@karenkolbe.bsky.social
Psychotherapist. Person with opinions. Journalist, briefly. Former latchkey and theater kid. “Objectivity” isn’t real; own your biases. Hate fascists, MAGAs, bros. Love democracy, a free press, cooking, true crime, hiking, cycling, swearing
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Good morning. Please enjoy this Thanksgiving composition by a burgeoning young writer.
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good morning. Please enjoy this Thanksgiving composition by a burgeoning young writer.
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The Boring Company, like all companies associated with musk, is broke. All the valuations are fake. It’s all worthless. If it weren’t for government handouts, they’d all be bankrupt… and now that tesla isn’t able to sell EV credits, its revenue will not cover operations. Musk is a sinkhole.
“Shane Trucking confirmed they are no longer working here with the Boring Company”
WSMV on the NASHVILLE worker walkout on Elon & @GovBillLee’s Teslas only tunnel project over nonpayment and safety concerns
(The tennessean has still not covered this 🤔 for some reason)
WSMV on the NASHVILLE worker walkout on Elon & @GovBillLee’s Teslas only tunnel project over nonpayment and safety concerns
(The tennessean has still not covered this 🤔 for some reason)
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Boring Company, like all companies associated with musk, is broke. All the valuations are fake. It’s all worthless. If it weren’t for government handouts, they’d all be bankrupt… and now that tesla isn’t able to sell EV credits, its revenue will not cover operations. Musk is a sinkhole.
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Related: Please enjoy this item from The Onion in 1999
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Related: Please enjoy this item from The Onion in 1999
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There are two methods for cranberry harvest- wet method and dry method. Pictured is the ‘wet harvest’ method where the cranberry bog is flooded and the plants are shaken to dislodge the submerged berries, which float. (Fun fact: in a flooded bog the workers become high ground for the spiders.)
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There are two methods for cranberry harvest- wet method and dry method. Pictured is the ‘wet harvest’ method where the cranberry bog is flooded and the plants are shaken to dislodge the submerged berries, which float. (Fun fact: in a flooded bog the workers become high ground for the spiders.)
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Remember when he mocked everyone else for being “low energy”? Look at him now.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Remember when he mocked everyone else for being “low energy”? Look at him now.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
Nodding off, slurring, and cutting his days short because he cannot keep up. The myth of unstoppable Trump is long gone.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Destroying universities by starving them of funding & turning them into jobs programs for RW cranks who want to play professor is part of a sweeping effort to remake society as broligarchs imagine it should be: with them as super-humans & us as sub-humans. More:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Destroying universities by starving them of funding & turning them into jobs programs for RW cranks who want to play professor is part of a sweeping effort to remake society as broligarchs imagine it should be: with them as super-humans & us as sub-humans. More:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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8/8
All of it fused quickly. Afghan terror. Muslim threat. Democrats as traitors. Journalists as enemies. Activists as seditionists. Calls for deportations, arrests, torture, & the Insurrection Act. One shooting becomes the proof they needed to justify the authoritarian turn. #DisinformationPlaybook
All of it fused quickly. Afghan terror. Muslim threat. Democrats as traitors. Journalists as enemies. Activists as seditionists. Calls for deportations, arrests, torture, & the Insurrection Act. One shooting becomes the proof they needed to justify the authoritarian turn. #DisinformationPlaybook
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
8/8
All of it fused quickly. Afghan terror. Muslim threat. Democrats as traitors. Journalists as enemies. Activists as seditionists. Calls for deportations, arrests, torture, & the Insurrection Act. One shooting becomes the proof they needed to justify the authoritarian turn. #DisinformationPlaybook
All of it fused quickly. Afghan terror. Muslim threat. Democrats as traitors. Journalists as enemies. Activists as seditionists. Calls for deportations, arrests, torture, & the Insurrection Act. One shooting becomes the proof they needed to justify the authoritarian turn. #DisinformationPlaybook
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Trump’s next target for destruction is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. I can only imagine what sort of white trash gold coated monstrosity Trump will replace the Reflecting Pool with. #ProudBlue
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Trump’s next target for destruction is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. I can only imagine what sort of white trash gold coated monstrosity Trump will replace the Reflecting Pool with. #ProudBlue
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I cited this image in my capstone for my Master’s degree.
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I cited this image in my capstone for my Master’s degree.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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to be loved is to be changed
November 19, 2024 at 4:50 AM
to be loved is to be changed
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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The commenter asking Grok for help understanding… 😂
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The commenter asking Grok for help understanding… 😂
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Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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You’re not spending your money today. Give your gifts in money form to your friends and family for Christmas.
Shop locally, spend your money to lift each other up.
Let’s help this bubble burst for these billionaires.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Boycott
#ChristinaTalks
youtube.com/shorts/Bb67i...
Shop locally, spend your money to lift each other up.
Let’s help this bubble burst for these billionaires.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Boycott
#ChristinaTalks
youtube.com/shorts/Bb67i...
November 25, 2025
YouTube video by Christina Talks
youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
You’re not spending your money today. Give your gifts in money form to your friends and family for Christmas.
Shop locally, spend your money to lift each other up.
Let’s help this bubble burst for these billionaires.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Boycott
#ChristinaTalks
youtube.com/shorts/Bb67i...
Shop locally, spend your money to lift each other up.
Let’s help this bubble burst for these billionaires.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Boycott
#ChristinaTalks
youtube.com/shorts/Bb67i...
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Broad legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops.
Trump Calls for Democrats to Be Put to Death for Accurately Describing Troops’ Constitutional Duties
Trump accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition "punishable by DEATH" for calling on military members to uphold the Constitution.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Broad legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops.
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this has come to fruition
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
this has come to fruition
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
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Himes: "In combination with the Russia plan and the lethal strikes on drug boats, what the world is seeing is that the Trump administration is purely performative. It doesn't matter what really happens so long as in the moment when you're very mad at Mark Kelly, you threaten to Court-martial him."
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Himes: "In combination with the Russia plan and the lethal strikes on drug boats, what the world is seeing is that the Trump administration is purely performative. It doesn't matter what really happens so long as in the moment when you're very mad at Mark Kelly, you threaten to Court-martial him."
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Sean Duffy’s policy proposals are indistinguishable from an 80s hack comic’s 5-minute standup set.
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Sean Duffy’s policy proposals are indistinguishable from an 80s hack comic’s 5-minute standup set.