Masha Kr
@mashakr.bsky.social
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be"
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Masha Kr
@mashakr.bsky.social
· Aug 10
i have picked one hell of a time to move to DC, huh.
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May I recommend a subscription to @theonion.com print edition as a holiday gift, because their ads continue to rule
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
May I recommend a subscription to @theonion.com print edition as a holiday gift, because their ads continue to rule
Decided to re-activate my bluesky (for now). Looking forward to catching up on all the Alf memes I missed over the past few months.
December 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Decided to re-activate my bluesky (for now). Looking forward to catching up on all the Alf memes I missed over the past few months.
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Good Lord.
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Good Lord.
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This is a really important data point: when women's rights hit a setback in South Korea, it did not result in birth rates going back up, entirely the opposite. They crashed even harder.
Yep, and this isn't even a theoretical - men and women in South Korea absolutely hate each other and it's resulted in a birth rate of 0.75
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is a really important data point: when women's rights hit a setback in South Korea, it did not result in birth rates going back up, entirely the opposite. They crashed even harder.
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Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
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Girl, I am losing my mind
September 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Girl, I am losing my mind
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"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence
September 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence
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The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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The extreme, opportunistic, completely disingenuous reaction to Kirk's murder also makes clear that if there's an Oklahoma City or 9/11-level attack in the next few years, this administration will absolutely exploit it to try to end our democracy and permanently entrench itself in power.
September 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The extreme, opportunistic, completely disingenuous reaction to Kirk's murder also makes clear that if there's an Oklahoma City or 9/11-level attack in the next few years, this administration will absolutely exploit it to try to end our democracy and permanently entrench itself in power.
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what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
September 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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It is going to soon become necessary for everyone to post a fairly consistent set of critiques of Charlie Kirk, because they’re trying to come after everyone who does, and the only answer is to make them come after us all. We need to pick standardized language, and then get loud with it.
September 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It is going to soon become necessary for everyone to post a fairly consistent set of critiques of Charlie Kirk, because they’re trying to come after everyone who does, and the only answer is to make them come after us all. We need to pick standardized language, and then get loud with it.
This confirms something I've suspected. News outlets are using the kirk murder to fire the progressive journalists they've wanted to get rid of for a while.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This confirms something I've suspected. News outlets are using the kirk murder to fire the progressive journalists they've wanted to get rid of for a while.
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I think Iowa and Nebraska could be in play in 2026
American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop.
Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.
Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.
Farmer says 'we're in a very dire situation' ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer | Fortune
Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.
fortune.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I think Iowa and Nebraska could be in play in 2026
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"Smart People Don't Like Me": An Analysis of Right-Wing Grievance Politics (2026)
September 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"Smart People Don't Like Me": An Analysis of Right-Wing Grievance Politics (2026)
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Yeah man they ain’t coming back. This is going to be one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of my lifetime, and it’s entirely possible that some guy at ICE ordered it not having any clue what he was doing. This is why we used to leave foreign affairs to sensitive nerds.
September 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Yeah man they ain’t coming back. This is going to be one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of my lifetime, and it’s entirely possible that some guy at ICE ordered it not having any clue what he was doing. This is why we used to leave foreign affairs to sensitive nerds.
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Welcome to our free speech future where homeschooled and Christian academy kids are trained to act as the eyes and ears for the state.
The committees were made to honor slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and come as university faculty have come under online scrutiny.
Texas legislative committees will study freedom of speech on college campuses in wake of Charlie Kirk killing
www.tpr.org
September 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Welcome to our free speech future where homeschooled and Christian academy kids are trained to act as the eyes and ears for the state.
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The message should not be that political violence is bad because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible.
September 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The message should not be that political violence is bad because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible.
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Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.
September 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.
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this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight
Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting
Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
September 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight
Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting
Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting
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Between the world of sourness and the world of sweet, there is an orchard of citrus. It is a lemonal space
September 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Between the world of sourness and the world of sweet, there is an orchard of citrus. It is a lemonal space
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Hi!
I was homeless.
That's me he wants to kill.
If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.
This guy would have killed me for being homeless.
I was homeless.
That's me he wants to kill.
If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.
This guy would have killed me for being homeless.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hi!
I was homeless.
That's me he wants to kill.
If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.
This guy would have killed me for being homeless.
I was homeless.
That's me he wants to kill.
If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can.
This guy would have killed me for being homeless.
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We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet
September 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet
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He what
He argued with civility. It's a start.
What disagreements, exactly, was he bridging via his work and words?
September 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
He what