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Joe Sonka 😐
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State government reporter for @kentuckypublicradio.org — @lpm.org, @weku.bsky.social, WKYU/Bowling Green, @wkmsfm.bsky.social. Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe/BBN. Did a Pulitzer many years ago. DM me news/apocalypse tips! https://www.lpm.org/people/joe-sonka
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 5h
I have them all over my house
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 5h
Unless it is their darkest secret
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 5h
As a child of the 80s, I can say that I've never met a person who likes any form of TRON ever
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h
Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 5h
MIT “became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment… “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit”
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 5h
More Everything Forever
This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 5h
Some are saying that billionaires being radicalized by doomsday cults could create potential harms to society
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h
Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 6h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 17h
Game 5.
a flag with the letter w on it
ALT: a flag with the letter w on it
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 18h
PCA looks like Steve Buechele
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 19h
did image search for him and literally the first one was him and Andrew Tate
Newest White House sex pest pictures with notorious professional misogynist Andrew Tate
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 20h
Well, at least Philadelphia fans are famous for their forgiveness
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 20h
#BBN !
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Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 20h
OH NO. HE. DIDN'T!!!
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 20h
Oh no that’s brutal…
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 20h
Happ! 🐻
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 20h
Goddamn Wrigley Field is gorgeous
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 1d
Several GOP legislators say Gov. Beshear needs to find the funds to bolster Kentucky’s senior meal program, or he should call a special session. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org #kyga26
Kentucky GOP lawmakers demand more funds for senior meal — even if it takes a special session
Several GOP legislators say the governor needs to find the funds to bolster Kentucky’s senior meal program, or he should call a special session.
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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d
wtaf are you talking about
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d
NEW mayoral poll from Quinnipiac, conducted Oct. 3–7 with a 3.9% margin of error: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Zohran Mamdani - 46%

Andrew Cuomo - 33%

Curtis Sliwa - 15%
NYC Mayor's Race: Adams Exits, Cuomo Gains, Mamdani Up By Double Digits, Quinnipiac University New York City Poll Finds; Who Would Best Represent NYC's Interests Under Trump? Mamdani & Cuomo Ess...
"The numbers changed but the contours of the race haven't. Andrew Cuomo picked up the bulk of Adams' supporters cutting into Zohran Mamdani's lead, but Mamdani's frontrunner status by double digits st...
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d
Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.” His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition. Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Some of the key elements:
1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily ENJOINED in this judicial district from: Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime. Defendants may order a Journalist to change location to avoid disrupting law enforcement, ' President Trump, one of the named Defendants, is not included in this Order. 1 Case: 1:25-cv-12173 Document #: 42 Filed: 10/09/25 Page 2 of 6 PagelD #:836 as long as the Journalist has an objectively reasonable time to comply and an objectively reasonable opportunity to report and observe; b. Issuing a crowd dispersal order requiring any person to leave a public place that they lawfully have a right to be, unless dispersal is justified by exigent circumstances as defined by Department of Homeland Security Use of Force Policy (updated Feb. 6, 2023), Sections III.F and XII.E; С. For purposes of this Order, a crowd dispersal order is a lawful command given by a Federal Agent for all persons to leave a designated area when three or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct that are likely to cause substantial harm in the immediate vicinity; d. Using riot control weapons including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs), Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PIS and FN303), Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, less-lethal shotguns, Less-Lethal Specialty Impact-Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM), Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDDs), Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs) - on members of the press, protesters, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others; To facilitate the Defendants' identification of Journalists protected under this Order, the following are examples of indicia of being a Journalist: visual identification as a member of the press, such as by carrying a professional press pass, badge or credentials; wearing distinctive clothing or patches that identify the wearer as a member of the press; or carrying professional gear such as professional photographic or videography equipment. Other indicia of being a Journalist under this Order include that the person is standing off to the side of a protest, not engaging in chanting, sign holding, shouting slogans, or otherwise protesting, and documenting protest activities, although these are not requirements. These indicia are illustrative, and a person need not exhibit every indicium to be considered a Journalist under this Order. Defendants shall not be liable for unintentional violations of this Order in the case of an individual who does not wear a press pass, badge, or other official press credential, professional gear, or distinctive clothing that identifies the person as a member of the press. It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official 4 Case: 1:25-cv-12173 Document #: 42 Filed: 10/09/25 Page 5 of 6 PagelD #:839 duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when wearing riot gear.
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 1d
Did you hear about the tiny company based out of a random house in Virginia that won $1.3 billion to build an ICE detention center?

How did it get that deal? Turns out a lot of the money is going to a bigger firm—whose owner is friendly with the Trump fam. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal
To hold 5,000 human beings.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d
"When it rolls off the assembly line at GM’s factory in Fairfax, Kansas, early next year, the Bolt EV will start at $29,990."
The 2027 Chevy Bolt will be one of the cheapest EVs you can get
Would you buy the new Bolt?
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d
Google suddenly pulled its billion-dollar data center project from Indiana last month right before a council vote, after community opposition:
Google pulls Franklin Township data center plan minutes before council vote
Google suddenly pulled its Franklin Township data center proposal Monday, halting the billion-dollar project that petitioners said would bring jobs and tax relief.
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