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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today. kansasreflector.com/2025/05/18/t...

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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Sunday read for 1) its enabling parts: an opportunistic find, niche community goodwill, caring and creative hands, and meticulous attention to detail and 2) sparking joy: Jeremy's unique eye to see in something antiquated a remedy for a contemporary social need. www.sprawlcalgary.com/pop-up-lette...

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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"I don't care what the judges think." The constitutional crisis is real. It's here. And it could end our democracy.

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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

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In my kansasreflector.com column today, I talk to a friend of the devil. This one is generating some heat.

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Eggs of protest. My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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Farewell, Jim Hoy. My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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The Sunflower edition, called COGE... doesn’t have a mad tech oligarch as its head or platoons of teenage ninja hackers with monikers like “Big Balls” to inspect your state tax return. But what COGE lacks in testicular fortitude it makes up for in rhyming with DOGE, and that’s really the point.

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The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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"In the Manifesto of Futurism (which became the seminal text for fascism), Marinetti wrote a love letter to fast machines, recklessness, and youth. He also dismissed learning, devalued women and embraced violence." Revisiting my 100th @kansasreflector.com column.

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"You may know Louise’s face if you’ve thumbed through any number of major biographies of Mark Twain. She’s there in an oft-reproduced black-and-white photograph, a serious-faced 12-year-old playing billiards with the famous, wild-haired author." My @kansasreflector.com column of Dec. 17, 2023.

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My @kansasreflector.com column today.

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Who? My @kansasreflector.com column today. #ksleg #usaid

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"Don't Spit on Sidewalk." My @kansasreflector.com column today. #ksleg #publichealth #hhs

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Wheat and madness. My @kansasreflector.com column today. #ksleg #kansasday

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Check out this story from my old paper, The Morning Sun.

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Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24. Harris beat Trump 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29. Harris beat Trump 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39. Trump to Fox: “I won youth by 36 points.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...

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"a key piece of a broader conservative campaign to suppress speech that conservatives don’t like..." lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...

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15 years after Citizens United, which transformed every corporate treasury in America into a potential political slush fund, we now see the result: government of billionaires, by oligarchs, for plutocrats.

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For all of the madness today, this pushed me over the edge into swearing out loud: the "Gulf of America." Sweet Jesus. I will never refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." If ever I should utter the phrase, it will be in reference only to our intractable political division.

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“Since the time of the Enlightenment we have waged a war of knowledge against ignorance, but through laziness or hypocrisy or common inattention we are periodically dragged back down into the mud beneath the shambles." -- My @kansasreflector.com column today. #KSLeg #Opinion #textbook

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Our Winter 2024-25 issue is in press! In 1887, the Kansas legislature revised the age of consent to sex for girls from ten years old to eighteen. Its passage came thanks to the WCTU, suffrage associations, labor reformers, and Populists. Kansas’s revision—one of the first—provided a jump start.

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"So much is at stake it is imperative to keep hope alive. We must act as if our actions will be judged not today, or tomorrow, but 100 years in the future. Because they will." My @kansasreflector.com column of Nov. 17, 2024. #Democracy #Opinion #SunMax

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Today is the Wolf Moon -- the first full moon of 2025. Here's a shot from a week ago, when the moon was in the first quarter. #Moon #Sky

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Kansas House speaker bans reporters from chamber floor, doesn’t say why | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg

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The winter country. My @kansasreflector.com column today. #Opinion #Kansas #Blizzard

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"Books are the medium of ideas. They still carry the biggest ideas in our cultures, abounding with revelations great and small, and allowing us glimpses into other lives and other times." My @kansasreflector.com from Dec. 5, 2021. #Books #Opinion #ksleg

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Cold is how I feel. Grabbed this afternoon while traversing an alley behind Commercial Street, Emporia, Kansas. #Winter #Storm

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NEW! Five things to know about Billy Long, Donald Trump's pick for IRS commissioner Plus a bonus thing! youtu.be/Phb8oUnX3vk

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Pardons. My @kansasreflector.com column today. #Opinion #Jan6

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Big win! The Fish & Wildlife Service will expand Okefenokee Refuge by up to 22,000 acres, protecting it from a proposed titanium mine. Nearly 30,000 public comments showed how special Okefenokee is to people everywhere. Thank you to everyone who spoke up!

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My @kansasreflector.com column from Feb. 18, 2024, as mentioned in a post a couple of days ago about the outfit's most-read opinion pieces. Spoiler: Nope, it wasn't Earhart's Electra. #Earhart #Kansas #Opinion

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My @kansasreflector.com column about the water crisis in western Kansas from June 30, 2024, as mentioned in a previous post. #Opinion #Water #Kansas

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I'm pleased to be recognized by the @kansasreflector.com for having the top two columns, in terms of readership, of 2024. Number One, about the state's water crisis, is also the website's most-read piece ever. On to 2025! #Opinion #Kansas kansasreflector.com/2024/12/31/t...

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What will 2025 bring? I'll leave predictions to the fortune tellers. But I am confident in saying this: America is not done with its experiment in stupid. #Opinion #NewYear

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A couple of photos relative to my @kansasreflector.com column today: A closeup of the silver face of the 1978 Rotel 555 AM/FM receiver and a snap of the guts of the thing -- and that damned string! #vintage #media #radio

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A retro break and a reflection on media. My @kansasreflector.com column today. #Media #Vintage

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