Gomez the "worst of the worst" but the 38yo Christian singer only has traffic violations on his record
Gomez & his brother were detained as part of Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force. Gomez remains in custody; his brother was deported.
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Gomez & his brother were detained as part of Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force. Gomez remains in custody; his brother was deported.
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Christian Singers Caught In Deportation Net, One Branded ‘Worst of Worst’ • Tennessee Lookout
On the night of Oct. 8, a man named Delmar Gomez drove to pick up his younger brother from a mechanic’s shop on Lamar Avenue. He never came home. On the return trip, law enforcement officers with the ...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The government called Delmar Gomez the "worst of the worst" but the 38yo Christian singer only has traffic violations on his record
Gomez & his brother were detained as part of Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force. Gomez remains in custody; his brother was deported.
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Gomez & his brother were detained as part of Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force. Gomez remains in custody; his brother was deported.
tennesseelookout.com/2025/11/25/c...
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
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Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.
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I took a look at Justice Kavanaugh's opinion on racial profiling that ICE officers can quickly check citizenship status. It's more complicated than that, and is already resulting in U.S. citizens, particularly Latinos, caught up in immigration sweeps.
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/immi...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/immi...
As immigration raids step up, US citizens predicted at risk for detainment
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued in a major case earlier this month that U.S. citizens face few problems in having their immigration status verified if federal agents apprehen...
www.newsfromthestates.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I took a look at Justice Kavanaugh's opinion on racial profiling that ICE officers can quickly check citizenship status. It's more complicated than that, and is already resulting in U.S. citizens, particularly Latinos, caught up in immigration sweeps.
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/immi...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/immi...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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"A longtime ICE official told me Bovino is “out of control,” and warned that his expanding role will lead to the detention of more U.S. citizens and “more hate and more violence.”"
NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com
The Green Machine
Why the Border Patrol–not ICE—is taking over Trump’s mass-deportation campaign
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"A longtime ICE official told me Bovino is “out of control,” and warned that his expanding role will lead to the detention of more U.S. citizens and “more hate and more violence.”"
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NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com
The Green Machine
Why the Border Patrol–not ICE—is taking over Trump’s mass-deportation campaign
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com