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kbowenwriter.bsky.social
Former lit adjunct turned author of mysteries set in 19thc U.S. featuring women who can't mind their own business and have the scars to prove it. Book banning makes me crazy. I love cats, container gardening, yarn crafts, and democracy.
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Thye're trying to kill us.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

USPS workers sound alarm over Trump efforts to dismantle service: ‘The hounds are at the door.’ The United States Postal Service is now facing off with Trump and Elon Musk’s Doge over privatization. #MomSky #Voices4Victory www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

@contrarian thanks for your solid reporting. However, please hire a copy editor. "Freedom of conscious" is a freshman writing mistake that makes this former prof's eye start twitching.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Like, soooo efficient. 🙄

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Our leaders have failed Stephanie Horowitz and other Parkland survivors by making them endure the unthinkable not once, but twice. There are no words, only actions. #FSU #FloridaState #Parkland #Enough

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

submitted 16 days ago • 125 comments

Once again sharing this info. Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.

submitted 17 days ago • 64 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge refuses to block immigration enforcement operations in churches in a lawsuit brought by religious groups.

submitted 20 days ago • 42 comments

Got one side of my sign done for tomorrow. Still debating what to put on the other side. This is my first protest. #handsoff2025 #yourvoicematters #resist #wethepeople #moralmoment

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submitted 33 days ago • 372 comments

What a bunch of morons. "Oh, but her emails...."

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education? Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power. Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.

submitted 49 days ago • 345 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

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submitted 59 days ago • 313 comments

An objectively accurate description would be they are "stealing money," or if you want to be a bit drier, "illegally impounding funds," but "spending cuts" is not what's happening because Trump/Musk have no authority to "cut" appropriations as in the same term we'd use to speak of Congress doing it.

submitted 65 days ago • 10 comments

> @ironstache.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 350 comments

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

submitted 71 days ago • 73 comments

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social would be the perfect person to deliver regular updates and analyses!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

This is disgusting.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

This is what we need from our journalists. All of this.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Schoolhouse Rock was my first exposure to the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution, how about you guys? youtu.be/RKldTIZGSM8... Shout out to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for reviewing it during yesterday's Politics Chat. It's been sticking with me today.

submitted 82 days ago • 16 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 91 days ago • 1397 comments

And so it begins: Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season. “Economic devastation” newrepublic.com/post/190555/...

submitted 98 days ago • 176 comments

Woke up to this note from our youngest son. (She'd already fooled us twice this week). "And the Oscar for best 'starving kitty' performance goes to...."

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 117 days ago • 1073 comments

Guinea worm used to afflict 3.5 million people each year. This year, thanks in part to Jimmy Carter, there have been 7 cases. He negotiated the longest humanitarian cease-fire in history to distribute water filters & larvicides www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimm... via @tanyalewis.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 34 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

submitted 150 days ago • 2280 comments

We're enjoying our backyard camera feeder...a little oasis in a troubled world. Maybe these guys deserve their own account. 🐦

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Hi to y'all here on the butterfly app! I've been mostly on Fb, IG, and Threads. Back on here to try to find my people...I love cat stories/pics and sharing stuff about my own kitty, chatting about crochet, guitar, cozy mysteries, and gardening. Hope to connect up with similar peeps. Thx for reading!

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments