@kparker.bsky.social
Centrist. Lover of puns, reasonable conversations and defenders of democracy.
Texas has doled out more than $100 million since 2021 to counties and cities to cover border enforcement costs.
August 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reposted
Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.
July 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This is an outright lie from a high government official, and the consequence of it is that many people will die and suffer a terrible diseases that might’ve been prevented.
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is an outright lie from a high government official, and the consequence of it is that many people will die and suffer a terrible diseases that might’ve been prevented.
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Baylor rejects grant to study LGBTQ exclusion in the church baptistnews.com/article/bayl...
Baylor rejects grant to study LGBTQ exclusion in the church – Baptist News Global
The president of Baylor University has burned a final bridge with a foundation that once was a critical funder of its Baptist identity.
baptistnews.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Baylor rejects grant to study LGBTQ exclusion in the church baptistnews.com/article/bayl...
A few weeks ago, an important — and largely private — chapter in my life ended; I’m incredibly thankful to @lawfaremedia.org for giving me a forum to write the next one.
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI.
www.lawfaremedia.org
July 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There is no bottom….part 1,000,001
1/ On January 6th, Jared L. Wise "told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, 'Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!'"
He is now "serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group" of the Bondi Justice Department.
He is now "serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group" of the Bondi Justice Department.
July 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Breaking: The US lost 33,000 jobs in June. They were expecting to *gain* 100,000.
The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says
Economists polled by Dow Jones forecasted an increase of 100,000 for the month.
www.cnbc.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It grows the deficit….
These are lies
July 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The real story: Masked domestic terrorists attacked, beat, and kidnapped the landscaper father of three United States Marines.
June 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
NEW: Banks are supposed to prevent criminals from opening accounts or engaging in money laundering.
Yet pig-butchering scammers have managed to open accounts at Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, HSBC and Wells Fargo and many others.
Yet pig-butchering scammers have managed to open accounts at Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, HSBC and Wells Fargo and many others.
How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.
www.propublica.org
June 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“This is no answer, thou unfeeling man, to excuse the current of thy cruelty.”
“The Merchant of Venice”
“The Merchant of Venice”
Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a budget line item late Sunday that would have brought in an estimated $450 million in federal dollars to fund a summer food aid program for low-income children.
June 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
June 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail
in Jamaica.
Do you get it yet?
in Jamaica.
Do you get it yet?
"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...”
www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
June 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This.
The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
June 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
June 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..."
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A CONTROVERSIAL “APPEAL to Heaven” flag that has recently become associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement and Christian nationalism was flown above the Small Business Administration (SBA) agency last week in Washington, DC.
Things continue to go great.
(Killer scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com)
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
(Killer scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com)
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
June 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"They’re taking Shirly": An Army sergeant thought his family was safe. Then ICE deported his wife. [Published with our friends @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social]
"They’re taking Shirly": An Army sergeant thought his family as safe. Then ICE deported his wife.
For tens of thousands of US service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from immigration raids.
www.motherjones.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"In a previously unreported development, federal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted US aid funds to the gang."
Read the whole investigation, republished from @propublica.org ⬇️
Read the whole investigation, republished from @propublica.org ⬇️
How El Salvador's government impeded a probe of MS-13
ProPublica uncovered a previously unreported request where federal agents spelled out their suspicions that Bukele might have diverted USAID funds to MS-13 as part of the secret deal.
www.motherjones.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A traffic stop is causing outrage, after a young man born and raised on Long Island was pulled over and searched by ICE agents. He said it was simply because he’s Latino. When ICE found out he’s a U.S. citizen, they let him go—without giving an explanation or apology—but the damage was already done.
A Long Island man driving to work gets handcuffed by ICE — despite being U.S. citizen
A 23-year-old electrician from Brentwood is speaking out after a disturbing encounter with federal immigration agents left him handcuffed and shaken, despite being a U.S. citizen. Elzon Lemus says he ...
www.nbcnewyork.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
ICE ambushes a US citizen who is going about his daily business on his way to work, drags him out of his car, puts him in handcuffs, and treats him like a criminal.
June 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
President Trump once boasted mRNA-based coronavirus vaccines were a “modern-day miracle.” Now his appointees, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are throwing doubt on the technology with largely unfounded claims.
Celebrated, then disparaged: mRNA’s promise is tarnished under Trump
The promise of mRNA technology seemed boundless after the success of the coronavirus vaccines, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has singled it out for scrutiny, clouding its prospects.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM