Karen Jesser
@kkj61.bsky.social
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Interesting idea actually
Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.
This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.
September 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Interesting idea actually
I’m not an idiot but I’m also no expert in global trade but if we already put sanctions on Russia, how can we threaten tariffs?
July 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’m not an idiot but I’m also no expert in global trade but if we already put sanctions on Russia, how can we threaten tariffs?
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Also see Tim Snyder on Substack
substack.com/@snyder?r=wi...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Also see Tim Snyder on Substack
substack.com/@snyder?r=wi...
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
www.newyorker.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Also see Tim Snyder on Substack
substack.com/@snyder?r=wi...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Also see Tim Snyder on Substack
substack.com/@snyder?r=wi...
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Douthat may be addicted to being Rufoed at the Nazi bar, but the Times keeps it open and sits him on a stool with an empty seat next to him.
"Talking for an hour with a purveyor of racist pseudoscience who openly tells you he blames the decline of society on women just to ask whether the right can be both vitalist and Christian is neither serious nor constructive." @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-york...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-york...
The New York Times Launders Another Fascist
Misogyny, racism, and antisemitism all were glossed over in Ross Douthat's softball interview of Jonathan Keeperman.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Douthat may be addicted to being Rufoed at the Nazi bar, but the Times keeps it open and sits him on a stool with an empty seat next to him.
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Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.
May 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.
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At this point I'm honestly just calling my reps and bluntly saying you're old between the two of us I'm the one more likely to survive an ecoli infection. Maybe do something about this.
May 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
At this point I'm honestly just calling my reps and bluntly saying you're old between the two of us I'm the one more likely to survive an ecoli infection. Maybe do something about this.
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It's a bad sign that I, a US professor with two kids who will be applying to college in the next few years, am exploring the process of them applying to universities outside of America. The Trump administration is on the verge of destroying US higher education, where we have long been a world leader
March 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's a bad sign that I, a US professor with two kids who will be applying to college in the next few years, am exploring the process of them applying to universities outside of America. The Trump administration is on the verge of destroying US higher education, where we have long been a world leader
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DOGE has been a fundamentally unserious project from the start.
You want to root out waste, fraud and abuse? Keep the IGs and bring in forensic accountants.
Firing IGs and bringing in some coders? What?
You want to root out waste, fraud and abuse? Keep the IGs and bring in forensic accountants.
Firing IGs and bringing in some coders? What?
March 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
DOGE has been a fundamentally unserious project from the start.
You want to root out waste, fraud and abuse? Keep the IGs and bring in forensic accountants.
Firing IGs and bringing in some coders? What?
You want to root out waste, fraud and abuse? Keep the IGs and bring in forensic accountants.
Firing IGs and bringing in some coders? What?
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Lee Bollinger is no wild-eyed catastrophizer. Pay heed.
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Lee Bollinger is no wild-eyed catastrophizer. Pay heed.
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I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
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I hope you’ll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...
February 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I hope you’ll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...
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The next tweet by Musk was about the need to impeach all "corrupt" judges—the implication being that if you see a judge who's a woman or nonwhite they're probably both not qualified to do their job and corrupt
The breed of racism we see from Musk and his friends is truly 1930s-style fascist hatred
The breed of racism we see from Musk and his friends is truly 1930s-style fascist hatred
February 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The next tweet by Musk was about the need to impeach all "corrupt" judges—the implication being that if you see a judge who's a woman or nonwhite they're probably both not qualified to do their job and corrupt
The breed of racism we see from Musk and his friends is truly 1930s-style fascist hatred
The breed of racism we see from Musk and his friends is truly 1930s-style fascist hatred
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I knew they were gong to do project 2025, I just didn’t realize that Elon and his merry band of pre-teens would be the ones implementing it.
February 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I knew they were gong to do project 2025, I just didn’t realize that Elon and his merry band of pre-teens would be the ones implementing it.
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It's weird how Senator Mike Lee, who is a huuuuge proponent of legislative supremacy (in 2023, when Biden was President), is just letting the executive branch run roughshod over the entire federal government w/o stepping up to do that work himself via legislation. www.lee.senate.gov/2023/6/sen-l...
Sen. Lee Introduces ARTICLE ONE Act to Reclaim Congressional Power
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the ARTICLE ONE Act, a bill that would reclaim significant legislative powers delegated to the executive branch by the National Emergencies Act of 1976.
www.lee.senate.gov
February 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It's weird how Senator Mike Lee, who is a huuuuge proponent of legislative supremacy (in 2023, when Biden was President), is just letting the executive branch run roughshod over the entire federal government w/o stepping up to do that work himself via legislation. www.lee.senate.gov/2023/6/sen-l...
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February 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Apparently there’s a “kickoff” meeting between the DOGE people and Department of Labor management planned for tomorrow at 4pm ET.
Unrelatedly, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the Dept of Labor is located at 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20210.
Unrelatedly, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the Dept of Labor is located at 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20210.
Depr.management
February 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Apparently there’s a “kickoff” meeting between the DOGE people and Department of Labor management planned for tomorrow at 4pm ET.
Unrelatedly, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the Dept of Labor is located at 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20210.
Unrelatedly, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the Dept of Labor is located at 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20210.
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So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering
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Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
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What an embarrassment we are!
Thanks, @coachdspeaks.bsky.social
Thanks, @coachdspeaks.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What an embarrassment we are!
Thanks, @coachdspeaks.bsky.social
Thanks, @coachdspeaks.bsky.social
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Listen to three important conversations about the FBI including one I participated in, at the top of the series. ⬇️
BREAKING: Nat'l intelligence experts are ringing the alarm on the politicization of the FBI and other intelligence agencies. Hear from three of them now. **This post is free, and we urge you to share it with those who may not otherwise have access to the information revealed.**
NATIONAL SECURITY NEWS ALERT
RINGING THE ALARM: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI
contrarian.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Listen to three important conversations about the FBI including one I participated in, at the top of the series. ⬇️
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Remember during Covid when some governors provided regular updates about what was happening? We need regular updates by the best Democratic communicators explaining the reckless incompetence of the Trump bunch and providing the public a picture of how things can and must be better.
December 17, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Remember during Covid when some governors provided regular updates about what was happening? We need regular updates by the best Democratic communicators explaining the reckless incompetence of the Trump bunch and providing the public a picture of how things can and must be better.